You Cannot Tell Kids To Follow Bad Dreams

“Let them eat cake” turns into “good morning, peasants,” and from there we chase the same question through everything we cover: who actually pays when powerful institutions get it wrong? We start by tearing into the feel-good slogan “follow your dreams” and why it hit mainstream culture in the 1970s when kids wanted to be astronauts, then mutated into a message that can push young people toward debt, status chasing, and careers built on algorithms instead of skills. 

From Artemis II to the broader “new space race,” we talk NASA, CGI skepticism, and why space programs are never just about science. We connect rockets to the Cold War, to competition with China, and to the economic reality of fiat currency: money has to move, and giant projects like aerospace or war spending become the system’s favorite way to keep factories running, grants flowing, and political myths alive. 

Then we shift into the Iran conflict, the media hypocrisy around it, and the strategic chessboard implications from oil to the Strait of Hormuz. We also dig into a major January 6 development tied to the pipe bomber investigation, including claims about surveillance, polygraph results, protective orders, and what it says about the DOJ’s credibility. We close with birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, “maternity tourism,” election fraud reporting updates, and a forward-looking turn into crypto and the Clarity Act, plus a hard look at the Washington State cost-of-living squeeze. 

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Transcript

Peasants Perspective Kickoff

SPEAKER_11 0:10

And then they went to the queen to tell her no bread.

SPEAKER_04 0:16

Do you know what she said?

SPEAKER_26 0:19

Let me eat a cake.

SPEAKER_14 0:24

We're getting screwed, man. Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. Well, the revolution's gonna be through podcasting for sure. That's the only way we talk. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the brunt of everything. It's gotta stop. Peasants, man. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. It's a kind of overcast day here in Seattle. Sounds like Ferrazier says good morning from really wet Boise. Sorry about that, man. I guess we didn't get all the water, so it came over the cascades to you.

SPEAKER_10 1:16

Oh man, we got pounded yesterday here. Did you not get it?

SPEAKER_14 1:20

Well, I went out to Port Angeles. Oh. And I got pounded at the end of the day, but I drove through it. You know, that whole rain shadow thing was kind of nice. But yeah, no, my I got home and I was like, man, everything is wet around here. My wife's like, it's been raining all day. Kids have not gone outside.

SPEAKER_10 1:34

People in Idaho are like, what's a rain shadow?

SPEAKER_14 1:38

Yeah. You live in a rain shadow. That's what a rain shadow is. The mountains dump and then there's nothing left for a small portion of the North Kitts Peninsula.

SPEAKER_10 1:47

That's why it's dry over there where you're at.

Follow Your Dreams Culture Critique

SPEAKER_14 1:49

Right, er. Yeah, it's it's all relative. Yeah. Oh, pony boy, good morning. Uh, we peanuts or peasants today. We're peasants today. We're back to peasants. Although some days it does feel like peanuts. I think that's pretty good. That was a limited hangout. That was a limited hangout. Oh, so fun. Thank you, Sarah, for doing that. That was that was great. I love fan art. I love fan creative stuff using show clips and things like that. Big shout out to Ash, who did our shorts last month. We uh did their little promo thing. We got 31. They knew they wanted 30. We got 31 out. That was awesome. So if you haven't had a chance to go watch the clips, the shorts, go explore them. They're kind of fun. Some of the highlights of the episodes, I guess. Oh, pony boy. Yes, we are peasants and ah, peasants. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, guys, I know why you show up so early and you're promptly on time. It's because you want to join us for the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tack or the chalice of stein, a canteen, a jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip. And it starts right now.

SPEAKER_22 2:59

Product of the early 1970s. If you look back in Google Scholar and you look at the timelines for when books started to use phrases like follow your dreams, uh especially in relation to the youth, it was in the early 1970s. And uh, you know, I I think what it's become a bit of kind of a weird feel-good hippie thing. It's basically telling kids go deeply into debt to do the thing that will never make you money or matter at all. Um, and and and this is good advice. And but but more importantly, do you guys know what the number one dream was for kids in 1971? Can anyone guess? I know what it is. It's astronaut. We had just gone to the moon. And so that's a great dream. I mean, these guys were like fighter pilots, PhD mathematicians, supermen who were also really good looking and well spoken. I mean, that they picked them so that they were, you know, the the the you know, the ultimate American hero ideal. For a kid to see that and say, that's what I want to be. Okay, tell the kids to follow their dreams. But do you know what the number one job that kids most want today is? It's a mix of those. Yeah, it's social media influencer. Next is professional gamer, uh, next is YouTuber. And the problem is when you you can't tell kids to follow their dreams when their dreams suck.

Artemis II And Space Race Doubts

SPEAKER_14 4:11

And so it you can't tell kids to follow their dreams when their dreams suck. Oh, lucky Palmer for the win there. Oh, that's so funny. So yesterday, uh, you may or may not have noticed, but apparently we launched another mission into space. It was Artemis, I think Artemis II. So Artemis I was uh we launched, went out, circled the moon, came back. Okay, all the systems work because the whole thing's autopilot, right?

SPEAKER_10 4:40

Right, no monkeys even.

SPEAKER_14 4:42

Yeah, so this time we sent four astronauts into space, allegedly. I got like, I see Carlitz is here. Good morning, y'all. He might he might defer on this one. Here's the good news, Carlitz. We're probably gonna know in our lifetime if or if not, there's space and if we're flat or round, because you might get a chance to see it yourself, or know somebody who does.

SPEAKER_10 5:04

You know, I heard a lot about this is gonna be like the first uh, I don't know what you want to call it, biracial, whatever diversity crew going up. And uh I thought back to when Katy Perry in France, like, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_14 5:20

All those guys did was like an ICBM missile launch.

SPEAKER_10 5:23

I didn't even notice they claimed they were going to space.

SPEAKER_14 5:27

We're astronauts, exactly. Okay, so this is the path of the Artemis 2. So it's gonna circle the planet a couple times, get some speed, I guess, go out into a far orbit, and it's gonna launch off and it's gonna make its way around the moon one time. Oh, yeah, come on back, circle around, and fall back into the ocean somewhere off the coast of California.

SPEAKER_10 5:51

Yeah, I was gonna do the figure eight action.

SPEAKER_14 5:53

That's the plan there, which is cool. I support this. I think it's awesome.

SPEAKER_10 5:58

And uh right here is where they go, whoops, we missed.

SPEAKER_14 6:01

Now, let's put this in perspective because this ties into the bigger themes of the day. What was going on in the 1960s? We had the Vietnam War.

SPEAKER_10 6:12

Well, we had some racial divide that was clearing up. We had some space action, we had some hippies, we had some hippies, we had a president that got shot.

SPEAKER_14 6:28

Okay, so history doesn't repeat itself, but it sure rhymes, doesn't it? Right. So Carleen says element FAO over the over here with all those funny fake videos. Yeah, we'll talk about that. Okay, Doug Wyatt, good morning, glad you made it. Did you notice all the CGI during Artemis? Of course, man. It's NASA. That's what they're best at. What do you think they've been doing for the last 60 years? Nothing but CGI.

SPEAKER_10 6:52

They've they they they pioneered the industry. Well, it's it's hard to get video footage of it, so they have to kind of show you what it looked like.

SPEAKER_14 6:59

Show you what it should look like. So here's the thing about this space iteration here. It's it's a new space race. China, you know, launched their rovers, they've they've been on the backside of the moon, allegedly, whatever, whatever. Yeah, but what happened was coming out of World War II, we discovered this new technology, new nuclear power, which allowed us to have the excess energy to fund anything we wanted, right? As a nation state, you, we, the peasants, we couldn't fund anything we wanted. But the country had excess energy, and excess energy means you can afford to make things. You can flex. Yeah, you can flex. And so the idea was post-World War II, we were gonna enter into an era of peace because the nuclear weapons, nobody wants to go to war anymore. And so you've got to find somewhere to spend your money, okay, because you gotta keep inflating it because that's what the banking system wants.

SPEAKER_10 7:50

Right. That's why we needed a cold war, right?

SPEAKER_14 7:53

Well, the cold war, the cold war wasn't the cold war wasn't a construct. That was real. You really did have communists versus capitalists going on there. I know, but we took advantage of it. We took advantage of it. But what we did was we decided to redirect our energy into the space race because whoever would win the space race, they would win the hearts and minds of the citizens of the planet.

SPEAKER_10 8:13

And I think that the space race was part of the cold war, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_14 8:17

Absolutely. Just like this one, Ron. Yeah. So here's the deal. When you don't, when you can't lose your money, because you've got to lose fiat currency. This is one of the things we talk about over at 1776 Live is understanding the economic systems. Fiat currency requires you to lose money. You've got to spend excess money because you're printing extra money to pay for your pet projects, but you've got to infuse it into the economy. And where do you infuse it? Factories. You know what are really great factories with really great jobs? Aerospace factories. Uh you see what I'm saying? Rocket factories. And this is how you bolster up your education programs and get better physics and better engineering and all that stuff, is you invest in either war or space travel. They kind of can go hand in hand. Like Lucky Palmer. Peacetime spending, one is wartime spending. So, with the obliteration of Iran, we and our absolute military flex in our military might and dominance the last couple months. Uh we're entering into a cold war now with China. We've been in one for a long time, right? But just like we were with the Soviet Union, we were in it, we were in it, and then all of a sudden it was like, hey, we have to win. And how do you have to win? We're gonna have to outspend these guys and not just outspend them, we're going to have to do something significant. We're gonna have to get a huge technological edge. So, just like Kennedy saw the same landscape and he said, Let's make a goal to go to go to go to the moon. If I remember my statistics right, one in five jobs in America were centered around the space program. You were working for a factory, making a widget, you were working in a in a in a school that was getting grants that was funneled for the space program to teach physics, right? One in five Americans was directly employed and directly compensated because we were had the objective of going to space.

SPEAKER_10 10:08

Well, remember at the time it was called the space race.

SPEAKER_14 10:11

That's exactly right. Yes, and this is no different. So, right now we're coming to an era where China's not gonna flex up on us militarily. This was the same thing Russia. They didn't flex us up on us militarily, but they started the space race because that was how they they're a communist society on a fiat currency. So what are they gonna do? Get people working. And what better way to get people working than dump thousands of people in factories making all the things and all the tech and all the science that goes into the space race? So America got in on that game, and we ended up allegedly going to the moon. Well, after we went to the moon a couple times, then all of a sudden we lost interest in it. Okay, now we can go on and on about the conspiracies of did we go, did we not go? Maybe Hollywood benefited more from the space race than the actual rockets and stuff like that. But nonetheless, we're at a point now where it doesn't really make sense to build tomahawk missiles, which is one of the results of the space race. They're too expensive for war, especially when they can be defeated by a drone, which is way cheaper. So now the cost of war has come way down, especially with 3D printing. You know, you can make these drones and strap a grenade on it and do whatever you need to do. Okay. So now the next objective is again space. So how convenient, here we are. History sure doesn't repeat itself, but oh my goodness, does it rhyme? And Donald Trump has been compared endlessly to JFK Jr., and this is where we're at. We're launching our space race. Our Artemis 2 program or Artemis program is mirroring the Apollo program almost to a T. So kind of cool. I think it's neat. Now, there are some pretty grandiose objectives with this one. This is the current director of NASA talking about our five-year objectives with this space program. Oh, is that me? That was me.

SPEAKER_15 11:59

Okay, see you. Because the moon base you said is going to begin construction. When exactly?

SPEAKER_18 12:05

Well, we're gonna start, we're gonna start launching in early 2027. Like we are gonna literally start putting landers, these are uncrewed robotic landers and rovers on the surface of the moon on a near-monthly cadence starting in 2027.

SPEAKER_14 12:16

Now, Carlitz is gonna interject that the surface of the moon is just the middle of Nevada. And maybe it is, I don't know. Okay, but let's keep listening.

SPEAKER_15 12:26

What is gonna be built? What's it gonna look like?

SPEAKER_18 12:28

People asked that too, and I was like, I bet when you think of moon base, you think of this beautiful glass dome. I was like, think of it closer to a junkyard. Like we are gonna have so many like broken down rovers and landers everywhere, but that's that's actually how you do it. You know, we we started with Alan Shepherd on a 10-minute mission to space, right? And from there, eight years later, we walked on the moon. You don't just drink jump to the to the end state, right? So what are we doing? We are we are gonna experiment. Phase one is all about lots of landers, lots of rovers, packed with science instruments, packed with tech demonstrations. We are gonna figure out what should the surface comms be like, what should the orbital comms be like, what is the best power source? We're gonna have solar power, we're gonna have nuclear-powered RTGs, we're eventually gonna have a nuclear power plant on the moon, but you do it in a logical, evolutionary way. So, what are we gonna do? We're gonna have lots of landings, lots of rovers, we're gonna learn. That'll inform phase two till we get to phase three, where you're gonna have that real enduring presence on the moon.

SPEAKER_14 13:21

You know, I listened to some uh some physicist that was talking about, you know, they want to put these data centers in space, and everybody believes space is cold, right? And that's that'll be great for the data centers because they produce all this heat. But he this guy was explaining, he's like, no, it's not cold. It's cold on the back side of the moon. Well, no, it's not even that. Oh, really? I mean, there's one thing to put it on the moon, there is something there to reflect heat and move. There's there's no atmosphere, but there's a breeze, apparently. I don't know. Okay. But what he said, he says space is a vacuum. So in a vacuum, there's really nothing there. It's a vacuum is a perfect insulator. And so he's like, when people people that are very intelligent talk about putting data centers in space or these things that produce heat. He's like, How are you gonna discharge the heat? He's like, You literally are putting it up in this the best possible insulation. You're never gonna be able to displace that heat. So then someone else was saying, Well, that heat is what you would use to generate electricity for other things. It's like, maybe. So I guess we still have some engineering left to do. Carlitz says, I can play along if it makes America great again. There you go. That's that's it. That's what we want. Team players, team players. That's what we want, Carlitz. Yes, we play along if it makes America great again. Exactly. If it defeats the communist reds, so be it. Okay. That is kind of that is kind of fun. So I'm excited. I support the space race stuff way more than I support bullets and bombs in Yemen. You know what I mean? So yeah, if it makes America great again, awesome. If we get faster domestic transport or airplane, you know, transport and we can launch rockets and get to Ethiopia in seven minutes. I love it. You know, uh benefits for sure. Yeah, space race team player.

SPEAKER_13 15:05

Team player one. Oh, that's great.

Fiat Money And War Economics

SPEAKER_14 15:06

We need t-shirts to say that the business perspective conspiracy show, space race team player one. I love it. Team player, whatever they whatever they're selling, I'm buying. Okay, so one of the other things that's going on here is obviously this Iran war sure seems to be wrapping up. Donald Trump gave a great speech last night. It's really good. Um, just kind of emphasizing the the how we got here with Iran and what we're doing. And we're gonna play a couple clips from that, but I just want to remind people hypocrisy abounds. Now, I insulate myself from being a hypocrite by saying I'm often wrong but never in doubt. And as soon as I find out I'm wrong, I will change my opinion. Okay. We are all the product of the information you we have. We are only good as the information we have. So we we we look at things broadly, we dive into the conspiracies, we pull back, we see it, see it on its face. Because oftentimes the conspiracies well, what you see is what you get, right? So when you go into the conspiracies, a lot of times you see the things that everyone else chooses not to see.

SPEAKER_10 16:06

Right. So did you watch the uh lift off? You did? Oh, so I'm escape basket coming down. So I skipped it because I was listening to something, and then they're like, Well, the launch is ready, and the people have been sitting in the ship for three hours, and you know, they're flicking switches, and then they had a little bubble, like uh they had a little hiccup, and the hiccup was oh, they're trying to use communications that they just you know put together back when they first started NASA. And it's like, what? It's like, man, why don't you guys get some like uh Did you get the Quaxo cable plugged in? Yeah, like something. And then I just like um I'm not watching anymore.

SPEAKER_14 16:47

So the the the conspiracy, you know, it almost makes you wonder if NASA is just a big joke. I know Carlise, it is. But as the as the missile launches, the escape basket is leaving the launcher thing. It's like on a trolley, and the space basket. I should have pulled the clip, man. The space basket had like a bikini blanket on it, like it looked like a bikini. Now you couldn't see if there were people in the basket, but some people are like, Yeah, they just launched a missile, guys, and then it's fully loaded in 10 days. You know, they'll take a Boeing Starliner up and drop a pod into the California ocean, be like, We're back. It was awesome. So we'll see. Anyways, uh, yeah, so again, if it, you know, I'll be a team player if it makes America great again, whatever.

SPEAKER_10 17:33

So we'll be checking tan lines.

Iran War Wrap Up Claims

SPEAKER_14 17:35

You'll be checking tan lines, yeah. Okay. So back to the Iran conflict. So everybody's a hypocrite, okay? And the best thing you can do is uh to avoid being called a hypocrite is be willing to change. Okay, and you need to be willing to change, and on top of that, you need to admit when you were wrong. If you're wrong about something, it's okay. Everybody makes mistakes. We only have so much information. And what, but once new information presents itself, you can reflect on upon it and you can develop your own opinion. Does that make sense? Yeah, as long as your opinion is able to adapt and flex for certain things, then you're okay.

SPEAKER_10 18:11

But there's some people who kind of have this weird deal where they they they're like uh well, it's also good if your idea can uh take on a five-minute stress or a five-second stress test.

SPEAKER_14 18:26

Yeah, exactly. So there's a couple things with the Iran thing that the hypocrisy on the left and right of the political spectrum is pretty stunning. So, this right here up on the screen is the guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. So you might remember the Iran contract. I know this dude. Right. So we were selling missiles to Iran, and then we ended up getting the money down to Nicaragua to fight the Contras down there, and the Iran missiles, the money from that being taken directly to fund ABC, anything but communist program that Reagan had going on down in Nicaragua. And it's really the biggest smirch on his presidency. And a lot of people say, well, he didn't know that much because he was starting to get mentally all timery after he got shot and he kind of turned over his administration to George H.W. Bush. It doesn't matter. But this is Oliver Stone. So you got the guy on the left who was arrested for selling missiles. Oliver North, excuse me. Oliver North. You got the guy on the left who was convicted of selling missiles to Iran. They're both the same guy. The same guy on the right. The guy on the right is the Fox News military analyst who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. Same guy, same guy. Oliver, I would love it if you did a piece and said, I should have never sold missiles to Iran. Reagan was wrong for telling me to do it.

SPEAKER_10 19:43

That'd be a bestseller book.

SPEAKER_14 19:44

That would be a bestseller book. Now, if you think the hypocrisy is just on the right, it's not. Here's Rachel Maddow, right? 2025. Trump is going to ignore Iran until they have a nuclear warheaded pointed at us, and then it's too late. Trump 2026. Trump has no right to strike Iran.

SPEAKER_10 19:59

It's not too late yet.

SPEAKER_14 20:01

Come on. It's not too late. Oh no, I just lost the real clip I wanted. All right, Ron, come off the screen here so I can pull that clip because I need to find it. Okay. So one of the other things that I saw that I thought was really great was Jamie Diamond, CEO of uh JP Morgan Chase, one of the largest financial institutions in the world and also extremely corrupt. But nonetheless, these guys are market leaders, right? These guys know what's going on in the market. They've got your credit card statements, they know what you're spending things on. And he was being grilled on the Axios show about Iran and you know why it's bad and stuff like that. And he kind of flipped the script on him here. Listen to this.

SPEAKER_06 20:40

China's been a big beneficiary of of our war in Iran. It is a war of choice. Are we giving are we handing sort of this golden opportunity to China and to Russia?

SPEAKER_24 20:51

Yeah, I I would step back on that one a little bit. You say it's a war of choice. You know, uh, I've heard a lot of people say there was no imminent threat. And the threat means that it hasn't happened yet. The bad thing hasn't happened. They've been killing people around the world 45 plus years. They've killed a lot of Americans. They funded not just Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, they have terror cells here. They were about to get their ballistic missiles, which I think you just found out can go almost 3,000 miles an hour. They never gave up nuclear. They were bad. So I don't look at this like, you know, does it create all this uncertainty? Absolutely. Does it create, you know, more short-term risk for the oil prices? Absolutely. I'm trained it ends well. I don't know everything the American government knows. I don't know, you know, if you know the military's been planning things like this extensively in a lot of detail. So they know more than we do. They have more plans than we do, and I I literally hope it turns out well and that somehow we get peace in the Middle East permanently. China's been a few years.

SPEAKER_14 21:47

It's my opinion. Jamie Diamond is very self-interested, and he's right. Iran, bad, bad guys. Okay, they do bad things, they treat their people bad, they're bullies in the Middle East. You'd be hard pressed to make a case opposite of that. Right now, I saw someone, some influencer who went to Iran and was walking around one of their malls, and look how great it is here. It's like, yeah, of course, because the peasants make it great. Sure. Right. But if they speak out, off with your head.

SPEAKER_10 22:12

Remember, the Iranian regime, and I know this from firsthand from the guys that were in prison with me from that same person that was walking around the mall should go talk to some of the police or some of the um people that are, you know, quote unquote in charge and find out what happens.

SPEAKER_14 22:25

Yeah, exactly. So I know this from firsthand experience from the guys that I was in prison with from Iran. They said the IRGC and the prison quid guard or whatever the quid guard or whatever they're called, if you speak out against the regime and they decide you're gone, you'll get assassinated. Okay. You get a bullet to the head. And what they'll do is they'll go and take that bullet, that bullet that went through your relative's brain, and they will take it to you and they will invoice the family for the bullet. That's just to rub it in. That's how d just degrading this regime is to itself.

SPEAKER_10 22:59

Well, it's to make sure that the people receiving the bullet know that uh it's coming for you next. Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_14 23:10

So with that, pray the rosary daily. Happy holy Thursday. Welcome. So glad you made it.

SPEAKER_10 23:15

Thank you.

SPEAKER_14 23:15

On this high holiday.

SPEAKER_10 23:18

Okay. I'm not I'm not Catholic, so we don't do the whole thing. I don't even know what holiday it is. It's the day after paper pools.

SPEAKER_14 23:25

So this is like holy week and oh, sure. The Passion of Christ and the whole thing. As Mormons, we kind of just do the Easter thing, right? Right. We kind of roll over it a little bit. We don't do the Good Friday. Tomorrow on TV, you're gonna see all the Catholics with the black suit on their face or the cross or whatever it is. So uh pray the rosary daily, you're gonna have to send me a picture of you because I'm sure you're gonna do that, which is awesome, by the way. I think if you choose to live a faith, you should live it faithfully. Isn't that Wednesday? I thought that was like Ash Wednesday. Is it? Man, I should stop talking. I don't know. Okay, so one of the challenges with this entire Iran conflict is NATO wasn't there for us. And it's not that they were obliged to participate offensively because NATO's a defensive alliance. But there are some things that you would think, given our alliance with, say, Britain and the other NATO countries, that they would let us, you know, use their bases to stage things or launch our bombers off Diego Garcia. We park them there, we pay them a lease, we provide economic benefit to England by being hosted at Diego Garcia, but the moment we need to use it for what we're paying for, oh sorry, you can't use it. Why is that? Why did NATO get totally soft? On News Nation, they had a really great breakdown of this. Why is it all these nations got so soft?

SPEAKER_21 24:47

I think there's something bigger happening, which is a realignment of the world that the Brits have become, as have the French, as have the Spaniards, as the Italians, all countries that have said they won't help, have become much more aligned, or I would say even hostage to their own domestic political interests, which focus on their Muslim populations. And you're seeing the Arab world now ally itself with Israel and the United States. Countries only have permanent interests, not permanent allies, have the world's interests realigned. I think there's something bigger happening.

NATO Hesitation And Europe Realignment

SPEAKER_14 25:22

And that's what's going on. France, huge Muslim population, Britain, huge Muslim population, all the Western European nations have had this immigration crisis, and it's all been predominantly Muslims. And it happens to be Muslims that are more aligned with Iran's worldview than Saudi Arabia's worldview. Does that make sense? Yeah, and so that's the Arab world has been like aligned with Israel of all places in the United States, but the Persian world and and the ones under that influence through the Iranians, which is a lot of these migrants, right? Because that's where the terrorism's being fomented from, they align with the Iranian agenda. And so France can't really hop in because the Palace of Versailles is not secure, the Eiffel Tower's not secure, right? They could have domestic terrorism pop off. We could here too, to a lesser degree, right? Same thing with Britain. And so it's it created the situation where it's like, well, we'd love to help, we'd love to fulfill our obligations, our military alliances, but then I wouldn't win my next election. Then I would have to deploy police into the streets and it would be violent and brutal. You see what I'm saying? And so they were held back by that, which is one of the reasons why, as far as long-term defense planning, the the America said, listen, we're gonna have to do the Don Road doctrine, focus on the Western Hemisphere. Europe is dying, it's dead. They don't rapidly self-correct in 20 years, it's France is gonna be an Islamic nation because they're so dominant in the way they participate in politics. Yeah. Uh John Atis says Greek Easter was always the best memories. My family historically was Greek Orthodox, and so we did. That's that was a holiday we would celebrate. That was our annual family reunion, still is to this day. The Johnatis will go down to the desert of Utah and roast a lamb and do the whole thing. Greek Easter. It's not very much a Greek Orthodox holiday, it's more of a family reunion, but we do remember Greek Easter. So I'm a little more familiar with that than the uh Catholic version of it. Greek Easter goes off the lunar calendar, and you know, sometimes it's March, sometimes it's after after uh Easter, all that kind of stuff. Okay, so here's Donald Trump telling the rest of the world that's been super dependent on oil coming out of the Strait of Hormuz what their options are.

SPEAKER_23 27:36

So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, we had to do it ourselves. I have a suggestion. Number one, buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty, we have so much. And number two, build up some delayed courage, should have done it before, should have done it with us as we asked. Go to the strait and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done, so it should be easy. And in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally. They're gonna want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild. It will so to those now.

SPEAKER_10 28:25

Can anybody come take it? Can we go get one?

SPEAKER_14 28:28

Let's go. We'll do a little what's that? What's the movie Mad Dogs or War Dogs? War Dogs. Yeah, do you know have you seen that movie? Yes. Oh my goodness. Yes, Ron, let's do it. Let's let's let's take a little cigarette speedboat. Let's go. Let's secure the Cag Island and be like, we're here. We'll plant our peasants' flag and be like, this is peasants' oil now. We'll start collecting tolls. Yeah, start collecting tolls. Paid in Bitcoin, of course. Yeah. You can convert any currency into Bitcoin, but we'll take payment in Bitcoin. It's a universal settlement system. Okay, so that's that's notice how he didn't say France or England or India. He just said the nations. Right. Who is the key buyer of Iranian oil? Uh well, China. China. Yeah. So he's saying, China, if you want it, come get it, but we're not gonna stick around here. It's not in our interests, right? So you've you've got all these deals with the Arab world. Go, go make good on them. Go be your own police force in the straight of whore moves. Now, is this a good move or a bad move? In my opinion, it's a good move on the United States. Do you know why? Because now China is gonna be bogged down in the desert in the sand with tribes that have been fighting each other for a thousand years, right? Just like we were. So it's like, yeah, we'll go race to space, establish dominancy there, huge technological advantage. Meanwhile, you will spend your blood, sweat, treasure, and tears trying to secure your oil supply in the Middle East from people who are hostile to everybody. Right? Go talk to a soldier who spent time in the backcountry of Afghanistan. These are people who, if you show them a picture of them, of them, right, they'll kill you because that must be witchcraft of something. So absolutely go go deal with it. So that'll be kind of interesting. The other thing Donald Trump mentioned in his speech last night is as soon as this conflict is oil is over, we expect oil prices to plummet.

SPEAKER_23 30:17

That's all they have to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will rapidly go back up. They haven't come down very much, frankly. They came down a little bit, but they've had some very good days over the last couple of days. We've done actually much better than I thought. But we had to take that little journey to Iran to get rid of this horrible threat. With our historic tax cuts, where people are just now talking about receiving larger refunds than they ever thought possible. They are getting so much more money than they thought. That's from the great big beautiful bill. Our economy is strong and improving by the day, and it will soon be roaring back like never before. It will top the levels that it was a month ago. I've made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until our objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives.

SPEAKER_14 31:21

All of America's military objectives. And as a result of that, when we pull out, we expect oil prices to plummet. And we should return to the roaring economy. How roaring of an economy have we had? Well, the quarter four report for GDP growth came out. Now keep in mind, this report is done by people who hate Donald Trump.

SPEAKER_10 31:37

And also keep in mind, though, that this is on the heels of getting rid of a bunch of USAID spending that was nonsense.

SPEAKER_14 31:44

Yeah, obviously you've got reduction in federal spending.

SPEAKER_10 31:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 31:47

Deficit has been the spending deficit has been reduced quite a bit. And you've got tariff revenue coming in. That's a big part of why the deficit spending has been reduced. And you have, for the first time in five or six years, you've got more net jobs going to American citizens than illegals or foreign-born people. Okay. We might find out that we are actually pretty rich country, real quick. So under Biden, they manipulated all these GDP numbers and employment numbers. And it's not impossible they're still manipulated, but keep in mind it was being manipulated by people who loved Biden and hated Trump. And so when these numbers come out, you have to kind of assume the same people for the most part are doing it. And listen to this.

SPEAKER_08 32:26

My God, we just got a report from the Fed Atlanta uh uh um bank that says we grew at 5.3% in the fourth quarter. This is an absolutely booming economy right now.

SPEAKER_14 32:40

My God, it's a booming economy. Yeah, and despite what the news tells you, it's still booming. There's been almost no impact other than oil prices, which has a trickle-down effect on us. But if the oil prices come back down, right, which they likely will significantly, oh my goodness, we're we are rocking and rolling here.

SPEAKER_10 32:59

This is a great signal, and it's also a great signal to me because what I hope happens is that we have a similar outcome with um revis revised voting systems. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be another wave of it's woo.

SPEAKER_14 33:15

When Donald Trump talks about the golden age is upon us, this is what he's talking about. He's talking about the space race, he's talking about advances in technology. If you remember when he was still campaigning when he announced his presidency, he put out, I think it was like 12 videos of his agenda. One of them was to create 10 new mega cities that could use smart technology. For example, vertical takeoff cars. Oh, right? Like we have the tech, but we don't have the infrastructure. So we've got to build a city with the infrastructure. That's awesome. I'm down. Go take some of that useless federal land and build some mega cities. It's it's great. He hasn't mentioned that during his presidency, but you know it's on the agenda. But you've got to clean up the Iranian, the Venezuelan, you know, these threats to it. You got to clean it up. And just like post-World War II, we entered into a peace era where it was like, hey, we're so far, you know, the discombobulators got everybody sitting back discombobulated. And so you're we're gonna have a time frame where we're gonna be untouchable for a while. And if you can simultaneously build the Golden Dome across Greenland and northern Canada, protect us from any future events, you know, put put our enemies on the back foot where they can't really do much, and they're gonna be limited to tear cells, and FISA will take care of that. So okay, so Donald Trump continued on there as far as the military success.

SPEAKER_23 34:34

As we speak this evening, it's been just one month since the United States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's number one state sponsor of terror, Iran. In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield. Victories like few people have ever seen before. Tonight, Iran's Navy is gone. Their air force is in ruins, their leaders, most of them terrorist regime they led are now dead. Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons, factories, and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces. Very few of them left. Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks. Our enemies are losing in America as it has been for five years under my presidency, is winning and now winning bigger than ever before.

SPEAKER_14 35:56

Yes, winning bigger than ever before. Carlita says, I'm so proud of our military. We're back, baby. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 36:01

Nah, you just like winning.

SPEAKER_14 36:05

So the the great thing here is a couple things. There's some byproducts of this. By going after the drone factory specifically, which apparently the number I heard was about 67%, and they still want to get the rest of them. Iran has been the primary supplier of drones to Russia fighting in the Ukraine war. So this also puts Russia in a position where they have to retool and either make them themselves or settle the war. Right. And I don't think the settling the war is the problem is on the Russian side. I do think it's on the Ukrainian side because they've been strung along by Europe using them as an offload for their fiat currency system. A lot of this ties back to money, right? And then when the money interacts with territory and things like that, that's where it's like, oh, that's our spot. Let's go, let's go have war because we can expend all this fiat currency and create employment. And that's what's been going on there, right? This war bolstered Iran because they had a place to offload the drones. Ukraine has been leading in drone technology and manufacturing as well. So Europe's pumping money into that to develop the tech and things like that. It's it's not good.

SPEAKER_10 37:10

No. And think about all the the uh money that gets spent on military stuff and spending in ammunition and missiles and whatever. If those things just keep piling up and they never actually use them, then the value of that dollar is sitting there stagnant, and you have um stagnation of your um economic flow, your cash flow. And if you don't blow up those bombs and it's like a heat sink, just like we were talking about, you got to have somewhere for that energy to dissipate. And if you're not bleeding out that energy, that money, those bombs, if you're not using them, then that money sits there and stagnates and your economy stagnates. But if you blow them up, then you got good flow. You got good economic flow, and so that's what they want to keep going. They want to keep the economic flow going.

SPEAKER_14 37:59

And when you think about the economics through the cold war, right? All these European nations are buying what? Tomahawk missiles, air defense system, rocket launchers, M1 Abram tanks.

SPEAKER_10 38:11

Well, it's a great heat sink for a big pile of cash to load up all at once.

SPEAKER_14 38:15

Eventually, Poland's like, hey, you know what? We bought like three thousand of these tanks back in 1989, and they're still in service. We don't need any more. And that's and so it's like, oh, let's sell some to Taiwan. Well, eventually, we under Trump won the A1 Abrams tank factory in Indiana or Ohio, wherever it's at, was shutting down because there's no more customers, everybody's fully stocked with tanks. Well, how do you create another pipeline of needing more tanks? Go burn some up on a battlefield somewhere. And and at the beginning of the Ukrainian war, what happened? Millie and or not Millie, but um the black, the black uh secretary of defense that would wear the face mask. I can't remember his name. The guy that the guy that got a surgery and forgot to tell anybody while he was away from work. So uh his name will probably come to me. Anyways, you know, they sat around a table and they were like, Okay, you have so many missiles, you have so many things, send them to Ukraine. They were sending inventory to Ukraine, and then and then those countries were making orders to then get factories going again. Remember Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania with when Zelensky came to town, went to a bomb factory in Pennsylvania and they were signing the bombs. Right? Why is that? Well, they're not just resupplying Ukraine, every missile that backloaded Britain, Britain could send the old missile to Ukraine and go ahead and spend that off. So, yes, absolutely, Ron.

SPEAKER_10 39:34

Yeah, as a Europe and and we also get to freshen up our supplies and have fresh ammo, exactly.

J6 Pipe Bomber Case Bombshell

SPEAKER_14 39:41

Unlike in War Dogs when they were selling off the uh the ammunition from like 80 years ago, just repackage it. It's so funny, that whole thing fell apart because they forgot to pay the packager. He called the Pentagon from you know Uzbekistan or wherever it was. He's like, hey, I I need my$110,000 for repackaging that Chinese ammunition that such and such contractors sold. It was like, wait, what? Okay, so Donald Trump, he also made kind of a threat here and a promise. Iran is in talks for some sort of ceasefire. Essentially, they're out of ability to fight. And so they're like, listen, if you stop fighting, we'll stop fighting. You know, natural resolution to the war. But Trump is basically like, listen, as long as you're still fighting and we've got some military objectives yet to meet, we're gonna keep going.

SPEAKER_23 40:28

Thanks to the progress we've made. I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders' death. They're all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable. Yet, if during this period of time no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets. If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone, and there's not a thing they could do about it.

SPEAKER_14 41:33

Thanks to making it pretty clear, we will bomb your whole country back into the Stone Age.

SPEAKER_10 41:38

Yeah, this is the part of the whole game that I'm not really cool with. I've I'm well, not cool with, that's not the right way to say it. Um, not really excited about because this is really gonna impact people, not just governments and administration. This is gonna impact people and including kids.

SPEAKER_14 41:56

I I have I have kind of a mixed a mixed thought on this.

SPEAKER_10 42:01

I do too. So I I haven't finished my other thought. Go ahead. My other thought was what if Donald Trump knows that we're on the verge of some kind of new energy source and they don't need those plants anyways, and we're gonna use this as a flex to get more control in the meantime. And then when we rebuild and have new energy sources, it won't matter anyways.

SPEAKER_14 42:21

Ron, did you not pay attention to the show like two months ago? When Devin Nunez, CEO of Truth Social, says they just bought a cold fusion company that can produce small cold fusion plants. Yes, Ron, that's exactly right. Wow, so if you bomb their if you bomb their energy production facilities, you now have the cheap solution. Great, yeah, we'll come and run a plant for you. And then look, it's in a it's in a box. It's guess what?

SPEAKER_10 42:47

Guess what? We have these bright new shiny ones that are like sweet.

SPEAKER_14 42:52

Yes, yes. The the chess game, the pieces are on the board. And again, this is why you've got to tune in daily and listen like four times during the day to absorb this information. Yes, Ron. We could bomb their nuclear plants, leave them in the dark for a month, and when they fully capitulated, we could literally deliver cold fusion energy generators, thus creating a demand around the world for this new, way more efficient, less dangerous power supply that's every bit as effective as a large nuclear power plant.

SPEAKER_10 43:25

It might actually turn Iran into the most high-tech city in the world.

SPEAKER_14 43:30

Yes. And China's behind on this. They still have to buy oil. So go ahead, sell China your oil, use the money to buy our power plants, and you're gonna love us more. Okay. So this is gonna be like a win-win-win. It's a win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win. Okay. All the way around, as Trump has always says, we hold all the cards. We just have to play them. And so Donald Trump, yes, he strategically has set this up. And they're deeply involved in the cryptocurrency game. Okay, the family is. Now, is this going to benefit the Trump family? Absolutely. Think as a c as an employee of mine once said, and we were in excavation and we were building these multi-million dollar houses while most of my employees would go home to their single wides, right? I had one employee who really got it. He goes, you know what? Thank God for rich people. Exactly. That's how I bred my butter. So I'm just a dirt man, but thank goodness they're building these big houses and I can charge them a hundred grand for excavation.

SPEAKER_10 44:28

Yeah, because then there is economic flow, and all you gotta do is get in the flow.

SPEAKER_14 44:32

Get in the flow, exactly. So, and in the book Atlas Shrug, it's the same thing. Like Hank Reardon, who's got this the steel mills and things like that, he employs so many people when he goes through his little trial in the book. He uh what do you oh he goes through his little trial in the book? He some some guy comes up to him afterwards, he's like, Thank you, keep fighting the fight, because if they take you guys down, we all go down with you. And that's exactly the case, right? Like, you've got to have people that are on the front end of this stuff that money doesn't matter anymore. It's about some larger objective. And that's what the Trump family is. They're way past figuring out how to pay the credit card statement this month. You know what I mean? And so they're they're acquiring cold fusion technology and investing deeply in crypto markets and things like that. It's it's powerful stuff. So here's Donald Trump kind of wrapping up his speech.

SPEAKER_23 45:21

And the country has been eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat. They were the bully of the Middle East, but they're the bully no longer. This is a true investment in your children and your grandchildren's future.

SPEAKER_14 45:37

It is. It's a true investment in your children and grandchildren's future. For what you say or don't say about the nuclear bomb, it led to cheap energy, which led to a huge industrial boom in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. And we still are benefiting from it, right? So getting rid of this bully in the Middle East opens up so many opportunities because who wants to invest big time when it could all get blown up? Trump said one time, long, long time ago, we have to prevent bad actors from getting nuclear weapons because you could build this beautiful building, this great city, and one single madman with a button can make the thing go away. So you've got to have you can only have the right people with that tech with that technology. Now, coming back to the economy, we get rid of the big bully, bully in the east, Iran, and all of their terror proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, as well as the terror cells they fund all around the world, they export that radical ideology. Okay, it's gone. It's gone. It's basically gonna live on the internet now. That's it. They they they really aren't gonna have the funding, the money. Their economy has been absolutely destroyed, their ability to defend themselves has been absolutely decimated, and their ability to wage any kind of offensive action is also decimated. So it's good. And the United States is still roaring strong, and even through this conflict, which has been 30 days the entire month of February, guess what?

SPEAKER_13 46:59

These are February numbers retail sales, expecting a headline number up half a percent, Joe, comes in better than expected, up six tenths of a percent. That would be the strongest since June of last year, when it was up one percent. If you look at July of last year, it was exactly the same up six tenths.

SPEAKER_14 47:18

These are so our economy, even through the winter on a short month, 28 days, still saw summer numbers when we weren't in conflict around the world, before we'd taken out Maduro, before we'd done any of that. And now we've got oil flowing, we've got, you know, things have advanced more. It is just things could be shaping up really well. Despite all the panickings, all the doomsdayers about Iran, right? It seems to be resolving pretty well. Even guys like Jamie Diamond are on board. Listen, Iran was a threat. They were bad, they had to go. Okay. And Jamie Diamond, again, tying into the larger themes, maybe four or five years ago, he'd have been down on it because Iran has been the off-books balance sheet for the world banking system. But now we're moving into an era of tokenization and cryptography and blockchain and things like that. And so he's like, Yeah, we got to get rid of the off-books balance sheet so that we can fully implement this new system. And of course, they're gonna sit on top of it, but nonetheless, it's a good thing.

unknown 48:21

Probably.

SPEAKER_14 48:24

Okay, shifting gears. We had another huge blockbuster headline yesterday that was is deeply personal to me, dealing with January 6th. So this this is Clay Higgins, and this was a while back. I think this was during the Biden regime. But Clay Higgins, along with Thomas Massey and a few others, were kind of at the front line of figuring out what was really happening during January 6th. And Clay Higgins is absolutely adamant the FBI had huge involvement.

SPEAKER_03 48:49

The FBI was was not only involved in the actions on January 6th from within, they had uh, I suspect, uh, over 200 Asians embedded within the crowd, including Asians or as they would call human assets, uh inside the Capitol addressed as Trump supporters before the doors were opened.

SPEAKER_14 49:12

FBI was so the FBI was involved. We've known that for a while. Those of us that are defendants, we we've always called it a fed surrection. Well, Brian Cole Jr., the autistic young black man who's being held in in custody that has been fingered at for the pipe bomber, his defense put out this motion yesterday. So let's look at this. This is government's motion for order to show cause why defense counsels should oh, excuse me. Uh I got the wrong one. Okay, here it is. All right, so this was in a motion that the defense of Brian Cole put out. Okay, a pipe bomb investigation. So when they identified Brian Cole as the pipe bomber. So remember what happened. There was Thomas Massey and the whistleblowers came out with, and Steve Baker, through his reporting and gate analysis, named Carrie Kirkoff as the pipe bomber on January 5th. She was a Capitol Hill police officer, currently D currently working at the CIA on some protective detail.

SPEAKER_10 50:16

And I believe at the time you and I both had a reaction of, whoa, we might actually get some action here.

SPEAKER_14 50:24

Yes. And then that ramped up this huge, you know, FBI all of a sudden got active and they were investigating Brian Cole Jr. and Kerry Kirchhoff simultaneously at the same time.

SPEAKER_10 50:38

And then, like within 24 to 48 hours, it was like five days.

SPEAKER_14 50:42

Then they were we got Brian Cole and they had the press conference. And one of the things Cash Patel said at that was we told the investigators, don't take no for an answer. So give us a guy. When you hear him say that, you're like, they did it. Okay. So look, so look at this. So Brian Cole's in custody. His defense has gotten discovery, and part of that discovery is they find out all the side cases and because there's crossover with the agents and whatnot. And what it says here is that during the Pipon investigation, Mrs. Kirkoff, Ms. Kirchhoff, was a U.S. Capitol Police Officer on January 6, 2021 and was present at the Capitol on that date. Ms. Kirchhoff now works for the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. According to discovery produced by the government in the case, the FBI began investigating, questioning, and covertly surveilling Ms. Kirchhoff during the time it began investigating Mr. Cole. So they were surveilling her. They were looking at her. On November 6, 2025, Ms. Kirchhoff was interviewed by the FBI and took polygraph examination. Okay. So they brought her in and they lie detected tested her. On November 6, 2025, Ms. Kirkoff was interviewed by the FBI and took a polygraph examination. She was asked two relevant questions. One, did you place those pipe bombs? And two, did you place those pipe bombs that evening? Miss Kirchhoff failed the polygraph. The FBI polygraph examiner noted Kirkoff's quote, very controlled reaction to the news of her failing the polygraph, seemingly rehearsed responses to the examiner's question. It goes on to say that she was questioned by Jocelyn Ben, uh Jocelyn Ballantyne, who was the attorney who prosecuted General Flynn. She was the attorney who prosecuted the Proud Boys and tried to get Enrique Antario to flip. She's a corrupt prosecutor. Period. Okay. She's the one who administered this test, and she's the one that is now prosecuting Brian Cole Jr., the worst of the worst J6 prosecutors, who has a storied history of being part of the weaponized government scheme regime, is the one now prosecuting Brian Cole Jr., the long-armed, big-footed, weird walking pipe bomber that doesn't match the pipe bomber that evening. Okay. So she failed a polygraph test. But nonetheless, they went ahead and proceeded with the arrest of Brian Cole Jr. I saw some analysis yesterday, and here's what's going on. Patrick Byrne revealed that when they went down to Fulton County to get the ballots, right? They had a bad warrant. Do you remember this? They showed up with the warrant, the warrant was wrong, and they went back and they corrected the warrant. The warrant was filled out by a 35-year veteran FBI agent. And the way warrants work is when they really come under scrutiny. If things are misspelled and address is wrong, stuff's wrong, it can kind of invalidate the whole warrant and the whole search. So it's really important that the warrant be done correctly. And doesn't have poison pill. It doesn't have a poison pill. It was poison pill. They caught it before they issued it and went back and got a correct one, which is why Fulton County, in their attempt to invalidate the warrant, has now failed because the warrant was corrected. Had they executed the faulty warrant, we would likely be sitting here with some judge going, oh, throw the whole thing out. Technicality. Technicality, flag on the field, you know, go back to start. And so that is what they're up against. Inside the DOJ, there are these deeply embedded actors that, for whatever reason, will do something like that. Allegedly, that 35-year veteran of the FBI has been fired. Okay. Jocelyn Ballantine fits that same profile. This J6 prosecution of Brian Cole Jr. seems to be a poison pill. It's going to make it is, has made Pam Bondi look really bad. It's made Pat Cash Patel look really bad. It's made Dan Bongino look really bad. It was his birthday present to me. They sold up the river of Patsy just for me. And then it makes Janine Pierrot look really bad, who herself, as a prosecutor, has was known in at least one instance to have arrested and prosecuted a completely innocent man, and she knew it. So she has that MO. That's part of her history. So here you have her failing a polygraph test. Now, she's employed at the CIA, and a lot of people are like, well, polygraph tests aren't admissible in court. Well well enough. The reason they're not admissible in court is because you have to go get the witnesses and all that kind of stuff. But the FBI uses polygraphs all the time. The CIA uses polygraphs all the time. The DHS uses polygraphs all the time. And it's a pass-fail thing for uh law enforcement officers. If you become a police officer, this is my my friend, my very close family member took a polygraph, failed it, got his job offer pulled from the sheriff's department. You fail a polygraph, you're out. It's just black and white when it comes to government employment. Why is she still employed?

SPEAKER_10 55:47

And it's my understanding in those cases, you can actually fail them if you're truthful, too.

SPEAKER_14 55:52

That's why they're not submit admitted admissible in court, but they are very reliable. Okay, they're not unreliable. So this got posted on the public docket, and it included who she was. Now, this has all been publicly reported, but now we know the details. It went on to say one of the things they wanted is they want they've now issued a subpoena for the video. You know, Carrie's been exonerated because they have a video of her playing with her dogs, right, in her house. Turns out it's not quite the case. There's a video of her dogs playing with what might be her voice in the background. So she's not even on video, there's just a woman's voice on the video, may or may not be her. Like super fakeable. Okay. So they've subpoenaed that video, and that is different than what the uh bootlickers of the FBI reported. Oh, they have a video of her on video playing with her dogs. You do not have a video of her playing with their dogs. So they want that information. She also, as she was being surveilled, she was also went to a podiatrist, which is a guy who specializes in gait analysis. So she was being investigated for the gate analysis. They got their woman. They got their woman. They got her pretty dead to rights here. But they still went after Brian Cole Jr.

SPEAKER_10 57:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 57:09

Okay. So this thing is kind of blown up. Now the government got all big mad yesterday when this went on the public docket, and they put in an order. Government's motion for order to show cause why defense counsel should not be held in contempt for violating a protective order. So they're saying they violate a protective order by putting this on the public docket. At the start of the first hearing in the criminal case, the court admonished the parties as follows. This case with some public attention attached to it, I prefer to say this at the outset to avoid any issue, is not made in response to any particular thing that's happened. But let's be clear that this court, this is a court of law. It is not a press room. I have very little patience for antics from counsel or otherwise. So you know, my interest is first and foremost going to ensure a fair process that will be for the government, which it is entitled to put to put its case on and will be certain and will certainly be for Mr. Cole as well. Those rights will be respected. So that's a quote from the judge in the first hearing. And then in this motion, they say, in the service of that sentiment, the government sought a protective order at the beginning of this case, all the discovery, consented to by the defense and entered by the magistrate court on December 11th, 2025, prohibiting the public dissemination of any discovery materials designated as sensitive or other information contained therein, including uniquely identifying information and information that may jeopardize witness security and requiring a prior agreement by the government or permission of the court before such material could could be included in a public filing. Today, defense counsel filed on the public docket a motion for early return of subpoenas that violated in egregious fashion both the letter of the protective order and the spirit of the court's admonition. We're mad, you exposed us. The facts and circumstances set for indicate strongly that a that the exclusive the exclusive it is fat uh it is difficult to fathom a clear, more seemingly intentional violation of a protective order. Upon seeing the motion, government counsel immediately called defense counsel and requested that the filing be removed from the public docket and resubmitted under seal as explicitly required by the terms of the protective order. Defense council stated that they believed their motion complied with the protective order and refused to take steps to remove the filing from the public docket. Defense Council repeatedly asked government counsel what the next steps would be if the defense did agree to remove the filing from the public docket, extending the phone conversation long enough that government counsel eventually told the defense that government counsel would themselves contact the clerk of court to request the filing be taken down. Unbeknownst to government counsel, the damage was already being done. Media figures who have for months been claiming that the defendant is a patsy for the pipe bomber, the individual publicly identified by defense counsel in their pleading had already obtained and posted the filing and exhibits in poll on social media. Good. Good. Good. Because you're in the middle of a cover-up operation. And part of your cover-up operation is to keep that information quiet. The fact that she failed a polygraph test and was being investigated and surveilled. And then you have the most corrupt J6 prosecutor who also prosecuted prosecuted the Proud Boys, also prosecuted General Flynn. She's literally had both of her last major cases ended in a presidential pardon because of weaponization of government issues. And she's prosecuting this case. She's the weapon. She's the weapon. She's the weapon. This is where we're at. Okay? I don't care if those defense attorneys get held in contempt. Thank you. Thank you. For those of us that did time for this nonsense, if you gotta do a sanction or a month in jail or whatever, I don't care. Thank you. Thank you. You're on the side of truth here. She should be investigated. She should be that fact that she failed a polygraph test, she should be under oath and perjury to say that that's not her walking. The podiatrist should come in and say, Yeah, that's her gate. Can't deny it. Okay. She was the first one on January 6th to fire off non-lethal munitions at the crowd indiscriminately. She was the first one. Guy Reffitt, who was the first J Sixer who went to trial, a jury trial, she testified at his case because she shot him and she probably perjured herself. Okay? Super, super big deal. Now, there was reporting yesterday that Pam Bondi, that Trump is floating the idea of possibly getting rid of Pam Bondi. She muffed the invest the Epstein investigation. Remember what happened. Right at the onset of Trump's administration, she brings in a bunch of social media influencers and hands them a binder, says Epstein release, you know, phase one. And it was all the publicly available information that was already on the internet forever. And you know, you had all these social media influencers walking out of the White House holding up these binders like it was some big revelation. And it wasn't. It's a huge bloof. She comes out and says, I've got the list sitting on my desk. Oh, there's nobody on the list. Oh, there's more information up in the Southern District of New York. Oh, you know, uh, we don't know who all these, there's no other victims, no other victims. Right. The whole thing has been a big muff and it's was very bad for the political capital of Donald Trump. Fortunately, it's mostly settled down now. She's she's, you know, a lot of these fraud investigations have been going on. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes with uh with the election integrity stuff, but clearly you had an FBI agent under your control that bunked a warrant that created a poison pill situation. You're clearly sitting on top of this January 6th literal political pipe bomb, right, that is about to that is exploding right now in your face. That was a bombshell revelation yesterday that she was under investigation, that she failed a lie detector test. That's a problem. That's a problem. You've got Brian Cole Jr. on vehicle in his car, miles away from the pipe bomb on traffic camera at the time the pipe bomb's being released. You have Brian Cole Jr. doesn't match the gate analysis. He's autistic, which autis uh autistic people have a like really high rate of false confessions. Oh, by the way, that false confession was issued to Jocelyn Benson or Jocelyn uh Ballantyne. Sure. Okay, the whole thing stinks to high heaven. And you've got Dan Bongino out there who's waging a private war against Thomas Massey. And I believe that Jocelyn Ballantyne was trying to sabotage Dan Bongino and affect his credibility. And Dan Bongino, from what I can tell, I listened to his podcast yesterday, railing on Massey, is too prideful to admit it. He's a quintessential team player. Guys, we could wrap up the whole J6 narrative if we just let this guy go to jail. He's an innocent man. He's an innocent man, Dan. Right? I I don't always like some of the black pillars and the panikins that will hyper focus on one issue and be like, this ruins everything. Listen, if the FBI did its job like it's supposed to do, the murder rate would be low. Thank you for encouraging some of those agents to do their jobs. But don't sell me a load of bull crap that you've cleaned out the DOJ, Todd Blanche, with all the bad actors in the FBI, when you have a 35-year veteran inappropriately filling out a warrant. How many other warrants has he inappropriately filled out, right? You've got you've got Jocelyn Ballantyne still working at the DOJ and leading one of the top prosecutions, which by the way, is in a string of weaponization of government cases that she's been at the front of that resulted in presidential pardons. Why is she on a case that even touches that? Go send her to do child pornography cases in North Dakota. You know what I mean? Like, why is she still in DC? Why is she working there? You've got Janine Pierrot, who, despite being a storied prosecutor and a storied judge and all that, has a track record of being totally okay throwing innocent men in jail. Okay. It's a problem. Now, it floated around Pam Bondi that Trump was actually floating the idea of getting rid of Pam Bondi. And CNN uh said that's not the case.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:22

The president is considering uh a cabinet shakeup. What are you learning on this front?

SPEAKER_29 1:05:27

Yeah, this is some reporting that we're doing tonight with my colleagues, Elena Treen and Kristen Holmes. We have confirmed from multiple sources, John, that the president has been talking privately recently about replacing the Attorney General Pam Bondi, firing her from her role running the Justice Department, and actually instead putting the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldon, in that position. Now, it's not confirmed yet that he is going to oust her. We have not gotten reporting that he's made a final decision on this. You can see this is her today as she was getting in the motorcade actually with the president to go with him to the Supreme Court to listen to. Those hearings on birthright citizenship. But the president's attitude on her, John, for the last several months really has been quite sour. And a lot of it has to do with the backlash over the handling of the Epstein investigation. The president doesn't like the headlines they're getting. They don't like the negative response that they're getting, even from Republicans, from their base and folks on Capitol Hill. And also, John ahead of this two-week deadline where Pam Bondi is supposed to go and testify on Capitol Hill because they subpoenaed her, including Republicans on that committee, the House Oversight Committee. And so the White House has been eyeing that deadline. It's uh April 14th, I believe, that she's set to go and testify as a date. And this is something the president had been talking about back in January. It appeared to subside a bit, John, and then now has kind of resurrected itself, where this is a conversation we started hearing from sources was really heating up in the West Wing on Monday. But one thing that, you know, I've talked to people, it's not even clear to them if this is actually going to happen. The president talks a lot about this. It's not clear if he'll follow through on it. And he did issue a statement tonight calling Pam Bondi a wonderful person and saying that she's doing a good job. And so we'll see if that shakes out here. He also similarly stood by Christy Noam until he didn't, John. And so we'll have to wait and see what the president himself ultimately decides when it comes to Pam Bondi running the Justice Department.

SPEAKER_14 1:07:20

So that'll be really interesting. That'll be really interesting, right? Because like he's like his MO is support him, support him, support him, and okay, move on. She could get a soft landing spot somewhere else. She could, you know, send Pam Bondi to the EPA. But basically, what it looks like Pam Bondi's still living in Florida. What it looks like is she's remote. She does a lot of the media hits, oversees the big stuff. But Todd Blanche is running the day-to-day. He's the real machine behind it, and he's a Democrat. And he and he's not convinced that Trump lost 2020 and he's not gonna go after anybody on the Epstein list and blah, blah, blah. He kind of just is like, man, you know, replace Todd Blanche. Maybe then maybe then Pam Bondy could be unleashed. Or maybe, yeah, move Lee Zeldon in there. He was a real bulldog over at EPA. You know, get somebody that's willing to come in and break some eggs and actually, you know, listen, if we have to have a reduction in staff and fire all the weaponized government, if it is 5,000 FBI agents, do it! I'm sure there's a lot of sheriff's deputies that would like to promote up. You know what I mean? And do it. Do it.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:19

What would be the harm in it? Well, I don't know. I mean, they hired 86,000 IRS agents overnight.

SPEAKER_14 1:08:25

Oh, they all got detailed to DHS. But yeah, they didn't actually do it overnight. That was a 10-year phase in. But yes, right. The idea is like, listen, you're not gonna have a hard time finding people unless you keep your circle small. I'm sure there's a lot of people out about. There's a lot of cops that would like to move up. There's a lot of guys that in their local department, there's there's not an opening for detective. They might want to move and become a special agent and and really go after bad guys. You know what I mean? This is this is so frustrating for me as a January 6er who's just you know, I really love the pardon, obviously. You guys are the beneficiaries of it here, listening to the show. But it would be really nice to see some actual accountability. And when the whole Brian Cole pipe bomb incident came out and we found out Jocelantyne was the prosecutor, it was just like uh dagger to the heart, man. It's the team player syndrome, you know. Now that Bongino and Patel are running the FBI, well, the FBI, we can't lose credibility at the FBI, you know. And there was a big scandal right early on. Steve Jensen, one of the other prosecutors or FBI agents, I can't remember, that was deeply involved in all the shenanigans with J6, got promoted to be like Dan Bon Gino's assistant. And kind of the word we got. Well, he knows where the bodies are buried, yeah, and he knows who not to get rid of, so they make sure they fill out those warrants wrong. And he knows who not to get rid of. And you know, oh, Jocelyn Ballantine, she's a great prosecutor. Patrick Byrne, talking to Emerald Robinson, was saying that one of the challenges Trump has is he's treating the DOJ like like a business executive treats advertising firms. He's bringing in these teams of lawyers that are commercial law and these different like Lindsay Halligan, commercial lawyer, never, never a prosecutor, right? And he's like, okay, pitch it to me. Who can who can you know get rid of weaponization? Who can prosecute these guys? And he's kind of like bringing in four groups of prosecutors and see what they can do, but none of them are actually prosecutors. That was one thing that Patrick Byrne was just absolutely adamant. Donald Trump is screwing the pooch on this because he's not appointing prosecutors. You need one of those guys in there, and you're not getting any of them. You're getting a bunch of friends of friends of friends of real estate developers. So not very good. Carlit says, get rid of Pam Blondie. Yeah. Interesting. Uh allegedly, after this war in Iran is over, they're going to really hit hard the fraud, the Medicaid, social services fraud, and as well as election fraud. And James O'Keefe, as many of you guys know, has been releasing a video a day of blatant on its face election fraud on the streets of California. You know, people being told what name to sign for petitions and register to vote and all this kind of stuff. And it's elicited some response. He's gotten calls, but he's like, I'm just gonna keep doing this every day until someone's freaking arrested finally. Well, James O'Keefe had an update. A couple things. Well, he was live on air during a broadcast, and he got served with a cease and desist order with a court date the next morning. He was in California court date the next morning in Florida for a cease and desist for his former partner at OK uh James O'Keefe uh Project Veritas, who threatened to kill him, actually put up like a book with his picture on it and shot it, and he put that post out there publicly. Well, now uh James O'Keefe is being held, you know, this seat, this uh restraining order, and they want to take away his guns and his it's like it's so corrupt, it's crazy. It's the guy that's wanting the restraining order that threatened to kill James O'Keefe, right? And actually said it on video and said he was uh turning James O'Keefe into the SDNY and said that and actually has a video of him shooting a book with James O'Keefe's or picture on it, or a picture of James O'Keefe with a gun. But yet James O'Keefe is the one who needs the restraining order? Good gravy. See, and that's where the conservatives were just like, well, we'll just expose it and move on. James O'Keefe should have gotten and went and got the restraining order. He should have struck first, but instead he's playing defense. But either way, he said yesterday, for the first time ever, the DOJ finally started making some phone calls.

DOJ Infighting And Bondi Replacement Talk

SPEAKER_09 1:12:24

Developing, there has been movement from the Department of Justice on the California cash for ballot scheme that we exposed on tape. It appears as though they're literally paying cash to these guys. The Department of Justice is taking action. The Department of Justice has reached out to me and members of my team, and we are cooperating on the record. I'm really inspired and motivated by this. It appears, based upon this development, we may finally see some arrests and accountability in this clear-cut case. And again, it appears the reason why is because the actual crime, the transactions, are all recorded on tape. This is a developing story. We'll keep you updated and we'll keep the pressure on the state authorities. That's the city of Los Angeles and the state of California Secretary of State's office, in addition to the FBI and the DOJ. Stay tuned. Great.

O’Keefe Election Fraud Update

Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Fight

SPEAKER_14 1:13:18

So the other big the other big event that happened yesterday was the Supreme Court held aura arguments over the birthright citizenship case. So I listened to the entire hearing. It's hard to know what way they're gonna go. It could be a 6-4 decision to keep birthright citizenship, it could be a 5-4 decision. No, I got 6-4. It could be it could be 5-4 to keep it, it could be 5-4 against. There's clearly four justices who see birthright citizenship as a problem, right? Not just not just in our modern era, but also the text of the jurisdiction thereof and the 14th Amendment, you know, like it's Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh are pretty solid, probably going to vote to overturn this. Obviously, you've got the four liberal justices that are, you know, they're never gonna vote for anything that's in America's interest. And who's left? So it all comes down to Amy Coney Bear. Ah, of course. And Amy Comey Bear is challenging. If you remember, she has adopted children from Haiti. Yeah. And so she and she has really more than any other justice, she just really wants to be accepted and not have bad press, and you know, uh like she I remember Thomas Barnes said she'll be the worst Supreme Court justice in history. And that's saying a lot. Now, this was pre-Kitanji Brown Jackson, but nonetheless, this is why is because she's she's uh inconsistent in this manner. She's wicked smart, clearly, but uh the way what she reminds me a little bit of is a our little girl who just wants approval.

unknown 1:14:56

Right.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:56

Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_11 1:14:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:58

So that's what she reminds me of. She's wicked smart, but she just she can't take the heat. She can't take the threats to her family, she can't take the bad press, the bad headlines. She just really wants to be known as smart, intelligent, etc. etc. Being brave and courageous is not on her bucket list. You know what I'm saying? So this, so it kind of comes down to her. And there's people that, you know, some people say it could go one way, some people say it could go the other. But one of the most ridiculous things that was said yesterday was Katanji Brown Jackson. Her logic of this, so they were kind of debating a couple terms. What does it mean to be domiciled? Because if you're domiciled here, then you're under the jurisdiction thereof. Does jurisdiction just mean if you commit a crime, you could be prosecuted? Does you know, and then what does allegiance mean, right? You're supposed to owe allegiance to the United States. Well, what does that mean? You know, does allegiance mean that you love it and you're loyal to it, or does it mean that you're subject to it and something like that? Right? It was kind of this weird debate. Because one of the questions one of the conservative judges said, well, if you have an Iranian who's uh have Iranian parents and they're born here, because he has Iranian parents, they have Iranian citizenship, and that child will be considered an Iranian citizen and is required to serve in the military. So now you have a U.S. citizen that is required to serve in one of our fiercest enemies, militaries. Can they really owe allegiance to the United States in that situation? Does that make sense? So it was like kind of debating this issue. But Katanji Brown Jackson, uh, she makes this analogy, and when we're done laughing at the end of this, we'll talk a little bit about it.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:35

I was thinking about this, you and I think they there are various sources that say this, that you can have you obviously have permanent allegiance uh based on being born in whatever country you're from. That's what everybody recognizes. But you also have local allegiance when you are on the soil of this other sovereign. And I was thinking, you know, I'm I'm I, a U.S. citizen, am visiting Japan. And what it means is that, you know, if I steal someone's wallet in Japan, um the the Japanese authorities can't arrest me and prosecute me. Um, it's allegiance, meaning, can they control you as a matter of law? I can also rely on them if my wallet is stolen to uh, you know, under Japanese law, go and prosecute the person who has stolen it. So there's this relationship based on even though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation in Japan, I'm still locally owing allegiance in that sense.

SPEAKER_14 1:17:42

So by her logic, if you go steal a wallet in Japan, you become a samurai. So so you can you can pledge your allegiance by the commission of a crime because they can control you. So that's allegiance. Uh no, I know, she's retarded, bro.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:03

She's totally retarded. Thank you for saying that because the whole time I'm like, what? And then uh and at the same time, I'm like, you know, I remember being young once and thinking, I could never be as smart as some of these people. You know, I can never be an attorney because I can never be that smart. You know, and then you realize someday when you get older, oh, they're not smart.

SPEAKER_14 1:18:30

You know how like there's compliments people pay you, and then sometimes they say things in a very derogatory way, and it's the same thing. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_23 1:18:38

Like, bless her heart.

SPEAKER_14 1:18:40

Well, not so much that, but you know, I I get complimented sometimes for being smart. Uh it's not it's not uncommon for someone, you're really smart, but I also have that thrown in my face. Hey, you smart ass, you think you're smarter than everybody, right? It goes both ways. It's like I can't help who I am, but at a certain point I have to stop caring about what you think. You know what I mean? I'm not gonna play dumb just because you think being smart is a bad thing today, because I've got I'm on to you. So my little journey in my career path through life, like became a mortgage broker, thought, oh, this is great, all this money is great commissions, and then I realize everybody's committed crimes, and everybody's you know, playing a game that just like once you see the wizard behind the curtain, you're like, oh, screw you, I'm smarter than you, and I'm not doing this.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:26

Yeah, like six months in, you're like, wait a minute, these are not the rules you guys told me we were playing. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_14 1:19:32

No, you just built the form this way, and oh yeah, check that box. I always gotta check that box. But what if it's the answer is no? Check yes, it'll get disproved otherwise.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:39

Right, and then you find out how come Jimmy over in the corner is killing it.

SPEAKER_14 1:19:44

Jimmy that doesn't know he's committing federal crimes. Yeah, he's the Patsy, he's the Brian Cole Jr. of Academy Mortgage. So it really, it was the lead broker that knew that they were crimes, training his little Patsy to go commit them. So then, you know, I get into real estate and I find out that real estate's predominantly a bunch of middle-aged women that just their kids finally moved out of the house. It's like, oh, you guys aren't business owners. You guys like work really hard for one sale a month. I became a real estate agent, I was doing like nine houses a month, and they're all coming around me, like, why do you do this? I'm like, I do what they tell us to do every day, and I don't spend all my time at the hairdresser. Pony boy, I wonder which flavor of cran is your favorite. It's pretty funny. So, anyways, that's been my trajectory, as you kind of see behind the scenes. And then when I became a uh a defendant and I started to see how lawyers actually work, I was like, you guys are retarded. Like, I should have gone to law school. Like, you hold we hold these people up on a pedestal and they're freaking retarded.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:43

And now you know why a bunch of attorneys work at McDonald's.

SPEAKER_14 1:20:48

Yeah, exactly. Oh, anyways, so the birthright citizenship is is a one of the things Justice Roberts said was John Sauer was talking about, you know, when the 14th Amendment was written, it took a big effort to get to the United States and you clearly could establish a domicile that was that way. But now we're in a world where 8 billion people are one are one plane right away from the United States. So if just being on our soil and having a kid is enough to qualify it, you literally have 8 billion people that could come and have a kid. They could all choose to jump on a plane and be here.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:21

We could just say the earth is our domicile.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:24

Yeah, so then John uh uh General Sauer, uh Solicitor General Sauer says, Well, we we live in a new world, and Rock Chief Justice Roberts replies, Well, it's a new world, but it's the same constitution. Yeah, and that's why you guys are supposed to adapt some of this nonsense. You remember that whole gay marriage thing? Remember that? How you know, hey, it's a new world, but it's the same constitution. Oh, did the constitution provide for gay marriage?

SPEAKER_10 1:21:53

Maybe we should just keep the rules the way they were.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:55

Yeah, yeah. Thank you, Justice John Roberts. Again, you're the Oliver North of the Supreme Court. Okay, ah, I sold them missiles, but then I uh they shouldn't have any, right? Uh I I I totally broke the constitution and created this whole thing of gay marriage, but you know, it's new world, and now it's like new world, same constitution. Oh my goodness. By the way, Justice John Roberts also has adopted kids from a foreign country. Oh boy. So here's the birthright tourism scandal.

SPEAKER_25 1:22:21

And you think China is sending CCP, so communist sympathizers to the United States to have children to make them citizens and really kind of change the ideology of our country. Is that right?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:33

Yeah. Well, uh, you don't have to take my word for it, Kayla. You can take China's. They have over a thousand companies in China that advertise this service to these Chinese elites. And China's own estimates, by the way, suggest that up to 100,000 people per year travel from China and then are then born in this country. And over the last 13 years, given the loopholes that the Obama administration created, that's potentially up to a million people who can start voting in this country by 2030 or earlier. Uh Peter Schweitzer has called it a Manchurian generation, and it's a very real threat. Look, Donald Trump was elected because of the travesty that Joe Biden created, allowing so many people to enter this country illegally. They've taken good steps to secure the border, and that's necessary, but not sufficient. And citizenship loophole that the Obama administration created is a very important next step to restoring American sovereignty. Donald Trump understands that, and that's what his executive order last year was meant to address.

SPEAKER_25 1:23:28

But so one million by 2030 could be new voters. I mean, elections are decided by a few thousand votes in some cases. This could technically swing an election.

unknown 1:23:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:40

Oh, absolutely. And I think we all know, based on all the data, which party China tends to favor. I promise you, it's not the Trump administration. It's not conservatives who have finally taken the threat that China posed to us head on in an honest way. It might be the party represented by hot take. Barack Obama.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:00

It might be the party represented by communists. So this touches close to home, right? We've got lots of listeners down in California. This was MBCLA, and they had a uh one of these one of these uh surrogate families down there.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:15

Federal agents swooping in this morning to raid what they are calling maternity tourism rings. The ring helps pregnant women, most of them in this area from China, illegally travel to the U.S. to give birth to American babies. NBC 4's hetty changed. Um, hold on.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:32

Chinese illegally traveling to America to give birth to American babies? But are they subject to the jurisdiction thereof? Well, yeah, according to Kitaji Brown Braxton, they committed a crime, so they are.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:45

Didn't they just fly like commercial? How is it illegal? Or is it because of the intention?

SPEAKER_14 1:24:51

Uh that's it, right there. It's the intention. I've got this old video and I I couldn't find it, but it was women getting off a bus. Um, it was women getting off a bus in California going into a birthing center. And it was they were getting off a bus, Ron. Like when your wife was nine months and three days pregnant and was like waiting for labor. Did you take a public bus? No, you didn't.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:15

Did you call I told my wife, go take the bus, I'll meet you there.

SPEAKER_14 1:25:19

Or did you call a charter bus? Or did you say go gather up with your other pregnant friends simultaneously and head into a birthing center? No. So these women are getting off this bus to this birthing center. They're all nine months pregnant. Plumped out. Okay. And they're and there's 30 of them coming off this bus on the same day to go into this birthing center, deliver kids. And the thing was, is that bus came by every day with a new batch of pregnant women. So they're being held somewhere pregnant and then being taken to, you know, who's in labor today? Get on the bushes.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:52

Maybe it's the shuttle bus from the airport.

SPEAKER_14 1:25:55

So how they get here? They get smuggled in a commercial flight, a vacation visa, right? They come here illegally and then they stick around to have the kids.

SPEAKER_27 1:26:08

Just after sunrise, they are ready to roll. Our cameras are there as dozens of federal investigators storm into the Carlisle apartments in Irvine. Investigators say this building and at least 20 other locations they raided in LA, Orange, and San Bernardino counties double as maternity hotels.

SPEAKER_14 1:26:31

People who come from China to the United States for the sole purpose federal agents swooping in this morning to raid what maybe they raise them here, maybe they take them back. They're lost in the shuffle because they're just American kids. Chinese women coming here illegally from China to have American babies. They're not fucking American.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:56

But it's okay. It's okay. It's okay, Taylor. It's okay, Taylor, because they'll mail your ballot anywhere.

SPEAKER_14 1:27:02

Yeah. When the postal service is like, where's this ballot going? Bang.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:08

Can you spell that?

SPEAKER_14 1:27:10

Oh man. You know, there was a time where even some of the most liberal Democrats understood this. Here's a flashback to Diane Feinstein, 1993.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:20

Should you have a system where people can come to this country, uh, even if they're well to do, uh, get on Medicaid and give birth to a baby and then go back? The answer is no. And we know that Medicaid laws are being used and abused to do just this in the state of California. I'd like to see that stopped. Uh about 13% of the California prison population, costing close to$300 million a year, are illegal aliens. Uh I've had judges in Los Angeles and Orange County tell me one half of their criminal dockets are illegal aliens. Presently, a convicted illegal alien has the opportunity. Option serving your sentence in California or being returned to their uh country of origin. I think that option ought to be removed.

SPEAKER_14 1:28:08

Yeah, it's called a treaty option.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:10

Doesn't it just make your blood boil that you can watch these clips and you realize that for 30 years that these same politicians have known what the problems are the entire time?

SPEAKER_14 1:28:20

Yeah, and you know, there's been times where Democrats had the House, the Senate, and the White House, and Diane Feinstein was there. What'd you do about it?

SPEAKER_10 1:28:28

Right exactly.

SPEAKER_14 1:28:29

What'd you do about it? I just complained. I campaigned on it. I campaigned on it. Oh my goodness. It is it's the hypocrisy. It goes both directions. If Diane Feinstein was alive today, she'd be like, we love our immigrant populations, we love our hotel prison system, right? I mean, it power, power, power. These people just want power. They don't want solutions because then what would they run on, Ron? You know, not a lot of politicians are brave enough to run on missions to Mars and the moon. Not a lot of politicians are brave enough to run on the golden, the golden age and actually do something. Everybody wants a problem to fix. Okay. So Justice Alito, and let's listen to his uh his little bit here. Justice Alito explained what I had said earlier about how you could have a foreign power, send someone here, have a kid, now they're anchored, now you can't get warrants and all the different things you would need to do, and they don't really have allegiance here.

SPEAKER_16 1:29:26

Uh, not subject to any foreign power is pretty straightforward. So let me give you these examples. Um, a boy is born here to an Iranian father who has entered the country illegally. That boy is automatically an Iranian national at birth, and he has a duty to provide military service to the Iranian government. Is he not subject to any foreign power?

SPEAKER_19 1:29:55

Not within the meaning of the 1866 Act, uh, Justice Alito. And that's clear from Wong Kim Mark and it's clear from the debates. What the framers meant by the phrase not subject to any foreign power was referring to the ambassador exception.

SPEAKER_14 1:30:08

If it meant what the government Cecilia Wang is the ACLU attorney that's doing this, I wonder what her parentage is.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:16

I don't know. But um, I'm guessing that she knows everything the founders meant.

SPEAKER_19 1:30:23

Because there were a lot of Wangs back then that were participating. Content is basically not a subject of any foreign power, that you were that another country considers you a you sanguineous citizen, then lawful permanent permanent residence, all foreign nationalists.

SPEAKER_16 1:30:39

Ordinary public meaning of that would certainly uh encompass that boy, would it not?

SPEAKER_19 1:30:46

Justice Leto, if you think that the language of the 1866 act was ambiguous, as Wong Kimark says, the shift to the language of the 14th Amendment, which is the operative text, certainly clears up any ambiguity.

SPEAKER_16 1:30:59

What I said about uh a boy born to an Iranian father is true of children born here to parents who are nationals of other countries. If I'm correct, it's true to a child who's born here to Russian parents. It's true to a child who's born here to Mexican parents. They're automatically citizens or nationals of those countries and have a duty of uh of military service. It sure seems like that's a that makes them subject to a foreign power.

SPEAKER_19 1:31:31

But again, Justice Saledo, that would have meant that the children of Irish, Italian, and um other immigrants, which Wonkey Mark refers to and the debate the framers referred to, would not have been citizens either. Because if the only test is whether that US-born child is considered a citizen by another country under their U.S. sanguinous laws, then no foreign nationals' children would in all of those cases, the parents could be naturalized, and then the children would be derivatively nationalized, naturalized when the uh when the parents were naturalized.

Biden Death Reaction

SPEAKER_14 1:32:15

So basically, if you have a path of citizenship, you can take it, and the family will become naturalized, right? But just because you're here illegally, you know, it's dude, what a mess. These if they do the right thing, they'll clean it up. We got breaking news, Ron. Oh breaking news. What's happening? It's a big deal. And I don't know how to feel about it. Uh-oh. Joe Biden died. Uh, are you kidding me? I don't know how to feel about it. Should we dance on his grave? Should we be like, should we like be team players and be like, oh, it's so sad that a former president died? Guy was an asshole. Guy was an asshole, put me in prison, he used the auto pin to change your life, he opened the border, untold amounts of murder, rape, crime, economic devastation happened under his watch, and he was an absentee president at best. So, how should we feel about this?

SPEAKER_10 1:33:04

God bless the big guy.

SPEAKER_14 1:33:08

Hey, Hunter Biden can finally keep his 10%, his his 50% or whatever. Oh man, you know, there's a there's a saying, something about uh Q posted this way back in the day, basically saying you can't criticize the dead or whatever. Like whatever. So I'm curious. I don't know if we'll cover it tomorrow. I'm sure Donald Trump will make some statement. Probably not gonna be good.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:31

I mean, somebody's gonna say something stupid, it'll be great.

SPEAKER_14 1:33:35

Thank goodness. Yeah, so apparently that stage four cancer finally caught up. Oh my goodness. Yeah, pony boy, rest in piss. Carl Leeds, we will miss the gaffes and the falling off of bikes and the different ice cream flavors, and oh yeah, the uh somebody posted yesterday the the speech that Biden will most be remembered for was the corn pop speech.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:59

What I'm wondering right now, this is maybe not something I should say.

SPEAKER_14 1:34:03

You gotta remember Joe Biden also authored the 1994 crime bill. It was his one legislative achievement, and it devastated the black communities. He was talking about his kids not wanting his kids to grow up in a racial jungle and all that kind of stuff. Like uh and the disparity between crack cocaine and cocaine, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:34:20

It just uh well, uh what I'm wondering is if how is he gonna do it during the next debate?

SPEAKER_14 1:34:27

Probably better, you know, he'll have his faculties back. Wow, so Joe Biden died. Okay, back to the birthright information here. So this is Mike Davis on with War Room, and he's pretty dour on this. He thinks that they're gonna keep the birthright citizenship scheme, and uh so yeah, that's his opinion. But here's his take.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:49

Well, I hope that all of these justices go through the briefs, they go through the plain text of the 14th amendment and subsequent legislation, and they look at the original public meaning. And I think if they do that, if they actually go through that exercise of textualism and originalism, which is how they sold themselves to get the job, uh, I think that the answer is very clear here. The 14th Amendments, uh, there we had the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, the post-Civil War constitutional amendments, the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, the 14th Amendment provided equal protection and due process to the freed slaves, the 15th Amendment provide voting rights to the freed male slaves that was extended to uh black women with the 19th amendment, all women, but including the black women and with the 19th Amendment. As part of the 14th Amendment, we had the Dred Scott decision after the Civil War, and it was an abomination of a Supreme Court decision that said that the freed slaves do not get American citizenship. And so part of the 14th Amendment included the birthright citizenship provision that all persons born uh in the United States, number one, you have to be born here, and number two, you have to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. You have to have allegiance, full allegiance to the United States. And so, as I was saying, American Indians did not have birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. Congress had to provide it to them by statute. So you have to ask this dispositive question to these textualists and originalists on the Supreme Court. If American Indians did not have birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, how the hell would illegal aliens? And then you have to ask this further question uh do you think we fought a civil war to give birthright citizenship to 1.5 uh million Chinese birth tourists? Do we think that we should have over a million Chinese nationals who have American citizenship and live in China and mail in their ballots from China into American elections and take Social Security and other welfare benefits back in Beijing? I don't think that's what the proponents of the 14th Amendment were trying to accomplish. And I don't think that's what the public understood what the 14th Amendment was trying to accomplish. Uh, so I think that these Supreme Court justices should think long and hard about this decision because if they actually get birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment to 1.5 Chinese nationals living in Beijing, they are going to destroy, and I mean destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:38

And what happens when the legitimacy of the Supreme Court is destroyed? We are in a massive constitutional crisis, big time.

SPEAKER_10 1:37:44

So I kind of wish Mike Davis was the one talking to Alito.

Crypto Shift To Premium

SPEAKER_14 1:37:48

Yeah. So yeah. Um, so we'll see. All right, guys, it's about time to jump over into private. We are going to be talking about cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. We are on the verge of the Clarity Act being presented. So we're going to be talking about that. And we're going to be talking about uh Washington State and the cost of housing, the cost of living. Do you know Bremerton is one of the most expensive places to live in the whole country? Did you know that?

SPEAKER_10 1:38:15

You know what's funny about that? I feel it. You know what's funny about that is when I was uh this was probably 40 years ago, 30 to 44, 30 to 40 years ago, a list came out in America of the top five cities to live in. And number one was Bremerton. And I saw that and I was like, oh what?

SPEAKER_14 1:38:38

No, have you been to Bremerton? Yeah. When they say Bremerton, it's the whole county, basically. Sure. But you know, it's funny because Boise would show up on that list, and the cost of living in Boise is also now top, it's one of the top places because yeah, right.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:52

You hit that list and people are gonna come. And it made me think about those lists differently because if you live in the town that gets on that list, you know all the dirty secrets. And so after I got that, after I got that premonition, like boom, like Bremerton's number one. I was like, uh, well, who's number two?

Clarity Act And Bitcoin Reserve

SPEAKER_14 1:39:11

I wonder how much the Chamber of Commerce paid for that. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so we're gonna jump over into private. We're gonna be talking a little bit about cryptocurrency. So I got to put on my uh make crypto great again hat here. Okay. At 1776 Live, we focus a lot about remedies and solutions to some of the problems that we talk about every day on this show. And one of the big things is we have you have to learn how to build wealth, right? It's one thing to have law and order, but if you're struggling to get by month, month to put food on your table, you've got to do something differently. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always have what you have right now, right? So if you really want to do something different, you can't look to Donald Trump to fix the economy. If you're not in the oil business, maybe it's not booming. If you're not in the nuclear cold new new cold fusion business, it might not be booming, right? If you're just in the, hey, I go to the retail store and go shopping or you know, I work at a counter somewhere, yeah, your wages are gonna be stagnated and slow to come up. So you've got to do something different. What's great about America is you can have a side hustle, you can make private investments. And while Donald Trump and the administration are opening things up like 401ks, so different investments and stuff like that, at the end of the day, you have to take control of your financial situation. And if you can't go get a different job that's gonna significantly raise it, then you've got to be able to do something different and invest what little you do have. So crypto is an opportunity for that, Bitcoin specifically. And the structure of how that works is changing dramatically. So if you're not a premium subscriber on Rumble and can't join us in private, we'll miss you and you're missing out big time. Don't forget to visit us at 1776live.us if you want to get down into the nitty and gritty of this stuff. This show is just kind of news commentary, news overview, kind of setting the premise and the stage for things, the perspective. But over at 1776 Live, we get into the details on how to actually get remedy. Okay, the nuts and bolts. Yep, the nuts and bolts. All right, so we will talk to you guys again tomorrow. Thank you so much for sticking around to the end. And those of you in premium, you're gonna hear some great news. All right, okay, so here we go. We are on the cusp of the Clarity Act going live. And Coinbase and a whole bunch of other places have turned on their Bitcoin payments. So you can go to Walmart now and you can pay in Bitcoin, and it's pretty amazing.

SPEAKER_28 1:41:27

Senator Tim Scott, who of course introduced the Clarity Act, I think believed and many did that we were gonna have a resolution of this in the fall of 2025. It has gone on much longer, this argument than many believed. But talk about that 48-hour timeframe. Do you really believe that we're gonna have resolution in 48 hours after all of this?

SPEAKER_02 1:41:45

I'm very confident we're gonna see progress. And the reason for that is we need to finish the job. It's true. The Genius Act passed last year was a watershed moment for crypto and for the crypto economy. For the first time, we had sensible rules in place that govern this important part of crypto. However, it's important that we provide a full market structure into which the crypto legislation uh from last year can fit. And that's what Clarity fundamentally provides. Um, I do think that it's important that we finish the job in particular on deciding which tokens, which crypto projects really should fall to the jurisdiction of the SEC on the one hand, and which really are better served by oversight over at the CFDC. I think Chairman Scott deserves a lot of credit. He has certainly been persistent, uh, even patient as we've worked through a lot of these issues. I think that with all the progress that we made over the last several months, um it's exciting to see that we're moving towards a markup hearing in the Senate Banking Committee, hopefully as soon as in the next few weeks, and ultimately a floor vote uh and passage of the bill uh with the signature by the president to Allah.

SPEAKER_14 1:42:48

Okay, well, so the time to get into these is now. The price isn't too high. I saw uh major bank shoot, where did I let me see if I can find it really quick. Let me just show you guys this. And obviously, any kind of future predictions are always kind of sketch. But this one was pretty good. Oh, I sent it to you, Ron.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:11

Oh, you did.

SPEAKER_14 1:43:13

Didn't I send it to you?

SPEAKER_10 1:43:14

Uh the trusted source thing.

SPEAKER_14 1:43:17

Uh no, not that. Um, I sent you go ahead, go ahead and read one of those.

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SPEAKER_14 1:44:18

Yeah, yeah. Okay, we usually don't do ads and uh premium, but thank you for doing that. Okay, a supply and demand framework for Bitcoin price forecasting. So this comes from the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. This was released yesterday. Bitcoin right now is sitting at Bitcoin right now is sitting at 6675, which is great. That's a good price to buy. Okay, a supply and demand framework for Bitcoin price forecasting. Figure 11 shows forecast prices when demand multipliers held constant, d equals 30, and daily withdrawal rates from liquid supply vary. At the highest level of withdrawal, there's a clear trend from the logistics style adoption-driven curve to the one that starts to increase in a hyperbolic trajectory. This uh parameterization suggests that Bitcoin will reach USD 1 million prices by early 2027 for all levels of withdrawal, less than a thousand Bitcoin per day, and then diverge in 2028 as supply constraints come into play with the higher levels of withdrawal. The price could reach USD 2 million by late 2027 and USD 5 million by early 2031. So these guys, this group right here, they nailed when Bitcoin was getting going to hit 100,000, like almost to the T. So these guys are pretty good at because they're a risk management company, right? They're trying to determine if if banks should invest in it and whatnot. So$66,000, not a bad price. Not a bad price. Sounds like a big number today, but well, and it was$125 or 124 six months ago. Sure. And so, but that it does this, it's it's volatile, but if you go onto a Bitcoin standard, it's the same as a silver standard, the price fluctuations don't affect you like that. It's when you look at it like a tech stock that you, oh my gosh, it's crashing, right? But if you actually go onto a standard, if you change your economy, you can get the upside. And the downside's really limited because as long as you spend less Satoshis every month than you put in, you will get ahead, right? The price doesn't matter. And so Bitcoin is great. Here's another analysis talking about some of the clarity that's coming with the upcoming clarity act.

SPEAKER_17 1:46:32

Uh, so the interesting component about the way this legislation works is that it codifies the strategic Bitcoin reserve, but it also codifies the digital asset stockpile. And within the digital asset stockpile, there are productive assets. You have a number of different stakable assets. And for people that are not familiar with that term, you know, it's a lot like taking your dollars, putting them into a bank account, and earning more dollars. But in this case, you take your cryptocurrency, you lock it up in the network, and you earn more of that cryptocurrency. Well, what we, what the legislation proposes to do is it says instead of just continuing to hold that revenue that's generated from staking digital assets within the digital asset stockpile, that revenue should actually be used to purchase more Bitcoin for the strategic Bitcoin reserves. And this is actually very common, has been in alignment with other legislation that we've worked on in the state of Arizona. There's an unclaimed property fund. I won't bore you with how unclaimed property funds work on this podcast. But needless to say, you in the inclined in the unclaimed property fund, there's a lot of digital assets in there and they can be staked and they can be used to generate revenue to purchase Bitcoin for the state of Arizona. That passed into law. In fact, it passed into law with a Republican leading it and a Democratic governor signing it into law. So these types of budget neutral approaches, approaches to buying Bitcoin, we think are incredibly appealing. We've seen a lot of efforts uh to use tons of taxpayer money and or to make all sorts of uh types of arrangements where we can buy large amounts of Bitcoin, something that I think is important. But at the end of the day, we have to realize where we are in the political environment, what the art of the possible is. And coming before a lawmaker and saying, hey, uh, I know you're not 100% sold on the idea of a strategic Bitcoin reserve. You're sort of kind of getting there, but we can do it in a way where we can add more Bitcoin to it without using a dollar of taxpayer funds. That is very appealing to lawmakers across the political aisle. Uh, so that's a part of the legislation. Treasury also has the ability to offer a capital gains exemption when purchasing that Bitcoin. That's a way to increase their negotiating power. But the only Bitcoin miners or the only Bitcoin that they can purchase using that cap gain exemption is from those certified miners. So that's creating another incentive. If you join the program, if you move away from Chinese hardware, you get access to the four programs, DOE Title 17, USDAA, Reap, and two more. But you also get the opportunity to have your Bitcoin purchase with a capital gains exemption and put into the strategic Bitcoin reserve.

SPEAKER_14 1:48:48

So the big thing there is not only is the federal government now have a Bitcoin reserve, but so does different states, including Arizona, Florida, a couple others. You have to step back here, right? These states don't have dollar reserves. Okay, they have a cash flow budget for dollars, they have gold reserves. The fed the treasury has a gold reserve, and now they've added Bitcoin to it. When the Treasury and these states consider Bitcoin in the same category as gold, that's your signal. That's not noise, that's your signal. It's real tangible value. They see it as real and legitimate now. It's it's got the test of time, it's got utility, it's got functionality, it's got everything you need, way better than gold. It's fungible, it's movable, right? So the fact that they're doing that, don't miss the boat. Because right now, you're getting dollars that are allegedly printed off of a gold reserve, right? They're going to print those dollars off of a Bitcoin reserve. You'd be much better served having the gold, having the Bitcoin, because then you can be one of the sellers of it instead of the one who's constantly trying to buy it.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:58

Well, you're also not subbing.

SPEAKER_14 1:50:03

Yes. In fact, you get the upside of the inflation instead of the downside of it.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:07

Exactly.

Washington Cost Of Living Spike

SPEAKER_14 1:50:08

So this is uh well, I'll cover I'll use that one later. Let's let's finish off with this. This is Washington State and the cost of living. And this one obviously hits close to home.

SPEAKER_20 1:50:18

Washington Roundtable's new report on Washington's affordability crisis. We are moving up the list on the most expensive places in the nation, according to this new report. And the affordability gap is widening. So from housing and utilities, food, transportation, how about your gas prices, um, everyday decisions about where and how people live, work, and plan for the future, you know, are going to be based on whether or not you can afford to live here anymore. And my colleague Tim Clauser interviewed Rachel Smith, who heads up Washington Roundtable. So here's an overview of Rachel Smith on their affordability crisis report.

SPEAKER_26 1:51:02

Washington now ranks as the fifth most expensive state in the country. Uh prices in Washington have actually risen faster than any other state, uh, growing twice as fast as California, which is the most expensive state in the nation. Uh, second point is that this is not just a Seattle story. Uh, and this was maybe the most striking uh point of the study from my perspective. All 12 metro areas in Washington rank in the top 25% most expensive in the country. Uh, Seattle ranks as the fifth most expensive MSA and is the highest priced metro outside of California. But four other Washington MSAs, Bremerton, Mount Vernon, Olympia, and Vancouver, rank in the top 10% nationally, which was pretty surprising for me. Uh, third, it might actually be impacting who decides to live here. So we looked at between 2021 and 2023, Washington experienced a net loss of more than 55,000 residents, with most of them moving to uh lower cost states. Now, um, you know, there there's some uh meat in that data, and I don't think we can say causation, but it is an interesting thing to note. And then I would say just sort of bottom line, uh, the affordable the affordability gap here isn't just large, it's growing, and it's growing faster than anywhere else in the country.

SPEAKER_20 1:52:26

So Smith noted that uh policy choices in Olympia, in the Washington legislature, and taxes and regulations compounding year after year always get passed on to consumers because right businesses can't afford to stay afloat if they don't, at least in part, pass those uh costs on to uh their customers. So here's what she had to say about the business impacts.

SPEAKER_26 1:52:51

Businesses are the ones that set prices for everyday activities like taking your family out to eat or getting your refrigerator repaired. Um, it is businesses that create most of the jobs that we have here in Washington State. And it is businesses that create uh, I would say, access to prosperity and sort of drive economic opportunity for people. And so that means that the policy choices that are being made matter a great deal. And taxes and fees and regulations do affect the cost of doing business. And when those costs rise, um we're seeing that they show up in the in the prices that families ultimately pay. And I would say, you know, the goal is not to eliminate all of those things, taxes and fees and regulation, but we do think that the system needs to be balanced and competitive. Um, you know, I say often it's rarely a good thing when the state is an outlier in something like taxes or um the regulatory environment. And I think we just can't have uh the kind of situation where Washington has kind of the highest everything, you know, having the highest estate tax uh matched only by uh Hawaii, having one of the fifth highest capital gains taxes in the nation, uh now the fifth highest um uh income tax uh in the nation for those who are going to pay it, uh, plus you know, payroll taxes and you know, a number of other um uh sort of things that drive um expenses. And we we we should endeavor to be balanced in thinking about the tax and regulatory environment that we need and the uh prices that we want passed on to consumers.

SPEAKER_20 1:54:29

So the Washington Roundtable Report summary basically says, you know, when it comes to tax policy, um, Washington, they suggest should endeavor to be kind of average. You know, high cost states also have high taxes. So being an outlier, they say, is rarely a good thing. And so understanding what these cost drivers are, and then maybe trying to make more intentional uh choices about those things matter in the state of Washington. And you can check out that entire report at uh Washington Roundtable's website. It is WA, so W-A-Roundtable.com, WARoundtable.com for that entire Yeah. Expensive, man. Expensive.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:11

We just love being number one. We gotta get there.

SPEAKER_14 1:55:16

Some things you don't want to win, Rodriguez. Some things you don't want to win. Okay, you guys, thank you so much for joining us today. We will look forward to talking to you again tomorrow. Bye!

SPEAKER_04 1:55:48

Man, man, sonny. What night lives in that castle over there? I'm 37. What? I'm 37, I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you man. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind, you looked what I object to is he automatically treat me like an inferior. Well, I am king. Oh, king, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers, by hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress. There's some lovely filth down here. Oh how'd you do? How'd you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Who? The Britons. Who the Britons? Well, we all are. We are all Britons, and I am your king. There's no other king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy and waste of working classes. How dare you go? Bringing class into it again. That's what it's all about. If only people would please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

SPEAKER_11 1:57:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:13

But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see. By a civil majority in the case of purely internal affairs. Be quiet. But by a two-thirds majority in the case of quat. I order you to be quiet. Oh, does he think he is? I'm your king. Oh, I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings. Why do you become king then? The lady of the lake. Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Be quiet! Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Shut up! I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some Moisson bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they put me away. Shut up, will you? Shut up! Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Shut up! Have a seat of violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed, bloody peasant! Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Do you see it repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?