The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen

This episode, Shannon exposes us to the book The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom by W. Cleon Skousen. 

Unmasking the Secrets, Subversion, and Legacy of Communism

Step into the gripping world of The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom by W. Cleon Skousen—a riveting exploration of one of the most influential ideologies of the 20th century. With its rich historical analysis and revelatory insights, this non-fiction masterpiece takes readers on an unforgettable journey into the heart of the Cold War era.

In this updated edition, Skousen masterfully uncovers the hidden truths behind communism, stripping away its façade to reveal its true essence. Through meticulous research and a profound understanding of the era, he unearths the ideological underpinnings that fueled communism's rise and its enduring impact on the world stage.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:09

Welcome back, everybody, to the latest edition of the book Worm Mom. Today we're going to continue with the series we started last time with the author W. Kleon Scoston, who is the author of several fantastic books. Last time we did the 5,000-year leap, and today we are going to dive into the book, The Neked Communist. Now, for those of you who think, well, the naked communist just sounds scatterless. Well, it doesn't mean what you think it means.

SPEAKER_01 0:37

Yeah, I don't think I want to see Karl Marx walking around in skipping. Frederick Engle Zealy.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

Yeah, exactly. No, it just basically is similar to saying the unvarnished truth about communism. There's nothing hiding it, there's no pretenses there. This is the unvarnished truth about communism from the eyes of Mr. Scoson. Now, this book was written originally and published in 1958, so it's even older than the previous book I mentioned. But the initial writing of the book was not really so much for public consumption as it was for the FBI and for sort of interdepartmental training that they did. So it was a very significant book and is still a significant book in the FBI, and obviously probably one of the premier sources if you want to talk about uh knowledge of communism and how it affects the United States. And again, we know in the 50s what was going on, the Red Scare, all of that. So, but to kind of bring it up to speed in terms of the latest um addition to this book was done in 2017. Now, some people, if you remember last time I told you that Mr. Scoson passed away in 2006. No, he did not come back from the grave. We don't have a ghost type ghost writing. I mean, that gives a whole new meaning to ghostwriting, doesn't it? Um, it was his son Paul who added the commentary in 2017. But uh I want to read a quick quote here from July of 2014. It is from the noted surgeon and political commentator, Dr. Ben Carson, who famously ran for president. Um, he appeared on Fox News and had the following to say about the Naked Communist. He said, The Naked Communist lays out the whole progressive agenda. You would think by reading it that it was written last year. It shows what the progressives are trying to do to the American family and what they are trying to do to destroy our Judo Christian values and morality. End quote. So, you know, that just I want to impress upon you that yes, this book was written quite a long time ago, well before I was born. I was born in 1970, so well before I was born. But this is the book I mentioned last time as well, that I was reading it on the Kindle in Italy, and my husband was ready to go to the wine tasting, and I said, I got one more chapter. Let me just I want to read a couple more pages here. And so it it's really because as you're reading it, again, it's another one of those books where you're like, oh my gosh, this is literally happening right now. This is you know, this is like, did they write this yesterday? When did the woman it's just amazing? Yeah. So um it's it's broken down into basically two parts uh how we did it. So the first half of the book, if you will, the first part of the book is basically uh designed to deal with the threat of communism. And for those of you who are in the Orie County area, you may remember back in 2020 when we had the big race for replacing t Tom Rice because of his treacherous uh actions towards Trump when he voted to impeach him. And so that led to the replacement uh of Mr. Rice with now our current Congressman Russell Fry. But at the time, I think there are seven or eight people. There was an another doctor, uh Barb Arthur was running, uh Ken Richardson was running. A number of people had gotten into that race to try and replace Tom Rice, which speaks to um the success that Russell had in not having to go to a runoff. He won that outright in the um in the primary, which is pretty impressive. Um it didn't hurt him that he had a huge endorsement from President Trump, and Trump actually came to South Carolina and did this big rally uh down in Florence. So that that helped him. But anyway, I bring that up because one of the folks running, Barbara Arthur, whose name I mentioned, she talked quite a bit about the threat of communism. And a lot of people, myself included, sort of were dismissive towards her about that. Um, but then I started doing some digging and some research, and wow, she was not wrong. And um I think when you look at what happened shortly thereafter with COVID and all of the locks downs, and then you had um a young lady by the name of G Van Fleet, uh, a Chinese lady who escaped from China and was up in Loudoun County, Virginia, and said, Listen, I know what this is. This is cultural Marxism, and you know, that's when the schools were having to teach online and parents were finding out what their kids were learning. Yeah, and much of it was indeed cultural Marxism. And so it's it's just really fascinating. So that led me down this path, and that's how I led uh to this book. And um, so I wanted to share it with you to let folks know you need to read this book if you haven't. And it's it reads well, it's not difficult to read. It's it is a thicker book as you're sitting here looking at it, but a lot of that is also citations and there's some commentary and other things. But the meat of the book is is fantastic to read. So again, starts off, uh does an introduction, talks about the rise of the Marxist man, and of course, it's called Marxism because it's named after Karl Marx, one of its founders. Although many argue that really it was Frederick Engels who did the lion's share of the work. Marx just got the credit for it. Um, chapter one talks about the founders again, so it's going to talk about both Marx and Engels. Uh, and you have some other works uh like the Communist Manifesto and Das Capital, which of course are significant books in the communist world. Um, it also talks about the six core principles from the manifesto, which include overthrow of capitalism, you know, uh, abolition of private property, which in some sense we talked about that last time, that you really don't own private property if the government can tax it, and if you don't pay the taxes, they can take it from you. Then you really are renting it from the government. But anyway, that's another discussion. Uh, elimination of the family, abolition of classes, overthrow of governments, and establishment of communal ownership. So everybody owns everything in this classless society. We've all seen kumbaya around the campfire.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Kumbaya.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Chapter two passes. Right, passes some more. Oh, no, no, you've had more than your share. There we go. Um, the appeal of communism is kind of talked about in chapter two. What makes people want to be a communist? And I've often thought, how can anybody want to be a part of this nonsense? But then you see this youthful exuberance for it all the time because they think free stuff.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

I mean, you look at Mandami up there in New York City, free bus rides, you know, free, uh blah, free, free, free. And childcare and there's no such thing as free. I mean, come on, buddy. Uh again, core principle that I learned in economics when I was in high school back in the 80s, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Because somebody somewhere is paying for that lunch. It is not poof, out of nowhere. Um, but they they kind of break it down. They talk about why people say, you know, communism is in fact the the best, you know, proven system of government. They even talk about, uh, or he even talks about how there's arguments that Christianity had the first form of communism until you get into the nuances of the verses and you realize, yeah, Paul An and I, probably not Ananias and Safari, really were not communist. And Paul makes it clear that they didn't have to give their stuff, they chose to, and then they chose to be deceptive about it. Um, and he even says, was this not your property? Of course, yes. Did you have the right to keep it or sell it as you chose to? Yes, you did. Did you have the right to keep all of the money from their proceeds? Well, yes, you did. But you chose to lie about what you gave. And so that that was the quote unquote sin against, you know, uh God. Anyway, uh, chapter three talks about the communist approach to the solution of all the world's problems, um, which, you know, I mean, they say things like uh it covers the theories on private property, the origin of the state as a tool of the ruling class. Okay, that's where that's where that comes from, you know, the proletariat bourgeoisie. Religion, which of course they call the opium of the people because we need to have something to get us through our day. We have to have some higher being. Uh, I've heard it referred to as a crutch as well. Um, then he goes on to the morals, you know, relative and class base, uh, and then a plan of action proletarian revolution, which leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat and eventual withering away of the state into a classless, stateless communist society. And if you look at the examples, the very first communist country was the United States, um, United States, the USSR, former Soviet uh republic. Um, and of course, it was very successful. Oh, I know, but it wasn't successful. What is on there? Hang on a second, folks. Um, and then chapter four switches into a brief critique of the communist approach to the world problems. He does a point-by-point rebuttal and argues, you know, communism arose as a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution's problems, but you know, they were misdiagnosed. Um, he critiques the view of history, society, the state, religion, and morals as overly negative and deterministic, and that's how the communists look at it, and calls dictatorship of the proletariat and stateless utopia, unrealistic, and a negative approach that destroys rather than builds. And the evidence abounds for that. I mean, you can look at, you know, look at Cuba. Um, things are not going well over there, they don't have power. Look at Vietnam, look at North Korea. Uh again, look at the the former Soviet Union. We call it former for a reason. It doesn't exist anymore. Uh, there can be arguments made about whether or not it's truly uh a democratic system that they have in Russia now. I mean, they they hold elections, if you will, but you know, it's kind of like they also hold elections in North Korea. It's one person on the ballot, but hey! Right. He only got, what was it, 98% of the vote last time? Something like and I yeah, it was he didn't get 100%, and I thought, hmm.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Like 99.8. I think he'd fool that didn't vote for that guy. Got a hundred percent uh MAGA support for me. Exactly right, 100%.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Oh my gosh. Um going into chapter five, he talks about the rise of the revolutionary movement in Russia, which traces obviously its Marxist arrival into Russia, uh, the early life of, of course, Lenin, and then the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, and of course you have Lenin and Stalin, and um that takes place in chapter six, how Russia became the communist world power, um, and they were considered a superpower along with the United States. Um, their civil war, um, the war of communism, the you know, the NEP, the five-year plans, the purges, collectivization, um, and their emergence as that superpower I mentioned. But he also highlights in that chapter the cost of human life um and the totalitarian methods. If you think about Stalin and the Gulags, um, that comes into, again, Solz and Easton's book, the uh Gulag Archipelago. So you need to read that book to understand what it was like if you spoke out in any way. In fact, he didn't really speak out, he wrote a letter uh while he was stationed in combat, and they took the letter and took something he said, and it took from my mind, the way I've read it, it was rather taken out of context, but that landed him in prison, but not just a prison in the gulag. And and pretty much you either you could be executed or you could die of starvation or they work you to death. So, I mean, the the fact that he survived in and of itself is a miracle. Um, and also you know, what an awesome experience it was to have survived long enough to see that collapse and be able to return to your homeland uh and see some of the Paris Ruca that had taken place. Um, so pretty exciting there. He goes on to chapter seven, he talks about communism in the United States, um, discusses the communist infiltration uh in front organizations, espionage, you know, spa. Of course, again, FBI. Yeah, the influence in labor unions. That's probably what happened to that guy that's been missing forever, uh, the big labor union guy. You know what I'm talking about? Oh, what was his name? Um forgive me. We'll come to it later. Um, but yeah, their influence, communist influence in government and education, and the culture during the early to mid-20th century. Uh, he references FBI knowledge and specific cases of subversion that he actually worked on himself. And again, I'm sure that's going to take you into the discussion about what took place in Hollywood and why he was taken uh or uh moved out there to deal with the communist threat. Chapter 8 then talks about communism and World War II, examining the Nazi Soviet pact, um, the Soviet expansion during and of course after the war, alliances of convenience, and how the West wartime cooperation aided communist gains in Eastern Europe as well as elsewhere. You remember the domino effect, if this if Vietnam falls and this fall in it, that kind of came louse. That off that happened, that that came to fruition. They did fall, and they are still currently communist. Chapter 9 goes into communist attacks on the free world after World War II, it details post-war aggression, the Iron Curtain. A little side note, um, I was in fifth grade, you know, 10 years old, and I remember my sociology teacher, social studies teacher rather, talking about the Iron Curtain. And at age 10, you're still kind of concrete thinkers. You really can't think in the abstract. And so I remember sitting in the classes, she talked about this iron curtain descending around the Soviet Union and going through Berlin and separating East and West Berlin. And my little 10-year-old mind was like, Well, doesn't it rust when it rains? I'm picturing a literal iron curtain descending, you know, because she said there was a literal wall built, so I assumed it was an iron curtain. Um but yeah, so it's funny. As now that I'm a teacher, I understand that that probably wasn't the correct training uh teaching. She probably should have explained it a little bit clearer because we weren't yet all apt. Some some were, some advanced people got it, but yeah, myself, I was sitting there thinking, hmm, that's gonna rust. I'm gonna have to sand that a lot. That's a lot of iron. And then uh, of course, that the Korean War, uh, support for insurgencies and efforts to expand influence across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. I talked about that in the very first episode when we did um the book by Peter uh Schweitzer, the um invisible coup, and he talked about how each of the various Latin American countries had fallen to the communist influence or democratic socialism, whatever you want to call it. It's communism, that's really what it is. Right. Marxism. Um, he then argues um that they follow a timetable of conquest, you know, Asia first and Africa, Europe and America. Thankfully, you know, we haven't fallen yet, but we, you know, we have some issues. And then uh chapter 10, he talks about communism under Khrushchev, you know, the squish us like a bug guy. I squish you under my shoe like a bug. Uh he analyzes the de-stalinization, uh, peaceful coexistence, rhetoric as a tactic, the continued subversion, and events like the Hungarian uprising, suppression, and his views uh as strategic softening rather than genuine reform. Chapter 11 then goes into the fall of Cuba or Latin America. He focuses on Fidel Castro's revolution and how Cuba became a Soviet satellite and warns of communist penetration into the Western hemisphere, which all of those things obviously transpired. They did happen and they are still happening.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:11

Um, Trump has been pushing back on that, but uh currently he's kind of refocused himself um with this Iranian war, so we'll see if he adjusts and returns back to our hemisphere uh at the conclusion, which uh from the speech on Thursday, two to three weeks from now should should be occurring. Chapter 12, the future task or what the West Can Do outlines the West challenges and rejects coexistence um as surrender. You know, it kind of makes me think of tolerance. You know, the left always says, you need to be more tolerant.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

But it's all it goes one way with them.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

You know, we have to be tolerant of their views and beliefs, they do not have to be tolerant of our views and beliefs. So, same thing with these same thing with this coexistence nonsense. They we have to coexist with them, they do not have to coexist with us, right? That's a dip, which is why you've seen talking heads on the TV say that when we get Trump out, these people need to be deprogrammed, they've been brainwashed in the MAGA movement, and we need to send them to train camps. I'm thinking, do you hear yourself talking?

unknown 17:18

Holy cow.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Um anyway, so he calls for a positive strategy to win the Cold War. Now, yes, of course, Cold War's over, but again, he's he's doing this from a his history standpoint, and when he wrote this book in 58, Cold War was very much in play. It was not um, it was not something that was a past tense. Um, and he discusses how we could end it without having a major hot war. He includes practical sections, instructions, and suggestions for parents, teachers, and students, even businessmen and legislatures, uh, as well as the press and ministers. And he ends the chapter with some optimism that the West can win by understanding and countering communism while strengthening free institutions, something that we have failed to do. Um and you know, I could go into a whole nother section about how the educational leaders then took this communist manifesto and twisted it into an education manifesto that basically mirrors almost identically the same views and philosophies shared by the the communist Marxist manifesto. Um then we go into part two, um, and there are some additional sections uh depending on which edition that you have. These follow the historical narrative and they include things like you know the five vital questions, defenses of communism, they get they get answered because people say, but communism does this, and then he kind of answers why that's not accurate. Um, how to build a free nation, what free enterprise capitalism really is, and you know whether Christians, early Christians did in fact practice communism. Obviously, Scoson argues no. And the secret weapon of communism, often identified as its ideological appeal combined with subversion and patience, which again rules for radicals, yeah, kind of lays out exactly how this takes place. And you know, if you uh go out and tell people again, I go I go to the mayor of New York, you go out and tell people I'm gonna give you free bus rides and free, you know, rent or rent-free places to live and free food, and they had the grocery store, which for I don't even think that made it three days and it collapsed. I wonder why. Can't imagine. Um and then uh he talks about the 45 communist goals. I'm gonna read a few of those to you, but and um pretty pretty interesting stuff, but before we get to that, I I I kind of, as you know, my book, I mean my porcupine books gotta do things.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

It does all the little pretty uh pink and yeah, pink and yellow and green and blue and orange.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

It's so pretty. Um that's the mom part of me. Gotta be neat. But um what Marxists actually want. And so here's uh a line from the book that I thought kind of helped us summarize that. All Marxists fervently hope that the new society will produce the changes in human nature which are necessarily before or excuse me, which are necessary before full communism can become a reality. Individuals must forget that there was ever a time when income could be secured from the mere ownership of property or from productive labor. In other words, wages will be abolished. Oh, that's great. That's all that's been very successfully tried. It's not been successfully accomplished, but it's been tried. Um so when they talk about the communist goals, the 45 communist goals, which by the way were read into the congressional record in 1963, so it's a permanent uh record. Now, there are people who argue that these goals are you know nowhere written anywhere by any communist uh group or entity. But it is so transparent anyway. You're right, yes, and they just will share with you openly all of their plans. Um no problem with that. So uh number one was the U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. So we have to coexist so that we don't end up in atomic war. That was kind of one of the first things, which they did accomplish that because we have Matt, you know, mutually assured destruction. So everybody with a uh nuclear weapon at this point in time knows if they use it against somebody else that it's not going to end well for them either. Yeah. Um, number two, the U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in nuclear war. So they would rather the United States surrender than engage in a nuclear war. Um, develop the illusion that the total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength, which reminds me of, you know, we always are the first to say, okay, we'll give up this many nukes. And then the Russians would say, Well, you'll give up um these many half of what you give up. Yeah. And then we say, Okay, can we check that? We tell you. We're done. You believe. But we tell you.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Busan squirrel say it's done. And then you have permit free trade between all nations, extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites, which we I mean, this is where we started giving away money. Hey, you want some money? Okay, we'll give you some. Just don't be communist. Um, then it was uh number seven, which we've obviously done, grant recognition of Red China and admit Red China into the UN. Not only do we let them into the UN, but they're one of the five members of the Security Council. And then we put them in the world um oh my gosh, um, economic forum. And it's just like, what are we doing? Anyway, um, we set up the East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 55 that he was going to settle it and all of that. I mean, it just it just goes on and on and on. And the bottom line is in 2017, when Paul writes his commentary edition to the book, he surmises that all 40 or 44 of 45 objectives have been achieved. And some of those um include things like uh emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of their parents.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

What? Um create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of American tradition and that students and special interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political, and social problems, you know, like with mostly peaceful protest. Yeah, internationalized the Panama Canal, which that occurred under Jimmy Carter, and it started in 77, and I think it was finalized in 1999. Now, again, Trump has pushed back on that a little bit and kind of pushed out a lot of um the Chinese influence, for example, has been pushed out. They want to eliminate laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press. That's been done.

SPEAKER_02 23:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Um, break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, re radio and TV. I mean, who would have ever guessed some of the books that we have in the classrooms that young kids are allowed to have access to to read? Right. It's just pornography.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

And yet Chinese TikTok doesn't allow anything except for classical music.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

Correct. Um present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as normal, natural, and healthy. You know, cut your body parts off and be whatever you want. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Um discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a quote, religious crutch. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a world basis. Discredit the American founding fathers, present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man. And it just, you know, it goes on and on and on and on. Uh, one of the ones I thought was interesting was it said discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. I mean, we've definitely discredited the FBI, the last administration certainly did. Uh, and this current one has not. It you know, it hasn't shined it back up yet. But it didn't dismantle it totally, we still have it. The only one that has not, in some way, shape, or form, according to uh Paul Scosen, been completed is the 45th, which is the repeal of the Connolly Reservation so that the United States cannot prevent the world court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Um so if you do something, the world court can't come in and try you for it. Only you know, a government a court in the United States can try you for that.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Right.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

So I don't I don't ever want to see that get get get changed. Um we kind of talked a little bit about the Panama Canal and um the fact that Trump has pushed back against the control of communist China. Right. And that's a good thing because if we were to go to war, you don't want to have a communist nation saying, Nope, you can't use the Panama Canal, you're gonna have to go around. I mean that's not a that's not a short thing. I mean, we're seeing how important straits and canals can be right now with the Straits of Hormuz being shut down. Um it definitely impacts us. Um he he does some things in here, uh, you know, what do defenders of communism say? And so then he gives an example of here's a student that says, Well, you know, what is the communist attitude towards the Bible which contains many moral teachings? And then he responds with a collection of fantastic legends without any scientific support. It is full of dark hints, historical mistakes, and contradictions, it serves as a factor for gaining power and subjugating the unknowing nations. And then that's kind of um the official statement of the communist, and then Ingels' statement on that is it is now perfectly clear to me that the so-called sacred writings of the Jews are nothing more than the record of the old Arabian religious and traditional tribal traditions modified by the early separation of the Jews from their tribally related but nomadic neighbors. So, yeah, they're also biblical scholars, they are. They have the Torah, they know it all. Pretty impressive. Um, and then the book kind of it does, it does end with, you know, we have there's hope, and he kind of goes into the breakdown of what are the successful things that capitalism has given us. Um, and just kind of just quickly, capitalism is by far the best known system to provide for the physical needs of man, permits man to satisfy his spiritual needs, uh, allows for variation as between individuals, is naturally self-expanding, which tends to create strong economic ties between communities, states, and nations, allows for the freedom to sell, freedom to try, freedom to buy. Um, which, you know, last time when Trump was in, I remember there were a lot of people that wanted to try um uh ivermectin, the COVID treatment, and that was prevented. And so he had famously put through some some legislation that said people should have the right to try. If you are terminally ill and you want to try an experimental drug or an experimental treatment of some sort, the medical FDA should not be able to say, nope, we're not letting you do it because it's experimental. I mean, they're dying. They should have the right to try. It is their right as a person to try to save their lives. I mean, to me, it seems crazy that we are more restrictive to try and stop people from saving their lives than we are up in Canada, where they're like, Oh, you want to commit suicide? Okay, great, come this way. We'll help you. Um, I saw a story not too long ago. 85-year-old lady had pulled a muscle, hurt her back, you know, got up out of bed. And so she goes in to see the doctor about what she'd done and how she could get it treated. And she's immediately met with one of their, they call them maids, which I'm I'm assuming stands for some sort of mutually assisted death or whatever. Um, and the lady's like, you know, are you interested in suicide? We can help you with that. And she's like, No, I'm here for have a back, a pulled muzzle. What no? And so she didn't do it, obviously. And she goes on and she's talked about all the places she had traveled, she'd gone to like four other countries after that. You know, again, she's 85, but she looked healthy, looked fine, and so again, we should have the right to try to live, not to kill themselves. But um capitalism also increases the wages of workers in relation to prices, um, reduces the hours of work necessary to make a living. I mean, think about we have the 40-hour work week now, and we have a minimum wage, all of these things that to some sense isn't true is not free market, but anyway, that's a that's a discussion for another day. Um and capitalism is providing the most effective means mankind has yet discovered for sharing the wealth. Now, what's interesting about that is of course spread the wealth and sharing the wealth you know, two different things. I think one of the things that we're seeing now habitually is all of these NGOs, USAID, etc., being given billions of dollars. That in my estimation was the democratic socialist, the communist movement to spread the wealth around, take money from the wealthier folks and give it to others. Uh Elizabeth Warren famously, well not famously, she just posted this that if we took like seven billion dollars from Jeff Bezos, that she could pay off this thing and give, you know, food to these kids in schools and cover it, he'd still have$220 billion left over. And somebody else said, you know, you're not getting anybody else's money, you don't even uh use the money we grant you now wisely. And my response was, how about you stop the billions of dollars in graft, fraud, and corruption and use that money that you've already been given to deal with those problems?

SPEAKER_01 30:33

Yeah, because Mr. Bezos is investing in in our future, you're just trying to take it away and waste it on some more of the things from the past. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

So that's uh that kind of summarizes um the naked communism. So it's a really good book. And so the last book we'll do in the series on Mr. Scoson is uh going to be his book, The Nicked Capitalist. So that'll be next. But I do have some exciting news. Ooh, yeah, we have a uh there's a brand new book coming out. It's scheduled for release on May 12th. It is called The Generate uh The Generosity of Scars, and it is written by uh a man who you know is a retired G What um Global World on Terror veteran, Lieutenant Colonel in Green Beret, Mr. Scott Mann. Scott Mann, okay. And he's written several of the books, like 33 other books. Um No one's Coming to Save You. Probably one of the things he's most famous for is uh the Pineapple Express, where they were helping get Americans and our allies out of Afghanistan after that debacle of a collapse that was led by the Biden regime. So that's that's kind of where I came to know him. But he has agreed to come on and talk about his new book. Awesome. So totally excited about it. Um, just kind of waiting to see what is the best date in his calendar for that to occur. Um, so really, folks, if you you know you need to start listening in, and you can find Scott, he does his own podcast as well. And uh he's been on the Sean Ryan show. Gary Sinise has worked with him on the play he did. Um, uh Green Beret. Just he's just a great guy. He really is. Um, fantastic. So I'm very excited about that. It's it's big news for the pod. Um and I I told him, look, I'm I don't have a tremendous following on this this pod or any of the apps that we use. But you know, but it's growing fast. It's growing, and and Scott's such a humble guy that he was like, Yeah, sure, I'll come and do it. Wow. So exciting news. So please stay tuned. Um, and again, you know, like us, share us. It doesn't cost anything for you to subscribe. I'm not charging you. And um talk to other folks, tell them about the the podcast, and uh send us your suggestions for other books that I could pick up and read. And and as always, go on and check out the other podcasts. There are lots of other good ones out there.

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Yeah, go to libertycrackmedia.com and you know, you and uh conversations with the Hoff, Steve Hoffman are bringing in all these uh nationally known people. This is fantastic. Uh we really love it, and I'm I'm excited. I hope everybody tunes in. Uh, we drop the podcast every Friday, and um stay tuned for more of the Bookworm Mommy.