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Speaker 1: Sydom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably a good thing. I didn’t like let out

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a great big burp or something. Seeks how I forget

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uh where the mute button is these days? Hey, good evening,

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it’s Alan Ray. It’s Sunday Night with Alan Ray. Gosh,

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it seems like forever forever, folks not even kidding. When

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I’m away, I miss it. And let’s see how I

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have I big gun a month A month, Yeah, and

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a lot has happened. The entire landscape of the entire

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planet has changed in last month. I’ve missed a lot

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of fun. We’ll catch up. I promise we’ll catch up,

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But holy cow, I don’t even know where to start.

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Last weekend had a great time. I went over to

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Grand Rapids new Amphitheater, and it’s right off of one

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thirty one. If you know where one thirty one goes

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through Grand Rapids, and there’s an S curve, There’s a

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big S curve few there. It’s where all the RECs happen,

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all the trendy people smashing each other right there, just

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off of their brand spanking new amphitheater fired up this

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summer and I saw classic old bands. I saw Foreigner

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and I’ll tell you about Foreigner first, Lou Graham, of

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course is no longer the lead singer. Lou Graham is

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in ill health. He did however, this was class. This

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is one hundred percent class. He came out and he

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introduced the band, and he made it pretty clear that

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his fingers are still in the mix of that band,

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that he still is kind of helping control, that that’s

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still his baby, that’s still his project. It’s been his

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project since day one, and he is still on top

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of it. The lead singer they got should have probably

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looked up his name. I don’t know. Guy’s got pipes.

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Holy cow, he sounds like a younger Lou Graham minus

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the rasp in his voice. But man, he nailed it.

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He nailed every single note. He rock and rolled. It

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was an absolute fantastic show, just a great show. Did

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all the classic songs, all the Foreigner hits. It was great.

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And then they went off stage and Skinner came on.

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Leonard skinnered, you know, I shouldn’t really say this out loud,

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and I love my kids. This is like a Father’s

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Day gift that I got and my daughter’s father in

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law got. We went with my daughter and her husband

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and her father in law and myself. I’ve never been

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a huge Leonard Skinner fan. This is the second time

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I’ve seen them, once thirty years ago, and of course

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last weekend. They sound exactly the same. They really do.

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They sound great, And I’ll tell you what Jeff, just

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as he hates Leonard Skinner as much as he hates Rush,

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the problem with Leonard and Skinnered is I started realizing

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two thirds of the way through the show that there

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was probably only two, maybe three songs they did all

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night that I myself have not covered in at least

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one of the many bands I’ve played in Pathetic. I

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know I’m not a huge learn of Skinner band, but

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they were great. There was a lot of fun, brought back,

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a lot of memories. You couldn’t help but dance and

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sing along, except unless you’re Jeff. He doesn’t like Leonard Skinner.

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But it was just good old fashioned Southern rock. And

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they sound exactly the same as they did when I

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saw them thirty years ago. They’re just older, little chunkier.

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The girls doing the backup vocals are are looking a

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little haggard, but they still had great voices. Everybody still

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did their thing and it was a good time. What

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do you say, It was a great time. That’s where

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I was last week. I’ve been gone for a month.

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I looked at my schedule and a lot happened in

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the month of July. I mean a lot. Every weekend.

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I had something crazy going on, medical appointments coming up

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on Mondays, where I had to do terrible things on Sundays,

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just the whole the whole week or the whole month.

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And week before last I took the week off. I

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had things to do on Monday, a little bit on Tuesday,

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but the rest of the week I just took off.

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I was exhausted. I was just completely out of it.

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And great, you’re not wrong, Jeff, You’re You’re really not wrong.

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And it’s still alive and kicking at one of their concerts.

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But he’s still he’s he’s he’s not exactly bad mouthing.

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Leonard skittered in the background, but he’s, uh, he’s saying

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things and and I can’t disagree with them. And I’m

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not going to tell you what they are because I

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don’t want to. I don’t want to be nasty to anybody. Yeah,

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music is such a variety thing. Everybody has their own

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thing they like I can take rush in in small doses.

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I mean, there’s some things they do that are pretty cool,

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but but after a while it’s like it’s like having

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rain on your face. It’s pretty refreshing and cool, but

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then after a while it becomes torturous, and after a

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while it becomes maddening, and I can only listen to

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it for a certain amount of time, and it’s like

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Leonard Skinner. It was a great show. I had a

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great time while I rush out and download every Leonard

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Skinnered album ever was now, No, not gonna do that.

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But it was a good time, and I realized that

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I could have probably sat in and played bass for

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them almost the entire night. But they did do some

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deep tracks that I appreciated. You never hardly ever hear

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them do Ballot at Curtis Low. They did that. That

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was kind of cool. They did a couple others that

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you just don’t hear that much. So that’s where I

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was last weekend. But the whole month of July I’ve

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taken off. I don’t regret it. I’ve missed doing this.

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I’ve missed being behind the microphone. Even today, I was

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really unsure that I would be able to do the

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show today. I have had a very insanely busy day.

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I’m about half prepared. We’re just gonna talk about the

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things that have happened pretty much since I’ve been gone,

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some new things that have come up next weekend. I

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don’t know if I’m gonna be here next weekend. As

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it were. The old rock band that I played for

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has kind of I don’t know, recruited me back into

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the midst and they don’t play like they used to

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guys when I when I played for this band, I

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played for these guys for twelve years, not even joking,

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out of fifty two weekends a year, it would be

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nothing for us to play thirty to forty weekends, I mean,

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and sometimes Saturday or Friday and Saturday just constantly. And

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we used to start off the night. And just as

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he will not be here next week, so he’s gonna

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be making his he’s gonna be taking the the EP

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to college. He’s feeling old, he’s feeling down. Jeff, love

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you man, I tell you what, dude, not even kidding,

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like we were talking backstage. Time one of my children

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would leave home, I’d be down for And now they’re

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all moved out my daughter’s married. One boy live well,

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one boy still work with me on campus, the other

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one who lives across state. It’s it’s part of growing

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old and uh but anyways, my old rock band recruited me.

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They said, hey, man, you mind if we call you

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up sit in, play bass, have fun. I said, yes, sure.

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They don’t play like they used to. They used to

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play like almost every weekend. Now it’s maybe seven to

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ten times a year. And we used to get crazy.

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We would start off the night with country, southern rock,

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you know, things like that. By the end of the

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night we were doing the loud screamy Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, uh,

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you know, stuff like that. Just crazy stuff, ac DC,

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you name it, folks. The lead singer just turned seventy three.

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I myself, I’m getting ready to turn sixty one. I’m

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the second youngest in the band. We don’t get crazy anymore.

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It’s mostly yacht rock and country now. That’s what we do.

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That’s just how we handle things nowadays. We don’t hurt

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ourselves like we used to, because, let’s face it, doing

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the head banging stuff, the next day you get up.

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I woke up. They’re not even kidding. Many many Sunday mornings.

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I woke up with a sore neck, with fingers that

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feel like they’re ready to just fall off me. Sometimes

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even bloody, a voice that’s so raspy I can barely

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even speak, feels like there’s blood coming out of my throat. Honestly, honestly,

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we don’t do that stuff anymore. We’ve settled down. It

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hurts too much. Yes, Christopher Cross on repeat. No, we don’t.

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We’re not that bad. We do America, We do some

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America’s songs, we do some Tom Petty stuff we do,

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you know, we just do the just We might get

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a little crazy for a song or two, but we’re

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not going to kill ourselves. We just aren’t. And it’s

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a joy to hook up with these guys again, you know,

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and just play music for music’s sake, have fun. We’re

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not out to prove anything, we’re not out to kill

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ourselves over it. But we are having a good time,

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so we have. We’re going to be playing next week,

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next Sunday, and I don’t know if I’m going to

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make it back on time to do the show. I

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will try to post a little advertisement an hour before

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we go on. But if you’re listening. Welcome, Welcome to

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the show, and I hope you are listening. I hope

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we got a few people out there. I don’t know.

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I’m not really paying attention. I’m just having a good time.

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I know Jeff and I are in here. I don’t

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know if there’s anybody else in the chat room. Is

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there anybody else in the chat room? If you are,

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say hi, do something, wave around a little bit. Those

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are ten people listening. That’s about it than zero people listening.

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We’ll take it. But anyways, it’s good to be back.

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It is the show where we look around this great,

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big blue ghetto rock that we’ve been circling the sun

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for many, many, many years, and we asked the eternal question,

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what the wide, wide world of fortunes are going on here?

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I don’t know. I really don’t know. To tell you

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the truth, A few things I’m kind of aware of,

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but I’ve been out of touch, guys, I really have.

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I do know some things are starting to come to

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fruition that we’ve spoke about on this show a little

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while back, and let’s talk about some of them. It’s

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kind of crazy, but I told you in a previous

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show back in June this flock thing, flock camera thing

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is going to get wildly out of hand. Now. I

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thought maybe I was being a little paranoid. I thought

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maybe that, well, maybe you know, maybe they’re just using

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it to the left might be having a problem with

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it because well, Ice is using it to track down

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illegally aliens, and you know, they do a lot of

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things that the left activists. The extremists on the left

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are activists, and they do a lot of things that

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are blatantly illegal. Let’s face it. They start fires, they

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do things, and I know they like to point to

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people on the right were extremists are the most dangerous

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people in the country. It’s not true, not even close

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to being true. We see you, we see it. But

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now I’m starting to think that the whole flock thing

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may be something that reaches across the aisle, at least

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to the Hoy poloy, at least to the commoners. It

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might pull the left and right together, because I don’t

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think anybody wants this kind of mass surveillance. I know

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I don’t. I don’t want mass surveillance. I do not

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want people tracking me just to track me. I mean,

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I’m too old to really get into a whole lot

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of trouble. But let’s talk about this for a minute, okay,

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and I think this is worth talking about. And Politico,

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of all people, Political actually came out with a kind

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of a you know, article that deserves a mention. The

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title is called work Boots and subar Rus. Local officials

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say the backlash against flock cameras is becoming bipartisan. Yeah,

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it is, no kidding. Communities across the US are cutting

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ties with flock Safety, one of the countries leading producers

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of license plate readers and other surveillance systems, over concerns

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about mass surveillance and data privacy and fears over how

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data could be used in immigration crackdowns. Residents have swarmed

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city council meetings and states where flock cameras have cropped

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up to urge elected officials ancel contracts or deactivate flock cameras,

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arguing that the technology could be used to track people

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traveling to places of worship, medical care centers, political protests,

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and other sensitive locations. In other words, places where really,

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mister and missus government, do you have no business knowing

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where we’re going? Let’s see Josh Young, a Republican commissioner

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of Macon County, North Carolina said in an interview it

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was a bipartisan issue within our community. We had Workboots

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and sub Brews in our parking lot, and they were

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united in their position against flock cameras. Over twenty local

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jurisdictions either stopped using flock cameras or began the process

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of doing so. In July, according to a tracker maintained

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by d Flock, an activist group that has been mapping

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the company, it’s the highest amount in a single months

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that they begin tracking in twenty twenty one. The pushback

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against the surveillance technology, which caught fire in some liberal

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towns last year amid fears of data collection related to

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Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, runs parallel to US sprawling fights

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over the future of technology in American life, including the

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rise of increasingly advanced artificial intelligence tools and the construction

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of massing massive data centers needed to power them. Okay,

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now here doesn’t a nutshell. And I know Politico leans left,

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they’re extremists. We understand that. We know that. But here’s

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the deal, Jeff says, if mass surveillance means twenty four seven,

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Sydney Sweeney covering Jim down everything else. Boo. I’m with you, Jeff,

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I’m with you. Here’s the deal. On the left, of course,

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we’ve already you know, political is very blunt about hey,

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you know they’re tracking down illegal immigrants. Also you know, hey,

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they’re tracking down those of us who set fires to

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forests and stuff like that, and then say it’s climate change,

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et cetera, et cetera. Well, let’s look at the rights

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argument about this, okay. And like I said, this is

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this is someplace where the regular common people, you know,

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mister and missus right wing America, mister and missus, well,

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mister and trans’ life, left wing America, whatever you want

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to call it, I kid, But anyways, this is where

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we can reach acrossisle. In one instance, nobody wants flock cameras.

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Most people I know on the right I talk to.

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It’s not the idea of having that kind of surveillance.

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It’s the idea of who is running the cameras, who

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is in charge of the data, what are they using

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the data for now. I’ve heard some people say, and

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I’m not going to sit here and hold you know,

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I’ll hold anybody’s feet over the fire. But I’ve heard

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people say, well, if you’re not breaking the law, doesn’t matter,

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I don’t care if they watch me. You should, you should,

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And you know what I tell them. I tell them

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one thing that usually stops them dead in their tracks.

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Could you imagine if we had flock cameras set up

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everywhere during COVID and they stop. Every one of them

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stops and goes, oh, I never thought about that. Yes,

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you never thought about that, just like and this is

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what I equate it to. I remember distinctly when back

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in the good old days, right after nine to eleven,

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when they passed the Patriot Acts, which I don’t know

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why they call it the Patriot Act. It’s the most

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unpatriotic thing I’ve ever seen in my life. When they

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passed the Patriot Act and they were saying what was

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in it? I remember turning to my wife and saying,

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I guarantee you this is going to be used against

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the citizens of this nation. The Patriot Act was made

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to surveil people who weren’t citizens in this country. It

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was made for surveillance of incoming communications from people outside

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of this country or non citizens of this country. Look

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where we’re at today, folks. Look where we’re at today.

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All you have to do is go back to January sixth.

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They use parts of the Period Act to track down

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and prosecute American citizens. What was their crime walking through

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the Capitol building? That was their crime? Prosecute them as

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hard as you can make examples of them. Well, we know,

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if you’ve got your head out of your backside, you

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know that was all a big dog and pony show.

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Because they want you to forget about the summer of

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twenty twenty. They want you to forget everything that happened,

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the neighborhood’s burning, riots, violence against police, the shutdown, the

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COVID lockdown itself, the actual tyranny that your governors in

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your states were willing, willing to just trump all over

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your rights for the flu. They wanted you to forget

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every last bit of that. And yes, Jeff, I agree.

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The FLOT cameras should be all over the Capitol building.

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They should be inside the Capitol. You should be able

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to log on and follow your politician wherever he or

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she goes. Oh you don’t like that, politicians, Well we

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don’t either, But could you imagine if they had FLOT

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cameras back then, could you imagine if they had flock

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cameras during JA six or COVID or whatever. We already

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know how tyrannical our government can be. The Bid administration

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was absolutely horrible, the Barack Obama administration tracking down people

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just because they were on the right wing side of politics.

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Do you really want those people in charge of the

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data coming out of flock cameras? And of course the

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CEO of flocks, who, well, we only keep the data for,

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you know, thirty days and then we dispose of Now

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they don’t. No, they don’t. It’s a lie and it

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just got disproven. No, I don’t know how true this

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story is. I’ve seen all things on it, and it’s

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on social media, so who knows if it’s true or not.

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But I’ve saw posts today, several posts today where the

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police tracked down a silver SUV guns drawn and had

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them in people’s faces. They’re out with their hands in

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the air because that vehicle supposedly was involved in a homicide.

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Guess what They just come out and said, Oh, it’s

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old data. It was old data? How old? How old?

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Over thirty days? See, the internet is forever. I know

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that you should know that, you should know the internets

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forever if you don’t, shame on you. Once that picture

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is there, once it’s part of the Internet. Once it’s there,

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they can delete it all they want. It’s still there.

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It’s still there, and feed it into artificial intelligence. What’s

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that going to do in the long run. What’s that

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going to do in the long term when this country

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finally loses its collective mind and embraces the stupidity of

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social credits, what’s it gonna tell you? Well, there’s Alan

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Ray there. He drives a big, old pickup truck. He’s

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probably burned enough carbon too. I don’t know. Let’s make

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him just staying locked in his house for the rest

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of his life after he turns sixty five, because you know,

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he’s a truck here, he’s a truck guy, and he’s

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probably polluted too much of the atmosphere. You think I’m kidding,

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You think it’s funny, it’s not. These people already want

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this here, Uh, Jeff. Sanctuary is the right word too.

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There are approximately six flot cameras between here and my job,

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and I find it absolutely Now. I do not condone

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this type of destruction of property. I find it hilarious,

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but I do not promote it on this show or

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any bir else. I think it’s funny that out of

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those six flot cameras, four of them pretty much are

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out in the middle of nowhere and they continually have

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duct tape. Somebody’s duct taping over the top of the lens.

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They get ripped down, and they’ve been down for about

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a week now, so the lens is clear. But I

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guarantee you pretty soon I’m gonna drive by there and

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they’ll either be a bag over the top of them

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duct tape, or they’ll be duct tape right across the lens. Again.

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It makes me laugh. I don’t know who’s doing it,

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I don’t care. I find it hilarious. Can it be

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used as a good tool? Can it be? Yes? I

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think it can with all of the perverts out there,

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with all the predators out there, Okay, yeah, sure, hopefully

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they do that. Hopefully they catch some bad people. The

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problem is is the abuse, and we’re already seeing tons

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of abuse. We’re already seeing enough abuse to tell you

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to show you that maybe these things shouldn’t be around

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us at all. Maybe we shouldn’t have these cameras up

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at all. But you know what, here’s the deal. Your

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cell phone tracks you, your computer tracks you. You’re being

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tracked from one end to the other. It’s absolutely horrible.

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So maybe this is the awakening we need as a people,

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as a nation, as a free people. Maybe this is

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the awakening that we’ve been praying for. I hope it is.

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Speaking of tracking things, what else happened? Oh yes, faucy, doctor, fauci, doctor.

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Depth sounds to me like he is going to try

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to get well. Actually the Congress is going to try

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to find him or hold him in contempted Congress with

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the COVID hearing. Well was it one hundred and eleven times?

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He pled the fifth? And they’re saying, you can’t do that.

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You’re not going to go up for any crime, so

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you’re supposed to tell us the truth. That hearing went

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just about like I figured it. What he’s not going

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to tell you anything? Number one, he’s arrogant. He’s an

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arrogant jerk, and he’s not going to tell you anything.

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He doesn’t think he has to one hundred eleven Yep,

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Jeff thinks one hundred and eleven times this guy pled

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the fifth because he knows, he knows what he did.

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He’s one hundred percent in the know of what he

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did well now, According to The Guardian, a Republican controlled

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US Senate committee voted to hold doctor Anthony faucin contempt

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of Congress after the better and public health official repeatedly

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pled the Fifth Amendment to parry a hostile inquisition into

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his stewardship of the response to COVID nineteen pandemic. Fauci,

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the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and

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Infectious Diseases who led the agency for thirty eight eight

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years before retiring in twenty twenty two, gave the same

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response to dozens of questions while refusing to give clarifying

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answers during a tense hearing last week, citing his constitutional protection.

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You e cited all you want. That’s fine, but we’ve

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got your diary, we have texts, we have everything you did.

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He needs to answer for what he did. And you know,

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the thing about it is, you can say all you want.

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The thing about it is, it’s not just COVID. He

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did the same thing with AIDS. He spread disinformation, He

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rolled out his own cure that he had rights to

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that he was making money from, just like in COVID,

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and just like in COVID. His cure killed as many

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people as the disease doctor death. He’s a coward. He’s

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a coward. He doesn’t believe in his own crap. Otherwise

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he would actually have been telling people, look, I’m right,

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you’re wrong. No, he doesn’t believe it. He knows, he

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knows darn well that he funded the gain of function

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research in the wu Han lab, not directly backdoor funding.

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He knows he did that. He knows that was a

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lab created virus. He knows it. I’ve been telling you

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this since it started rolling out, and he denied it.

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He had that meeting and he basically told all of

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his little patsy’s all, this little gang that you tell

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people it’s not lab created. You tell him it came

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from a wet market, or I will retaliate. Not in

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those exact words, but that was what was implied. And

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you notice anybody that didn’t trot right along with his

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story basically got disappeared publicly. You had doctors out there

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telling the truth. Yeah, what got me? What got me? Oh? Yeah,

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you know what, Jeff, And I think everybody has that

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person that reacted horribly to rhymdzevir whatever it was, and

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under the Fauci’s advice, ended up dying. I’ve had an

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uncle and my aunt. The aunt died, the uncle almost

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didn’t make it. Oh AIDS too. Yep, there again my uncle.

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My uncle died of AIDS. And he’s where I first

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learned about Fauci. I understand one hundred percent. But what

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I want to tell you is is I remember distinctly

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every week during COVID, sitting here behind this very microphone

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telling you, telling you that the reaction to COVID didn’t fit,

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the statistics, didn’t fit the disease. And a lot of

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people say COVID wasn’t real. Yeah, it’s real, it’s real.

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And I personally had my own opinions. I think it

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was weaponized. I think it was used against us. I

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think it was a bile attack, to tell you the truth,

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an underhanded kind of actdoor bio attack. But I think

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it was it was an attack on First World countries,

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on European nations, in the United States. We’ll never know

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the truth, will never know the truth. It’s hidden, it’s gone.

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But I remember sitting here telling you that none of

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the reaction to COVID fit the statistics fit what was

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going on, and I don’t know why they were doing

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what they’re doing. I didn’t know why they were locking

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everything down. Well I did, but it made no sense

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that people were going along with it. And I also

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remember very clearly, very clearly, a couple other things. Number One,

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Henry Ford Health Systems came out publicly, came out the

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Detroit Free Press, the Detroit News and said, we don’t

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know what they’re talking about. We have been clearing floors

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of COVID patients with the cocktail cocktail of hydroxychloroquein, zythrmyacin,

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00:29:00,279 –> 00:29:04,160
and zinc. We’ve been clearing floors of COVID patients with

450
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that cocktail, hundreds upon hundreds. And what happened It wasn’t.

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00:29:13,359 –> 00:29:16,200
Forty eight hours later they retracted that statement and they

452
00:29:16,279 –> 00:29:19,920
got buried. Fauci stood up in front of the United

453
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States and lied, lied through his teeth, saying that that

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was poisonous. Then they started rolling out all these fake

455
00:29:25,839 –> 00:29:30,680
studies saying that oh, this cocktail that they were using,

456
00:29:30,680 –> 00:29:34,680
which they’ve been using for decades, decades against things like sars,

457
00:29:34,759 –> 00:29:38,359
bird flu things like that, that almost were exactly exact,

458
00:29:38,640 –> 00:29:42,960
you know, almost exact COVID type stuff, and all of

459
00:29:43,000 –> 00:29:44,920
a sudden, it’s bad for your heart. It does this,

460
00:29:45,079 –> 00:29:47,240
it does that. Now the only reason they’re doing is

461
00:29:47,240 –> 00:29:54,839
because Fauci wasn’t making money on that cocktail. And they

462
00:29:54,880 –> 00:29:57,519
made fun of it, just like they made fun of

463
00:29:58,720 –> 00:30:01,880
the horse paste. Oh, don’t take horse pace. They know

464
00:30:02,039 –> 00:30:05,559
that was just a psychological tactic. It was a syops.

465
00:30:05,960 –> 00:30:09,960
They know that that that I’ve remect him was probably

466
00:30:10,039 –> 00:30:14,079
is one of the most awarded drugs ever to come

467
00:30:14,119 –> 00:30:18,200
down the pike, used on a whole litany of diseases.

468
00:30:19,400 –> 00:30:22,359
And you still have these idiots. He’s bring this morons

469
00:30:22,400 –> 00:30:28,480
out there saying that I remeact ins horse pace. They’re idiots.

470
00:30:28,519 –> 00:30:34,200
They don’t even bother reading the truth. And I remember

471
00:30:34,240 –> 00:30:36,240
sitting up here reporting this and when they would come

472
00:30:36,279 –> 00:30:38,359
out and say, well, Nope, can’t use this, Nope, can’t

473
00:30:38,440 –> 00:30:41,680
use that. Funny. The only thing that worked on COVID

474
00:30:41,799 –> 00:30:45,200
was remdeseber almost like that’s the way it was going

475
00:30:45,240 –> 00:30:47,920
to be because somebody was making money on it. That

476
00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:53,599
person was Fauci, because well it was all designed and

477
00:30:53,599 –> 00:30:56,000
created under his watch, so he was getting money on it.

478
00:30:58,039 –> 00:30:59,960
And we told you this, and now all of the

479
00:31:00,119 –> 00:31:03,599
stuff starts slow rolling rolling out and people act surprised,

480
00:31:04,799 –> 00:31:33,119
people act shocked, insane. Yeah, am I back? Good, I’m back.

481
00:31:33,279 –> 00:31:36,240
I just hit the wrong button again. Gosh darn it.

482
00:31:38,799 –> 00:31:43,440
And you’re right smokers. Why were smokers the largest immune

483
00:31:43,480 –> 00:31:48,920
group to COVID And yes, uh I REMACTA did win

484
00:31:48,960 –> 00:31:51,480
the twenty fifteen Nobel Prize. And they don’t want you

485
00:31:51,519 –> 00:31:53,880
to know all that. They want you to stay away

486
00:31:53,920 –> 00:31:56,480
from all of that stuff. And it was such a

487
00:31:57,319 –> 00:32:01,400
sy ops. It was so horrible. They didn’t even try

488
00:32:01,400 –> 00:32:03,039
to hide it that well they were. They were just

489
00:32:03,079 –> 00:32:05,720
stupid people trying to hide stupid things that we knew better.

490
00:32:06,519 –> 00:32:10,200
But now that we’re six years out, they’re saying, oh, well, yeah,

491
00:32:10,240 –> 00:32:14,079
well you know, he he, you were right, Yeah, we

492
00:32:14,119 –> 00:32:18,519
know we were right. Anyway, we’re gonna take a quick break.

493
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I want to come back. We’re gonna talk about the

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meta mess. We’re gonna talk why I don’t want to

495
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smart home. I want a dumb home and there’s not

496
00:32:30,480 –> 00:32:32,160
enough popcorn. What’s going on in the world right now?

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Don’t go away, We will be back in just a

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few moments.

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Speaker 1: It might be the first McDonald’s breakfast you’re having at

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McDonald’s again. This lunch might be a weekly tradition you

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hadn’t had in weeks, and this dinner might be the

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first one you bought for not.

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Speaker 2: Just you in a while. Whatever this order is for you,

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Speaker 2: Dining rooms are starting to reopen in certain communities.

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Speaker 1: I participate in McDonald’s cannot be combined with any other

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Speaker 2: We’re back, Yes, we are Hello is Alan Ray. You’re

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adorable host, staying in the good graces of the church,

545
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doing the right things, at least trying, guys. I try,

546
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I really do try. I don’t know how much longer

547
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it’s gonna last, but I try this out of trouble.

548
00:35:38,159 –> 00:35:46,840
I really really do. Oh my gosh. So yeah, things

549
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just for tonight. Not a lot of you out there

550
00:35:49,639 –> 00:35:53,159
smash that like button, repost it whatever. But that’s okay.

551
00:35:53,199 –> 00:35:55,519
We’ll catch up. We’ll catch you up on all of

552
00:35:55,559 –> 00:35:58,039
the platforms that I’m on. I don’t know how many

553
00:35:58,119 –> 00:36:01,679
I’m on anymore. I know I’m on Spotify. I think

554
00:36:01,679 –> 00:36:06,119
I’m on iTunes, Spreaker. There may be some others. I

555
00:36:06,199 –> 00:36:09,880
don’t know. Anyways, It’s Sunday Night with Allanray. I’m your

556
00:36:09,920 –> 00:36:13,800
humble host, Hellanray doing the thing. What else are we

557
00:36:13,800 –> 00:36:19,960
going to talk about? Oh yeah, the Book of Faces,

558
00:36:22,280 –> 00:36:28,320
the facebookings, social media as a whole. I’m addicted to Twitter.

559
00:36:28,360 –> 00:36:32,199
I love Twitter. I absolutely adore it. I’ve made really

560
00:36:32,199 –> 00:36:36,679
good friends, including a lot of you, on this platform,

561
00:36:36,760 –> 00:36:39,320
even though this is a hell site, even though it’s

562
00:36:39,360 –> 00:36:41,239
probably not the best thing in the world. And I

563
00:36:41,320 –> 00:36:44,079
have told you, I have told you we have reported this,

564
00:36:44,119 –> 00:36:50,039
we have discussed how social media and doom scrolling is

565
00:36:50,360 –> 00:36:55,280
messing up our brains. We now can no longer hold attention.

566
00:36:55,639 –> 00:37:01,280
I took a few days off. I’ve become oh we’re

567
00:37:01,320 –> 00:37:03,480
on Amazon. Oh that would be cool, that would be nice.

568
00:37:04,079 –> 00:37:09,039
I have become fond of reading again, of just sitting

569
00:37:09,079 –> 00:37:14,400
down listening to music, reading book. In fact, I’m going backwards, folks. Yes,

570
00:37:14,480 –> 00:37:17,039
I do work with AI and it’s a tool. It’s

571
00:37:17,119 –> 00:37:19,079
kind of neat. I enjoy it. I’ve done some good

572
00:37:19,079 –> 00:37:26,000
things with it. But truthfully, I am going backwards, and

573
00:37:26,079 –> 00:37:27,920
let me talk to you about this for a minute.

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00:37:30,480 –> 00:37:34,440
First of all, a big chunk of the time that

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I had off was refining my Linux Mint computer. It’s

576
00:37:40,440 –> 00:37:42,840
a very large computer. It’s a laptop. I used to

577
00:37:42,880 –> 00:37:44,519
run my whole studio with it. It’s like a one

578
00:37:44,679 –> 00:37:47,360
terabyte hard drive. But things it was still the art.

579
00:37:47,480 –> 00:37:50,159
Cost me over a thousand when it was new. It

580
00:37:50,199 –> 00:37:53,599
was a good computer, lasted to be a long time. Well, finally,

581
00:37:53,679 –> 00:37:58,719
our fine folks at Microslop, so we’re cute your computer. Yeah,

582
00:37:58,760 –> 00:38:00,880
I probably could have worked around and I know they

583
00:38:00,920 –> 00:38:04,199
had enough. I had enough. Whatever problem is is it?

584
00:38:04,239 –> 00:38:08,079
Didn’t have the updated Bluetooth, that didn’t have updated Wi Fi,

585
00:38:08,519 –> 00:38:11,320
and it was kind of running slow. And so I said,

586
00:38:11,320 –> 00:38:14,239
you know what, I’m gonna update the computer in the studio.

587
00:38:14,280 –> 00:38:17,519
And I did. I got a really nice big HP touchscreen,

588
00:38:17,639 –> 00:38:21,159
twenty seven inch, all the things. It’s just a monster

589
00:38:21,280 –> 00:38:24,360
and I like it. And then, honestly, I don’t have

590
00:38:24,400 –> 00:38:27,079
a lot against Microsoft. I don’t have a lot against Google.

591
00:38:27,159 –> 00:38:31,239
I use them both. They have their functions. I know

592
00:38:31,719 –> 00:38:34,760
full well while I’m using either one of them, I

593
00:38:34,840 –> 00:38:40,440
know that they record and track every single keystroke, every

594
00:38:40,679 –> 00:38:43,760
one of them. Oh good, I am on Amazon Audible.

595
00:38:44,440 –> 00:38:48,440
Get out of here. That’s cool. I didn’t know that. Huh.

596
00:38:48,679 –> 00:38:52,159
I’m gonna have to check that out. But anyways, I

597
00:38:52,280 –> 00:38:57,079
understand full well that every keystroke Google and or microslop

598
00:38:57,159 –> 00:39:01,599
and or both are recorded. And I also understand that

599
00:39:01,679 –> 00:39:05,559
they want everything put on the cloud. Folks, there’s no

600
00:39:05,599 –> 00:39:08,880
such thing as the cloud. Okay. The cloud is somebody

601
00:39:08,920 –> 00:39:13,960
else’s computer, a computer owned by a giant company, and

602
00:39:14,000 –> 00:39:18,920
that giant company, ken at their discretion, at their behest,

603
00:39:19,559 –> 00:39:22,840
suddenly start charging you for storing any and all of

604
00:39:22,880 –> 00:39:25,559
your data, holding your dad a hostage for a monthly fee.

605
00:39:29,639 –> 00:39:31,800
And I’ve read over and over again that this day

606
00:39:31,920 –> 00:39:36,320
is coming. It’s not if it’s a win. And so

607
00:39:37,480 –> 00:39:42,000
I did some things. I did some things. First thing

608
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is is I took my old studio computer and I

609
00:39:44,360 –> 00:39:48,159
blanked it out and I loaded it with Linux Mint.

610
00:39:50,320 –> 00:39:53,360
If you’re a Windows user, the transition to Linux Mint

611
00:39:53,440 –> 00:39:54,440
is almost seamlessly.

612
00:39:54,480 –> 00:39:54,639
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:39:54,639 –> 00:39:56,119
Speaker 2: I have to know a few things, and I’m not

614
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a stranger to Linux. I have raspberry pies running all

615
00:39:58,840 –> 00:40:02,519
of this stuff. You look around one, two, three, four

616
00:40:02,599 –> 00:40:06,360
Raspberry pies, uh, which are tiny little Linux computers. Uh,

617
00:40:06,559 –> 00:40:10,559
within within side of me, right here, right now. Okay,

618
00:40:11,159 –> 00:40:15,119
so I’m not a stranger to commands and pseudo apt

619
00:40:15,639 –> 00:40:21,079
you know whatever. If you know, you know, so, Linux

620
00:40:21,159 –> 00:40:25,000
Mints is seamless. I enjoy this computer. It’s it’s kind

621
00:40:25,000 –> 00:40:28,280
of cool. But here’s the thing I know full well,

622
00:40:29,400 –> 00:40:31,880
and I know some of you might have a problem

623
00:40:31,920 –> 00:40:33,480
with some of your eggheads might have a problem with it.

624
00:40:33,519 –> 00:40:38,599
But I’ve decided on using libray uh, libray Wolf as

625
00:40:38,639 –> 00:40:44,280
a browsing app. It’s it’s on a Mozilla Firefox base,

626
00:40:44,519 –> 00:40:48,880
but it’s also designed completely to be untrackable. And it

627
00:40:48,960 –> 00:40:53,719
was one of the top most private browsers in a

628
00:40:53,760 –> 00:40:56,920
couple of different lists that I found. Yes, I I

629
00:40:56,920 –> 00:40:59,239
I also use a couple of other ones. I use Brave,

630
00:41:00,079 –> 00:41:02,400
Rave I use on Microsoft, and I’ve got Brave on

631
00:41:02,440 –> 00:41:05,079
a couple other ones. I’ll actually use Brave sometimes on

632
00:41:05,119 –> 00:41:08,880
this Linux computer. The big thing with this Linux computer

633
00:41:09,000 –> 00:41:11,599
is anything you download is on that computer. It’s not

634
00:41:11,639 –> 00:41:15,400
on the cloud. It’s not saved to the cloud. And

635
00:41:15,440 –> 00:41:18,119
there again, there are some things that I do that

636
00:41:18,239 –> 00:41:20,400
I don’t mind them being in the cloud. I kind

637
00:41:20,400 –> 00:41:22,079
of like go I tell people all the time Google

638
00:41:22,119 –> 00:41:25,559
is Satan, but by God, they got some really good toys.

639
00:41:26,159 –> 00:41:28,760
And one of them is the ability to be either

640
00:41:28,800 –> 00:41:31,760
on my phone, my tablet, one of my three computers

641
00:41:31,760 –> 00:41:34,519
that are in microslop and be able to just bring

642
00:41:34,599 –> 00:41:36,440
whatever I was working on right back up to start

643
00:41:36,440 –> 00:41:40,400
working again. I like that. It’s cool, and the things

644
00:41:40,440 –> 00:41:42,679
that I do on that I don’t care if anybody

645
00:41:42,920 –> 00:41:46,880
sees it. I don’t care. There are some things, though,

646
00:41:46,920 –> 00:41:49,920
that I want on my computer. They are mine. I

647
00:41:50,000 –> 00:41:54,599
want them on my computer not being hijacked. Anything important

648
00:41:54,679 –> 00:41:59,199
that I have is now downloaded. I’m sitting here looking

649
00:41:59,239 –> 00:42:05,519
at a three terabyte hard drive system, three terabytes just

650
00:42:05,559 –> 00:42:10,239
in one unit that I have archived all of the

651
00:42:10,320 –> 00:42:15,679
important things, things like back issues of this podcast, of

652
00:42:15,800 –> 00:42:19,719
Circumspie podcast of I do this for free, podcasts of

653
00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:26,760
the Hardcore Patriot podcast, the Five Minute Patriot podcast, Political

654
00:42:26,840 –> 00:42:30,800
Shorts podcast. Everything I’ve ever done, everything I’ve ever recorded,

655
00:42:30,920 –> 00:42:34,880
is backed up on this three terabyte system, along with

656
00:42:34,960 –> 00:42:37,719
all the music that I’ve recorded, along with all the

657
00:42:37,719 –> 00:42:41,880
photos out of every phone I’ve had, every camera I’ve had,

658
00:42:42,199 –> 00:42:46,320
every digital photo I have, it’s on this system. It’s

659
00:42:46,360 –> 00:42:50,360
not in the cloud. So if they come out and

660
00:42:50,400 –> 00:42:53,679
say tomorrow, well we’ve changed our minds. No, it’s thirty

661
00:42:53,679 –> 00:42:56,760
bucks a month for your information. Otherwise gonna lock it up.

662
00:42:58,639 –> 00:43:05,119
I can get no one gun salute. And Jeff says

663
00:43:05,119 –> 00:43:07,559
he’s working on a Linux server with three virtual machines

664
00:43:07,599 –> 00:43:10,880
all running you bunto. Yeah, we need to talk, Jeff,

665
00:43:10,880 –> 00:43:13,360
We really do, because I need to. I need to

666
00:43:13,360 –> 00:43:15,880
actually set up a real server. This isn’t a real server.

667
00:43:16,519 –> 00:43:18,360
I can access it a couple of different ways, but

668
00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:21,840
I need to actually do the server thing. But I’m

669
00:43:22,000 –> 00:43:25,559
running three terabytes of hard drive space for you know,

670
00:43:25,639 –> 00:43:30,920
and one terabyte is completely blank. One of them is

671
00:43:31,000 –> 00:43:33,559
all my archives stuff. It’s compressed, it’s archives. I can

672
00:43:33,599 –> 00:43:35,599
get to it if I need to, but it’s probably

673
00:43:35,599 –> 00:43:37,679
stuff that’s just gonna sit there. And another one is

674
00:43:37,760 –> 00:43:41,360
for the stuff that I’m working on with recording, and

675
00:43:41,440 –> 00:43:44,480
I’ll back everything up. I’ll back everything up to archives

676
00:43:45,360 –> 00:43:48,719
because there are things that I don’t want on the cloud,

677
00:43:48,880 –> 00:43:50,440
or if they are on the cloud, I want my

678
00:43:50,480 –> 00:43:53,320
own copy just in case. I have my great great

679
00:43:53,320 –> 00:43:56,079
grandfather’s diary. Yes it’s on the cloud, but I also

680
00:43:56,159 –> 00:44:00,159
have it saved. And that’s what I like about this

681
00:44:00,239 –> 00:44:03,519
Linux MIT computer because it doesn’t have cloud system at all.

682
00:44:03,559 –> 00:44:07,079
It doesn’t have anything Google, anything Microsoft. It’s all been

683
00:44:07,119 –> 00:44:11,639
banned from that computer. Whatever happens on that computer stays

684
00:44:11,639 –> 00:44:17,480
on that computer. Sound paranoid, I don’t think I’m paranoid.

685
00:44:17,599 –> 00:44:22,519
I really don’t think I’m paranoid. But anyways, during the

686
00:44:22,559 –> 00:44:27,320
course of my podcasting era, I forget which show it

687
00:44:27,360 –> 00:44:30,199
was on. Maybe this show, I don’t know. I’ve told you.

688
00:44:30,239 –> 00:44:33,880
I’ve mentioned the fact that social media as we know

689
00:44:33,920 –> 00:44:35,920
it is screwing up our brains, especially the brains of

690
00:44:35,920 –> 00:44:40,679
our children. It’s messing us up our attention span is shortened,

691
00:44:43,159 –> 00:44:46,519
our language skills are going down the crapper. We don’t

692
00:44:46,760 –> 00:44:49,280
focus on something for lengthy periods of time. I remember

693
00:44:49,320 –> 00:44:51,800
reading for hours on end, reading for hours on end.

694
00:44:51,800 –> 00:44:54,840
I’m gonna get back to that. So you may see me,

695
00:44:55,280 –> 00:44:57,239
and I don’t. I’m not on the Book of Faces

696
00:44:57,239 –> 00:45:00,159
hardly at all anymore. You may see me drop a

697
00:45:00,199 –> 00:45:02,639
lot of the time I have on Twitter because I

698
00:45:02,719 –> 00:45:04,719
found out that I love to read more than anything.

699
00:45:05,039 –> 00:45:07,599
I love just sitting down with a good book listening

700
00:45:07,639 –> 00:45:09,280
to music. In fact, while I was gone, that’s the

701
00:45:09,280 –> 00:45:10,599
other thing I did too, is I And if you

702
00:45:11,000 –> 00:45:12,760
follow me on Twitter, you see in a picture of it,

703
00:45:13,159 –> 00:45:16,320
I found my old MP three player. I loaded up

704
00:45:16,320 –> 00:45:20,039
an eight gig or no a sixteen gig micro SD

705
00:45:20,119 –> 00:45:23,119
card with hours of music, and I threw it on

706
00:45:23,280 –> 00:45:26,280
there and I sat there with good old fashioned headphones

707
00:45:26,320 –> 00:45:28,400
on the pluggy any kind, not even the Bluetooth. It’s

708
00:45:28,400 –> 00:45:30,840
got Bluetooth on a really nice Bluetooth system, but the

709
00:45:30,920 –> 00:45:34,400
plug in headphones in my ears, listening to things like

710
00:45:34,519 –> 00:45:38,679
Pink Floyd or I don’t know, Rush, you know, Leonard Skinnered. No,

711
00:45:38,719 –> 00:45:42,039
I’m just kidding, Jeff, I didn’t do that. I don’t

712
00:45:42,079 –> 00:45:44,079
know if I’ve got Rush or Leonard Skinner on there,

713
00:45:45,039 –> 00:45:52,719
but anyways, honestly, I just went retro and I took

714
00:45:52,800 –> 00:45:54,360
my phone and I just put it back on the

715
00:45:54,440 –> 00:45:56,239
charger and I just left. Like three days, I just

716
00:45:56,280 –> 00:45:58,840
sat there on the charger. I never even looked at it,

717
00:46:02,519 –> 00:46:04,400
and it was the most relaxing. By the third day,

718
00:46:04,480 –> 00:46:09,039
I was reading page after page after page retaining it.

719
00:46:09,119 –> 00:46:11,639
My brain was healing, and that led me to believe

720
00:46:11,639 –> 00:46:13,559
that what I’m about to tell you there’s a lot

721
00:46:13,559 –> 00:46:18,000
of legitimate legitimacy to it. According to the Mashable magazine,

722
00:46:18,239 –> 00:46:20,480
Meta was ordered to pay five hundred and sixty seven

723
00:46:20,519 –> 00:46:23,760
million dollars in a New Mexico court case s his

724
00:46:23,840 –> 00:46:26,119
Meta has been ordered to pay five hundred and sixty

725
00:46:26,159 –> 00:46:28,760
seven million dollars to fund youth mental health services in

726
00:46:28,760 –> 00:46:31,119
New Mexico in the final phase of a child safety trial.

727
00:46:31,679 –> 00:46:34,320
Meta lost the lawsuit in March when a New Mexico

728
00:46:34,400 –> 00:46:37,840
jury found the social media company liable for misleading consumers

729
00:46:37,840 –> 00:46:41,199
about the safety of its platform and endangering children. At

730
00:46:41,239 –> 00:46:43,719
the time, Meta was ordered to pay the maximum penalties

731
00:46:43,719 –> 00:46:47,000
for each violation of New Mexico’s consumer protection laws amounting

732
00:46:47,039 –> 00:46:49,639
to three hundred and seventy five million. On Thursday, in

733
00:46:49,679 –> 00:46:52,679
New Mexico, judge assessed the new financial penalty after deciding

734
00:46:52,719 –> 00:46:55,320
Metal was liable for causing a teen mental health epidemic

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00:46:55,320 –> 00:46:58,400
in the state. The penalty will fund treatment for young

736
00:46:58,559 –> 00:47:01,199
people harmed by Metas platforms, as well as pay for

737
00:47:01,239 –> 00:47:05,599
mental health prevention and awareness services. For years, Meta knew

738
00:47:05,639 –> 00:47:08,760
its platforms were harming New Mexico kids, from feeding a

739
00:47:08,800 –> 00:47:11,880
youth mental health crisis to connecting predators with children, and

740
00:47:11,960 –> 00:47:14,800
it chose engagement and profit over their safety, set Attorney

741
00:47:14,840 –> 00:47:19,320
General Raoul Torres. Today Meta is paying for that choice.

742
00:47:22,039 –> 00:47:24,559
In total, Meta is required to pay nearly nine hundred

743
00:47:24,559 –> 00:47:30,920
and forty two million, almost a billion dollars. Of course,

744
00:47:30,960 –> 00:47:34,760
Meta said, who was the Andy Stone, vice president of

745
00:47:34,800 –> 00:47:38,840
Communications for Meta, said, we work hard to keep people

746
00:47:38,880 –> 00:47:41,039
safe on our platforms that have been transparent about the

747
00:47:41,119 –> 00:47:45,079
challenges identifying, removing bad actors and harpful content. Yeah right.

748
00:47:46,400 –> 00:47:49,159
We remain infident in our record of protecting teens online.

749
00:47:49,159 –> 00:47:52,360
We’ll continue to defend ourselves against claims that misrepresent the facts.

750
00:47:52,400 –> 00:47:53,760
That’s a bunch of crap. That’s a lot of crap.

751
00:47:53,760 –> 00:47:55,400
Have you ever heard such a lot of crap. They

752
00:47:55,400 –> 00:47:57,719
don’t do any of that stuff. They know this is

753
00:47:57,719 –> 00:48:01,840
screwing our youth up. Personally, I can’t help but think

754
00:48:01,840 –> 00:48:08,119
that they know and it’s part of the plan. Oh Jeff,

755
00:48:08,159 –> 00:48:10,360
that’s my thing. Jeff said, he almost hit the end

756
00:48:10,400 –> 00:48:17,400
of the show button. That’s what I do, oh man.

757
00:48:17,559 –> 00:48:23,760
But anyways, so yes, Matta is screwing up your kid’s health.

758
00:48:24,920 –> 00:48:30,559
Put it down. But also also, big tech companies are

759
00:48:30,599 –> 00:48:36,639
not your friends, as the people from cyber Chill Lou

760
00:48:37,320 –> 00:48:40,679
Jeff that’s producing me right now already used to say,

761
00:48:40,920 –> 00:48:42,320
used to say this all the time, and it’s and

762
00:48:42,360 –> 00:48:46,440
it’s something to live by. If a product is free,

763
00:48:47,159 –> 00:48:51,679
then you are the product. If something is free online,

764
00:48:52,079 –> 00:48:56,519
your what’s being sold. It’s really that easy. It’s really

765
00:48:56,559 –> 00:49:04,719
that simple. Information, your data. The only thing that doesn’t

766
00:49:04,719 –> 00:49:07,320
apply to is some of the open source stuff that

767
00:49:07,360 –> 00:49:14,159
you can get on Linux. Anyways, moving on, what a shock.

768
00:49:15,119 –> 00:49:18,360
Another thing that we told you was happening. We told you,

769
00:49:18,599 –> 00:49:24,320
We really did tell you. And this is what nine

770
00:49:24,360 –> 00:49:29,679
News in Denver, Colorado says. Extreme heat is putting added

771
00:49:29,679 –> 00:49:33,400
strain on Colorado’s electric grid, prompting Excel Energy to ask

772
00:49:33,559 –> 00:49:35,960
hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce their energy use.

773
00:49:36,920 –> 00:49:40,199
For Kirie Baker, that request became more than a suggestion. Baker,

774
00:49:40,360 –> 00:49:45,119
an Associate professor of engineering at CEU Boulder, had enrolled

775
00:49:45,119 –> 00:49:48,360
in the Excel program that allows utility to adjust customers

776
00:49:48,360 –> 00:49:50,760
air conditioning during periods of high demand. But during a

777
00:49:50,840 –> 00:49:54,159
recent stretch of extreme heat, Baker said she tried to

778
00:49:54,199 –> 00:49:57,320
lower the temperature in her home and found she could

779
00:49:57,400 –> 00:50:02,159
not it. He just says cannot be set lower. Baker

780
00:50:02,199 –> 00:50:05,000
said her thermostat displayed a message saying she could not

781
00:50:05,159 –> 00:50:07,639
lower the temperature because the energy grid in her area

782
00:50:07,719 –> 00:50:10,440
was stressed. Baker said she understood why because I was

783
00:50:10,440 –> 00:50:13,760
trying to reduce demand but was hoping she’d be able

784
00:50:13,800 –> 00:50:16,039
to meet them halfway. I just wanted to set it

785
00:50:16,079 –> 00:50:18,960
to seventy five something variable, very reasonable, so my daughter

786
00:50:19,000 –> 00:50:21,599
could fall asleep. It was kind of annoying. I’m doing

787
00:50:21,599 –> 00:50:23,519
my part to health the good and I’m getting penalized

788
00:50:23,559 –> 00:50:27,559
in some ways. It would not let her set it

789
00:50:28,360 –> 00:50:33,719
for under seventy nine degrees. She was forced forced to

790
00:50:33,800 –> 00:50:36,119
keep her house at seventy nine degrees during a heat wave.

791
00:50:37,280 –> 00:50:41,400
Excel’s Energy Action Days are voluntary requests asking customers to

792
00:50:41,400 –> 00:50:44,719
reduce electricity use during periods of peak demand. Rast Muskin

793
00:50:44,760 –> 00:50:51,960
said about six hundred thousand customers across Colorado received the request. Now,

794
00:50:52,199 –> 00:50:54,800
Excel is saying anybody can opt out at any time.

795
00:50:55,360 –> 00:50:58,760
I’m thinking maybe not. Okay, let me put it to

796
00:50:58,840 –> 00:51:00,599
you straight. I’m not gonna read the rest. Nobody wants

797
00:51:00,639 –> 00:51:01,960
to hear the rest of it. You can look it

798
00:51:02,000 –> 00:51:04,800
up if you want. I’m gonna put it. I want

799
00:51:04,840 –> 00:51:07,920
a dumb home. There’s a lot of people that want

800
00:51:07,960 –> 00:51:09,920
smart homes. Okay. They want to walk in and say,

801
00:51:10,119 –> 00:51:12,599
lights turn on. They want to be a foot away

802
00:51:12,599 –> 00:51:17,360
from their TV and go, TV turn on. I don’t

803
00:51:17,480 –> 00:51:21,159
want my television hooked to the internet. It is, but

804
00:51:21,320 –> 00:51:23,000
it’s through a stick. I could take it off if

805
00:51:23,000 –> 00:51:27,079
I want. I do not want my refrigerator hooked to

806
00:51:27,159 –> 00:51:29,639
the internet. I do not want my washer and dryer

807
00:51:29,679 –> 00:51:32,599
hooked to the internet. I do not want my thermostat,

808
00:51:32,800 –> 00:51:39,280
especially my thermost at, hooked to the internet. I want

809
00:51:39,360 –> 00:51:43,039
a dumb home. I don’t want my water here hooked

810
00:51:43,159 –> 00:51:52,159
to the Internet. None of it. None of it. Just

811
00:51:52,320 –> 00:51:56,519
like the flock cameras. It’s not the actual idea that

812
00:51:56,559 –> 00:51:59,880
something’s hooked to the Internet. It’s who’s on the other

813
00:52:00,119 –> 00:52:06,159
and controlling what I’ve hooked to the Internet. I put

814
00:52:06,199 –> 00:52:08,559
up a camera. I put up a camera on a

815
00:52:08,639 –> 00:52:12,719
for my patio with one reason and one reuser alone.

816
00:52:13,440 –> 00:52:15,239
I want to see my critters coming in at night.

817
00:52:15,280 –> 00:52:17,800
I got now. I guess I have two cats and

818
00:52:17,840 –> 00:52:19,400
a dog. I used to have one cat and a dog,

819
00:52:20,000 –> 00:52:21,840
and I want to see them coming in. I want

820
00:52:21,840 –> 00:52:24,719
to see if there’s deer out in the garden. Nine

821
00:52:25,239 –> 00:52:27,639
of the time, nothing or nobody else is out there,

822
00:52:29,320 –> 00:52:32,719
and even if there are sets it off. However, I

823
00:52:32,800 –> 00:52:36,960
know full well, I know full well that somebody is

824
00:52:37,000 –> 00:52:43,280
also monitoring that camera other than me. I guarantee you,

825
00:52:46,599 –> 00:52:49,039
Jeff says, as a former server and admin and IT

826
00:52:49,400 –> 00:52:51,320
guy for thirty plus years, I know who runs and

827
00:52:51,360 –> 00:52:57,079
makes decisions. Run, yes, exactly. But I want to dumb home.

828
00:52:57,360 –> 00:52:59,480
I don’t want to come home to an eighty five

829
00:52:59,519 –> 00:53:01,280
degree how else when it’s one hundred and ten out

830
00:53:01,960 –> 00:53:05,440
with this message saying we’re sorry, the power company’s having

831
00:53:05,480 –> 00:53:07,920
a hard time, so you’re just going to have to

832
00:53:07,960 –> 00:53:14,119
be hot. Screw you, make nuclear power plants and keep

833
00:53:14,119 –> 00:53:17,719
my house cooler. And this is only gonna get worse, guys,

834
00:53:19,000 –> 00:53:21,159
It’s only gonna get worse. I guarantee you. They’re gonna

835
00:53:21,159 –> 00:53:24,119
try to make They’re gonna try to force everybody to

836
00:53:24,280 –> 00:53:27,639
have their homes hooked up to the internet so somebody

837
00:53:27,679 –> 00:53:32,480
else somewhere can basically see if your house is too

838
00:53:32,559 –> 00:53:42,679
cold or too hot. Now, this woman could have done something, honestly.

839
00:53:43,599 –> 00:53:46,599
She could have taken a small portable heater, or she

840
00:53:46,639 –> 00:53:48,679
could have get a bag of rice and put it

841
00:53:48,679 –> 00:53:50,960
in the microwave, and she could have rat, you know,

842
00:53:51,079 –> 00:53:53,280
for about two minutes, got it nice and hot, and

843
00:53:53,360 –> 00:53:56,679
wrapped it around her thermostat, send it up into the

844
00:53:56,760 –> 00:53:59,519
eighties and nineties and watched that air conditioner just kick

845
00:54:00,199 –> 00:54:03,800
on in. There’s ways around technology, sometimes low tech, con

846
00:54:03,840 –> 00:54:13,480
trump high tech. Oh my gosh, what else do we

847
00:54:13,559 –> 00:54:18,000
have around here? I don’t know. I don’t want to

848
00:54:18,039 –> 00:54:20,719
get into that. That’s too deathy in violency. Here’s some

849
00:54:20,800 –> 00:54:25,679
good violence. Okay, this is the Daily Mail. It’s good

850
00:54:25,679 –> 00:54:34,239
O Ukraine or no UK, not Ukraine UK and Jeff

851
00:54:34,280 –> 00:54:37,320
has on the videos. The following tips were not sponsored

852
00:54:37,320 –> 00:54:41,280
by Kail Iron Radio but as sponsored by the producer. Yep, yeah,

853
00:54:41,519 –> 00:54:43,239
you get that if you’ve if you’ve lived in an

854
00:54:43,280 –> 00:54:46,000
apartment where the heat and the cool is controlled by

855
00:54:46,000 –> 00:54:50,159
the landlord, you know that if you put a bag

856
00:54:50,199 –> 00:54:54,039
of heated rice over the over your thermostat during the day,

857
00:54:54,079 –> 00:54:56,800
it’ll keep the air condition on it definitely. You know

858
00:54:56,920 –> 00:54:59,199
that if you take a bag of ice and put

859
00:54:59,239 –> 00:55:02,519
it over the top the thermostat, that you’re going to

860
00:55:02,599 –> 00:55:04,519
have a nice warm apartment because the heat’s just going

861
00:55:04,519 –> 00:55:07,119
to kick on run continuously. It’s little things like that,

862
00:55:07,199 –> 00:55:12,639
you know. Anyways, according that’s the way you do it.

863
00:55:13,360 –> 00:55:16,599
That’s just like the you know, using carbon blades for

864
00:55:16,679 –> 00:55:19,840
flot camera posts. But you didn’t hear it from me anyways.

865
00:55:19,840 –> 00:55:23,440
The Daily Mail says Republican terrorists are plotting campaigns of

866
00:55:23,480 –> 00:55:26,719
violence to force migrants out of Ireland. Intelligence officer officials

867
00:55:26,760 –> 00:55:30,039
have told The Mail on Sunday, of course they have

868
00:55:30,039 –> 00:55:33,800
to use that our word, Republican terrorists. The plan by

869
00:55:33,800 –> 00:55:37,840
the New iras successful organization to the Real IRA comes

870
00:55:37,840 –> 00:55:40,039
in wake of the disturbances on the streets of Northern

871
00:55:40,079 –> 00:55:45,039
Ireland in June following the stabbing of Stephen Ogilvey allegedly

872
00:55:45,119 –> 00:55:51,119
by Hadi Old, a thirty year old Sudanese asylum seeker.

873
00:55:52,079 –> 00:55:55,599
Security sources say the dissident Republicans who continue to fight

874
00:55:55,639 –> 00:55:58,440
for a United Ireland are feeding off local community tensions

875
00:55:58,440 –> 00:56:00,280
on both sides of the border over a spy, in

876
00:56:00,320 –> 00:56:04,159
cases of harassment, sexual assaults and assault and violence, which

877
00:56:04,159 –> 00:56:06,920
has been blamed on the migrants. It’s not blamed on them.

878
00:56:06,920 –> 00:56:09,639
They already know they’re doing it. This is the biggest

879
00:56:09,679 –> 00:56:12,360
bunch of crap I’ve ever read in my life, basically

880
00:56:12,360 –> 00:56:13,920
in a nutshell, and I won’t worry you anymore with

881
00:56:13,960 –> 00:56:15,320
it because we’re about ready to get out of here.

882
00:56:18,320 –> 00:56:23,840
The new IRA, which they’re calling, of course, a far

883
00:56:23,960 –> 00:56:28,599
right group, let’s see what does it say. In a

884
00:56:28,679 –> 00:56:31,079
video posted last week on a far right social media platform,

885
00:56:31,119 –> 00:56:33,840
an unidentified man warned that the IRA would threaten migrants

886
00:56:33,840 –> 00:56:36,400
of violence that they did not leave Ireland. They will

887
00:56:36,400 –> 00:56:38,400
take control and they will give an ultimatum, not to

888
00:56:38,480 –> 00:56:41,679
politicians but to the illegal migrants who in this country.

889
00:56:42,400 –> 00:56:47,039
Now I know, I know that the UK is going

890
00:56:47,079 –> 00:56:50,760
to do their best to make it sound like this

891
00:56:50,920 –> 00:56:52,360
is just coming out of the where it’s coming out

892
00:56:52,400 –> 00:56:55,159
of a of a place of hatred. It’s coming out

893
00:56:55,159 –> 00:57:00,639
of a place of far right extremism. But the reality

894
00:57:00,639 –> 00:57:02,679
of the situation, the truth of the situation is is

895
00:57:02,800 –> 00:57:07,199
these people have brought it upon themselves. The government of Ireland,

896
00:57:07,239 –> 00:57:12,840
the Government of England have basically invited these invaders in

897
00:57:13,320 –> 00:57:18,360
and they’re harming people, They’re taking over things, They’re doing horrible,

898
00:57:18,440 –> 00:57:22,760
unspeakable things to the citizens there and not being prosecuted

899
00:57:22,760 –> 00:57:26,079
for it, because well, we all know what’s going on.

900
00:57:26,480 –> 00:57:28,519
Do I have to get into the conspiracy theory part

901
00:57:28,519 –> 00:57:31,159
of it. We all know that this is an invasion

902
00:57:31,239 –> 00:57:36,199
and it’s sanctioned by the globalists. We all know that.

903
00:57:37,280 –> 00:57:39,360
Pay attention to what’s going on in Ireland right now,

904
00:57:39,960 –> 00:57:44,280
they’re starting to rise up. Jeff, if you do buy

905
00:57:44,320 –> 00:57:47,320
a bottle of Irish whisky, let me recommend something. Make

906
00:57:47,360 –> 00:57:53,199
a couple of hot peppers, either Tabasco or something even hotter,

907
00:57:53,880 –> 00:57:55,599
put it down in the Irish whiskey, put the cat

908
00:57:55,679 –> 00:57:57,960
back on and let it sit for about six months

909
00:57:59,599 –> 00:58:01,920
during the coldest part of winters. I guarantee it’ll warm

910
00:58:01,920 –> 00:58:04,480
you up. You didn’t hear that from me though, Anyways,

911
00:58:06,840 –> 00:58:12,000
This is what happens, folks when your government refuses to

912
00:58:12,079 –> 00:58:17,400
protect you. When your government refuses to take care of

913
00:58:17,440 –> 00:58:20,920
its own citizens, you get fringe groups like this rising up,

914
00:58:22,519 –> 00:58:25,039
and they will cause trouble. They will start driving people

915
00:58:25,039 –> 00:58:28,960
out because the government themselves refuse to take care of

916
00:58:29,039 –> 00:58:31,519
the problem. And now they’ve got even a bigger problem.

917
00:58:32,840 –> 00:58:35,239
It’s going to be interesting to see what becomes of that.

918
00:58:36,639 –> 00:58:40,920
It really will be. There’s not enough popcorn in the world,

919
00:58:41,280 –> 00:58:46,159
not enough popcorn in the world to sit there during

920
00:58:46,199 –> 00:58:48,639
the entertainment of the next couple of years when the

921
00:58:48,639 –> 00:58:53,519
backlash hits. When the backlash is hitting, the backlash is

922
00:58:53,559 –> 00:58:57,519
hitting hard. And I don’t know what’s going to happen

923
00:58:58,039 –> 00:59:00,760
in this next election we got coming up, midterm election.

924
00:59:00,800 –> 00:59:02,039
I don’t know what’s going to happen in the next

925
00:59:02,079 –> 00:59:06,199
presidential election. I don’t, but I do know this, there’s

926
00:59:06,280 –> 00:59:15,039
backlash coming. Years of ignoring people, ignoring justice, real justice,

927
00:59:15,079 –> 00:59:20,719
not to pretend made up social justice, real justice. There’s

928
00:59:20,719 –> 00:59:24,800
about ready to be a huge backlash, and it’s going

929
00:59:24,840 –> 00:59:27,960
to be interesting to see how that plays out because

930
00:59:28,000 –> 00:59:29,840
people are fed up. People on both sides. It’s not

931
00:59:29,880 –> 00:59:32,320
just one side you’re seeing this. And as much as

932
00:59:32,360 –> 00:59:37,440
the media has this past twenty four hours, I’ve seen

933
00:59:37,480 –> 00:59:40,239
three articles come out about say there’s no real uprising

934
00:59:40,280 –> 00:59:43,519
in the Democrat Party. Yeah, there is, even the regular

935
00:59:43,679 –> 00:59:48,559
the JFK Democrats are tired of the Democrats. Socials, they’re

936
00:59:48,599 –> 00:59:52,000
tired of them. They’re freaks, they’re idiots, they’re law breakers,

937
00:59:53,440 –> 00:59:57,960
they’re perverse, a bunch of perverted half wits, they’re dumb.

938
01:00:00,639 –> 01:00:04,159
And you’re seeing the actual Kennedy Democrats rising up and

939
01:00:04,159 –> 01:00:08,280
saying we’re tired of you people. I think it’s too late. Personally,

940
01:00:08,360 –> 01:00:11,719
I think the Democrats are lost. I think the Democrat

941
01:00:11,800 –> 01:00:14,400
Party is lost to the socialist communists of this nation.

942
01:00:16,800 –> 01:00:19,960
I hope i’m wrong, Prove me wrong, prove me wrong,

943
01:00:20,559 –> 01:00:22,920
but I think they’ve allowed these people for so long

944
01:00:23,039 –> 01:00:26,559
that there’s nothing they can do now. Guys, it’s been

945
01:00:26,599 –> 01:00:30,360
a great last hour. Hopefully i’ll be here next week.

946
01:00:30,480 –> 01:00:31,960
I’ll try to be a little bit more prepared. I’ll

947
01:00:31,960 –> 01:00:35,480
try to be a little bit more ready. It’s been

948
01:00:35,519 –> 01:00:38,760
a very, very very long day and I’m about ready

949
01:00:38,800 –> 01:00:41,239
to put a lid on it. I’m going to finish

950
01:00:41,280 –> 01:00:45,000
this little beverage I have. I think I’m going to

951
01:00:45,079 –> 01:00:48,760
hit the sack. Thank you so much for tuning in

952
01:00:48,760 –> 01:00:50,480
to Sunday Night with Alan Ray. I’m your humble host,

953
01:00:50,519 –> 01:00:53,599
Alan Ray, thanks Jeff for producing me. I am out

954
01:00:53,639 –> 01:01:00,440
of here, everybody. Good night, God bless enjoy man. I’ll

955
01:01:00,480 –> 01:01:01,960
be back next week, hopefully later