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Freedom of Speech: Why We Won't Back Down | Ep 244 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:03
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 0:10
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm your host, founder and executive director of Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes.
• 0:16
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you, thank you.
• 0:20
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for joining us on this episode, thank you for being with us from the beginning.
• 0:26
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you.
• 0:27
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If this is your first episode, welcome.
• 0:31
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You're always welcome here, and you can find our extensive catalog, diverse topics, diverse guests and diverse tips on your favorite platform, whether that's YouTube Rumble on the video side, whether that is Apple Podcasts, whether that's Spotify, we have quite a few.
• 1:05
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So Voices for Voices TV show and podcast, how's that sound?
• 1:14
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices, sharing, expressing, communicating, sharing, expressing, communicating, sharing, expressing, communicating, sharing, expressing, communicating.
• 1:34
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's what a voice is.
• 1:38
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We all have it, and we'll go back, maybe a little bit, to the roots of this organization and why it is imperative.
• 1:53
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Like the Tom Petty song, don't back down, don't back down, don't back down, don't back down, don't back down.
• 2:27
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: The United States Constitution, freedom of speech, free to express our voice, free to express, no matter what side of the aisle, politically here in the United States or anywhere across the world, it doesn't matter.
• 2:40
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: But here in the United States, we do have a thing called the United States Constitution and there is something called freedom of speech.
• 2:54
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We're all, we're all able to exercise that as US citizens.
• 3:07
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You have opinions, you have thoughts, you have ideas.
• 3:18
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So do we, so do I?
• 3:24
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So is Voices for Voices.
• 3:29
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So to think, to have an inkling that we'll stop sharing, talking, expressing our opinion, expressing what we believe, sharing information, sharing stories.
• 4:04
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So don't think for one millisecond that Voices for Voices will back down, will stop using our voice, stop inspiring you, you, others, past, present, future.
• 4:49
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You know we all have ways, maybe some structure, maybe some structure, maybe some processes that make us feel comfortable, make things maybe a little bit easier, a little bit less stressful.
• 5:23
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: One of those, for me, for Voices for Voices, is sharing our voice, talking, sharing, expressing.
• 5:45
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So, yes, yes to all you, voices for Voices, followers, donors, sponsors, subscribers and all other people, whether you know Voices for Voices, whether you don't, whether you believe what we believe and you want to tune in for this episode and not for another Baby that is called free speech.
• 6:47
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You have the ability to do that.
• 6:50
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You have the ability to change, change shows, change episode number, to watch, to listen, to do none to neither, to some.
• 7:08
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's your right.
• 7:35
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: But don't you, don't you dare think for a half of a millisecond, a tenth of a millisecond.
• 7:40
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It because of whatever.
• 7:45
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't read minds, we don't have crystal balls, we're here one moment, we're gone the other, but don't for a second, a millisecond, think that somebody with mental illness like myself.
• 8:19
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I've spoken and I've spoken and I've shared and I've shared and I will continue to share my experience, our guest's experience Trauma we have all gone through trauma.
• 8:45
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We have all gone through trauma.
• 8:46
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Small, big, medium, large, minor, major, whatever you want to call it.
• 8:55
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We've all been through some event, some moment in time, where we look back and go, wow, I didn't realize that bothered me.
• 9:14
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So we go into whatever topic we want to go into.
• 9:32
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So you don't control, you don't control, you do not control.
• 9:36
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You do not control Voices for Voices.
• 9:39
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You do not control our board of directors.
• 9:43
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You do not control Justin board of directors.
• 9:45
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You do not control justin allen hayes, you do not control anybody.
• 9:55
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so, because of whatever reason or thought goes through your mind or thought goes through your mind that by that very fact that we'll be silenced, that we won't be voices, that we'll be voiceless, that we won't be voiceless, that we won't have a career, we'll give all our money to you.
• 10:34
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: No, no, see that it doesn't quite work like that.
• 10:45
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: But making words and putting words and concepts together, that we're protected, I'm protected, voices for Voices is protected, all our guests are protected.
• 11:15
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And that freedom of speech Because you don't like what you heard or what you saw, so what?
• 11:31
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So what?
• 11:36
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Like Metallica, like Bob Seger, turn that page.
• 11:47
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Because anybody who's seen any type of entertainment, any type of movie, heard any type of song, participated in any type of sporting event, participated in any type of sporting event and, as we have mentioned, nobody's perfect.
• 12:16
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You're not perfect and you don't get the right to control us, and that's really something that is very powerful and yet Not understandable.
• 12:55
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And so, yeah, this episode, as we have in all of our episodes, we share information, we share opinions, and it's up to you, it's up to others, it's up to individuals.
• 13:19
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Everybody can make that decision.
• 13:22
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: They can take it.
• 13:25
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: They can take conversations that we have here, conversations that we have here.
• 13:32
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I can take a conversation between our opinions mental health, trauma from me or another guest topics, big and small.
• 13:48
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You can take it or leave it.
• 13:51
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Anybody that's ever known what a television is.
• 13:55
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Is there just one channel On the radio dial, is there just one?
• 14:12
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: One station For phones Is there only one option?
• 14:22
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: One option.
• 14:24
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I think Apple and Google, samsung, so many choices would pretty much tell you that there's not just one option.
• 14:49
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Somebody in your family or somebody that's helping you goes to the grocery store, says, hey, pick, pick me out a dozen donuts.
• 15:09
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Is there only one?
• 15:14
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Only one kind of donut.
• 15:16
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: A dozen donuts, is there only one?
• 15:18
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Only one kind of donut.
• 15:18
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Go to that grocery store.
• 15:23
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I've yet to see a grocery store donut shop have just one.
• 15:28
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe there are, there could be, but when you look at the world, get that world view, there's not just one kind of donut.
• 15:41
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Now maybe I decide that out of all the varieties of the available varieties, I may decide that I want a dozen of the same.
• 15:58
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I may decide that, and guess what?
• 16:05
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's a decision.
• 16:07
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's a freedom of speech there.
• 16:10
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's a decision.
• 16:12
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's a freedom of speech there that I get to decide the dozen of donuts.
• 16:21
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If I go to grocery store one and I don't like the option options, I have the free speech and the free ability to go to another grocery store, another donut shop, and if yet still I don't bind what I'm looking for, I can go to a third.
• 16:56
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So our Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 16:59
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not the only one out there.
• 17:02
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There's not just one option, there's not just two options, there's not just three or four or five options, there's dozens and dozens and probably even thousands of choices.
• 17:26
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So if you don't like what you see, you don't like what you see, you don't like what you hear, turn that dial.
• 17:35
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's your choice and it's our choice.
• 17:47
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: What we want to share, what we want to talk about, and, yes, even what we want to share, what we want to talk about, and, yes, even we are able to bring Information, which we do From time to time.
• 18:08
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We do, we bring information, we bring, we do, we bring information, we bring a screenshot.
• 18:15
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We might have an audio recording for an episode or a part of an episode, and you may not like what is being shown.
• 18:31
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And you may not like what is being shown, like maybe you in a picture of you and another person that you say you don't know.
• 18:46
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, you're right to say I don't know this person.
• 19:04
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: It's also our right to have a counterpoint and have that freedom of speech to maybe show oh, hmm, wait a minute, I see a picture, maybe one, maybe 10, maybe 100.
• 19:25
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And the person is right next to, and their arms around, that other person that they don't know.
• 19:40
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There's no hands up like this, like paparazzi, or get out of my face, I don't know this person.
• 19:48
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Don't take this picture.
• 19:50
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: No, there's none of that.
• 19:54
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, that's your choice.
• 19:57
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If the picture's there, what do we do?
• 20:04
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe we show it, and then what?
• 20:11
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And then we let the people decide, the people of this great nation, the United States of America, and people all across the world decide.
• 20:33
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I get to formulate an opinion, a thought on that.
• 20:39
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So from time to time, there may be information that's shared, that you might not like, that you may wish was not being shown or shared, or communicated, or communicated.
• 21:10
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And I tell you, it's the freedom of speech.
• 21:20
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, we're not the only show in town or in our city, in our state, our province, our nation, our province, our nation, our hemisphere.
• 21:30
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We're not, and we know that.
• 21:33
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We have lots of analytics that show that.
• 21:41
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So turn the dial, go somewhere else.
• 21:46
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And if something bothers you, so be it.
• 21:56
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There's a lot of things that bother me and have bothered me and are probably going to bother me tomorrow and the next day and next month.
• 22:09
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: There's going to be something else that's going to bother me tomorrow and the next day and next month there's going to be something else that's going to bother me.
• 22:15
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: But I do not have that right to tell somebody you're not allowed to exercise your freedom of speech.
• 22:30
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I am, but you're not.
• 22:31
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: No, no, no, it doesn't work like that.
• 22:36
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't get to have free reign and silence.
• 22:44
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Attempt to silence, to continue to silence.
• 22:48
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Attempt to silence, to continue to silence Individuals voices, maybe.
• 23:05
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Individuals communicate through sign language.
• 23:06
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's their freedom of speech.
• 23:07
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: They're allowed to do that.
• 23:12
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, when you turn on Netflix, when you turn on Amazon, hulu, roku, whatever I think I said those correctly Disney Plus, youtube, tv Spectrum, at&t, directv, and these are not plugs for these, the ones I'm renaming, just showing there's options.
• 23:41
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And you know what I do when something bothers me and I'm might not agree with a new story or what is being talked about on the show, I turn that dial, I change that channel.
• 24:08
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I change that movie.
• 24:09
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I change that channel.
• 24:09
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I change that movie.
• 24:10
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I change that show.
• 24:11
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I change that song.
• 24:14
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I change that Netflix series, that Netflix documentary.
• 24:23
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I go outside for a walk.
• 24:27
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I get something to eat, take a drink of water.
• 24:34
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I take a deep breath.
• 24:41
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: What do all those things have in common?
• 24:45
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Freedom of speech.
• 24:47
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You got it and I got it, and Voices for Voices has it, and our guests have it, and other shows and other news outlets got it, have it too.
• 25:08
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So you see something you don't like.
• 25:13
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe think about that for the next time.
• 25:17
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Next time you're in an experience, in a position, think about that in a position.
• 25:32
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Think about that.
• 25:38
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't continue on a conversation, on a communication, that it might be recorded, and you say I got a question, is this being recorded?
• 26:00
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And the other person says oh yeah, it's being recorded.
• 26:05
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You have a decision to make.
• 26:10
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You can continue that conversation.
• 26:14
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You can say I do not consent to this, I can.
• 26:18
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: If it's a phone conversation or a video call, I can press that end button, I can hang up.
• 26:32
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: But if you continue to talk and spout off and say something or some things, you continue to stay on that communication, wherever that is.
• 26:54
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: However, that is Phone, in person, video call, whichever.
• 27:03
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Whatever way that is, you stay on that.
• 27:06
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: That's your freedom of speech.
• 27:28
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Yes, sir, yes, you don't get the.
• 27:29
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't.
• 27:33
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You're not God.
• 27:34
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't get that.
• 27:35
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't got.
• 27:37
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't have, god, that power to then say oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, hold on Months later and say I didn't consent to it.
• 27:56
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, how long was the call?
• 27:58
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Oh, I think like maybe an hour.
• 28:02
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, did you ask if it was recorded and what that brought up?
• 28:07
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, I did actually.
• 28:08
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: When did you ask if it was recorded and was that brought up?
• 28:09
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, I did actually.
• 28:10
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: When did you ask?
• 28:12
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: After 15 minutes or so?
• 28:14
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And what was the answer?
• 28:17
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Oh, yeah, they said this was being recorded.
• 28:23
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And then what did you do?
• 28:27
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, conversation lasts about an hour, gordon.
• 28:33
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And then what did you do?
• 28:33
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, you know, conversation lasts about an hour.
• 28:35
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So we, we talked to about an hour and you knew it was going to be.
• 28:40
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You knew it was recorded at that point.
• 28:41
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, yeah, I had asked and they said that it was.
• 28:48
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And you didn't hang up and you didn't say I do not consent to this.
• 28:55
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: And you continue to talk, talk, talk.
• 29:01
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Your freedom of speech.
• 29:04
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So your freedom of speech.
• 29:12
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So we have the freedom of speech that when Somebody does never gives the do not, I don't consent for talking further, that the phone doesn hang up, that the video call doesn't end when that doesn't happen, and they talk and talk and talk.
• 29:37
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: I just realized, you know, got to get them teeth better.
• 29:43
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: So yeah, freedom of speech, united States of America Constitution.
• 29:54
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: You have the right to free speech, so do we.
• 29:55
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you next time.
• 29:57
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 30:04
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: Please be a voice for you or somebody in need.
• 30:08
  Voices for Voices Founder, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you next time.