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From Vegas Lights to Missouri Fights: Sex, Speech & State Overreach · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Better rock better talk damn radio Hello good evening welcome I am Samuel trap.
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This is international flavor.
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You are listening to damn radio.
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It is 9 p.m. In Central Missouri and Many other places but Central Missouri is
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what's important to us.
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What's going on today?
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I have Quite a bit.
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I want to talk about lawsuit got filed today.
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I told you a little bit about it last night There's still plenty of
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international news to go into as well That I wanted to talk about but before I
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get to that I thought it would be Excuse me appropriate to go through some of
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these I Everybody knows me to be pretty much I don't know.
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I used to describe myself as a Conservative when it came to fiscal and
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financial policy, but otherwise Well, I suppose more of a libertarian approach
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hands-off.
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You know, what do I care if?
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somebody wants to I don't know be gay somebody wants to Marry, you know a man
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wants to marry a man or a woman wants to marry a woman I disagree with it, but
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Okay, you know people might disagree with the way the way I Decide to run my
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life and but I've always been kind of a long as you're not bothering me Okay,
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you know I I found it interesting in High school the army afterward Dealing
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with people that I knew to be The gay alternate lifestylists of whatever kind
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that they were but it doesn't Impact me so I haven't really paid attention to
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it Well, I have a ton of stories that I could give you in that regard from when
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I was in the military Policy in the military was don't ask don't tell when I
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went in then they changed it to Well when I went in I believe it was you
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couldn't Have that kind of a relationship and it stayed that way but before
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They would prosecute on it and after it was the don't ask don't tell was a
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pretty big deal you know, and so and I and Homosexuality is not the point of my
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discussion tonight.
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My the point is basic freedoms of a person and what that is in America and the
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fact is you can Disagree with what other people choose to do in their Lives and
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the approaches that they take so as many of you if you may know I grew up
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Mormon and I remember when I Was in the military and had an idiot Sergeant
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was just dumb as a bag of hammers At least it was a whole bag of hammers
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though, and it wasn't just what but he basically Told me that I couldn't be a
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good Mormon and I said well You know That's for me to figure out and none of
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your damn business if I am or not But tell me why it's important to you and he
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said well, I saw you drinking You know milk you drink milk like it's going on
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style.
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I was like, oh, yeah well, I'm from one of them sects of Mormonism that You
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know allows you to drink milk, you know, yeah, I thought it was something like
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that he and then he says when you're gonna get your Second wife, you know, I
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noticed you married I said, oh well Here's just something like you know the you
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have to be married a certain number of years I said, I don't really know, you
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know, I said I can barely handle one wife but I'm not sure I could handle two I
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said, but they Basically you have to have so many kids and you gotta you know
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the the brotherhood comes and they check you out and then they they kind of Set
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you up with or kind of like issue you another wife and the guy goes.
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Yeah, I thought it was something like that I was like, yeah Never did tell the
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idiot that that he was you know That I was yanking his chain and the trouble is
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he's probably wandering the planet telling all no I knew this Mormon kid and he
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said blah blah blah and You know took it took it to Heart, you know, but the
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point of that it's not what the show is about tonight or what I want to talk
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about it's I Remember when the big discussion was about whether Gay marriage
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was gonna be able to take place and I remember Doing a show about it from when
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I was in Qatar because I knew a guy my brother Matthew and I were working with
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a Qatari guy that Matt knew a hell of a lot better than me I was only
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peripheral but we would go sit with him and basically him and he's really nice
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guy and really wealthy and really pretty cool and basically There were some
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issues with people as they got older and how they I don't know And I did my
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what was never fully versed in it and I didn't know many Qataris you know, but
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those that I did know and the other people I thought I know that Polygamy or
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having more than one wife is definitely allowed and in some ways it was kind of
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Politically expected, you know as you got further up in The issue according to
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certain people and I don't know I never really paid that much attention to it
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but I do know that was the discussion that some of the People that you know
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were were of that I don't know what Generation I suppose because he was older
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than me that you know, basically was Looking into it and I don't know whatever
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happened to it It was only a peripheral discussion, but the way I understood it
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was that it took place.
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Well different cultures different things It's not for me to judge and I've
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never judged You know the the Mormon side it's like I mean, I'm being truthful
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when I say I can't handle You can't handle one wife.
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Why why would I and Why would I want more than one?
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You know what?
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I mean?
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And at any rate The point of the show tonight is basically Freedom of speech if
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you were listening to me last week on the Sunday night deep dive when I was
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talking to Scott Ritter and the punishment that he's taken the punishment that
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people from RT Russia today basically Has taken in our government overreach,
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which I always like to talk about and things like that well the topic for today
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and some of the discussion that I want to get into has to do with this kind of
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I Don't know judgment against other People and tonight especially I want to
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talk about free speech Adult expression and Things
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like prostitution I've been around the planet I've been to 54 countries, I
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think and by the way, Belarus and Latvia are coming up and You know, I will
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that'll be 55 and 56 I believe and Basically you can disagree with
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some you know with with some of these things but I Want to give you a little
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bit of a backdrop and then tell you about what's going on particularly in the
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case of the state of Missouri but in order to get there, let's let's look at
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from my non-judgmental point of view in the way that I Take or accept things in
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the real world in my adult life that I just don't Try hard not to judge other
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people.
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It's not for me to judge if these things are wrong and people are doing them
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here on earth and I believe in a God well, then That any God that I believe in
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will perhaps judge those people if he so chooses but then again, maybe I'm
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incorrect and they have a Kind of a leg up in that regard as it were and I'm
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and I don't I don't know I'm not the person in charge of that, but I didn't
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want to talk about it because it's I remember again from when I was escorting
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Russian Soviet Diplomats and especially during the times that we were in Vegas
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and it was around this time if any of you went to Vegas in the 80s What a dump
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In all seriousness it was You would go walking down the street and it was trash
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everywhere people were handing out flyers all day long about You know getting
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laid finding a hooker strip clubs You know, who knows the nastier the better
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and and Vegas was really kind of dirty It began to change and I think
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what they did was they turned it into they started having some Believe it or
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not some family venues and it wasn't just a sin city sort of a thing.
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They started Changing They started having high-dollar Family sorts of
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Adventure.
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No, you know, there's still plenty of gambling going on plenty of adult
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entertainment, there's I Forget some club out there.
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It was called the Palomino Club.
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I remember I remember when I was on the Nevada nuclear test site and the way
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the way that Worked was if you were going to be out there for The the typical
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was you'd go there for a week and then you'd go to a to DC for a week back and
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forth But sometimes you would have to be out there Two three four weeks in a
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row and if you were out there two three four weeks in a row Then you would get
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two days off a week and you could you know go into Vegas and I remember One
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particular time there was this colonel whose name I won't give out It was funny
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as hell and I thought he was just hilarious and he was out there with us And he
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was just an old crusty dude had a lot of things and he goes one day it was a
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Friday afternoon and he goes comes into my my Everybody had a separate Sort of
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a hotel room out there, you know I had my own room and he came into the room
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and he goes trap.
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I was like, yeah, he goes It looks like you're off next couple of days with And
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I remember his name, but I'm not gonna say it's the Navy guy He goes this Navy
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guy is is off and he's a good guy and it's his birthday I was like, oh, I
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didn't know that he goes.
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Yeah, it's his birthday.
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I said, here's what I want you to do He said no guarantee me you're gonna do
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this.
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I was like, you know, whatever, you know, I'll do I'll do what you're gonna say
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he goes you guys are going in and what you would do is there was a There was a
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Like an apartment a two-bedroom apartment that the the agency had that was
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there in downtown Vegas and you would swap out.
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Sometimes there'd be some FBI guy.
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There's FBI guys there sometimes there'd be us military some, you know, you'd
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basically swap it out And when we got there turned out there were two other
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guys, you know So it ended up being four of us, you know, I slept on the floor
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somebody slip on the couch, you know, we all end up you know sharing whatever
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was available, but this this this colonel says You know trap he goes you you
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Take this guy out to this Palomino Club because you're a bit of the Palomino
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Club.
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I think no Everybody goes what's a strip club?
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He goes there's a girl that I want you to introduce him to and she's gonna and
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you have you you give her this $50 and you tell her to show him a good time
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some, you know lap dance or whatever and he goes and here's another You know 20
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30 bucks.
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I want you to take him out get him some alcohol and have a good time tonight
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And you know, it's my my birthday present him.
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I'm like, okay Went out and we did that.
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Okay.
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Now you could judge that, you know, but it was it was pretty innocent You know
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for the basic part and I went to a went to a strip club with this guy at the
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direction of some colonel or offer of some colonel depending on how you look at
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it and Anyway, you could judge for that or you could not judge but the women
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that are there make Extremely good money.
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Okay.
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Now one of the other things that happened also in Vegas outside a town There
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about a hundred miles outside of town, but from the Nevada nuclear test site
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probably only about 20 minutes 30 minutes, you know There is a little town
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Still exists today if I believe it is It is called Pahrump Pahrump is an
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unincorporated town Located at the southernmost chip of Nye County, Nevada 50
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miles only west of Las Vegas Pahrump lies adjacent to the Nevada, California
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border Pahrump was originally inhabited by the southern Paiute Indians It was
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slowly inhabited by settlers in the late 19th century They chose the name for
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Pahrump after the original southern Paiute named Pahrumpy or water rock so
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named because the abundant artesian wells in the valley Because of the
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development of those wells recent inhabitants of Pahrump established a number
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of large ranch style holdings mostly over a thousand acres in size and they
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Generate alfalfa, cotton, livestock until the 60s Pahrump had no telephone
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service except one radio transmitter phone in a public booth next to a small
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market and not a paved road at all as Las Vegas grew grew the Pahrump region
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also saw more real estate development and population growth that led to the
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introduction of telephones and The construction of a paved highway between
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Vegas and Pahrump during the 60s later this Nevada 60 was extended to 95, okay
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now there was also a Casino owner named Ted Binion who owned Binion's horseshoe
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Who allegedly buried a large quantity of silver in a secret underground vault
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in 98 He died under Suspicious circumstances and one of those accused of
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murdering was apprehended digging up the vault in Pahrump a book about this
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murder Trial and Las Vegas poker is called positively fifth Street, and it's a
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book by James McManus In November 2006 the town board voted an ordinance
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declaring English the official language Limited the display of foreign flags
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and denied housing or illegal immigrants a Measure of this ordinance required
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American flag be displayed above any other flag regardless of what organization
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nation or government it represented Okay We get into geography and climate
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where is the economy two legal Brothels one named Sherry's ranch
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and the other named the chicken ranch are Located in Pahrump due to their
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proximity to Vegas.
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They tend to be more Expensive than other legal brothels in Nevada Okay So
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Pahrump has had these, you know, you can go to the Chicken ranch and it is a
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legal licensed brothel 60 miles West of Vegas and there are 60 courtesans
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called the chicken ranch home girls That means around 12 to 15 women that live
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and work there at any time The women stay for two weeks at a time.
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They are independent contractors set their own prices and menu Due to night
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County ordinances solicitation cannot be done outside of the house of the
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brothel The ranch used to house a collection of memorabilia from the original
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chicken ranch Which was located outside of LaGrange, Texas The ranch also
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houses the leghorn bar The bar has a separate entrance for visitors not wishing
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to until the brothel parlor So Walter Plankerton Operated
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the Nevada chicken ranch in 76 as close to Vegas as legally possible He
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encountered strong opposition from local law enforcement and other brothel
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owners It does remain the closest brothel to Las Vegas The initial location of
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the ranch was inside the town limits where prostitution was illegal He was
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arrested and found guilty of violating the town laws We moved his brothel to a
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new location within the county but outside of the city limits He served 60 days
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in jail in 1981 so Now a county didn't require brothels to be licensed and
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three other brothels operated legally in the county at the time Okay anyway, I
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do you don't you can go read the history of the chicken ranch if you like and
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it is There are some legal places in Vegas and that allow this so you can agree
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or disagree But we have it and if you want to talk it from an international
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level I'm telling you that I every army guy has probably done this in Frankfurt
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Germany that if you served in there, you can go and walk through these
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Basically apartment complexes and when you go through there's a girl selling
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her where in or well her lack thereof in the doorway of Wherever you walk
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past and the place is like crazy on a on a Friday Saturday night And me and a
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buddy went up there and wandered around just say we did it, right?
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We didn't imbibe, you know didn't go in there But it was an interesting concept
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and all of them are checked out by doctors I mean you you can agree or you can
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disagree with what it is But different cultures do different things, you know,
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some have more wives.
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I haven't been to Thailand but apparently that is the number one business in
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Thailand You know, some people call it the oldest business in Thailand The Fact
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is that I've been to Amsterdam a bunch of times.
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I love Amsterdam.
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It's a beautiful city.
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The Rijksmuseum is Unbelievable and you can go and see Van Gogh Paintings
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there's a whole floor and I you know, I spent an entire day there seeing Van
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Gogh paintings that were just Phenomenal and you can just sit there and stare
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at them forever Anyway, that's not the topic tonight, but in the red light
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district if you go walking through there it's a little bit different than it is
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and it's a little more I Don't know what A Little higher class I suppose it
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a little better structure because what they do there is they have little rooms
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and these rooms have Display windows imagine walking through a mall and you see
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these display windows Well, this is right on the street, you know, and they
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don't allow children in there Whatever the age is.
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I don't know that it's 18.
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It might only be 16 I have no idea but you know, they have a police that don't
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allow, you know kids in there and People can wander the street and you I mean,
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there's there's girls standing in windows It's crazy.
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And then some guy will go in and they'll pull the shade down and whatever they
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do They do and that's perfectly legal and there's nothing wrong with it.
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I Remember when I first went to Germany for any period of time and Somewhat
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shocking to me was that Bare-breasted women were shown on TV, you know in
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commercials and whatnot.
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It was not a big deal men could You know go to the bathroom right on the side
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of the room and often did I remember walking down the street and garmish and
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some guy going to the bathroom.
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They may have changed it by now I don't know.
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I haven't been there in a while but there's a guy going to the bathroom on the
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side of the road and Stand on the side of road taking taking a leak and some
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woman goes by.
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Hey good.
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She's waving.
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He's He waves back keeps up, you know, no big deal They think differently than
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we do and if you went into a gas station to pay for your gas Laying right up on
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the counter where you pay for gas.
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We're I don't know rated X magazine Any pert any kid of seven or eight could
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see them and they don't hide them now I remember one person explaining to me
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that you know, well in Germany guess what?
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Guess what?
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We don't I was like man.
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You got this stuff laying all over.
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Don't you have kids and they said it I said, yeah, we have kids, you know, we
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like our sex just as much as everybody else and We appreciate it and we look in
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the books and we do all those things that you American do we just don't feel
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guilty about it and Guess what problem we do not have.
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It's like what says You know teenage pregnancy you know, I don't know that I
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agree with that or know anything about it, but I Don't dictate or judge what
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people can and cannot do.
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Anyway, I've talked about that for a very Good and long time to tell you that,
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you know different strokes for different folks and Missouri has For
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example they don't allow a Prostitution obviously that's again.
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They do allow Have allowed strip clubs.
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Okay, and It is that Topic in general that I want to get to
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and some of the some of the law that goes up to this and some of what the u.s.
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and The state of Missouri have input regarding such laws, right?
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Because anywhere you go in the world you have a different different approach
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depending on where you are You know what they what they allow and what they
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don't allow and what sort of?
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governmental Restrictions there are upon such activity over time.
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We have changed as well I don't know that we're more liberal less liberal, but
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we live Republic and so the states can have different interpretations.
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You go to Vegas you got all-out Prostitution where it's illegal and in
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Missouri.
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I Assume it probably still takes place.
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It's just a little more Closed off, you know what?
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I mean that people either, you know get away with it or they don't And I don't
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you know, I don't judge not my problem But I'm here to tell you tonight about
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some of the laws that we have in Missouri and some of the stuff but the freedom
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of speech in America is We're gonna talk a little bit about adult expression
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and freedom of speech expressive content expressive conduct But not high-value
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speech the Supreme Court and I mean the Supreme Court of the United States
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treats nude or erotic dancing as expressive conduct that gets some first
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amendment protection and Laws requiring pasties and or g-strings, you know Not
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totally nude dancing were upheld in case cases called Barnes versus Glenn
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Theatre in 1991 and in the city of Erie Erie versus Pabst A&M under
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intermediate scrutiny, so if somebody's going to interfere with your
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constitutional rights You would prefer that it be at the strict scrutiny level
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meaning look I have the right to do this if I want to But you know, you better
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have a damn good reason I'm putting this law But on intermediate scrutiny that
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law is a little less strict intermediate scrutiny basically, it just means that
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they're going to weigh the Weigh the need for the statute against
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the person's Free speech and the restriction upon it.
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So these are these are important things Those are both United States Supreme
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Court cases, which we may get into here in a little bit in Missouri, they have
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Secondary effects of zoning so like you can restrict what part of a city These
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things can be in or these venues to curb I don't know Undesirable buildings so
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long as they target the secondary effects and not the protected conduct itself
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and that's from a case called young versus American mini theaters in 1976 and
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That was in Oklahoma and then City of Renton were playtime theaters in 86 they
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had a 1,000 foot buffer space from any, you know, like a school or a church or
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anything and that was Refined in certain cases and so it's an interesting
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Series of law that goes about or it gets checked out in these things and let's
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Let's get to a little bit of language on one of these here cases and go to
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young versus American mini theaters, which is a 1976 case decided
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June 24 1976 it is constitutional for a city to enact a zoning rule That
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treats ordinary cinemas different from adult cinemas, okay so the facts of that
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case were zoning ordinances in the city of Detroit Required adult movie
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theaters to be dispersed across the city They couldn't be located within a
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thousand feet of any two other Regulated uses other adult theaters or nine
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other types of establishments or Nor could they be within 500 feet of a
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residential area Okay, so the majority opinion one two, there were five of them
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including Stevens Burger White Powell and Rehnquist That said the city can
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regulate the use of commercial property in its boundaries and its interests
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maintaining the quality of Urban life supports the implementation of this
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thousand-foot restriction on its own.
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This does not infringe on the First Amendment rights, even though adult movies
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are Admittedly a form of protected speech and the regulation is content-based
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These types of movie theaters are associated with serious risk to the public
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well-being So the city should have some flexibility in determining an
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appropriate location, okay dissenting were Potter Stewart Judge Brennan judge
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Marshall and judge Blackmon rather than mirror and they said rather than a
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content-neutral time place or manner or regulation of unprotected obscene
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speech This ordinance is a content-based Regulation of material that is fully
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protected by the First Amendment Even if some people find it socially
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undesirable Regulations governing it should receive no less stringent level of
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scrutiny meaning they wanted strict scrutiny, okay So the main interest stated
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by the city and putting this rigid rule in place with preserving the character
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of its Neighborhoods which seems pretty flimsy on face value, but the court
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gave deference to the city's rationale because of its connection to reducing
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crime and other social ills The law was not a categorical ban, which would have
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been struck down but a mere time place and manner type of restriction that is
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likely to be valid if it is reasonably late related to the legitimate
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government interest and Not overly burdensome, right?
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Now that's probably enough to give you the the whole there's no need to go into
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the whole case of this But remember these things It's still called freedom of
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speech to have this happen in Missouri has had always allowed the Strip
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clubs have been a part of Missouri for Long time, you know We could go into
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that if you'd like to but I don't really see that, you know any need to get too
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far into it Some people say that licensing is a gag order prohibiting this sort
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of I Don't know what this sort of display it equals a gag order, but that's
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That's not how people see it, you know I remember living in Dallas and we had
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these Germans come over that I worked for a German company and man Dallas had
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Extremely good strip clubs and all these German people had come over for these
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Friday afternoons and want to go to the strip club for lunch I had no idea what
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they were they called it buffet and I remember I didn't do it very often I
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went, you know, they only came over once a quarter or so and they wanted to go
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to buffet and buffet what it really meant was these are five-star strip clubs
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and Unbelievable these these idiot Germans who come in and spend, you know with
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their corporate credit cards and whatnot spend Jeez, they were high-level
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executives.
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They spent So much money in there when I'd go home at I mean we'd go to lunch
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at like two o'clock And I'd leave to go home at five.
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They were there still still going and Crazy times anyway, but but a lot of fun
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and a bunch of nonsense So there's a trend line the the court just upheld a
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Texas's age Oh, for example there are sites like I don't
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know porn sites that you can get online and in 2025 The court just upheld a
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Texas age verification law for porn sites And said that Texas
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can require A website a porn website to verify the age of
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the people that visit the site So, I don't know how in you know how they're
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gonna do that, but it says Texas law requiring adult websites to verify user
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age is constitutional and Can remain in effect This case came out It was a 2023
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case June 27 2025 is when this came out So the case stems from a
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2023 law that required websites to verify that a user is over 18 if more than
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one-third of the content is Considered harmful to minors a group of adult
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entertainment websites sued Arguing this violated free speech Texas countered
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that the state had the right to protect children With what the solicitor
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general framed as a simple safe and common restriction while the Supreme Court
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Justices were divided on the free speech issue a 6-3 majority sided with Texas
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finding that requiring age verification is within the state's authority to
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prevent children from Accessing, you know porn online and it's a long long
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judgment.
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You can go and read that if you like, but that's not the point either Missouri
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let's go to where Let's see, what's what's the First Amendment to United States
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say it says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
36:47
of prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or
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of the press of the right of the people to peaceably assemble and to petition
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the government for a redress of Grievances those things are the First Amendment
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and the Fourth Amendment sends those to the states, you know puts it out to the
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states and Let's see.
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Now.
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We're gonna get to the Missouri Constitution on the Bill of Rights and the
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freedom of speech and No law shall be passed impairing freedom of speech no
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matter by what means communicated Every person shall be free to say right or
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publish or otherwise Communicate whatever he will on any subject being
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responsible for all abuses of that liberty and that in all suits and
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prosecutions for libel or slander the truth may be given in evidence and in
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suits and prosecutions for libel the jury under the direction of the court
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shall determine the law and the facts, okay the Constitution This might not be
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the most most Detailed of statement that could be a summary, you know of the
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actual way it's written Okay, there's another law that says And this one is
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Missouri Constitutional Article 1 section 13 no ex post facto law nor law
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impairing the obligation of contracts or Retrospective in its operation or
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Making any irrevocable grant of special privileges or immunities can be enacted
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Okay, and what that means ex post facto means you cannot Institute a law
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in reverse so you can't say You know For
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example that a strip club can be an operation and it is an operation it is and
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then you know the business is in place and then you change the law and then
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that Law is applied retrospectively to a place that's already in business and
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you use it to shut down or Horribly regulate this business and that is where
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we're going today Because that is what's going on here many of you who know
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that I practice law I used to do something in federal court practice things in
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the 42 USC in 1983 and basically That is civil actions for the deprivation of
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rights, you know, whatever those rights are So every person who in that what
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that says basically is that any person who under color of statute ordinance
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regulation customer usage of Any state or territory or district to Columbia?
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Subjects or causes to be subjected any citizen of the United States or other
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person within the jurisdiction to the deprivation of rights privileges or
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immunity secured by the Constitution and law Shall be liable to the party
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injured in an action of law suit in equity or other proper proceeding for
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redress except that in an action brought against judicial officer for an act or
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omission taken in the officers judicial capacity Injunctive relief shall not be
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granted unless a declaratory degree was violated or declaratory relief is
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unavailable For the purpose of this section any act of Congress of applicable
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exclusive to the District Columbia blah blah blah We don't care about that so
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basically what that does is it passes to a citizen the right to go after the
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government if they are deprived of Constitutional rights or other laws in the
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in the state, right?
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so This is where I am going, okay Basically there has
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been Club and there's actually been several of them and one of them filed suit
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Today or yesterday pretty recent That I was gonna talk about it yesterday, but
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I hadn't I hadn't seen it.
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I'd heard it was coming, but I hadn't seen it and Basically the state of
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Missouri on the 28th of August of 2010 and acted a Let's
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see versions of the Sexually oriented
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Businesses, okay, and there were various histories to go along with it, but the
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law as it stands right now Basically chapter 573 531 That says until
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December 31 2016 Establishment of businesses is prohibited where?
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Nudity and establishment is prohibited display of sexual activities
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requirements state requirements hours of operation minors and alcohol
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prohibited and So you can't, you know have alcohol.
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No person shall establish a sexually oriented business When a thousand feet of
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any pre-existing primary or secondary school house of worship state licensed
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daycare facility public library public park Residence or other sexually
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oriented business this subsection shall not apply This is important.
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Okay, this subsection shall not apply to any sexually oriented business
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lawfully established prior to August 28 2010 for purposes of this subsection
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measurement shall be made in a straight line blah blah blah So that is the the
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biggest kicker right is to have that now Anybody that knows anything about The
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lake knows that There's been a place in Lake Ozark called GQ and there's one
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over on 42 there might be even more alley too, but there's another one over
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there you drive past it.
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I forget the name of that one Hmm I can't remember I remember Club
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Flirt.
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It is called Club Flirt when you drive past across from The golf course and the
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big the cool breakfast place, which I also can't marry name of but you know,
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it's a Little place like that those places have been in place for the old GQ
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one has been around forever the The one flirt has been around for a good long
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time too.
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Okay, so there are laws that are enacted that say that you You know Can't
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affect them because they were already established and the reason is because it
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would be an ex post facto law to input a new regulation against them and
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Prohibit their business when they've been in operation for in GQ 4050 years,
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you know, they've been around a long time and been in that location for a long
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time and always sold alcohol, you know and always had that kind of thing, okay,
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and This Allows that no, it's it's a crime if you go and you create one
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somewhere else and it gives the ability to to it appears a person to
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Enforce this would be a police officer.
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Okay, and way back when there was a case called Where is this case?
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There was an opinion called Where
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is it?
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This case was a I Thought I pulled the right case.
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It looks like I might have pulled the wrong one Because club GQ Apparently
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either got sued or sued the city of Lake Ozark when this all occurred so
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that case was Where is it?
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Let's see that case was Well crap, I can't find it.
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I'm really frustrated because I pulled it out before so I would have it
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available and No, it's not here.
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And so it is I'm gonna give it one more effort to see if I can find it and Get
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that Jack's reference so that we can Show where it is, but apparently that is
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not gonna happen today In order to get that but at any rate there has been a
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Lawsuit filed today for a case relating to this Topic
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and specifically it's targeting the Use of
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Liquor control law to regulate a Sexually oriented business so
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there's been there's I think it's Something that you know, I might have to look
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around for an interview or something.
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Let's let's think about this Here's what the law at At 573 531 which was
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enacted on the 28th of August of 2010 and it said up until December 30 2016
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December 31, I'm sorry It it gave those Space distances then it said also no
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person shall establish a sexually oriented business if a person with an
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Influential interest in the business has been convicted or pled guilty to any
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specified criminal act Okay, so you can't be a criminal and open up one of
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these No person shall knowingly or intentionally in a sexually oriented
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business appear in a state of nudity meaning completely nude No employee shall
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knowingly or intentionally Appear in a semi nude condition unless while semi
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nude Shall be and remain on a fixed fixed stage six feet from all patrons and
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18 inches from the floor in a room that is at least 600 square feet Those are
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some pretty Pretty serious restrictions right now anybody that's been inside GQ
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knows that This has never been the case that these Because the reason is is
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because they have been in business already and they were somewhat grandfathered
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in.
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Okay No employee who appears in a semi nude condition in a sexually oriented
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business shall knowingly or Intentionally touch a patron or the clothing of a
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patron in a sexually oriented business Huh Curious, but that also has you know
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It's something that's been going on for years and every strip club you ever go
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in a sexually oriented business Which exhibits on the premises through any
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mechanical or electronic image producing device a film video cassette.
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Yeah We don't care about that Let's see.
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That one's about filming.
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Nobody cares about that sexually oriented business that do not have stages or
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Configurations to meet the minimum requirements of the above paragraphs shall
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be given 180 days after 2010 August 28 to comply Right.
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No operator shall allow or permit a sexually oriented business to be open
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between the hours of midnight in 6 a.m That's not the case in any of these
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places.
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They all stay open till 1 1 30 just like liquor Number nine, no person shall
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knowingly or intentionally sell use or consume alcohol on the premises of a
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sexually oriented business Except you should put comma except those that have
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been in existence since before the entry into force this This law the other
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one.
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No person shall knowingly allow person under the age of 18 on the premises
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Okay, that makes sense, right so that's the law and there's been a couple of
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changes of that law over the years Well now the
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division of alcohol and Tobacco or whatever it is Department of Public Safety
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alcohol and tobacco control.
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Is it whatever they are That's an agency of this state is now Attacking One or
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two of these places Specifically at the lake.
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Okay, although it they they may be targeting because apparently Somebody has
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come in who wants to use the alcohol statutes?
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to attack them on the on the basis of the fact that they're a sexually oriented
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business now the reason I thought this was interesting is because I I
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happen to know some of the people who are involved in the GQ business, okay,
52:20
and I understand how and why and I also have heard about some of the
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Enforcement that has been going on there and that place has a Good reputation,
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you know, the cops don't you know, there's not a lot of you know, they're not
52:41
Arresting people out, you know, there's not fights not craziness not
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prostitution.
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None of that stuff and The place has been run by the same guy for a long time
52:52
and it's What if he if he wants to be interviewed I should be happy to
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interview him and I've got a request out See if they will allow that and maybe
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he will and I think it would be interesting to do so and You know, you don't
53:10
have to agree with the business, but the reason I'm interested is because once
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again, it's the state targeting specific people specific businesses specific
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actors Imposing its morality upon certain people.
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I Have never been that type of person.
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I have never been for that.
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I am A Libertarian sort do I want there to be you know prostitution in my
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backyard?
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No Do I want there to be a strip club in my backyard?
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No, I do not.
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Do I want to I don't know what have Street walkers, you know in the event that
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you know, you're in certain areas of of You know the inner city I do not do I
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think that's what we have in Lake Ozark.
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No, I don't do I think that you know, it's a Valid business and a good business
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and a way for people to make money and including the girls that work there That
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is important it is Important that this is what I want to talk about and where I
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want to go.
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I want to get more information about this and figure out exactly the Impetus
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behind this because it's my understanding that they are Attacking specifically
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this They're asking for a ruling in Cole County against And
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they might be bouncing it.
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There's a procedure to go all the way to the Supreme Court if it's a question
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of Particular importance which this appears to be It's a First Amendment kind
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of right, you know and whether this grandfathering Exists and whether Alcohol
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and tobacco control can enforce or be the police arm of a different chapter of
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chapter 573 when they regulate the chapter 303 whatever chapter 3 is of Alcohol
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control, right?
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They don't have they aren't the enforcement arm for I don't think anything gave
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the The gave them the authority under constitutional authority or otherwise No
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regulation same thing.
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I've said same thing.
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I have said about the Missouri bar.
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I say about alcohol and tobacco control Do they have the authority to regulate?
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under chapter 573 Sexually-oriented businesses, where did they get just like
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remember when it wouldn't when I was given the Discussion with Ike and that
56:04
beautiful collar called in and she said you know what gave the what gave the
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Enforcement arm the you know the these Department of Public Safety, I believe
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was them.
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Also, what gave them the right to regulate?
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to Who gave them the right to impose?
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constitutional Can or unconstitutional cameras upon us, you know Although they
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have the authority to regulate the streets and whatnot who said who gave them
56:41
the right to film Everything and keep track of people Statewide, you know if I
56:49
drive across state They know it Right if they have cameras everywhere have they
56:55
created that, you know, like we went through in the Ike thing It's again.
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These are governmental Overreach Parameters that they just go too far.
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They go overboard and They push somebody has to push back and it looks like GQ
57:16
is pushing back And I'm very interested in where this case goes and how it ends
57:21
up I'm I'm interested in it and I hope that other people are interested too and
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you might not be interested in the topic the topic might be Something that
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you'd prefer.
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I didn't talk about or prefer that it was you know something else that was I
57:40
Don't know maybe a different kind of overreach, but the fact is the freedom of
57:44
speech your freedom of speech Might not be My freedom of speech, you know what
57:51
I'm saying?
57:51
It might be something else it might be You might Think
58:02
that is just wrong to have that kind of a a business.
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That's okay.
58:08
That's you're right frankly, I'm not sure I want to you know that I'd want to
58:13
Own one of those or be a part of one of those or anything like but that doesn't
58:18
mean that they don't provide a valid form of Earning a living for other people
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and You know to each their own I say And you like like when people were talking
58:33
about gay marriage.
58:34
I was like, well, what is this gonna do?
58:36
What's gonna happen next?
58:38
What's gonna happen when the polygamist comes back and goes?
58:40
Well, wait a minute Why is that?
58:44
Okay I disagree with this Astronomically, you know and these people ought to
58:50
have their heads ripped off the but what about these minor?
58:55
Attracted people in other words pedophiles.
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What if they want to have a bride of the age of 12?
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You know, they do these people need to be protected somehow You should be able
59:06
to restrict that kind of activity.
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Don't you think?
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and and I think it's a very Interesting and curious Role that we're going
59:21
through so I have seen that a declaratory judgment has been Requested that they
59:31
are attempting to find out whether or not the state can Target them
59:40
after they've been Somewhat Grandfathered in on the topic of free speech
59:47
There's no there's no question about that and I'm very interested to see where
59:51
this goes and whether any other sexually oriented businesses of that type join
59:57
in now I saw or or or happen to know some of the facts I've read some of it and
1:00:06
They're claiming that the state is Telling them that They're
1:00:16
a girl wearing a Thong bikini, you know a dancer that's wearing a thong
1:00:26
or string bikini It's lewd lewd activity because her butt cheeks are shown and
1:00:36
And That Because of this law that went in place in 2010.
1:00:43
They cannot sell alcohol In a place where there's lewd activity going on.
1:00:51
Well, I Challenge anybody Anytime to go to any lake area bar where
1:01:01
there's a pool and They're serving alcohol everywhere and tell me that they're
1:01:06
not serving alcohol in a place where there's lewd activity going on and Tell me
1:01:13
that you know, you can't serve alcohol where that sort of thing is going on now
1:01:17
that's the public and it's not a Strip club what makes it lewd in a strip club?
1:01:25
When it's not lewd in the swimming pool Very curious, don't you?
1:01:31
Don't you agree?
1:01:33
I Think that this is overreach, but who the hell am I?
1:01:37
I'll be very interested to see where this case goes Very curious to speak to
1:01:46
some of my friends on this and get some more information very curious to see
1:01:53
where the Court comes down on this and If this will go a whole
1:02:02
lot further or not let us Look at a couple of other things and then that I will
1:02:12
talk to you about So basically Let's go through a couple of adult expression
1:02:21
cases Some states how you know the Republic theory and how states get involved
1:02:28
with this because we're Missouri and I'll get into Missouri Missouri has
1:02:33
alcohol separation and a strict conduct state sexually or a business statute
1:02:41
restricts hours distances and bans alcohol in the SOB and this rule of lewdness
1:02:50
Bars exposing any part of the female Areola anywhere liquor is sold The Supreme
1:02:59
Court blessed this statute in a sellovers cost her in 2011.
1:03:04
Okay Oregon it's a liberal leaning free expression model Oregon courts have
1:03:11
read article 1 section 8 quite broadly Many clubs in the Portland area are
1:03:18
fully nude with alcohol Under local licensing subject to local distance conduct
1:03:24
rules, right?
1:03:26
Texas conservative plus a sin tax angle a common pattern no alcohol if there is
1:03:34
full nudity, right and The famous poll tax which is a fee on Sexually oriented
1:03:42
business that was upheld the they use Dallas as an example city that layers
1:03:48
zoning plus licensing Utah is the most restrictive treats full nudity harshly
1:03:57
no alcohol with full nudity and Extensive no touch on stage only rules Use as
1:04:06
the tightest reins sort of example Yes, so they are very very Well, very
1:04:14
Mormon, why don't we just say that Georgia has local bans on alcohol, but they
1:04:19
do have full nudity There's a line of cases that they bar full nudity semi
1:04:27
-nudity only with strict rules Florida is a mixed location They trend more
1:04:34
stricter on ages.
1:04:36
So localities vary on alcohol and nudity But statewide say that performers have
1:04:42
to be 21 or older in 2024-25 There was a challenge to this but it was dropped
1:04:50
after the 11th Circuit signaled approval of that restriction You know you
1:05:00
know, I already told you a little bit about Las Vegas and Pahrump and all of
1:05:05
that and outside of the US Germany 2002 Prostitution
1:05:15
Act recognized prostitution contracts 2017 they ran a Prostitution Protection
1:05:23
Act that added registration and permits and it's legal but very regulated,
1:05:30
right?
1:05:31
In the Netherlands, they're also licensed.
1:05:33
They had a 2000 reform that lifted the brothel ban and Pushed licensing and
1:05:39
anti-drug trafficking enforcement Amsterdam has continued to debate relocating
1:05:45
or reducing the size of the windows.
1:05:47
I was telling you about In the UK they have licensed the venue not the speech
1:05:53
lap-dancing clubs are called sexual entertainment venues under policing and
1:06:00
Crime Act of 2009 and local councils can cap or deny Based on how many are in
1:06:07
the in the area United Arab Emirates they have a prohibition and Selective
1:06:16
enforcement sounds like the u.s. Prostitution is illegal, but enforcement
1:06:21
varies especially in Dubai Meaning you can get away with it in Dubai what goes
1:06:27
on into days in Dubai, right?
1:06:30
so basically, there's some laws that Let's have a look I told you a little bit
1:06:39
about some of them the the 2025 porn that was Enacted that basically that has
1:06:49
to do with the website or you know porn viewing on online But there's a whole
1:06:57
bunch of these cases Barnes versus Glenn Theatre in 1991.
1:07:02
They said it was Pasties and g-strings are acceptable limitations to public in
1:07:09
indecency laws FW PBS versus Dallas.
1:07:15
There's a judicial review.
1:07:17
That's for 93 u.s. 215 And in Missouri, let's talk about this
1:07:27
The SOB regime, which is 573-537 we have our limits distances from school and
1:07:35
churches Liquor license venues Local ordinances must keep track of secondary
1:07:45
effects and gentlemen's quarters actually sued the city of Lake Ozark on this
1:07:52
way back in 2002 in the city lost because it didn't show a secondary effects
1:07:58
purpose to the to the Law that they were attempting to enact so I don't know if
1:08:08
this is speech versus imposition of your own brand of Tea on people I think is
1:08:14
important to consider when you think about these kind of things Vegas then
1:08:19
versus Vegas now Missouri then versus, Missouri now You know the prompt reality
1:08:28
check.
1:08:29
There's only two brothels now.
1:08:30
There used to be quite a few more you know, I was there in the 90s and I
1:08:35
remember that it was famous even to the Russian and They but I remember one of
1:08:41
them wanted to go and buy a menu So we went into the entrance where you enter
1:08:48
on the bar on the one side and then they sell the menu but you can see into
1:08:54
Kind of the saloon area if you will of the of the Brothel and and you know that
1:09:01
that was rather entertaining and a lot of them wanted to buy Menus and take
1:09:05
them home to to their country, you know, cuz that is not allowed in Russia At
1:09:12
least it never was Let's see and I Don't know if there's gonna but there will
1:09:21
be some new case law coming from this and I find it a an interesting Topic no
1:09:31
matter how you slice it.
1:09:32
I'd be interested in knowing about the enforcement Of these and how
1:09:42
come they Are beginning to attempt to enforce it now whether there's a new boss
1:09:55
of the Alcohol and tobacco control, I don't know but this this could be a An
1:10:05
interesting case and something to keep track of and I intend to keep track of
1:10:13
this case and See where it goes Because Again I'm
1:10:23
pretty much a person who believes In thee I don't care
1:10:33
what you do.
1:10:33
You can do whatever it is.
1:10:35
You do as long as it impact me Long as it doesn't interfere with My freedom.
1:10:43
I don't care what your definition of freedom is and You know, I don't of
1:10:51
course, but I'm not a person who attempts to regulate other people there are
1:10:58
plenty of people out there who want to regulate other folks and I believe
1:11:08
we have far too many of those individuals in our midst and They seem to
1:11:14
gravitate toward the government I think those people should stay in the jobs
1:11:21
like I don't know running a McDonald's where they can tell people what to do
1:11:26
but it's like the I call them regulators the regulator who drives slow in the
1:11:35
fast lane who gets in the fast lane and Doesn't use it to pass people They use
1:11:45
it To by God I can go 70 because that's the speed limit and I can go 70 if
1:11:51
that's where I want to be regardless of your desire to go faster in the fast
1:11:56
lane and to go because they are very intent upon regulating other people Those
1:12:05
are people that are government employees They Want to tell everybody else what
1:12:13
to do they want to but they'll also be the first ones to make exceptions for
1:12:18
themselves and their friends or Help them get out of trouble if they violated
1:12:23
something, you know, if you if you kiss up to them You know, I you always find
1:12:28
those people to be the ones that you that are Pliant when other people but if
1:12:33
they want to regulate someone.
1:12:35
Oh, no.
1:12:36
No, no.
1:12:36
No, no They're not so pliant after that right Anyway, I think I have spoken
1:12:45
enough on that topic.
1:12:46
I may give you some further information upon it as we go throughout the week
1:12:53
and I did want to Talk about a couple of other things
1:13:05
Let's see The one of the biggest things we talked about a little bit last night
1:13:15
Because I strongly disagree with this but apparently the Polish president is
1:13:21
Having a lot of trouble with What it what he calls?
1:13:27
Nazi collaborators and he thinks these people should be deported Any
1:13:38
Ukrainian involved in glorifying Ukrainian Nazi collaborators such as Stepan
1:13:45
Bandera should face Prosecution said Polish President Karol Nowrocki Adding
1:13:52
that such behavior has no place in Poland.
1:13:55
I remember Stepan Bandera killed By all accounts a hundred thousand plus
1:14:01
hundred to a hundred and twenty thousand Polish people He was commenting on a
1:14:07
recent incident involving the display of a flag used by Ukrainian Nazi
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collaborators at a rap concert in Poland a group of concert goers showed a flag
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of the Ukrainian army the insurgent army a Paramilitary force involved in the
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ethnic cleansing of Poles in World War two at the event in Warsaw The incident
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sparked a nationwide outcry and prompted the authorities to start deportation
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procedures against more than 60 foreign nationals mostly Ukrainians The rock we
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slammed the incident as scandalous symbols used by the Ukrainian Nazi
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collaborators and their modern admirer Should be outlawed in Poland He told the
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Polsat News in an interview aired on Tuesday and he urged the parliament to
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swiftly adopt relevant legislation he said that such displays are unacceptable
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and Called for very decisive Response that should involve expulsion of any
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Ukrainian involved in activities when asked if the incident could have been a
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provocation He maintained that such shameful behavior cannot be excused for any
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reason or circumstance just a day after the interview a 17 year old Ukrainian
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was detained for painting Ukrainian neo-nazi flags on buildings and monuments
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in Warsaw as well as desecrating a monument to Polish UPA victims and By
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inscribing glory to the UPA on it Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk rushed to
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blame the incident on Moscow By claiming the subject was recruited by Moscow to
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carry out acts of sabotage According to the president Nazi collaborators such
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as Stepan Bandera and the UPA are not Presented in Ukraine in a historically
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accurate way Ukrainians are not taught about the atrocities they committed in
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school These people were murderers degenerates who are responsible for the
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death of approximately 120 Thousand Poles he said now Kiev is never admitted to
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this type of behavior and they still deny it their reluctance to take
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responsibility For this These atrocities by this Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
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during World War two Always create a fresh Batch of thorns between Kiev and
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Warsaw and But Warsaw is still a pretty big backer of Ukraine and so, you know,
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it's it's unfortunate that we still have to have these discussions about these
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SS flags and the swastika that are prevalent on Ukrainian nationalist uniforms
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I I can't imagine that they don't teach this in their schools, but according to
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popular Russian and many other, you know Europeans say the same that they you
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know Have sent Ukrainians Units that come with these symbols on their uniform
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insignia They've sent them back from Germany from France.
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They have sent them home and so you can't be here Wearing these insignia take
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them off change your unit something but they don't see it that way you know as
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what it is, I Can't imagine that they don't understand What they're doing to
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people Crazy crazy crazy there was a Another
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story, you know how I have an affiliation and I like to watch For Natural
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disasters, you know, I have kind of this horror story affiliation with
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Tornadoes or obsession I suppose tornadoes Hurricanes earthquakes volcanoes
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well a Natural disaster Erased an entire village 1,100 were
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evacuated, but the but the Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand says that they
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still believe there are probably a hundred or more buried under debris As well
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for Urmila Parashpi a 48 year old resident of in the West Indian state of
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Maharashtra it was a miracle to come out alive from the town of Dharali, which
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was swept away in India's worst Himalayan disaster since 2013 Urmila was with a
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group of six people in a car when she saw a huge debris Coming from the hills
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descending upon the town an important intersection to reach the Hindu
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pilgrimage site of Gangotri It was in the afternoon of August 5th The human
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cost of the disaster is still unfolding Urmila was lucky enough to have
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survived the incident A local resident has been begging officials to search for
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her missing 40 year old son Who used to run a Magi and a tea shop I have not
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heard from him since the incident happened and his mobile has been switched off
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Tell me if he is alive and I will go home take me to the town and I will find
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him myself She said to an officer According to the you got to see these
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pictures.
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It's Terrible terrible terrible Half buildings are half buried.
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It looks like Wow.
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It's These sorts of catastrophes do occur and Tell you
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what it is Unfortunate, let's see if there's anything we got about ten more
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minutes.
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I know there was a A Opinion piece that I wanted to read or that I might not
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have gotten into Let's see, no, I've shared most of that with you
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Here's a latest another Ukrainian Ready Zelensky's travel ban Relaxation
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will be selective So allegedly men under the age of 22 Will be allowed to leave
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Ukraine if they have a foreign issued study visa Said Sergei you have to shook
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Who's a MP?
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the relaxation of Ukraine's ban on traveling abroad for men under the age of 22
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recently Which was announced by Zelensky will apply to very few people and I I
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still can't get over this so I'm gonna repeat it to you all men between the
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ages of 18 and 60 Have been barred from leaving the country during martial law
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the ban sparked widespread Attempts to cross the border illegally a lot of
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stories about men dressing up like women to try to get across But on Tuesday's
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Zelensky announced on telegram He ordered the government and military to change
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the rules to remove any restrictions faced at the border by men under 22 he
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said That this would be a step to help young Ukrainian men to maintain ties
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With their homeland and return to Ukraine for study According to this MP
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however, the new rules won't cover all Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and
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22 because then you'd have to relax conscription regulation a man reaching 18
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years of age becomes Liable for military service up until he reaches 60 under
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the law That's why I don't think the law will be changed.
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He said to YouTube The MP believes that a man in this age group Seeking to
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depart will still need to come up with a valid reason So Zelensky sounds like
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anyone without exception get a permit to leave said you have shoot ik Adding
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that he believes that only those having an invitation or a study visa will
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actually be able to travel abroad Although he said that is his opinion
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Ukrainian authorities have struggled to deal with draft evasion and frankly
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with Desertion is huge as well.
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I told you about that Ukrainian Border Patrol has stopped thousands of people
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from running out of the country in fact some even going so far as Shooting them
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People have died attempting to escape having been shot by the For trying to
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leave the country Isn't that crazy?
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Well, let's go to my final story of the night, right?
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This I can't I can't believe it let's call him Hawk Remember my who I call Hawk
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US Senator Lindsey Graham has called any weakening of American aid to Israel
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means that God will God will Divinely intervene on behalf of Israel if we
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don't give them money This guy I tell you this is something wrong with him
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There's something wrong with this guy if America pulls the plug on Israel God
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will pull the plug on us Who in the world is this lunatic He's
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nuts the Republican senator made the remarks at the 58th annual Silver Elephant
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Gala a major party fundraiser held in South Carolina He actually went to his
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own state.
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Isn't he from South Carolina?
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Over the weekend and he shared his speech with a broader audience on social
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media He showered praise on Israel for abstaining from committing genocide
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Despite being in full capacity to do so here.
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Listen to this Israel is our friend That's it.
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They're the most reliable friend we have in the Middle East They are democracy
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Surrounded by people who would cut their throats if they could he claimed
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adding that somehow Weakening support to Israel will result in divine
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punishment for America Senators remarks came shortly after Israel announced its
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plan to occupy Gaza City One of the few areas of the strip the military does
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not control The scheme touted by Israel as a Roadmap to concluding the war with
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the Palestinian militant group Hamas Has been dragging on for two years and has
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received overwhelmingly negative in the West The occupation plan has been
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condemned by multiple organizations.
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In fact Many countries are saying they will recognize The Palestinian state
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including I told you the other day including Australia Excuse me.
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Oh Isn't this crazy?
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The occupation plan has been condemned by multiple organizations all except for
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the US, you know many other countries have You know Condemned what they're
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doing Killed 40,000 civilians 47 I forget what the last number and the u.s. Of
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course doesn't say anything because of people like like Lindsey Graham Shortly,
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you know, I'm not being fair because I can't stand Lindsey Graham and his
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constant more war more war more war yelling Shortly before the plan was in
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unveiled even Trump said it was pretty much up to Israel Whether to occupy, you
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know, the Gaza Graham a strong backer of Israel I don't know that it's just
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Israel.
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I think it's anybody that you know, he can sell weapons, too That's what I say.
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I don't know that it's necessarily Just Israel They're going to do in Gaza what
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we did Tokoyo and Berlin take the place by force and start over again.
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He said in July Suggesting that Washington the mediator and the stalled Israel
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Hamas peace process Actually believed that there was no way to negotiate an end
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to this war either Jeez, I hate that guy Yeah, hate what he stands for.
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Let's put it that way I don't know the guy who usually you got to get to know
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somebody before you can hate him But I sure hate what he stands for.
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My name is Samuel trap.
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This is international favor.
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I'm very glad you Joined in with us tonight and listen to my show.
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I hope that you Pay attention when the government is reaching pay attention
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when the government is forcing more war down your throat Because it's just not
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right.
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I Thought we were better than that as a country, I'm personally sick and tired
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of being sick and tired of war and Something needs to end.
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I'm looking forward to Friday in the old trumpster.
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