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Coming Out, Calling Out: Modern Law Ecosystem Launch, Civic Outlaws vs Bureaucrats, Ukraine Talks, Frexit Farmers, UN Cash Crunch · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning, happy Monday and welcome to
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  International Flavor.
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  I'm Samuel Trapp.
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  This is DAMN Radio and you are listening
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  to International Flavor this morning.
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  And I had a lot of events over
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  the weekend that I was working on.
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  We're working on a project and we're, how
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  do we call it, coming out of the
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  closet.
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  We're coming out of the closet this morning.
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  We are ready.
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  We are set to jet.
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  Today is the first broadcast reality day of
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  Civic Outlaws and the modern law ecosystem.
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  I've talked about them a little bit in
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  the past, last couple of three weeks, I've
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  talked a little bit about it and what
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  we do.
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  Our website is active and ready and finalized.
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  We did a little bit of tweaking over
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  the weekend and a little bit of additions,
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  subtractions.
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  For example, we'll have a job postings page,
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  opportunities page in this.
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  So I encourage any listener to go out
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  to our new sites at the modern law
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  ecosystem.
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  And so a basic explanation of the modern
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  law ecosystem will be provided here in today's
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  show and what we are looking for.
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  I have quite a bit of international coverage
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  that I wanted to get to as well
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  here on International Flavor, but I'm going to
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  take like five, 10 minutes and explain to
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  you about our modern law ecosystem.
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  And if you go to the modern law
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  ecosystem page, you will find that we are
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  the new standard in legal intelligence.
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  This is important because what's happening in the
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  legal world, in the structure, in legal AI
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  is that...
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  Let me give you an example of how
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  we work and what is fantastic.
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  We work with several law firms right now
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  and we are growing and building.
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  I'm going to need rather swiftly a paralegal.
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  We have opportunities for those who wish to
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  work from home.
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  This is large and going to be a
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  pretty cool project everywhere across the nation.
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  And truly, we could do it across the
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  world.
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  And that is our effort.
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  We think that we have something enormous here.
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  And if you go back, we can be...
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  Here's the problem with being a lawyer, okay?
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  And having practiced law on an individual basis
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  for a good long time, 15 years or
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  so, 14, until they targeted me in the
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  Missouri bar.
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  And civic outlaws is because of government overreach.
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  Similar to that, we have several on our
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  site that we are talking about.
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  We are now have the complete and we're
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  ready to accept more lawyers than we've been
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  working with, okay?
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  So I work for law firms in several
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  different places in the country.
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  And with modern law ecosystem.
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  I've done it individually for a little bit,
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  like out of a small office in my
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  house.
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  And now we have a formal business location.
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  Our signage is the only thing that's a
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  delay.
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  And we're working on getting that taken care
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  of here in our offices located in Osage
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  Beach.
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  And it's pretty cool.
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  Anyway, you can get a hold of me
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  to find out more about that and give
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  you a little rundown that we can be
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  your global back office, okay?
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  So if you have caseload as a lawyer,
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  here's the problem with being an individual lawyer.
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  You either are in your office making money
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  or you're in court or you're at a
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  deposition or you're on the road to one
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  of the...
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  You can never get a hold of your
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  lawyer.
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  Everybody knows that.
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  And the lawyers are quite busy.
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  And what this system does is allows lawyers
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  to be lawyers.
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  You can focus on client contact.
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  You can focus on your organizational strategy.
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  Now, what we do at modern law ecosystem
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  is we're the back office for that.
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  Where do you think that lawyers get all
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  of their paperwork?
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  They don't sit and write all of that.
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  They have qualified paralegals.
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  And since the bar has taken my ability
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  to be a lawyer in the state of
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  Missouri, unless I lick somewhere where I'd prefer
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  not to lick, that's a personal story outside
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  of the modern law ecosystem.
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  But I'll never agree to do what they
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  want me to do.
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  That doesn't mean I don't have the know
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  -how and the knowledge.
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  And I have a team of people that
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  I'm working with.
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  We do work for other law firms.
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  We stay inside of the boundaries of what
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  lawyers...
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  Lawyers do all the lawyer work, right?
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  But when I was a lawyer, I had
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  a fantastic back staff.
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  And that made me able to focus on
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  the client and on the strategy and use
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  the brain that I paid $200,000 to
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  obtain and to do those things.
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  Well, I still have the brain.
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  I just don't have the ability in the
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  state of Missouri because of...
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  And you can go back and listen to
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  past shows of mine.
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  I'm not going to go on a rant
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  about that again today.
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  We certainly will, however, do that kind of
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  thing.
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  And I've already got a...
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  What do you call it?
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  A questionnaire, a request from the Office of
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  Chief Disciplinary Counsel.
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  I'm going to be quite vocal and open
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  about it.
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  And if they want to come and check
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  out the operation, they don't need to, but
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  I'm not...
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  The lawyers that we work for or that
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  purchase our products or our services, they control
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  the cases.
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  I and my team, we are the back
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  office.
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  And we do this for firms in different
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  parts of the country.
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  We have licensees in quite a few states,
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  and I'm looking for more.
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  So we attach them to our system.
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  Now, in order to get that...
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  Now, see, one of the things that is
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  interesting in the field of law right now,
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  I could give a lecture on it.
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  And I'm the managing director or president or
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  whatever you want to call it of the
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  modern law ecosystem.
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  And I have a media guy, media team,
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  actually, that the world is changing.
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  You don't practice law the way you used
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  to practice law.
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  Now, a lot of things are in Zoom.
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  I got to be a witness in a
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  case.
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  I got a call from somebody in another
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  state said, you participated in the administration of
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  this.
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  You sent some emails back and forth or
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  some communications to an insurance company.
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  And I've got to...
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  What do you call it?
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  Lay a foundation for these documents in court.
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  And I may need you to lay the
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  foundation for these documents in court, depending on
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  what the judge decides.
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  Can I speak with you about this?
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  Can you be available?
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  And can you either show up in this
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  other state or can you appear by Zoom?
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  And I was like, well, I can definitely
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  appear by Zoom.
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  And that is being done in courts across
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  the nation.
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  That court proceedings, they are now...
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  Most of the courtrooms have very nice, very
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  good court...
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  What do you call it?
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  TV court.
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  They have screens in there.
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  They have upgraded their systems to allow for
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  the appearance of a witness.
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  Sometimes even the lawyers are appearing.
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  COVID changed the world, okay?
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  And it changed the legal profession too.
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  Because it's much, much, much, much different.
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  I've been working into doing this in an
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  office in my home for several years now,
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  and always been a consultant for other people.
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  I still have the brain.
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  I just can't get the license.
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  And so I put together the strategies.
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  Well, my team puts together strategies for us.
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  And we can have a pretty good strategy
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  for you.
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  And the back part, and one of the
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  things that we have is an AI platform
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  that a lawyer can join our ecosystem.
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  And in reality, here's what a lawyer really
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  could do.
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  Work out of his house, go to court,
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  meet and call with clients in our offices
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  or in a local office, wherever he wants
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  to, that there's these...
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  When you go to bigger cities, they have
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  the small offices and you rent an office.
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  I've done this in quite a few places
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  in the world.
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  And you can go and get an office
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  and rent an office space.
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  I remember when I was doing my radio
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  show in Qatar.
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  Oh, no, no, no.
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  Where was I?
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  Oh, I was in Tatarstan.
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  I was in Tatarstan, Russia.
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  And I went to an office space, rented
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  an office for several hours for an afternoon.
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  And I did my radio show from an
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  office in Tatarstan in a quiet room that
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  I had rented.
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  And a lot of people are doing this.
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  This is how you expand.
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  This is the way the world is going.
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  And we are on top of this.
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  So if you're an attorney practicing law and
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  you wish to explore our services and what
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  we can provide for you, which is excellent
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  case management, excellent research and development of your
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  case.
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  Working with civic outlaws, the modern law ecosystem,
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  civic outlaws is our charity.
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  And civic outlaws, what we do is we
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  go and we attack government overreach.
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  And if you go to now, so the
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  modern ecosystem I've explained in that we can
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  provide whatever we will merge our operations to
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  fit seamlessly with massive technology ability and massive
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  ability to formulate cases into your structure, whatever
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  that structure is.
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  So if you go to our attorneys for
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  attorneys page, we have several things that we
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  provide.
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  The first one is what we call PAAS,
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  software as a service.
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  We call this paralegals as a service.
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  And you can have a paralegal as a
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  service.
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  Paralegal as a service is the core of
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  what we provide if you look at the
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  website.
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  We function as your on demand or what's
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  called fractional paralegal team.
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  We handle the work that consumes all the
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  time in your office but doesn't require a
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  courtroom presence, doesn't require you to be present
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  to talk to the clients.
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  We don't talk to the clients.
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  You do.
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  That's your job.
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  You know, we might do some, I don't
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  know what, phone if we do your front
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  office because that's another service.
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  If we do that, we could talk to
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  clients only for in many states.
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  Some states, I personally can't talk to them.
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  So I won't talk to the clients.
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  But I will if it's just a scheduling
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  or they're calling in to get a court
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  date, whatever, stuff like that.
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  But I don't talk to clients because some
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  states don't want to do it because you
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  know, it's a suspended license in the state
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  of Missouri for doing nothing, by the way.
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  And it should be restored anyway.
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  But I won't agree to what they want
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  me to agree to.
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  At least not yet.
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  I would if they said I could have
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  my license back.
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  But I won't do it on the hope
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  that I get my license back.
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  Screw that.
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  And civic outlaws is pretty, we're pretty brutal
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  in civic outlaws.
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  And I'm going to get to that too.
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  But if you go to our back office,
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  we have research as a service, RAAS, and
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  about paralegals as a service, PAAS.
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  And we have AI-assisted, human-reviewed quality
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  product for you to take.
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  We can do your back office and legal
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  support in your front office.
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  We can do the intake of massive amounts
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  of data.
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  Like I took a case file from an
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  attorney here recently and took that case file
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  with more than 5,000 pages of crap,
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  right?
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  And, you know, our system, and it's proprietary.
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  We have our own system.
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  We're developing the app that you can go
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  to Modern Law Ecosystem and download our app
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  to help you do case planning, case submission,
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  contact, everything that is part of the ecosystem
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  of law.
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  What do you call it?
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  Court reporters can report to us.
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  Chiropractors can join our system.
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  Doctors and expert witnesses can join the system
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  of the back office of any law firm.
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  Does that make, I mean, that is the
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  plan.
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  And so there's various pricing options.
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  So every law firm operates in a different
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  way.
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  And so we could operate, you know, you
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  operate within your own reality, whatever that happens
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  to be, court schedule, staffing constraints, technology preferences,
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  judicial rules of your circuit, you know, ethical
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  boundaries, most important, where you are comfortable in
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  your case.
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  So we adapt to your office structure, your
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  caseload, your pace and your practice style, whether
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  you need a back office support, a structured
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  research timeline, overflow assistance, you know, you just
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  have a big case and you need somebody
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  to help you put that together.
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  That's where we come in.
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  And we can take these massive amounts of
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  data and turn it into a case strategy
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  for you to review and use, you know,
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  as a lawyer to communicate with a client,
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  establish pathways, you know, we can set all
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  of that stuff up for you to have
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  the back office strategy for us.
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  So behind the platform, we have a network
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  of professionals that we're building that is around
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  that, like, imagine having a thousand paralegals all
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  working in different states, all part of the
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  ecosystem using a structure that we have built
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  and our app to, you know, get to
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  our system.
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  And that is still under development.
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  The system already exists in pieces.
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  And what we're doing is we're putting it
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  together in one for our app and to
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  make sure that, you know, your caseload, it's
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  pretty funny because there are a lot of
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  lawyers that are still working out of boxes
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  that are doing paper, handling massive amounts of
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  paper in their office.
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  This program would allow you to get out
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  of it.
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  So Modern Law is designed, we're the hub
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  of what you do.
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  If you have overflow, we absorb it.
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  You have capacity.
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  You can participate.
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  Like, you have extra time.
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  You participate in our ecosystem because we have
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  a very good advertising platform as well that
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  could be public facing.
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  It's not yet.
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  This is only for right now, just for
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  lawyers.
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  But we have a separate module that is
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  going to be your firm specific, okay?
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  And your firm specific, like a part of
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  the page, part of the ecosystem, you join
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  the ecosystem and you still get all the,
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  you know, qualified electronic media, all of these
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  things that we work.
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  AI is where we're developing this massive overhead
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  AI that will control all of these portions
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  here at the Modern Law ecosystem.
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  So one of the things we are working
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  on, one of the things that we did,
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  like I said, is this back office support.
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  We've been working and sending sunshine requests.
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  And so now I'm going to switch gears
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  and go a little bit to our Civic
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  Outlaws page.
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  And the Civic Outlaws are, we have decided
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  and created a large movement.
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  And we already have had quite a bit
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  of, how do I want to put this?
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  Outreach for our services that we are providing.
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  Sorry, you can tell that I'm typing, I
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  assume.
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  And I'm trying to get to where I
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  want to be.
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  And the civicoutlaws.com is a very, the
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  site is ready, okay?
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  And what Donald Trump has done for America,
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  we are joining in.
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  What he has done is he has made
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  it acceptable, let's call it, to attack the
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  bureaucracy.
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  And there's been movements before.
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  I'm not saying there aren't movements.
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  There have been.
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  And Civic Outlaws, we attack those sort of
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  things.
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  We talk about power and taking it back,
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  okay?
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  Taking the power that people do not have
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  as bureaucrats, statutorily, judicially, and executively.
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  All of these legislatures on the one hand,
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  everything that you think about when you talk
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  about civic approach to things is one of
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  the things that, and I'm not going to
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  talk too much about it today on our,
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  one of the focuses is the overreach of
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  government and what it has done.
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  I've talked about on this channel not too
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  long ago about some of these efforts.
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  And I'm going to repeat them because they
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  are ongoing efforts.
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  And if you go to civicoutlaws.com, you
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  can see about what we are saying on
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  our main page is Civic Outlaws, it's all
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  about power that people have taken and we
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  want to take it back.
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  And if you go to the, there's a
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  whistleblowers page, you go to the About Us,
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  you can become a civic warrior.
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  We're going to have, we have merchandise that
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  is being produced even now for you to
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  buy t-shirts, hats, all of that and
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  become a civic warrior.
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  There's a whistleblowers page, which you can talk
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  about whatever your issue is, speaking up about
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  fraud, corruption, government overreach.
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  There's a lot of pages that we're going
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  to associate with on our platforms and the
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  websites are ready.
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  We are ready.
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  We are what we refer to as coming
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  out of the closet.
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  We're coming out of the closet.
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  We've been doing this for several months anyway,
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  but now we are prepared.
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  Not that we weren't before, but our platform
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  is well into development and can be used
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  already for those who need to use it.
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  Civic Outlaws is the impetus behind all of
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  that.
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  So, Civic Outlaws goes out and does, for
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  example, attacking, well, let's, why don't we use
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  one that's right here.
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  So, who should use the form?
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  The form for our whistleblowers is for anybody
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  who has direct knowledge or serious concerns about
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  wrongdoing tied to government agencies or regulatory bodies,
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  law enforcement or oversight of law enforcement, business
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  or organizations being targeted by overreach, contractors, vendors
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  or partners involved in governmental work.
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  Now, it's also huge organizations.
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  One of the other things we're doing is
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  HOAs and what the HOAs are doing.
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  I mean, it's nonsense.
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  Since COVID, it's pretty funny.
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  The rates of these HOAs making multi, they're
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  making huge amounts of money and providing very
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  little service to people and the people who
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  are directing it, you know.
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  And I'm not saying that all HOAs are
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  bad.
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  That's not the point.
• 21:42
  And I'm not saying that all government agencies
• 21:44
  are bad.
• 21:45
  That is also not the point.
• 21:46
  But there are bad actors and we want
• 21:50
  to go after the bad actors, okay?
• 21:52
  There are people that are, and you know
• 21:54
  what?
• 21:54
  Sometimes it's an educational and an outreach portion
• 21:58
  that they don't realize what they're doing and
• 22:02
  they can repair these things, you know.
• 22:06
  A lot of bureaucrats don't remember 10th grade
• 22:09
  in civics class and we're a civics organization,
• 22:14
  civic outlaws, because we go after those people
• 22:18
  who don't remember their 10th grade, their 10th
• 22:22
  grade civics lessons, right?
• 22:24
  The world or the government has three separate
• 22:27
  functions everywhere, okay?
• 22:30
  But they, you know, they overreach in these
• 22:34
  spaces.
• 22:35
  So a quick lesson in civics and when
• 22:39
  it pertains to legal structures and government overreach
• 22:43
  and where we go after the bureaucrat who's
• 22:48
  a lifelong long pursuit of power, we keep
• 22:53
  them in check and try to stop them
• 22:59
  from the massive overreach that sometimes occurs, or
• 23:03
  at least to get them to think about
• 23:05
  it or to fight about it.
• 23:07
  Now, legislatures, for the lesson, legislatures make the
• 23:12
  laws.
• 23:13
  Here's what we want as a law.
• 23:15
  They are the ones that are elected.
• 23:17
  They are elected by us, sometimes foolishly, and
• 23:22
  one of the very little things I love
• 23:25
  about the organization of politics and government in
• 23:31
  Missouri is that they have term limits, okay?
• 23:36
  You might not like it, but it is
• 23:39
  extremely effective.
• 23:41
  Why?
• 23:42
  Because they can't be in office for life.
• 23:46
  The problem is, is people get into these
• 23:49
  spots and they stay there for life, okay?
• 23:53
  The same thing happened.
• 23:55
  Now, that's the legislature.
• 23:56
  And so we have very good, we have
• 23:58
  term limits.
• 23:58
  Nobody ever complains about the term limits that
• 24:01
  appear in the executive branch.
• 24:04
  You know, you can't be governor for life,
• 24:06
  you know.
• 24:07
  Most states have a term limit, two terms,
• 24:10
  something like that, then just like the president,
• 24:12
  and then get out.
• 24:13
  Then the president, you know, people have been
• 24:15
  talking about the president.
• 24:16
  Well, this is all civics class, people.
• 24:18
  This is all civics class.
• 24:20
  And what we are talking about is the
• 24:22
  executive being limited.
• 24:24
  We know they're limited.
• 24:25
  They are limited by a term, and that
• 24:28
  term is here, okay?
• 24:30
  The legislature, at least in Missouri, is also
• 24:33
  limited by a term.
• 24:36
  And, you know, you can be, I forget
• 24:38
  the exact numbers, but I want to say
• 24:40
  you can have five two-year terms as
• 24:45
  a rep, and I don't know how many
• 24:46
  as a senator, two, however many years, I
• 24:49
  don't even know, or can't remember.
• 24:52
  I don't want to misstate it.
• 24:53
  And I'm not looking at notes for that.
• 24:55
  I'm just winging this, right?
• 24:58
  But you need to understand the way we
• 25:02
  think at civic outlaws, okay?
• 25:04
  So the term limits are there for the
• 25:06
  executive branch.
• 25:07
  The term limits are there for the statutory
• 25:12
  people in the legislature, right?
• 25:14
  So the statutes are created by those guys
• 25:17
  that we elected.
• 25:19
  They're approved by the executive that we elected,
• 25:23
  okay?
• 25:24
  And one of my biggest beefs in life
• 25:26
  and about everything is the judicial branch, branch
• 25:30
  three of government, okay?
• 25:33
  That judicial branch, now judges are limited.
• 25:36
  Local judges are limited to a term.
• 25:38
  A lot of judges are limited to a
• 25:40
  term.
• 25:40
  And you're going to be here for so
• 25:42
  many years, whatever.
• 25:43
  And then they get into those offices of
• 25:46
  power.
• 25:47
  And they are generally term limited.
• 25:50
  You're not.
• 25:51
  You're appointed for life, which is BS in
• 25:54
  my opinion.
• 25:55
  You're appointed for life in the federal structure,
• 25:58
  nonsense.
• 25:59
  And a lot of those guys, you stay
• 26:01
  in that seat of power for so long,
• 26:04
  trust me, they suck it up.
• 26:06
  And they tell you in civics class that
• 26:08
  the reason behind that is that, well, we
• 26:13
  want to have a stabilizing force that interprets
• 26:18
  the law and tells what it is to
• 26:20
  interpret the constitution, okay?
• 26:22
  And I disagree and think that a massive
• 26:25
  focus of what the world needs to do
• 26:28
  is have a look at the judicial branch
• 26:30
  everywhere.
• 26:32
  And there needs to be some form of
• 26:34
  judicial, what would we call it?
• 26:38
  Some form of rebuilding the judicial branches of
• 26:45
  government.
• 26:45
  People have talked about it for a long
• 26:47
  time.
• 26:48
  And the judicial branch is the only lawless
• 26:51
  branch.
• 26:53
  They create rules.
• 26:54
  There's no election.
• 26:55
  There ain't no election for the senior power
• 26:59
  in the judicial branch.
• 27:02
  And there is zero public influence in Missouri
• 27:07
  in the judicial branch, zip.
• 27:11
  And this is where the power resides in
• 27:15
  the state of Missouri.
• 27:16
  But all those guys, as I've said before,
• 27:19
  they got to kiss ass to get to
• 27:20
  those positions.
• 27:21
  They got to politic to get to those
• 27:24
  positions or know the right people to get
• 27:27
  into there.
• 27:28
  And I've talked many, many times about what
• 27:32
  we call in Missouri the nonpartisan.
• 27:36
  Oh, yeah.
• 27:36
  It's nonpartisan, all right?
• 27:39
  Because it's controlled by one organization which has
• 27:43
  zero oversight.
• 27:45
  And that's the Missouri Bar.
• 27:47
  So you want to talk about the ultimate
• 27:49
  corrupt bureaucrats, look right there, okay?
• 27:52
  And I'm not saying they're all corrupt, not
• 27:55
  remotely.
• 27:55
  I'm saying the system has been corrupted.
• 27:58
  That is what I'm saying.
• 28:00
  And the system is certainly, there's zero, what
• 28:05
  do you call it?
• 28:06
  And I mean truly zero public overreach, zero
• 28:10
  public influence on the judicial branch at all.
• 28:15
  Well, there's some judges in some counties that
• 28:18
  are still being elected by vote.
• 28:19
  And I'm okay with that.
• 28:21
  There's time limits in some of those.
• 28:22
  And I'm okay.
• 28:23
  I'm talking about the bigger structures, appellate courts,
• 28:26
  the other courts, those the public has zip,
• 28:29
  no influence on.
• 28:30
  That is controlled by the power of the
• 28:33
  Missouri Bar, okay?
• 28:34
  The biggest bureaucracy that is untouchable in the
• 28:37
  state of Missouri, okay?
• 28:38
  And in many other states.
• 28:39
  I don't mean to focus just on Missouri.
• 28:42
  And so if you look at the way
• 28:44
  that the judicial branch is formed in Missouri,
• 28:48
  especially, well, other states too.
• 28:51
  But on Missouri, I'm nearly an expert and
• 28:54
  can talk reasonably about this.
• 28:55
  And people will disagree with me.
• 28:57
  I'm fine with that.
• 28:58
  And I'm fine with other points of view.
• 29:01
  In fact, if somebody would like to come
• 29:03
  on and discuss structure, constitutional structure of these
• 29:09
  and why it works the way it is.
• 29:11
  See, because nobody ever questions these things.
• 29:13
  Nobody.
• 29:14
  And bureaucracy.
• 29:16
  So I've outlined to you the major and
• 29:19
  generally the major upper portions, the legislature itself,
• 29:23
  senate and representatives, especially in Missouri with the
• 29:27
  term limits, the executive branch term limited.
• 29:30
  Those two, I talk about the power and
• 29:33
  how the power should work.
• 29:35
  And the power most of the time does
• 29:38
  work, okay?
• 29:38
  But there's influencers.
• 29:40
  And if you in Missouri had what we
• 29:42
  have, the idiocy that we have in Washington,
• 29:45
  D.C., which we also attack through Freedom
• 29:47
  of Information Act, through Sunshine Request and stuff
• 29:50
  like that, is the branches themselves, you know,
• 29:55
  they understand their power.
• 29:57
  But those, especially on the federal level, are
• 29:59
  completely untouchable.
• 30:01
  The judicial branch on the federal level, absolutely
• 30:03
  untouchable.
• 30:05
  There is nothing you can do to them.
• 30:07
  There is a zip.
• 30:09
  There's been tiny little impeachment actions, but even
• 30:13
  that, who knows whether anybody can really enforce
• 30:16
  them.
• 30:17
  Like, you know, impeachment.
• 30:19
  Everybody's, all our presidents have been impeached.
• 30:22
  Everybody wants to use that power.
• 30:23
  Doesn't mean crap.
• 30:24
  Because impeachment doesn't mean anybody leaves office.
• 30:27
  It doesn't mean you've done anything.
• 30:29
  All it is is a political game to
• 30:31
  distract the public from whatever else, because there's
• 30:33
  zero, there's zero effect to an impeachment.
• 30:38
  So what?
• 30:39
  People get impeached.
• 30:40
  Yeah.
• 30:41
  And, you know, you have these conferences that
• 30:43
  go on for months and months.
• 30:44
  What does it do to them?
• 30:46
  Nothing.
• 30:47
  Points out to the public that, oh, this
• 30:48
  might be a bad guy.
• 30:50
  That's it.
• 30:51
  I could do that.
• 30:53
  You know, send me a paper.
• 30:54
  I'll say somebody's a bad guy for you.
• 30:56
  But impeaching them, nothing happens.
• 30:58
  Yeah, they're impeached.
• 30:59
  The public gets to know that they have
• 31:00
  it.
• 31:01
  But nobody removes them from office.
• 31:02
  It's extremely rare.
• 31:04
  Well, it hasn't, you know, hasn't happened.
• 31:06
  And well, of course, I'm talking, you know,
• 31:11
  huge macro issues, micro, we can discuss specific
• 31:15
  cases as they come up.
• 31:16
  And I don't want this to be a
• 31:18
  complaint.
• 31:18
  This is very, very positive, because what we
• 31:21
  want to do is attack bureaucracy at all
• 31:26
  three levels.
• 31:28
  At the executive branch level, they have the
• 31:33
  power over all bureaucrats in the executive branch
• 31:40
  of government.
• 31:41
  Legislature, no, you don't talk much about them
• 31:44
  and their interns and, you know, the little
• 31:46
  girls they hire in the summer to look
• 31:50
  pretty in the halls.
• 31:51
  And, you know, they want to be involved
• 31:53
  in that, young men and everything, that want
• 31:55
  to be politicians.
• 31:56
  That's how the internships work.
• 31:58
  That's how you go and work for people
• 32:01
  there.
• 32:01
  And they have staffs, too.
• 32:02
  And so the legislative branch has plenty of
• 32:05
  staffing and plenty of bureaucrats.
• 32:07
  But there, the public has a little bit
• 32:09
  of influence.
• 32:10
  So you don't really go after legislative staffers
• 32:12
  who've been there forever, you know, and maybe
• 32:15
  they'll work for this legislator and then they
• 32:18
  stay and work for the next legislator when
• 32:20
  the teams come in.
• 32:22
  There's various rules regarding that and how that
• 32:25
  works.
• 32:25
  On the executive branch, the executive changes every
• 32:30
  four, six years, whatever, depending on which state,
• 32:34
  which office they're holding, governor, president, blah, blah,
• 32:37
  blah.
• 32:37
  But the bureaucrats never change.
• 32:42
  The bureaucrats are there for life.
• 32:44
  They take the, you know, the directors of
• 32:46
  these places are influenced by which new governor
• 32:50
  comes in, but sometimes even they aren't switched.
• 32:53
  Okay.
• 32:53
  So the governor who we have elected is
• 32:56
  supposed to control some of the bureaucracy down
• 32:59
  below with the help of the huge executive
• 33:01
  branch, of government.
• 33:03
  And there's, but the big time bureaucrats that
• 33:06
  have been holding positions in various agencies forever,
• 33:10
  then they have been there forever.
• 33:12
  That's real power.
• 33:15
  Just know, and legislative staffers, they, I believe
• 33:18
  that they are mostly directed by, you know,
• 33:20
  the legislature and they're doing the work of
• 33:22
  the legislature and creating the statutes.
• 33:25
  Okay.
• 33:25
  So somewhere in the line of all of
• 33:28
  this, the legislature creates the law.
• 33:30
  The governor imposes the law by putting his
• 33:33
  signature on it.
• 33:34
  It takes effect on whatever day.
• 33:35
  And, and the bureaucrats below are supposed to
• 33:39
  interpret the law.
• 33:40
  Okay.
• 33:41
  And everybody knows this, you know, but I'm,
• 33:43
  I'm just giving you a little bit of
• 33:45
  a class.
• 33:45
  Everybody knows this.
• 33:46
  If you've ever gone to civics class, or
• 33:48
  if you remember it, if you don't listen
• 33:49
  to me, because I go over this probably
• 33:52
  once a quarter, you know, explain what I
• 33:56
  am complaining about and what my big bitches
• 33:58
  are about the whole thing.
• 34:00
  And so we attack those sorts of bureaucrats.
• 34:04
  If you go out to civic outlaws, you
• 34:05
  can see that our whistleblower page has become
• 34:10
  a whistleblower.
• 34:11
  Speak up about fraud, corruption, government overreach, primarily.
• 34:16
  Perhaps we should switch the order of those
• 34:19
  and speak up about government overreach, because that
• 34:21
  is the core of what civic outlaws does,
• 34:27
  right?
• 34:27
  Is we attack the core.
• 34:28
  We have tell you what we've become experts
• 34:32
  on submitting and getting back documents and examining
• 34:36
  those documents through the modern law ecosystem, which,
• 34:40
  which I'm also part of.
• 34:41
  And so civic outlaws is the ones who
• 34:43
  it's our charity 501 C3, and we're looking
• 34:47
  for people to become a part of it,
• 34:49
  become a civic warrior.
• 34:51
  And we have some cool merch, you know,
• 34:53
  that we've been building, and we're going to
• 34:56
  have a merch page before too long, and
• 34:58
  there's plenty of contact in there.
• 35:00
  So if you've got a government overreach issue,
• 35:02
  you need to reach out to us and
• 35:05
  become a whistleblower.
• 35:07
  We have several acts that we are engaging
• 35:12
  in right now.
• 35:14
  You know, who, what can you report regulatory
• 35:16
  overreach report agencies enforcing beyond what the law
• 35:21
  gives them the power to do and abuses
• 35:26
  of that power, selective or retaliatory enforcement against
• 35:30
  certain people or businesses.
• 35:31
  If you know my history, when I was
• 35:34
  practicing law, one of the big cases that
• 35:37
  I handled was a corrupt cop in in
• 35:39
  the Mustang drug task force up in up
• 35:45
  in Jefferson city.
• 35:48
  And that case was probably what got me
• 35:51
  my huge focus on corruption everywhere.
• 35:59
  Just because they're a police officer doesn't mean
• 36:03
  that you can trust them.
• 36:06
  Now, let's say that again.
• 36:08
  Just because they're a police officer doesn't mean
• 36:11
  that you can trust them.
• 36:12
  Does this mean that I hate police officers?
• 36:16
  Absolutely not.
• 36:18
  I appreciate what they engage to do.
• 36:20
  I respect and honor what they have to
• 36:23
  do because sometimes they're put in danger and
• 36:27
  they are in danger.
• 36:29
  I don't like militarization.
• 36:32
  Massive.
• 36:33
  Everybody's a SWAT officer there.
• 36:35
  Everybody's wearing bulletproof vests everywhere they go.
• 36:38
  I'm, I'm, I'm against that.
• 36:40
  That may be a reality of the world,
• 36:42
  but I'm totally against it.
• 36:43
  You know, back in the, back when I
• 36:45
  was talking about it, there were, there were,
• 36:47
  uh, police stations, police departments putting tanks in
• 36:53
  front of there was 10 drove by a
• 36:55
  police station.
• 36:55
  I wish I could remember where it was
• 36:57
  and out front, they had been donated a
• 36:59
  tank and personnel carriers.
• 37:01
  I took, I took a case one time
• 37:03
  where a guy got shot and he had
• 37:05
  like 80 holes in his truck in, uh,
• 37:08
  uh, Kansas city got, got, got followed by,
• 37:14
  I swear to God, 20, some 24, 23,
• 37:16
  some huge ungodly number of police vehicles, including
• 37:22
  a Bradley personnel carrier on a flatbed truck
• 37:29
  that they hauled along and put in there.
• 37:32
  And, and, and that was chasing the guy
• 37:34
  too.
• 37:35
  And he was, he led a slow, what
• 37:38
  are the, you know, uh, uh, what do
• 37:40
  you, what was his name?
• 37:41
  OJ Simpson type slow chase through, uh, I
• 37:45
  wish I had a video of this idiocy
• 37:48
  that I read from the paperwork.
• 37:50
  This poor guy got killed by cops.
• 37:53
  He got shot bullet holes in his truck.
• 37:55
  There were so many and people don't know
• 37:58
  the stories of these types of things in
• 38:01
  talk about government overreach, talk about cops being
• 38:04
  untrained.
• 38:06
  If they got, you know, do you need
• 38:08
  a Bradley fighting vehicle being hauled behind someone
• 38:11
  with a 50 caliber machine gun mounted on
• 38:14
  top?
• 38:15
  Or maybe it was a smaller caliber machine
• 38:17
  gun, but there was a gun mount on
• 38:19
  the top and it shot this guy with
• 38:21
  a burst around as did several other police
• 38:26
  in Kansas city.
• 38:27
  It's a bullshit story.
• 38:29
  Pardon my French, but that never should have
• 38:31
  happened.
• 38:32
  That guy shouldn't be dead.
• 38:34
  However, I'm not saying that the police didn't
• 38:37
  necessarily on the ground at the time, an
• 38:40
  individual police officer that each one of them
• 38:45
  did at did acted inappropriately.
• 38:48
  Some of them did absolutely.
• 38:49
  Am I attacking all of them?
• 38:52
  No, all of these shots were fired by,
• 38:55
  uh, you know, there's 28 or 29 police
• 38:57
  officers present and only four or five of
• 39:01
  them opened fire and killed this guy and
• 39:05
  made Swiss cheese out of his truck.
• 39:08
  And, uh, that story is, uh, 2011, something
• 39:14
  like that story.
• 39:15
  I didn't take it.
• 39:17
  I referred him to another, another person, but
• 39:19
  the story itself is crap.
• 39:22
  You know what happened to that kid?
• 39:24
  Never ever in a million years should have
• 39:27
  happened.
• 39:28
  You know, he's, uh, uh, a slow drive
• 39:31
  through the streets of Kansas city at two
• 39:34
  o'clock in the morning while crying and
• 39:36
  talking to, to whoever he is talking to
• 39:38
  on the telephone and getting blown away when
• 39:42
  he steps out of the vehicle.
• 39:44
  Of course, you know, he stupidly had a,
• 39:47
  had a, uh, uh, weapon in his hand.
• 39:50
  And I'm not saying that maybe he, the,
• 39:52
  the one officer shouldn't have shot him.
• 39:54
  I'm talking about the global part of that,
• 39:57
  that needs to be it trained instilled some
• 40:01
  or one of those officers, uh, the five
• 40:05
  who shot especially or whatever number it was,
• 40:09
  they should have, they should be examined.
• 40:11
  Those are the type of cases that we
• 40:13
  want to review and set up and refer
• 40:15
  out to fantastic attorneys that are part of
• 40:19
  our ecosystem.
• 40:21
  And to the civic outlaws will do the
• 40:24
  intake modern law ecosystem finds the structure.
• 40:28
  If you've got a, and I don't want
• 40:30
  to go too much back to modern law
• 40:31
  ecosystem, but the collection of information is a
• 40:38
  very big part of what we do.
• 40:41
  Forcing the issues of through sunshine law through
• 40:45
  freedom of information requests.
• 40:47
  I, I am an expert.
• 40:50
  I'm creating other experts.
• 40:52
  I'm seeking other experts to assist in this
• 40:57
  charity called civic outlaws, where we go after
• 41:01
  this type of thing.
• 41:03
  And, you know, I, I've got several examples.
• 41:06
  Hell, I've been talking for, for, uh, you
• 41:08
  know, 40 minutes on this right now.
• 41:10
  Um, but, but these are important, important issues.
• 41:14
  My request to you today is to, uh,
• 41:17
  check out the, uh, civic outlaws website for
• 41:23
  sure.
• 41:24
  Check out the modern law ecosystem website for
• 41:28
  sure.
• 41:28
  If you're attorney associate with us, if you're
• 41:32
  a, uh, a person affected by overreach of
• 41:35
  government, let us know, we can help and
• 41:40
  we can go after these guys.
• 41:41
  One of the, we have several, uh, things
• 41:43
  that we're talking about, and I'm not an
• 41:45
  expert on the civic outlaws site yet, but
• 41:48
  if you go to the civic outlaws and
• 41:52
  talk about our commitment and we're, you know,
• 41:54
  we're trying to defend freedom, legal direction, public
• 41:58
  advocacy, when government overreach agents, you know, whenever
• 42:02
  government agencies overreach, we go after them.
• 42:07
  Uh, individuals are left confused, isolated, overwhelmed, and
• 42:11
  we have a growing network of existence of,
• 42:14
  uh, resistance.
• 42:16
  It's getting huge friends and neighbors.
• 42:18
  We have some lobbyists that we've been working
• 42:20
  with and some, some other things.
• 42:21
  So this is, this is going to be
• 42:23
  big.
• 42:23
  And it already is in fact, and we've
• 42:25
  got several attacks ongoing even now.
• 42:29
  And, uh, you know, we're talking about, for
• 42:32
  example, Missouri alcohol, tobacco control, ATC, that has
• 42:38
  been huge.
• 42:39
  And we have found out all kinds of
• 42:42
  stuff.
• 42:42
  We're after flock surveillance cameras.
• 42:45
  Remember what I went through last year with
• 42:47
  all the BS and, uh, you know, to
• 42:50
  shut him up, they, they attacked him.
• 42:53
  I think that whole process needs to be
• 42:55
  reviewed.
• 42:56
  Frankly, I think he should sue the assholes
• 42:58
  and I, for what they did to him.
• 43:00
  But so, you know, getting rid of the
• 43:02
  problem is another approach.
• 43:04
  I'm not against the approach that he decided
• 43:06
  to take on that.
• 43:07
  It's an individual approach.
• 43:09
  He had to do it.
• 43:10
  You know, I mean, geez, who's, who's gonna
• 43:13
  lose when they come after you?
• 43:16
  They, they come after people, you know, I
• 43:17
  expect they'll come after me, you know, because
• 43:20
  they always do.
• 43:21
  And, uh, but let's talk about HOA abuse,
• 43:24
  regulatory overreach.
• 43:25
  Talk about that.
• 43:27
  Timeshares, deception and buying and consumer entrapment on
• 43:30
  those.
• 43:31
  Gaming machines in Missouri.
• 43:34
  These are not all abstract issues.
• 43:36
  These are happening now to real people, real
• 43:39
  companies.
• 43:40
  We can help.
• 43:41
  Okay.
• 43:41
  And, uh, through civic outlaws, heck become us.
• 43:44
  We call it becoming a civic warrior, go
• 43:47
  to civic outlaws, check it out.
• 43:50
  Info at civic outlaws.com is where, uh,
• 43:54
  the information comes from.
• 43:56
  We have a, a modern law ecosystem.
• 44:00
  My, you can get me specifically my email
• 44:03
  address, Samuel T at modern law, ecosystem.com
• 44:08
  Samuel T at civic outlaws.com.
• 44:11
  And as always Samuel T at international flavor
• 44:14
  .com.
• 44:15
  And so that's how you can get ahold
• 44:18
  of me.
• 44:18
  If you want to talk about any of
• 44:19
  these things, government overreach, I'm going to start
• 44:22
  talking a little bit about local issues and
• 44:24
  specifics here on the channel too, and interviewing
• 44:27
  people who've been affected by overreach from, excuse
• 44:33
  me, from time to time.
• 44:34
  I don't want to make coffee today.
• 44:35
  A little, uh, was on a little bit
• 44:38
  of a rush to get here and almost
• 44:41
  didn't make it in time for my show,
• 44:43
  in order to talk about this.
• 44:44
  So I think that my main pitch, and
• 44:47
  I've talked about this too long this morning.
• 44:49
  I didn't want to go that far, but
• 44:50
  here we are.
• 44:52
  I wanted to get to some of the
• 44:55
  other topics we discussed.
• 44:56
  So assume the first half of the show
• 44:59
  was all about our new platforms, modern law,
• 45:03
  ecosystem, and civic outlaws.com become a civic
• 45:08
  warrior with us fight against this corruption, get
• 45:12
  some of our merchants, start wearing it.
• 45:15
  We are coming.
• 45:17
  We're coming bureaucrats and we're going to attack
• 45:21
  the overreach.
• 45:22
  Now I did quite a bit.
• 45:26
  There's the big news.
• 45:29
  Now I'm going to switch back to the
• 45:30
  international topics that I love so much and
• 45:32
  talk about on this show pretty frequently is
• 45:37
  the talks about peace.
• 45:42
  Okay.
• 45:43
  It's not going well.
• 45:46
  The, and I never thought it would, you
• 45:49
  know, Kremlin is talking about why they postponed
• 45:52
  the Russia, Ukraine, uh, us talks.
• 45:55
  They had been planned for Sunday, but they
• 45:58
  were moved because of scheduling issues.
• 46:01
  Uh, the second round of trilateral talks between
• 46:05
  Russia, Ukraine, United States are going to take
• 46:09
  place in Abu Dhabi later this week, but
• 46:12
  not yesterday, Sunday.
• 46:13
  Um, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's press secretary, he
• 46:18
  said scheduling issue is the reason for postponement
• 46:21
  that had been planned for Sunday.
• 46:23
  Vladimir Zelensky said on Sunday that the meeting
• 46:26
  in the, uh, uh, United Arab Emirates had
• 46:30
  been rescheduled for February four and five.
• 46:33
  Peskov told journalists, there's been a lot of
• 46:35
  talk to, uh, what do you call it?
• 46:38
  Sergey Lavrov gave another interview over the weekend
• 46:42
  too, which I, I have bits and pieces
• 46:45
  of to share with you.
• 46:48
  Um, but Peskov said the negotiations in Abu
• 46:51
  Dhabi had been really planned for this past
• 46:54
  Sunday yesterday, but additional coordination of the schedules
• 46:57
  of the three parties was required.
• 46:59
  And the second round will be held on
• 47:02
  Wednesday and Thursday.
• 47:03
  And he confirmed that that's what's happening.
• 47:05
  So hopefully something will happen.
• 47:07
  I don't think anything's going to move.
• 47:09
  Nothing came out of the first round.
• 47:11
  The Russians are still advancing on the Eastern
• 47:13
  fronts of Ukraine and Ukraine is still in
• 47:16
  a blackout and that's important.
• 47:20
  Uh, Ukraine is, uh, it's frigging cold over
• 47:23
  there.
• 47:23
  You think it's cold here, go there and
• 47:27
  do it with no power, right?
• 47:28
  I'm sure people are tearing down fences outside
• 47:31
  of their homes and burning them in a
• 47:34
  pile in the middle of the house or
• 47:36
  doing something to try to stay warm, you
• 47:39
  know, 20 pair of socks or something.
• 47:40
  Who knows?
• 47:41
  I don't like being cold in my home.
• 47:45
  I don't like it.
• 47:47
  And, uh, you know, I, I enjoy winter
• 47:49
  sometimes, but, uh, for the most part, not
• 47:52
  really, but the negotiations are reset.
• 47:55
  Um, the initial rounds were held on January
• 47:58
  23 and 24.
• 47:59
  That was the first time that read that
• 48:01
  Moscow, Kiev and Washington sat down together, you
• 48:05
  know, both sides, Russia and America, Russia.
• 48:09
  Well, really it is Russia and American interests,
• 48:12
  you know, that have been, that have been
• 48:14
  pushing Ukraine.
• 48:15
  Certainly they aren't being pushed on behalf of
• 48:18
  Ukraine.
• 48:19
  This is robbery of resources on the grand
• 48:22
  level.
• 48:22
  This is government overreach using the militaries of
• 48:25
  another country to do what you want to
• 48:27
  talk about that sort of propaganda from both
• 48:30
  sides all of the time.
• 48:32
  So, um, you know, it's the first time
• 48:36
  they all three met at first time and
• 48:39
  more importantly, screw us at least in this
• 48:42
  regard, but Moscow and Kiev sitting down together,
• 48:45
  they can't do it without a referee, you
• 48:48
  know, because Zelensky is an idiot.
• 48:50
  Putin's, uh, uh, knows what he wants and
• 48:52
  he's not going to deviate.
• 48:54
  And, uh, and he's been saying it forever.
• 48:57
  This is what we want.
• 48:58
  This is what we're going to take.
• 48:59
  They need to capitulate in Ukraine and say,
• 49:02
  by the way, here's Zaporozhye, here's Kherson, here's
• 49:06
  the Donbass Lugansk and Donetsk.
• 49:09
  Here you go.
• 49:10
  If you don't, if they're not careful, they're
• 49:12
  going to lose the Sumy region too.
• 49:14
  And, uh, uh, what's the other one?
• 49:16
  Um, the other one up in the North,
• 49:19
  I can't remember the name of, and if
• 49:20
  they're in, and if they're really idiots, eventually
• 49:23
  they're going to lose Odessa and Nikolaeva down
• 49:27
  in the South and be cut off from
• 49:28
  the black sea.
• 49:29
  And so it is absolutely foolish.
• 49:33
  I mean, those are real reality.
• 49:35
  Okay.
• 49:36
  That's the reality of the world that if
• 49:39
  you don't give the Russians what they want,
• 49:41
  they will continue to fight.
• 49:44
  And by the way, I said that nobody
• 49:47
  ever gets what they want in this world,
• 49:48
  but Russia is going to force that issue
• 49:51
  because they are feel it is a, uh,
• 49:57
  what do you call it?
• 49:57
  A foundational structure of what happened to them.
• 50:01
  And they really did get screwed folks.
• 50:05
  They got screwed.
• 50:06
  Nobody talks about it over here.
• 50:08
  The West screwed them and treated them like
• 50:12
  wicked stepchildren.
• 50:14
  You know, that's exactly what happened over the
• 50:17
  last 30, 40 years.
• 50:19
  Russia finally said, screw that.
• 50:21
  Stop it.
• 50:22
  Why are you destroying things that you said
• 50:24
  you wouldn't destroy?
• 50:26
  And I'm not saying that they've always, you
• 50:28
  know, that everything is on the toe, that
• 50:30
  they're a hundred percent.
• 50:31
  Everything is there.
• 50:32
  They're, they got their own forms of overreach,
• 50:35
  but the foundation, what they call the root
• 50:38
  causes of the conflict have never been addressed.
• 50:45
  Never.
• 50:46
  It was close when they had a deal
• 50:49
  in two months in April of 2022, they
• 50:53
  were close, very close.
• 50:55
  The war could have been avoided.
• 50:57
  And then it only had two months.
• 50:59
  Russia came in with a massive pile of
• 51:01
  people and took over spices.
• 51:03
  They voluntarily retreated to, to, to pull back
• 51:08
  after Boris Johnson.
• 51:10
  Well, after Ukraine said, here's what we're going
• 51:13
  to do.
• 51:14
  They did the cease fire and backed off
• 51:17
  and had talks and did that in 2022
• 51:21
  in April saying, okay, now here's, what's going
• 51:25
  to happen.
• 51:26
  Here's what could happen to you.
• 51:27
  We're not against that.
• 51:28
  All we want you to do is listen
• 51:30
  to us and address these root causes, which
• 51:33
  they never did.
• 51:34
  They still haven't.
• 51:36
  Zelensky is still living in a dream world
• 51:38
  where he's, he's in this dream world that
• 51:41
  he's going to get back the things that
• 51:43
  Russia took because they wouldn't listen.
• 51:46
  And he's a poor leader that, you know,
• 51:48
  all he is, is a wartime hack for
• 51:51
  the, for the West, for give me money,
• 51:53
  give me money, give me money, corruption, corruption,
• 51:56
  corruption, corruption, everywhere in Ukraine backed by Western
• 52:02
  money, fighting for democracy that doesn't exist in
• 52:08
  Ukraine.
• 52:09
  Okay.
• 52:10
  That is the reality that we are talking
• 52:12
  about.
• 52:12
  That is why Russia and Ukraine need to
• 52:16
  sit down together.
• 52:17
  And there needs to be a change in
• 52:20
  the thought process, which may be what the
• 52:23
  United States is bringing through Rubio and whoever
• 52:27
  else, you know, Whitkoff on the, on the
• 52:29
  team that goes over and tries to reason
• 52:33
  with Zelensky that, by the way, you're not
• 52:36
  getting back the Donbass.
• 52:39
  You're not getting back Lugansk.
• 52:41
  Crimea is ancient history that is gone.
• 52:46
  You don't get to go back to the
• 52:48
  borders of 1991 Zelensky because you cocked that
• 52:53
  up as a country by following Western warmongering
• 52:58
  a-holes who wanted to create in Ukraine,
• 53:01
  a million man army that sucked into the
• 53:05
  NATO forces and become the largest force, kind
• 53:10
  of like another Poland.
• 53:11
  Okay.
• 53:12
  Poland is now full of American military.
• 53:16
  Never existed when I was in the military,
• 53:18
  we stopped at like the Fulda Gap and
• 53:20
  in Berlin, you know, and when it was
• 53:22
  a split country and, and I got orders
• 53:24
  to go over there when I was in
• 53:26
  the military to be stationed in where the
• 53:30
  Fulda Gap is, I forget the states.
• 53:33
  I turned those orders down and went instead
• 53:35
  to Fort Hood because it would have required
• 53:39
  me to add a couple of years.
• 53:40
  Foolish.
• 53:41
  Looking back on it, hindsight, but that's what
• 53:43
  happened.
• 53:44
  Anyway, I don't know why I'm talking about
• 53:45
  that.
• 53:46
  Who really cares?
• 53:47
  Let's go back to what Moscow, Kiev, and
• 53:50
  Washington sitting down together for the first time
• 53:54
  since February 2022.
• 53:56
  And despite the meeting is having been described
• 53:59
  as constructive, everybody comes out and says, oh,
• 54:01
  geez, those talks were great.
• 54:03
  Not a fricking thing happened, right?
• 54:05
  It didn't produce any concrete agreement.
• 54:08
  U.S. Secretary Marco Rubio says territorial issues
• 54:12
  remain.
• 54:14
  Here's his quote.
• 54:15
  Here's genius statement of them all.
• 54:17
  A bridge we haven't crossed, meaning we didn't
• 54:20
  talk about it.
• 54:21
  And he added that there's active work going
• 54:25
  on to try and see if both sides'
• 54:29
  views on that can be reconciled.
• 54:32
  They cannot.
• 54:34
  They will not.
• 54:36
  If Ukraine doesn't capitulate on the Donbass, if
• 54:41
  they don't can pitch, capitulate on Donetsk and
• 54:44
  Lugansk, at least, and Crimea, for sure.
• 54:48
  And then probably Zaporozhye and Kherson.
• 54:53
  Is it Kherson?
• 54:54
  Kharkov?
• 54:55
  No, it's Kherson region down below, not the
• 54:57
  Kharkov region.
• 54:58
  Kharkov region is the one I couldn't remember,
• 54:59
  which is up to the north.
• 55:01
  And Sumy regions up there, states, we will
• 55:03
  call them those regions.
• 55:05
  So we're talking states.
• 55:08
  For American points of view, these are states,
• 55:11
  you know, the state of Donetsk, the state
• 55:14
  of Lugansk, all Russian, all the time.
• 55:17
  Everything east of the Dnepr River has been
• 55:20
  Russian for centuries.
• 55:23
  And trying to conflict or America, especially, being
• 55:28
  charged and involved in and in charge of
• 55:32
  wars that have been going on with these
• 55:35
  people that have been crammed together in Europe
• 55:37
  for centuries, it's wrong for us to be
• 55:41
  involved.
• 55:42
  It's also wrong for us to install American
• 55:45
  bases in Ukraine and in Poland, too, for
• 55:49
  that matter.
• 55:50
  We invited, of course, Byelorussia, which would be,
• 55:53
  you know, right next door, and Byelorussia said
• 55:55
  no.
• 55:56
  Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia are all extremely anti-Russian
• 55:59
  because for 1,500 years, they've been going
• 56:04
  back and forth with kingdoms of Prussia, kingdoms
• 56:08
  of, visited the castles of them recently on
• 56:12
  the border of Poland in Brest.
• 56:14
  And that's on the Russian, it's not even
• 56:16
  Russian anymore, Byelorussian side.
• 56:18
  But those places have been overrun for centuries,
• 56:21
  and we shouldn't be involved.
• 56:23
  And Russia is saying, you know, screw that.
• 56:26
  Donetsk, Lugansk, Russian, by the way, Crimea, Russian,
• 56:30
  the Sevastopol ports, Russian, all of these things
• 56:34
  have been there forever.
• 56:35
  I'm not to say Ukrainians haven't been there,
• 56:36
  too, but the bulk of it, and even
• 56:39
  all the Ukrainians spoke Russian until they quit,
• 56:42
  saying, oh, geez, the Russians are the bad
• 56:43
  guys, with the help of propaganda from the
• 56:46
  West, okay?
• 56:47
  So when you talk about these issues, they
• 56:50
  are not going to move.
• 56:53
  The only acceptable part would be capitulation by
• 56:57
  the Zelensky corrupt team, and corrupt, so much
• 57:04
  money has been stolen over there, it's not
• 57:06
  even funny.
• 57:07
  So Rubio says, it's territorial issues are a
• 57:12
  bridge we haven't crossed.
• 57:13
  They won't bring it up because they know
• 57:15
  that's what puts a harpoon in any sort
• 57:17
  of process for getting rid of it.
• 57:19
  There's active work going on to try and
• 57:22
  see if both sides' views can be reconciled.
• 57:25
  I know I repeat that, but those views
• 57:27
  will not be reconciled, okay?
• 57:30
  Lugansk, Donetsk, Crimea, at least, are all gone.
• 57:34
  The Zaporizhia power plant is probably one of
• 57:37
  the largest issues.
• 57:39
  That power plant's the largest nuclear power plant
• 57:42
  in Europe, okay?
• 57:44
  And it is huge, and it is being
• 57:47
  controlled by the Russians right now.
• 57:49
  I'll bet you anything that that is one
• 57:51
  of the key focuses of trying to get
• 57:53
  that plant back under Ukrainian control.
• 57:57
  I heard several other commenters speaking on that
• 58:00
  particular issue and where that is, but Russia's
• 58:03
  got it right now.
• 58:05
  And if Russia wanted to cut off power,
• 58:07
  and the IAEA's been in there, the nuclear
• 58:09
  threat reduction people have been in trying to
• 58:12
  keep that place somewhat safe from bombings from
• 58:16
  both sides, mostly Ukraine, that they'd prefer to
• 58:19
  blow it up than it go into Russian
• 58:21
  hands.
• 58:22
  And so Moscow insists that any settlement includes
• 58:27
  Ukraine's withdrawal from the Donbass, which, you know,
• 58:32
  we support referendums everywhere.
• 58:35
  If we're the U.S., we claim some
• 58:38
  referendum or real democracy somewhere like Serbia, which
• 58:42
  is BS, and then we go and enforce
• 58:45
  that because only we get determined when a
• 58:49
  referendum is really real or not.
• 58:53
  Moscow says there's a referendum in 2022, and
• 58:56
  that all these areas, recognition of that they
• 58:59
  need to, that Ukraine needs to recognize these
• 59:02
  new areas as Russian, including the Crimea.
• 59:07
  Zelensky has repeatedly, he's always said, under no
• 59:11
  circumstances will we agree to territorial concessions.
• 59:15
  So Russia's going to drive to the borders,
• 59:19
  and they may go further, because the same
• 59:24
  arguments exist in Nikolaev and Odessa, especially, okay?
• 59:29
  And the further east you go, the more
• 59:31
  Russian it gets.
• 59:32
  The further west you go, the more Polish
• 59:35
  it gets.
• 59:37
  Poland has the same issues, historically.
• 59:39
  Poland still makes claim to evolve on the
• 59:43
  left hand, on the left of Ukraine.
• 59:46
  The same issues going on for centuries, same
• 59:50
  freaking thing.
• 59:52
  Remember when Tucker Carlson went over and interviewed
• 59:54
  Putin?
• 59:55
  What did Putin talk about?
• 59:57
  Historic reasons for these fights, and nobody wanted
• 1:00:01
  to talk about that.
• 1:00:02
  All they want to talk about is today.
• 1:00:04
  Why can't the U.S. put bases 50,
• 1:00:07
  you know, 500 kilometers from Russia in Ukraine?
• 1:00:10
  Screw that, says Russia.
• 1:00:12
  That ain't happening.
• 1:00:14
  It'd be like us, you know, Russia coming
• 1:00:16
  in and saying, well, geez, Canada likes us
• 1:00:18
  more.
• 1:00:18
  What is Donald Trump complaining about China so
• 1:00:21
  much for?
• 1:00:22
  China and Canada, and the meetings between them,
• 1:00:26
  the improvements of their bases.
• 1:00:29
  Why?
• 1:00:29
  He don't want China on the borders of
• 1:00:31
  the United States.
• 1:00:33
  Now China doesn't do it militarily, but they
• 1:00:35
  do it economically.
• 1:00:38
  Russia has a cultural foundation for what they
• 1:00:42
  are doing.
• 1:00:42
  It's absolutely cultural.
• 1:00:45
  And geez, Zelensky didn't speak Ukrainian ever until
• 1:00:49
  he was running for office.
• 1:00:52
  A lot of them spoke it in their
• 1:00:54
  homes, but Russian is what the guy spoke.
• 1:00:56
  Everything you go see on his comedy shows,
• 1:00:59
  we're all Russian, all of it, all the
• 1:01:01
  time.
• 1:01:02
  And so there's a lot of, you know,
• 1:01:05
  little things that just are obvious, you know,
• 1:01:07
  that you look at and you go, what
• 1:01:08
  are these idiots fighting over from the Ukraine
• 1:01:12
  side?
• 1:01:12
  Well, territorial integrity?
• 1:01:15
  Yeah, that works for the U.S. We
• 1:01:18
  just took Venezuela and we're headed to Greenland.
• 1:01:21
  So Moscow says you got to talk about
• 1:01:24
  the referendums and the reality on the ground.
• 1:01:29
  Donbass regions voted to join Russia in 2022.
• 1:01:33
  Those referendums include recognition of this country's new
• 1:01:37
  borders, and Zelensky has to live with that.
• 1:01:40
  This includes the Crimea, which he's still bitching
• 1:01:43
  about.
• 1:01:44
  Zelensky repeatedly says no, no, no.
• 1:01:47
  And so these things are going to, you
• 1:01:51
  know, talks are going to fail unless they
• 1:01:54
  recognize those concessions.
• 1:01:56
  And that is the point of my rant.
• 1:01:59
  But while calling a diplomatic solution preferable, Russia
• 1:02:04
  says it's ready to achieve its goals through
• 1:02:07
  military means.
• 1:02:08
  So either make these basic agreements or we're
• 1:02:13
  going to continue to force the issue.
• 1:02:17
  And Ukraine is on its heels.
• 1:02:19
  They got nobody left.
• 1:02:21
  They got no power.
• 1:02:22
  They have no reserves.
• 1:02:23
  Their people can't live.
• 1:02:25
  You know, Kiev's in a blackout.
• 1:02:27
  Lots of lots of places are in a
• 1:02:28
  blackout for 22 hours a day.
• 1:02:32
  And then they get intermittent power in certain
• 1:02:38
  places, you know, according to some schedule.
• 1:02:41
  You never know when the hell you're getting
• 1:02:43
  any power.
• 1:02:44
  So what do you do?
• 1:02:45
  Well, it's cold enough.
• 1:02:46
  You put your your meats out in your
• 1:02:49
  patio and you don't need a refrigerator.
• 1:02:53
  You don't get one anyway.
• 1:02:55
  And so you've got to do something.
• 1:02:59
  The postponement of these talks a few days
• 1:03:02
  ago, Abu Dhabi followed a surprise trip to
• 1:03:05
  Florida Saturday by Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev.
• 1:03:11
  And he met with U.S. envoy Steve
• 1:03:12
  Whitkoff Treasury Secretary Besant, who I think's a
• 1:03:16
  moron.
• 1:03:17
  President Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner, who
• 1:03:20
  I'm fairly impressed with, and a White House
• 1:03:23
  senior adviser named Josh Greenbaum.
• 1:03:26
  Whitkoff said Washington was encouraged by the meeting
• 1:03:29
  that Russia is working towards securing peace in
• 1:03:32
  Ukraine.
• 1:03:33
  And Dmitriev said those discussions were constructive.
• 1:03:37
  So hopefully something will come of it, but
• 1:03:40
  it's going to be capitulation.
• 1:03:44
  It's going to be recognition of reality on
• 1:03:46
  the ground that is indisputable.
• 1:03:50
  Anything else is probably up for grabs.
• 1:03:53
  One of the one of the commentators was
• 1:03:55
  talking the other day about the Zaporizhia power
• 1:04:00
  plant, like I said, and that Zaporizhia power
• 1:04:03
  plant could be a method to resolve this
• 1:04:07
  conflict.
• 1:04:08
  Remember me giving discussions about interest-based bargaining
• 1:04:12
  and positional bargaining.
• 1:04:13
  So positions are stuff that you're never going
• 1:04:15
  to live with.
• 1:04:16
  The positions I just described, those are position
• 1:04:19
  -based bargaining, all of it.
• 1:04:21
  Where the position is, nope, we want to
• 1:04:24
  go back to the borders of 1991.
• 1:04:26
  That's Zelensky.
• 1:04:27
  And Putin's saying, no, we've had a referendum.
• 1:04:30
  We're keeping Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Crimea,
• 1:04:35
  by the way.
• 1:04:36
  That's a done deal.
• 1:04:37
  And you need to recognize the new borders.
• 1:04:40
  And somebody in the West, there's only been,
• 1:04:42
  I think, Nicaragua recognized Crimea and the Donbass
• 1:04:46
  as Russian.
• 1:04:48
  I could be mistaken on that, but I
• 1:04:50
  believe they did recognize it.
• 1:04:53
  And the U.S. recognizes places all the
• 1:04:55
  time.
• 1:04:56
  We recognize what, oh, gee, a real government,
• 1:05:00
  you know, we engage in government overthrow all
• 1:05:04
  the time.
• 1:05:05
  And, you know, we justify things that we
• 1:05:07
  say by, oh, gee, it's a reality.
• 1:05:10
  The people on the ground wanted that.
• 1:05:11
  Yep.
• 1:05:12
  Okay.
• 1:05:12
  Nobody else is allowed to do that.
• 1:05:14
  Only us on the global stage.
• 1:05:16
  And so, you know, part of that border,
• 1:05:19
  that border is a reality.
• 1:05:21
  That's part of positional-based bargaining.
• 1:05:23
  Okay.
• 1:05:24
  That's positions.
• 1:05:26
  Interest-based bargaining is completely different.
• 1:05:29
  What are the interests?
• 1:05:30
  The interest is to get rid of the
• 1:05:32
  war.
• 1:05:33
  These are the interests, to quit fighting, to
• 1:05:35
  live in peace like we have for the
• 1:05:38
  most part for 1,500 years, except every
• 1:05:42
  hundred years, every century, some other assholes got
• 1:05:45
  to come in and create a war to
• 1:05:47
  go somewhere else, back and forth.
• 1:05:49
  We talk about the Germans.
• 1:05:51
  We talk, Polish had their share.
• 1:05:53
  Estonia had its share.
• 1:05:54
  You know, when I was in, what do
• 1:05:58
  you call it, the Baltics, the Baltic states
• 1:06:00
  this year, and, you know, those people have
• 1:06:07
  the breast, you know, in the breast, that
• 1:06:10
  place has been overrun for centuries.
• 1:06:12
  And it's still one of the big places
• 1:06:15
  for strategic, being strategic in North, I suppose
• 1:06:21
  that'd be Northeastern Europe.
• 1:06:27
  I suppose you'd call it Northeast.
• 1:06:28
  I think it pretty much is.
• 1:06:30
  But Poland's been involved in that.
• 1:06:32
  Germany's had a major war.
• 1:06:33
  Italy was involved in a major war.
• 1:06:36
  Turkey has, the Turks ran up from the
• 1:06:39
  one side.
• 1:06:40
  The Western, the Russians have come back across.
• 1:06:44
  And every hundred years, it's something else.
• 1:06:47
  And nobody ever goes back and looks at
• 1:06:50
  history of where this should be.
• 1:06:52
  And instead, somebody wants to push and create
• 1:06:54
  a new war.
• 1:06:55
  These are the same arguments that have been
• 1:06:58
  going on for centuries, people.
• 1:07:01
  And if they don't address getting rid of
• 1:07:05
  the war as, you know, what should be,
• 1:07:08
  you know, forcing Zelensky to accept reality in
• 1:07:14
  an interest space.
• 1:07:15
  All right.
• 1:07:16
  What interests can we give to you?
• 1:07:19
  Your people are gone.
• 1:07:21
  They've spread out all over the planet, and
• 1:07:23
  they're not coming back.
• 1:07:25
  That's a reality.
• 1:07:27
  You know, Ukraine, which used to be some
• 1:07:29
  40-something million people, you know, is down
• 1:07:33
  to half that.
• 1:07:35
  And most of them have left, and generations
• 1:07:38
  have left.
• 1:07:40
  Everybody's parting it out now to be a
• 1:07:42
  part of what, you know, we want to
• 1:07:44
  have some of that.
• 1:07:47
  It's over.
• 1:07:51
  Militarily, it's done.
• 1:07:53
  And so somebody needs to come to the
• 1:07:55
  conclusion that it's frigging done.
• 1:07:57
  Talk about the interest base.
• 1:07:59
  The interest is in getting rid of the
• 1:08:01
  war.
• 1:08:02
  What can we do to get rid of
• 1:08:03
  the war?
• 1:08:04
  Get rid of your positions.
• 1:08:06
  That's how it works.
• 1:08:07
  So that's an important part of what is
• 1:08:10
  going on this week.
• 1:08:12
  And so keep your eyes out on that.
• 1:08:17
  There's been all kinds of...
• 1:08:19
  Now there's a Frexit, a Frexit reality.
• 1:08:24
  Remember when Britain left the EU?
• 1:08:27
  Huge protests, pretty good-sized protests, organized by
• 1:08:32
  a patriot party in France.
• 1:08:35
  This is coming, this stuff.
• 1:08:37
  When Davos, when people were talking at Davos
• 1:08:40
  last week, they were talking about looking at
• 1:08:43
  the nationalist agendas for everywhere, like the United
• 1:08:48
  States is taking care of itself, is looking
• 1:08:53
  out for itself, primarily.
• 1:08:56
  There was a lot of talk about that.
• 1:08:58
  And part of that involves, you know, nonsensical
• 1:09:02
  talks about seizing other areas of property and
• 1:09:07
  starting wars with other countries to do so,
• 1:09:10
  or using force to do so.
• 1:09:12
  I'm taking Greenland.
• 1:09:13
  Have a nice day.
• 1:09:14
  You know, that's happening.
• 1:09:16
  French protesters are, you know, they tore up
• 1:09:19
  EU flags during rallies in central Paris over
• 1:09:23
  the weekend, and they've been calling for the
• 1:09:25
  country's withdrawal from the EU to protect farming
• 1:09:29
  communities.
• 1:09:30
  Farming is a big deal.
• 1:09:32
  They're doing the same thing.
• 1:09:35
  I don't know if anybody's old enough to
• 1:09:37
  remember this, but you remember I was talking
• 1:09:39
  with, I think it was, it was JR,
• 1:09:43
  a song came on the radio in the
• 1:09:47
  Convoy with McCall, C.J. McCussum, but I
• 1:09:51
  can't remember who sings that song.
• 1:09:53
  But it came on my music while we
• 1:09:56
  were sitting there talking about something else.
• 1:09:59
  And I remembered about, you know, those movies
• 1:10:02
  like Convoy, movies like Smokey and the Bandit.
• 1:10:07
  Remember the basis for that was there's beer
• 1:10:10
  in Texarkana, and the boys are thirsty in
• 1:10:13
  Atlanta.
• 1:10:14
  And he had to go back.
• 1:10:16
  It was going from Texarkana to, well, he's
• 1:10:21
  going to Texarkana to get the beer.
• 1:10:23
  It's taking an illegal run to bring booze
• 1:10:27
  across state lines and bring it back to
• 1:10:29
  the bandit.
• 1:10:30
  And the bandit was bringing it back to
• 1:10:32
  those idiots.
• 1:10:33
  Guys, well, that was real fights.
• 1:10:36
  Interstate fights over, based on the Interstate Commerce
• 1:10:42
  Commission, the ICC.
• 1:10:44
  And there was real fights between truckers, companies,
• 1:10:50
  and delivering products that somebody might order.
• 1:10:54
  These were real fights.
• 1:10:55
  There were state tariffs.
• 1:10:58
  State.
• 1:10:58
  You couldn't bring your beer from Texas into
• 1:11:02
  Arkansas or into, well, you could into Arkansas,
• 1:11:08
  but you couldn't.
• 1:11:09
  According to the movie, I don't know what
• 1:11:10
  reality was.
• 1:11:11
  But the ICC and the fights of truckers
• 1:11:14
  in the 70s was because a lot of
• 1:11:16
  these states had different rules and different rates
• 1:11:20
  and different tariffs.
• 1:11:21
  And everything was different.
• 1:11:23
  You had to go through and pay taxes
• 1:11:25
  on crap every time you cross the state
• 1:11:27
  line.
• 1:11:28
  They would check your truck and you'd pay
• 1:11:30
  some tax.
• 1:11:31
  So a trucker's life back then, they fought
• 1:11:34
  over all of this bullshit that meant they
• 1:11:36
  couldn't earn a living.
• 1:11:37
  They were stopped at state lines everywhere.
• 1:11:40
  And there were big riots.
• 1:11:41
  The convoy thing was a reality.
• 1:11:44
  And they had convoys to go to state
• 1:11:50
  capitals to block the traffic.
• 1:11:52
  All the truckers take all their trucks up.
• 1:11:53
  These are reality.
• 1:11:55
  These happened.
• 1:11:57
  Imagine that in Europe.
• 1:11:58
  It's happening now.
• 1:12:00
  Frexit is, look, this one-size-fits-all
• 1:12:05
  has destroyed what we as French people know,
• 1:12:09
  but we're separate countries.
• 1:12:11
  And I'm not saying the EU is going
• 1:12:13
  to collapse, but the EU is having the
• 1:12:16
  same fights that some states had way back
• 1:12:19
  when.
• 1:12:19
  That's what's going on.
• 1:12:20
  And so the demonstration, which drew more than
• 1:12:22
  a thousand people, was organized by a guy
• 1:12:25
  named Florian Philippot, who's the leader of the
• 1:12:28
  Patriots Party, a sovereignist movement campaigning for Frexit.
• 1:12:34
  So in a video he posted on Sunday
• 1:12:36
  on his ex-account, Philippot is holding the
• 1:12:39
  EU flag alongside a man he described as
• 1:12:42
  an angry farmer.
• 1:12:44
  So our trucking wars are now farmer wars
• 1:12:46
  over there.
• 1:12:47
  And it's a reality.
• 1:12:48
  Everybody's talking about farming war over there.
• 1:12:52
  So the pair of them, the angry farmer
• 1:12:54
  and this guy named Philippot, ripped up the
• 1:12:56
  flag in two and threw it into a
• 1:12:58
  cheering crowd as demonstrators waved French tricolor flag.
• 1:13:04
  And they were tearing up the EU flag.
• 1:13:08
  With Alexander Pate, an angry farmer, we get
• 1:13:12
  rid of the blue dishcloth, the blue rag
• 1:13:17
  with stars.
• 1:13:18
  And it's over, he said, a growing number
• 1:13:20
  of farmers.
• 1:13:21
  And we all know that only Frexit, French
• 1:13:25
  exit, will save French agriculture.
• 1:13:28
  And trust me, it's coming from a lot
• 1:13:30
  of different places, because they're putting things in
• 1:13:33
  place to allow Ukraine to take over the
• 1:13:36
  bulk of all of that stuff.
• 1:13:38
  And the rules are being twisted to, you
• 1:13:42
  know, especially for recovery.
• 1:13:43
  There's so much talk on so much of
• 1:13:46
  all this going on.
• 1:13:47
  It's an interesting time to be alive, no
• 1:13:50
  doubt.
• 1:13:51
  This wave, well, this guy, Philippot, he argues
• 1:13:56
  that everyone in France is suffering because of
• 1:13:59
  EU policies.
• 1:14:00
  He says the rally is a national march
• 1:14:03
  for France's exit from the EU and for
• 1:14:06
  restoration of French independence.
• 1:14:10
  So this wave of farmer protest in France
• 1:14:12
  has escalated last year, following proposed free trade
• 1:14:16
  agreements between the EU and South America.
• 1:14:20
  They want to bring in South American, what
• 1:14:24
  do you call it, groceries.
• 1:14:27
  And the South American block, it's called Mercosur.
• 1:14:31
  French farming unions are warning that the deal
• 1:14:34
  would bankrupt domestic production with cheap imports from
• 1:14:38
  Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, which aren't subject
• 1:14:42
  to any regulatory standards.
• 1:14:44
  Same fights globally.
• 1:14:47
  We're talking Trump tariff on this, you know,
• 1:14:50
  Canada working with China on this, EU working
• 1:14:54
  with China, Russia working with India, India working
• 1:14:58
  with and all of these people are talking
• 1:15:01
  about their national interests and how do we
• 1:15:03
  improve our national struggle, including us, including America.
• 1:15:07
  So it escalated after these agreements and on
• 1:15:12
  a poll conducted in December indicated that eight
• 1:15:17
  in 10 French people support the movement, not
• 1:15:22
  to get out, but they support the farmers.
• 1:15:24
  They support French farmers.
• 1:15:26
  Last week, the mayors of the towns of
• 1:15:28
  Magnanville and Garganville in the Seine Valley removed
• 1:15:33
  EU flags from their town halls in a
• 1:15:38
  symbolic show of support for farmers.
• 1:15:40
  They're taking the EU flags down in some
• 1:15:43
  places, down with the EU, Ursula von der
• 1:15:47
  Leyen, out, get out, Ursula, viva la France,
• 1:15:53
  says Magnanville Mayor Mikkel Le Bouc, he said
• 1:15:56
  after taking off the flag.
• 1:15:58
  His counterpart in Garganville, Yann Perrin, said French
• 1:16:01
  agriculture deserves protection.
• 1:16:05
  You know, that's how it goes.
• 1:16:08
  Meanwhile, Donald Trump is saying he can easily
• 1:16:11
  solve the UN's money problems.
• 1:16:14
  Ah, let me run the UN.
• 1:16:17
  I'll take care of that.
• 1:16:18
  Here's how you fix it.
• 1:16:20
  The global body is at risk of imminent
• 1:16:22
  financial collapse, says Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and
• 1:16:27
  Donald Trump can solve the UN money problems.
• 1:16:30
  Here's how.
• 1:16:31
  US President Trump claims he could swiftly fix
• 1:16:34
  the UN's national money problem, or UN, United
• 1:16:38
  Nations money problems, if the organization would ask
• 1:16:42
  him.
• 1:16:42
  All he gotta do is ask, and I'll
• 1:16:44
  fix it.
• 1:16:45
  You know, his, his, his, the Trump deal.
• 1:16:48
  UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said last week
• 1:16:50
  that the global body is at risk of
• 1:16:52
  imminent financial collapse as a result of unpaid
• 1:16:56
  dues and funding shortages because of some member
• 1:17:00
  states.
• 1:17:01
  Unless the collection of contributions drastically improves, the
• 1:17:07
  organization won't be able to implement the 2026
• 1:17:10
  budget and will run out of funds for
• 1:17:13
  key programs.
• 1:17:15
  On Sunday, Trump told Politico, he said, that
• 1:17:18
  he's aware of any US debt to the
• 1:17:21
  UN, but he also said, I can solve
• 1:17:24
  their money problems very easily and make sure
• 1:17:27
  other nations pay up if they come to
• 1:17:30
  Trump and come to told him I'd get
• 1:17:31
  everybody to pay up, just like I got
• 1:17:35
  NATO to pay up.
• 1:17:36
  All I have to do is call these
• 1:17:38
  countries, and they'll send checks within minutes, said
• 1:17:42
  Trump.
• 1:17:43
  I couldn't find the clip, but I didn't
• 1:17:45
  look very hard either.
• 1:17:47
  But citing UN, unnamed UN officials, ABC News
• 1:17:51
  reports on Friday said that Washington owes $2
• 1:17:55
  .2 billion to the organization's budget and another
• 1:18:00
  $1.8 billion to its separate purse for
• 1:18:04
  peacekeepers.
• 1:18:06
  So separately, that's a total of $4 billion
• 1:18:10
  that the US owes the UN.
• 1:18:13
  And Trump is going to fix their policies.
• 1:18:15
  Guterres is saying, well, nobody's paying.
• 1:18:17
  And Trump says, I'll call the states to
• 1:18:18
  pay.
• 1:18:19
  But we're the ones $4 billion.
• 1:18:21
  Maybe that $4 billion would be helpful.
• 1:18:24
  I have a lot of issues with the
• 1:18:27
  bureaucracy at any level, including the UN.
• 1:18:32
  And these are fat cats.
• 1:18:35
  And they make other financial people fat cats.
• 1:18:39
  That's how the system works, friends and neighbors.
• 1:18:43
  And so whether you're a business executive or
• 1:18:45
  a government executive, you control the means and
• 1:18:49
  the capital, more importantly, of the nation and
• 1:18:53
  where it goes and who gets a chunk
• 1:18:55
  of it.
• 1:18:56
  It's bureaucrats, bureaucrats everywhere.
• 1:18:58
  The UN is an enormous bureaucracy.
• 1:19:01
  And the UN needs money.
• 1:19:05
  The financial situation, according to Guterres, is so
• 1:19:09
  bad that the UN could end up abandoning
• 1:19:12
  its New York headquarters, said the New York
• 1:19:15
  Times.
• 1:19:16
  This is according to high-ranking sources within
• 1:19:19
  the body.
• 1:19:19
  Frankly, I think it needs to go anyway.
• 1:19:22
  Why in the hell are we bringing all
• 1:19:23
  those people here to pay them enormous salaries
• 1:19:26
  here?
• 1:19:26
  Why can't you send them off to someplace
• 1:19:28
  where it's much cheaper to live?
• 1:19:30
  Get rid of these a-holes.
• 1:19:31
  Send them off to, I don't know, Brazil.
• 1:19:34
  Pick a spot.
• 1:19:36
  It doesn't matter.
• 1:19:37
  Go build a UN tower there and send
• 1:19:39
  these a-holes out.
• 1:19:40
  Because it's the same thing.
• 1:19:42
  It's some enormous overpaid bunch of bureaucrats making
• 1:19:46
  decisions that affect the rest of us.
• 1:19:48
  Unelected, by the way.
• 1:19:50
  Ursula von der Leyen's not elected.
• 1:19:52
  Ursula von der Leyen, Kaya Callas, all those
• 1:19:55
  nut jobs in the EU that are controlled,
• 1:19:59
  they aren't elected.
• 1:20:01
  There's no control in the EU.
• 1:20:04
  It's the bureaucracy, just like us.
• 1:20:07
  And so Trump rolls out any sort of
• 1:20:09
  development like the UN.
• 1:20:10
  He said, the UN's not leaving New York,
• 1:20:14
  and it's not leaving the US because the
• 1:20:16
  UN has tremendous potential.
• 1:20:19
  When I'm no longer around to settle wars,
• 1:20:25
  the UN can, he said.
• 1:20:27
  I doubt that.
• 1:20:28
  And he hasn't ended any wars lately.
• 1:20:31
  He's created a couple of new ones.
• 1:20:33
  The statement goes against the US president's earlier
• 1:20:36
  criticism of the organization, which he accused of
• 1:20:39
  being ineffective.
• 1:20:41
  What is the purpose of the United Nations,
• 1:20:43
  he said recently, well, September.
• 1:20:46
  All they seem to do is write a
• 1:20:48
  really strongly worded letter, and then they never
• 1:20:51
  follow that letter up.
• 1:20:53
  Empty words, and empty words don't solve war,
• 1:20:57
  he argued.
• 1:20:58
  And since Trump returned office a year ago,
• 1:21:02
  the UN has withdrawn from multiple UN programs
• 1:21:05
  and organizations, including the World Health Organization, and
• 1:21:10
  at the cultural UNESCO.
• 1:21:12
  And UNESCO sites, there aren't any in the
• 1:21:15
  United States, if I recall.
• 1:21:17
  But if you go to places in Pakistan,
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  or, well, I went to one, some in
• 1:21:23
  Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and they were fantastic.
• 1:21:27
  And Kyrgyzstan.
• 1:21:31
  And there's some fantastic UNESCO sites that they
• 1:21:34
  develop and spend a ton of money on
• 1:21:37
  over there.
• 1:21:38
  And since Trump returned to office, we've withdrawn
• 1:21:41
  from some of those programs like UNESCO.
• 1:21:45
  If you remember when Trump joked about adding
• 1:21:48
  three new states, he floated the idea of
• 1:21:51
  expanding the country to Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela.
• 1:21:55
  He's already said this.
• 1:21:57
  US President Trump said he plans to expand
• 1:21:59
  the country by adding Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela
• 1:22:03
  as new states.
• 1:22:05
  Later, he described his remarks as a joke,
• 1:22:08
  as reported by the Washington Post.
• 1:22:11
  He made the comments at the annual Alfalfa
• 1:22:14
  Club dinner Saturday, an exclusive gathering of CEOs,
• 1:22:18
  politicians, and Washington luminaries.
• 1:22:21
  It was the first time he had addressed
• 1:22:23
  the club, whose members include JPMorgan Chase CEO
• 1:22:27
  Jamie Dimon, philanthropist David Rubenstein, and outgoing Federal
• 1:22:32
  Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
• 1:22:35
  So many people...
• 1:22:37
  Trump told the audience this.
• 1:22:39
  Here he is.
• 1:22:40
  So many people in the room I hate.
• 1:22:45
  Most of you I like, he told the
• 1:22:48
  audience.
• 1:22:49
  He added he might cut his speech short
• 1:22:51
  to watch the invasion of Greenland before saying,
• 1:22:55
  we're not going to invade Greenland, we're going
• 1:22:57
  to buy it.
• 1:22:58
  It's never been my intention to make Greenland
• 1:23:00
  a 51st state.
• 1:23:02
  I want to make Canada the 51st state.
• 1:23:04
  Greenland will be the 52nd state.
• 1:23:07
  Venezuela can be the 53rd, said Trump.
• 1:23:11
  He repeatedly made acquiring Greenland a policy objective,
• 1:23:15
  arguing that the autonomous Danish island, its strategic
• 1:23:19
  location and resources are crucial to US security.
• 1:23:23
  He claimed Denmark is too weak to defend
• 1:23:26
  it from an alleged Russian or Chinese threat.
• 1:23:29
  Make up these Chinese are coming.
• 1:23:32
  Look at them.
• 1:23:33
  They're making deals with Canada.
• 1:23:34
  Last year, Trump said Canada would be better
• 1:23:36
  off as the cherished 51st state of the
• 1:23:38
  United States.
• 1:23:39
  He referred to Canadian Prime Minister as the
• 1:23:42
  governor.
• 1:23:42
  He's argued that the only way to resolve
• 1:23:45
  trade disputes between the two companies.
• 1:23:47
  Recently, he threatened 100% tariff on Canadian
• 1:23:51
  goods if Ottawa pursues closer ties with China,
• 1:23:55
  which they're doing.
• 1:23:58
  In Venezuela, the US took over the country
• 1:24:01
  early January, captured the president, brought him to
• 1:24:05
  New York.
• 1:24:06
  I'm sorry to laugh about that.
• 1:24:07
  It ain't even funny.
• 1:24:08
  It's just what we're doing.
• 1:24:09
  Washington demands total access to the country's oil.
• 1:24:13
  We get to take the oil.
• 1:24:14
  Screw you, Venezuelans.
• 1:24:15
  That's our oil.
• 1:24:18
  He just taking it.
• 1:24:19
  Speaking during a cabinet meeting last week, Trump
• 1:24:22
  said the administration was getting along well with
• 1:24:25
  Venezuela's interim leadership.
• 1:24:28
  They don't get to pick their own.
• 1:24:30
  They get interim leaders that have to be
• 1:24:32
  acceptable to the US and confirms that major
• 1:24:34
  new or major US oil companies are scouting
• 1:24:38
  new projects in the country.
• 1:24:41
  Yep.
• 1:24:41
  Yep.
• 1:24:42
  We're colonizing.
• 1:24:43
  We're taking over new states.
• 1:24:46
  Isn't this nuts?
• 1:24:47
  And the world has gotten loopy there.
• 1:24:51
  We're just going nuts.
• 1:24:53
  And let's see if I can find something
• 1:24:55
  quick to finish out the show with today.
• 1:24:59
  There were several good opinion pieces I read,
• 1:25:03
  like the liberal world order is collapsing future
• 1:25:07
  civilization states and an alliance between technology and
• 1:25:12
  tradition, says Dr. Stephen Turley.
• 1:25:17
  And India.
• 1:25:18
  Well, here, this is important.
• 1:25:19
  I was going to share this, too, and
• 1:25:21
  I probably can get to this through the
• 1:25:23
  end here.
• 1:25:24
  India is talking about its record military spending.
• 1:25:28
  India, of all places.
• 1:25:30
  New Delhi has put 15 percent more in
• 1:25:33
  the federal budget after its brief war with
• 1:25:37
  Pakistan.
• 1:25:38
  They have put $85 billion for military spending
• 1:25:41
  in the budget in 2026, 27, a record
• 1:25:44
  15 percent increase, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
• 1:25:50
  He told the parliament in her annual budget
• 1:25:53
  speech, the sharp rise follows a military conflict
• 1:25:57
  with neighboring Pakistan.
• 1:25:58
  Last May, capital expenditures for the armed forces
• 1:26:01
  was a twenty three billion billion and was
• 1:26:06
  aimed at funding major procurement programs.
• 1:26:08
  The union budget of twenty five, twenty six
• 1:26:11
  and twenty seven will help further strengthen India's
• 1:26:14
  defense capabilities, said Defense Minister Rajna Singh on
• 1:26:20
  X.
• 1:26:21
  The key focus of the budget follows Operation
• 1:26:24
  Sindhu or a limited military operation launched in
• 1:26:27
  response to the cross border hostilities with Pakistan
• 1:26:31
  earlier in the year.
• 1:26:32
  It is the modernization of the armed forces,
• 1:26:36
  he said, that they are seeking.
• 1:26:38
  So problems are coming everywhere.
• 1:26:41
  You know that New Delhi and Islamabad, you
• 1:26:45
  know.
• 1:26:45
  From May seven to ten, you know, they
• 1:26:50
  last year exchanged fire following militant attacks on
• 1:26:55
  April twenty two in Kashmir and Jammu that
• 1:26:57
  killed twenty six people.
• 1:26:59
  And so those clashes involve the extensive use
• 1:27:01
  of missile systems and the growing role of
• 1:27:06
  long range strikes.
• 1:27:08
  Everybody's watching Ukraine and Russia and knowing that
• 1:27:11
  lots of this drone warfare is all new.
• 1:27:15
  Everything is now going that way.
• 1:27:17
  Everything.
• 1:27:18
  And it's included.
• 1:27:20
  You know, they're creating missile systems and creating
• 1:27:22
  all that.
• 1:27:23
  So that's one of the discussions between Moscow
• 1:27:28
  and New Delhi, because Russia is going to
• 1:27:31
  provide to them the Sukhoi Su-57.
• 1:27:34
  Very, very modern aircraft.
• 1:27:37
  In India and there in advanced days, Moscow
• 1:27:40
  is an active participant in New Delhi's plans
• 1:27:43
  to make weapons locally with Russian defense equipment
• 1:27:47
  already manufactured under licensing agreements in India.
• 1:27:51
  So worlds are growing.
• 1:27:53
  It's becoming a little more dangerous.
• 1:27:55
  I think there ought to be a lot
• 1:27:56
  more focus, like in Frexit and going like
• 1:27:58
  that.
• 1:27:59
  The bureaucratic state is being attacked in many
• 1:28:01
  places.
• 1:28:02
  The bureaucracy of the EU is being attacked.
• 1:28:06
  We're attacking here in Missouri and America doing
• 1:28:11
  our small part to get rid of bureaucracy
• 1:28:13
  and corruption and bureaucracy here in mid Missouri.
• 1:28:19
  My name is Samuel Trapp and you need
• 1:28:22
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• 1:28:27
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• 1:28:32
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• 1:28:33
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• 1:29:00
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• 1:29:05
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• 1:29:07
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