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A little progress, actually? | HBR Talk 351 · Honey Badger Radio

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  Speaker 1: in the drop down menu at the top of the page. Now,
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  Speaker 1: our social media platforms is kind of an interesting phenomenon here.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody makes fun of you know, you paid for Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: You paid for Twitter, but I do have supported Twitter
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  Speaker 1: since the the Twitter files came out and expose the
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  Speaker 1: collusion that the the previous owner and administrator was engaging
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  Speaker 1: in with government agencies to censor speech on Twitter. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought that that was kind of important because this
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  Speaker 1: is something that that's actually as a violation of the
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment. For the government to pressure and collude with
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  Speaker 1: an organization to censor speech, it's a it's not the
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  Speaker 1: same thing as a private organization just doing their thing.
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  Speaker 1: When the FBI and the CIA and specific officials, government
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  Speaker 1: officials are demanding censorship of specific people and specific political
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  Speaker 1: speech and then the then the entity is doing it
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  Speaker 1: on their behalf, that that is no longer the end
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  Speaker 1: of these freedom of speech. That that is government censorship.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I've caught a lot of flak for that, right,
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  Speaker 1: So an interesting thing happened this past week that kind
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  Speaker 1: of made it pay off in a way that was unexpected.
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  Speaker 1: I Like I said, I'm spending about eight bucks a
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  Speaker 1: month for this. It's not a I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people who spend more than that a week on coffee,
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  Speaker 1: So it's not a big expense, right, But I got
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  Speaker 1: false reported by somebody that was butt hurt about something
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  Speaker 1: I said or did. And I don't know who it
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  Speaker 1: might have actually been. The individual that I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to in the conversation I got false reported in the
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  Speaker 1: false report was really dumb, right. The individual had told
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  Speaker 1: the victim of a PDF file to to uh self delete, right,
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  Speaker 1: And so of course we were criticizing this individual as
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  Speaker 1: supporting that particular proclivity, that illegal proclivity.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Yeah, it's not like we're we're not
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to get monetized anyway. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about Nazis and suicides folk.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is not a discussion about those things. So
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  Speaker 1: I figured if we if we didn't use those terms
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  Speaker 1: in a discussion that's not about those things, then we
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be like some people are actually getting their stuff deleted.
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  Speaker 1: Now for mentioning that again.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think it's it's rather, it's it's almost
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  Speaker 3: dare I say it delightful away? Like it makes me
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  Speaker 3: a little bit happy when I can say he instead
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  Speaker 3: of what it actually is, you know, because it's a
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  Speaker 3: fucking horrific thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, either way, the interesting yeah, the interesting thing that
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  Speaker 1: happened was I didn't I didn't find out about this
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  Speaker 1: for a day because I wasn't on on X for
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  Speaker 1: a day, right, So when I came back on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it goes goes through that process. Oh, you've been locked
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  Speaker 1: for violating our policies on and of course the person
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  Speaker 1: reported me for something to do with violence. What I
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  Speaker 1: had said was because the person denied being approving basically
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  Speaker 1: of pedophilia, and it was like you told a victim
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  Speaker 1: of a pedophile to commit suicide. You know, you're yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's totally not sus right, that was what got reported,
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  Speaker 1: and so of course I appealed, right, I appealed immediately
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  Speaker 1: and went into the help system to do it. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't just because they have an immediate like appeal. You
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  Speaker 1: can click here to appeal like you know, screw that
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  Speaker 1: went into the help system to do it, and in
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  Speaker 1: the help system you get to make more of an explanation.
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  Speaker 1: It's why you think that your thing that you've said
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  Speaker 1: doesn't fit the policy that they're using to make you
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  Speaker 1: delete it. So I gave my explanation and pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is sarcastic, a sarcasm used to criticize
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  Speaker 1: this individual for telling another person to commit suicide because
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  Speaker 1: he is a victim of a pedophile. It's clearly not
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  Speaker 1: advocacy for violence. It's clearly criticizing an individual who advocated
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  Speaker 1: or suggested another individual commit suicide. And I noticed when
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  Speaker 1: I got back the comment that I was responding to
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  Speaker 1: had been deleted. In several other comments in the conversation
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  Speaker 1: where the individual had repeatedly told this person to commit suicide,
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  Speaker 1: they had all been deleted. So I'm assuming that individual
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  Speaker 1: had been reported and had just assumed that the people
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  Speaker 1: he was talking to were the ones that did it
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  Speaker 1: and had retaliated by reporting, And so That's how that
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting. The interesting thing to me is like by
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  Speaker 1: the time I got done messaging people who usually ask
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  Speaker 1: you know, where are you why aren't you on Twitter?
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  Speaker 1: On discord, it was resolved and usually, like prior to this,
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  Speaker 1: when I was dealing with old Twitter, that took three days,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure it got resolved faster because I'm
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  Speaker 1: a premium user. So that was what I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: point out.
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  Speaker 2: I might have to start supporting x formally Twitter even
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  Speaker 2: harder as my options alternative media begin to shrink due
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  Speaker 2: to recent UK rules. I'm allowed to say these things
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  Speaker 2: on Gab and bit shoot, but both these companies have
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  Speaker 2: had to withdraw withdraw from the UK so they don't
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  Speaker 2: have to disclose user data, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: that means I'll no longer be allowed to use bit
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  Speaker 2: shoot or gab or if they're just moving their operations
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  Speaker 2: from those countries. Because bit Shoot, I think, was a
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  Speaker 2: UK company, a company based in the UK, and now
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  Speaker 2: they're going to have to move their operations overseas so
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  Speaker 2: that they don't get completely shut down, if only by
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  Speaker 2: excessive fines. But Gab's not a UK company, it's an
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  Speaker 2: American one, but they're still They too are talking about
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  Speaker 2: having to withdraw from the UK, which I think means
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure. I won't be able to use
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  Speaker 2: gab or bit shoot from the UK anymore, which which
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  Speaker 2: would kind of suck.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Thank god we have things like ex formerly Twitter and
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  Speaker 2: indeed Rumble and YouTube. I don't know, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to thank any gods for YouTube because it's a fucking cesspit,
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  Speaker 2: but at least I'll still be able to use it
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  Speaker 2: shadow band into oblivion as though I am.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, social media has become quite different and it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be an interesting thing to see what happens in upcoming
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  Speaker 1: because I know Europe is trying to find Musk a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of money and pressure him to bow to their
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  Speaker 1: their policies, their anti speech policies and everything. Now I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to pay the money or
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  Speaker 1: if he's going to do something else, but they are
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  Speaker 1: forgetting that. This is the guy who, at the drop
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  Speaker 1: of a news story reporting that they didn't have access
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  Speaker 1: to internet in Ukraine and it was causing the Ukrainian
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  Speaker 1: military to have problems communicating and people of Ukraine have
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  Speaker 1: problems communicating like, he just set up a whole network there,
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  Speaker 1: and he did it with satellites. So if Europe decides
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  Speaker 1: that they don't want to allow free speech, and Musk
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  Speaker 1: decides that he wants to enforce free speech, he could
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  Speaker 1: do it. Like, he has the capability of putting up satellites,
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  Speaker 1: and the only thing they could do after those satellites
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  Speaker 1: are up is try to figure out a way to
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  Speaker 1: prevent people from accessing the signal. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: if you can jam that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he's he's like an unelected official of the government.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, he's just what he's the billionaire class. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: when George Sorrows and his ILK were funding the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: side of the party that it was not a peak.
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't hear a mousepiece on cotton.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I honestly, I would love to hear the European
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  Speaker 1: elite bitch and wine about about a guy like Musk
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  Speaker 1: providing the public means of communication that the elite cannot stifle.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's that's basically what that fine is. But it'll
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  Speaker 1: be even funnier if it's completely out of their control completely. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know that would be super expensive, and the guy
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  Speaker 1: is rich. But that doesn't mean he has infinite money.
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  Speaker 1: But but it would still be hilarious to see him
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  Speaker 1: do that. And you know, like you said, he does
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  Speaker 1: have all of the tools he needs to do that.
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  Speaker 1: He can build them, he can he can launch them,
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  Speaker 1: he can maintain them if they if something happens to
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  Speaker 1: one of them, he can. He can send texts up
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  Speaker 1: to repair, whether they're human texts or robot texts, he
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  Speaker 1: has both.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing and there's nothing to Tier Tier can do
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the populist version of Doctor Evil.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is like a Bond hero.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen to and and and just you know, for
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  Speaker 3: as much as the world complains about how much Europe
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  Speaker 3: has colonized the world, I would fuck love to see
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  Speaker 3: someone do a little, just a little bit, a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a give back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they probably would call it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, you allowed the people to speak freely, exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 3: But it was full frighten line, right. They were not
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  Speaker 3: against us leaving their country and forming our own government
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  Speaker 3: and country as as it were. You know, they absolutely
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  Speaker 3: would have a problem with the book. What could they do?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing, you know, And if if if he did
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  Speaker 1: something like that in my mind, that would make it
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  Speaker 1: even more worth it to support the platform. Honestly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like it would that would you know that that actually
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  Speaker 1: might even merit going up to the next level of
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  Speaker 1: because there's another level of premium above what I'm paying for,
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  Speaker 1: and there's actually a level of paid features below. There's
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  Speaker 1: some three dollars thing that allows you some of what
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  Speaker 1: the premium features offer, but not all of them. But
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  Speaker 1: like I don't know or or i'd start like advertising
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  Speaker 1: HBr talk on X or something.
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  Speaker 3: Worth Yeah, I haven't even paid attention to it because honestly,
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  Speaker 3: social media was nothing more than just a vehicle for
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  Speaker 3: me to get my opinion across, you know, and and
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  Speaker 3: have arguments with idiots who I thought were real people.
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  Speaker 3: You know, but as as time goes by and you
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  Speaker 3: really understand what it is you're dealing with, Like like
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  Speaker 3: we're in a fucking kerfuffle right now with someone to
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  Speaker 3: two accounts that just obviously they're just fucking no. I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't call them bots, but they are just uh engagement formers.
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  Speaker 1: Right yeah, And.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I just I don't care to engage with them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go mean for me back and forth
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  Speaker 3: with you fucking assholes, you know, as funny as it
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  Speaker 3: could be, but I just I don't have the time.
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  Speaker 3: I do not care. I've done that so many times before,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just no life. It doesn't hold the entertainment
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  Speaker 3: value for me anymore. Right, All it is is just,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, there's another notification. There's another fucking notification.
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  Speaker 1: That's all.
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  Speaker 4: Hell.
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  Speaker 1: I've been enjoying it. I'll be honest, I've been enjoying it,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't well, okay, so I just I had
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  Speaker 1: somebody point something out to me about it recently, like
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  Speaker 1: this is this seems for me to be the the
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  Speaker 1: female equivalent of getting into a bar fight, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as as a dude, except because I do live in
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  Speaker 1: the US. As long as I don't say, you know this,
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  Speaker 1: you should go commit this crime or actually you can
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  Speaker 1: even do that and it's not illegal. It's if you
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  Speaker 1: play in a crime like then that then you then
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  Speaker 1: it's a conspiracy to commit a crime.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: As long as they don't do something like that, then
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  Speaker 1: then it's uh, it's not illegal for me to to
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  Speaker 1: get into Twitter slat fights.
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  Speaker 4: With By the way, thank you very much to whoever
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  Speaker 4: it was.
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  Speaker 2: You tagged me into that thread that became an epic
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  Speaker 2: meme fight on Twitter a couple of days ago. My
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  Speaker 2: notification was this shock a block with this fucking meme fight?
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  Speaker 1: Which which thread are we talking about? Was it? It was?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know for was the one I was in there?
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's another meme fight, because now.
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  Speaker 4: I forget who it was? It was fat check find.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes it was was? That was the one I
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  Speaker 1: was in. The only followed me.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't of course, because these people are fucking they
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  Speaker 3: are so they are narcissists.
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  Speaker 1: But this person, this person thought calling me fat would
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  Speaker 1: upset me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean it's stupid. They are only there
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  Speaker 3: for engagement farming. Yeah. And but the only reason that
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  Speaker 3: I will not delete myself from this I don't even
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  Speaker 3: know how the how do you do that? How do
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  Speaker 3: you get yourself out of one of them?
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  Speaker 1: There's there's a way. Let me see you, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: send you instructions.
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  Speaker 3: The only the only reason that I haven't cared so
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  Speaker 3: much to do that is because sometimes you can get
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  Speaker 3: some really good fucking memes. And there was the one,
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  Speaker 3: the one. My one takeaway is it used to be
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  Speaker 3: called a jump aline until your mom jumped on it,
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  Speaker 3: and now it was awesome. I love that.
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  Speaker 4: But do you find all these memes on it? Do
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  Speaker 4: you just have a big ass folder.
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  Speaker 1: One folders. I have a folder with folders in the
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  Speaker 1: folder and also memes in the folder, and then memes
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  Speaker 1: in the folders in the folder, and some of those
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  Speaker 1: folders also have folders, and then my other devices also.
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  Speaker 5: Have folders, folders with folders of folders, like.
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  Speaker 1: My gift files are separate so that you know, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of means memes. I just if
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  Speaker 1: I like it, I save it. I even have one
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  Speaker 1: for telling people I'm stealing their meme.
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  Speaker 3: A whole folder.
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  Speaker 1: Just not not just a whole folder of that, No,
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  Speaker 1: just one needs but no, that's in my regular meme folder.
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  Speaker 4: How can you remember all this? Ship?
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  Speaker 2: How can how can you just have this repository of
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  Speaker 2: meme information that you could.
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  Speaker 4: Just you can?
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  Speaker 1: I have this really weird memory, all right. So it
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  Speaker 1: depends on how something strikes me. Okay, if it, if
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  Speaker 1: it hits and it hits just right, I remember it forever,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: you know, like even things like this, this thing that
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  Speaker 1: I want a reference is on. It's in this book
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  Speaker 1: in this chapter on this page, and it's on this
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  Speaker 1: part of the page somewhere, like I can visually see it,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, if I want to go look again
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  Speaker 1: for it, I can go back to that book and
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  Speaker 1: open to that page. A lot of times I won't
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  Speaker 1: even remember the page number, just how far into the
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  Speaker 1: book physically I have to turn to get to the page,
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  Speaker 1: and what the text on the page, what shape the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: text on the page takes, like how where the breaks
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: are in the text for paragraphs and stuff, And based
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  Speaker 1: on that, I'll know when I'm on the right page.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you asked me what
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I ate last night for supper when I was at work,
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  Speaker 1: I would have to think about it. I did eat.
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  Speaker 1: I know I did eat, right, I just don't it's
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  Speaker 1: not it's not important to me what I what I had.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, there is a high chance that
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  Speaker 1: it's exactly the same thing I've eaten every night for
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  Speaker 1: the last month. Yeah, because I'll get on a kick
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  Speaker 1: like that. That's and and yeah, Richards did just theism
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, like I was like idiocid syncrasies. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not autistic chess.
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  Speaker 2: In the chat, he might be referring to our discussion
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  Speaker 2: of chess in the chat.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a possibility as well. But it is funny
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  Speaker 1: because the more I learn about how it affects the
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  Speaker 1: way I think, the more I realize, like it should
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  Speaker 1: have been obvious when I was younger, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: could have gotten help and developing my social skills, right yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't. I guess I just watched the.
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  Speaker 3: Video of you know, someone was on YouTube obviously, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know how credible it is or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: but but these these behaviors have been They've always been
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  Speaker 3: around in children. We just didn't know how to classify
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: them or even recognize that they were, you know, idiosyncrasies
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: within how children behave. You know, so if you have
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  Speaker 3: one child who is laser focused on how to set
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  Speaker 3: up the teacups, if you're playing tea and you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting mad at your sister who wants to play actually
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  Speaker 3: go and play tea, but your your one sister is
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  Speaker 3: just laser focused on on setting up everything and making
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  Speaker 3: sure everything is perfect. You know, those are are signs
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  Speaker 3: of autism, right like, because you're hyper focused.
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  Speaker 1: You know, oh yeah, and it's it's uh it's quite
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: an interesting experience learning about this stuff.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: But in any case, in a in a in a
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: world where narcissism is completely normalized, anything that isn't narcissism
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: will be called autism.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll be misdiagnosed as autism.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Is that. And I have been learning more about recovering
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: from being victimized by a narcissist too, because that's an
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: that's another that's a whole other story for a whole
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: other time. I've talked about it a couple of times actually,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But in any case, there's there's quite a bit about
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: being autistic that can make you vulnerable to the turning
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: everyone against you socially aspect of narcissistic abuse. And so
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that kind of if you if you are working with someone,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: if you're autistic and you're working with someone who's a narcissist,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you're in danger. If you live with someone who's a narcissist,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you're in even more danger. But work is even work
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: is a you know, a possibility for.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't. I don't. I'm sorry to correct you.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be that type of person, but
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: not in danger, but susceptible, Oh.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: No, you're in danger like I was physically injured. Oh yeah, well,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: narcissists do weird things like mine, Like I own this narcissist.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: This is my narcissist. It was created for me. But no,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: my narcissist put because she found out that my combination
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of poor eyesight and inability to get glasses at the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: time new glasses at the time made it so that
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: if you had a knife blade pointing at me, I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: couldn't see the blade. I couldn't distinguish where it was
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and where it ended and stuff. She started putting knives
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in the dishwasher I had to empty with the blade up,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and uh, I missed one, and I grabbed a handful
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of silverware to pick up and sort out and put away,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and sliced off a chunk of the end of the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: middle finger on my left hand. Jesus, Yeah, there's a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: numb spot there. There's is that's actually uh, about the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: size of a sweet pea. There's a scar there about size.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Because I I don't like going to the hospital and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to take the time off work, so
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I got out big gass first aid kit and I
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: got out there with your history.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine why you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Wouldn't like going to the hospital. Burned my foot one
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: on coals. I'm allergic to every living thing around me.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I've been there a few times. But yeah, no, I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: just got out my big ass first Aid personal first
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: aid kit that I carry everywhere because I am a klutz,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and I got out my bleed stop and I used
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that and I stuck the piece back on the end
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: of my finger and bandaged the hell out of it
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and went back to work.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: You can't even come to my house because I don't
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: even have band aids, so.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: It's okay, I bring my own. Seriously, of course, my
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: first aid kit has butterfly sutures in it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Well, you'll have to teach me how to use those,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: because I I don't want to be in a position
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: where I cannot administer first aid.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: They make some really neat ones. Actually you can get them.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: They're not cheap, but you can get them on Amazon,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: where it has the whole thing is all in one unit.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It's it's got the plastic tape and everything all attached,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and it's got a couple of strings and you put
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: it on and then you pull the strings and it tightens.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: It so it works the same as like the butterfly
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: suture butterfly. It's it's not a stitch, it's a it's
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: a band aid basically, but it sticks things together. Wait,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: this is on.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I mean it doesn't CRAZYLK.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Somebody has Yeah, I'm gonna that's what designed for in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the in the army originally.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I cut myself until it gels. Because I'm
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: a man. I've never lost a limb. I've never even
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: lost a finger. I've never even passed out during.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: The operation, barely leave house.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: It's because I'm careful enough not to fucking cut myself. Said.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: This is going out on things that I can't even
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: see in restream. So I'm gonna check something here. I
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: don't see that. I don't see that. Okay, no, it's
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not this doesn't make any sense. That's x BO. Sorry, guys.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: This is a little bit more technical difficulties. But it's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: not doing all right if it's going out on other
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: somebody in DIARHOWK just told or somebody from direct just
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: told me it's going out. I bet it's not showing
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: in restreams that it's going out on those things. So
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I don't understand what's happening here? I hate restream just
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: just for the record, But all right, so anyway, let's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: let's we'll get away from the medical talk and everything.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: But but yeah, those are actually really neat you.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: What have you even still done what we're supposed to do?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Started? No, we got to talking about social media because
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: of the.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: We we've lost that and I yeah, and I'm so
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: glad that you all are here with us.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: It's called it's called HBr talk, not HBr article.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: There we But the the ultimate point that I was
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: making with the social media thing is there's actually value
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: that I'm that that I'm getting for paying uh for Twitter,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that I wasn't expecting, for paying for X that I
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: wasn't expecting, Like, you know, it's it's nice to be
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: it's nice to be able to get uh immediate evaluation
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: of in allegation when you're accused of violating the terms
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: of the platform, instead of having to wait and and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a person looks at it and then they do something
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to try to fix it. And so I was restored
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: within minutes, and and yeah, that was that was valuable
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: because of that and meme fight. But in any case,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and yeah, if you're in a if you're in a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: workplace with a narcissist, definitely watch your back in your fingers.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And every so often you'll see me post a link
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: on X by the way from a channel that talks
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: about recovering from narcissistic abuse. The guy that runs that channel,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I can't he his name for some dumb reason right now,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: but he was a victim himself and he is a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: trained therapist who assists other people in recovery from narcissistic abuse.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: So a lot of I've been watching a lot of
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: his stuff just because that experience really threw me. And uh,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: it does help to to get some confirmation that the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: behavior that you are subjected to is not normal.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just going to ask if if that
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: would include people who would assume themselves of being narcissistic
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: in the first place, right like, or is it that
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: type of thing where I might think I'm a narcissist
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: or I might need to go and get help, or
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: is it is it strictly people who have identified this
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: authority figure in their life as and I help narcissists?
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Is someone to diagnose themselves without with narcissism? Right?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Is somebody if somebody's word read that they might be
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a narcissist, and they watched that channel. There are things
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: he will describe that are behaviors that are common to narcissism,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: that they're really out their behaviors, Like you know the
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Amber heard shitting the bed incident. That's a narcissistic behavior.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Believe it or not, that's a narcissistic behavior. It was
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: actually covered in the last video of his that I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: shared on X. I'm pretty sure I shared that on
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: X but fell.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: He also talked about stuff in the faces with food
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: and imagine the people dying.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's just like if I ever had any
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: doubts and thought that that might be me, that video
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: is like I was horrified the whole time I was
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: listening to, Like, to think of somebody's mind working that
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: way was actually upsetting, you know, like I cannot imagine
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: being apped in that thought pattern and and and being
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: It makes it actually scarier to think of being in
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the room with someone who is in that thought pattern.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: It's really creepy. Narcissists are creepy. But uh, in any case, Yeah,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: that that guy, I like his channel. There's a and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: then if you're at the other end of it, if
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: you're suspecting yourself to potentially be autistic. Autism from the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: inside is a pretty good channel, and it's it's one
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: of those where I kept even when my doctor and
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I started talking about it, and even after I found
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: out that I have four genetic markers for autism, not
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: one before, I was still like, well, maybe, you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: maybe not, like I'm this old and haven't been diagnosed yet,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: wouldn't somebody have figured it out sooner? And the more
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I hear, the more I realize, like, that's not a
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: determining factor. It's really not. But those are Those are
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: a couple of good channels. And I don't think I've
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: shared a lot from Autism from the Inside, but I
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: probably should in any case, into more show specific material.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: We do have our first super Chow of the evening
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and that's for Meredith g who gave us five dollars
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and said, HBr talk three fifty one honey for the Badgers.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to introduce the article with a caveat here.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: And this isn't exactly in cap specific either, but it
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're an in cap you're going to
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: sympathize with his point of view, right, because you sympathize
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: with the idea that taxation is theft anyway. But if
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: if we're going to tolerate taxes at all, income taxes
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and such, men who can't even afford to pay the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: copay to get a prostate exam shouldn't be getting taxed
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to pay for similar things for women elsewhere, right even
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: and just you know, well, men don't get these things
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: covered for them by the government, and they're forced to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: legally forced to buy insurance, and then they can't afford
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: even the copays, so then they can't get their regular testing,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: they can't get there's not a kind of any kind
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: of medical birth control available to them yet, and except
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: getting a vas ectomy, which isn't necessarily healthy and it's
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: not necessarily reversible, and in most cases it's not reversible.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: But they're being taxed to pay for women abortions. That's
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: insult and injury. And then on top of insult and injury,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: it's women in foreign countries, so they're not even in
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: it's not even benefiting women in their community and their
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: family their country. No, it's it's it's women halfway around
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the world. That they don't know and we'll never meet.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: And you know, whether it's really a benefit or not
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: to be able to have an abortion, it's obviously debatable,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and I don't think it is. But even if abortion
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: was the gold standard of medical treatment and all women
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: should have access to it and it's the greatest thing
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: on earth and blah blah blah blah blah, even if
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: it was the best thing we could do for women
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and children everywhere, which I obviously don't agree with. But
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: even if that was true, you shouldn't be forced to
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: pay for women in France or Zimbabwe or Australia or
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Brazil to have it done in countries.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: That most Americans will never ever even be able to visit,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: right because because of the way we are taxed, we
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: cannot afford to even visit these places, right, And I mean,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: it's just disgusting that this is where our money is
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: going to. I have a real problem with the fact that,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: you know, forget about fucking funding abortions, where when who
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: is going to start funding the fucking education of how
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: to prevent pregnancy? And I mean, this just seems so
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: stupid on the face of it. Preventing pregnancy, right, it's
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: just you know, you don't fuck number one. That's that's
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: kind of how you do it. Or you use the
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: litany of birth control options that are available. What let's
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: do that, you know what I mean? Like, why why
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: is it that abortion is the thing that we are
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: spending our money to. It's it's because we have provided
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: It's like the grocery store, right, Like, when you give
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: people too many options, they just can't make up their mind, right,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: so they go home with probably the worst fucking option
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: available to them.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Or they spend a shitload of money on something that
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: they could get cheaper.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Right right right when instead what we need to be
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: doing is teaching these people what actually is on these
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: grocery aisles, and in the grocery aisles, I mean, and
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: the pharmacist isle of pharmaceutical of of.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Like the there's a whole section for women's stuff, women's health,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: and it includes everything from the birth control items to
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you know, like pills you take for your and airy
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: health and and everything all of the you know, the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: stuff to deal with that not so fresh feeling from
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: the commercials, which isn't healthy.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: But I don't know how old I am, but I
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: was like, maybe a week year old when I fucking
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: walked through CVS and found vibrayers in.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: C Yes, yep, how the women's teth section.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, How do you have products for sexual stimulation? Yet
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: you cannot provide more than I couldn't tell you. I
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: mean condoms, That's that's what you condoms And if you
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: knock on the window you can probably get them plan b.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, at at various pharmacies. Actually, in fact, when
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I worked at a at a pharmacy, you know, they
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: had everything from from a condoms and and spermicital lube,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: spermicital film and all that, the sponges all the way
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: up to morning after pills on the shelf. You didn't
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: have to go behind the counter to get it. You
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: just had to get it unlocked. Because that's one of
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the things that the the shoplifting gangs target and.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: And they do that. They do that in in to
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: like remove this stigma of having to ask for these things,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: like oh my god, how how.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: They're removed of having to ask for the medication, but
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: then you have to ask to get it unlocked.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: It's but they don't use it anyway. They don't fucking
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: use it anyway. So what really is the point of
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: all of it. It's just a fucking song and dance
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: just to be able to say, oh, well, oh my god, loops.
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: Something happened and oh I got pregnant, and oh no,
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: it's it's my it's mine, it's it's I.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: I am, I need I need a medical intervention for
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: my body. It's my body, and oh my god, I
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: just I don't know what happened. All of a sudden,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: there's another body inside of my body, and it's my
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: right to not have to deal with this other body
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: inside of my body. But it's not a body, it's
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: just it's just whatever we can you whatever is terminology
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: we can use to psychologically detach.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Can we call it a two body problem?
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Yes? Oh my god, Uh yes, it's it's like any
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: any term they can use to psychologically detach themselves from
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: what is actually happening inside of their own body. It's
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: it's disgusting, it's disgusting, it's like.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: It's it's uh, it's compartmentalizing, right, So you don't think
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: of you don't think of it as meeting the criteria
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: that it meets. You learn in in health class in
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the United States when you are growing up, you learn
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: that the criteria for life includes a very specific set
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: of characteristics. And then you learn about the gestational development
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: of a human organism, and lo and behold from conception,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: from implantation that that life meets all of those criteria,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: every single one of them. And you know, we have
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: this compartmentalization of well, it's not alive. And you also
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: learned that the the human species is classified based on
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: having specifically human chromosomes. And you also learn that that
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: after conception, the blastocyst, which is the early stage before
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: it becomes a zygote in an embryo or fetus and
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: embryo and all that, it's it's it's got human chromosomes.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: It's got the correct number of human chromosomes, and so
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: it is classified as the species human. But you can
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: come partmentalize and say, well, morally, it's not a human life. Okay,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: where do you get that? Well, the law says it's
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: not a human life. Once upon a time the law
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: said black people only counted as three fifth of a person.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: M hm, right. The law is not always right. When
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: it's wrong, we change.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: It exactly exactly, you know. But these people can't think
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: past their own fucking genitals, right, so you know, and
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: I'm sure there are a gaggle of these abortion addicts,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: and that's what I'm gonna call them. They're addicted to abortion.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Abortion addicts. Yeah, also own animals. They are guardians of
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: cats and dogs, and well, what would you say if
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: your cat got pregnant and she's looking at me right now, say,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: don't you.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Be putting that on me? Girls, I don't want it.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Not thrilled?
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: How would they feel if their unspaded cat got out
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: and just stop looking at me like that cat, you're
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: not getting out. They got out and and happened to
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: come home pregnant. You know, it would be oh my gosh,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: this is the miracle of life is happening within my
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: very fucking field of vision.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: But they start looking for people to give those kittens
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: two right away.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, yeah, obviously that happens. But however it doesn't.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: It doesn't. It doesn't stop them from awing at the
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: miracle of life that is happening, and and and just
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: completely being callous to what happens inside of a woman's
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: body when she becomes pregnant.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we uh, we classify stuff that is not
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: even you know, it's it's not even a full single
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: celled organism as being alive. But we don't want to
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: classic yeah, other and other, so yeah, so we have
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: we have this weird mentality and people will get butt
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: hurt over what I'm about to read, but I want
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: to remind people the underlying point here is Americans are
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: being taxed to pay for this, and it doesn't matter,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: like nobody needs to go. We don't need to go
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: to Europe and say you have to pass laws against abortion,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: or we don't need to go to South America and
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: say you have to close all your abortion clinics. We
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: don't have to go to Africa and start preaching the gospel,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: you know, or or telling them that abortion is morally
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: wrong or anything. But it's not your responsibility to pay
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: anyone to perform the procedure in those countries. It's not
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: your responsibility to provide it to them as a taxpayer.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: And like that's that's mainly my point here personally. If
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: you know, if I had some sort of omnipotent power
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: and could just travel the world and spread messages and everything,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: sure I go. I'd go argue with those points, with
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: those people, this is a dumb idea. You shouldn't be
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: doing it, and here's why. But that that would be
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: on me, and and I would just as quickly say
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't be taxed to pay for that either, right,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: But what we are talking about you being taxed to
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: pay for this is this is ending. Republicans are pushing
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: to defund nonprofits that use foreign aid to illegally promote abortion.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: We actually have legislation that limits what these nonprofits are
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: allowed to promote in foreign countries. So an hour into
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: this show, here, we're gonna we're gonna actually start reading
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: the article. We may not read all of it, it's
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: the main thing, is that point.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: But it is everybody that they should go to badger
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: feet if they want to support us directly.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: I did. I did.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Not a nonprofit organization, by the way, No, we we
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: we make money from this so as to make a living,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: just like any other quote unquote nonprofit organization, but except
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: we don't make millions of dollars from the taxpayers.
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: That's important to point out.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't be able to live on what I
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: make from this, but I do make sense.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: And we don't fucking lie to you. We tell you
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: the God's honest, awful truth, no matter if you like
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: it or not, and if listen, if you value what
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: it is we have to say. If you would like
• 49:49
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• 49:53
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• 50:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah kind of has a script for this. Brian has
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: a script for this, and we have talked about it.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: We just have to make it up as Yeah, I forget,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: forget to like and subscribe and share.
• 50:11
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• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Well, actually, the most important thing you can do if
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: you're not able to help with funding is to share
• 50:33
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• 50:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, but we did get a super chat doctor Philippo.
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: Oh de Filipo, Doctor de Filipo, Dan def LiPo God,
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: the dyslexi is bad today where because the comment above
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: it has the word doctor in it.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Good grief, that was bad.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Sorry, it's not your fault.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: It's uh yeah, sometimes my fault. I'm The worst I've
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: had was I've actually pulled a word from the middle
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: of a paragraph into the paragraph below it and read
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: it into that paragraph and been very confused until I
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: figured out where it came from. Uh but Dan, everyone, yeah,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: this isn't normal.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Just sucktick.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: There we go. That's right, I'm not list exic you are. Relatedly,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: he gave us five dollars USD and said, relatedly, women
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: are never more concerned about the federal budget than when
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: you suggest two hundred and fifty dollars mandatory paternity tests
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: could be provided by government. Yeah, those those tests are useful,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: But recently I've seen two news stories where a test
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: positively id'd the wrong man as the father or the baby,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: and one of them was the test. The other one
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: was a woman was able to get child support by
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: faking that and convincing her husband that he was the father,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: or her boyfriend that he was the father when he wasn't.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: But I would say any man who is concerned about
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: his paternity should get more than one test and get
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: them done at different labs. Now, after knowing that, is
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: that just that that fucked me up a little bit,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: like even even a paternity test doesn't prove anymore the
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: fact right.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Ahead, Well, if women can get men to pay for
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: eighteen years of child support. I think two hundred and
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: fifty dollars of that money can maybe go towards the test.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, what are you going to say? You will
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: think so and and so. You know, I've heard and
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: I've often been on the very side of the idea
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: of DNA testing at birth right, because it just removes
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: all doubts. And I still now it doesn't.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: That's that's the thing. It doesn't.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Now it doesn't. And but there's there is the other
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: thing to think about, which is, well, then who Because
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: these people when once you give them your DNA, anyone
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: who's done DNA testing right just to see what their
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: bloodline is, they tell you in the paperwork that you
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: signed that they now own your DNA, right like they
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: they own it, They own that what you give them.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: So it's it's got to be rewritten. Just like we
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: need we need a fucking law. We need a set
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: of laws for the internet, right like that it's long overdue.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, here's here's how that works. Right. We had
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: a set of laws created under the guise of protecting
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: people's intellectual property, and a set of laws created under
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the guise of preventing monopolistic actions, and a set of
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: laws created under the guise of preventing the use of
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: vexatious litigation to harass business entities and private entities over
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: this business disputes and stuff like that. And though that
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: combination of laws now gets used to allow big corporate
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: monopolies to steal the intellectual property of individual citizens and
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: then use vexatious litigation to prevent them from getting it
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: back or getting any money for it. Like, when you
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: rely on government to make the determination of these things
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: and to be your protector in regard to these things,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: what you end up doing is empowering whoever can pay
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: politicians the most money, and whoever can get big enough
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to afford the most lawyers and the most powerful lawyers
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and manipulate the court system the most. You allow them
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: to crush the little guy pretty much. So the better
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: thing actually is for the Internet to be a wild
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: frontier and for like, obviously, if you know there's already
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: laws against things like raping, killing, pillaging, and burning, you
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: can't steal from people. You can't break into somebody's house
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: and kill them without repercussions you get caught. Those things
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: are already real and we already have means of handling defamation.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: We already have means of handling if somebody harasses you
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: using the police and so on, we already have means
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: of handling that. So we don't really need new laws.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: We just need proper enforcement of existing law. Somebody shows
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: up on your doorstep, you should be able to call
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: the police, and they enforce the law. They arrest that person,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: you file trespassing charges, and it's done and over with.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: But instead we have all these people. You shouldn't be
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: able to say this or do this, or sell this
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: or whatever on the internet. As long as it's not
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: illegal to sell it on a street corner or in
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: a store or in your house, it shouldn't be illegal
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: to sell it on the internet either. And if it
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: already is illegal, then the fact that it took place
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: on the Internet shouldn't change anything. And that's all that's
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: needed right there. And with regard to DNA testing and
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: everything intellectually, intellectual property laws existing already are the problem.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: You can't copyright something if copyright doesn't exist. You can't
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: steal somebody's health information if you don't have the government
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: to back you in denying them a right to copy
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: it and keep it keep their own copy. So honestly,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: I think the less law rather than more law is
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: needed here. And the only the only thing that really
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: should exist in this in this area is the DNA
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: sequencing I had done was not through twenty three and
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: me and stuff like that was through a company called Sequencing,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: which you can get twenty three and meters family stuff
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: through them. I didn't go and do that. I went
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: to healthcare end of it. And you know, they have
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: to abide by hippo laws. So if for instance, somebody
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: is looking for their ancestry, my results don't come up
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: on their search. So I'm not going to have some
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: stranger approach me and be like, hey, I'm your second
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: cousin twice removed from the such and side side because
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: they won't get my information. And that's I want that
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: privacy because that's that's my information doesn't belong to everybody else,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: you know. I'm fine with the fact that genealogy is public,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: like you can you can get on ancestry dot Com
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: and look up family members and stuff like that, and
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: that's all birth certificates and all that. That's you know,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: people can find that, but they won't randomly run across
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: me in And at the same time, if the cops
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: decide to send some DNA, they picked up some random
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: DNA they picked up to twenty three and meters and
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: get a result and use that to find suspects, they're
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: not going to because I had a medical DNA test,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: go through my whole family and look for people in
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: my family that might have some connection to the individual
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: who left that DNA. That was a worry for me
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: because we've done reports on stories where people have been
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: wrongly accused because their DNA was this much or that
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: much of a match, and it turns out that not
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: only did they not commit the crime, but the person
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: who did wasn't even part of their immediate family.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think there are there are exceptions
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: to the rule of you know, knowing your parentage, right
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: like if for medical reasons. Obviously, if there are, you know,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: if you have a family history of a certain medical disease,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: then I believe that the child should know that, right like,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: because otherwise the doctors are going to be just sitting
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: there like, well, I don't know what's wrong with you.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: I can do you have a history in all the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: how I can say, is I don't know. They may
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: not even know that they were a product of, you know,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: a donation, right, like a sperm donation.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a good example for you, even even if
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: you don't have a known family history of something I
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: had a the way the insurance companies handle diagnoses like
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Ailor's dan loss. For instance, I went in, you know,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: I talked to my doctor about a certain set of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: health considerations I was having, and he started looking at
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: at Ailor's dan loss after ruling out a bunch of
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: other things, like a sheitload of other things. And so
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: then then I go to this genetic counselor. And I
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: have to go to the genetic counselor because my insurance
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: company will not pay for genetic testing unless the genetic
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: counselor agrees that I need to tested for that one
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: specific disorder. And so I go in and I talk
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: to them, and nobody in my family has this diagnosis.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: But you can go back through one side of my family,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: and there's a direct line of people with the same symptoms, right,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: and all of them would have met what's called the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: bite and score criteria for being tested and being potentially
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: diagnosed every single one of them, and at least one
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: individual for our fans as well. But in any case,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: and it's it's a disorder that usually hits people that
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: are tall, but there's a short person in my family,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: like really short, who had the symptoms. So it's it's
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: not unique to tall people, and it's not unique to
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: people of certain ethnic backgrounds and stuff like that, and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: and so on. It's it's actually peppered a lot more
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: broadly in the population than people think, and the diagnosis
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: is actually increasing because people are actually able to get
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: their their DNA tested for it now. But in any case,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: this guy did that, he's he got his bedside manner sucked,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: and he immediately didn't like me, and it was immediately
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: obvious enough that even I could tell. And so this
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: sort of stiff mannerism toward me and then denied me
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: the test, which is why I went to this other company,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: which was interesting because I basically paid, you know, somewhat
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: more than what my cope would have been for the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: testing had I gone through the medical system that my
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: insurance paid for, and I got a ship ton more
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: information than I would have gotten if I'd have gone
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: that way. But but Yeah, you have to go through
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: this whole weird process. The insurance company won't pay for
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: the test if you don't get approval from this this
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: specialist who is basically just a nurse who has some
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: information on how how to determine this stuff. And it's
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: a nurse with extra training, not a doctor or anything
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: like that, and and and that can keep you from
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: getting your testing done too.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: There's there, there's so much broken with our society, and
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: healthcare is is one of the major ones.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Ye, right, yeah, so in the and in the meantime, right,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm one of few women who may have paid
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: more into the tax system than I got back. Yeah,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: you know, because I've been the bread winner in our
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: family for many years because of the government taking most
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: of my husband's money and giving it away, right, so
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: income he earned wasn't going into our household for quite
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: a long time. And even now I get more opportunity
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: for overtime than he does for paid overtime anyway than
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: he does, and so I'm still making it. Plus, you know,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: I do get the honey Badger radio income, although I'm
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: kind of spending more than I'm making. So when you
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: add up everything that it cost me to make sure
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: I'm able to do this, but you know, on paper,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: like I'm paying the bulk of our taxes, and so
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: I'm paying for this ship that we're reading about in
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: this article. And I couldn't even get my medical care
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: covered and I couldn't pay for my meds. I had
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: to save up to get this DNA test. So that's
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: the reason that I did this. That I got that
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: DNA test done was literally because my avenues. You know,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: why why would am I having to pay for something?
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Pay to be told that I can't get medical care,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: basically pay to be denied access to medical care? That
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: mandate is bullshit. And if that mandate didn't exist, you know,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe I wouldn't have medical insurance. But at the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: other end of it, you know, maybe I'd have been
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: able to put more money into medical savings, which has
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: worked out way better for me, because there isn't an
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: entity that I have to go through that says, well,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: you personally don't need this healthcare and therefore we're not
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: going to pay for it. And I've had that a
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: bunch of times. My family history includes colon cancer, and
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: I'm almost I've almost aged out of the danger zone
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: for women in my family, which is weird thing to
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: say at at fifty fifty two, But I.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Mean, you should have been dead thirty years ago, right right,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: so nothing even matters anymore.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: You're a fucking goddess.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: Technically, yeah, yeah, technically I'm immortal, so far, right, so far.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: But in my family, the youngest person that I knew
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: personally that had it died when she was twenty eight.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: And that's what happens to the women. Like the men
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: don't don't get hit with it till they're over fifty,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: the women usually get hit with it before they're fifty.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: And my grandma on my dad's side passed away at
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: forty nine, so I'm older than she ever got to be.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: And so I went in to talk to my doctor
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: about it when I was in my twenties and like, oh, well,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: we're going to get some baseline information here, and they start,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: you know, we're going to do this test and we're
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: gonna you know, blah blah. The insurance company's like, no,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: she's too young. So you know, we did this whole thing.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: Send them all the history, send them, you know, Like
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: my cousin had just passed away from this at twenty eight,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: and you know, my doctor wrote this whole thing up
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: of this is this is the risk in this family.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, she's too young. We don't we
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: don't approve, we won't pay. You can't get this done.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm like, what do you mean I
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: can't get this done? Well, I could self pay, right, yeah,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: you can self pay, but it's this much money. Well,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: if I didn't have insurance taking money out of my
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: pay and I was putting that money into a medical
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: savings account, I would have it and I could do that.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: But unfortunately, at that time I didn't have the thousands
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: of dollars that was going to take. So I didn't
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: get the testing, I didn't get the information. I didn't
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: get to find out until I was over thirty five
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: that I'm not at risk. So I had a good
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: almost almost ten years of being paranoid about it, a
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: lot of stress because you know, that was Yeah, it's
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: a really awful thing to have happened to you. Honestly,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to describe it, but but yeah,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: so we have this situation. Men face this quite a bit,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: right where they go and do get medical treatment and
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: they get treated like, uh, there there's drug seeking where
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: they're whining, or you know, well you don't need time
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: off for this, or we don't have to take this
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: too seriously, right.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: I can deal with it, why can't you?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or you know. In the meantime, they're responsible for
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: their family financially. Many men are in the position of
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: not only are they forced to have insurance through their employer,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: so there's a big junk being taken out of their
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: check for that, but they're also forced to pay for
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: separate you know, pay separately for insurance for their ex
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: or their ex and their children or just their children. Yeah.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: And then on top of that, they're paying child support,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: and some judges are making men pay other expenses. Oh well,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: she needs a babysitter, so you got to pay for
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: that too. She needs this, you got to pay for
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: that too. The child is in in sixteen stupid little
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: activities that the mother thinks will make the child a
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: more well rounded adult, and so you have to pay
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: for the child's underwater basket weaving lessons and uh, you know,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: ballet for toddlers and shit like that. The toddlers that
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: are never going to pursue dance after they get out
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: of elementary school. And so these guys are strapped, and
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: then the doctor says, well, you know, it's about time
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: you get a baseline in your testing for this disorder
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: or that event that happens in men's lives on regular basis,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: like colon cancer testing or prostate exams or any little
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: thing that gets monitored. You know, Oh, you have a
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: family history history of heart health problems. We should double
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: check and make sure that you don't have this specific
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: type of arhythmia that your father has, you know, or
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: things like that. And they can't afford it. It's going
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: to cost this much copay. Oh well I don't have
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: that money, right, Well, you know, we can't do the
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: testing until you pay, pay the day get the testing done.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: And they're paying taxes to pay for abortions in foreign countries. So,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: according to the article, Republican lawmakers are moving to prevent
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: US foreign eight dollars from unlawfully promoting abortion abroad after
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: the Biden administration used critical HIV and AIDS relief money
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: to do so.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: They love that fucking word unlawfully.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's illegally.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: They will wedge that ship in there anywhere they can
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: no matter whether it fits or is even accurate. It's yeah,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: I don't like it.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Its lawful, yep, yeah, unlawful is uh it's it almost
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: feels like a wizzle word. They are breaking the law.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: It's unlawful, it's illegal. It's it's uh violation.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Right, And so what do we have going on here?
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: We're supporting We're supporting initiatives to reduce HIV and AIDS worldwide,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: so that I mean it came to the United States
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: via travelers from foreign countries. There's actually a reason why
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: we want to reduce it worldwide. Reducing it worldwide will
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: reduce it here, and it'll reduce the chances of it
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: coming back once it gets down to a point where
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: it's rare or eliminated. They're taking money away from that
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: and using it for abortion, which does absolutely nothing to
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: reduce transmission. Right, maybe a child won't be born with it,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: but the adult that infected the child with it, the
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: fetus with it, still has it and is still having sex.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: So Senator Mike Lee from Utah and Representative Warren Davidson
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: from Ohio, both Republicans, are introducing legislation in each chamber.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: The AID Accountability Act of twenty TI twenty five to
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: create harsh penalties for NGOs and federal employees who violate
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: the Helm's Amendment in nineteen seventy three law banning foreign
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: assistance money from going towards abortion. The National Review has learned,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: so this will basically prevent you from being taxed to
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: pay for abortion. Regardless of what the NGO's platform is,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: they can say anything from you know, we go into
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: foreign countries and help with family planning, which is an
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: umbrella abortion would fall under, to we go into foreign
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: countries and help with crime prevention, which is an umbrella
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: that you'd have to stretch pretty big to get abortion
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: under it. And they still are not allowed to use
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: your money to abort children in other countries. It is
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: illegal and immoral for the US government to fund abortion abroad.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: Federal funding for groups that promote abortion damages our credibility
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: and hurts our ability to work with nations the share
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: pro life values, Davidson said in a statement to National Review.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: And an interesting thing Historically, nations that are predominantly Catholic,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: for instance, don't get along with the idea of having
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: abortion paid for in their countries. Now you know, historically
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: nations that are predominantly Catholic don't like us sending them
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: birth control pills either, you know, or condoms or anything
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: like that. And I guess the messaging is changing in
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church now and it's going through a evolution
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: in regard to that stuff. But you know, that may
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: not be permanent. The member of the Catholic Church may
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: decide that they're not going to support that uh worldwide,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: And there are other other religious groups that that don't
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: really support the idea of abortion that that religion may
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: dominate some countries. There are also other reasons why even
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: a nation that is it doesn't necessarily have a moral
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: imperative to avoid abortion may may not like it being
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: promoted in their country. And one of the things that
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: we talked about in a couple of episodes was just
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: how much foreign aid organizations in the United States we're
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: targeting Africa with prevention of reproduction and sterilization of men
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: in fact, and not just abortion. So we're we're looking at,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: you know, is what is actually being done there? Is
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: that a it's not is it not just a prevention
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: of poverty growth, but a prevention of population growth? For
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: other reasons. Yeah, so there's some very serious questions that
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: need to be answered before we even consider approving of
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: promoting these types of things in foreign nations. But the
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: Aid Accountability Act ensures real consequences for those who ignore
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: the Helm's Amendment by permanently banning nonprofits caught using federal
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: funds for abortion, so they use those funds to promote abortion,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: they can never get federal funding again. Further, it would
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: ban federal workers from civil service who knowingly violate the law.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: So if you violate the law, you go into a
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: foreign country and you promote this as part of your
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: service in another country, you're fired and you cannot get
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: another job in Government's Basically, you're out of the industry,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: because government is an industry. So only by restoring accountability,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: it says to foreign aid, can we hope to restore
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: trust in the state Department? So this last bit here,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: can we help to restore trust in the state Department?
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: In my opinion, we shouldn't have trust in the State Department.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: We should be watching it just like every other bit
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: of the federal bureaucracy like a hawk, Like a hawk
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: that is just as hungry as can possibly be. And
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: is looking for mice in the agency or slightly larger animals.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: But you know, it's fill fair for them to say, certainly,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: we can't restore trust without doing this. Davidson, a hardline
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: member of the Foreign The House Foreign Affairs Committee, is
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: hoping to increase accountability to foreign aid programs after the
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: State Department recently admitted to using pep FI funds. We
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: did talk a little bit about pep FAR to promote abortion.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: Pep FAR is the US Global healthcare plan to combat
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: HIV and AIDS worldwide, and is considered one of the
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: most successful governmental programs in recent American history. For years,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: American tax dollars have gone to foreign aid efforts that
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: promote abortion and direct violation of the Helm's Amendmently said
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: in a statement, this is largely because there have been
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: no real penalties for this grievous abuse until now. Our
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: legislation permanently cuts aid off from many organizations which violate
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: abortion prohibition and permanently fires any federal employee who knowingly
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: facilitates it. Confirms what he said. They're fired, they're out,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: and they can't they can't come back. So this part
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: just repeats what we read before. But they do have
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: a list, and this is this is mostly on one
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: side of the political aisle. Here, Chris Smith, New Jersey
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Republican representative, is the one who obtained the list. The
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: extensive list of the left wing nonprofits that partnered with
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: pep fire that actively promote abortion shows that one point
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: three billion dollars went to the collection of over two
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: dozen organizations in fiscal years twenty twenty one and twenty
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: twenty two combined. And so they had they had that
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: much funding that we don't know how much of it
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: was dedicated to abortion. Then let's see. Of course the
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: alarm was raised by pro life organizations. Here we have
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: confirmation of the earlier statement about this actually affects our
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: foreign relations. African lawmakers and religious leaders have criticized the
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: US for attempting to weaponize peb FAR funding to advance
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: pro abortion agenda on foreign countries with different sets of values.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: This is something that I had been kind of unaware
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: of until social media spread around the world and when
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: I started getting more and more connections in Africa and
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: listening to what they had to say. Abortion is really
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: kind of a foreign idea to them. This isn't something
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: that you know, the African women were just clamoring for
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: the right to kill their babies before they were born,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: and American heroes came in and saved the day. We're
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: not a mighty mouse. In fact, this was a horror
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: that has been visited upon communities that are often deeply religious,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: not necessarily always Christian, but some of them are, some
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: of them are Muslim, some of them are older to
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: the area religions that didn't come in and evangelize them
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: to one or another of the Abrahamic religions that are
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: starting to dominate the continent now, and in even they're
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: older cultures, abortion wasn't something that they would have said, Hey, yeah,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: we desperately want to be able to do this. We
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: just we just need you to come in here and
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: provide us with the means. Instead, it was a kind
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: of it's the kind of thing that you're like, it's
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: just like the when Thomas Paine wrote, I can't think
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: of what it was called modest proposal. It's like the
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: proposal that you eat your children to avoid starvation and
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: a famine. It's just as much of a taboo violation
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: for for some of the people that it's been visited
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: upon and so they were not happy to be receiving this,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: and they were not happy to see their children talked
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: into it as they got into their reproductive years. They
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: were not happy to see their friends and family buying
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: into these ideas. Instead, they were horrified that this was
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: spreading around their country. And so it's it's actually been
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: considered to be a corruption inflicted instead of a rescue
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: from problems they were having. Richard Bierre gave us five
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: dollars and said, something to look into is just what
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: kind of mineral resources in demand happen to be prevalent
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: in the areas where these sterilizations campaigns are being pushed.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: Unrelated erectile dysfunction can be treated with diet and exercise.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: The hardest part is getting the wife to diet and exercise.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah that's true, but yeah, that is a good point.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: Are are these organizations going in there and reducing the
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: population growth of certain areas where mineral resources are in
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: demand and then paving the way for American businesses to
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: go in and say, well, we'll harvest those for you
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: and sell those for you for a fee. Right, we
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: get a little off the top, because that that is
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: definitely exploitation, and it would add that on top of
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you sterilize a group of people based
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: on their national organ or their national origin, that would
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: be considered a genocide. Right when you go in and
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: you say, oh, we're gonna we're gonna prevent this population
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: from being able to reproduce and grow, We're gonna interfere
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: with their natural progress, that that's a quiet genocide. You're
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: not actively rounding them up into camps, You're just keeping
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: them from reproducing. So goes on. We asked that PEP
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: far remain true to its original mission and respect our norms, traditions,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: and values and otherwise, yeah, we don't want people to
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: die from AIDS. We don't want you to start promoting abortion. Here.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: We ask at those partner organizations with whom the US
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: government partners to implement PEP fire programs in ways that
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: are cognizant and respectful of our beliefs and not crossover
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: into promoting the divisive ideas and practices that are not
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: consistent with those of Africa. The African leaders wrote in
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: a twenty or June twenty twenty three letter to Congress,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: they want they want help preventing and treating HIV and AIDS.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: They don't want abortion. So it's not even it's not
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: even that we are helping promote abortion. We're inflicting it
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: on them against their will. Circumcision, yep, exactly like circumcision. Actually,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: where we're inflicting things on these foreign countries at the
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: expensive men that are abuses of the people of that nation.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: And in the case of circumcision, it disproportionately affects men.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: They're not doing it to girls, they're not promoting doing
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: it to girls, They're promoting doing it to boys, right,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: and abortion also affects men. Men who want to be
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: fathers and expect to be fathers are losing their children
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: to this. So this article is from a couple of
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. I identified it shortly before the last couple
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: of episodes, and I'm still watching to see, you know what,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: if the further action has been taken on this initiative.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: But I'll keep you guys up to date if they
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: pass this and when it's going to go into law,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: and when it's going to go into effect and stuff
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: what the votes are. But yeah, this is insane that
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: we're doing this, that we're being taxed for this, and
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: it's illegal already, it's just not enforced. So what Republicans
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: are basically doing is saying, we have this nineteen seventy
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: three law that says you can't do this. This is
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: being done against the will of the nations that it's
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: being done in. It is interfering with our foreign relations.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: We're going to create a pathway for enforcement in order
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: to stop these problems. And currently this is still in debate.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: They have to debate this. We got to decide whether
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: or not to enforce our own laws to our benefit
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: and the benefit of our citizens that we're taxing to
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: pay for things that we're doing illegally. And that is
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: the article. Such that our wandering conversation had any thoughts.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: You awake, Lauren, I'm awake, but I got disconnected for
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: a second. So no, I'm not sure how to articulate
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: my thoughts because I was disconnected.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 4: For Lauren, you awake.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: Oh shit, I think we knocked her out with the article.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 4: It's a good thing I'm here.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can hear movement.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 4: But but yeah, even though I don't have any thoughts.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: So we did carry on.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did have a question isn't it jail, Oh,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Balls asked, isn't it disconnected?
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 4: Again?
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: No, you're not disconnected. You're not, oh ship. Can you
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: hear me? Oh? I think Mike can't hear me, but
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: I can hear him. Let me type that into our chat.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 4: Okay, you know I can hear me.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's getting it's it's getting spotty.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: Is all?
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: That's not good? Well, it's probably because the weather here
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: has been a little weird. Normally this time of year
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: we have a little bit of rain, we get a
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: lot of rain in April, but it's not usually this cold,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: and we've had like a lot of electrical storms and
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: flooding because of the weird weather we had this year.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: This is one of those years in the in the
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: dueling cycles that happen. We have the the the sun
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: temperature cycle where it creates more heat in this area
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: this area and then less heat at other times, and
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: it's like a twenty five year cycle with a peak
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: and a valley within that twenty five year cycle that
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: are like opposite to each other. And then there's I
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: think the nine year cycles for El Nino and La
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: Nina that also affect our weather. And when those sync
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: up in particular ways. You get years where the weather
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: is particularly unusual, and I think this is one of
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: those years. It's been one of those years, and I
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: think sometimes that can have an effect. So because our
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: internet has been really weird this year, like we've had
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: good service. This is one of the things actually that
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: I spend.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 4: Over here.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: Over there, the weather is apparently killing killing my microphone.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm I'm I'm currently in Scotland. The weather is
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: as cold as it normally is in Scotland, but only
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: April sort of weather. And I don't know if you
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: can hear anything I'm saying right now, I can hear you.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: We just you got cut out there for a minute though.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: That's apparently going to happen, not just because I'm in Scotland,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: but because I'm in a utility room that's located some
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: fifteen meters from from the from from the router.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll do it too.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: If you're isn't a problem, but apparently it is. It
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 4: is right now.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: But I have to be here so that my parents
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: Cootland for the past two and a half weeks, folks,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: In case you didn't know, that's that's why things have
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: been a bit different. I have to do this from
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: the utility room, so in the in in in these
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  Speaker 2: witching hours in which I do these things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Otherwise you'd keep the whole house awake. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for me, it's not that that bad.
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  Speaker 4: I hope any of you heard any of anything.
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  Speaker 1: I just said, yeah, we heard it, we heard Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's not that bad. Usually I'm like, I'm
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: actually just a few feet away from the router, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm paying for the business level of of both
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  Speaker 1: both wired internet and wireless just because the laptop I use,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: I use Wi Fi instead of using a cord. Despite
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: the advice I've had from everybody, I still haven't. I
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  Speaker 1: still haven't wired it. But and so so we're we're
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: paying for a a larger, larger service basically, uh. And
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: it seems to have for the most part over the
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  Speaker 1: last five years, it seems to have been very beneficial.
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  Speaker 1: But occasionally we get interruptions because of the weather. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm fortunate where you know there are service towers and
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: stuff around here, because a lot of the same towers
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: are serving base housing and stuff like that, especially the
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: the cell phone towers and the power lines and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We don't usually go down for very long. Where I am,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: we have really good service. But but yeah, definitely have
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: had quite a bit of benefit from that. But I
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: have noticed that when we have had problems, like when
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: I have problems, it's usually weather related, and it's usually
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: you know, like I'll hear about there having been some
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: sort of solar event or there's been some sort of
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: an electrical event, and that seems to be the issue.
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  Speaker 1: So in any case, I think we have pretty much
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: covered the main thing that I wanted to get across
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: here is we are starting to because of the work
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: that DOSEE has been doing, we are starting to see
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  Speaker 1: some accountability in terms of not only are are fraudulent
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: things being shut down, but also enforcement at least proposals
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: for enforcement of existing laws that are currently being violated
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: by these NGOs. And I think that's a very important
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: thing simply because they have been four years. Like we
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: noted in previous episodes, some of these have been in
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: operation for fifty years, so for for half a century,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: they've been taking your money and your parents' money, your
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: family member's money, your friend's money, your boss's money. You know,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: like a huge amount out of the American economy really
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: and spending it on whatever they see fit, with very
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: little accountability, very few questions asked. There have been some
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: things come out recently, some highlights come out recently where
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: you know, people have got funding for initiatives that didn't
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: even exist. Oh, we're going to do this, and then
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: they just keep the money. There was one I just
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: shared a news story of last night, a woman who
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: claimed she was going to be helping the children of
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: soldiers do something called targeted learning or deliberate learning or
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: willful learning or something like that, where the description is
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: basically that they are are doing sort of a self
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: guided I'm learning this because I want to learn this,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: and I'm learning it on purpose, and it's my idea
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  Speaker 1: and my decision, and you know, the whole thing just
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: didn't exist. She just took the money and kept it.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: There was no program, there were no employees, there were
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: no children help, there was nothing, just huge amount of
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: money that she got, right, And so that account of
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: ability is really important because even if even if it's
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: stuff that we approve of spending money on, which I
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily think the federal government should be involved in
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: any of that, but even if we were like, yeah,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: this is great program, we think that the federal government
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: should be funding this, and we're gonna we're gonna support that.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: It's not always true, it's not always real. Quite frequently
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: there they're just scamming the shit out of people. So
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: we have finished our super chats. We have finished our
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: super chows. We don't have any rumble rants. So with that,
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  Speaker 1: I will say thanks guys for going over this article
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: with me and the long and wandering discussion around it,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: and thanks to everybody who works in the background and
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: make HBr talk happen. Thanks everybody for listening to us,
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: and good night.
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  Speaker 3: Al