WEBVTT 00:00.880 --> 00:05.880 So I was reading a comment from a listener earlier today 00:06.660 --> 00:08.000 Shout out to myself 00:08.780 --> 00:12.620 It's supposedly it. Yeah, it was me there. They wrote it, but 00:14.380 --> 00:15.780 It's just it 00:15.780 --> 00:19.800 Yeah, we got a lot of stuff to go over today and 00:22.820 --> 00:26.180 Yeah, the main monologue that we're gonna talk about in the first 00:26.860 --> 00:29.860 Section here or whatever you want to call it. It's gonna be an hour or not 00:30.860 --> 00:33.520 It's the how 00:36.780 --> 00:39.960 Fascism socialism communism 00:42.140 --> 00:43.500 Any former government 00:45.300 --> 00:48.040 They're all wrong 00:50.260 --> 00:56.180 And I'm gonna since it's the Thanksgiving holiday here in the States 00:57.340 --> 00:58.960 I'm gonna cover that too 01:00.560 --> 01:01.520 We're gonna 01:02.180 --> 01:09.720 Talk about a little unknown. It's not really unknown. It's they just don't teach it in in the history class anymore 01:09.720 --> 01:14.080 And I think it's a good thing to get out there because it really 01:14.880 --> 01:15.480 shows 01:16.320 --> 01:22.600 What the true meaning of Thanksgiving is and then after that? Oh 01:22.600 --> 01:27.720 After that we are gonna have an epic hour long 01:29.860 --> 01:30.780 trip into 01:34.080 --> 01:42.700 I don't know what you want to call it, but it's something I've never done and it's been the most involved thing that I've done I've 01:44.420 --> 01:45.700 slept a 01:47.040 --> 01:48.320 worked in 01:48.940 --> 01:51.620 worked on this story for like 01:52.880 --> 01:58.900 Really a solid month or so just this one single story and 01:59.860 --> 02:03.100 I've finally got it to where it's presentable and 02:04.120 --> 02:08.000 It's going to be fun. It is fiction, of course 02:08.660 --> 02:09.180 but 02:09.860 --> 02:11.860 it's based in reality and 02:12.460 --> 02:18.220 The sad thing is it's the current state of affairs that we live our lives in 02:18.980 --> 02:20.780 That's bite rebels 02:21.540 --> 02:28.840 One-way protocol. That's all coming up here right here on Liberty tunes live 02:30.020 --> 02:31.060 RLM radio 03:08.370 --> 03:10.270 so I mentioned already that I was 03:10.930 --> 03:14.330 Breeding the comment from a listener and then I made a comment and 03:15.130 --> 03:22.410 You know, I got a shout out to myself because my comment was really I thought really good, but the other 03:23.230 --> 03:25.770 person's comments and what it was was 03:26.790 --> 03:30.170 This is in a chat room in a a 03:32.030 --> 03:35.970 Communist and basically a socialist was all 03:36.530 --> 03:41.630 Going at it back and forth, you know, and then basically it was just 03:43.270 --> 03:43.870 Them 03:45.670 --> 03:52.310 Arguing the same shit and they don't realize they're arguing the exact same shit 03:52.910 --> 03:58.370 and then you can even bring in a you know the fascism into the argument and 04:01.370 --> 04:05.590 They're essentially all fighting over the same thing I mean they they they operate 04:06.530 --> 04:08.530 On this the soul supreme 04:09.610 --> 04:10.970 unadulterated arrogance 04:11.790 --> 04:16.330 That they offer a better way for the individual to live 04:17.250 --> 04:22.850 They genuinely believe that they can run your life better than you can 04:23.730 --> 04:28.370 Now just think about the ego required to believe that 04:29.370 --> 04:32.510 Just look at a human being this complex 04:33.350 --> 04:34.110 chaotic 04:34.690 --> 04:37.610 Beautiful mass of biology 04:38.650 --> 04:45.530 Dreams contradictions desires and think I can optimize that I 04:46.670 --> 04:48.210 Can put that in a spreadsheet 04:51.290 --> 04:55.150 The listener made made a great distinction though 04:56.110 --> 05:00.010 They said that the only real difference is the delivery method 05:00.790 --> 05:04.350 The communists wants to force those ideas on you immediately 05:04.990 --> 05:06.330 They use the boot 05:06.850 --> 05:14.510 They use the gulag they use the direct threat of state violence to say you will comply because we own you 05:15.570 --> 05:23.010 The socialists they're a little more subtle. They want to course you through the communal majority 05:23.010 --> 05:26.090 They don't use a boot. They use a guilt trip 05:26.690 --> 05:29.170 They use the sheer weight of the mob 05:30.190 --> 05:35.870 They use the homeowners association from a hell to nag you into submission 05:37.170 --> 05:38.610 and the fascists 05:38.980 --> 05:40.830 You know how the fascists are they 05:41.710 --> 05:48.530 They just forced you with you know, whatever boot that they can find the biggest hardest boot they can find 05:49.830 --> 05:54.190 And you know, they're they're all they all three of them 05:55.250 --> 05:59.190 Will still start out and say it's for the greater good 06:00.190 --> 06:03.990 We want everyone to pay their fair share 06:05.530 --> 06:08.150 But the fatal flaw is identical 06:08.930 --> 06:10.270 Whether it's the political 06:10.270 --> 06:13.230 Or the planning committee 06:13.770 --> 06:20.250 It is the fatal conceit that a bureaucrat in a windowless room in Washington, DC 06:20.250 --> 06:24.390 Or somewhere else someone who has never run a business 06:25.370 --> 06:27.950 Never fixed a truck never turned a wrench 06:29.810 --> 06:35.010 Never stuck a shovel in the ground never had to hunt for their own dinner 06:35.790 --> 06:39.530 Knows how to spend your dollar better than you do 06:40.150 --> 06:43.370 Knows a diet better for you 06:43.910 --> 06:45.030 knows a 06:45.830 --> 06:51.950 Health knows your health and your personal health better than you 06:53.870 --> 06:55.450 But here's the problem 06:56.690 --> 07:02.050 They view society as a chessboard and they view you as a pawn 07:04.810 --> 07:05.490 And 07:05.490 --> 07:10.450 The problem with playing chess with human beings the pawns have their own plans 07:11.130 --> 07:12.810 The pawns have families 07:13.370 --> 07:18.650 The pawns have distinct motivations that no central planner can ever predict 07:19.730 --> 07:23.630 And when you try to force the pawns to move against their nature 07:24.430 --> 07:26.130 You don't get a checkmate 07:26.670 --> 07:28.030 You get a collapse 07:29.570 --> 07:34.070 History isn't just a suggestion folks. It's a crime scene 07:35.030 --> 07:42.270 We're gonna look at that evidence because every time this arrogance takes the wheel the car ends up in the ditch 07:43.650 --> 07:56.960 Let's talk about sparrows. You want to see the ultimate example of what we know better than you 07:57.820 --> 08:04.640 Do you have to go back to 1958 mouse China the great leap forward 08:05.360 --> 08:06.500 Unquote unquote 08:07.460 --> 08:08.660 Spoiler alert 08:08.660 --> 08:10.200 It wasn't a leap 08:10.720 --> 08:12.180 It was a face plant 08:12.860 --> 08:19.960 The central planners the experts the scientists the guys with the clipboards who love the smell of their own ink 08:20.520 --> 08:24.820 They looked at the agriculture numbers and they identified and build them 08:25.560 --> 08:27.760 The Eurasian tree sparrow 08:29.120 --> 08:33.160 See the government did the math linear bureaucratic math 08:33.160 --> 08:38.920 They calculated that a single sparrow eats about four and a half pounds of grain a year 08:39.500 --> 08:46.220 So naturally if you kill a million sparrows, you save four and a half million pounds of food for the people 08:46.220 --> 08:48.240 It's simple. It's logic 08:48.940 --> 08:50.080 It's moronic 08:50.600 --> 08:51.420 So now 08:52.120 --> 08:59.020 Drafted the plot the four pests campaign and here is where that communal majority comes in that we talked about 08:59.820 --> 09:02.520 The they mobilized the entire country 09:03.240 --> 09:11.340 I'm not exaggerating. They didn't just shoot the birds. They told citizens to go outside with pots pans drums and gongs 09:12.040 --> 09:17.980 The goal was to make up so much noise that the sparrows would be too terrified to land 09:18.820 --> 09:22.960 Imagine that an entire nation banging on cookware 09:23.620 --> 09:28.140 Forcing these birds to fly until they literally dropped out of the sky dead from exhaustion 09:28.860 --> 09:35.600 They smashed eggs. They destroyed nests. It was a war against nature and the state won 09:36.140 --> 09:38.860 They nearly wiped out the sparrow population 09:39.700 --> 09:42.560 The party officials padded themselves on the back 09:43.180 --> 09:47.540 They gave each other metals. We fixed the inefficacy of nature 09:48.480 --> 09:50.580 But they forgot one little variable 09:51.440 --> 09:57.060 The kind of variable the individual farmer knows but the bureaucrat in the capital ignores 09:58.100 --> 09:59.800 Sparrows don't just eat grain 10:00.840 --> 10:03.000 They eat locusts 10:03.820 --> 10:09.840 With no sparrows to act as the Air Force the locust population exploded it was 10:10.500 --> 10:16.420 Biblical the swarms covered the sky. They didn't eat just eat the grain. They ate everything 10:16.420 --> 10:19.600 The harvest didn't just dip it 10:20.300 --> 10:23.520 Fanished the result wasn't more food 10:24.060 --> 10:26.600 The result was the great Chinese famine 10:27.340 --> 10:30.360 estimates say anywhere from 15 to 10:30.360 --> 10:32.940 45 million people died 10:33.620 --> 10:40.500 Start the death because the government thought they could edit the ecosystem like a rough draft of a bad speech 10:40.500 --> 10:43.360 And you want to hear the punchline? 10:43.960 --> 10:46.380 The irony that hurts to laugh at 10:47.200 --> 10:53.460 By 1960 the Chinese government realized their mistake. They had to go to the Soviet Union and 10:54.140 --> 10:55.180 import sparrows 10:55.720 --> 10:57.080 They had to beg 10:57.640 --> 10:59.040 To get the birds back 10:59.800 --> 11:04.040 This is what happens when you trade individual knowledge for collective arrogance 11:04.920 --> 11:10.920 they tried to engineer reality and reality hit back with a body count and 11:12.100 --> 11:18.060 Yet people today still think well, we would do it better this time 11:19.820 --> 11:22.760 Don't bet on it not gonna happen 11:25.920 --> 11:29.740 Here's some more historical evidence for you. This is the Thanksgiving part 11:32.520 --> 11:37.320 Now I can hear you guys already the skeptics, but bonehead that was Mao that was China 11:37.320 --> 11:40.440 That was a dictatorship big that can't happen here 11:41.220 --> 11:42.400 It already did 11:43.140 --> 11:49.180 In fact, it's the reason you're about to stuff your face with turkey and watch football next Thursday 11:50.300 --> 11:53.380 We need to talk about the real origin of Thanksgiving 11:53.380 --> 12:02.480 Not the construction paper hand turkey version you learned in second grade not the sanitized everyone out held hands and shared equally meth 12:03.260 --> 12:05.260 I'm talking about the Plymouth colony 12:05.900 --> 12:06.500 1620 12:07.540 --> 12:10.900 When the pilgrims first landed they didn't just bring buckles 12:10.920 --> 12:11.540 and bibles 12:11.540 --> 12:16.100 They brought a corporate contract from their sponsors back in London 12:16.720 --> 12:21.360 That contract mandated a system that would make a modern socialist blush 12:22.080 --> 12:24.940 It was called the common course and condition 12:25.760 --> 12:26.920 Here are the rules 12:27.740 --> 12:29.220 No private property 12:29.220 --> 12:31.580 No personal ownership of land 12:32.280 --> 12:39.820 Everything you grew everything you hunted and everything you built went into a common storehouse and then the net russians were 12:39.820 --> 12:40.900 Distributed equally 12:41.520 --> 12:48.160 It didn't matter if you worked 14 hours a day or four. It didn't matter if you were the best farmer or the laziest slacker 12:48.160 --> 12:50.340 You got the same share 12:51.140 --> 12:52.380 Sounds fair, right? 12:53.100 --> 12:55.600 Sounds like that communal majority 12:56.300 --> 12:58.420 Utopia my listener was talking about 12:59.020 --> 13:00.920 Well, guess what happened? 13:01.980 --> 13:03.760 They nearly starved to death 13:04.380 --> 13:05.680 It was a disaster 13:06.300 --> 13:11.080 Governor William Bradford the guy running the show kept the diary and he didn't mince words 13:11.080 --> 13:13.580 He wrote that the young able-bodied men 13:14.280 --> 13:15.940 Suddenly didn't feel like working 13:15.940 --> 13:21.500 They resented spreading their sweat or spending their sweat in time laboring 13:21.500 --> 13:29.940 To feed other men's wives and children without any compensation. They felt used. They felt like slaves to the community 13:30.680 --> 13:33.780 So they stopped working. They feigned illness 13:34.920 --> 13:37.800 The crops rotted the common storehouse was empty 13:37.800 --> 13:42.260 The colony was on the brink of extinction because they tried to outsource 13:42.940 --> 13:45.220 individual responsibility to the collective 13:46.320 --> 13:51.000 So in 1623 was starvation staring at them in the in the face 13:51.500 --> 13:53.480 Governor Bradford did something radical 13:54.100 --> 13:58.840 He scrapped the socialist experiment. He abolished the common course 13:59.380 --> 14:05.680 He assigned every family their own plot of land. He told them whatever you grow on this land is yours 14:05.680 --> 14:09.500 You eat it. You trade it. You sell it. It belongs to you 14:09.500 --> 14:12.280 The effect was electric 14:13.260 --> 14:19.840 Bradford wrote that suddenly the women now willingly went into the field and took their little ones with them to get corn 14:21.340 --> 14:28.660 People who had claimed that they were too sick to work under the collective system were suddenly the hardest workers in the colony 14:29.920 --> 14:32.540 Productivity didn't just increase it exploded 14:33.160 --> 14:39.160 They had a bumper harvest. They had so much food that they finally had something to be truly thankful for 14:40.060 --> 14:46.720 That's the real lessons of Thanksgiving. It wasn't a celebration of a socialist commune working 14:46.720 --> 14:50.740 It was a celebration that the socialist commune ended 14:51.500 --> 14:56.960 They survived because they embraced the only system that aligns with human nature 14:57.780 --> 14:59.520 private property and 14:59.520 --> 15:00.880 individual incentive 15:02.260 --> 15:10.520 We feast next Thursday not because they shared everything but because they were finally allowed to keep what they created 15:11.400 --> 15:14.800 It's more than just Native Americans and settlers coming together 15:15.320 --> 15:18.340 It was also a celebration of human ingenuity 15:18.900 --> 15:19.840 private ownership 15:20.300 --> 15:25.080 Self-reliance and the responsibility of the individual not the collective 15:26.080 --> 15:28.040 That makes humanity thrive 15:29.480 --> 15:32.940 That's the real reason you were never taught this in history books 15:32.940 --> 15:39.760 It's also the reason they focused the story so much on the Native Americans and not the exact situation 15:39.760 --> 15:41.880 Deployment settlers were in 15:42.520 --> 15:45.740 They don't want you to remember the real history 15:46.620 --> 15:50.240 Now think about that when you pass the cranberry sauce 16:04.340 --> 16:09.840 Corporate games mask on eyes glowing red. I bite rebel voice for the voiceless 16:09.840 --> 16:15.540 The unsaid the streets are cold the eyes are blind to the truth of power the corrupt design 16:15.540 --> 16:19.900 You're screened for help, but no one hears just the equal of your own fears 16:20.920 --> 16:24.580 No one's coming no salvation just the government's cruel 16:24.580 --> 16:29.900 Nation-nation police and military they guard not you but the system the elite 16:29.900 --> 16:30.960 Jones and 16:30.960 --> 16:34.280 They promise security 16:34.860 --> 16:41.060 Peace and order, but all you get so tighter border soldiers march not for your protection 16:41.060 --> 16:46.140 But to keep the chains on your reflection in the dark under neon lights 16:46.140 --> 16:51.320 I see the fight, but no one fights right the mask. I wear a symbol of war 16:51.320 --> 16:53.860 Against the state against the core 16:53.860 --> 16:57.760 No one's coming no salvation just the government's cool 16:58.240 --> 17:03.060 Nation police and military they guard not you but the system the elite 17:07.260 --> 17:37.300 Look around the troops in plain sight the government's here to maintain their might you're just a number a cog in the wheel 17:37.300 --> 17:46.360 Their controls the only deal they sell so wear your mask join the rebellion against the tech the corporate hellion in this dystopia 17:46.360 --> 17:49.940 We're on our own. No one's coming. We're alone 18:10.830 --> 18:14.350 No one's coming no salvation just the government's cruel 18:14.350 --> 18:20.990 Nation police and military they guard not you but the system the elite the chosen few 18:20.990 --> 18:24.610 No, salvation just the government's cruel 18:24.610 --> 18:29.950 Nation police and military they guard not you but the system the elite 18:56.400 --> 19:00.020 Just realize that I forgot to download this 19:01.460 --> 19:09.040 Video of a news report to play on this part, but no worries. I'll fix it post-production or you know 19:09.040 --> 19:15.640 What do you do? Yeah, but just put the link in there, but it's a news report about back in Venezuela 19:16.480 --> 19:23.120 about eight nine years ago when they started to go south with their great stuff because they were really a 19:23.120 --> 19:25.420 great superpower and 19:26.640 --> 19:27.200 the 19:28.360 --> 19:28.880 People 19:30.580 --> 19:37.320 Got so hungry because they couldn't afford to eat that they broke into zoos and started eating the animals. Anyways, I digress 19:38.820 --> 19:39.340 Yeah 19:40.600 --> 19:44.840 You know before the break, you know, I talked about the arrogance of the leaders 19:45.360 --> 19:50.640 The ones who think they can accalculate the harvest or design a society from top down 19:51.700 --> 19:55.380 Now I want you I want a pit of it. I 19:55.380 --> 20:01.240 Want to talk about the weapon they used to keep you in line when they when you when they run out of bullets 20:02.340 --> 20:04.120 Or before they even buy them 20:04.760 --> 20:07.740 My listener back to that comment earlier 20:08.880 --> 20:15.340 He made a short observation. He noted that while communism uses the government boot 20:16.040 --> 20:19.600 Socialism often relies on being coerced through a communal majority 20:20.900 --> 20:25.880 I'll pause and think about that phrase coerced through a communal majority 20:28.120 --> 20:34.440 Sounds so nice doesn't it communo sounds like a potluck dinner 20:36.000 --> 20:40.860 Sounds like barring a cup of sugar from your neighbor, but in practice 20:42.640 --> 20:45.100 Is it the soft tyranny of the mob? 20:45.880 --> 20:46.440 Yes 20:47.300 --> 20:48.380 it is 20:49.700 --> 20:54.720 See the brilliance of this system is that the state doesn't always have to be the bad guy 20:55.480 --> 20:57.120 They outsource the enforcement 20:57.800 --> 21:01.760 To you to your neighbors to your co-workers 21:02.580 --> 21:04.280 They create a culture 21:07.680 --> 21:14.540 Where conforming is morrow and dissenting is dangerous they're doing that right now 21:16.040 --> 21:17.800 Even remember what was a back 21:19.600 --> 21:21.240 I think it was Obama's 21:23.400 --> 21:28.560 Late Obama's second term if you see something say something 21:30.160 --> 21:30.880 and 21:30.880 --> 21:39.280 Then that carried into Trump's first term and obviously Biden's you know, it's always if you see say see something say something 21:42.020 --> 21:45.000 Like the red flag laws for guns 21:46.200 --> 21:46.720 I 21:49.180 --> 21:51.100 Just got to remind everybody 21:52.540 --> 21:55.200 You know everybody talks about the story of Anne Frank 21:58.000 --> 22:01.160 The the people who turned in and Frank the dude 22:02.360 --> 22:04.100 Yeah, he was following the law 22:06.500 --> 22:11.320 He was he was the actual the one that was legally and they're correct 22:13.760 --> 22:16.640 Just because something's legal does not mean it's right 22:19.840 --> 22:26.680 The people that were hiding and Frank and her family they were they were breaking the law 22:27.960 --> 22:33.240 And everybody celebrates it's like everybody goes to the movies like 22:33.240 --> 22:36.900 I don't know pick your favorite Marvel superhero 22:38.220 --> 22:39.600 Or you know Batman 22:41.820 --> 22:42.960 You know they're 22:44.100 --> 22:52.380 Everybody's for the rebel in the movies. They stand up. They cheer, you know fight the big man 22:53.360 --> 22:59.520 But then in reality when the government comes up and says say something see something say something let us know 23:01.180 --> 23:02.620 Everybody bends a knee 23:08.700 --> 23:14.720 They tell you the true freedom is selfish. They tell you that relying on yourself is suspicious 23:15.620 --> 23:21.740 They want you to believe that the social contract a contract by the way that none of us ever signed 23:22.900 --> 23:27.460 Requires you to subject or submit to group think 23:28.400 --> 23:35.280 If you succeed too much you're greedy if you want to keep what you earn your antisocial 23:35.960 --> 23:41.780 If you want to educate your own kids, you're undermining your public the truck public trust 23:42.660 --> 23:48.180 It's a psychological prison the walls aren't made of concrete. They're made of shame 23:49.040 --> 23:52.460 They're made of the fear of being the outsider 23:53.620 --> 23:56.420 They sell you this idea of safety net 23:57.020 --> 23:59.280 Let the community take care of you they say 23:59.860 --> 24:01.880 But the majority decide I 24:04.140 --> 24:10.100 Still say the majority and the democracy is gang rape 24:14.100 --> 24:19.720 But let me tell you something about nets if a net is tight enough to catch you and 24:20.820 --> 24:25.880 When you fall it's tight enough to strangle you when you try to stand up 24:25.880 --> 24:31.800 That safety net is a spider web once you're in it. You owe this spider 24:34.400 --> 24:39.420 Listener into this comment with only with the only truth that really matters really 24:39.980 --> 24:44.600 The only real freedom is that of the individual and he's right 24:45.500 --> 24:50.760 Freedom isn't about voting for the guy who promises to give you the most free shit 24:51.740 --> 24:55.100 Freedom is the ability to look at the count communal majority 24:55.100 --> 25:00.880 Look at the mob look at the collective and say the most powerful word in the English language 25:01.940 --> 25:02.540 No 25:04.120 --> 25:06.120 No, I won't participate 25:07.040 --> 25:08.980 No, I won't conform 25:10.000 --> 25:14.920 No, I won't pretend your lie is the truth just to fit in 25:18.400 --> 25:20.860 But be warned when you say no 25:21.400 --> 25:27.800 To the collective things get ugly and if you think the communal majority is just about peer pressure 25:28.440 --> 25:30.100 You haven't looked at East Germany 25:31.300 --> 25:34.500 Let's let's take a look at what happens when the community 25:35.440 --> 25:37.460 Becomes the informant 25:41.160 --> 25:42.560 Always watch out for 25:44.200 --> 25:47.320 Countries that have to put the word democratic in their name 25:48.100 --> 25:51.420 It's like a used car settlement telling you a car is reliable 25:52.020 --> 25:58.760 They have to say it it probably isn't so let's take a trip to East Germany the gdr the german democratic republic 25:59.600 --> 26:04.500 We're talking about the stasi the ministry for state security 26:05.860 --> 26:09.920 Now most people that think of the stasi as the secret police 26:10.780 --> 26:12.000 managed trench coats 26:12.680 --> 26:14.360 bugging phones opening mail 26:15.240 --> 26:16.300 Sure, they did that 26:16.960 --> 26:22.100 But that wasn't their true power their true power was what they weaponized 26:22.760 --> 26:23.600 the community 26:24.560 --> 26:30.500 See the stasi didn't have enough officers to watch everyone no government doc does 26:31.220 --> 26:32.440 So they recruited the 26:33.460 --> 26:34.940 I'm going to butcher these words 26:35.760 --> 26:38.260 In opposition me to beaver 26:38.680 --> 26:40.320 The informal collaborators 26:41.140 --> 26:42.980 These weren't uniformed officers 26:43.480 --> 26:46.600 These were your neighbors your coworkers your teachers 26:47.220 --> 26:48.680 even your family members 26:49.700 --> 26:53.770 History tells us by that by the time the wall came down in 1989 26:54.680 --> 26:58.300 The stasi had about 90,000 official officers 26:58.300 --> 27:01.620 But they had over a hundred and seventy 27:02.460 --> 27:03.120 thousand 27:04.020 --> 27:04.680 informants 27:06.020 --> 27:07.580 Think about that ratio 27:08.760 --> 27:10.820 Including part-time snitches 27:11.500 --> 27:16.460 It's estimated that there was one informer for every six and a half citizens 27:16.460 --> 27:21.260 If you sat down for dinner with six friends statistically 27:22.080 --> 27:24.060 One of them was writing a report on you 27:25.120 --> 27:28.380 This was the ultimate perversion of the communal majority 27:28.380 --> 27:34.620 They convinced people that loyalty to the state was more important than loyalty to their own blood 27:35.480 --> 27:39.160 There are files miles of files 27:39.860 --> 27:41.700 That people found after the wall fell 27:42.620 --> 27:46.140 Women found out their husbands had been reporting on them for years 27:46.460 --> 27:53.840 Kids found out their parents were informants best friends realized their confidential late night chats about politics 27:54.600 --> 27:57.380 Were transcribed in a government basement the next morning 27:58.760 --> 28:00.320 Why did they do it? 28:01.080 --> 28:04.640 The state said if you want that promotion 28:05.320 --> 28:09.260 If you want your kid to get into university if you want a new apartment 28:09.980 --> 28:14.060 You help the collective you help the majority root out the dissents 28:17.060 --> 28:19.900 They destroyed the most fundamental unit of freedom 28:21.100 --> 28:21.760 Trust 28:22.680 --> 28:28.020 They created a society where nobody spoke the truth because the community was listening 28:28.950 --> 28:32.560 And if the community is listening the individual will go silent 28:33.840 --> 28:39.520 That is the end game of community coercion. It's not a neighborhood watch. It's a prison 28:39.990 --> 28:42.220 Where the inmates guard each other 28:43.170 --> 28:45.500 And the moment you stop trusting your neighbor 28:46.460 --> 28:48.160 Is the moment the state has won 28:49.040 --> 28:51.480 But hey, at least they had free health care, right? 28:53.160 --> 28:56.460 Got one more stop on this tour of good intentions 28:59.220 --> 29:03.480 Happy thanksgiving everybody and this one isn't in the history books yet 29:04.220 --> 29:05.800 Because it's happening right 29:06.500 --> 29:07.020 Now 32:48.540 --> 32:49.520 Let's bring this home 32:50.480 --> 32:52.960 Let's bring us to the 21st century 32:53.840 --> 32:56.700 Because I know some of what you're thinking 32:57.820 --> 33:04.100 Phonehead you're talking about pilgrims cold war relics. We're modern. We have iPhones 33:05.020 --> 33:06.040 We're smarter now 33:09.320 --> 33:10.860 Tell that to venezuela 33:11.680 --> 33:14.640 Not long ago. I'm talking historically yesterday 33:15.480 --> 33:17.600 Venezuela wasn't just a country 33:18.220 --> 33:20.620 It was a jewel of south america 33:21.140 --> 33:24.520 It sat on the largest proven oil reserves on the planet 33:25.320 --> 33:29.580 They were wealthy. They were modern. They didn't start with gulags 33:30.640 --> 33:32.220 They didn't start with a coup 33:33.100 --> 33:34.760 They started with a boat 33:36.180 --> 33:39.640 They voted for socialism of the 21st century 33:40.480 --> 33:43.240 That was the brand name. It was a shiny 33:43.240 --> 33:49.860 It promised that the common communal majority would finally get their share share fair share 33:50.700 --> 33:55.880 They cheered when the government seized the oil companies take that corporate greed 33:56.700 --> 34:00.460 They cheered when they seized the farms land for the people 34:01.680 --> 34:07.520 They cheered when they set price controls on food finally fair prices for everyone 34:09.040 --> 34:11.660 And then the math showed up 34:13.240 --> 34:18.440 You see when you seize a business you don't seize the knowledge of how to run it 34:19.200 --> 34:23.160 When you demonize profit you destroy the incentive to produce 34:23.960 --> 34:24.700 the result 34:25.400 --> 34:26.660 The maduro diet 34:27.440 --> 34:28.820 That's a real term 34:29.580 --> 34:38.740 In 2016 a university study found that 75 of the population of venezuela had lost an average of 19 pounds 34:39.600 --> 34:41.360 Not because they were hitting the gym 34:43.240 --> 34:45.140 But because there was nothing to eat 34:46.040 --> 34:49.100 We're talking about a country they used to export food 34:49.940 --> 34:51.980 Now digging through trash bins 34:57.120 --> 34:59.400 Remember those zoo animals I mentioned a while ago? 35:00.360 --> 35:06.180 There are confirmed reports from the state of zulia from caracos 35:06.780 --> 35:10.460 Caracas, how are you pronounce it of people breaking into zoos? 35:11.560 --> 35:16.420 Not to steal the cash register, but to steal the animals to eat them 35:18.400 --> 35:23.860 Imagine the desperation required to look at a zoo exhibit and see a grocery aisle 35:27.760 --> 35:33.380 Now I know what you're thinking I you just know bone ed you only know what you saw online 35:34.920 --> 35:37.860 You know, I've got friends that live in venezuela 35:38.540 --> 35:41.660 If you if you don't if you've listened to me a while 35:42.300 --> 35:44.460 You know, I did a show called loud and proud 35:47.820 --> 35:53.840 One of the members of our hosts on that show was this new girl 35:55.120 --> 35:58.020 Everybody called her andy because her name was angeles 35:59.480 --> 36:04.300 And she lived in venezuela while this was all going on 36:07.160 --> 36:13.920 I don't know if she's still in venezuela. I hope to hell not but she couldn't leave because of her mom 36:18.240 --> 36:24.400 She lived through this she she told us about this stuff as it was happening 36:27.180 --> 36:33.260 Another frequent frequent person that was on the show was not who puku 36:34.820 --> 36:42.920 He lived in venezuela at the same time different part from where andy was at 36:44.280 --> 36:47.100 But the same shit was going on in his city 36:50.340 --> 36:51.640 They couldn't eat 36:52.300 --> 36:56.860 Now who puku was a big dude when he first came on the show 36:58.920 --> 37:02.140 He went a big dude the last time we had a show with him 37:06.660 --> 37:07.160 It's 37:11.140 --> 37:15.740 This stick rim reality of quote unquote the better way 37:17.820 --> 37:25.200 They traded their economic freedom for a promise of security and they end up eating zoo animals in the dark 37:27.760 --> 37:32.920 Just just remember if you ever vote your way into socialism 37:34.160 --> 37:36.640 You're gonna have to shoot your way out of it 37:37.400 --> 37:39.260 If you vote your way into communism 37:40.300 --> 37:42.980 You're gonna have to shoot your way out of it 37:43.660 --> 37:46.140 If you vote your way into fascism 37:46.920 --> 37:49.500 You're gonna have to shoot your way out of it 37:52.640 --> 37:57.400 That's just the reality of the world that we live in 38:01.580 --> 38:02.860 Because it's 38:04.720 --> 38:11.040 I get so tired of the left versus right bullshit 38:13.480 --> 38:16.540 My site my ruler is better than your ruler 38:19.040 --> 38:21.880 And it's you got to understand 38:24.380 --> 38:28.300 It's not left versus right it's not red versus blue 38:29.840 --> 38:33.420 It's the state versus you 42:13.670 --> 42:15.150 So what have we learned today? 42:15.810 --> 42:19.430 We've looked at the pilgrims starving in their common storehouse 42:20.070 --> 42:23.470 We looked at Mao fighting a war against sparrows and losing 42:24.870 --> 42:31.030 We've looked at the stasi turning neighbors into snitches and venezuela turning zoos into butcher shops 42:32.050 --> 42:37.790 The scenery changes the uniforms change the slogans change, but the math 42:38.830 --> 42:39.710 Never changes 42:40.610 --> 42:46.710 You cannot calculate the human spirit. You cannot centralize the human drive to survive 42:47.450 --> 42:52.230 My listener who started this whole rant for today said it best 42:52.810 --> 42:56.430 The only real freedom is that of the individual 42:57.150 --> 43:05.430 That isn't just a bumper sticker. It's the only surviving survival strategy that has ever worked 43:06.670 --> 43:09.270 So stop looking for a savior in the government 43:09.930 --> 43:12.270 Stop looking for meaning in the collective 43:13.090 --> 43:15.150 The collective doesn't care if you eat 43:15.750 --> 43:18.610 The collective doesn't care if you dream 43:19.650 --> 43:23.230 The only person coming to save you is you 43:24.030 --> 43:27.410 And frankly, that's the only person qualified for the job 43:27.410 --> 43:30.050 A monkey bonehead 43:30.710 --> 43:35.650 Keep your head on a swivel keep your hands on the wheel and for the love of god 43:36.530 --> 43:37.830 Don't eat the sparrows 43:38.710 --> 43:39.890 We'll see you next time 43:40.710 --> 43:42.030 You're too small 43:43.130 --> 43:48.390 No, I don't care. The sparrows are too small. What is that? It's like an appetizer 43:49.170 --> 43:50.330 You want to eat a turkey? 43:51.750 --> 43:54.430 I mean forget the turkey eat an ostrich 43:54.990 --> 43:56.890 My god, how many could you 43:57.550 --> 44:00.310 How many people can you feed on an ostrich leg? 44:01.170 --> 44:02.050 Good lord 44:03.750 --> 44:06.930 Or an emu I wonder what emu tastes like 44:07.550 --> 44:09.910 I wonder if you could barbecue it 44:10.470 --> 44:11.330 That would be awesome 44:12.310 --> 44:15.850 Anyways, we're going to take a break and then we're going to come back and 44:18.710 --> 44:20.950 Dude, I don't know what to call this 44:21.950 --> 44:24.030 I don't know if I should call this a 44:24.690 --> 44:25.610 an audiobook 44:26.990 --> 44:28.430 A rock opera 44:28.430 --> 44:32.330 I have no clue what to call it. It's 44:37.690 --> 44:38.170 It's 44:38.170 --> 44:41.430 newest album one-way protocol, but it's 44:42.150 --> 44:44.750 It tells a complete story. I haven't done this 44:46.210 --> 44:52.970 At all, I mean I've done I've done a couple of things where all the songs are all kind of fit along the same 44:53.610 --> 44:54.170 concept 44:55.790 --> 45:00.010 But this actually tells a story and I have a story 45:00.810 --> 45:03.130 narration to go between the songs 45:03.770 --> 45:04.330 so 45:05.150 --> 45:08.570 There's just 56 minutes of music for it 45:09.750 --> 45:10.230 and 45:10.850 --> 45:12.570 No, 51 minutes of music 45:13.650 --> 45:14.130 and 45:14.730 --> 45:16.370 I don't know how long it's going to take me to read 45:16.370 --> 45:21.430 The narrations, but we're going to take a break and we're going to come right back and jump in 45:21.430 --> 45:24.230 To bite rebels one-way protocol 45:24.910 --> 45:28.390 I hope you enjoy it because I've worked my ass off on it