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five, twenty twenty three. Friday, of course, my favorite day of
the week. It's my long day here at WMH and I love it.
So I'll be here with this program of course until six and then I'm back
tonight from eight to eleven PM for Retro Spectrum Radio with paulc. I get
to hang out with those guys. That's always a lot of fun. And
of course it is Friday, which means coming up in the second hour,
we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review and this week the subject is the nineteen
seventy four film The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds, a movie that I've never
seen, but I did preview Eric's review and it makes me want to see
it. So that will be coming up later. But right now, joining
us live in studio. And if you are a longtime listener of the show,
you might remember because we were talking. Aaron and I were talking off
here presidential candidate. He is a Republican on the I assume he'll be on
the ballot here in New Hampshire. Aaron Day is here at the news desk.
Welcome, thanks for having me. It's great to have you here.
Man. It's uh, yeah, it's been I think it was September of
twenty eighteen was the last time you were on. So it's been a while,
and but we've we've been on other shows together before that. I believe
I'm pretty good at remembering how and where I met most most people I can
remember how and where I met them the first time, and I believe it
was on Gary Hopper's show who As I'm sure you know he passed away within
the last year, but on his show Rock Paper hand Grenades. I believe
that's the first time you and I met and you, but you were there
with someone else, and I think the person you were with was Now the
funny thing is, I can't remember who you were with. I remember that
I met you there, but I can't remember who you were with. I'm
pretty sure it was George Lambert, but I could be wrong on that very
very well. Probably was, because that's how I met George. Because I
remember whoever you were with, it probably was him. He was a candidate
and you were there kind of in a in a support role like helping him
with his campaign or something, managing his campaign or something like what they're talking
about, the Outlass Society and Iron Rand. That was was I recall that
was my part of part of that conversation. Oh okay, okay, Yeah.
And then of course you know, I've I've interviewed you a number of
times over the years. But now you are a candidate, Republican candidate for
the presidency, and do you know are you are you gonna be on the
ballot here in New Hampshire. I should be on the ballot in New Hampshire.
It's just a matter of paying the fee to get onto the ballot.
Yeah, basically, how the process works, so I should be on the
ballot here. Is there is there any kind of a minimum number of signatures
in New Hampshire or anything or is it just you pay the fee and you're
good simmering as a Republican you just have to pay the fee. Oh,
that's right. It's if you're an independent that they kind of screw you over
and try to keep you out. Yeah, that process is a nightmare.
I've gone that route before too. I was gonna say, I remember you've
run for office as an independent and it's it's yeah, they they really you
know, it's a it's kind of a closed circuit they try to keep I
mean, it's one of the ways the two parties kind of collude together to
keep independence out and it is it is frustrating. Aaron is with us for
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zero seven. I should mention two right up front. So Aaron gave me
this book. It's called The Final Countdown. This uh hear and it's like
it's like time traveling. And I'll hold this up for those of you watching
online or on Comcast channel six, you can see, uh this book that
just came out. This is pretty new, uh hot off the press pun
intended of course. June right, you said this just came out in June.
June. Ye, Now this isn't This isn't your first book, is
it? Yes? This is my first? Well this is your first book.
Oh okay, can you can you tell us about it? It's well,
the title of the book is, it's a long title, The Final
the Final Countdown, Crypto, Gold, Silver, and the People's Last Stand
against Tyranny by Central Bank Digital Currencies, which which is a mouthful, but
it relates to why I'm running, you know, for president. We're actually
facing a threat. You know, when you hear politicians talk, they'll talk
about Russia, they'll talk about China, and that's not what the problem is
that we're facing. We're actually facing this decades long movement towards one world global
government that is kind of formed like a technocracy where you basically have elite picking
scientists and engineers to basically tell people how to run their lives in a centrally
planned way. And the way to stop that because the control system for this
global tyranny is central bank digital currencies or digital money, which is basically digital
money controlled by the government that can be censored, monitored, and controlled with
the click of a mouse button. So basically, if the government doesn't like
what you say, they don't like what you can do, don't like what
you do, they can censor your money, halt your money, and that
will be the basis for a social credit score and the whole nine yards basically
complete digital tyrany. Not to interrupt, Aaron, but is that kind of
what and I don't know much about this, I'm gonna have a lot of
questions, but is that kind of like what they have in China? I
heard you mentioned social credit score, and they do. There's something like that
there, right, they have a social credit system in China and it's and
I actually outline this in the book. It's not a province by province basis,
but it's incredibly detailed. So they have six hundred and twenty six million
surveillance cameras in China and wait, six hundred twenty six million. They track
every aspect. They basically tap into your social media, they tap into face
recognition systems. They use AI. So they will reward and punish you based
on what you put in your shopping cart at the store and don't buy.
They will punish you if you don't see your elderly parents enough. If you
cheat on a video game, you get punished. Literally. It's that level
of detail. And certainly speak out against the government. That's that's probably the
worst of all or not pay you know, taxes or not you know,
a financial fraud against the government in any way. There are twenty three million
people blacklisted in China today. Blacklisted means they have they don't have access to
normal transportation, they have degraded housing options, they have a lower quality of
healthcare, they have slower internet access. I mean, this is already the
case today in China. It almost sounds like putting someone in prison, but
just without actually putting them physically in prison. But you you essentially wreck their
life. You just don't put them in a cell. That's exactly right.
And so the thing is, this is something that the UN is working on.
The UN has their Agenda twenty thirty Sustainable Development Goals. They have seventeen
Sustainable Development goals. Basically areas where they want to control your life centrally and
they want to regulate everything from where you live to know, diversity and inclusion.
All this pronouns stuff actually comes from the UN. That's actually where That's
why corporations are requiring people to put pronouns in bios. That's why the bud
light thing happened. This has been pushed down through the UN and essentially,
if you take the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals because I did this as an exercise
for the book and figured out, well, how would I track these goals
and then how would I reward and punish based on people meeting or not meeting
these goal That looks a lot like the Chinese social credit system, and so
this is something that I believe China is the test case to be rolled out
globally by twenty thirty. This is what their goal is. The twenty thirty
Development Goals were actually started in twenty fifteen, so they're like halfway through the
process of developing the technology and trying to push and test these ideas out.
Does anyone else have a social credit system or is that something that only China
has done so far? There are multiple other countries. South Korea actually has
a social credit system, I believe the UAE. But what's more concerning is
this central bank digital currency idea, which is in twenty twenty, there were
thirty two countries just looking at and investigating whether to do a central bank digital
currency. Fast forward to today. By the end of this year, there
will be twenty four countries and one billion people on this planet with central bank
digital currency. The United States has already done three successful pilots and already has
the infrastructure. In fact, we're one quick emergency away could roll it out
over a long weekend. Which is why the book and why I'm kind of
promoting the idea of why we need to stop this. Because I was not
a big fan of COVID tyranny, and when I investigated, well, what's
the cause of this, it turns out this wasn't accidental, It wasn't people,
It wasn't just greed, or it wasn't people that just made a mistake
and thought they were doing the right thing. This is actually all kind of
centrally planned and mapped out. And the amount of infrastructure and surveillance that was
put in place in the United States as a result of COVID is mind boggling.
I mean, people aren't aware there are eighty five million surveillance cameras in
the United States. Our pictures are taken seventy five times a day in the
United States by surveillance cameras. So as much as when I talked at the
beginning about how bad China is, and people are like, oh, that's
China. They're a communist country. Edward Snowden warned us ten years ago about
the data collection already going on by the NSA and by you know, basically
the CIA and other organizations. So the infrastructure is already actually in place.
Here is so China's you know, somewhat ahead in some regards, but we
get half of our surveillance technology from China. So this is a very alarming
situation, to say the least. So what is what is the the endgame?
Well, actually, let me back up a little bit. So when
you talk about they they want to do this, who who is they?
Well, so there are and this is the thing that's been going on for
it for a long time. There are organizations that work behind the scenes that
push organizations like the UN, World Economic Forum, Bank of International Settlements IMF,
and World Bank. Those are the i would say, the five largest
international organizations that promote these ideas, but they're not the ones generating these ideas.
It turns out that the twenty thirty Sustainable Development Goals really were started in
nineteen seventy four by the Trilateral Commission. So this was basically Rockefeller and Brazinski,
who were champions of the idea of a technocratic form of government, and
this was really the birth of the globalist movement. So basically they outlined a
series of standards for a new international economic order that was adopted the next year
by the UN. So that's like in the seventy four seventy five time period
and now fast forward to where we are now, and that's kind of the
initial basis of these sustainable development goals in one world government. The idea of
one world government has been there from the very beginning of the founding of the
United Nations. And if you read about if you really want to understand what
a technocracy looks like, read A Brave New World, because I just reread
A Brave New World. A Brave New World was written by Aldus Huxley.
Aldus Huxley's brother, Julian Huxley, was one of the first directors of the
United Nations. He kind of wrote this as a dystopian response to what his
brother was actually trying to implement through the UN. So Julian was a eugenicist
and a big proponent of one world government. So this is outlined in the
book. But these aren't conspiracy theories. These are in the found ending documents
and you can find at this point, the world economic form is even more
open and brazen about you know, you'll own nothing and be happy. The
end of free will or the area of free will is over. I mean,
they're they're they're not hiding this, and it's they they put put it
in videos and in marketing materials. But what is But what is the point
in other words, controlling? Uh, you know, to be able to
control everybody? I mean, what's what is the point? Is it just
somebody wanting power? And I mean what how does how does all that?
So it's interesting how this actually gets implemented. It gets implemented through a structure
called organizing and competence. But I'll get to what motivates it. What motivates
this is really the idea of progressivism. And there's a belief with progressivism that
you can perfect man through the application of technology. So at one level,
the idealistic view of what they're doing is to say, hey, listen,
man can be perfected if we apply technology. But the only way you can
apply technology is to have the best scientists and engineers. And so the only
way to do that is to have the elite make sure that they're picking the
very top scientists and the very best engineers to work on this vision of perfecting
man. So that's the ideological motivation for it. Now within that you have
people fighting for greed and you know, corporations trying to kind of wedge in
there to be a part of the monopolistic system that's centrally driven. So you
have different people at different layers. But that's the ideology pushing this, and
it's based on scarcity. There's one of the groups behind this is called the
Club of Rome, and they put out a book in the in the nineteen
seventies talking about, you know the fact that we're going to exhaust the planet
and we're going to end up in this situation where we're going to run out
of resources, which people have been talking about that since Maltha's back in the
eighteen hundreds. I mean, while Thomas Mathis would when people were dying because
of poor sanitation in the cities, he was cheering this on, saying,
well, we have to depopulate because otherwise if we don't depopulate, if these
people don't die off, we're going to weren't out of resources. So the
ideology is we can perfect man through technology, but we're dealing with scarcity.
So it's a scarcity mindset and that's what drives a lot of the fear tactics
and a lot of what we see around ESG and a lot of these other
areas. And so it's a model that says only we can decide what to
do, and what we've decided is that we have a scarcity of resources problem,
and that basically taints how all of these things are being rolled out globally.
H Jenny's asking in the chat room who took over when Rockefeller died?
As it passed down in families, there are different groups and there are different
people, like so trying to figure out who exactly the people are, that's
that's kind of the bigger, the bigger mystery. But you certainly have and
that's one of the things I'm trying to do is look at the overlapping boards.
But yeah, certainly it is kept in the family. And so if
the Rockefellers have a mindset of scarcity, and then they're still influencing these organizations.
And again, people talk about conspiracy theories. Everybody engages in conspiracy,
right, you sure you have a conspiracy working with people to have a successful
radio show. It's just that their particular conspiracy is based on the ideology of
technocracy and the belief in scarcity, and that has that is carried through and
you even see it. But Bill Gates basically signed up to this ideology as
well, and you actually can see a difference. Somebody like Elon Musk actually
does it is not he may or may not be a great guy, but
he's not in the inner circle of this. He has a different view,
like his view that we should, you know, travel into space and everything
else, and Gates is like, no, we need to focus on Earth
and we need to focus on this kind of scarcy aspect. So so Gates
is part of it. And Gates, by the way, has familial ties
to the Rockefellers. But how do you know so somebody like Elon Musk,
though, why why do you assume that he's not a part of it.
I don't assume that he's a part. He might be a he might be
a PSI up. I mean, frankly, I'm kind of torn on him.
I you know, I can't tell if he's like he could be the
ultimate Christ and all this, He truly could be, sure, But what
he has done is, for instance, he spoke at a conference on global
governance, and and he's actually stated that he is against one world government.
He's against the idea of global government. Now, the fact that there's a
conference on global governments governance should be a concern to people to begin with.
Is it actually called that conference on global guard I believe it's called the Conference
on Global You can see and it's huge. It's like this massive auditorium and
so he's up there and I don't know how many people. It seemed like
there are a thousand, two thousand people in there and he was projected in
on the screen. But yeah, no, they they've had this conference where
I don't know how many years, and Musk spoke against it. But you
know, I don't trust anybody at this point. But we do know that
what the UN Agenda twenty thirty is is all about these seventeen goals and it's
all heavily laden in scarcity and fear tactics. That is the m of how
they go to implement this. This is why when you see this stuff about
COVID, I just had a don't have you heard of doctor Peter Hotez.
Yes, So I just got into a little dust up with him on Twitter
last week because I, you know, I've been out saying, which I
truly believe and can document, that public health is a depopulation death cult,
and so I kind of called him out, called him out on that,
and so he attacked me for, you know, for liking bitcoin and then
blocked me. But what's interesting about this is he doesn't believe in public scrutiny.
So RFK wanted to challenge him to a debate on Joe Rogan to discuss
the science, to discuss his COVID, and he rejected it. And then
he got a whole bunch of his buddies in academian everything else to write articles
saying it's basically beneath him to even debate RFK because RFK is not a scientist,
which, if so, that is technocracy. He believes that open discussion
isn't part of the equation. That's how technocracy works. When you reread A
Brave New World, there's no voting, there are no rights, there's no
political system. It is literally completely driven from the top down. Your cast
is determined by genetic breeding and and and basically they zapped the free will out
of you through subconscious programming and through a drug called soma, which you take
to basically replace religion and replace anytime you may have a negative emotion or find
yourself thinking about the nature of life. You pop a pill and and now
you're conforming with the world order that they've defined. Wait, what what do
you can you expand on that? I'm a little loss soma. I've I've
heard the term soma, but I don't really know is that an actual Is
that the name of a medication? So is the name of an actual medication?
But and I don't know if but it's different. I mean, soma
was a it was a drug in in the book, there also happens to
be also a drug called soma. I think that's not it's they're not the
same thing, Okay, so, but yes, there is a I don't
know if soma is a for pain relief from us. I'm not even sure
what the actual soma is. But the soma is kind of like a h
Depending upon how many of you have it you take, you're you know,
you may have a three day mystical experience and and then return, or or
you just pop half a pill a day. But I mean it's a staple
in everyone's lives. It's like it's like water. It would be part of
a food pyramid in that society. Oh okay, which, by the way,
if you look at it, is kind of what's happening here. Already,
one out of every five Americans are on some kind of psych drug or
anti depressant. And I mean we've we've already been heavily medicating people. Kids
are on adderall at at increasingly young ages. Obviously, you know, doctors
were prescribing opioids like candy. Over five hundred thousand people have died from prescription
drug overdoses in the last decade or so, so that you know, so
when I say population depopulation, deaf cult, you know, I try to
avoid doctors in the medical system like the plague, because they do not have
your best interests in heart at heart. Okay, well, but you know,
well I have to push back on some of this. So and because
some of this we talk about a lot on the show, and of course
Jenny with her medical history and whatnot, I think it's very dangerous to just
make a blanket statement like these people don't have your best interests at heart.
I mean, are you are you suggesting everyone should just reject modern medicine and
stop going to the doctor, because it almost sounds like that's what you're saying,
and then that's I kind of can't believe that's what you're saying, but
it sounds like it is. Well, I have, but I will say
that they don't know they're complicit in it. So I mentioned this idea of
organized and competence. Everybody thinks they're doing the right thing. So do I
think that your doctor thinks they're doing the wrong thing? No, I do
not. Do I think nurses think they're doing the wrong thing? Absolutely not.
But that's not the way that its structures. Do you have somebody at
the top of the hierarchy, say somebody like the Club for Rome or whatever,
the people that are influencing policy for groups like the UN of the World
Health Organization, And keep in mind, the World Health Organization is defining standards.
I studied public health at Harvard and and they actually came up with right
here the top twenty public health you know, challenges that we have to deal
with, And the number one that they defined was depression, and they go
on and on down the line. We went through and kind of studied study
each of them, and they push the standards out. They push so so
somebody the very top could have a evil intent, but the way that it
gets passed down is everybody lower in the wrung gets less information, and their
job requires certification and it doesn't allow them to question what they hear above them.
You don't. You're not rewarded as a doctor for questioning. When you
go to medical school, people don't stay up at night debating these things.
You learn what you're told so that you can pass the test. It's it's
it's an exercise and compliance. So the question is who's developing the curriculum,
who's developing the standards for medicine, who's funding that, what is their motivation?
So you can have a situation where a nurse thinks they're saving people's lives,
but it is an essence actually injecting poison in people, which is incredibly
evil because how do you stop something like this. This is how you get
into a situation where a nurse is like, well, I have you know
X number of years of training, what do you know about it? You
just read this on the internet. And the truth is you could have been
indoctrinated. We know there's public school indoctrination. But yet we think that medical
school isn't indoctrination. It's an outlier. Yeah, have you have you?
Have you have you? And by the way, so part of what I
do, I'm going to write a separate book. I'm actually writing a separate
book just about public health. Yeah, this whole concept that I've discussed because
I've been researching the fears. I ran a healthcare company. Yeah, and
people don't question and nobody asks the question of who developed this curriculum, who
is behind the standards, who's behind medical malpractice? And so you can truly
have a situation where everybody thinks they're doing the right thing, but at the
top they have a completely different motivation than what people expect, and and that
can have really negative I'll give you another example of this, the obesity epidemic.
I don't think we should fat shame people. I've lost one hundred and
fifty pounds. You look great, you look great since the last time I
saw you. And we shouldn't fat shame people. We should change people for
believing in public health. Public health pushed the nutritional guidelines that caused the obesity
epidemic. Public Health put out the US gay food pyramid that had six to
eleven servings of carbs is the base of people's diet. This was put in
public school textbooks. This was part of health curriculum. No one was ever
fired for it. And I had a company that actually ran weight loss programs
for large corporations instead of based programs. So I had these animated maps that
you can see on a state by state basis of the growth of obesity and
overweight and I mean it grew up to like eighty percent now, but it
started. That big inflection point was with the government defining these health standards.
I remember going to lose weight as a as a kid, Like my mom
took me to an nutritionist and they're like, well, here's what you should
do. Eight hundred calories whatever it is, and make sure you eat fat
free and so you can go and get these cookies snack well cookies or whatever.
And so you'd go to the store in the you know, eighties,
early nineties, and it would be everything in the label would be you know,
fat freeze. You basically you were going and buying sugar, you were
buying cookies, you were buying cereal. This was these were standards that were
being pushed down through public health. Now we have an obesi crisis today.
It is the number one health problem that we have. Actually, oh,
oh that yeah, obesity is a huge obesity and diabetes which directly oh of
course, yeah, absolutely, and which is what we found. Our clients
were actually reversing diabetes just by lowering their BMI. I mean there's a there's
a direct correlation between. So now here we are now what is public health
coming out with? The American Medical Station Association came out and said BMI is
racist, So you can't measure people's body mass index. That's racist. Other
aspects of public health have come out and said, you shouldn't body shame people.
You should you should accept people being overweight. That's not compassionate, that's
not humane. It is not humane to normalize people being unhealthy. So let's
let's regroup on this. Public health designed the standards that caused the obesiti epidemic,
the type two diabetes epidemic, created a massive problem, and now they're
promoting, glorifying, maintaining the unhealthy state. Yeah, I understand, I
mean I think I basically understand, but but I think at the same time,
though, if you're because again, so if somebody's having a heart attack,
should they not go to the emergency room? Because I feel like you're
I feel like you're kind of pitching this this very broad idea that you don't
trust doctors, don't trust nurses, don't don't trust anybody in medicine. So
if you get sick, what you should die? Well, it's not if
you get so I'm putting. I would put it differently because you understand the
average person hearing this, Aaron is gonna think this. This guy is saying,
don't do anything if you're sick, because you can't trust anybody. No,
No, Well if you I know that's not what you mean. Well
no, but I'm doing I don't. If you had COVID and you went
to the hospital, they'll kill you. They put you on rim dissevier and
they put you on ventilators you didn't need. People died because of bacterial infection
because of the ventilators. And we see now all of the financial incentives for
the hospital system to do all of those things. So does that mean if
I have a heart attack? Now, if I have a heart attack,
you should go if you break a bone? But why because they're the only
places you can go to because this whole thing is licensed and controlled from the
top down. But but that's my point. You have no other option.
So well, you have no other option. But if you, I mean,
if you have cancer, we should do not go to the oncologist.
I mean you have cancer. I mean, look, most of the cancer
treatments are poisoned chemo. The fact that we're stuck on chemo and radio I
could go through a long One of the things that I did was I did
a lot of fasting. I changed, I went completely to keto and everything
else. But I fasted for one hundred and twenty eight days last year.
I did a thirty sixth day. I did a third sixth day, one
stretch, thirty six day, water only fast did you take? Did you
take supplements or so? How do you I didn't take supplements. How do
you do that? I took? I had water and salt and occasionally a
little bit. Yeah. So the funny thing about this is if you read
back, like in the ancient days, so Plato and Thethagoras and all of
like the Greeks, when you were studying, you'd go into what was called
a mystery school, but before you went into a mystery school, you actually
had a fast for forty days, and Jesus fasting for forty days. This
is this is a thing that's been written about quite a bit. There's a
guy, I can't remember the doctor's name. He runs a clinic that is
all about fasting, and of course everybody else says it should be medically monitored
and everything else. So I did this on my own and didn't medically monitor
it, but my wife. My wife was there, and I didn't just
start with the thirty six day as I did one day, then two days,
then three. I mean I built up to it incrementally over time.
When you read the research, you'll find there are people that do forty day
fasts and reverse type four stage four cancer. Now, if I said that
this was a cure that prolonged fashioning is secure, the FDA would come in
here to protect the drug companies because you can get You're not allowed to make
those kinds of claims, even though there is quite a bit of evidence that's
been logged. Your body is incredibly good at healing itself. What we have
done as a society is we have focused on externalizing everything. Right, So
if we have emotional pain. You're supposed to feel emotional pain. If a
dog dies, a parent dies, you go through a stressful situation, you
need to feel and work through that pain. That's not what we do as
society. We give you a pill, we give you an opioid, we
give you an anti anxiety medication, so you never deal with the underlying pain.
Then you get hooked on these things, and so we've externalized everything.
Your body has incredible potential. So I think we need to be careful disinterrupt
for a moment though here, and I think we need to be. Something
I'm sensitive to is I don't want to I don't want to tell people.
I mean, you can tell people all you want to, but I have
to just chime in and say I don't ever want to tell people to not
take a medication that they either think because their doctor told them they needed it
or whatever reason they're taking it. Because so, for example, I struggle
with depression. I have my entire adult life, you know, and I
have ideations and whatnot. I don't take anything for it. That's my choice,
but I would not want someone to well, let me be very blunt
about it. If someone is suffering with such severe depression and they're on a
medication that is keeping them from killing themselves, I wouldn't want them to stop
the medication and kill themselves. Maybe you don't think they should be on the
medication, but if being on that medication is keeping them from putting a gun
in their mouth, I'd rather they say on the medication. So I just
I think we need to be a little bit careful about about that message.
You can say whatever you want, dude, I'm not trying to ansor you,
but I just I have to butt in and say, you know what
Aaron is saying, this isn't This isn't something I agree with. That's fine.
And this is why the reason on the CVDC thing, I wrote a
book is because I wanted to document it, put all the evidence behind it.
Because if I'm making a claim that we have to exit fiat currency,
get out of the dollar, and move to crypto, goold and silver to
stop getting central bank digital currency, then I need to outline why the scholar
is going to fail, what all the alternatives are. And I'm going to
do the same thing on this other issue. Yeah, but but I will
say no, if you're on these medications, you can't stop because because the
effects there are I've just actually this week been watching a number of documentaries about
people that you know, like for Zanex, you're only supposed to be on
the package insert it says you're only supposed to take it for two to four
weeks. In fact, if you look at it, people's anxiety after four
weeks of being on Zanex is higher than it was when they started. There
are two weeks of positive effects, and then if you remain on it,
it's a disaster. And I you know, I'll after this, I'll maybe
I'll go on and get give a link to several documentaries about this. Sure,
what did the drug company show as results? They showed the results of
four weeks, not a sixteen week or thirty two weeks study. They just
showed the period in which the drug was effective. And then people are getting
addicted to these things, and yeah, they're hard to get off of.
Like I am not advocating if you are on these medications to quit cold Turkey
because you can't. But but yeah, I mean, I you know,
I I have asthma, I take a I use a maintenance and hailer,
I'm not going to stop doing that. Because you know, maybe my evil
doctor told me to you know, told me something I shouldn't be doing.
You know what I mean, you know what I'm saying. No, I
know what you're saying. But at the same time, I bet there's probably
an underlying dietary thing that could be addressed to actually cure the asthma. That's
I mean, that's the thing, right, There's probably some gluten thing.
There's probably some other situation. Yeah, maybe, and and you would be
amazed at the time. I mean, I'm open to that idea. So
by the way, so with fasting, so if you fast for three days,
you reset you or immune system, and then after seven days you actually
start generating stem cells. So there's all kinds of things that happen through the
power of fasting. I'm not saying that modern modern medicine should be good.
But at the same time, when you study the history of modern of how
it actually works here, who is behind the AMA, and the whole history
of how doctors, nurses in the entire industry is regulated, you'll find that,
yeah, maybe this is in the in the area of organized incompetence.
In what we're getting out of it is not designed to optimize our health.
And let's face it, even before COVID, life expectancy had been dropping in
the United States. I think we had three years or so in a row.
We've wiped out all of the increases in life expectancy I think from the
nineties. So we're actually I know we have started to backslide on that.
But are we spending less on drugs? Are we spending less The medical system
is now even more bloated than ever. We're spending more on medication, more
on hospital services, and on doctors. And where the ROI why aren't people
getting Why are people the people that are alive are sicker? And then the
life expectancies dropping, So that's not a great outcome. Hey, I this
is this might be a little bit of a left turn. But I just
have to ask me because somebody mentioned in an the chatroom and I'd forgot about
this. You did mention Jesus earlier, and you in past interviews with you,
you had talked about being an atheist. Are you still Are you still
an atheist or are you No, I'm not an atheist, you know.
I've actually spent a lot of time I don't subscribe to any organized religion.
Yeah, but I definitely do not believe in this materialistic view of the universe
from kind of even from direct experiences. I mean, I've had some experiences
where it's like, you know, and even science now suggests quantum physics doesn't
map with this kind of we're randomly here model and this just showed up,
and here's the Big Bang and this is all an accident like that that doesn't
even fly with the cutting edge of science. So that is that is definitely
a change. Okay, I asked because I'm I'm just curious. I'm always
curious about that what people believe in, why they believe what they believe,
and and if there's been a change and in their belief I'm always just interested
to learn more. I will tell you about this. So I got I've
tried multiple forms of meditation. And when I say meditation, because there are
these like apps that you can download it, sure you do five minutes.
I'm I'm a hypnotherapist. I know all about it. Yeah, so so
so so yeah, so all right, hypnotherapist. So that actually, so
do you know doctor Joe Dispenza. Have you heard of him? I've heard
the name. I don't know much about him. He wrote Becomes Becoming Supernatural,
and he's had these big retreats that are like seven day long advanced retreats
and everything else. And but in part of it is is doing doing healing
and and and I will tell you, Uh. He wrote another book called
the Placebo Effect. But I mean, I have been in these situations where
there are people that have have absolutely used meditation to heal substantial underlying conditions like
things that and and now he's starting to publish results on this me had a
pretty significant paper relative to meditation and h and COVID outcomes and everything else.
But I mean it's some amazing stuff. Some people that couldn't walk, some
people that had you know, als like it was. It was kind of
a remarkable thing when you're going through this this experience. And people have this
experience where they call it they pop, but it's basically you you know,
tap your pineeal going you start moving energy and then you have this kind of
like explosion thing in your head and it moves a whole bunch of energy,
Okay, and it's just it's it's it's hard for me to explain, but
I've experienced it, and I think that you're going to hear a lot more
about what what he's doing with this and the effect that it has had on
people's health. And so did you did you do that? Did you go
through that process or yeah, I went through that process. I've gone through
a couple of his retreats and then I've I've experimented with a variety of different
forms. And you mentioned being a hypnotist. You know, like one of
the things that's interesting about this is that you know, from the time year
zero to seven, everything that comes in is that you have no conscious filtering
mechanism. It goes directly in. This is why kids think they're imaginary friends
are real. They don't have an ability to differentiate what they're processing and between
what's real and what's imagined. Right, and then that becomes a subconscious belief.
And then we go into you know, school age, and we get
indoctrination from school. Then we have you know, our brain is operating at
an alpha wave basically from zero to seven, and so you're talking about hypnotism.
So then you know, when we're watching TV, if we're watching TV
in the morning or at night, like right before we get into sleep,
we're in that alpha mode. That's when we're the most suggestible. Yeah,
so this is when they're cramming down the big farmer. You know, Oh
do you have you know to funcus, so do you have you know?
They're they're throwing all of this uh fear porn at you and you're not even
filtering it. So all of it. I thought I thought it was just
because old people are watching cable news late at night. No, well,
I mean that's why you see the catheter commercials on Fox News, isn't it.
Well, certainly they're gonna they're gonna target I'm half kidding. Well,
I actually canceled cable eight years ago. Yeah, I don't even know what's
on, but right, but I assume that that's probably. I mean,
they're going to target market who they're going to subconsciously reprogram. Right, And
and so we go through life with our personality and identity being defined by this
subconscious programming. It was put in either when we were young, or through
various forms of indoctrination, or when we were in these suggestible states. You
can reprogram all of that, and what meditation does is essentially you change your
brain wave state, and then you can decide to reprogram yourself. So that's
actually a big part of the meditative process. I've actually gotten into like playing
around with these like mind movies, where you know, you can, instead
of watching a commercial, create your own commercial for what you want to be,
get yourself into that mental state, into that brain wave state, and
suggest to yourself. Well, it's interesting that you say that, because a
meditation or a i mean, hypnosis is a form of meditation. Obviously.
Something I do with my clients is when I have them in a state of
hypnosis, usually towards the end of the session, I'll have them imagine themselves
as the idea version of themselves, you know, from the outside that they
can look at three dimensionally, and then actually step inside that ideal version of
themselves and actually become that person with all the bells and whistles, exactly the
version of themselves that they most want to be. And it's kind of similar
to what you were saying. Yep, yeah, exactly. So I don't
know how quite we got off on that, but well I took us there
because I was curious because I'm always fascinated by the kind of thing. And
you mentioned that, you know, you're no longer an atheist, But do
you believe? I mean, but it doesn't sound like you don't necessarily believe
in an actual deity. It sounds like, right, you're just more It
kind of sounds like you believe sort of what John Hopwood believes. Now.
I wish he was here for this conversation about you know, God being really
the universe? Is that kind of I'm sure that's an oversimplification, but is
that kind of where you're going? I don't know. There's some interesting things
that I played around with. There's a guy named Tom Campbell who wrote a
book called My Big Toe, My Big Theory of Everything. Yeah, and
he's a fascinating guy, and I mean he kind of people don't give him
credit for it, but he's been talking about the idea that we've been living
in a simulation, yeah, for a long time. But his back ground
is is a physicist, started out as a left brain guy, but then
he ended up working at the Monroe Institute, which if you've ever heard of
that, it's this fascinating place, I believe in Virginia where they've done all
kinds of like remote viewing and really push the envelope on things like burnal beats,
where you, you know, you put your headphones in and and so
Tom was really the scientist on the cutting edge of that, and so he
I took one of his things as well. So he so he kind of
describes it as there's a larger consciousness system, and he's kind of outlined kind
of a whole whole model for it where you can kind of access the database
if you get into these meditative states. It's it's a fascinating it's a fascinating
model. I don't know for sure. I just know that it's not I
don't know what the nature and structure of it is, but it isn't a
materialistic atheist model. Sure, but I don't want to presume to know what
it is. And but I want to further experiment with it, an experiment
with my own consciousness to find out that's the state that I'm at at this
point. Okay, okay. Interesting now in terms of so you're you're running
for president as a Republican and are you But obviously, I mean there's there's
nothing you've talked about today that's like a mainstream Republican view. So I mean,
how do you how how are you approaching in terms of your candidacy.
How are you approaching it? I mean, are you going on are you
just going on shows like this and and and just discussing this kind of thing,
because I'm assuming Fox and News Max they haven't had you on yet,
so you're you're probably doing a lot of podcasts and I'm doing a lot,
which is interesting because I've been on all of those before. Right. Yeah,
but uh, And I have a database of three thousand press contacts.
I've launched this campaign in February. I've sent at least a half a dozen,
and I've tracked that they've opened all them, they're reading them. Yeah,
no one will touch this, probably because I'm running to bring awareness to
the fact that it doesn't matter who's elected in twenty twenty four if we continue
to just accept tyranny. For instance, the COVID tyranny was part of it.
But if we accept central bank digital current, which I believe will happen
before the next election, then we will actually lose the ability to protest,
because if people weren't going to protest during COVID, how are the people Some
people did, some did, but the overwhelming majority did not, And we
already have mass mandates coming back just in the last couple of days, Kentucky
just shut down a couple of schools. You're seeing mass mandates start to creep
up again. So yes, some of us didn't. I mean, I'm
probably the only unvaccinated Republican candidate. For the fact I am the only unvaccinated
Republican candidate for president. I was vocally outspoken about do you think to say
you think the Santis is vaccinated? He took he actually took the shot.
Oh he did get the first one, and he took a booster. And
he's awful on this issue. The idea that people think he's health freedom I
actually share videos on Twitter about him promoting the vaccine all over the place.
He's in front of Walgreens one day, CVS. The other day, he's
saying it's safe and effective. He's taking it himself. The idea that this
guy is like the pinnacle of health freedom is absurd. But that's that's neither
here nor there. But I'm using this to say, look, this is
all about radical non compliance and if need be, civil disobedience, we're not
going to stop that. The political system is completely broken. But but but
on the vaccine, nobody forces you to get vaccinated. I mean, I'm
vaccinated, and for me it was the right decision. Nobody, nobody's forcing
you. While they were certainly tried, the federal government, certainly they didn't
try very hard. That was a pretty half ass attempt to try. And
I mean there are a lot of people in the medical profession in New Hampshire
that that lost their jobs because of it, and that obviously we're still protesting
it. And and this speaks to a bigger point on this, and also
speaks to what you mentioned about doctors. You know, and I don't know
what happened to like the sixties mentality, but we should question authority and we
should question doctors. We should not blindly accept what public health has to say.
Specifically, I could go through all twenty of the top public health things
and could build a whole case as to why based on their true record alone,
we should not blindly trust these people, and we should not give them
any authority or force to push their stuff on people. I just I don't
understand something though, Aaron, So your your party. I guess it's your
party because you're running as a Republican. It seems to me they don't most
most Republican candidates, they don't really want to talk about vaccines much, and
they and they a lot of these red state governors really pushed back on maybe
not as much as you'd like, but they pushed back on doing things like
shutdowns and whatnot and steps to mitigate the virus. So I feel like I
feel like there's a lot more resistance to what you're talking about than than the
way you're presenting it, because I feel like you're presenting it as this is
all being just shoved down our throats, when in fact, I feel like
we've got two major political parties, and one of those political parties really has
tried not to buy in on COVID and vaccine, on all of it.
I feel like the Republican Party, with limited exceptions, is already resisting a
lot of that. So yeah, they're they're resisting it after the fact.
For political experience, the least amount of freedom I've had in my entire life,
and it's not even close, was under Republican president and complete Republican majorities
in New Hampshire. It was worse before Biden, which isn't to say that
Biden didn't try to make it worse, but the truth of the matter is
being locked in homes with stay at home orders, businesses being shut down,
mask mandates printing forty percent of the dollars ever in existence to basically pay for
the shutdowns. Pay businesses pay payroll right, biggest inflation ever, seven trillion
dollars added to the debt that was under Republicans. So yes, are they
now saying they were for choice? Yeah, but they're liars because nobody can
refute the fact. You can't deny the fact that there was less freedom in
twenty twenty under these Republican majorities than there is. Say, now, sure
that's a fact. So you're right politically they're pivoting, but they are co
conspirators just alongside the Democrats. I mean, RFK has a better posture.
So I mean there's certainly I guess I'm the RFK, you know, version
of in the Republican ranks. Well, the entire Republican Party is embraced RFK
from what I've seen. But but but the thing is that Trump pushed Operation
Warp Speed, and he still hasn't walked it back. He's still calling it
a miracle drug. Oh, he's kind of walked it back a little bit
he's in certain places. It depends on where he is in certaint not that
he's doing a lot of rallies because he's kind of caught up in legal trouble.
But jeez, there was one rally I think it was an Alabama or
Arkansas or somewhere. This was a couple of months ago, and he's saying
he started to sort of hint at mentioning the vaccine, but then he kind
of made a joke about, oh, I can't say that here. I
can't mention that here. And when he has mentioned it, he gets booed.
That's the one thing, that's the one thing that his uh I call
him follows or that they'll they'll break with him on they boo him when he
mentions the vaccine or operation warp speed. Well, I mean some will,
yeah, I mean and certainly because there are a lot of people that have
had massive side effects with this which continue to this day. I mean that
de spike proteins and everything. This is. This isn't done. The effects
of the vaccine aren't done like immediately after having the vaccine. This seems to
be more of a cumulative process. But no, I'm not going to win
a Republican primary. Listen, I'm not a pedophile. I haven't raped anyone.
You know, I'm not owed by I'm not owned by any foreign country.
I can give my own speeches, I can walk on a stage without
directions. No one's going to vote for that in America. I mean,
let's be realistic. We the people that get to I thought I thought I
was cynical. Well, is that is that an unfair and inaccurate I take
your point now, I understand what you're saying. No, but people that
rise in politics. Because I've been close to politics for a long time,
you know that people don't rise because they're competent. They rise because they're compliant.
And in the same way, that's actually what happens in the medical field
and everything else. People. This is why you end up with somebody like
Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell's there because he's in a state of Kentucky where he's
unlikely to lose in a general election, so he'll he'll be a fixture there
for a long time. So he's a vessel through which special interests can speak.
Oh absolutely, on that, we fully agree. So I mean that's
the case at local levels and everything else, and certainly the president I mean
again Biden, I mean seriously, these are the worst people in the world.
If you actually look take a look at this, it's like, this
is really what we come up with. It's pretty demoralizing to make the choice.
But you know, I'm not. I'm anti big pharma, anti military
industrial complex. There's there's no way I you know, I have no financial
base, and and so no, I'm running to bring awareness to the fact
that the system is broken and that there's something big or looming, and it
is this threat of global tyranny again twenty thirty. This is when they're trying
to move towards basically global government and this social credit system. So what's at
stake here is actually free will. I look at the world in a very,
you know, somewhat simplistic way. It's about free will versus determinism.
It's about decentralization versus centralization. It's about fear at love versus fear, and
it's about abundance versus of scarcity. Those are really the two poles that we're
dealing with here. And the globalist side, which I discussed was kind of
the background on the technocracy is all of those you know, centralized fear,
so on and so forth, and and the way that we have to stop
it isn't going to be through voting. It's going to be through exiting the
dollar and and stopping the dollar from turning into a digital currency that will be
used to enslave us and move into this global system. I do have to
ask you about the term globalist. Some people don't like that word because they
feel that it's become a or maybe always was, but I feel like I'm
hearing this more in the last few years, that that term has become sort
of a dog whistle and that there's anti Semitism attached to it. Yeah,
and and and to be fair to you, I assume that's not what you
mean, because I know you and I know you're not like that. But
I have to ask the question because you did use the term, Well,
it's not and I'm going to continue to use the word, and I'm going
to continue to push back on everybody that labels something that is hideous anti semitic.
Is a way to stop and stifle discussion about it. Because Claire Schwab
is not Jewish, Bill Gates is not Jewish. The people that are at
the top of this. I don't know that any of them that like,
none of the people that I'm actually talking about. There there is no Jewish
aspect to this. But so this is but this is a way for people
to derail conversations about this. I will say. One of the people I
have been talking to about my book and about this bank run manifesto that I
wrote is Kanye West, which is which is interesting because his bank account was
seized. He had one hundred and forty million dollars at Chase Bank account sees
because people didn't like his political speech. Yeah, he went on Alex Jones
and literally said the words I love Hitler. So I have no I have
zero sympathy, empathy, anything at all for that guy. Well just just
I just again, if you have some sympathy for him, that's that's on
you. But I just want some people to know I have zero feeling for
that guy. Well, so for people that believe in in Jesus and forgiveness,
if you listen to the rest of his remarks, you'll you'll find that
that was that was taken out of context in theory. I've watched the video,
Aaron, there's no taken out of context. There, come on,
he said it, and and Alex Jones repeatedly Alex Jones, when Alex Jones
is the reasonable one in the room. Alex Jones kept trying to bail him
out and give him a lifeline and say, oh, no, we know
you don't really mean that. You just mean this, and and Kanye just
kept doubling down and tripling down and quadrupling down. I mean, let's let's
not give him a pass. Aaron, come on, I think he was.
I think he was trolling. But but nevertheless, well maybe, but
that's some pretty heavy duty trolling. And it's uh, I don't know,
dude, I wouldn't Yeah, I mean I I don't. I wouldn't attach.
I don't think you should attach her name him personally. Well so,
but I'm not your campaign manager. Again, it's not it's not about a
political campaign. Again, this idea that a president can fix anything. Right,
So there are fifty one thousand federal laws, yeah, not including regulations,
not including case law. Yeah, you get elected. There's a uniparty
in Congress, right, there really is no one's gonna win a landslide.
You have politicized courts, you have an unconstitutional deep state. The president can't
accomplish anything. This is why let's look at let's look at the track record
here, read my lips. No new taxes. There are weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. You can keep your doctor with Obamacare. We're gonna make
America great and drain the swamp and we're gonna build back better. It's all
you know. I can't say bs and and and it will be for whatever
anybody else says next. I'm at the point where you know, we're kind
of we're collapsing, whether you're it's the Fourth Turning or Ray Dalio's model where
he shows the eighteen stages that civilizations go through, or if you analyze currency
and why currencies collapse, you look at Rome, Germany, World War One,
et cetera, outline all of that. We are at the late stage
of collapse here. So this isn't going to be a political solution. This
is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. I'm trying to raise awareness about the
idea that what does work are Boycotts, Boycott's work. Boycott's worked with bud
Light, Boycott's work with Target, and they can work with Fiat currency.
They can work with public health, they can work with mainstream media, they
can work with big tech censorship, they can work with public school and doctrination.
You remove yourself from the system. The thing that we were talking about
before this idea that you're in alpha brainwave state, right and you can reprogram.
Well, look at that. So if you want to stop stop public
school indoctrination, that is a big part of what goes into making up and
kind of manipulating people. Stop mainStreet, stop using mainstream media. Those are
actions that people can actually take. Voting is not going to fix anything,
and I'm using the election as a platform to say that. I mean,
we're again, we're gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna with horrible choices and
and you know, I haven't voted since twenty eighteen, so oh really,
we'll see if that changes. George Carlin has some good quotes on voting that
I that I think are probably I will say this, and you know,
I I'm not I've never been on board with the don't vote idea because to
me, you're kind of if you don't vote, I feel like you're giving
the you are giving the establishment what they want. But but I do agree
with you in that you and I will probably agree fully on this. It
is pretty I don't know if to pressing is quite the word, but it's
pretty uh, demoralizing that in twenty twenty, I mean, I'm sorry in
twenty twenty four. So you know why I made that slip, because in
twenty twenty four we're getting probably a rematch of twenty twenty and that is I
honestly, Aaron, I can't believe we're in this position where we're gonna get
We're gonna get a rematch of Trump versus Biden most likely, and I'm pretty
sure, and I'm just I'm astonished. But but you don't have to pick
that choice, and you can take action. If three percent of people exit
the dollar, that's how you you halt central bank, digital currency, stop
World War three, and end the FED. That's how you actually do those
things. Ron Paul has been talking about ending the FED for years. He
wrote a book called End the Fed in two thousand and eight two thousand nine.
Since he wrote that book, fifty percent of the dollars ever in existence
have been printed. People are like, oh, we elected Rand Paul,
we erected Thomas Massey. It's done. Nothing. We're making no incremental improvements
and relying to ourselves if we say that we did. But if three percent
of people exit the dollar and move into crypto, goold or silver, it
literally crashes the banking system and that ends the FED. Well it, So
I have a question about that, and we're getting close to the top of
the r so we'll have to wrap up. I don't I don't have to.
We don't have to wrap up on the on the exact second, but
I have a little bit of flexibility. But I just something about this I've
never understood though, so in terms of cryptocurrency, and I've talked to it,
you know, Dave Ridley of course, Yeah, he calls the show
occasionally and we've had conversations about this too. And I disagree with Dave on
most things, but I really enjoy talking with him. The thing that I
don't understand about cryptocurrency is what is to prevent the government at any moment,
And I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet. I know there's been a
little bit of regulation, but if you have cryptocurrency, what's to prevent the
government from just saying, Okay, we're going to regulate this now, and
we're going to treat it like any other currency, and it's ours now and
we're in charge of it. Well, so there's been a complete crackdown on
crypto going on. We see this with Ian Freeman looking at right. Yeah.
Yeah, this is why what I write about in the book is the
importance is self custody crypto. So don't leave it on exchanges. If you
have the crypto in your own wallet, then it's decentralized. Might they band
it anyway? Yeah, I'm talking about a situation here where we're talking about
non compliance. We're talking about a situation where the government wants to control and
censor your money. We're talking about a situation where we have a government that's
tried to force medical procedures on people. We're at the point where sitting around
and saying, oh, well, they've violated our constitution or rights up and
down. At some point you have to resist. Having an alternative is the
way to do it. And to that end, FDR did this with gold.
He confiscated the gold. No, he confiscated seventy five percent of the
gold. If you kept your gold in a vault or in a bank,
it was confiscated if you kept it at home. They were not going door
to door confiscating people's gold. It's the exact same concept, because again,
what I'm telling you is the default situation the government that Biden's already passed in
executive order pursuing central bank digital currencies. The technology exists, the Federal Reserve
has done three pilots. Fed now, which was launched in July, is
the infrastructure that you could roll this out on that already exists. Right Once
that happens, we literally will lose the ability to protest on any other issue
because people's money will be able to be shut off. Like so, to
me, the biggest single threat to liberty is this globalist move which has nothing
to do with any religion or race. It's but this moved towards one world
government, and the lynchpin for that movement is central bank digital currency. And
the only way to stop it is not voting. It's by voting, by
boycotting, by voting with your feet and exchanging your Fiat dollars for these alternatives,
whether it's gold, silver, crypto, you know, those are three
different ideas. As long as it's self custody, as long as it's something
that you don't need government permission to use that you can actually engage in person
to person trade with somebody with some form of currency. Okay, all right,
well Aaron, it is uh yeah, we we are at the top
of the hour. The book is called and let me hold this up to
for people watching online the Final Countdown. This just came out in June.
And where can I assume this is on Amazon and everywhere it's on Amazon.
You can go to Day twenty twenty four dot com and there's a link to
it. That's probably the best place to go on one stop shop. Okay
in Day twenty twenty four dot com is that where people can find your other
interviews and are doing? Are you doing like actual campaign events or I'm doing
a few I've I was actually in New York, Connecticut. I'm doing some
kind of started a road show. So oh really, but I'm not doing
the normal kiss babies, give a superficial speech. In fact, I have
like a the talk on this is probably an hour hour and a half and
so you know, I'm trying to actually convey information, not why to people
and try to get their superficial vote to not make a difference. In government.
I gotcha. Yeah all right, well uh so yeah, so we
are. We are at the top. They are. I'm gonna let you
scoot. I'm gonna let uh We're gonna actually go to Eric Pilcher's classic film
review and this week the subject is the longest yard. So we'll go to
that, and then we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then
I'll be back with the balance of our show. Aaron Day, Thank you
very much, Thank you absolutely. Bert Reynolds the electricity that turns on the
most outrageous team in football. The mean machine, supercharged and power driven to
the longest yard. Burt Reynolds, the quarterback who will tackle anything. Driver's
license. Look when we got here a minute? Your car, the superstars.
I feel so good for me. He struck the All America, the
all Amazing, A joker of a jock who laughed all the way to prison.
Paul Crew, a wrecking crew. Anybody who's pro football's most valuable players.
Got something special to do. It's standing up. Let's hope it a
hero so special he gets special tri eatman. He'll put you in the other
rise and shine. It's room service. How do you like your battles.
Super star Shavid points off of a football game in that's an American team.
Get you twenty four hours the art box boy, I quit it. Oh
my god, what the hell is that? That's a member of the Warden
football team. And I run a football team. What football team? My
football team? He assembled the meanest, dirtiest team in history. Uh,
we're getting up a football game against the guards with the guards. Yeah,
I want to play. I'm gonna play football. And taught them how to
be meaner. The one thing that you're gonna have to remember is to protect
your quarterback and dirtier. I think he broke his nick. Think he broke
I told you before this game is over, I want every prisoner in this
institution to know what I mean by bar and who controls it. The prison
guards against the prisoners. They guarded the game that broke all the rules,
all the records, all the bones, the most incredible ever played on the
field and off. You're going to lose the game, and I want a
twenty one point spread. You've come too far together to stop. Now,
let's do it. From the producer of The Godfather. From the director of
The Dirty Dozen. From the first second to the last. The mean Machine
means in Burt Reynolds Eddie Albert In the Wildest Yet The Longest Yard, I
feel that it is safe to say that American football has overtaken baseball as this
country's national pastime. Starting this weekend, young men dreaming a future glory play
high school football on Friday nights. Those that are lucky venture on to play
college football on Saturdays. In the gifted few move on to playing professionally on
Sundays. This game requires dedication and focus. Each game is a battle.
In some instances, the consequences mean more than wins and losses, as is
the case with this week's film. Released in nineteen seventy four, directed by
the esteemed Robert Aldridge and starring Burt Reynolds, The Longest Yard introduces us to
disgraced former NFL quarterback Paul Wrecking Crew played by Reynolds, a man who,
due to drunkenly stealing his girlfriend's car and leading police on a wild, reckless
chase, is sentenced to eighteen months in a prison in the football kraze state
of Florida, where the guards play on a powerhouse semi protein in the warden
is willing to do anything to win a national title. A great place to
start would be to introduce us to Crew, a man that, at the
beginning of this film leads on the surface a charmed existence. He is a
kept man by his beautiful, enriched girlfriend. Looks can be deceiving, though,
as we hear in the way, Crew speaks that he does not enjoy
this life and wants something more. Plus, we will hear the fight that
leads to his prison sentence for stealing her Maserati Creak, Baby, God,
be good. Where the hell do you think you're going? Splitting? Splitting
you split what I tell you to split? You all American son of the
Lovely Lovely, And when you walk out, stay out. You're too expensive
to be useless. That's exactly what you are. I never looked out that
way before. Everybody's bought you, colleges, the pros, your gamblers.
Who do you think bought those beautiful little caps on your teeth? In the
clothes that you're wearing and the bloody tan that you've got me. If I
ever neglected to thank you, Melissa, you has been If I took everything
that I ever gave you, you stay away from my tod be very assinating.
Don't you touch my please? I think the love is going on in
our relationship. Sandured my maserati. I earned it. I told you not
to touch my horror, I feel. What makes audiences love this film so
much is that we become so emotionally vested in the characters. When Crew eventually
accepts the task of building a team of inmates to compete in a game against
the Guards. These individuals from various walks of life, races in various crimes
come together to become a team that the audience actually begins to root for,
like they're actually watching a football game. That's the magic of this film.
The ruthless criminals even become likable and lovable. That is in large part through
the charm of Crew and the evil ruthlessness of the Guards. Our next scene
is the beginning of the inmates coming together. Crew goes to various inmates to
recruit them for his team. And just listen to the differences in each inmate,
and you can tell how vastly different each one is. I'd like to
play football, Yeah, would you like that? But you'd like that,
wouldn't you? Sunny to the practice? Fie up tomorrow morning o'clock. Name
what's his name? Indian? That makes sense now, don't do any ethnic
jones. It is as Paul Crewe Hi Hi, I hear you play in
football A little bit good? Where Olcahoma State? Olclhoma State? You prison?
Yeah? Well, first thing we gotta do is get your transferred out
of here and on the football field. How now, well we're coming.
I'm pretty heavy. Who about four hundred parts pretty Anny? George Sampson Brananda,
mister Florida nineteen sixty four. Paul Koup you know Florida. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, they got tough cops here, small but tough. We're
getting up a football game against the guards. Wanted if maybe you and some
of your buddies here would like to join in on the fund with the guards.
Uh huh, sure, I'd like that signing up. I'm way ahead
of you. See around, look forward to it, Samson. Huh.
In order for a sports film to be great and have the viewer become emotionally
vested, as I have spoken about earlier, there needs to be a quote
unquote heavy or someone that oppresses the underdogs. In this film, it is
the face of authority. Warden Rudolph Hazen played by Eddie Albert of green Ache
Thing. In our final clip, we hear what makes the warden the epitome
of evil in this film. He blackmail's crew to throw the game, and
then goes back on his promise to crew and tells the quarterback of the guards,
Captain Kannaer, to hurt the inmates once they are up by twenty one.
Really of note here is the evil callousness that is beautifully conveyed by Albert,
along with his power hungry egomaniah coal attitude. Un what the hand do
you think you're doing? But you wanted the game, You're that one.
I never said anything about winning, you never said anything about losing him.
I'll spell it out for you. We've got Hunger in custody. He's confessed
to killing Caretaker. He said, you knew all about it. You didn't
notify Captain Kenner, and that makes you and accents so ring before the crowdster
Crewe. You send Caretaker to that cell, you are an accessory to murder.
You could be looking at twenty years and counting. There's no way in
the world you can make that stick and corner. No, mister Crewe.
You could be in this institution until you're old and gray, or until you're
dead, whichever comes first. I can promise you that you're gonna lose the
game, and I want a twenty one point sprint. I can't do that,
of course you can't. You've done it before. If I give you
the twenty one points, you call the dogs the dogs. If you got
the game in the bag, you tell your guys to coast. I want
in my menut. You have my word once we get to twenty one points.
You know, I mean one thing I'm sorry about. What's that?
Crewe? You're not out there with us knocking heads. I'm afraid I'm a
little too old. No, you never had the guts to begin with.
You've just been guaranteed at twenty one point spread what because of your marvelous performance.
I was forced to make a deal with mister Crue and on the second
half we defeat this thing. I'm not interested in discussing what you think might
happen in the second half. You as I told you what mister Krueler as
I told him. Now, when you and your metal medges twenty one points
ahead, I want you to inflict as much painful damage on the prisoners as
as humanly possible, so you understand, before this game is over, I
want every prisoner in this institution to know what I mean by power and who
controls it. We understand each other. Yes, this film does do an
excellent job of characterizing the game of football. In my opinion, where it
excels is it uses football as a way for these inmates to gain some pride
back, to stand up against their violent oppressors and work with individuals they might
have never felt they would work with, all for a chance, not just
at gridiron glory, but for one day to stand tall in victory over those
that control them for days, weeks, months, years, and even lifetimes.
As for the film itself, it ranks highly on any meaningful top sports
films list. Its quotes are heard in football stadiums across the country by fans.
It is as relatable today as it was when it was released, And
in two thousand and five a remake was released that stars Adam Sandler that is
just as good in its own right, into my opinion, a rarity for
remakes and just shows how truly classic, endearing, and amazing this film truly
is that it still stands the test of time. I hope you joined me
next week when we begin our month long tribute to the father of the zombie,
George A. Romero with his nineteen seventy two apocalyptic sci fi film The
Crazies. For W M and H. In Matt Connerton Unleash, this has
been a classic film. If you with Eric Filcher, Hey, welcome back
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Today is Friday, August twenty five, twenty twenty three. Friday.
Of course, my favorite day of the week here at w m n H.
It is my long day here because I do this show and then I'm
back tonight from eight to eleven pm for retros Spectrum Radio with Paul ec and
I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that
show, along with our friends c J, Steve, and of course Mike
from Queen's City Cabinetry. Queen City Cabinetry one of our great sponsors here at
WMH ninety five point three FM, and Mike is one of our co hosts
on retro Spectrum Radio. So I always look forward to my Friday nights here.
And this is what Paul posted earlier on social media and all New Retrospectrum
Radio starts at eight pm Eastern Tonight will be featuring town and city songs,
classic tunes you probably haven't heard in decades, and of course Name That nine
at nine. Will DJ Steve Rain Champion three weeks in a row do join
us? Spoiler alert, he probably will. I've won a couple of times.
I think I've won two or three weeks, so everyone's in a while,
we'll have a week where I win. But DJ Steve definitely ahead of
me on the statistically on that He's I'll tell you what happens to so many
times when we do the Name That nine at nine and Paul plays the riff
so many times he'll say got it, And he says it just as I'm
getting it in my mind. It's like he's all, he's just a half
second quicker than I am. Uh, well, maybe tonight I will.
Maybe tonight I will. When I go into it, I go into it
assuming I'm going to lose, and then when I occasionally do win, it's
like a nice surprise. And I think our friend Louie is on the line.
Hello, sir, well, I just wanted to know did you have
a nice summer? It's not over yet, please but I asked, did
you have a nice summer? Yeah, I don't want to. I'm not
ready to let go of it, though, so I object to the past
tense. I am having a nice summer, Louis. I am Louie.
We have to hang on the summer for as long as we can because is
it using the wrong phone? Now? Not you? But anyway, I
remember this guy and it's in all this trouble. A few years ago we
quoted New Hampshire. He said, Hey, didn't want a bad ome braise
in New Hampshire. Who's a bad ome bray? Now? I don't know
who? Oh, I'm sorry. It was this guy who was the pot
us. It took me a second. Yes, a lot of bad old
braids in New Hampshire. He did the bad old brain. Now that's right,
that's right. I forgot that Trump had said that. You're right,
Louis. It took me a second to remember. Now I don't remember the
context, though, do you. Oh it had to do with drugs,
didn't it. It had to do with uh people overdose rates in New Hampshire.
Is that what it was? Uh? You know at this time it
escapes my memory, but we know what his drug is. Like I mentioned
on the Morning show today, the P that comes in front of the zero,
one, one, three, five, eight oh nine. You know
what the P stands for? What? Yeah, that's in the FEDS.
That's medical terminology for psychiatric. Is it really? Is that true? That's
that's medical terminology for psychiatric. But he's going to really enjoy it in Kansas
because there's no protective custody in the FEDS, so he can either go in
with the general population and get killed or go in solitary to the rest of
his life. But I hope you enjoy the rest of the summer because it
does go till September twenty first. That's right, Louis, all right,
my friend, and I Walmart. That's very good. All right, keep
up the good work man, all right, Louis, thank you, by
bye. Sounds like Louie was working there. Yeah, I forgot, I
forgot. I forgot about that. But yes, Trump did say that during
the twenty sixteen campaign there's a lot of bad ombres in New Hampshire. I'd
forgotten that. Good on Louis, though, for memorizing the entire inmate number
for Trump, they did assign him a number as they do everyone when they
take in at the jail in Atlanta. I'd rather I don't know if I
can memorize all that, I'll just I'd rather just think of him. I'm
old school. I'd rather just think of him as individual one anyway. Yes,
uh, well, always nice here from Louis and summer is my favorite
time of year, so I don't like to let it go until we absolutely
have to. Unfortunately, now, according to the calendar, yes, most
of September technically is still summer. However, meteorologically speaking, meteorological summer is
June, July and August, so if you are a meteorologist, summer ends
at the end of this month. But I always hate to see it slip
away. It's my favorite time. Shannon is on the line. High Shannon,
how are you good? How are you good? I'm glad it's Friday.
Yes, my favorite Friday, my favorite day. Yes, uh,
tell Louie if he's gonna put numbers out on the air, repeat him like
he did the first time. Oh, I thought I did something different this
morning. I thought you were gonna say, if he's gonna put numbers out
on the air, he should put out his numbers. I thought that's I
thought, that's where you were going with that five three eight o nine,
not three five eight on nine. So pick one and stick with it.
Well, you know that's why I'd rather just stick with individual one. It's
easier. He's processed. Oh is it processed? Yeah? I figured I
figured it was not what Louis was saying. I think he was he was
being funny. But well, yeah, so he has been processed. Yes,
And have you seen the mug shot. It's stunning. He's he's glowering,
I would say, would be the best, the best term for his
expression in the mug shot. He's glowering. Where is he though, what
do you mean? You mean, who's jud glowering? Trump? And the
mug shot? Yeah, but where is he glowering? He's sitting in a
cell somewhere, like anybody else would be well, well, no, of
course not well posted he posted bond. You know, he's raising a lot
of money and this is a fantastic merchandising opportunity for him, Shannon, He's
gonna sell so many T shirts. He's gonna sell so many well, he
already was of you know, this is his first mug shot. But after
he was after he was processed before already this because this is not this is
now number four. He was selling. He was already selling shirts with his
face on them as though he had been as though it were a mug shot.
You can find them online. But but those were not actual mug shots.
Now he's gonna have a shirt with an actual mug shot on it.
Yeah, very exciting. But put him behind bars and have him make a
fist and make it in a pin, you know, a pin's hat,
T shirts. He's all set. Well. I've always said one thing he
is very good at and I don't even mean this flippantly. I genuinely mean
this. He's very good at marketing and branding. He understands that very well.
So good for him, Yes, good for him. Wherever he's glowering,
well, I assume he's glowering back at Bedminster. He's probably not back
in Florida because it's you know, too humid there this time of year.
It's probably at Bedminster. Where's the mirror? I want to check my hair
before you click that chart? Right, I don't know, I haven't seen
it well and see it, but I just wanted to call and say hi,
and Hi, did you steeven and police in Mike. Well, very
nice, goodnight, all right, Shannon, thank you for the call.
I appreciate it already. Bye, all right, bye bye, all right.
Always nice to hear from our friend Shannon. That does open up the
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And looks like our friend Ron is on the line. Hi, Ron,
Yeah, how are you doing, Matt? Good? How are you very
good? Very good? You kind of took the words or shame then,
you guys took the words out of my mouth. I thought to myself,
anybody Trump or anybody could really profit on his mug shot, especially also with
Halloween coming, you know, produce mask and all these things. So it
is a a couldn't marketable laugh thing. That's true, and the picture of
him glowering and his mug shot would make a perfect Halloween mask. Yes,
sure, hey. The only yes, other reason I was calling is because
you know, one, I like show, but I like it when you
guys do Night for nine Yeah and not you know, probably maybe two weeks
ago or something like that. Steve is so fast that he actually prazzled Polly.
He had Polly being nervous because he was like, you know, Polly
was fleeing getting ready to play a part of a song and Steve was all
right, deal with he answered. It was like it was funny Paul was
getting nervous, so oh yeah, it was pretty cool. Yeah, Steve
is very very quick, and there's so many times where he's just a half
second quicker than I am. But that's all it takes to win. Yeah,
it's good competition. It's fun. That's a tonight and every Yeah,
and I'm always good looking forward to it. Yes, yes, well very
good. Well we're glad that you We're glad that you listen. Run Oh
absolutely sure. All right, man, I have a great weekend. All
right, thanks Ron, you two, my friend, thank you, Johnny
and I hogged into Hello, absolutely, you got it all right, take
care of by all right? Always nice here from our friend Ron. Very
good and that does open up the line for you. Six zo three two
five o six seven six zo three two five oh six zero seven. DJ
Steve is in the Facebook live chat and says thank you, Shannon, you
have a great weekend, and says timing is everything. Yes, yes,
absolutely, we should go through. We had a very busy chat room while
our guest was here, Aaron Day, and so we had a lot going
on in the chat room. I'd like to go back and look at some
of these comments. Aaron is uh, he speaks quickly, and it's a
lot to try to keep up with. And I do have to say,
he's different than he used to be. You know, I've been he was
on this show. Like I said, it was five years ago. It
was back in just under five years. It was September of twenty eighteen.
I looked it up. That was the last time he was on. And
you know, and over the years too, I interviewed him in other venues,
shall we say, And uh, you know, I've always liked Aaron,
but he's definitely he's definitely different. I don't know. I was kind
of surprised. That wasn't that wasn't quite what I was expecting. But interesting,
I mean it was interesting, that's for sure. Melanie Liberty from the
Great State of Vermont is in the chat room says, again, this is
referring back to our conversation with Aaron day medical profession because they were potential mass
spreader, is because they were around vulnerable people, referring to people in the
medical profession getting vaccinated having to get vaccinated during the pandemic. Yeah. And
by the way, I did tell Aaron, and he wasn't surprised to hear
this. I'd tell him after the segment off air, I said, yeah,
I won't be putting today's show on YouTube. I mean I can't.
I'll definitely get dinged because of a lot of what he was saying. And
I, you know, I disagree with all of that. Really, I
am someone if you're a regular listener, you know, I take the pandemic
very seriously. I am fully vaccinated, and I'm not going to tell anyone
what to do, but I think it's a smart thing to do. I
believe in medical science, some pro vaccine and uh, and again I believe
in taking taking these things very seriously. And no, I don't. I
don't believe there's some sort of Look. I mean, of course you should
question things in terms of medicine. That's why, you know, that's why
people get a second opinion. You know, it's kind of an expression.
You know, maybe I should get a second opinion, right, you know,
that's of course you should ask questions. But uh, but I don't
know that there's some sort of a grand conspiracy that the medical profession is in
on, you know. And it's like when when I got, you know,
getting vaccinated, when people would say to me, oh what you you
you trust? Somebody said to me one day, oh, so you trust
the government. They tell you you should get vaccinated, So you trust the
government. I said no, I never said I trusted the government. But
I do trust my doctor. My doctor thinks it's a good idea. He
says, you have asthma, if you get COVID, it's going to be
pretty rough. Should probably get vaccinated. And I do trust my doctor,
and believe me when I tell you. If I thought for one second that
my doctor was a part of some grand conspiracy and was actually harming me,
I would find another doctor. But you know, so Aaron can do what
he wants. But I but I do want to be clear that I don't
agree with any of that. I think you should. I think if you're
sick, or you think you might be sick, I think you should go
to the doctor. Nothing wrong with getting a second opinion. But I trust
modern medicine. If anyone thinks that that makes me naive or makes me compliant,
or you know, whatever it is you want to think, you can
think that. But here's the thing, me trusting modern medicine versus someone who
just doesn't ever go to a doctor because they think there's some grand conspiracy that
they want nothing to do with. I'm probably going to outlive you as the
person who trust in modern medicine. So you can think what you want about
me, but I'll probably live longer than you. And I'm not even someone
who's really good about going to a doctor. I don't get physicals on schedule.
You know I'm bad about it. But you know, if I'm sick,
I'm going And I'm not gonna say, well, I can't go to
the doctor because you know, because of Bill Gates. I'm I'm not saying
that I'm going to go to the doctor if I need to go to the
doctor. So Miriam says h in the chat room, Miriam banish, Seriously,
my doctor gave me packs Lavid, and my COVID never got any worse.
Yeah, packs Lavid is apparently very very effective. Melanie said in the
chat room, what the hell did he do during the pandemic? Was he
was he part of the response to stop the spread or save lives? I
don't know. Jenny points out, better to have twenty million die instead of
him stay home. Wow, Wow, Wow, I can't believe this stuff.
It's wild. Yeah, I mean, I know that we can we
can debate the I don't even like the term lockdowns because they weren't really lockdowns.
No one was forced to stay in their home. But you know,
we we can debate the policy around COVID. I'm always open to that.
But you know, but I but I certainly take the virus itself seriously.
And see what I always say is, you know, because people will talk
about and it's again, it's a perfectly valid thing to discuss and analyze and
debate in terms of the response to it. And were the so called lockdowns
was that really the best policy keeping children home from school? Was that really
the best policy? I happen to think it was. I agreed with all
of that because my belief is if you had not done anything to mitigate this
virus and just let it spread and no mitigation because you know, freedom and
liberty and all that, I think we would have had instead of sitting here
now with more than a million dead in the United States. Who knows how
many more millions would have been dead because we just allowed this virus to spread.
And the other thing that people don't point out, and I don't know
why nobody says this, but when people say, well, what about how
negatively affected the economy? All the shutdowns, businesses having to keep their doors
closed, and restaurants only being able to do carry out and delivery and all
that, this all had a terrible effect on the economy. What I don't
know why no one ever brings up is this counterpoint to that, what would
have happened to the economy. I'm not saying this wasn't devastating to the economy,
and anyone who actually lost their business during the pandemic, my heart breaks
for you. Seriously, that's horrible, and I'm so sorry that happened to
you, because there are people who just couldn't make it work, couldn't get
the help they needed, actually lost their businesses entirely, their livelihoods, and
that is horrible. I mean that. I hope no one thinks I'm being
flippant about that. I'm very sincere when I say that. However, Let's
say, for example, we hadn't done all that, all that mitigation,
and instead of losing what you know, by the time it was officially declared
that we were out of it more than a million people, let's say we
lost two million people. Let's say we lost three million people or four million
people. What the hell do you think would have happened to the economy?
Then? If you had just allowed this, no mitigation whatsoever, you just
allowed this to spread and do its thing. You don't think that would have
affected the economy. And by the way, you don't think our healthcare system
collapsing under the weight of that would have affected our economy, because that certainly
would have happened. As it was, even with the bare minimum that we
did to mitigate the spread of COVID nineteen, there were cities in this country
where it got so bad. So many people were dying. There were cities
where they were bringing in refrigeration trucks to stuff the dead bodies into because they
were running out of rooms. So many people were dying. So if you
had just said the hell with it, We're just gonna let millions die,
you don't think that would have affected the economy. I think that would have
done far more damage to the economy than what we did. Look what we
did, This economy proved to be quite resilient. It snapped back. It
actually snapped back too quickly, because part of what contributes to inflation. I
know some people don't want to hear this, but it's true. Part of
what contributes to inflation is an economy that is growing and expanding too quickly.
And by the way, credit ware due Trump was actually right about that.
Trump said he thought that we would have a V shaped recovery because there was
so much pent up demand that the economy would actually snap back quickly. And
you know, I'm not one to go out of my way to defend Trump
on anything. I don't like the guy. You all know that, But
Ferris fair credit, where do on that? He was actually right? The
economy did snap back much more quickly than anyone expected. But imagine for a
moment if we had just let COVID ravage this country with no mitigation whatsoever,
where would we be sitting right now with this economy. I think we would
still be in terrible shape. I don't know why people don't talk about that.
I don't know why people don't use that to push back on when people
say, oh, no, we shouldn't have done any shutdowns, shouldn't have
done any mitigation, shouldn't have done anything, because let me tell you something.
For example, like say our sponsor, the Hopknot. Of course during
the shutdowns, they could only do carry out delivery, you know, couldn't
have people in the doors. Right, What would have happened to places like
the hop Knot in other places like that if you hadn't done any mitigation,
taken any mitigation steps, and you're just letting this virus ravage the population much
worse than it already was. You think they would have been able to stay
open at all? No, because here's what would have happened. Eventually,
employees would stop showing up. They wouldn't be coming to work anymore because they'd
either be sick or they'd be dead and nobody would be going out. Nobody
would be going to any restaurants because the virus would have put down so many
people everyone. People would see. That's the thing. If you hadn't done
the mitigation, it would have gotten to a point where people would be afraid
to go out. If you had millions of people dead, people would be
afraid to go anywhere, people would be afraid to congregate. You'd have many
more businesses failing if you hadn't done the mitigation. I firmly believe that nobody
talks about that part. When you have people say no, we shouldn't have
done anything. It actually did more harm than good to the economy. No,
I'm telling you, if we hadn't done anything, this economy would be
in the shambles still today. I truly believe that. But for some reason,
people on I guess on my side of the issue, because like absolutely
everything else, when it comes to the pandemic, you're supposed to be all
the way on one side or all the way on the other. So I'm
all the way on the side of Sorry, it's inconvenient, but when a
once in a lifetime global pandemic occurs, you have to respond to it.
You have to deal with it, and it's not something we can afford to
just ignore and just say, well, you know, because of freedom and
liberty, we're just going to pretend that this isn't happening and let millions of
people die and allow our healthcare system to collapse and allow God only knows what
would have happened to the economy in the long term or in the short term.
But we did the mitigation. The economy was able to keep going and
sort of this zombified state right while things were shut down, and we got
through it. We got through it. I don't know how well we would
have gotten through it if we had just said, nope, just leave everything
as it is. And uh, I don't know. Hopefully we have enough
refrigeration trucks, you know. I wonder if people forget how bad it got.
I mean it got bad. It got really bad, and it could
have been so, so, so much worse. Uh. Let's see Jenny,
and the chat says, does he believe OURFK is right about the COVID
vacks designed to not affect Jews? Oh? Yeah, I didn't get didn't
get a chance to ask him that I didn't see that question in time.
I mean a lot of these you all had a lot of great questions in
the chat room, but it was it was a fast moving discussion, and
I had to just hang on to everything he was saying so I could make
sure because there were a few times where I absolutely had to butt in and
say, just so we're clear, I disagree with that. Let's see Aikman
breezy and the Michael's Law is in the chat room and says us hashtag gen
coffee. That is conviction. We said, uh, let's see, Melanie
said, the president is one of the is one of our government, is
one branch of our government. She he is not a king, so yes,
she or he cannot cannot not change anything by themselves, checks and balances.
Yeah, some some of this I'm gonna skip over because we're gonna run
out of time. So uh, Miriam pointed out nobody was forced to get
vaccines, but some people lost their jobs for not getting vaccinated, and the
choice was theirs to make. Yeah, and by way too on that,
and I did. I had to push back on that with Aaron a little
bit too, because you know, as far as the federal vaccine mandate.
It was pretty pretty much not enforced. You know, there were there were
mandates about if you had a business over a certain size, people had to
either get vaccinated or they had to agree to where it continue to wear a
face mask every day so as not to spread the virus if they chose not
to get vaccinated. But from what I have seen and what I know,
at least during that period, none of that was really being enforced. It's
not like companies. It's not like business owners or managers who were refusing to
comply. It's not like someone was showing up, you know, someone from
law enforcement was showing up and putting somebody in handcuffs and saying, okay,
you're not going to comply with this, Well, then you got you're going
to jail. You know. I don't think the government was finding anybody for
non compliance in that. It wound up being in other words, it wound
up being largely voluntary. I don't think there was any consequence for ignoring it.
So that's the thing, you know, when you talk about you know,
Aaron kept using that word tyranny. Nobody was forced to do anything.
Nobody was forced to actually stay home. You could go out It wasn't like
I remember. I remember vividly hearing about the when they first issued the shelter
in place, that's what they were calling it in California. That's where they
started it, Gavin Newsom, the governor, ordering a shelter in place,
And it wasn't even for all the for the entire state, just where they
were initially finding COVID right at the beginning of things. And I remember wondering
at the time, Oh my god, it's probably inevitable that's gonna happen here
too. Are we gonna have to stay inside? Are we not gonna be
able to go out at all? What are we gonna do? What if
we need supplies, what if we need food? We're you know. But
then, you know, as as as we went through it, you realize
pretty quickly these these terms like shelter in place or lockdown or you know,
they're they're almost hyperbolic because nobody's actually forced to stay home. Businesses are allowed
to continue to operate. They just have to modify how they do things.
Can't have a big crowd of people in your business. And even that,
I mean, my god, I remember you know, coming and going to
do the show, and seeing you know, there's a restaurant and the bottom
floor of this building, and you know they'd be packed full of people,
especially on a Friday. And you know, while we're in the middle of
a pandemic, and it's like, you know, so many people aren't even
paying attention to any of this. They don't seem to care much if they
spread the virus. So where's the tyranny? If you're in other words,
I guess what I'm saying is and this is what I if we U.
If I had thought to say this to Aaron while he was here, I
would have Where is the tyranny if the government? If the government's telling you
to do something and you respond by just ignoring it or just saying, nah,
don't feel like it. I'm just going to go about my business.
And then the government responds by well not responding, but just saying you just
kind of shrugging and saying, oh, okay, I guess you're not gonna
I guess you're not going to help us with this. Where's the tyranny?
I don't I don't understand. If you're told to do something and then you
ignore the order or the request, it's not even it's not even an order.
You're not even being told, you're being asked to do something. And
you say, ah, I don't take this seriously, so I'm not gonna
do what you're asking me. And then whoever's asking you just kind of shrugs
and says, oh, well that sucks, but okay, I don't know
how tyranny enters into that. Let's see Aikman Breezy and the Michael's Law says,
well, hashtag Matt Connerton for us. We will be watching the retro
Spectrum Radio with Police at eight pm on Facebook Live from US to you,
Matt, Well, thank you, Melanie said, nice job, Eric,
Yes, of course. Eric Pilcher did a wonderful job. On this week's
classic film review The Longest Yard, the nineteen seventy four films starring Burt Reynolds.
Miriam Bannish says, Wow, glad that guy has gone, referring to
Aaron, I was close to calling in and voicing my opinions in my not
so dulcet tones, but I was driving. I was shouting in my car.
J Fed says, nice job, Eric Pilcher. Have you ever thought
about increasing the length of your beard? Hmm? Well, I don't think
Eric really has a beard. Well, in that case, I guess even
if he just has a little scruff any any additional growth would be increasing the
length. Uh let's see, Melanie said, I was yelling at my computer.
All right, I think we're gonna We're very close to the top of
the hour, so I don't think I missed anybody in the chat room.
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today's show with I've one more song. Oh by the way, our musical
guest on Monday as the band ever felt really looking forward to that. I
did play after Eric's classic film review a song called Broken Out in Love by
Mark Krozer. And I'm gonna play another song or close the show. This
is a song called Shatter by Code Orange. And what these two songs have
in common is they were both used as entrance music for professional wrestler bray Wyatt,
who after getting off the air yesterday, I was alerted that bray Wyatt
passed away at the age of thirty six. So very shocked, absolutely shocked
about that. Thirty six, just terrible. So Broken Out in Love was
when he first made his debut in w w E. That was his theme
song, and then Shatter was a song that he was using in more recent
appearances. So we're gonna close with that in honor of so Uh And if
you miss any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little
bit at wmhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connerton dot com. Actually
it won't be up at wmhradio dot org probably that's going to be delayed until
next week, so but it will be up at my website Matt Connerton dot
com. Today's show will not be on YouTube for obvious reasons. I can't
put it on YouTube, but I'll put it up on rumbulling so forth.
So anyway, so that's it. I will talk to y'all tonight eight to
eleven pm Retrospectrum Radio. Please join us and rest in peace, bray Wyatt.
This is Shatter from the band code orange,