1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free, write to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,160 your support. Couple of items and messages here. Just to 10 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:36,880 clean up from the last hour. Regarding Kamala Harris certifying 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,600 the electoral college victory for Donald Trump, Eric says, did 12 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,119 you notice that Kamala Harris secured fewer electoral votes than 13 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:50,280 Hillary Clinton did? 14 00:00:51,119 --> 00:00:55,679 Speaker 2: Lol? She was really a terrible candidate. It's true. That's true. 15 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: Bound by Duty says, Welcome back, Pete from your well 16 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,680 deserved time off. My lunchtime ritual is back in order. 17 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,719 My ride home on forty five helps complete my information 18 00:01:10,879 --> 00:01:15,040 based enjoyment using your podcast. Lots of things have happened 19 00:01:15,079 --> 00:01:17,680 since you've been out, no shortage of topics. In my opinion, 20 00:01:17,719 --> 00:01:22,000 that is true, even though I explicitly said do not 21 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,280 break anything while I was gone, lots of stuff got 22 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,719 broken by many people. It's almost like they don't listen 23 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:37,719 to me. Sean Davis from The Federalist. He says, the 24 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:44,120 only thing Democrats got in exchange for screeching about monsurriction 25 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,680 for four years was being bullied into accepting a Republican 26 00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:52,000 as president for the first time in forever. Like, that's right, 27 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,079 because this is the first time in this century that 28 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,200 Congressional Democrats have not objected to the certification of a 29 00:02:00,239 --> 00:02:07,359 Republican president, first time in the twenty first century, because 30 00:02:07,359 --> 00:02:11,319 they couldn't very well do it now, right after complaining 31 00:02:11,319 --> 00:02:14,439 about Mott Rose and the insurrection and all of this, 32 00:02:14,599 --> 00:02:17,759 they could not get out there today and object to 33 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,560 the certification of the results. 34 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,599 Speaker 2: So there's that. 35 00:02:23,479 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: I got a message also from Bob who asked regarding 36 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:34,719 George Soros getting one of the Medals of Freedom from Biden. 37 00:02:35,319 --> 00:02:37,240 There was a list of nineteen people. I was going 38 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,719 through some of them in the last hour real quick. 39 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,159 Joe Biden gave the Medal of Freedom, which is the 40 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:47,199 highest civilian honor in the nation. Gave it to Hillary Clinton, 41 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,719 George Soros, Bono from the band You Two, Michael J. 42 00:02:51,879 --> 00:02:57,199 Fox from Back to the Future, Magic Johnson, the basketball legend, 43 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:05,719 Ralph Lauren, fashion guy, soccer player, Lionel Messi, Denzel Washington 44 00:03:06,599 --> 00:03:09,680 and a Win Tour, the editor in chief of Vogue magazine. 45 00:03:10,199 --> 00:03:14,000 Bill Nye, the science guy who doesn't even have a 46 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:19,520 degree in science. If I recall correctly, rfk not junior, 47 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,840 but the slain former New York Senator and US Attorney 48 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:31,039 General from You've Got Murdered by Sir Hann Sirhin fifty 49 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,719 years ago. Jane Goodall, who hung out with all the 50 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,319 apes you know. David Rubinstein, the billionaire co founder of 51 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:46,919 the Carlisle Group. Donor sorry, jose Andres, the celebrity chef 52 00:03:47,199 --> 00:03:50,159 and founder of the World Central Kitchen charity group. That's 53 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:52,240 a good one. I feel like that that's a pretty 54 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:58,439 good medal to give. Ashton Baldwin Carter, former Defense Secretary, 55 00:03:58,919 --> 00:04:04,360 Tim Gill, an entrepreneur whose work has advanced LGBT rights, 56 00:04:05,319 --> 00:04:11,120 George Romney mid Romney's dad got one. George Stevens junior 57 00:04:11,199 --> 00:04:14,719 and author and playwright. And Fanny Lou Hamer, the late 58 00:04:14,759 --> 00:04:18,160 civil rights leader and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. 59 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:21,519 So that those were the nineteen that got the medals, 60 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:28,439 and I was I truth be told, I was, I was. 61 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:31,600 I was dragging George Soros a little bit in the 62 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:32,279 last hour. 63 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,199 Speaker 2: I don't regret it. Not a fan. 64 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: And Bob wanted to know, how does Soros benefit from anarchy? 65 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:45,480 Because Soros has been funding these district attorney races to 66 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:51,600 put into office these far left, you know, criminal justice 67 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:59,439 reform activists who have not been holding people accountable for crimes. 68 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,319 They don't prosecute, They cut all sorts of deals, and 69 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,399 their jurisdictions have turned into war zones or hellholes or both. 70 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,680 And Bob wants to know how does Soros benefit from that? 71 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,519 He says, I don't understand his motivation, hatred for American culture. 72 00:05:18,759 --> 00:05:23,560 How to entrepreneurs justify damaging systems from which they're wealth arows, so. 73 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 2: Sorrows. 74 00:05:25,639 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: You got to remember, like, this is a currency manipulator guy. 75 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:36,279 He's a currency trader and investor guy, right, So he's 76 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:40,639 not like an entrepreneur. He's not going out there trying 77 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:43,879 to create a product that people want. See, that's the 78 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,399 beauty of the free market is that if you create 79 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:52,040 a product or a service that actually has value for people, 80 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,560 then people will want it, and so you are then 81 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:03,160 making their lives better in some small or large way. Right, 82 00:06:03,199 --> 00:06:09,000 They're choosing voluntarily to buy your product because they believe 83 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:14,079 it gives them benefit, and you're helping. So an entrepreneur 84 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:22,920 is helping people and the economy and usually the society. 85 00:06:23,879 --> 00:06:26,360 That's the beauty of the free market. Is it perfect? No, 86 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:31,439 But it's the it's us. The free market is you. 87 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,240 The free market is me. Right, that's what the free 88 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,600 market is. And commies like to, you know, throw the 89 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,240 word capitalist around like it's a slur. I'm not offended 90 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,160 by it. But if you want to call me a capitalist, fine, 91 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:49,720 I am a free marketeer. I believe in the free 92 00:06:49,759 --> 00:06:59,720 market because it represents billions of factors made at any 93 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:02,759 give in point. It's the only way that you could 94 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,879 do it. It's such a complex system because we are 95 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:10,720 all individual people with different needs and wants that change 96 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,920 minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day. Right now, 97 00:07:14,959 --> 00:07:17,959 I may not be willing to pay, you know, fifty 98 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,160 dollars for your product, but you put it on sale, 99 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,120 and now you give it to me for forty Now, okay, 100 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,319 now I will why I don't know, maybe forty dollars 101 00:07:27,399 --> 00:07:29,759 was my limit. Maybe I feel like I'm getting a deal. 102 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,079 Maybe I've got fomo fear of missing out. Maybe I 103 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,319 need the thing now. That's one of the things about like, 104 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,519 for example, advertising, A lot of products that are advertised, 105 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,920 not just on the radio or on podcast, TV wherever. 106 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,199 A lot of products that are advertised are not products 107 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:50,720 that you're going to buy over and over and over 108 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:54,839 and over again. So what is the point of advertising 109 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,759 over and over and over again, right for years and 110 00:07:57,839 --> 00:08:00,560 years and years for the same product. Well, yes, it's 111 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,959 to find new people that may need that service, but 112 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,839 it's also to create in somebody's mind a memory of 113 00:08:07,879 --> 00:08:10,399 a product or a service, of the name of a website, 114 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:13,560 a phone number, whatever, a brand. It's so they remember 115 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,720 it for when they do need it. So how do 116 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,879 you measure that, Like, how do you capture all of 117 00:08:19,959 --> 00:08:23,800 those decision points, all of those factors at the point 118 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,800 of purchase. There's no other way to do it more 119 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:32,080 efficiently than the free market, because everybody decides on their 120 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,879 own and if a business is able to meet the demand, 121 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,159 they will then adjust to what those demand levels are 122 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:43,480 with the commensurates supply. It's a beautiful system. Like when 123 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:49,200 you think about what it actually measures is freedom. It's 124 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:56,879 our ability to engage in free exercise of commerce. It's beautiful, 125 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,159 and I think that's why some people hate it. Some 126 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:04,480 people hate beautiful things. And I also think that there's 127 00:09:04,519 --> 00:09:06,399 a lot of ignorance as to the beauty of this 128 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,799 system and what it really is. That's why I keep 129 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:14,480 talking about the free market being you and me our decisions. Hey, 130 00:09:14,519 --> 00:09:17,000 you know what, I could really go for a Pepperoni. 131 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: Pizza right now. 132 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,519 Speaker 1: Why, I don't know. I want a pizza. I love 133 00:09:22,519 --> 00:09:26,440 Pepperoni pizza. I haven't had Pepperoni pizza. Whatever the decision is, 134 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,799 whatever the factor is in that, rather than the government 135 00:09:29,879 --> 00:09:31,559 coming in and saying like they do in the K 136 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:34,600 twelve government schools, today is Pepperoni Pizza Day, whether you 137 00:09:34,639 --> 00:09:38,279 like it or not. Right, that's not a free market. 138 00:09:38,759 --> 00:09:41,440 Here's a great idea. 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Like, that's what you get, right. 168 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: Non enforcement of law, which then, of course sends the 169 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:31,000 signal to people who wish to break more laws. They 170 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,320 can continue to break more laws with impunity because there 171 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,759 aren't going to be any repercussions to them. It also 172 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:42,159 sends signals to the law abiding people that they are 173 00:11:42,279 --> 00:11:49,039 fools because they're following these laws. Because while some people 174 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,039 may be motivated to follow the law because I'm a 175 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,519 good person and I like to follow all the rules, 176 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:57,000 spoiler alert, you're not following all of the rules. 177 00:11:57,399 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 2: Nobody can. 178 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: There are too many. 179 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:01,879 Speaker 2: Show me the man, I'll show you the crime. Right. 180 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:07,519 Speaker 1: The vast majority of people follow the laws because they 181 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:12,679 are afraid of the penalties for not doing so. How 182 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:18,320 many people would be speeding more? How many more people 183 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,679 would be speeding at higher rates if there were no 184 00:12:21,879 --> 00:12:26,240 speed limit, and that speed limit was not enforced with 185 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,399 any kind of punishment. Right, that's the point. And so 186 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,519 when you strip away the punishments, now you are going 187 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,919 to encourage more of the thing that is not being 188 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:41,240 punished because the people who were following the rules because 189 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:43,879 they were afraid of the punishment now are not afraid 190 00:12:43,919 --> 00:12:47,759 of any punishment. People who don't care about punishment are 191 00:12:47,799 --> 00:12:51,399 not deterred by the punishments. 192 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 2: Obviously, So why would Soros do this? What's the motivation 193 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:57,600 for doing this? 194 00:12:57,639 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: Why would he want these das to be in office 195 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:06,360 and have this breakdown of the society. Well, it's much 196 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:11,240 like all of the reasons. Why what I call temporary 197 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:16,799 anarchists because they're not really anarchists, They just want chaos 198 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,559 for a little while, just for a bit. You create 199 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,679 conditions that are so terrible that people will then clamor 200 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:30,919 for a crackdown to restore order. That is the natural response. 201 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:38,159 Happens throughout human history. In every society, things get too 202 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,399 out of control, somebody comes in and promises to restore order. 203 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:47,759 They get power and they If Vladimir Putin did it 204 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,039 blew up an apartment building allegedly right blamed it on 205 00:13:52,159 --> 00:13:55,639 some terrorists or something, and they were like, oh my gosh, 206 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,919 everybody's freaking out, so let's have a restore order campaign. 207 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,639 I mean the creation of the TSA right. 208 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 2: You have all these. 209 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,919 Speaker 1: Reactions to chaotic incidents, and it's all the same that 210 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:13,399 we're going to institute, implement order, and then people yield 211 00:14:14,279 --> 00:14:19,159 freedom for security, because that's the natural tendency. The natural 212 00:14:19,159 --> 00:14:21,960 tendency of government is to grow, is to take more 213 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,759 and more liberty from its citizens, and the natural tendency 214 00:14:25,759 --> 00:14:28,600 of the citizenry is to give it up, is to 215 00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:34,720 trade it in for a perception of security, a belief 216 00:14:34,759 --> 00:14:39,559 that they are more secure. And the Faustian bargain always 217 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:42,600 ends the same. It ends with people intents in western 218 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,799 North Carolina that can't get FEMA trailers. It always ends 219 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,000 the same way. Because government can never deliver on the 220 00:14:49,039 --> 00:14:53,399 promises of the security that they made. You end up 221 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,720 with New Orleans, you end up with an open southern border, 222 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,159 You end up with a subway system in New York 223 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:04,039 City that is just riddled with with crime and stabbings 224 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,519 and such. So, but people keep making that, they keep 225 00:15:08,519 --> 00:15:11,679 making the choice, they keep making that that uh, that 226 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:16,399 Faustian deal. So if you are the one who creates 227 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,279 the chaos, are you in it just to create the chaos? 228 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,200 I would submit, No, you are actually in it. I 229 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,440 mean aside from like being the actual stabber on the 230 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,440 subway car, like they're in it for the chaos. But 231 00:15:32,519 --> 00:15:36,000 if you're at the Soros level, you're not in it 232 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,480 to create chaos for chaos's sake. You're in it to 233 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,960 create chaos so you can be part of the solution, 234 00:15:43,679 --> 00:15:47,240 so you can be part of the restoration of order. 235 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:50,639 Why do you think he donates all the money to 236 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,919 politicians that don't have anything to do with. 237 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:55,759 Speaker 2: Law and order. 238 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: DA's plea agreements and that sort of thing. It's to 239 00:15:59,759 --> 00:16:04,600 write the laws to give himself the advantage. The quote 240 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:09,080 elites the positions of power, the influence, or as Einran 241 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:10,679 called it, the politics of pull. 242 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:13,759 Speaker 2: How much pull do you have? 243 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:17,799 Speaker 1: And so when you pay a lot of money into 244 00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:21,399 campaign coffers and you get a bunch of das elected 245 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:26,519 that rip apart the fabric of a high trust society, 246 00:16:27,559 --> 00:16:29,960 you then get people clamoring for a restoration of law 247 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:32,039 and order. Well, look at that. I just happened to 248 00:16:32,039 --> 00:16:33,960 know some people that could pass some laws that would 249 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,960 help alleviate these problems. 250 00:16:35,519 --> 00:16:37,679 Speaker 2: Which nobody could ever have expected. 251 00:16:38,559 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: And now you're in right now, you're part of the solution, 252 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:48,840 and you get to now be part of that two 253 00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:51,799 tiered system, which he already is. I mean, you've got 254 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:54,360 a two tier system as it is, right, the Democrat 255 00:16:54,399 --> 00:16:55,759 Party called the Elysium Party. 256 00:16:55,759 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 2: You got the uber rich and you get the activists poor. 257 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,399 That's so you have that. That's what that party is now. 258 00:17:04,279 --> 00:17:07,559 Speaker 1: And I don't know if they can speak a language 259 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:11,319 that will be attractive to anybody outside of that elite crowd. 260 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,279 I think they're gonna start, uh, they're gonna start bleeding 261 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,680 the lower end of their demographic in their in their base. 262 00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:23,480 They're gonna have the activists. They're gonna have the college educated, right, Okay, 263 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,240 that's kind of redundant activists too, right. So they're gonna 264 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:29,559 have the the really wealthy elites, the taste makers, the 265 00:17:29,599 --> 00:17:32,240 trendsetters and such because they don't have to live. But 266 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,559 they don't have to they're not right in the subways, right, 267 00:17:36,839 --> 00:17:38,599 And then you get the Marxist activist crowd. 268 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 2: So he's in it. So, so the purpose is. 269 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 1: To be in the lab when you make the the 270 00:17:49,519 --> 00:17:54,200 virus and the antidote, and then you can be the 271 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,759 one to provide the antidote because that gives you the control. 272 00:17:56,839 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 2: That's what it's about. All right. 273 00:17:58,759 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: I hope you had a happy holiday season. But tell 274 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,039 me if something like this happened at your house. Your 275 00:18:04,039 --> 00:18:06,559 family and friends are gathered around. Maybe y'all are in 276 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:10,200 the living room, You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then 277 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:14,200 somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? Did 278 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,839 you ever get them transferred? And then the room gets 279 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,400 all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh, 280 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,519 you know, well, I've been meaning to but I just 281 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:25,519 having gotten around to it. Look, don't let those priceless 282 00:18:25,559 --> 00:18:28,119 memories sit in a box for another year. 283 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 2: All right. 284 00:18:28,599 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: Create a Video has been helping families in the Charlotte 285 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:35,279 area preserve their history since nineteen ninety seven. Simply bring 286 00:18:35,319 --> 00:18:38,759 in your old camquarder tapes and Creative Video will transfer 287 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,960 them to a USB flash drive for just fourteen ninety 288 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,319 five per tape. You have a big collection, they've got 289 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,440 a discount for you. And next year, instead of talking 290 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:51,839 about those memories, imagine gathering the family to watch them 291 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,200 together talk about a memorable gift. So do what I did. 292 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,079 Trust the experts at Creative Video, conveniently located in mint 293 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,519 Hill right off five five and online at create a 294 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:07,880 video dot Com. Russ says, Pete, welcome back. You detailing 295 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,319 your time off got me thinking. Winter Book comes back 296 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,640 and tells us about the great time that he had 297 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,039 with listeners on a cruise. And you come back and 298 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:22,319 we hear about ripping your iTunes catalog again. Future promo 299 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,160 idea for you. You need to organize some kind of a 300 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,160 listener meetup or a getaway. You could invite listeners to 301 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,319 watch as you organize your sock drawer or something. There 302 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:35,400 are no bad ideas under the cone of creativity. 303 00:19:35,519 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 2: It's true. That is true. I like it well. 304 00:19:44,519 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: I mean, they're always telling us like you need to 305 00:19:46,319 --> 00:19:49,559 welcome people into your life and show them behind. 306 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 2: The scenes stuff. 307 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,839 Speaker 1: So all right, I'll do maybe I'll do a video. 308 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:57,400 Maybe I'll do a video on when I organize the 309 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:57,920 sock drawer. 310 00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:58,279 Speaker 2: It is. 311 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:02,839 Speaker 1: It is about time for me to do that because 312 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:06,680 I bought those dividers. Those things never work, right, I 313 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,079 take it back, I did buy one product that did 314 00:20:09,079 --> 00:20:11,920 work correctly. But it was only front to back. When 315 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,839 you start getting into different dimensions, like if you're starting 316 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:19,680 to go horizontal and vertical divisions, it's that stuff never works. 317 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:27,079 I don't feel like and uh universal not not universal. 318 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,559 Speaker 2: They're like, oh, this will fit any drawer. No it won't. 319 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:30,720 It did not. 320 00:20:31,759 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: You start putting different pressure points on the little show 321 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:41,079 on the little dividers. So this is this is how 322 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,079 I stay in touch with the everyday person. 323 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:45,319 Speaker 2: Right. 324 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: Did you have to do a bunch of iTunes ripping 325 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,759 at some point too? No, you probably spaced it out 326 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,519 like a normal person would do. But I just put 327 00:20:56,559 --> 00:20:58,480 off all of this stuff. I put it off. I 328 00:20:58,519 --> 00:21:00,960 put it off because I have more important things to do, 329 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:01,680 like Twitter. 330 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,079 Speaker 2: So I just put it off and put it off. 331 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: And then I had I wrote a to do list. 332 00:21:07,319 --> 00:21:09,359 It was a full page to do list of all 333 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,519 the things I had to get done. 334 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:12,799 Speaker 2: I put up a bird house. 335 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,039 Speaker 1: Don't tell the hoa. I put up a bird house 336 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:21,519 and I got it for Christmas. And so I was 337 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:26,519 going to rehab a table table that had been painted 338 00:21:26,559 --> 00:21:28,480 over a bunch of times and stuff, and we bought 339 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,960 it at one of those consignment Is that what it's 340 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,559 called consignment place where they got like the different little 341 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,640 areas and it's had like a warehouse and people rent 342 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,599 the booths and whatever. Anyway, we picked up one of 343 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:44,200 these things and it's a little table. It's got wheels 344 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,279 on it, so it goes in the little laundry room 345 00:21:46,319 --> 00:21:48,119 and so you can move it around and take it 346 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,240 out if you needed to, which we actually haven't ever 347 00:21:50,319 --> 00:21:53,400 needed to take it out, but whatever. So the idea 348 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,240 was to paint it. But then I got the bird house. 349 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,319 And it's not just any bird house. This thing's got 350 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:02,920 a camera in it so I can watch when the 351 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,839 birds make a nest in the bird house. Okay, if 352 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,880 the birds make a nest, I'm not certain they're going to. 353 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,559 I'm really not certain that they're going to. 354 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 2: I don't, I don't. 355 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,640 Speaker 1: I will say, I'll keep you posted. I keep looking 356 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,880 at it, and you know, open up the camera. It's 357 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:23,920 got a little solar panel on it so I don't 358 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,839 have to recharge it all the time. It's a pretty 359 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,359 I mean, it's neat. It's a great idea, and I 360 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:28,920 hope I get some birds that live in there. I'd 361 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,039 love to be able to just like snoop on them. 362 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,680 And then watches some snake like goes and eats the eggs. 363 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,640 I'm sure at some point, but I mean I'll be sad. 364 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:40,519 Speaker 2: Anyway. 365 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe I'll shoot a video of the of 366 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:49,160 the installation of some shelves in the toilet room. Anyway, 367 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,680 let me get to a more important thing. The State 368 00:22:52,799 --> 00:22:58,759 Department has crafted plans to distribute staffers from the GECK. 369 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,799 Do you remember the GEK. I know, there's a lot 370 00:23:01,839 --> 00:23:07,119 of acronyms GEC. It's the Global Engagement Center. It's where 371 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:12,119 everybody goes before they propose to get married. And no, 372 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:18,720 it's this is the operation. I mentioned this during the 373 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,799 the Kramibus, remember when they put together the funding package, 374 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:28,559 the continuing resolution with the you know, the deadline before Christmas. 375 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,519 And one of the things, one of the provisions that 376 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:37,039 was buried in that Kramnibus was the perpetuation of the GEK, 377 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:43,519 the Global Engagement Center, which was a censorship tool, and 378 00:23:43,559 --> 00:23:46,079 it was housed inside the State Department, and they tried 379 00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:54,799 to to not let its sun set last month. So 380 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,039 when the cram nebus failed and then they did the 381 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,480 stripped down clean CRS and all that, the GEK was 382 00:24:03,519 --> 00:24:07,279 one of the casualties. But don't worry everybody. They have 383 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,640 found a way. They have found a way to preserve 384 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,559 the people that were in the GEK, and they've moved 385 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:19,119 him around. They've done some shuffling, okay, and same with 386 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:24,039 the money. Fifty one employees, a twenty nine million dollar budget, 387 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,480 and the GEK. 388 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 2: To do. Where is it? 389 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,759 Speaker 1: The office that Republicans accused of working with groups aimed 390 00:24:35,759 --> 00:24:41,000 at demonetizing right leaning media outlets in the US is 391 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:43,960 shut down last month upon lawmakers agreeing to no longer 392 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,440 fund it, well because it was sunset it. However, in 393 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,599 a non public letter to members of Congress on December sixth, 394 00:24:52,039 --> 00:24:56,839 the State Department outlined its plans to realign more than 395 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:02,279 fifty GEK officials and tens of millions of dollars in 396 00:25:02,319 --> 00:25:06,079 funding to a hub. So we are going from the 397 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:11,440 GEK to a hub purporting to counter foreign interference. 398 00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:20,279 Speaker 2: Oh sorry, I should do this foreign interference the Russians? Okay. 399 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: The plans, which have not been reported on until now 400 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,200 at The Washington Examiner by Gabe Kaminski, will likely lead 401 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,599 to investigations from Republicans into the State Department's handling of 402 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,880 the gek's closure. That's because, according to senior GOP staffers 403 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,759 who reviewed them, they appear to indicate that the Biden 404 00:25:37,799 --> 00:25:43,359 administration is merely rebranding the GEK under a different name, 405 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,359 forming a new body that could be poised to engage 406 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:52,519 in work very similar to the work that landed the 407 00:25:52,559 --> 00:25:57,400 GEK in hot water over the last two years. Now, look, 408 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:04,920 there there is a perfectly logical reason why this just 409 00:26:05,079 --> 00:26:11,119 looks like a rebrand. Okay, because it's a rebrand, right, 410 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,480 That's why it looks like that. 411 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:13,279 Speaker 2: All right. 412 00:26:13,319 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 1: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 413 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,920 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 414 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,039 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 415 00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:23,319 say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because 416 00:26:23,319 --> 00:26:26,000 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 417 00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:29,359 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and 418 00:26:29,559 --> 00:26:32,480 it's a website, and it combines news from around the 419 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,160 world in one place so you can compare coverage and 420 00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:36,240 verify information. 421 00:26:36,519 --> 00:26:38,079 Speaker 2: You can check it out at check. 422 00:26:38,039 --> 00:26:42,279 Speaker 1: Dot ground dot news slash pete. I put the link 423 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:45,400 in the podcast description too. I started using ground News 424 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,160 a few months ago and more recently chose to work 425 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,200 with them as an affiliate because it lets me see 426 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,039 clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind 427 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,920 spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the 428 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,000 left and the right. 429 00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,039 Speaker 2: See for yourself. 430 00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: Check dot org, ground dot News slash Pete. Subscribe through 431 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,400 that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. 432 00:27:06,759 --> 00:27:09,480 I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to 433 00:27:09,559 --> 00:27:13,000 every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 434 00:27:13,039 --> 00:27:15,400 but it also supports Ground News as they make the 435 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,359 media landscape more transparent. 436 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:18,599 Speaker 2: Jan says. 437 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,880 Speaker 1: It isn't that we are not listening when you say, 438 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,319 don't break anything while I'm gone. It's just that as guys, 439 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,279 we automatically think challenge accepted. 440 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 2: That's fair. No, that's fair. 441 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:33,519 Speaker 1: Bill Nye, the science guy has a degree in mechanical engineering, 442 00:27:33,559 --> 00:27:35,640 which means he is very valuable if you need help 443 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:40,119 assembling something you got at Ikea, anything else actually science related, 444 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,599 he is pretty useless. See I knew he didn't have 445 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,960 an He wasn't like a climatologist orney, but. 446 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 2: Mechanical engineering degree. All right. 447 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:56,759 Speaker 1: So the Washington Examiner headline State Department to route GEK 448 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:01,039 funding to hub. From the GEK to the hub, the GEC, 449 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:06,400 the Global Engagement Center. Formed in twenty sixteen. The GEC 450 00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:11,039 claimed to only counter foreign disinformation, but it came under 451 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:18,519 intense criticism for backing the Global Disinformation Index or the 452 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:27,119 GDI and other groups that were pressuring advertisers to stop 453 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:33,839 buying ads on media outlets in America that the left 454 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:38,759 didn't like, and they said, we're peddling disinformation and misinformation 455 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,640 things that turned out to actually be true. In the 456 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:49,079 congressional notification, the State Department identified the HUB. This newly 457 00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:59,000 formed body, it is called the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation 458 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:07,039 and Interference Hub, the CFIMIH, or the. 459 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:08,799 Speaker 2: KUFFEME as I like to call it. 460 00:29:09,839 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: The HUB will report to the State Department's undersecretary, which 461 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,480 is always a hilarious name. Under Secretary. 462 00:29:17,559 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 2: I don't know why. 463 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: It just reminds me of like underwear and underdog. Anyway, 464 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:29,559 Undersecretary of State for public diplomacy. So they got so 465 00:29:29,599 --> 00:29:33,920 this this is what the state agency got defunded. Okay, 466 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,440 State Department GEK gets defunded. They put and this is 467 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,559 why there should always be sunsets for all of these 468 00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:44,720 types of programs. If it's working, I'm just kidding, it's 469 00:29:44,759 --> 00:29:47,880 a government program. But if it was working, it was 470 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:53,759 sufficiently not like being abused, or it wasn't being abused 471 00:29:53,799 --> 00:29:55,680 a lot, right, it was like I had a low 472 00:29:55,799 --> 00:30:01,319 abuse factor. Anyway, you could then have it automatically sunset. 473 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,920 If it was doing a decent job, you could then say, Okay, 474 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,240 we're going to re up it. But it takes an 475 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:13,240 affirmative vote to re up. That's the way I think 476 00:30:13,319 --> 00:30:15,599 all these programs need to be. You don't get to 477 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,960 set stuff up and just have it last in perpetuity, 478 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,079 because that is also the natural tendency of all of 479 00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:24,319 these government programs. You create the program and it just 480 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:29,319 never dies, it never goes away. This one got sunseted, 481 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:35,000 but spoiler, it just now got reorganized. When they sunset 482 00:30:35,079 --> 00:30:39,680 the thing because it did abuse, they then just move 483 00:30:39,759 --> 00:30:45,640 the people around and reallocate the money and create another 484 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,160 entity that is going to basically do the same thing, 485 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,559 but it's only going to look at the foreign interference everybody. No, 486 00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:57,880 no targeting of American conservatives, I mean, at least initially. 487 00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:03,519 According to one senior GEO, gex planned shift to the 488 00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:07,519 Hub demonstrates that the federal government won't give up its 489 00:31:07,519 --> 00:31:11,160 stake in the domestic disinformation fighting industry without a fight. 490 00:31:11,559 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 2: Quote. 491 00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: This is according to a senior GOP eight. Donald Trump 492 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,559 and Marco Rubio are going to have to track every 493 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:20,799 single office down to every single staffer if they want 494 00:31:20,839 --> 00:31:24,799 to end the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives. 495 00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:29,559 The State Department is filled with resistance Democrats who think 496 00:31:29,599 --> 00:31:32,240 they got through the first Trump administration and will get 497 00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:36,920 through the second the same way. Right, They are sand 498 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,240 in the gears. They talked about this back in twenty sixteen, 499 00:31:40,319 --> 00:31:44,440 twenty seventeen, when Trump won. They were people inside the 500 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,559 government were talking about and they would talk to media outlets, 501 00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:50,640 I mean all anonymously. Of course, they posted about this 502 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:55,240 stuff saying that they know how to jam up the works. 503 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,559 They can grind all of this stuff down to a halt, 504 00:31:59,559 --> 00:32:01,279 and they can out last to you because you're only 505 00:32:01,359 --> 00:32:04,839 there for four years. In Trump's case, that's a hard 506 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,319 four years. Right, He's gone in four So all they 507 00:32:09,359 --> 00:32:13,480 need to do is slow stuff down, prevent new things 508 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,440 from happening, and then Trump will be gone and they 509 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:23,720 can resume their practice. Meanwhile, uh oh, hang on, let 510 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,440 me skip the paragraph. The source familiar with the matter 511 00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:30,279 said the planned hub would not have the grant making 512 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:33,359 power that GEK did, so they don't get to spread 513 00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:36,400 around the money to all of these you know, left 514 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:41,039 wing nonprofits that then organize the boycott campaigns and pressure 515 00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:44,920 campaigns against advertisers, and the point of that obviously is 516 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,880 to starve conservative outlets of revenue so they fold. This 517 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,559 is just shut up ery in a different form. Once 518 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:59,519 you see shut uppery as the prevalent line of attack 519 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:06,519 from the left, it explains so many things. You see 520 00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:13,920 it everywhere. It's just shut up. Andrew Claven's famous episode 521 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,160 that he did I don't know, probably twenty years ago 522 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,799 now on shut up Ory. They do not want the debate, 523 00:33:21,359 --> 00:33:24,000 they don't want a discussion. They just want you to 524 00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:28,519 shut up or preferably agree with them and back their 525 00:33:28,519 --> 00:33:32,440 play on everything. So they're not going to have grant 526 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,839 making power. At the same time, besides awarding grants to 527 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,160 groups accused of censoring conservatives, the GEK was also involved 528 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,079 with other initiatives that earned the ire of lawmakers concerned 529 00:33:43,079 --> 00:33:47,039 about the First Amendment and violations of it. Top GEK 530 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,079 staffers have already resurfaced to work for the most high 531 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,799 ranking officials at the State Department, such as James P. 532 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:56,359 Speaker 2: Rubin. 533 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: He is now a senior advisor to Blincoln. The Secretary 534 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:06,160 of State Leah Bray she was the former acting coordinator. 535 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,960 She's now over at the She's the chief of staff 536 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:14,039 to Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell. Daniel Kimmage was 537 00:34:14,079 --> 00:34:17,440 the principal deputy coordinator for the GEK. He is now 538 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:23,880 the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy's team. Given the evidence 539 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,400 shows the GEK has long ignored its congressional mandate to 540 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,360 focus solely on foreign disinformation, its continuation under a so 541 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,960 called hub is extremely troubling, said Margo Cleveland, an attorney 542 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,079 for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. That legal nonprofit group 543 00:34:39,119 --> 00:34:42,400 is representing conservative media outlets like The Daily Wire and 544 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,199 the Federalists, the Federalist dot Com, which joined the State 545 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:51,039 of Texas in a lawsuit accusing GHEK of facilitating quote, 546 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:54,159 one of the most egregious government operations to censor the 547 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,960 American press in the history of the nation. All right, 548 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,559 that'll do it for this episode. 549 00:34:58,559 --> 00:34:59,880 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening. 550 00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:02,159 Speaker 1: I could not do the show without your support and 551 00:35:02,199 --> 00:35:04,920 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. 552 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,360 So if you'd like Please support them too and tell 553 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,119 them you heard it here. You can also become a 554 00:35:09,159 --> 00:35:13,800 patron at my Patreon page or go to dpecleanershow dot com. Again, 555 00:35:14,039 --> 00:35:16,559 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 556 00:35:16,599 --> 00:35:21,199 while I'm gone.