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I'm listening to this podcast while repeatedly popping my ears with my hands, as if I'm listening to this while flying in an old Huey helicopter (wa wa wa wa wa wa wa). It's fascinating and fun.

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That sounds fun

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I've been blocking twit ads too. Screw 'em.

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Nice!

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Masks and vaccines probably don't have such a malice intent. I think they are a form of conformity and control. Like you said. Brainwashing. Make it easier to tell who isn't the enemy. I think vaccine cards are coming. I think random mask days are coming. Lists will be made.

How does a dictatorship start? Same way someone is treated for cancer. They are made so sick that the body kills the cancers. So society has to get so sick and poor that the people will want someone to step in to save them. The Navis could not have come to power if the Allies had been kind in the Treaty of Versailles. The Soviets could not come to power if the Russian peasantry weren't so poor. In the US, there will not be a dictatorship rise to power unless the people are poor, battered and fearful.

To do this they need an enemy. Navis had the Jews. Soviets had the nobility. In the US, they are making conservatives the enemy. It is only a matter of time.

As soon as the people are scared enough, they will move.

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Agree

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The guy's name is "Joe Glickman," his parents didn't do him any favors.

There's a skip at 22:20, so I guess you weren't recording in the car.

The worst part about the pandemic, I think, is that it seems to have conditioned people to be rats. Someone's not wearing a mask? Rat them out. Who cares if it doesn't affect you!

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I'd like to come to California, and follow you around for a week and together we can sow chaos against the mask nazis. I don't have cool stories about Mask Karens, we don't care here.

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Lucky you! Where do you live?

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I live in the boonies of North Central Arkansas, secluded away in the woods. I'm from North Texas originally, can't say I was happy when my family moved here years ago.. But in light of recent developments? I thank God for putting me where I'm at now. So glad I'm thee hours from any major urban centers.

And if you guys ever get a bug to see the country? North Central Arkansas is a hidden gem, most people have no idea how beautiful it is. Great options for vacationers, yet not ruined by tourism. Lot of GE fans too lol.

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Nice! We’ll definitely keep that in mind, it sounds great.

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Man, I get a little behind on my podcasts.. And then find that I was called out by name within the first minute of the show! haha. Yes, I read that article about Schroder the day after I heard you talking about Costco. It entertained me to no end. You made my week.

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A day behind. But well played. Live your life. I have neighbors who had the CV and serious complications. When I had it... well I was cutting up a pig and the loss of smell was actually kind of nice.

Here is the thing. For ME covid was mild enough that I would not have noticed it (confirmed by antibody tests). I have family who had both shots and ended up in the hospital with covid.

At the same time, the almost 90 year old couple that is our kids adoptive grand parents have been free here in Iowa all a long. They are as healthy as any 90 year old.

Be free. Live life. Fear exists, but be honest of the fear. Realize it is your hind brain reacting, and maybe not reality. Embrace faith and reality. None of us get out alive, so live why you can.

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I've been blocking just about EVERY ad on Facebook for a few years now. I resent having every other entry be an advertisement. For a long time, my Facebook experience was largely ad-free, but they have figured me out, and now Facebook always finds some new ad to show. On the other hand, now I get some really weird ads, lol... It is interesting how many fake storefronts are out there - same exact ad, with a different store name.

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Appreciated your honesty when you said, "We did the research. We didn't just decide to be jerks." I did a complete 180 on that sentiment. When the whole Covid panic started, I just decided to be a jerk.

Great podcast! Definitely make Medusa Monday a regular thing!

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