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Censorship, Plandemic, and the Ripple Effect w/ Ricky Varandas - Connecting Minds Podcast Ep14
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Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lMoAPIp26wU
Shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/14-ricky-varandas/
Ricky Varandas is the host of The Ripple Effect Podcast and The Union of The Unwanted podcast. In this episode we talk about censorship and some other stuff we need to talk about more ;) Make sure you tune in!
Links to Ricky's podcasts and social media:
The Ripple Effect Podcast: https://rvtheory6.podomatic.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RvTheory6
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RvTHEORY6
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ripple-Effect-Podcast/429013297211868
Union of the Unwanted Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-union-of-the-unwanted/id1543392645
Topics discussed on this episode:
- How Ricky got into podcasting.
- Censorship on social media.
- The Plandemic film - check out the series here: https://plandemicseries.com/
- Event 201.
- The person who invented the PCR test used to diagnose C0V1D says it is being misused.
- The trauma the current crisis is inflicting upon children.
- The stupidy of face masks.
- Lies about statistics of infections and deaths.
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Transcript
Society's Focus: Trivial vs. Important
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And we can get in heated, heated arguments about this stuff. And nobody cares. Nobody says, hey, you shouldn't have brought up sports.
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But the topics that are important, the subjects that are actually worth discussing, the conversations that could change our perspectives and could change the way we look at the world, and the important topics we're told not to bring up and not to talk about. And to me, it almost seems like a well-equipped plan to
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Convince us to argue about the nonsense and the things that are important and not talk about the things that are important and I think what we need to do more of is have these conversations have the difficult conversation don't stray away from having conversation don't stray away from bringing up topics that could cause maybe a Somebody to get defensive or argument. What we need to do is work on having those conversations without arguing
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without it turning into a yelling match. That's what we should be doing. We shouldn't be avoiding those conversations. That's the last thing we should be doing is avoiding them. What we should be doing is working on having them.
Introduction to Connecting Minds Podcast
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Connecting Minds is a space dedicated to honoring the amazing authors, researchers, clinicians, artists, and entrepreneurs who are contributing to our collective evolution or simply making the world a better place. These thought-provoking conversations are intended to expand our horizons, so come with an open mind and let us grow together. Here is your host, Christian Yordanov.
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Hello and welcome to the Connecting Minds podcast. My name is Christian Jourdanoff, your host, and thank you so much for joining me today on episode 14 of the podcast. Today's guest is Ricky Verandis, who is the host of the Ripple Effect podcast, as well as the Union of the Unwanted podcast. Very cool podcasts. They tackle a lot of important topics that we need to talk about more these days.
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And this is actually a lot of what we talk about today with Ricky is censorship and how we censor each other rather than really talk about the big issues things like corona like corruption and so on and so forth.
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So we also talk about the Plantemic movie series, which you can probably guess what that's about. So you may have not have heard about this, the Plantemic movie, because it was heavily censored on YouTube when it was first launched. So there's a link in the show notes to that movie. I think it's very important that you go and watch it, all the series of it, that is.
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And yes, Ricky is very knowledgeable about all the stuff that's going on in the world today, all this, all the corruption, all the misinformation out there. So I am really glad that you are tuning in and I do hope that you listen to the whole episode in its entirety because there's a lot of vital information that we must spread, right?
Meet Ricky Verandis
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So once again, hopefully YouTube won't take this video down. It will be there if they don't.
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Check out the website for some show notes. Of course, I have links to Ricky's social media, websites, podcasts, et cetera, in the show notes of the podcast. Thank you for tuning in to Connecting Minds and enjoy the episode. Today on the Connecting Minds podcast, we have Ricky Verandis. Ricky, thank you so much for spending some time with us today. Hey, thanks for having me. I really appreciate the invitation.
00:03:50
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Yeah, it's a pleasure and an honor. So can you tell our listeners who you are, what you do, tell us about your podcast, what kind of stuff you're interested in, and let's take it from there. Yeah, so I'm actually a Portuguese foreigner, immigrant who came to America. I came here when I was four. My parents were from northern Portugal. I was born in Chaves. They're from a little village in northern Portugal.
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came to America and I got into music and tons of other stuff in regards to the arts and being creative. And really, I was a musician growing up. And eventually, music and keeping a band together got kind of hard. And I had all this equipment at the kind of like sitting around, you know, just collecting dust. And so I started doing a music project, which I call Theory Six, which is all my original music here on my podcast.
00:04:43
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And then I really got into podcasts. I was doing a lot of commuting for work and sometimes I was on the road two hours, three hours, four hours a day. And when I got into podcasts, I mean, I started my podcast 2013 and I got into podcasts quite a while before that because just like most people listening, we procrastinate, we procrastinate. I want to do this. I want to do this. And eventually I started it in 2013.
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I love this idea of just hearing casual conversation. It was refreshing. It was enlightening. It was interesting people just sharing interesting perspectives. And when the media, the news,
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new tcs, you know, everything felt like they were they were trying to sell you something. They had some agenda. You didn't know what to believe or not to believe. And when I listen to podcasts, it just sounded like people talking and just sharing ideas. And I really, really liked that. So when I decided to start mine, I didn't have I kind of, you know, one of the first ones I really got into was Joe, Joe Rogan's.
The Mission of Ripple Effect Podcast
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And because he was similar to like we were talking about before we started recording, he's a curious person. He's into a lot of different topics, a lot of different subjects. And I like that, you know, like I
00:05:53
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I felt like it attracted me because you didn't know what type of guests you're going to get next. You didn't know where the conversation was going to take you because it was all long form conversation and they would kind of go down different rabbit holes and talk about whatever. And it seemed uncensored. It seemed like the type of conversations that many of us wanted to have with our friends in our own personal lives.
00:06:13
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And sometimes you just didn't have the friends or family that were interested in those same topics. So when I started my podcast, that was kind of a big part of it. I just wanted to have those conversations. I was lucky enough where I had a good friend of mine, Dave, who was my co-host when I started. And I remember telling him, I'm like, hey, Dave, I'm going to start a podcast. I do want to be my co-host. And the first thing he said was,
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What the hell is a podcast? And then when I explained it to him, he's like, well, why does, why would anybody want to listen to us just chat? And I'm like, and I told him, I'm like, listen, when we go out, you know, and we're sitting around, we're having a drink and we're talking, we're, we're sharing life experiences, wisdom, whatever it may be, sharing stories. That's beneficial. Like I get something from these conversations.
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So a podcast is trying to capture that. We're trying to capture that and share that with other people who could possibly also get something from those conversations. And I always say, when you do a podcast, and I'm sure you probably have similar opinions, it's not just a journey for the listener, but it's a journey for the host. You're growing while you're asking questions and having conversations and analyzing different perspectives. And it's a journey for all of us, and we're all on this journey together.
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So it just became, you know, and then I had a song called the ripple effect. And that song, you know, was, I always liked this idea of the ripple effect that we never know what, how big of a ripple we can cause and what type of effect we can have on the world. And, you know, I'm a big believer of like the second you think you can't do anything you've lost.
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you can't do anything. And any great change in the world has been because somebody believed they could do something and they attempted to do something.
Building a Podcast: Challenges and Strategies
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And so that was kind of my idea. I was like, okay, well, I'm going to try to start my own ripple. I don't know how big of a ripple it's going to be. I don't know how many people are going to listen, what type of effect I'm going to have, but I'm going to do something. And doing something to me was more fulfilling than doing nothing. Like I always tell close friends, I'm like,
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You can you meet old people who who say they wish they pursued a dream further, but you never meet an old person who says, hey, I wish I gave up on my dream sooner. Like that doesn't happen. So the way I look at it, it's like, you know, and success is different for everybody. Success to some people is just recording that first podcast. It's just putting something out there, even if nobody listens. I mean, how many great artists, you know, musicians put out phenomenal albums that change your life forever?
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And maybe record or sold 100 copies. And maybe nobody knows who that band is. But in that band might not know that they had a huge influence on you or their lyrics had a huge influence on you. And they might be working a full time job now.
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or they might, you know, or they might even died not knowing the impact that it had on your life. And I think that's the thing. Like so many of us are influencing one another and the way we think, and you never know how big of an impact we're making. So I started it, I called it the ripple effect because I truly do believe in the ripple effect. The podcast almost became a perfect example of it because what happened was, you know, I started in the same basement that I'm in now and it was just me and my buddy. And then I slowly started booking guests and I kind of
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initially focused on the guests that maybe were more independent, or if they're filmmakers, they were, you know, kind of not quite as established, or musicians that weren't as popular, he kind of just worked with the smaller guests. And then I figured as I build the resume, maybe more and more people will come on. And I mean, I remember writing a lot of emails, a lot of emails, trying to get somebody to respond. And not gonna what I got, I got lucky. I mean, a little bit was luck, you know, because I think I had some really awesome people that were willing to come on.
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very early in the career of doing my podcast. But I also think a little bit was just hard work of just annoying the shit out of people until somebody got back to me. And I think that's the story of a lot of people who are successful. We like to think that it was just like they're at the right place at the right time.
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or they're just lucky. But when you really go deep into the story, you realize that like, oh, it was a lot of emailing. It was a lot of work. It was a lot of late nights. It was a lot of staying up editing, doing all these other things that are required to put out a podcast or anything creative.
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And I see it now with other people contacting me. Oh, because I'm always telling people, hey, start your own podcast. Don't, you know, like the more podcasts we have out there, sparking interesting conversations, the better, you know, because there's plenty of other stuff out there that are pushing propaganda or lying to you or manipulating you. So the more, the better. I remember when Charlie Robinson started his podcast.
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and i'm like hey charlie congratulations on your new podcast and he's like he's like all like the world you know he's being modest and he's like all like the world needs another podcast right and i'm like charlie that's the wrong attitude i'm like you're out there putting out interesting conversations and
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and some sense of truth, you're seeking truth, you're honest, you're sincere. I'm like, the world needs more of that. And you can never have enough of that because there's plenty of people on the other hand doing the opposite. So I think, I'm a big believer of for personal reasons, like doing stuff that's creative and you enjoy for therapy reasons, but also because I think it benefits the world. Like you never know who you're influencing, who's listening,
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And you look at people like Martin Luther King, a historic figure, he was influenced by people that we don't know who their names are. He was influenced by a book that didn't sell many copies. So even if we don't make that great change,
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we could be influencing somebody who does and I think these concepts are important you know and so yeah I mean so it's really it was my way of trying to do something fulfilling. I was a typical like construction working Portuguese guy who just like you know was doing music but I was doing it on the side and you know it was hard to keep a band together so I did a solo project
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and uh and but even that it took so long writing a song putting it all together by yourself and then eventually releasing it we're like a podcast i can record a conversation and you know even if i'm lazy in a week i could get it out and um
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So it was much more instant. It was quicker. And I really, really always enjoyed long form conversations. I feel like it's super beneficial. Anytime you verbalize your thoughts, you're trying to
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like even if somebody challenges your thoughts and challenges your ideas which i enjoy i enjoy it people can do it in a polite way and they're not getting defensive or trying to make you look dumb or whatnot and they're doing it because they're really just trying to share ideas and trying to understand things uh it's good because if if somebody challenges me on how i feel on something and i can't
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Explain it that maybe I should reanalyze why I feel a certain way. Maybe I should reanalyze Okay Did I really come to this conclusion because I thought this out or did I just jump on a team and you know? I'm just defending my team. So it's like all these things are very important I think now more than ever we need podcasters because with YouTube Twitter Instagram, I mean Facebook, they're all censoring anything that's not the mainstream narrative and
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I think people need podcasts because it's the one place you can still find real conversations with real people.
Censorship Challenges in Podcasting
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And, you know, of course, there's going to be on all platforms, there's going to be people who are just trying to sell you stuff or people who don't have their heart in the right place or a good moral compass. But it seems like it's the spot where you see the less censorship. And so I think now more than ever, we need this.
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We need podcasts because we live in a crazy freaking world and if you're a podcaster It's a good time to have a podcast because there's never It never ends the stuff you can talk about. So there's always something to to discuss Yeah, this is actually
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I pretty much wrote down no questions for our conversation except maybe like five. I have five points here, but this is one thing I was going to ask you. Have you been censored? Has your podcast already been censored by whatever, YouTube, etc?
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The only podcast I've had issues with in the past has been, I had Del Big Tree on from the High Wire podcast, a great show. He's good friends with Robert Kennedy Jr. The first time he was on years ago, never got censored. Then he was on during the height of the lockdown and I was getting people contacting me saying that it wasn't working on iTunes. I contacted my podcast host and all that stuff and they gave me some BS like, oh, iTunes said it was because of this or because of that.
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I don't think it's coincidental that it's Del Big Tree. And I know other shows that had them on around the same time had similar issues. And then on YouTube, honestly, I've been very lucky on YouTube in regards to censorship. And I'll tell you why I think this is. It's because I never say that my videos are for children. I say that, you know, you can age restrict them, whatever. It's for adults. And then, too, I've never monetized. Never once have I tried to make money off YouTube. So because of it, I think I've been off the radar.
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and um but until of late. weeks ago I had Mickey W the filmmaker who did the d We did like a three hour s
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Charlie Robinson and a couple of the other guys I'm like if this doesn't get me kicked off YouTube I don't know what will so but I didn't put any tags I didn't I didn't tag the video so you know maybe made it harder to find but I'm like let me just see what happens if I just upload it like I typically do no tags or anything like that and
00:16:11
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it's definitely shadow band because all my videos before and after it are getting way more views even with smaller guests so it's definitely shadow band but it's still up they haven't flagged it yet or they haven't taken it down yet but that episode on iTunes I've been having issues with I actually contacted
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Itunes just yesterday in regards to like I'm still getting people saying that it's not showing up on iTunes It's still on Spotify, but it's I believe nobody's having issues on Spotify But Google Play some people are having issues and iTunes are having issues where it skips It's episode 270 I think it's 271 and it just skips at 272 and and it has 270 and 272 and 271 just disappeared and so it's iTunes has been
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My biggest enemy, it's the only place that I've seen any real censorship. YouTube, recently after the Mickey Willis video, they started flagging some things. They're just sending me emails to tell me that they're flagging this or flagging that. Actually, another video they flagged was Adele Bigtree, the first time he was on when he was on for the Vax documentary, which was like four years ago.
00:17:23
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or something like that and that just got flagged. So now I seem to be on the radar but iTunes has been the one that the only platform I really had issues with. YouTube is now flagging my stuff but they haven't taken it down yet. They've age restricted so you have to be 18 plus and you have to be signed in I think to be able to see it. So it definitely hurts me in regards to being suggested the content. So when you have age restrictions like that
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If you're just typically on YouTube, you'll get suggested videos, but we have age restricted stuff. The likelihood of that video being suggested is like zero to none. So it just hurts me in that regard. But the majority of people who listen to my show is on a podcast app. It's Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, podcast addict, all the podcast apps.
00:18:14
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So it's not a huge deal and kind of, you know, we could kind of all foresee YouTube being like a temporary hangout. Like, yeah, we can use it for now, but we know eventually we're going to be kicked off. So we'll see. But without a doubt, I mean, there's shadow banning a bunch of people.
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Ryan from the last American Vagabond. I don't know if you're familiar with him, but he has a great YouTube channel with Whitney Webb also writes for his channel and Does videos and whatnot and they completely got just scratched off YouTube.
The Dangers of Censorship
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I know red pill 78 another pretty good YouTube channel He Zach that the host of that channel. He just got kicked off YouTube and a bunch of them just got kicked off YouTube It's like they go in these waves where like they'll just go on the
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you know, this crazy chaotic thing where they just end up picking a bunch of YouTubers that they take down and then they seem to leave people alone for a while. And then randomly they decide that they're going to take down a bunch of them and they take them all down at the same time again. And I don't know how they pick and choose them. It does seem like people who initially were on like the Q bandwagon or people who just subscribed to that thinking were the ones that were being targeted. I'm not a Q person.
00:19:27
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I don't know how much truth is there to it, but to me, it seems like a waste of time focusing on trying to dissect a guy who could be lying or not lying. And sometimes you connect dots that aren't there. I mean, if you want to believe something is real, you'll find every justification to why it's real. But to me, it's still an issue in regards to censorship because
00:19:54
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If somebody wants to believe in this, they should have every right to share those beliefs and talk about it. And just like if you're a Scientologist, and I did a video about why Scientology is great, then people should, even if I think it's ridiculous, they should still have the right to post those beliefs on your platform. So it's like they're picking and choosing what truth is.
00:20:16
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The thing is, this is why this is so dangerous, because our opinions and perspectives are molded by the information we have access to. If the people who have all the information is controlling the information, they're also controlling the way we think, we feel our opinions and perspectives. It's mind control. It's social engineering. It's manipulation of the masses. And I think that it's a huge issue. It's a huge issue. Censorship has never been
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more relevant than ever. I mean, the guy, Mickey Willis, who did the pandemic documentary, that documentary got pulled off every single platform everywhere. It was getting taken down out of people's personal clouds. So people had personal storage and that was just taken down. Wikipedia page was locked.
00:21:07
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People, he could kind of foresee what was happening. So he let people rip the video or download the video and then upload it anywhere they wanted. And so everybody was uploading it. As fast as you could share the link, it disappeared. A lot of people, because it was going viral so quickly, people would send me the link, like, hey, Rick, have you seen this?
00:21:27
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and then I'm like I have but I'm curious if the link works and I'll click on it and it was already gone and it was just like and then another link somebody else would upload on their channel and it's like the amount of work that they put in to make sure nobody watched that video was absolutely insane but the thing that should make people really skeptical is that
00:21:47
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What they did let people upload on YouTube were debunking videos. So if I had a, if I showed the documentary, but I stopped it from time to time to tell you why I thought it was wrong, it's completely okay for you to watch the documentary. So what they're doing is they're literally saying that you're not intelligent enough to dissect this information and analyze this information for yourself. But if somebody is doing it for you and pushing the narrative we want, then that's okay.
00:22:17
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You know, so it's not so dangerous to watch in regards to like you can't see it at all It's just dangerous to watch if you're gonna come out Watch it on your own and come up with your own conclusions. That's what's dangerous And so I mean I think that was a example of how crazy it was and I think in many cases when I had been swan on my show He said this and I think it's true
00:22:39
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that they they might have overplayed their cards in regards to if they took censorship to such a extreme and it was so obvious because for a long time people you know people on the right would be like oh you know uh the liberal media liberal media and i'm like well you know i'm like there's liberal media there's conservative media i mean it's pretty you know there's whatever perspective you have there's a media for you so i'm like it's not
00:23:03
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It's not just the liberal media being biased. You're on the right, you watch Fox News. If you're on the left, you watch MSNBC. If you're an idiot, you watch CNN. No, I'm kidding.
00:23:16
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But, you know, it's one of those things where it's a, you know, it's it was obvious I'm like you know the left complains about the right, but they have MSNBC the right complains about the left but they have Fox News it's like what do you guys play it but now when big tech has picked a team, and they, and so many people get their news from
00:23:34
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these social media platforms, I mean, it's just, it's unfair. To me, I was okay with people on the left watching MSNBC, people on the right watching Fox News. It's like, whatever, you both have your little echo chambers, not a big deal.
00:23:50
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And you figure they could even themselves out a little bit where like one will expose Corruption on the other side the other will expose corruption on the other side But now you have big tech that is picked a team I mean they picked the left and they're suppressing anything else It to me that's just I mean that's super dangerous and you hear people in America talk about Oh, this is communism or this is fascism or whatever I'm not even sure most Americans even know what those words mean but the thing is that it's just one of those things where I
00:24:19
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Regardless where you stand even if you're on the left you should be worried about that because if one day
Manipulation Through Media Narratives
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whoever is running Facebook decides that he's a conservative and he and he bans everybody from your neck of the woods or people with your perspective, then it becomes an issue. And I think that's the thing, like nobody cares about censorship until they're censoring, you know, people that they agree with, you know. And so I'm sure I answered your question in a long winded rant. Maybe I kind of.
00:24:51
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I'm so sick of everywhere I turn, people talking about the Morona virus, but can you... I suppose this was the plannedemic movie. I noticed how heavily they were censoring it. Can you give people listening a quick synopsis of what the movie is about and why you think it was so heavily censored?
00:25:19
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Well, I think what it exposed was the bigger agenda. So, Plantemic really goes, I mean, there's a lot of different people on there. I think Zach Voorhees, who's been on my show, he's the Google whistleblower, he was a software engineer who came out and talked about Google censoring anything that wasn't, you know,
00:25:37
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sponsored by Big Pharma and Merck and all the big pharma companies that anybody who's searching for alternative medicines, cancer treatment, dietary therapies, anything like that, that stuff is being censored. It was harder to find those type of things. But he was in there. Dr. Judy Mykovich, who worked with Dr. Fauci, so many people were in there. And it opens up with Event 201, which I think is super important because
00:26:06
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In so many cases, these things happen and you think like all these coincidences are just conspiracy theories and you know, they couldn't have prepared for this, they couldn't have known, but Event 201. Sorry to interrupt you. As you go, please let folks know what these events and things are just because I know a lot of folks won't be as deep into the stuff as ourselves. So like explain what Event 201 is, who Judy Mikeovic says you go, please. Yeah.
00:26:36
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Yeah, yeah, I'll go. So, Judy Mykovich is the doctor that, it was the first, it was a video that went viral. It was the video, and basically it was Mickey Willis during the lockdown. Once he saw all these things coming, and Mickey Willis is the filmmaker who did the pandemic, he became friends with Dr. Judy Mykovich throughout the years because of some of her other research and work that she's done. And then when all this stuff was happening, the lockdown stuff was happening, and the coronavirus scare was happening, and things were kind of
00:27:05
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In flaming and getting worse. He knew that he needed to talk to dr. Judy So he ends up interviewing her and he's like, let me talk to you He's like, let's record this and then let's put the video out there because he could see and and so could she that this was not a you know
00:27:23
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There was more agendas being pushed, the vaccine agenda, big pharma's influence on tons of things. Bill Gates' influence on tons of things. And Bill Gates has a history of eugenics, you know, being linked to the eugenicist movement, his family. He is openly trying to depopulate the world because he thinks, you know, that we have an overpopulation issue, which and his logic for it's so silly because he's pro vaccine.
00:27:51
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OK, which is supposed to like help people not die by diseases. But yet he thinks that there's too many people in the world and people, you know, like we should depopulate. So and and what he says, and he said this in interviews, and I promise I'll go back to the documentary because I get way off tracks of that. But.
00:28:10
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But Bill Gates, he talks, I mean, this is his logic. He says that when people are sick and people are unhealthy and they're dying of disease, you're more likely to have more children because you think you're going to lose some.
00:28:24
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So if you vaccinate them, they'll be more likely to have less children. So you're going to try to depopulate the world by giving people vaccines. This is not scientifically proven. It's a theory that I think he made up. And he and for some reason, people just let him regurgitate this without ever asking, like, wait, how does this make sense? So like you you help people fight disease. And for some reason, you think you're just going to have less kids like
00:28:50
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I'm not sure that's really how that works. So that's really fascinating among itself because Bill Gates has become one of those names that for a long time, if you talk about Bill Gates having influence on medicine or vaccines, you know, what he was doing in Africa, all these things.
00:29:07
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It's like all that conspiracy theory, but now much more people are open to the idea that there could be something much more evil going on with Bill Gates. But to go back to the documentary, so it opens up with this thing called Event 201, which Bill Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was a part of, John Hopkins, all these big pharma companies.
00:29:26
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And what they were trying to do, event 201 happened late last year in I think November, October, 2019. And what they wanted to do, they wanted to basically prepare for a virus outbreak. And their way of doing it was they're going to recreate how the situation could go down and what could happen. So they literally had fake anchors, news anchors, and they basically recreate almost like a movie of like how
00:29:52
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you know, how they're going to report on it, how people are going to react, all these things. And they talk about how literally everything happened exactly to a T the way they predicted it. They talked about a virus going on, you know, going on the loose. They talked about riots. They talked about fast tracking a vaccine. They also talked about people being skeptical of the vaccine. They talked about like just about literally everything that happened. They talked about the lockdown. They talked about how
00:30:20
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locking down the country, how it's going to affect the economy, like all these things. So when this whole thing goes down and people act like, well, the reason why we mishandled this or the reason why that happened or this happened is because we couldn't prepare for it. It's like, no, no, they couldn't just not prepare for it. They did prepare for it. They recreated it to a T. They couldn't have been better prepared. And Dr. Fauci has a video from 2017. He talks about
00:30:45
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but the next administration having to deal with some surprise virus outbreak, some pandemic. So it's like all this stuff about like, oh, we couldn't have prepared is nonsense. I mean, it's very similar to 9-11 where after 9-11 happened, Bush goes on TV and goes, oh, we couldn't have prepared for this, but yet,
00:31:02
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Coming to find out he had memos on his desk saying Al
COVID-19's Societal Impact
00:31:06
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-Qaeda planning on flying planes into the Twin Towers and that's I mean obviously that's a whole nother podcast among itself just going deep into 9-11 but
00:31:16
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But yeah, so they could have prepared for this. And I think he talks to doctors in the documentary. He talks to people who are in the software and technology. And they talk about the patents. They talk about all these other things that are going on. And if people haven't watched the documentary, you can find it now on plandemicseries.com. I highly, highly recommend it. So what they call plandemic one was just an interview with Dr. Judy Mykovich.
00:31:47
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eventually after all the suppression of that video and when like kind of the smoke settled he eventually released a full-length documentary called uh uh plandemic uh indoctrination and that you can find that on plandemicseries.com and to me i think it's one of the most important documentaries ever because this is one of the biggest issues ever in human history so this exposes some corruption
00:32:11
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Then it has to be considered one of the biggest documentaries ever and so I remember my wife watching it with me and even though I told her about event 201 and she knew about a lot of the stuff that I was researching and talking about but when we watch the documentary when she saw how like the
00:32:31
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the fake recreation of the newscast talking about the fake pandemic when they were recreating in event 201 sounded identical to the real news that she was watching on TV and she looked at me she's like this is crazy she's like this is exactly what happened i'm like yeah and it it boggles your mind and uh so i i think they censored it because they knew how dangerous it was for so many people to be home
00:32:57
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board and when they're home and bored and they find something and they have a little bit of time to research, then I think they were scared that it was going to open a lot of people's eyes. A lot of people are going to be red-pilled for a lack of better term and become aware that maybe there's something more to the story. And the truth is, when you look at all the evidence and all the information out there, there's much more evidence and information that proves that we're lied to than there is that we weren't lied to. Because if you look at all
00:33:27
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everything that they told us. I mean, they're constantly contradicting themselves daily. I mean, the virus can die in the air. Or it can transfer in the air. Then it can't. The sun kills it. Then it doesn't. It lasts this long on surfaces. It doesn't last all on surfaces. Kids can give it to older people. Kids can't give it to older people. How do you believe any of this? I shared recently
00:33:51
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on Twitter, the guy who created the PCR test, which they're using for testing to find the virus, and he says in an older video that you can't use a PCR test to find viruses. It's just not accurate.
00:34:06
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Guy that invented the polymerase chain reaction technology says you cannot find viruses with the technology. He says it's a misuse of it because the way it works, you amplify the cell and you can basically find a trace amount of just about anything. So it's one of these things where if you're an
00:34:31
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tested positive for steroids. He's a very famous MMA fighter. But the test was so sensitive that the amount of steroids they found in the system, it would be absolutely impossible for him to digest that. Or if he did, it would be so little that it wouldn't have any positive effect on his body. So more than likely, it was something that was contaminated that he was exposed to. But the point is that the test was so sensitive that it found such an insignificant amount of the steroid
00:35:01
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and they popped them for it. And so you have to think, okay, does it get to a point where a test is so sensitive and so good at finding something, a small little trace amount of something, that the point of the test becomes completely forgotten? That the point of the test is to see if somebody is taking something that is benefiting their body. If you're finding an insignificant amount of something,
00:35:24
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That couldn't protect couldn't help his body because it's so little than what the hell we do when using this test say that with the coronavirus test a lot of these tests they become so sensitive that you find such an insignificant amount of this virus that even in the thing is the cdc website says itself if you test positive for coronavirus.
00:35:44
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it could be one of the many corona viruses in the coronavirus family there's no way of them knowing it's specifically the one that's causing covert nineteen the disease and the issues that people are having and being hospitalized for so. This is on the website i mean same thing with the mask argument i missus on the. Box of mass.
00:36:02
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It doesn't stop the spread of coronaviruses and Lysol killed coronaviruses. Lysol can, which is just a cleaning product, it's set on it forever before all this happened.
00:36:16
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will kill coronaviruses. It's just one of the many viruses. The thing is, when we hear the flu, it's a term we've heard for many, many years. We're used to it. We're familiar with it. It doesn't seem new and scary. Now, people start hearing COVID-19. They start hearing coronavirus. A lot of people don't know these words. It seems new. It seems scary. And now you look at the average age of people who
00:36:36
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die of coronavirus of COVID-19 is higher than the average age of life expectancy in the US. So you actually might live longer if you get a coronavirus. I mean, it's so crazy the way we're redesigning the world, we're re-engineering the world, we're causing
00:36:54
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epidemic of anxiety depression you talk to people everybody talks to you and my past guest said this on my show and it's so true like it you feel like you're at a funeral the way everybody talks to one another like like we're sad we're depressed we're uncertain and and it's just like
00:37:14
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Humanities dying and yet they've done such a great job of just making everything so political where now it's like if you wear a mask, you don't wear a mask, has nothing to do with is it scientifically proven to help? Is there even a virus that we should be concerned with? It all has to do with your political views. Like Trump said,
00:37:32
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that he wanted to open up the country, he didn't seem like he was taking the virus as seriously as people on the left. And people on the left accused them of not taking it as seriously. So people on the left now have to keep taking it seriously, because if they don't, then that means they kind of agree with Trump. So it becomes this issue where just like, well, we have to keep saying this because it's same thing with the Russiagate thing, you know, like tons of investigation, tons of taxpayer money looking at something that uncovered nothing. So what happens is that we
00:38:00
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We just have to continue pushing this lie because God forbid we, you know, the left emits like, hey, maybe there wasn't anything there and our purpose wasn't really to uncover or something. It was really about just trying to make him look bad. And and that's the thing, like we're all being used as a political pond. The Black Lives Matter movement, same thing like.
00:38:18
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It's not that people their hearts aren't in the right place they're just being used as pawns and they have to be aware of that that that you're being trick like i truly believe that all these movements like have good people and bad people in them and and you know but we have to. Understand that there's gonna be people for their own political.
00:38:37
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reasons are going to take advantage of maybe people who really are attempting to change things or attempting to protest something that they think is wrong. But yeah, we live in a crazy world. This virus issue is one of the most important issues I think ever in human history because we're attempting to recreate the way we live, the way we bond, what we look at as a community.
00:39:05
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Seeing somebody smile when you run into somebody you haven't seen in a long time, that's inviting. It makes you feel good. It can lighten up your day. We're hiding people's smiles. We're making people feel awkward to even go up to somebody and talk to them because I don't know if I approach them, if they're going to feel uncomfortable. I don't know if I approach them, if they're going to feel like, oh, you're too close to me. So it's like people are spending less time talking and hanging out and being with one another.
00:39:29
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And it's frustrating, man. It is. You know what's the most disgusting thing for me is all these kids growing up, they're so badly, being so badly traumatized. I think it's absolute crime against humanity, you know? That's the, for me, is the most, yeah.
00:39:53
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No, I completely agree with you. My kids, I have a mask exemption forms for my kids, so they don't have to wear masks. I'm like, I want my kid to play soccer. He loves, he loves soccer. He doesn't, you know, I'm being Portuguese. How do you not love soccer? It's funny because I actually played soccer when I was really young. And then I rebelled against it. And because all my dad did was work, he didn't really come to my games and come to my practice. So I kind of lost interest in it. And then I got into playing music. I BMX, skateboarded. I did the whole anti
00:40:21
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like soccer thing and then I got I started appreciating it again later in life and my son loves it I mean he eats breathe soccer and it's awesome that we live in a time where
00:40:32
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you know we're now I can watch many of the games on TV you know like the Champions League is on uh today you know we'll watch some games anything we miss we'll watch the reruns later and um and we're constantly watching it but for him like you're talking about trauma uh it you know he was confused on why all sudden he wasn't going to school all sudden
00:40:51
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he couldn't hang out with his friends all sudden everybody's wearing a mask all sudden all his sports because we go on my phone i have the one football app which is gives you all the scores and schedules for the soccer leagues and he'll go on and he'll know like who's playing today i'll go on my phone but hey,
00:41:09
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dad right like uh four o'clock this team's playing right or man city's playing or whoever um taunum's playing and he'll look forward to it you know and then all of a sudden he goes on my phone it just says postpone postpone and he's like what is going on like none of the games are happening and i'm like no and then you're trying to explain it to him and that's the thing like think about how confused the adults were now we can kind of try to come to grips with what's going on and understand it our kids even if you explain it to them
00:41:37
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They still, I mean, even if you explain them, what the hell are you going to explain to them? I mean, there's, you can't make sense of something that doesn't make sense. I try to explain it to them, but I mean, one good thing that came out of this is that I told them that everybody's getting sick because they're not taking their vitamins and exercising. And he's like, yeah, I should start taking more vitamins. So it was easy. It was easy to trick them into, you know, not arguing about taking these vitamins and whatnot.
00:42:03
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But the anxiety, kids are sponges and they deal with trauma. They deal with things. When parents are fighting, they sense it, even if you try to hide it. When there's tension in the relationship, they sense it. And to think that there's not going to be some type of long-term trauma, some type of long-term damage based on everything that's happened,
00:42:26
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I'd like to believe that's true that we'll look back at 2020 and be like, wow, that was a crazy fucking year. Glad that's over. But I don't think that's going to happen. You know, I think it's going to be, you know, I think there could be some long, long term effects. And, you know, it just like you said, when you're punishing, OK, and for people who've heard me talk, you know, my podcast, I've said this many of times, so I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself, but
00:42:52
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When I was growing up, I remember I was real passionate about foreign policy, geopolitics.
00:42:58
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You're going to fucking work and we're in Syria and there's people dying. We went to Afghanistan or Iraq and there's all these people dying. People have PTSD. People lost limbs. We used millions and billions of taxpayers money for unjust wars and you're all passionate or I'm all passionate about it and nobody gives a shit because they still get to
Public Compliance and Pandemic Narratives
00:43:14
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go to work. They still get to go to the gym. They still get to go to the bars. They still get to go to the movie theater and nobody cares. And now there's an issue that everybody cares about and should care about because
00:43:24
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All those other issues, like we can argue about taxes like, oh, should we have universal health care? Should we have this? But it doesn't affect our ability to enjoy life, be with our friends, be with our families, and that type of thing. This issue does. And that's why I think this issue is so important because it affects us all.
00:43:43
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the issues you know corruption you know and corruption and government corruption and corporations like those issues didn't directly affect so many people like this does and now it's gotten to the point where it's like okay you didn't speak up before you didn't care about corruption before you didn't care about seeking truth you didn't care about those things but now
00:44:04
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It's affecting your life. It's affecting your ability to see your friends. It's affecting your ability to see your family. It's affecting your ability for your kids to go to a school that doesn't seem like a frickin' juvenile, you know, prison. Like, your kids can't touch each other. They have to sit away from each other. I mean, they have to wear masks. I mean, what is this? I mean, when we work out, we're breathing heavy because we need more oxygen. Now you're restricting oxygen.
00:44:31
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like logically thinking that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Nevermind the fact that like, you see anybody wears a mask, you touch your face way more than you would have if you weren't wearing one. I mean, I probably wouldn't touch my face much, much at all, but we're always adjusting it. It's it's uncomfortable. It's sweaty. So you're trying to get some fresh air.
00:44:50
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it's off. Yeah. Yeah. I me people make the argument doctors and surgeons use them when I had my kids, the sec was done. He takes off th his hands and you know, he keep it on all day. I'm l at a restaurant. She has
00:45:09
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If she works a double, she might have to wear a mask for 12 hours straight. No surgeon or nurse or anybody ever does that. And they have boxes of brand new masks, which they take off and they get to throw away. Guess what? The majority of us are reusing the same mask. You throw it in your car, you throw it in your car. I go once in March, bro. It's brown. It was white, black, brown.
00:45:33
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Yeah. But, but you know, so you get mold, you get, you know, I mean, I throw it in my car. My car could be dirty, could have germs. And then all of a sudden it's just sitting there until I need it. I grab it and I'm putting it on my face. So it's like, welcome. It's not the same as a hospital, a hospital setting. That mask comes from the box to my face into the trash. That's it. There's no other path. So it's not picking up. Yeah. That mask is clean. It stays clean. And then you have the resources to get a new one.
00:46:00
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The masks that we're using, people aren't going to keep buying masks. I mean, people, you know, after the lockdown, many people don't even have jobs, don't have businesses. You think they want to spend money buying ridiculous masks? No, they don't. So it's like now, you know, you're acting like this is the same thing. It's not the same thing. All the studies that they're talking about with masks have to do with people in hospital settings, people who are wearing fresh masks, who have boxes of masks, anywhere they want. They just grab one, they put it on, they get to throw it out, grab another one.
00:46:28
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It's not the typical person who is hanging it from their car or who is throwing it in their pocket or in their purse, it's getting dirty and then it's going right up on their face. So it's like, if we should be concerned about viruses and sicknesses going into our body, through our nose and the mouth, then why aren't we considering the fact that these masks that we're reusing, that we're dropping while we're walking, picking up and whatever, and we're putting it right on our face? It's ridiculous. There's no logical thinking anymore.
00:46:58
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A couple of days ago, we went to a breathwork workshop and we had to wear the mask going inside. As soon as you walk inside, take your shoes off, you take off the mask, and then you have to put it on to go out. I'm doing it because...
00:47:16
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the people running the workshop are being asked in order to run the studio. They're being asked because, you know, it's always from higher up, from higher up, this kind of stuff. But I just came in and I was like, this is like, oh, just so the virus is like only hanging out by the door, you know, as soon as you take off your mask. You know, so so it's I mean, I don't think I don't think any of this stuff is supposed to make sense.
00:47:43
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We are supposed to be confused. We're supposed to be like, what the hell is going on, you know? But let me ask you, you said we are doing this, we are doing this, we are doing this. Are we doing this? Are you and me doing it? Or who is doing this to us?
00:48:01
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You mean, who are the people trying to influence the world and pushing these agendas? Or you mean, who are the people? You say we, you know, you said we maybe you mean humanity. But, you know, I don't think if we put our heads together, we would start putting these crazy rules and, and, you know, restrictions and things like that. So I think
00:48:30
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I think maybe a lot of people don't realize that there's kind of potentially deeper agendas here running that. I think a lot of people, like when I talk to just kind of random people when I'm renting a car here or whatever, and people just saying, oh, it's a virus, it's a outbreak, you know, and we have to do what we can.
00:48:49
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way way way too many people are still like um blindly following rules because they just believe what they're told by newspapers whatever radio tv etc well that and i what i find too is that because it's a virus and people are like well if i'm wrong about this if this isn't uh
00:49:13
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you know, if this is as deadly as they say, and I'm wrong about it not being as deadly as they say, it could mean a loved one could die. It means I could die. It means my one of my kids could die. Well, my, you know, my grandparents, my parents, whatever it may be. So I think that risk, or that fear of that people are like, you know what, let me just be on the safe side. But I think it's it's a lot. You see a lot of that where a lot of people I talk to people
00:49:39
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all the time I'm one of those people that I go somewhere and I'll spark a conversation with small talk and I'll like try to chip away at their perspective on it and I'll just be like okay yeah but you know this doesn't make a whole lot of sense and that doesn't make a whole lot of sense and a lot of times you get through to people but the problem is that because there's so much conflicting opinions that fear of like maybe
00:50:00
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you know maybe ricky's wrong you know maybe sounds like it could be right but if he's if he's wrong it could be life or death it's not like if i'm wrong nothing changes you know it's like this this is one of those issues where if i'm wrong they think it could be life or death and i think that influences people to just be like well let me just go along with what they say because you know i don't want to be wrong
00:50:21
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you know, say that this is a hoax or and I don't say it's a hoax. I think the virus exists. But what I say, what I mean when I say hoax, I mean, the seriousness of it is a hoax. And then, you know, I think people are afraid that like, if they're wrong, you know, I talk to people and people are like, Yeah, yeah, no, you're right. You're right. You know, it does seem like we've been lied to. It does seem like it was blown on proportion. But I have old grandparents or I have
00:50:48
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You know, my parents, uh, I have underlying conditions and I'm like, wait, wait, wait. So you're saying you believe me, but yet you're, and you start repeating the same stuff that you're saying on the news. Like if, if, if your parents, if you're concerned about their health or your grandparents or wherever it may be, like you should be just as concerned about.
00:51:06
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giving them the coronavirus as you should giving them the flu or the common cold. There's plenty of people that like when, you know, my grandparents all passed away when I was very young. But, you know, my wife still has her grandmother alive. And
00:51:21
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We know when we are not feeling good or we even have a runny nose or a little bit of a cough because she's in her 80s, we don't go see her. If I have a friend who has a newborn, I don't go see my friend who has a newborn if I'm sick. I have a friend who had cancer and went through chemo and radiation.
00:51:37
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I don't go see him when his immune system's at the weakest if I don't feel like I'm 100% healthy. So it's all these things that you should be doing now are things you should have been doing before and most people were doing. So it's not a huge drastic change. We don't need to take people's freedoms and rights away. Just what you need to do is maybe have a public service announcement and say, hey, get more exercise. And that's the other thing. That was another sign that it wasn't about
00:52:06
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health or helping people. They never, all they did was talk about the numbers that continue to scare you. They talked about cases and deaths. They never talked about how many people recovered. They never told you, like, and every time there was some some young person, you know, they didn't talk about the average age much. But when you did find a story from time to time where that average age or not the average age where
00:52:29
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the person who passed away was young, because in many cases, like, you know, we will talk about how like the average age is very old, they're like, Oh, but there's this one person who, who passed away, and he was in his 20s, and then you read the story, and you go deeper into the story, you find out like they had leukemia, or they had some other, like, serious health issues. So it's like, okay, well, is this really, you know, why are all these doctors who are talking about vitamin C and vitamin D and increasing the strength of your immune system being banned off YouTube and Facebook?
00:52:57
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But yet, like it's completely OK to to promote this bullshit. So it's just it's just it's frustrating because people I think a virus is a perfect way of getting people to comply because that that fear of like I could be wrong and it could mean my life. I think it's just it were emotional creatures. And as much as we want to think we can just look at things logically when a little bit of fear
00:53:27
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seeps into our thinking, it can have drastic influences on our outcome and how we react to certain things. And I think even the most logical people that I know were saying, well, just wear a mask or just did it. And I'm just like, but where does it stop? Like the virus might never go away. You know, it's just a virus that we accept as a part of our environment, just like other viruses. So
00:53:51
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if we keep doing this until when like until we have no cases until we have no deaths because we haven't beat diabetes we haven't beat cancer we haven't beat heart disease we haven't beat anything ever people still die of AIDS you know so it's like what's the end game like we have to put in a perspective like
00:54:14
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Are you just going to accept that this is the new normal? You're going to accept the new normal. To me, we have to look long term. And the truth is, you can save a life if you never drive again. If I stay home and I never drive again, somebody might be alive because of that decision.
00:54:30
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But I understand that there's a risk I take in driving. But it's also the risk we take to be free and to experience life and do things and enjoy the world as we know it. So this idea of like, well, if you stay home, you might just save a life. It's like, yeah, but if I never drive again, we can make the argument that we should just ban driving and we would maybe save some lives. So I'm like, where do you draw the line? There's risks for being alive.
00:54:59
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every time I hop in my car there's a chance I could something could happen to me or I could get an accident hurt somebody else like that's the risk we take we all take risks so you know to be to be telling and not just that
00:55:11
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I think one of the most fundamentally most important parts is that if we can without a doubt prove that the numbers were inflated, that the tests were giving false positives, that there's tons of fuckery going on everywhere in regards to people who are waiting in line and then they were waiting too long so they went home and the next thing you know they get positive tests for
00:55:33
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weren't tested. You hear stories of fishermen that went out to sea for whatever, 35 days, all tested negative before they went out to sea, then they come back and they all test positive. What the hell is that? So there's story and story and story and story of lying, of cheating, of inflaming numbers, of all these things going on. So if the numbers were critiqued, or not critiqued, they were inflamed and messed with,
00:56:03
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then we have to rethink everything because the numbers are why we're doing all this. We're doing this because of this and that. But if we can't believe the numbers, then we have to
00:56:13
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you know, think about the whole situation like, well, this is all based on numbers. And if the numbers aren't accurate, then what the hell are we doing? You know, and there are stories and stories of this. I mean, just I live in Ludlow, Massachusetts. There's a local town, Amherst, Massachusetts, that is famously where UMass colleges and whatnot. But Amherst, they actually told MassLive, which is a local news website and paper that the state completely falsified their numbers and gave like
00:56:43
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wrong numbers, fake numbers. And that was just one city that was open enough to state that that happened.
Global Reactions and Political Agendas
00:56:51
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How many other towns and cities in Massachusetts where I live, that their numbers were misrepresented? And if every city and town was misrepresented, even just slightly, maybe 1%, maybe 2%,
00:57:06
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that changes the overall number drastically. And if you expand that scenario to the whole country,
00:57:16
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that changes the numbers drastically. So when you're talking about even with the inflamed numbers, even with these numbers, the false positives from the test, even with all the hospitals that were caught, you know, counting things as a coronavirus death, even though it wasn't the cause of death, they might have had it, but it wasn't what caused the death or they in some cases only had symptoms and it was considered a COVID death and they never even tested positive for it. When you look at all of this stuff like
00:57:46
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You have to think to yourself like, I can't believe any of this. And we're changing the world. We're redesigning the world as we know it for lies, based on lies. And so it's crazy. I think people need to get upset. I think people need to fight back. And I don't mean fight back physically or with violence, but I mean fight back in regards to just being outspoken about how they feel and what they think, even if we have to comply sometimes.
00:58:15
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I mean, I'll wear a mask, you know, somewhere where I have to, my kids don't wear masks anywhere. And because right when this happened, I'm like, who's going to yell at me for my kids not wearing a mask? I'm like, nobody's going to say anything to a five-year-old and a four-year-old. So I'm like, you know, and for the most part, I'm right. Nobody has said anything. And so
00:58:35
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I'll wear one just to comply, but I'll wear that mask, but I'll tell you how ridiculous it is, and I'll wear it, but I'll tell you that there's no science behind this, and this is silly, and all you're doing is just following the herd because at a restaurant in America, you have to wear a mask to your table, but the second you sit down, you can take that thing off. What the hell are we doing? If you're at a bar that doesn't serve food,
00:58:58
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You can't you know, you can't be open you can't be at a bar that doesn't serve food But if you're at a restaurant eating you you know you that's that's okay. So it's like Ricky It's it's because the C in Corona stands for courteous. It's a courteous Virus, it will allow you to finish your meal and then it will attack you when you get up and put your mask back on so Nice virus, you know
00:59:24
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That does sound pretty nice. You know what? We've been giving him a bad name all this time and he's a good person. Poor guy. If I was to be angry, I'd be like, I'm actually a really nice guy and you guys were, you've been bashing me.
00:59:47
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But but that's the news, too. It's like you they care. They're assassinated. Dr. Judy Mikeovich, the character assassinate, assassinated Mickey Willis from Plan Demic documentary. I mean, so quickly that the documentary went viral. And in no time, there's people with articles for our full article saying that it's been debunked. I'm like, this documentary literally just went viral, was just released. How did you already research everything that was said, fact checked it and then published article?
01:00:19
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force feeding you, debunking stuff. I remember talking to people and they're like, oh, that documentary's already been debunked. I'm like, it came out yesterday. How could it already be debunked? I mean, how much thorough research did they do where they already debunked everything that was said in there? And it's so frustrating because it's not even about the virus anymore. It's about compliance. It's about, if you wear a rag on your face, even though we know a rag is not a certified mask, it's not gonna really prevent anything from spreading,
01:00:41
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It was nonsense.
01:00:49
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Nobody will say a damn thing to you and so it's not about like Preventing the spread of the virus. It's about you complying and and that's what's going on. People are complying Yeah, so yeah, it's I agree people we need to get angry because like I I'm actually surprised people can take this much punishment and and
01:01:19
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You know, I'm actually kind of a little bit lost faith in our ability to stand our ground. And like when I go to the shops here in Portugal, like I every member because I wear the mask under my nose, you know, because it's I
01:01:39
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I've studied breathing. I know how bad it is, you know, and I refuse to, you know, so every single member of staff in a store will tell me, you know, that every single one of them will make. And it's kind of crazy how into it everybody is, you know. And I don't know. I don't know. What should we do? Yeah, sorry.
01:02:07
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Go on. I was going to say, did you grow up in Portugal?
01:02:10
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No, I'm here like a couple of years. But where are you originally from? I'm from Bulgaria, Sofia, and I've lived in Dublin, Ireland for like almost 15 years, 14 years. And I don't know. I don't know. I know Portugal has been going through a lot of tough times the last 10 years, the last decade. I don't know where their spirits broken. Is it just
01:02:38
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Because I find in other countries, people
01:02:41
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They're Bellmore, like the Irish I know are Bellmore. I know that in Germany they were protesting. I know in Bulgaria they were protesting. And even in the UK, I know they were protesting. But here, obviously you probably won't hear much if any protest is usually quelled quickly and you won't hear about it in the news because they don't want to give you ideas.
01:03:11
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But I don't know, is it just that people's spirits have been crushed with this kind of economic attack on the Caia? I think it's an attack that's been on Portugal in the last 10 years, but it's kind of baffling, you know? Yeah, I wonder, you know, Portugal has always been kind of a neutral country when you look at like a foreign policy. What the heck? Oh, sorry, that's my phone.
01:03:41
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So I feel like Portugal, in many cases, one of the things that make it great is the fact that it's not involved in bombing in Syria or in Iraq or any of these things. It almost seems like the people don't get too involved in those things.
01:03:59
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But I guess not having that like, you know, you look at like the Irish, for example, like it's very rare you meet Irishman who isn't very political and has strong opinions, you know, and the Portuguese.
01:04:12
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don't seem to have that many strong opinions and philosophies on what's going on in the rest of the world. And I almost feel like it makes them more passive, where somewhere else they might be already worked up and they're upset about other political corruption or upset about other things. And then this just gives them one more thing to get upset about. And they can kind of see the light of like, OK, there's something more going on.
The Call for Honest Conversations
01:04:39
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So I don't know that could be a part of it. I know, you know, they.
01:04:43
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The other one is because tourism is such a big part that I know they were itching to open up the borders for months. So I think they would rather play it safe. So I mean, I have compassion for all those employees that are like that all day with those masks. And I'm trying to not be too kind of only, oh, it's me being a rebel, whatever.
01:05:11
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But at the same time, I feel like we need more of a rebel streak in us if we were to ever turn. Because a handful of people are dictating pretty much the direction of where we're going. And the way it's going like this, it's going to be a smart grid city before the end of the decade. So I don't know.
01:05:37
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Yeah, no, I completely agree. I mean, during the hydro lockdown, I had a lot of Europeans who were contacting me who were saying what was going on in their country and like, oh, but that wouldn't happen in America because you guys have more of a fighting spirit. You guys have more of a rebelling kind of spirit and thinking. And in some cases, they're right. But there's still a huge.
01:05:58
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portion of the country that just complies. And then you have a huge portion. I mean, you have like almost both extremes. You have like the people who you do have a portion of people who are upset and are fighting back and are outspoken about it. Then you have people who are just complying. And, you know, I think, you know, big tech has done a great job of convincing people that
01:06:22
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Oh, yeah, everybody's taking this seriously. And everybody because you're not seeing those opinions and perspectives of people who aren't. And I think that's why when people listen to my podcasts or listening to maybe your podcasts or any of these other podcasts, I've been talking about these issues. They're like, Oh, shit, like there are people out there who are thinking the same way I'm thinking and feeling the same way I'm feeling and questioning things. And they see that these dots aren't connecting in regards to the the mainstream narrative. So I think
01:06:47
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You know, they there was there were many of us who probably felt the same way, but they did a great job suppressing those voices. So people in many cases just felt like, OK, well, this shit's not making sense. But I don't know. I mean, I seem to be the only person who thinks it's not making sense. And everybody else seems to be saying it is making sense. So I guess I'll just go along with their herd and
01:07:11
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You know, so, yeah, I mean, it's, and you're right. I mean, Portugal tourism is a huge thing. I mean, I think one thing that's helped Portugal in regards to tourism, there's never any terrorist attacks for that same reason why they're never involved in other countries. I mean, let's be honest, the reason why there's terrorist attacks in France, in the UK, in certain specific countries is because a lot of times those people are from the countries that they're invading and getting involved in and getting involved in their politics.
01:07:39
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portugal stays pretty neutral in regards to that so you know there's not a whole lot of syrians are like fuck portugal you know it's like it's uh you know usually they're talking about you know the other empires you know the british empire and the american empire so it's just like it's um it's definitely worked in their favor in regards to tourism but uh
01:08:01
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I, you know, and the people there, at least my experiences, and it's it's weird because I mean, I haven't been there in a while. I was born there. We used to go back every year. And but a lot of people who have been there talk about how nice people are.
01:08:14
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And I feel I remember that, you know, and just growing up, how polite people are. And I think that's a European culture. In general, a lot of Europeans think much more about community and being with their friends and and having a two hour lunch to them is something you do all the time where like in America, it's like they're even have lunch, you know, it's like you got to eat on the go. And so I think I don't people maybe it's
01:08:40
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them being too nice is a issue, you know, maybe it's or maybe they have more trust in their media than we'd have, you know, we have trust in our media here. I think it's become so obvious in America that we've been lied to. And having a president and that's thing like I don't I don't agree with a lot of things that Donald Trump does or his policies or whatever. But he has done some good things. And I think one of the good things is calling out the media openly, because what happens is that
01:09:09
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If you're in politics, you're at a press conference. You know certain reporters work for certain newspapers that either like you or dislike you. They're going to try to manipulate what you say or not. But you play the game. Oh, let me try to word this correctly so they don't take it out of context. You try to play the game. Rarely does a politician just say, hey, you're fake news. You're a liar. You publish nonsense.
01:09:31
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It's almost like they pulled back the curtain and just like, listen, I'm not going to pretend there's not hands in these puppets. Like this is a puppet show. It's fake, you know, it's like. And so I think in that regards, like some people needed to be reminded and proven that, like, yeah, everybody has agenda and everybody's trying to push their agenda. And you can't trust her. You know, you can't trust the media and think that it's like right down the middle, you know, honest, you know, good news that just wants to give you the truth. That's that's bullshit. Yeah.
01:10:02
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All right, Ricky, for the final question before you can let folks know where to find you, can you, I'd like to, if you can give us like a one, two minute piece of advice that I'm going to stick at the front of the episode. So that's the first thing people hear.
01:10:22
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Regarding this whole BS going on in the world, what piece of advice would you leave our listeners with in order to reclaim our sovereignty and our freedoms? What would be that spark that you want to throw at us? I think people need to
01:10:52
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not be afraid to talk about these these things. I think we grow up being told that you don't you never bring up religion or or politics at the dinner table. And I think that's a well thought out plan. I hope you don't hear my kids in the back. I can hear my kids upstairs playing. But hopefully the microphone is not picking it up. But you know, I think we've been told like don't talk about these things, you know, because the idea is if you talk about those things, it could cause a fight or argument.
01:11:21
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But the way I look at it is that we never say don't bring up sports. And people argue, I mean, you live in Portugal. I'm a sporting fan. My brother's a Portoou fan. A lot of my friends are Bayfica fans. Those are the big three in Portugal and soccer clubs. We argue about that stuff all day. And we argue about, you know, I live in New England.
01:11:44
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people argue with friends of mine about the Patriots, the Celtics. I mean, we, you know, Steeler fans argue about the, you know, it's like, we can get in heated, heated arguments about this, this stuff. And nobody cares. No, like nobody says, Hey, you shouldn't have brought up sports.
01:12:00
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But the topics that are important, the subjects that are actually worth discussing, the conversations that could change our perspectives and could change the way we look at the world, and the important topics we're told not to bring up and not to talk about. And to me, it almost seems like a well-equipped plan to
01:12:21
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Convince us to argue about the nonsense and the things that are important and not talk about the things that are important and I think what we need to do more of is have these conversations have the difficult conversation don't stray away from having conversation don't stray away from bringing up topics that could cause maybe a Somebody to get defensive or argument. What we need to do is work on having those conversations without arguing
01:12:45
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without it turning into a yelling match. That's what we should be doing. We shouldn't be avoiding those conversations. That's the last thing we should be doing is avoiding them. What we should be doing is working on having them and trying to have productive conversations. I mean, challenging ideas and sharing ideas is how we grow as people. It's how we better understand ourselves and the world around us. Those conversations, we need to have those. And I think in many cases, you'll find when you talk to people about what's going on in the world,
01:13:15
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there's a lot more we're going to agree on than we disagree on.
01:13:21
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That's true in regards to people all over the world. People might come from a different country, different background, different culture, different religion, whatever it may be. But you sit down and talk to one another. You can get through each other pretty quickly, and you can realize that you probably have much more in common than you don't. And we all kind of want the same things. And I think that once you kind of break that wall down, that like, hey, we're all on the same team. We're all just trying to live in a safe environment, trying to enjoy life as much as we can.
01:13:51
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roof over our head, have a job we can appreciate and is fulfilling and we can enjoy, have a family you can enjoy, friends you can enjoy, that's all we want. And we're on the same team. Don't let all these other issues separate us and get us fighting with one another when really the ones who are pulling the strings continue to pull the strings and they're dividing and conquering while the rest of us are fighting with one another. So I think one piece of advice I always tell people, have those hard conversations.
01:14:19
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spark those conversations, don't stray away from those conversations and try to have them in a productive way. And that alone, because a lot of people say, well, what can I do? How can I change things? That alone, just having conversations and helping open minds, changing perspectives, or just maybe for it's exercise just to help
Final Advice on Reclaiming Sovereignty
01:14:40
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figure out where you stand. Sometimes I'll wanna talk about something that I don't even have a strong opinion on, but I know having a conversation about it's gonna help me figure out what my opinion is and help me better understand the topic at hand. So I think don't ever take for granted the power of conversation. Love it, Ricky. Thank you so much. Can you tell folks where they can find you, your podcasts, social media, et cetera?
01:15:07
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Yep. Yep. So I'm RV theory six at Instagram, Twitter. That's the letter R letter V the word theory T H E O R Y the number six. And that's also the name of my YouTube channel, but you can just search the ripple effect podcast on any search engine. You'll find the ripple effect podcast.
01:15:27
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website, which is rippleeffectpodcast.com. You'll find my YouTube channel, which is RB36, where you'll find video versions of all my episodes. You'll be able to see me in the guest talk. And in the show description, I always have links to all my social media accounts and all that stuff. I also have a merch store, rippleeffectpodcastmerch.com.
01:15:43
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I'm on Facebook, you can look up Riccardo Verrendes, or you can look up Ricky Verhendes, and I'm sure you can find me. I also have a Facebook page for the Ripple Effect podcast, so connect with me. I have a lot of people throwing me friend requests. There's a lot of bots and fake accounts on Facebook, so if you want to connect with me on Facebook, I'm more than happy to do so, but just send me a message. Let me know that you're a fan of the show or you're a real person and you're not trying to send me porn, and I will connect with you.
01:16:14
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Yeah. And so that's basically all the places, Twitter. I'm also on Parler, which I don't know if you're familiar with it, but it's kind of like a Twitter competitor. And it's it's supposed to be completely uncensored. And I'm also there at RV 36. But you can just search the ripple effect podcast. You'll find my website, my YouTube channel. You'll find all that stuff for the time being. I'm on YouTube. We'll see how much longer that goes. But I'm also on all the podcast apps to the ripple effect podcast can be found on iTunes, Google Play, you know, podcast addict, all the all the apps, Spotify or whatnot.
01:16:44
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Awesome. Yeah, we're going to have those links in the show notes as well. So check them out, folks. Ricky Verandis, thank you so much for joining us today, brother. Hey, thanks. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate the conversation. Thank you for listening to Connecting Minds.
01:17:08
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