Chapter 1: What recent event sparked a discussion on mental health and violence?
oh i came in today uh with a buttload of stuff to say and my hair was on fire the rhode island trans shooter canada i mean you really want to go down the road canada that you're going down because i got a lot to say to you And we also talked to Judy Shelton. She is an expert on gold and what we should be doing with our money right now. She's trying to convince the White House and our Treasury.
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Chapter 2: How is Canada potentially aligning with China economically?
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You know, I saw a story about Canada and Mark Carney deciding that he wants to go and have a little, you know, just jam his tongue down the throats of all the Marxist leadership in China. You know what? Go do it. Go do it. My first response was that yesterday. This mood started then. Go do it, Mark Carney. Do it. Yes. Reach for it. I want you to do it.
Your journey to the dark side will be complete. Do it. I'm so sick and tired of countries. who all we're asking for is trade balance, trade balance. That's it. You know, Canada, your last two prime ministers have loved communism, love it, love totalitarianism. Your policies are so close to matching the Chinese system.
When we watched you arrest all of those truckers during COVID, I thought, wow, Mao, is that you? I'm having a hard time sometimes differentiating between, you know, the Canadian policies from your government and Mao. This is why I can't ever be president, because I would have. I mean, they would have said to me yesterday, sir, stop pushing the button. We ran out of missiles 15 minutes ago.
But I slept. And so I got up this morning and I wrote a little speech that I would like President Trump to give to the Canadians. And if he won't do it, I will. I'd like the president to come on and say, my fellow Americans and to our friends and neighbors in Canada, we bear no ill will towards Canada. We love the people of Canada. But you know what? Your politicians are pissing us off.
For generations, we have been more than neighbors. We've been allies. We've been partners. We've been friends. Our soldiers have stood together. Our economies have grown together. Our families cross the same border every day in peace because for decades we have believed in the same principles, freedom, accountability, and the dignity of the individual. But our friendship does not erase reality.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Judy Shelton provide about America's current economic state?
Go ahead. If you align yourself with Chinese Communist Party members, allowing the Chinese state-linked firms into your telecoms, your 5G, your cloud, your ports, your power grids, your satellite, your space, your sensitive minerals refining and strategic infrastructure, your intelligence systems, any of that, then the nature of our alliance has got to change.
And it has to change not because we want it to, but because the foundation of trust is gone. Trust, you know, any alliance, the foundation must be trust. And if that trust is gone, then it has consequences. So let's talk, frankly, Canada, what your choice means. You're going to do this? Great. The government in Beijing is not simply another trading partner.
It is a regime that censors speech and controls information at a national scale. But why should you even recognize that? It's what your leaders are already doing in Canada. They use surveillance and technology to monitor and control its own systems. Are you doing that yet, Canada? Because if you're not, once you get in bed with them, you will be.
They detain and repress political and religious minorities. Doing that yet? You're going to be. punishes dissent, silence independent voices. You're already doing that.
Chapter 4: What warnings does Judy Shelton give regarding the U.S. budget and fiscal responsibility?
Uses economic dependence as a weapon against other nations. Oh, you're about to feel that. And all of these accusations, they're not, we're not saying that because we're a rival. They're facts and realities recognized all around the world. And America is no longer going to ignore these things. You go ahead, go ahead, get in bed with them. Go ahead.
We're not going to ignore it, neither should any nation that claims to stand for freedom. We're telling England and the rest of Europe the same thing. You're killing yourself, and we are not going to go down that path any longer. We were going on that path, but Canada, you need to choose your partners. We're saying no. We say no to the hatred. We say no to bitterness. We say yes to clarity.
And there's another thing that really kind of hacks a lot of Americans off. For generations, Americans have paid an enormous price, not just in blood, but in actual dollars to protect the free world. We're still doing it. Our sons and daughters fought wars oceans away so the West could live in peace, so you could have...
Free trade, or so they say, so you could ship your goods to China and everywhere else without pirates. Why? Because the United States Navy said so. And it was our taxpayers that funded the shield that allowed you as our allies to invest a lot less in military might so you could be more prosperous. We paid for it.
And that protection created a dome under which Canada, you flourished, as did Europe and hell, the rest of the world. And we were proud to do it. We never asked you for anything. But the world has changed. You overspent. Europe overspent. And we overspent. We hollowed out parts of our own industrial base. We chased cheap labor and short-term gains. And yes, Everybody did it. You did it.
Our allies did it and we did it. But now the bill is finally due. So America is just going to start recognizing reality and the price of admission to the next era. You got to pay for it. So we asked for something simple and I think fair. If you want free trade, then let it be truly free. Drop your tariffs on our American goods and we'll drop ours on yours. No tricks, no loopholes, just fairness.
That's it. Because here's the reality. Numbers, numbers, not slogans, are what makes the next era possible. 70 to 76% of Canada's exports go to the United States. Do it. More than three out of every four dollars Canada earns from exports comes from access to the American market. Dump it. Dump it. Walk away from it. I want you to do it.
Your entire industrial system, your energy, your autos, your agriculture, your manufacturing is all intertwined with ours. In 2024 alone, trade between our nations included or exceeded $760 billion in goods and over $900 billion with services. You're not going to replace that overnight. No country can. We won't either.
If the United States were forced to pull back, if trusts were broken, the economic shock to Canada is going to be blinding.
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Chapter 5: What factors contribute to the perception of mental health issues in society?
Your factories will slow. Your investments will flee. Currency pressure is going to rise. What do you think the Canadian dollar is really worth? Supply chains built for generations are going to fracture. Are we going to feel the pain? Yeah, we're going to feel the pain. Of course we would. Yes. But let's be honest here.
A country of 340 million people can adjust a little faster than a country of 40 million whose largest customer is us. The most important thing here to think about is security. Canada, if you choose to partner with an authoritarian power in critical technologies, especially telecommunications and infrastructure, then you can no longer participate fully in the shared defense system like NORAD.
You want to lose NORAD? Go partner with the Chinese. Have a blast. Defense requires absolute trust. The minute you start doing anything with telecommunications with China, you're out. You have to be. That's not even a choice for us.
Chapter 6: How does the podcast address the relationship between mental health and violence?
It's automatic. You do it, we're out. And without trust, we can't protect you. Now, you might say, fine, China will protect us. Go ahead. Go ahead. Perhaps they would. History tells us protection from authoritarian powers always comes with strings attached. You don't like our strings? Wait until you see the chains that come with China. Here's the thing the world needs to hear.
America's done playing games. This is not diplomacy theater. This is real life. The world's about to change. And Canada, you know, my father used to say, All right, before he disciplined me, that's going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you. And I never really understood him. I never believed that until as an adult, I understand exactly what he meant. Because nobody wants to do it.
I warned you. I don't want to do it. This is going to kill me because it's my son. And the same with friends. It's going to hurt us. It's going to hurt us emotionally. It's going to hurt us economically. You're our neighbors. You're our friends. We don't want this. Many of us have families on both sides of that invisible line. But you know what?
Actions have consequences, as my father used to say. You are standing on the cliff's edge. Now, here's what I know. You're not going to jump because you're not crazy. Canadians are not crazy. But I think your leaders just may be. But I warn you, don't jump. Don't jump. Because this president doesn't screw around. If you decide to jump into the arms of China, America won't be there to catch you.
Choose freedom. Choose transparency. Choose values that built the West. Individual liberty. Ethical responsibility. The moral foundations that shaped our nations. Because once trust is broken, rebuilding it is going to take generations. The door is still open.
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Chapter 7: What historical context is provided regarding government bankruptcies?
It does. But the time for pretending choices don't really matter. Those days are gone. And right now you're writing history. Careful, Canada. Choose your partners carefully. For decades, the United States has carried a heavy burden in blood and treasure. And we did it gladly to defend the free world. Do you even understand what that means?
Hell, half of our nation doesn't even understand what that means anymore. It's worth defending and fighting for. And under that shield, nations, including our closest allies like you, have been able to prosper without having to carry the military weight. We carried it for the rest of the world. It's not a complaint. It's just the truth. It's history.
But history is changing because it doesn't work. I'm sorry, but the United States is facing really hard realities. So are you. We've all overspent. We all hollowed out parts of our industrial brain. We learned now. that prosperity requires responsibility, and that's the price. That's the price of admission to the next era. So we're not asking you for any favors.
All we're asking you for is fairness and a realistic recognition of what we have brought to the table all of these years. Look, you want truly free trade? Let's be free. Let's do that. Let's do that. Let competition, not protectionism, decide the outcome. But understand this. We're done. We are done. Choose carefully.
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Well, thank you for, can we just go into a little bit of the past with you? It's, it's 1989 and you publish a book called the coming Soviet collapse. All the experts say that's crazy. That's not going to happen.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of choosing partners in international relations?
And just a few months later, the Berlin wall falls. What did you see that everybody else was missing? You know, I'm, I'm kind of a, um, green eye shade accountant by nature, um,
And I think that when I took on what was meant to be a very scholarly and probably dull project as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, my goal was to study the impact of Western capital on the Soviet economy.
Because it turned out, and you had to look at CIA statistics and some other statistics from government agencies to see this, but Western banks and Western governments were lending twice as much as any of them thought to the Soviet government, which was really bailing out Gorbachev and all of his programs and not causing the Soviet Union to reconcile with everything it spent on a war machine.
So I looked at the Soviet financial statements and I really analyzed their internal budget figures and it became apparent that it wasn't adding up. They always showed they had a balanced budget but in fact they were running a huge budget deficit and they were financing it by printing rubles.
And so it was in analyzing and then recognizing that that I was able to say, and it even surprised me at first, that this country was going bankrupt. So you did this in the nineties right before, you know, the, the, uh, the Asian crash. Um, I mean, you have a way of being ahead of the curve. Um, where are we today? Go ahead. Well, sorry.
I was just thinking that book actually came out in January of 1989 and, um, By December of 1991, there was no more Soviet Union. So it is wrong to say governments can't go bankrupt. They can. And that goes to your question of where are we now? It's alarming that our own country is running what everyone admits is an unsustainable budget.
We don't even see that over 10 years we have a plan to come close to balancing it. And yet everyone says, well, this is unsustainable in the long run, but no one ever says this is day one of the long run. So tell us the truth that politicians will just never say. What does this look like if we stay on this path? How long do we have and what happens?
Well, I think that it shows that you don't have faith in in the the future viability of your country to me it's here we are about to celebrate this year our 250th anniversary and if you asked most americans do you think we will still be around let alone standing tall in 50 years in 2076 i don't know that you would hear a strong affirmation of yes
And I think everyone's aware, and we're dealing with the fallout of fiscal deficit spending every day with this dread we all feel from perpetual inflation. We're never able to catch up, no matter how much we're reassured that wage gains are helping to keep up. Maybe for some people, yes. Maybe for others, no. And the problem for me is until we...
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