8-19-25 - 6am - Student Visas, Measles Outbreak and Dogs & Climate Change

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael and Dragon. I don't know, is it going to
be a spicy show? The sports people just let the
S words slip through, so maybe something's gonna slip through
On the Michael Brown Show.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
We never let anything slip through. Not that I don't
slip up, We just don't let it slip through. Right,
And the sports shows are dropping the s mom, Is
that what we're hearing?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
What you're saying.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I don't think he was referring to our sports show
because nobody is currently on the air doing sports or
solely just sports rights.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
It was yesterday or something. It could have been yesterday,
you know, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Spicy, Let's do this spicy. Everybody was all yesterday, I
suppose not everybody, but one person in particular from Alaska
was all giddy because we were hearing so much from
Marco Rubio. Well, I don't have any Mark Rubio sound

(01:02):
for this story, but it is Marco Rubio. The reports
that I found yesterday evening indicate that somewhere around six
thousand I think, probably more than six thousand. Probably the
best way to describe is more than six thousand student
visas have been revoked by the Department of State. According

(01:25):
to the Office of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Since Trump took office in January, Trump has been has
been enacting different measures, some legislation and some executive orders,
some just policy measures. But what they do is they
increase the scrutiny of foreign applicants for student visas in

(01:48):
addition to moving to revoke existing visas for foreign students
at Primarily it's I understand why. I'm not sure I
agree with this, but it's primarily right now at mostly
Ivy League elite universities that are engaging in anti American activities.

(02:11):
I only say I kind of disagree with that because
I'm sure if you wanted to, we could probably go
to see you Boulder. We could probably even go to
I don't know, that corn Husker what's that little RinkyDink
college over in Nebraska. They call themselves Cornhusker University of
Nebraska or something, or those aggies, you know. Then you know,
go down to Texas. I'm sure we go anywhere. Now,

(02:33):
the Sooners wouldn't do it, but I'm sure that somewhere
somewhere non elite universities not elite. Really one of my
only regrets in life and I say this with love
in my heart about my parents. My only rent in

(02:53):
my life is that I got accepted to Saint John's College.
There's a campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and there's
one in Annapolis, Maryland, and my parents just couldn't. We
just couldn't afford the tuition to go. And that's the
only regret that I have. But when I was applying
for colleges and even in for law school, I didn't

(03:16):
apply to any elite universities. I had no desire to
go to Harvard. No, not not at all. So anytime
I see something about elite university, I think, eh, you
know what those are?

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Not?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I mean, those are Yeah, they end up becoming the
politicians and becoming all the you know, mukeety monks. But man,
nobody cares. But I understand why Trump's focusing on the
elite universities because they primarily are the ones that get
all of the media attention. That cabal focuses on them,
because well, they're mostly graduates of elite universities and they

(03:50):
are appalled, absolutely appalled that someone who does not have
a right to come here to study, but we grant
them a p leage to come here to study on
a student visa might violate the terms and conditions of
that visa by engaging in anti American activities. A State

(04:11):
Department official says this, The State Department has revoked over
six so I was right over six thousand students. Of course,
I was right over six thousand student visas for oversays
and legal violations, the vast majority being what would you
just think? Now, I want you to stop and think
about you you apply to Now. Remember they're focusing on

(04:33):
elite university. So I can't say that the one, two, three,
four categories of activities that I'm going to describe to
you have all occurred on elite on elite campuses. But
when I tell you what these four are, and that

(04:53):
most of the stories and the State Department itself admits
that most of these revocations have occurred at elite universities,
why why are they doing these things? The number one
reason is, and I counted in the four are overstays.

(05:15):
You come here on a student visa, you overstay and
you never leave.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Now you don't have a you no longer have a
visa to be in the.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
United States, so you are illegally present in the United
States of America. We can remove your ass and I
think we should. You came here, you've got a college education.
I'm sure you've got some scholarship for it. And now
go home, go back to your crab whole country and
clean it up. Leave us alone. I think we're doing fine.

(05:48):
But for law violations, the vast majority this is according
to the state Department statement, the vast majority of the
legal violations, the criminal violation that they engage in are
assault d u I, burglary, and support of terrorism. You're

(06:10):
you're going to Harvard, You're going to Princeton, Yale, you're
going to Brown and you're engaging in assault. Now, d
u I, I kind of I kind of get you know,
you can get drunk and go driveway. I don't approve it.
I just I just kind of get it.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
But burglary, you're engaging in burglaries. Yeah, I'm going to
Harvard Law School. Let's let's go break into the into
the convenience store and see what we can steal. And
of course the pay support for terrorism. That same officials
said that an estimated four thousand visas will re evoked
directly as a result of the foreign student having violated

(06:47):
any one particular US law. Now under Rubio, the State
Department has been prioritizing reviewing student visas that are currently
held and requested by applicants from the PRC the People's
Republic of China. The Chinese Communist Party has been accused

(07:08):
of utilizing Chinese nationals studying in the United States and
in Europe to engage in corporate espionage and the surveillance
of anti Chinese Communist Party dissidents.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Of course they are. I would look at all of them.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
In fact, I would just say if if nay, that's
just meanings too irrational this morning. But I don't know
why we allow any Chinese students to come to this
country to study, because I am you know, I'm sure
that you know, I'm going to throw the baby out
with the bathwater. And I'm sure there are a couple
in there that maybe you know, are really coming here

(07:44):
because they want to learn, and maybe they want to
eventually defect. But while they're here, they're still under the
control and the and the watchful eye of the Chinese
Communist Party. So all these federal immigration officials and the
State Department are increasing this scrutiny under which these applications
are investigated. They're also doing this, which is probably worth

(08:11):
noting because if you're currently in you're you're an American citizen,
and you're currently in college, and you or even trade school,
I don't care, you're in high school, I don't care.
They're now reviewing all of their past social media posts. Now,

(08:32):
in the case of student foreign student visas, they're doing
it because they're looking for anti American views. They're looking
for anything that might indicate support for foreign terrorist organizations.
And as Rubio said in March, I wish I could
find this sound bite. Every time I find one of
these lunatics, I take away their visas. But what struck

(08:53):
me is interesting about the review of social media posts
is if you've got a rug rat in college, you
might want to sit them down and talk about what
they post to social media. Now, I'm at the age
and stage in my career all of that stuff where

(09:13):
I really just don't give a rats ass. I just
really don't care. You don't like what I post on
social media, well so what you know?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
I heeart.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
You don't like what I post on social media, Well
so what you know? It's kind of interesting because iHeart
has this this kind of conflicting objective. Oh, post to
social media, be active on social media, be active on
social media. Well, if you want to be active on
social media, and if you want and I've never tried

(09:43):
to go viral, I don't really care about going viral.
I just however, many people follow me I think I've
got I'm at twenty one nine hundred. Why I can't
get to twenty two thousand on X I don't know,
but you know, maybe that's what you ought to do
this morning, is follow me on ex. Michael Michael Brown USA,
or Facebook. I got much more on Facebook followers and stuff,

(10:08):
so they're they're always pounding in there. I head post, post,
post postal social media, post interesting stuff, post controversial stuff,
post you know, post things that you know, will you know,
you know, build your brand and build your program and
all of that. Okay, well I did, and now you
don't like it. I'm not saying that's happened. I'm just
saying that's it's kind of ironic that they want us

(10:30):
to do that. And then if you do that and
you do the attract attention, then oh you're gonna be
comfortable you're posting. But if you are a college student,
or you're in high school, or you're out looking for
your first job. You know, one of the things that
I do oftentimes, when I'm digging through stories and I
come across some I always look at the bio. I

(10:51):
don't care if it's in the Wall Street Journal, the
Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Denver Compost.
I'm still so proud of myself dragging that I paid
one dollar for a year subscriptions of the Denver Compost.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
I look at you.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I know, I know, and it's on my calendar. Be
sharing cancel it before it expires in one near Yeah.
Anytime I read any articles or I see somebody on television,
you know they're they're interviewing somebody I don't recognize who
it is. I will search out on Facebook, Instagram and X.

(11:25):
I don't have a tech talk account, so I don't care,
but I'll go see what they've posted. Or anytime that
somebody comes and blasts me, because you know, we're reaching,
we're in the hate Michael season because it's well, it's
August and its hurricane season, and it's twenty years and
all of that. So I'm always looking to see because

(11:46):
I haven't posted anything on Instagram and I don't know,
I bet months and yet I keep getting comments on
Instagram and it's usually I hope you rotten hell or
you know, it's all these.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Those are just me, you know, come to think of it, it.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Usually issue and hide delete eye delete, eye delete, eye delete.
But think about an employer. You're getting ready to hire
some numbs numbskull to come in and do some job
in your company, and and you think, yeah, this seems like,

(12:26):
you know, there's something, it seems like really smart. This
person he or she or z or they or whatever,
uh fit all of the criteria and you're really excited
about you think you found just you know.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
There's a phrase job fit matters, and I and I
firmly believe in that. I think that when you find
a job that really fits you and you fit the job,
you know, it's it's a glorious thing. Like I think
I'm made to do this and I love doing this,
and it's I mean, you know, don't tell me, well, well,
most of the managements still, you know, sound to sleep,
so they don't have a clue. But you know, I

(13:03):
do this for free. I love it so much, which
is pretty much what they pay me the time. You know,
you got to pay for all the stuff that they
won't pay for. Then it is pretty much working for free.
But you find that one person and you think, wow,
I think we're ready to hire them. So you run
it up to Chain. Maybe you're the HR person and

(13:26):
you run it up to Chain, and you know, they, yeah,
we think we're going to do this person.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
So the CEO or the CEO or who.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Are you know, the department manager, whatever, just be curious
what Michael Brown has to say on X or Facebook
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
And then you go look and your.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Eyes are like, wow, I don't think we're going to
hire that person because they're a nut job. Yeah, they're
a nut job. So be slightly careful in what it
is that you want to put on social media taxes.
And no, I'm not talking about redistricting, although it's hilarious

(14:04):
I read. Let me you know, I take that back.
Let me do talk about redistricting. Redistricting for just a moment,
because yesterday they are there was a story that where
they're requiring the Democrats. They finally showed back up. I
guess Beto decided he has to comply with the injunction
and he couldn't continue to fund their charter jets and

(14:24):
their hotels and their meals and all the booze and
you know, the prostitutes and everything else that they're engaged in.
So they all decided to go back to Texas where
they will once again continue to engage in booze and
you know, traveling prostitutes and everything else, because well they're politicians.
So they're they're back in Texas and they've been put
in the House chamber and they've been told, you want

(14:47):
to go to the bathroom, you have to get permissions,
a permission slip from the speaker or the speaker's representative,
and they'll escort you to the bathroom to make sure
you don't leave. One legislator is refusing to get out
of her chair because she refuses to get a permission slip.
So there she was sitting all alone, all alone in

(15:07):
the House chamber, And all I thought was what a
brave stance to take, because the body at some point
is going to say I really need to urinate, I
really need to defecate, And so now you've got a choice.
Are you gonna really sit there on your principles of
I refuse to take a permission slip to go to

(15:29):
the bathroom, or are you gonna hold it till you
can no longer hold it anymore? And you'll go, okay,
give me a permission slip, and then the minute you
stand up, you lose control of your bladder and it
goes everywhere. That's not what I wanted to talk about.
Remember the hype about the measles outbreak. Remember how bad
it was. Oh my gosh, it was Bobby Kennedy's fault.

(15:51):
It was Donald Trump's fault. It was Everybody's fault. It
was I mean, it was you know, we're a third
world country. When did that start?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Back? Uh?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
When months a a few months ago. It's officially over. Yeah,
it's done. It infected, don't I don't know what the
population of Texas is it infected? You ready, seven hundred
and sixty two people statewide, seven hundred and sixty two
people in Texas got the measles. Now, no new infections

(16:26):
have emerged in the affected areas over the past six weeks,
surpassing the standard threshold to declare an outbreak contained. So yes, Uh,
let me find the story again, with the last case
reported on July one. No new infections have emerged in

(16:46):
the affected areas over six weeks, which takes you back
to about July one, surpassing the standard threshold to declare
an outbreak contained. Now, if you go back and you
remain the headline said, this is horrible. Cases are tied
to measle outbreaks in Canada and Mexico. It began to

(17:07):
pop up all across the United States, including Texas, but
much of the epidemic was limited to And I never
knew this until yesterday. Do you know where most dragons?
You have the idea where most of the Musle's epidemic
was located. If you had to pick a social strata
or a community, or a geographical area or anything else,
do you have any idea where it might have been?

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Down South? Men and nits? Oh? Oh, yeah, menn Nights.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Much of the epidemic was limited to local Mennonite communities
in Tahas. Now, of course, the reaction was swift and
wide and over the top, public warnings, emergency measures, a
push for vaccinations. About oh out of seven or sixty
two people that got the measles, less than one hundred
were hospitalized. There were two deaths, for a fatality rate

(17:57):
of just zero point two six percent of the seven
hundred and sixty two recorded infections the Texas Department of Health.
I went to highlight the titleist works of the public
health professionals across the state who contributed to the containment
of one of the most contagious viruses, and old man,

(18:17):
I think it was the mass.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yes, it was the mass social distancing. That's what did
it measles. It's kind of like the hurricane going on
right now.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
All you hear about is the hurricane, which, by the way,
is not going to make landfall in the United States,
So why do we keep hearing about it. Yes, there'll
be rainfall, there'll probably be some floods, it might be
a little storm surge. It's not hitting the country.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Michael.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
The news break before your show started was saying, what
our record amount of measles we've got in our country
right now? It's way above the standard. They said it
was like twenty one cases. I'm not kidding you.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Three three let's just say three hundred and fifty million
Americans and we got twenty one cases and it's above
the standard. It's like doesn't even register on the Rector scale.
Fortune Magazine has an article. Here's the headline, your dog
is part of the climate change problem. I can adopt

(19:20):
one hundred bunnies when those are Playboy bunnies. I can
adopt one hundred bunnies that will not be close to
the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore.
So I read the story. If you want to read
the story yourself, it is. I thought I had the
date on it. I can't find the date on it.
But I decided to do something different, you know, rather

(19:42):
than rip the story apart, I decided instead to turn
the story into a keynote address. So I'm yeah, I'm plagiarizing.
I'm taking I'm taking this story, and I'm going to
give you I just just as if I believed every

(20:03):
word in the story.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Wait, you're plagiarizing, just like our former president did back
in the eighties when he was running for president.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'm thinking somebody I might be president. Okay, yes, okay, yes, yes,
Good morning everyone. It's a privilege to be here with
my fellow change makers and leaders who understand the gravity
of the climate crisis and the urgency with which we
must act today. I want to challenge you to re
examine not just your commitment or our commitment to the planet,

(20:31):
but our assumptions about what truly makes the difference in
fighting climate change. You see, it turns out that many
of you, many of us right now, aren't as great
as we'd like to believe it identifying which of our
personal choices carry the most weight for the environment. Let
me just pose a simple question. If you had to

(20:52):
rank everyday actions swapping your gas car for an electric one,
car pooling, recycling, cutting back on food waste, which would
you say matters the most for the climate? According to
a recent study from the National Academy of Sciences, but
Americans were asked this, most ranked these actions incorrectly. They

(21:14):
overestimated the power of recycling and energy efficient appliances, and
most surprisingly to me, they underestimated the climate impact of
skipping airplane flights, choosing to use renewable electricity, and yes,
even deciding not to get a dog. Why the conclusion, Well,

(21:36):
part of it is visibility. We see ourselves recycling, turning
off the lights, trading out the light bulbs. These habits
feel immediate and tangible, but the invisible like the carbon
emissions from a cross country flight, or the methane raised
raising from cattle for dog food. Well, that's out of sight,

(21:58):
that's out of mind. You see, our brains are wired
to remember what we do all the time. Recycling and
swapping light bulbs are daily or weekly efforts.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I kind of laughed when I wrote that because I
thought you swap your light bulbs daily. But anyway, I digress.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
So we give those things more mental weight.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Occasional activities you like booking a flight, adopting a pet,
the poor pet, you know, a senior you know, hospice pat,
or something just seems less significant, even if their footprint
is dramatically larger. Now let me highlight this with a
striking example. The climate impact of dogs. Dogs beloved companions

(22:44):
as they are as they are eat a lot of meat,
and meat, especially beef, is one of the most carbon
intensing foods on the planet. Not only do cattle release methane,
a potent greenhouse gas, but raising them often involves deforesting land,
which erases natural carbon sinks. You could, as one expert

(23:07):
put it, adopt one hundred bunnies and still not rival
the emissions of a single dog because your dog.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Is a carnivore.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
But I come with hope because there are choices. Pet
owners can reduce their impact by choosing pet foods made
from less climate intensitive proteins like poultry or even certain
types of seafood. Consider to the scale of emissions from

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air travel. Just one round trip flight from New York
to la and economy, who would dare do the economy
produces more than one three hundred pounds of seal two
per passenger skipping a single flightlight That is the carbon
saving equivalent of giving up all meat for a year
or living without a car for over three months. But

(23:59):
on the flip side, actions like switching to renewable energy
can have a huge impact, especially when multipply it across
millions of households. These are the efforts that deserve more
of our focus and attention. Now, I'm not saying that
recycling in cold water lawn recycles aren't valuable.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
They are. They reduce waste and conserve energy.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
But their climate impact pails next to decisions about what
we eat, how we travel, and how we power our homes.
So how can we do better? We should start a
should we should start an Instagram and an ex account
do better, Denver do better? Environmentalists The answer information. As
we become better informed, we shift our efforts to where

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they matter most. The same study found that once people
learned about the relative impact of these choices, they were
more willing to commit to substantial climate changing actions. That's
the opportunity and the responsibility as leaders, communicators, everyday citizens.
We must advocate for clear information and challenge myths that

(25:01):
no longer serve us. Let's champion real measurable change focused
on those choices that move the needle. Renewable energy, mindful travel,
and yes, even the kind of pets we bring into
our homes. Thank you for your dedication to climate change.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Know we're going to pass the plate in just a
moment here at the Church of the Climate Activists, and
I hope that you will contribute significantly so that I
can keep my industry going. Plus you know I need
to cover my speaking engagement fees too, So thank you
for your dedication and for being willing to see the
invisible and act on what truly matters for our planet.
So youthanize your pet, Yes, just euthanize your pet.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Isn't that stupid?

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Never going after your dog. You come after my dog dogs,
even Tamer's little squeaky wiener dog. You're going to face
a forty four magnum or a ten gage. Leave my
dogs alone. But this is the insanity you know in
Fortune magazine. You know, there was a time in my
life and I actually subscribed to Fortune Magazine, but not anymore.

(26:08):
They got off the deep end. Your dog, your dog
is absolutely the problem. It's part of the timate change problem.
So instead dump your dog, go euthanize your dog, and
adopt one hundred bunnies, or actually just adopt two bunnies,
male and female, and pretty soon you'll have a thousand

(26:29):
bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of
a dog, because your dog's a carnivore. And then when
you go to the crooks, when you go to the
pet food store or you have it delivered by Amazon,
think about that. Be sure and order something that's made
with chicken or seafood, you know, salmon.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Or I don't know. My dogs don't eat seafood dog food.
They eat carnivore dog food.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Because well, I love my dogs, and in fact, one
of my dogs is on a very special diet from
Hill Science diet, which good grief. I need a raise
to pay for the damn dog food. This is the
insanity that travels around the country. Dogs are part of
climate change. Yeah, if you have a dog and you

(27:17):
haven't had breakfast yet, give that dogs by the bacon,
by the sausage, maybe a few scrambled eggs or something. Yeah, yeah, dogs,
I love my dog. I'll be right back, Michael. How
about I start feeding bunnies to my dog?

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Michael. Willing to commit to.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Changes to help the climate and living those things to
help the climate are two very different things, and when
they have to actually live it, they're not so committed.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
After all, I have.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
A friend who's husband religiously recycles. I mean religiously. I've
been in their home and sometimes they have like, you know,
they got the trash can in the next trash can.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
They got to recycle bin. Do you guys recycle dragon? Yes,
we do well.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
The The fact is that most recycling really doesn't occur,
and I don't know. One day, in fact, somebody in
this building and I pulled up a couple of stories
about how recycling is not really as effective and like

(28:38):
all things don't get recycled. They just send it to
a recycling company, and the companies have so much crap
that they can't recycle, so then it eventually makes it
on a slow boat to some you know, crabhole country
where kids then dig through the trash, you know, and
try to find stuff, and it's just horrible. And I
actually felt guilty after showing them because they really felt

(29:03):
like they were doing something for the environment. Now there
are some communities where you're required to recycle, and I
find that hilarious. And then there was a time, I
think it was at O'Hare International Airport where they had
the bins where you know, one side is trash and
the other side is recycled, and I just happened to
look and there was no divider below the top cover,

(29:24):
so everything went into the same thing. So you're right,
it's all a bunch of bull crap. If if I really,
if I, and I mean it sincerely, if I thought recycling,
for example, there there's a and I forget what the
it was. And I know documentaries always have a point

(29:47):
of view, so they're not really documentary in the sense
that here's every side of every story. But this was
a documentary about the amount of waste that we produceothing, food, whatever.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
It might be.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
And they were showing all of the clothing that people.
You know, you buy so many pair of underwear and
then you take up to good you know, I don't
know you whether you can take good underwear to Goodwill
or not, but all of that clothing, there's so much
of it that even when they send it to foreign

(30:23):
countries that knee clothing, you know, like really craphole countries,
it's so overwhelming that they can't even consume all of
it and it ends up in a dump somewhere. It's
just we have too much consuming going on. I forget
the name of the congressman or senator that said that
one time. It's been twenty thirty years ago. But yeah,

(30:45):
just too much consuming going on. I just find it hilarious.
We did find the S bomb and you've alerted and
apparently it's true. I mean I believed you because you
said it, but didn't believe you because Dragon doesn't believe
anything that you guys either verify, no, you just said,

(31:06):
you know, I just don't believe anything that those goopers say.
I don't listen to anything they say. I just ignore them.
And then he found it and then and then me,
he was like, holy s word, Now I got it.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
I got it. Send an email. So I got work
to do. Now, I got work to do, even.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Though we didn't do it, and it wasn't doing our show,
but I got to make sure the bosses are aware.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Isn't it funny how now? It was in the Fox
News rundown right? Correct? They have a sports report that runs, yeah,
which comes to us from Fox News. Correct.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Have you noticed how much more there is pursing on
the cable channels than.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Before cable is paid for?

Speaker 2 (31:47):
I know, I understand the the legalities of it. Duh, Okay,
I'm just saying, I'm I find it fascinating that they
seem to think that somehow dropping the F bomb or
the S bomb is so much more effective, particularly among
Democrats when they're out, you know, talking to their protesting
something that makes them more relatable.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
I guess, so, I don't know why they do it.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Speaking of free speech, German authorities have dismissed accusations in
a recent State Department Human rights report that is alleging
that Germany is suppressing free speech, particularly on social media.
And this State Department report kind of goes after German
authorities for restricting public discourse in the name of combating

(32:37):
hate speech. The government spokesman says, there is no censorship
here in Germany. A very high degree of freedom expression
prevails and we will continue to defend this in every
way possible.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
But hate speech.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Against illegal aliens and other groups is an arrestable offense
in Germany. As our quote public insults close quote against
politicians or other government officials. There's a sixty four year

(33:12):
old man fined around I think it was eight hundred
and twenty five euros that's almost one thousand dollars, and
the cops rated his home after he shared a meme
that labeled former economy the Mister of the Economy, Robert Hbeck,
a professional idiot. Well, I thought that's what most politicians were,

(33:33):
professional idiots. Can you imagine how much trouble I mean,
I'd never be here. I'd be dragon be bailing me
out every single night if the things I said about
politicians were protected, you know, somehow.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Illegal speech. Wow. As goes Europe, pay attention