July 2, 2024 • 40 mins
Can true independence be achieved in modern society? Join us in this gripping episode of the Bitcoin is Dead podcast as we welcome Al Weatherman, the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. Al takes us through his inspiring 18-month campaign filled with stories from all 100 counties he's visited, offering a unique perspective on the political shifts in the state and his vision for a business-friendly future under Republican leadership.
We explore the profound importance of self-sufficiency, examining how modern dependencies—whether jobs, substances, or social media—shackle true freedom. With Al's insight, we uncover the challenges that young graduates face, often burdened by debt and dependent on their parents. We emphasize the value of trades and practical skills, advocating a shift towards a dignified life filled with purpose and independence. This conversation aims to inspire a generation to break free from societal dependencies and take control of their destinies.
In an enlightening discussion, we blend the concepts of Bitcoin, financial literacy, and independence, drawing connections to biblical principles of property ownership. Al shares his visionary ideas for transforming abandoned textile mills and landfills in rural North Carolina into Bitcoin mining hubs, creating a new revenue stream without additional taxes. We also address critical issues such as income tax, the Federal Reserve, and student debt, underscoring the paramount importance of financial independence. Stay updated on Al's journey across North Carolina through his social media platforms and website, and don't miss this episode packed with innovative strategies and insightful perspectives for a self-sufficient future.
We explore the profound importance of self-sufficiency, examining how modern dependencies—whether jobs, substances, or social media—shackle true freedom. With Al's insight, we uncover the challenges that young graduates face, often burdened by debt and dependent on their parents. We emphasize the value of trades and practical skills, advocating a shift towards a dignified life filled with purpose and independence. This conversation aims to inspire a generation to break free from societal dependencies and take control of their destinies.
In an enlightening discussion, we blend the concepts of Bitcoin, financial literacy, and independence, drawing connections to biblical principles of property ownership. Al shares his visionary ideas for transforming abandoned textile mills and landfills in rural North Carolina into Bitcoin mining hubs, creating a new revenue stream without additional taxes. We also address critical issues such as income tax, the Federal Reserve, and student debt, underscoring the paramount importance of financial independence. Stay updated on Al's journey across North Carolina through his social media platforms and website, and don't miss this episode packed with innovative strategies and insightful perspectives for a self-sufficient future.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to the Bitcoin is Dead podcast.
We are sitting here today withAl Weatherman.
I've heard a few ladies callhim the hot weatherman, but I'm
not going to talk about that.
We also have Tom the tax man,jones and me, trey Carson, host
of the Bitcoin is Dead podcast.
Al, how are you Tell us aboutwhat you got going on?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Doing well and thanks for having me.
And you know we've been on theroad now for 18 months, almost
18 straight months.
I'm the Republican nominee nowfor Lieutenant Governor here in
the state.
But of course we started out 18months ago.
I was in an 11-man crowdedprimary field so we had to
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campaign, you know, for 16months to win the primary.
But then I was challenged to arunoff by the second place
finisher and so that cost us twomore months of time traveling
the state and we ultimatelydefeated him in 99 of 100
counties and we won with 75% ofthe vote.
(01:00):
So I think I'm very wellpositioned as the nominee going
into the fall to have a reallygood shot to win this race.
I have a Democrat opponent,obviously.
Her name is Rachel Hunt.
She's you know I'm conservative.
She would be a self-describedliberal, urban liberal
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politician fromCharlotte-Mecklenburg and I
think we match up very wellagainst each other.
I like my chances.
I'm actually up in the pollsright now, which I'm not that I
put a lot of stock in polls, butit's good to see that you're up
and not down and and things aregoing well.
You know we that kind of.
The cornerstone of my campaignis travel.
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The first fruits of my time, mylabor, my efforts are invested
in traveling the state because Ifeel called to run this race
and I feel called to run it acertain way and I'm trying to
connect with people as much as Ican, one-on-one, have
conversations like this, realconversations, unfiltered,
unedited.
(02:02):
I do Q&A all over the state.
I was the only candidate out ofthe 11 candidates who ran in my
primary who went to all 100counties.
I went to 35 counties fivetimes or more.
I went to 10 counties 10 timesbefore we stopped counting.
So we don't count that anymore.
And so we've done a sizableamount of travel, even since
then.
And as we were talking off air,we were talking about just this
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week alone, like on July 4th Ithink I'm doing four parades
that one day, by the way,especially 98 degrees on July
4th and we have a big campaignbus, but I don't ride in the bus
.
In the parades, we walk eitherin front of it or behind it.
So you know this is what it'slike a typical day and I love it
.
I'm not going to lie to you.
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I love our state, I love it.
It would be my honor to be yourlieutenant governor, in part
because I love our greatestasset and our greatest asset are
our people.
I really believe that, and so Iget to travel the state every
day and to meet with ourgreatest asset our people every
day.
And I get to meet them, fromthe janitor to the CEO and
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everywhere in between, and Icount it great joy that I have
this opportunity for this windowof time win, lose or draw.
I get to go through the stateand have really meaningful
conversations with people at alllevels that I might never have
that opportunity again, and it'scertainly not missed on me that
it's an opportunity that mostpeople will never have.
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It's an experience that mostpeople will never have in their
life to travel the state everyday, to go to all 100 counties,
to learn your state intimatelyintimately, because when you're
done with this process, you knowyour state, you know its
strengths, you know itsweaknesses, and it just gives
you a perspective that only ahandful of people really have.
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And so I really enjoy it andbut I hope I win, I hope it's
all not in vain.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I hope we we pull out a victory and because again, it
would be my honor to serve thepeople of this great state.
To my knowledge, there's notbeen a Democrat lieutenant
governor in over a decade or soright?
Is that accurate?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, so, yeah, dan Forrest, you know I ran.
Dan Forrest was your previouslieutenant governor and I was
Dan Forrest's chief of staff andI ran all his campaigns.
So I ran his 2012 lieutenantgovernor race, where we won.
We were only the secondRepublican elected to the office
of lieutenant governor since1896.
(04:31):
Oh, wow.
So when we won in 2012, with theexception of Jim Gardner, who
won in the 80s, in the early 80s, mid 80s that was it.
80s in the early 80s, mid-80s,that was it.
So you know, jim GarnerRepublican.
Dan Forrest Republican.
Mark Robinson Republican.
So there's only been threeRepublicans elected in state
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history.
And so, yes, you're correct,but historically, the seat was
held by the Democrat Party.
But, for that matter,historically, all of the council
of state seats all of them, allof the duly elected statewide
officials Department ofInsurance, department of Public
Instruction, agriculturalCommission, attorney General all
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of them for the entire historyof your state up until roughly
2012, really, with only a fewexceptions were held by
Democrats, and now it's almostcompletely reversed.
The norm is, the assumption isthey're probably going to go
Republican.
There's no reason to think thattrend is not going to play out
this year as well, and we'recertainly putting forth the work
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to make sure that we maintainRepublican control of the
lieutenant governor's office.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So I'm going to make the assumption that you win.
You serve a successfulfour-year term.
What do you think the statelooks like after your first four
years?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, I think the general assembly Republican-led
general assembly has done agreat job to make us a
business-friendly state in somany different ways.
I remember when the state wasunder Democrat control, the GA
went Republican in 2010.
We started winning statewideraces in 2012.
So ever since 2010, you know,the General Assembly has done
(06:15):
great work of lowering thecorporate income tax rate,
lowering individual tax rate,removing a lot of excessive
regulations, regulatory burdensthat spurred job creation when
they removed them, and so whenwe've done that, you know,
despite having some Democratgovernors who've tried to veto
so much of the things that haveled to our success.
(06:36):
So, you know, I think one willbe.
You know, four years from now,if I'm elected, what would it
look like four years from now?
A lot of it on the businessside, on the tax climate side,
will look the same.
We'll continue the good workthat's already being done.
My personal passion is, you know, I have a burning desire to
drive a new generation of peopleinto the trades, and you know,
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if I could do one thing, youknow, in the limited window of
time, that, and you know, if Icould do one thing, you know, in
the limited window of time,that the people of this great
state and the good Lord gives me, if I get four years, and
that's it.
Four or eight years, you're inthat window.
If I could do one thing, I'dlike to create a two and two
degree, a specialized degree tohelp remove the stigma of men
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and women who work with theirhands, to help remove the stigma
of men and women who work withtheir hands.
I would like to see a newgeneration of people, when they
graduate from high school, havethe option to go get their
certification and or associatedegree, or both, from one of our
58 community colleges andtransfer that degree over to a
four-year university in the UNCschool system, one of the 16 UNC
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school systems, and they get astripped-down degree.
They don't have to take French,they don't have to take English
, they don't have to take worldhistory.
They don't have to take any ofthat.
They've already decided whatthey want to do.
They want to be an entrepreneur, they want to own a
trade-related business.
So give them a stripped-downdegree in graphic design, in
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marketing, in budget, in finance, business, and combine those
two degrees and certificationsthat come with them into an
entrepreneurial trade degree sothat they can say you know, did
you graduate college?
Yeah, I graduated from ChapelHill.
What was your degree?
In Entrepreneurial tradesPlumbing.
I majored in plumbing and theyhave a college degree, but they
have a skillset.
They don't have some degree inEgyptian poetry.
They don't come out of school ahundred thousand dollars in
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debt and they're going to haveno problem finding a job.
And if they don't want to finda job, they just start a job,
because they are skilled workersand they can hang their own
shingle and go out and be aplumber or be HVAC, or be a
commercial welder, be anelectrician, whatever it is they
want to do.
And you know, I just thinkthat's where we need to be right
(08:51):
now as a society.
And you think about the worldyou live in, if for no other
reason, think about AI.
You know artificialintelligence and think about you
know.
You hear these horror storiesand I think they're real.
By the way, I think we're onthe cusp of another industrial
revolution and it's going to bealmost overnight.
(09:11):
It's going to happen so quickly, it's going to be a blink of an
eye and you're going to seewhole industries of people laid
off and they're going to be notblue collar, they're going to be
white collar.
You're going to see paralegalsovernight.
How many hundreds of thousands,if not several million people
are paralegals in this worldOvernight, limited?
Why do I need you?
We've got artificialintelligence that'll do that.
(09:33):
And so you start thinking aboutthe world we're about to enter
into.
We are actually entered into itnow, and I can tell you one
thing AI can't do.
It can't unplug your toiletwhen it's stocked up, and so I
think it's a great time to startpushing people into working in
the trades.
But let's give this mom and popmechanic, let's give this mom
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and pop machinist, let's givethis mom and pop plumber the
tools they need so that whenthey go into that profession,
they don't see themselves as amom and pop.
They see themselves as astartup plumbing operation that
has a goal to hire 10 plumbersand become a very successful
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entrepreneurial business.
And oh, by the way, what's yourbusiness in plumbing?
You know, I had a plumber onetime, a guy he did.
This is where I picked up allthis.
It was years ago.
At the time he was 34 years old, we were on the Eastern part of
the state, he was a commercialplumber, not residential.
And you know he?
He said he was a Marine, uh, hegot, he got out of the, out of
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the Corps, he, he, um, he tookhis GI bill, he went to NC state
nothing against NC state.
But he said it wasn't for me.
I realized it wasn't, it's just, it's I, just I didn't want to
do it.
And um came back and he said hehad an elderly friend, uh, who
ran a plumbing business whosesons did not want to go in the
business.
So he said I'll do it.
And because he didn't want tobe behind a desk and he was a
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commercial plumber, had severalbig corporate accounts and went
in there within five years, theguy's 65 and saying you know,
I'm thinking about retiring.
My boys don't want the business.
Why don't you do a structuredbuyout of my company and then
you own it?
And when I met him he was 34years old and he was very humble
.
But he said I'm just going tobe honest with you.
I'm a multimillionaire, I'vegot like 48 plumbers that work
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for me.
And he said y'all were doing itall wrong.
I was with Dan Forrester, ourprevious lieutenant governor.
We were meeting with him and wewere talking about how do we
drive people in the trades.
He said you're doing it allwrong.
You don't go to a 17-year-oldin high school in the world we
live in today that glorifiesmoney and glorifies
commercialism and glorifiesmaterialism, and say you know
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what, son, you know what youneed to go?
Do you need to go be a plumber?
Because all that kid hears isI'm going to have a plunger and
clean out crap out of toilets.
That's what you want me to do,that's what you think of me, and
so what you do is you go tothat kid and say do you want to
be your own boss?
Do you want to be anentrepreneur?
Do you want to have people thatwork for you?
Do you want to call the shots?
Yes.
Do you want to make six figuresa year?
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100,000 guaranteed a year?
Yes.
Do you want to do that?
Yeah, go be a plumber.
See the difference Big, bigmarketing push there, big
difference of how you sell thatto somebody.
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And they're like well, thatmakes sense, why don't I do that
?
But I think people are puttingit together now.
I mean they're questioning whydo I pay all this money?
Why do I pay $150,000 to go toa four-year degree?
Get a degree that can't lead toa job.
If it does lead to a job.
It leads to a $40,000-a-yearjob where, for six months, you
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could get certified in a tradethat could earn you $100,000 a
year.
Why would you do it?
And people are questioning itnow and they're like, well, I'm
not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And so you wealthy, even though I'm a capitalist and
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
My ultimate goal is I want to drive people to be
self-sufficient.
I feel called to run this race.
I feel that part of my callingthat's on me is to deliver a
message that we as a society, aspeople, as individuals most
people I know are addicted tosomething, and whether it's
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their job, whether it's pleasure, whether it's drugs, whether
it's sex, whether it's alcohol,whatever it is, man wants to
live free.
But man can't live free untilhe's self-sufficient.
And you know that's what Godwants for us.
God wants every one of us to beself-sufficient, and
self-sufficiency, to me, is a,it's an internal piece that God
will put on a man or woman whenthey are living their life in
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such a way that they are nolonger dependent on anything
else, any entity, any person,anything.
They're not dependent onanything but God.
And when they're in that zone,he will give you a piece, and
that piece is him telling youyou are finally now living your
life in such a way that I canmold you and I can use you in my
service, and that's whereyou're going to find your
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purpose in this life.
And so I think you know, when Italk about the trades, what I'm
really talking about is onecomponent of driving people to
be self-sufficient, that theycan live lives where they're not
dependent on anything.
You think about these young kidscoming out of college today.
Think about it.
They spend all this money.
They come out of college,they've got a degree that's
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worthless.
They figure that out when theygo out and go on the job
interviews and can't get a jobor their jobs that they wouldn't
take because the money is solow.
And then they realize they'redeep in debt.
And the first thing that theyhave to do when they're filled
with hope and they want to gotackle the world, and what's the
first thing they have to do?
They have to tuck their tailbetween their legs and go back
home to their mom and dad andlive in their basement.
(15:08):
You know what that does to thepsyche, especially to a man,
what that does to the psyche ofthem, and that's the first
dependency right?
You took somebody filled withhope coming out of college.
They should be ready to tacklethe world and you've made them
dependent on day one on who?
On their parents which deniesthem their adulthood, denies
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them their dignity, denies themtheir respect, denies them their
self-sufficiency, denies themthat peace and I promise you.
I promise you, it will be notime before they turn to another
form of dependency becausethey're depressed, whether it's
alcohol or all the other thingswe talked about, and that's how
it all starts.
I want to free people fromtheir dependencies.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I hope that makes sense.
No, it does.
It does.
I mean.
It just is blowing me awaybecause, again, as I told you
earlier, I'm in the taxpreparation business and I deal
with a lot of self-employedpeople.
And that was the first questionI had for you is how did you
come to this realization thatthat's what needs to be done for
the generations to come, forour economy is to give people a
purpose for them to go to workwhere they're going to be
self-sufficient, because whatyou said is plain common sense.
(16:19):
But I think so much of thesocial media and what have you,
the different propaganda outthere has completely distorted
Because I got a grandchild andI'm trying to teach him those
same things there as well thatthey've gotten distorted as to
what gives you a purpose in yourlife.
And even though plumbing can bea dirty business electrician,
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heating and air it's needed Aroofer.
I had a roofer tell me one time.
He was standing on top of aroof and he had other guys with
him.
He said look out there.
He says probably 1,000, 2,000houses and at some point in time
these houses are going to needa new roof.
Well, guess who they're goingto call?
They're going to call a roofer.
And if you said it in yourhouse and a hurricane is going
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through and it's leaking, you'regoing to be on the phone trying
to find a roofer there.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And the things that you said.
And again, my question to youis the Marine, is that what
brought you to that realization?
Or you just had that commonsense and said OK, look, I mean,
I'm a believer, you just hadthat common sense and said, okay
, look, I mean, I'm a believer,it looks like I'm a believer.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
My wife and I were very prayerful during this
process, as we were, you know,deciding to run for Lieutenant
governor.
We felt called to run and Ifelt called to run a certain way
, you know, and so I was veryprayerful about.
You know, if God calls you todo something, he'll give you the
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message to do it and he'llprovide the provision to do it,
and he's done both.
And so, you know, from day oneit was very clear to us the
things we wanted to lift up, andone of them was
self-sufficiency.
Self-sufficiency for man,mankind, man and woman.
Self-sufficiency for man andthen self-sufficiency for the
state.
But you know, as a believer,that should be an easy
connection, right?
I mean the person that Ipledged my life to my eternal
security, to right Jesus, was acarpenter.
He worked with his hands.
Why should it surprise anybodythat I find dignity in work,
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right?
You know, jesus said he didn'teven have a place to lay his
head at night.
He wasn't caught up on thematerialism, it was so minuscule
to him.
That was not his purpose.
You know, you talk about youngpeople finding their purpose.
They're never going to findtheir purpose unless they find
God.
They're not.
God intends you.
He intends for you to find yourpurpose in this life.
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And so you know, I can't wave amagic wand as Lieutenant
Governor and make everybody goone way or this or the other.
But you know, common sensealone dictates some of this.
Think about this They'vestarted polling the youngest
generation.
So I'm generation X, which Ihate that title, but I'm
generation X.
And then you know there'sgeneration Z, generation alpha,
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now the youngest generations,and they've already started
polling these individuals.
This is really interesting.
They're polling as the mostintrinsically pro-life
generations that we've ever seenin our lifetime.
Now think about that In today'sculture.
They are coming into lifeknowing that life itself is
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special, sacred and has apurpose.
They just don't know what theirpurpose is.
They're looking for theirpurpose and they know that is
they're looking for theirpurpose and they know that.
But it's interesting, the sameGeneration Z, generation Alpha,
pulls off the charts as the moststressed out anxious and
suicide-prone generations we'veever seen.
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Those two are in disconnect.
And if you think about it, wheredo you spend the bulk of your
adult life?
On a day-to-day basis, youspend it at work.
That's where you spend yourtime.
You spend eight hours a day atwork.
You come home maybe dinner,spend a couple hours with the
family and then you go to bed,get up the next day.
Where do you go?
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You go to work.
You spend the bulk of your timeat work.
I think that what's happening isthese younger generations are
coming into life with hope.
Happening is these youngergenerations are coming into life
with hope and then theyencounter who, they encounter us
, and they immediately lose hope.
And it's because we've deniedthem their God-given destiny of
finding fulfillment in theirwork and we've said no, you
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can't do these works, these jobsare below you.
You need to go get this degree,go this path, and it's
stranding them.
And then they immediately befrustrated.
They're frustrated when theyshould be excited about life and
finding dignity, and so it's acombination of these things, you
know, really.
You know I could say that I cameup with it.
They're not my ideas, they'rejust not.
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It's what was laid on my heart.
This is what you should go outand preach and when loser draw.
We've been faithful to thatcall to preach this message of
self-sufficiency, and it's notjust for individuals, you know I
equally preach a whole messageabout self-sufficiency for the
state, because I think the wayforward for our country is not
the salvation of our country,which I think our country's in a
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very precarious spot right now.
I think the salvation of ourcountry is not going to come
from Washington DC.
I actually think it's going tocome from the states.
I think that's what ourforefathers always intended.
They always wanted the statesto reign supreme.
They never envisioned the worldthat we live in today, where
the federal government that'sunaccountable and far away from
the people would be the ultimatearbitrator of all things.
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They wanted the power closelyvested, as close to the people
as you could get it.
And our state is addicted tofederal funds.
And let me explain.
I'll use an analogy.
You know I always use theanalogy of the drug dealer.
Just watch the drug dealer.
It's a horrible analogy, butit's an apt one.
Watch the drug dealer on theplayground.
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The first round is always forfree.
First round's always for free.
Why?
Because he knows when the kidis addicted to that drug, he can
lace that drug with absolutelyanything and the kid will take
it with a smile on his face.
That is our state today.
Our state is addicted to federalfunds, not realizing that the
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liberal left has basicallyhijacked virtually every federal
funding source.
Sel.
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All it is is the DNA of thewoke agenda, broken into its
component parts, tied to federalfunds, laced to federal funds,
and then given to suckers likeus.
And then we take it and it'slike cancer.
The second you take it intoyour institution, whether it's a
school or a hospital or acorporate structure or whatever
it is.
The second you take that moneyinto your structure, like cancer
, it metastasizes and it grows,and that has infested our entire
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country now, institution afterinstitution, and it's
accelerating.
And the way forward is makingour state dependent.
Because of our dependency on thefederal government, we are now
susceptible to falling fromwithin, because we're changing
our very values and our culturesof who we are.
Because all these three-letteracronyms I just named, they're
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not about uniting us as a people, they're about dividing us as a
people and it's working.
It's dividing our country at atime where we should be uniting.
And so the way forward is forstates to have the financial
wherewithal to start severingthe ties that bind us and saying
we don't want those federalfunds.
Why?
Because we don't like what'sattached to them and we're
self-sufficient and we don'tneed it and we're not going to
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take it.
Thank you very much.
And that's how you move forward.
So it's self-sufficiency forman that I'm preaching, but it's
also self-sufficiency for yourstate.
It's the same message, alsoself-sufficiency for your state.
It's the same message Everybodyneeds to free themselves up to
where they're not dependent onanyone, so that we can start
living the life that Godintended for us and for our
country and for our state.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You know it's funny Howes that, following your
message here across a couple ofdifferent media outlets to
include podcasts, your messagehas remained consistent pretty
much what you just said.
I know that you've been aroundthe Bitcoin world a little bit.
I don't know exactly what yourexperience is, but I know that
you visited a Bitcoin mine nottoo long ago and us, as
(24:12):
Bitcoiners, we're heavy in thetrades because we need
electricians, we need plumbers,we need hands-on people.
It's a very trade-heavy realmand I thought when I originally
talked to you that was kind ofhow we would orient this podcast
.
But I actually wanted to dosomething different.
I wanted to kind of break downI can't convince you how Bitcoin
(24:34):
aligns with your goals.
It's too much.
It's a whole road that you'regoing to walk down as time
allows.
But I do want to recommendsomething that may kickstart it,
because the goal of our podcastis to is to say hey, we're,
we're here, we're friendly.
You know we want people to dowell.
We we don't.
(24:55):
We're not scam artists.
We don't mean harm.
We don't mean harm.
We hate effectively most of thefederal government and
especially the Federal Reserve,which obviously isn't a part of
the federal government.
But I want to make a bookrecommendation to you.
It's very quick, roughly 100pages, and it's called Bitcoin
in the Bible.
I'm writing this down Bitcoinin the Bible makes the case that
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the foundations of Bitcoin isactually spelled out in the
Bible, starting with thou shaltnot steal.
Because thou shalt not stealinherently means that you have
to be able to own property, andto be able to own property, you
have to be able to defendproperty.
And to be able to defendproperty, you have to have a way
to defend it.
So in the physical world youhave the Second Amendment, but
in the dollar world, there's nodefense against confiscation,
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limiting transactions, things ofthat nature.
Where Bitcoin comes into play isBitcoin says ultimate
responsibility is upon you,safety is upon you.
If you had 100 gold barssitting in your safe and
somebody came and robbed you,you can't go to the bank and get
those 100 gold bars back.
Bitcoin works in the same way.
It's just digital.
So I encourage you to take thismessage that you have about the
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trades, about being independentand being able to support
yourself, and look at thosevalues and apply them to the
Bitcoin world and see how weline up.
My prediction is it won't belong, probably some point
throughout your first term aslieutenant governor.
There's going to be Bitcoinersthat are going to come knocking,
and my only hope is that, whenthey do, you at least hear them
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out, lend them a friendly ear,because I think, in large part,
we're on the same team.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, I definitely.
I will definitely read the book.
I have a policy anytime anybodyrecommends a book to me, I read
it.
And so, because I think youknow we have these encounters,
because you never know what thepurpose is, and so you know, I'm
all in favor of that.
I can already tell you.
You know, I have absolutely noproblem with Bitcoin.
I have no problem at all.
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I have a major problem withCBDC.
I don't want centralizedcontrol.
I don't want that.
It's too much control for thegovernment.
But I certainly like whatlittle I do know about
blockchain technology.
I like the security and safetyand decentralization of it.
One way that I already know thatinterests me, that I want to
pursue more if I'm electedlieutenant governor is, you know
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, in touring the Bitcoin miningfacility.
You know we have so manyabandoned textile mills
throughout rural North Carolinathat could easily be converted,
many of them.
Now I don't know if there'senough hydroelectric to get them
to the energy needs that theyhave, but you know, some of
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these rural communities thinkabout this.
I know if your landfill createsmethane.
Methane is a viable source ofenergy and there are conversion
mechanisms that could be used tofuel anything, including
Bitcoin mining Virtually everycounty in the state has
landfills, and so, you know, Iwould love to see counties start
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to invest in their own Bitcoinmining operations, utilizing the
landfills that they have tofuel it, because you're
basically creating a revenuestream without taxing your
people, because at that point,the county is actually
controlling the investment andthey're reaping the rewards.
My understanding of Bitcoinmining operators and people
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doing Bitcoin in general is thatthey don't see other Bitcoiners
as as competitors at all, andso, you know, usually I would
have a problem with thegovernment, like a county entity
competing with a private sectorentity, but in Bitcoin mining,
let the county own the Bitcoinmine, let them put it in
abandoned textile, let them putit over a landfill to fuel it.
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You're basically recycling.
You're using waste to generateenergy.
To create what Revenue?
Without taxing your people?
So many of these rural areashave lost a lot of their revenue
base over the years as tobaccohas declined, as textiles, as
furniture has declined, and theyhave infrastructure and they
don't have the tax base tosupport it.
And so, you know, I think theBitcoin mining could create
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revenue for these otherwise taxpoor counties without taxing
their people.
So, you know, you'll get a veryfriendly year for me if I'm
elected lieutenant governor.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Let me go back to what you was talking earlier
about the whole thing of wherebasically our government and
things is unfolding.
It's making the working peoplea slave.
Because one of the thingspeople fail to realize is that
income tax, when you get down toit, income tax is penalizing
you for being productive.
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Tax is penalizing you for beingproductive and tying back into
what Trey mentioned here earlierabout the Federal Reserve.
If people go back and look, theFederal Reserve was created
then income tax was passed as aconstitutional amendment.
So you have to ask yourself howdo these two things kind of tie
in with one another?
Well, you have to have theincome tax to take away from
people productivity, to pay theinterest.
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That's being funded by theFederal Reserve, by select few
banks there.
And what people fail to realizeis whoever controls your money
controls you.
And you were speaking earlierabout the whole concept of the
student debt, and that's what Ilook at.
I look at my daughter.
She's come out of school$40,000, $50,000 of debt.
Well, they now become a slaveto the federal government
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Because whether they pay thedebt off or not, depending upon
what the current administrationdoes, there's still a debt out
there that's going to show up onyour credit report.
And if you move forward toanything you want to do in life.
If it's not the point ofgetting an apartment, your
credit report's going to bepulled off.
You're delinquent.
You're 90 days behind on yourstudent loan?
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Oh, we're going to pay you back, and that's one of the things
that is not being told to thegeneral public is the reason
you're in this financialsituation is because of the
individuals who control yourmoney and how they manipulate it
, not to your advantage, but totheir advantage, and that's why
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you've now become a slave toincome tax, because, regardless
of what you do or how you do it,you want to pay an income tax
at some point in time.
And again, that tax is takingaway from your productivity,
which has now made you a slaveto the federal government.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Listen, I agree.
I mean, the Bible is clear,right, the debtor is a slave to
the lender, and so that's truein anything in life.
And so, of course, and you know, I have a major problem with
you know, my son is a freshmanin college and you know, I see,
is a freshman in college and, um, you know, I see the credit
card offers he gets and I'm like, you know, my kid is unemployed
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.
Well, I mean, he does work but,um, you know, he doesn't make
that kind of money.
And uh, and I'm like, how is itthat these kids are coming out
of school with credit card debt?
Um, you know, at what point dowe as a society take
responsibility for saying, hey,we're not going to tempt this
kid with, you know, commercialdebt so early in life, when they
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don't know the difference?
I mean, it really begs thequestion is when are we going to
really start getting seriousabout making sure our kids, when
they graduate from high school,that they have some basic form
of financial literacy, that theyknow the dangers of debt, that
they understand the principlesof compounded interest and what
that would do for you for goodif you start early, just basic
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investing basics?
You know we need to be teachingthese things, and not
systematically.
We do pockets here and there,don't not systematically.
We do it pockets here and there, but not to the degree that we
should, and um it just, it's afailure of our school systems at
all levels to not preparepeople, Not only that, I mean
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once you get to the higheruniversity level, the higher ed
level, we're teaching just theopposite.
The capitalism is bad, the freeenterprise is bad, the
socialism is good and, you know,the single greatest killer of
people, of their hopes, theirdreams and literally murder, are
these civilizations andcultures that embrace socialism
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and what it leads to.
And so we're just teachingeverything wrong and we just
need to get back to basics andgo back to the founding
principles of this country andget all this other crap out of
the schools.
You know, just get it out, Justget it out and go back to the
basics and let's add to it somesome new things, you know, like
financial literacy.
You know our kids, our kids.
They don't know how to write acheck, everything about that.
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They don't have a red check.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
They can't write in person.
No, I did and again I deal, youknow, in the tax preparation
and when they have the W-2, theydon't know how to read the W-2.
They don't know how to readtheir pay stub.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
They don't know what a W-2 is.
More or less how to read it.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
We've never taught them Again.
Going back to my daughter, thefirst time she got a check she
said you know who are thesepeople taking money out of my
check?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
That's right, I'm with you.
I mean it sounds like we'revery copacetic on our worldviews
, but no, you'll always have afriendly ear for me.
All constituents will have.
Listen, I am a conservative,I'm a limited government
constitutional Christianconservative, but I'm very aware
that if I'm elected lieutenantgovernor, you know what does it
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mean to be a constitutionalconservative?
It means I believe you haveconstitutional rights and I want
to protect your rights and Iwant to.
I want to protect you from thegovernment infringing on those
rights.
And I don't care who you are,care what your beliefs are, I
don't care what your race, color, creed, anything that is.
I'm still going to protect yourconstitutional rights and
freedoms and I think that's good.
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That's the society we need.
We're deviating from that.
It's not my side that'sdeviating, it's the other side.
It's the worldview of the otherside that's deviating from
those constitutional principles.
And you see where it's leadingus?
It's leading us off a cliff asa country and we've got to get
back to those foundingprinciples and not do it on the
defense.
I hear Mark Robinson.
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He's running for governor.
He says all the time it's notjust that we're right, that
we're on the right, it's that weare right, our ideas are right.
These are basic principles.
It's smart to not go in debtearly in life.
It's smart to control your owndestiny.
It's smart to beself-sufficient.
It's smart not to be dependenton the federal government.
These are not ideas, these arejust common truths and we've
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gotten away from that in society.
So I'm rambling now.
I'm just.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
You know you got me going and along the same line
and of course it's really notsaying anything new here is it's
smart to have those basicfamily principles there, where
you have a mother and you have afather, to create that sound
family doctrine there.
And that's one of the thingsthey've been proving that when a
child comes from a sound family, where they have sound money
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practices and they teach soundprinciples of education, that
child is going to be moreinclined to succeed in life and
not become dependent upon thegovernment.
And one of the things that, ofcourse, has been distorted is
there's so many different formsof being dependent upon the
government.
If you're born into agovernment housing, you live off
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of government food andgovernment subsidies for your
utilities, you're more inclinedto wind up in the prison system.
Well, what are you then?
You're another slave.
You just move your dwellingsfrom a government housing where
you couldn't walk out the doorto government housing where you
can walk out the door andnobody's really been willing to
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say okay, this is the problem.
We need to strengthen thefamily.
And it starts in the home andit carries over into the school,
it carries over in the churchesas well.
There, and once you begin toestablish a sound foundation
which is biblical based.
Because the Bible tells us, ifyou got a strong foundation,
you're going to have a strongstructure.
And I think a lot of peopledon't realize how subtle that
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leftist, that communist, thatMarxist message is.
Because when you begin to peelthe onion away, you begin to see
that Marxism has one objectiveand one objective only to divide
and to destroy, to turn theneighbor against the neighbor.
That's right Against the system.
Because their objective is todivide and to destroy.
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But unfortunately the schoolsystem is not telling the truth
about the evil of communistdictators, totalitarian
dictators, marxist dictators.
And when you look at thesecountries, what happened to them
?
They're living in constant fear, constant fear, and they are a
slave and they are afraid fromthe time they wake up even to
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the time they go to sleep, thatsomebody's going to knock on
their door and drag them out andcut their head off.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
That's right, amen, I'm with you, brother.
I mean absolutely, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Well, hal, I know you probably got some other things
to do, you probably have someother interviews or whatnot but
I want to thank you from theBitcoin community, because it's
not often we get a politician ofany sort elected or hopeful to
even talk to us.
A lot of people think thatwe're something that we're not.
We get mixed up with othertypes of cryptocurrencies that
are scammed.
I understand.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
But we're free market , free market, free market today
, free market tomorrow, butwe're free market, free market,
free market today, free markettomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
But I do really thank you, Like honestly, I do thank
you.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Is there a way?
Let's do it again.
We can do it again.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Hey, when are you going to be in the Burlington
Alamance County area?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Oh Lord, I couldn't answer that off the top of my
head, but it'll be soon, becauseI'm crisscrossing the state all
the time.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Just look at your website and see.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
So I put out teasers once a week.
So on Facebook I'll put outlike how Weatherman's going to
be at this parade or how it'sgoing to be at this thing.
So, yes, you'll know when I'mdoing something public in your
area when you see those teasersgoing.
Like I said, I'll put two orthree of them out every week on
Facebook and so I don't know offthe top of my head.
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But it doesn't take me, doesn'ttake much for me to stop in the
burlington grand area for noother reason that uh knw is
right off the highway and I eatthere all the time.
I'm always looking for anexcuse to stop at that exit in
particular so, hal, we're goingto come knocking one day.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
You'll hear from somebody who's like me at some
point about Bitcoin, and when wedo, we're here to help.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
And also how to improve the North Carolina
Department of Revenue.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah, I mean, bitcoin has a lot of weight.
When you talk about improvingthings, you can just look at any
company that's adopted Bitcoinas a strategy they.
When you talk about improvingthings, you can just look at any
company that's adopted Bitcoinas a strategy.
They're through the roof interms of stock price and returns
.
But I don't want to hold you uptoo long.
Is there anything you want totell everybody before you jet?
Speaker 2 (39:51):
I was just saying.
If you want to learn more aboutme or where I stand or anything
like that, or contact me, youcan just go to HalWeathermancom
or I'm on all social media majorplatforms.
You know Facebook, twitter,instagram under my name.
That's it Awesome.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Awesome.
Well, Hal, it was a pleasurespeaking with you.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, y'all too, y'all take care, call anytime,
all right.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Good luck, we're behind you.
Yeah, we'll be voting, thankyou.
Welcome back to the Bitcoin is Dead podcast.
We are sitting here today withAl Weatherman.
I've heard a few ladies callhim the hot weatherman, but I'm
not going to talk about that.
We also have Tom the tax man,jones and me, trey Carson, host
of the Bitcoin is Dead podcast.
Al, how are you Tell us aboutwhat you got going on?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Doing well and thanks for having me.
And you know we've been on theroad now for 18 months, almost
18 straight months.
I'm the Republican nominee nowfor Lieutenant Governor here in
the state.
But of course we started out 18months ago.
I was in an 11-man crowdedprimary field so we had to
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campaign, you know, for 16months to win the primary.
But then I was challenged to arunoff by the second place
finisher and so that cost us twomore months of time traveling
the state and we ultimatelydefeated him in 99 of 100
counties and we won with 75% ofthe vote.
(01:00):
So I think I'm very wellpositioned as the nominee going
into the fall to have a reallygood shot to win this race.
I have a Democrat opponent,obviously.
Her name is Rachel Hunt.
She's you know I'm conservative.
She would be a self-describedliberal, urban liberal
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politician fromCharlotte-Mecklenburg and I
think we match up very wellagainst each other.
I like my chances.
I'm actually up in the pollsright now, which I'm not that I
put a lot of stock in polls, butit's good to see that you're up
and not down and and things aregoing well.
You know we that kind of.
The cornerstone of my campaignis travel.
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The first fruits of my time, mylabor, my efforts are invested
in traveling the state because Ifeel called to run this race
and I feel called to run it acertain way and I'm trying to
connect with people as much as Ican, one-on-one, have
conversations like this, realconversations, unfiltered,
unedited.
(02:02):
I do Q&A all over the state.
I was the only candidate out ofthe 11 candidates who ran in my
primary who went to all 100counties.
I went to 35 counties fivetimes or more.
I went to 10 counties 10 timesbefore we stopped counting.
So we don't count that anymore.
And so we've done a sizableamount of travel, even since
then.
And as we were talking off air,we were talking about just this
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week alone, like on July 4th Ithink I'm doing four parades
that one day, by the way,especially 98 degrees on July
4th and we have a big campaignbus, but I don't ride in the bus
.
In the parades, we walk eitherin front of it or behind it.
So you know this is what it'slike a typical day and I love it
.
I'm not going to lie to you.
(02:45):
I love our state, I love it.
It would be my honor to be yourlieutenant governor, in part
because I love our greatestasset and our greatest asset are
our people.
I really believe that, and so Iget to travel the state every
day and to meet with ourgreatest asset our people every
day.
And I get to meet them, fromthe janitor to the CEO and
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everywhere in between, and Icount it great joy that I have
this opportunity for this windowof time win, lose or draw.
I get to go through the stateand have really meaningful
conversations with people at alllevels that I might never have
that opportunity again, and it'scertainly not missed on me that
it's an opportunity that mostpeople will never have.
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It's an experience that mostpeople will never have in their
life to travel the state everyday, to go to all 100 counties,
to learn your state intimatelyintimately, because when you're
done with this process, you knowyour state, you know its
strengths, you know itsweaknesses, and it just gives
you a perspective that only ahandful of people really have.
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And so I really enjoy it andbut I hope I win, I hope it's
all not in vain.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I hope we we pull out a victory and because again, it
would be my honor to serve thepeople of this great state.
To my knowledge, there's notbeen a Democrat lieutenant
governor in over a decade or soright?
Is that accurate?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, so, yeah, dan Forrest, you know I ran.
Dan Forrest was your previouslieutenant governor and I was
Dan Forrest's chief of staff andI ran all his campaigns.
So I ran his 2012 lieutenantgovernor race, where we won.
We were only the secondRepublican elected to the office
of lieutenant governor since1896.
(04:31):
Oh, wow.
So when we won in 2012, with theexception of Jim Gardner, who
won in the 80s, in the early 80s, mid 80s that was it.
80s in the early 80s, mid-80s,that was it.
So you know, jim GarnerRepublican.
Dan Forrest Republican.
Mark Robinson Republican.
So there's only been threeRepublicans elected in state
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history.
And so, yes, you're correct,but historically, the seat was
held by the Democrat Party.
But, for that matter,historically, all of the council
of state seats all of them, allof the duly elected statewide
officials Department ofInsurance, department of Public
Instruction, agriculturalCommission, attorney General all
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of them for the entire historyof your state up until roughly
2012, really, with only a fewexceptions were held by
Democrats, and now it's almostcompletely reversed.
The norm is, the assumption isthey're probably going to go
Republican.
There's no reason to think thattrend is not going to play out
this year as well, and we'recertainly putting forth the work
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to make sure that we maintainRepublican control of the
lieutenant governor's office.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So I'm going to make the assumption that you win.
You serve a successfulfour-year term.
What do you think the statelooks like after your first four
years?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, I think the general assembly Republican-led
general assembly has done agreat job to make us a
business-friendly state in somany different ways.
I remember when the state wasunder Democrat control, the GA
went Republican in 2010.
We started winning statewideraces in 2012.
So ever since 2010, you know,the General Assembly has done
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great work of lowering thecorporate income tax rate,
lowering individual tax rate,removing a lot of excessive
regulations, regulatory burdensthat spurred job creation when
they removed them, and so whenwe've done that, you know,
despite having some Democratgovernors who've tried to veto
so much of the things that haveled to our success.
(06:36):
So, you know, I think one willbe.
You know, four years from now,if I'm elected, what would it
look like four years from now?
A lot of it on the businessside, on the tax climate side,
will look the same.
We'll continue the good workthat's already being done.
My personal passion is, you know, I have a burning desire to
drive a new generation of peopleinto the trades, and you know,
(07:01):
if I could do one thing, youknow, in the limited window of
time, that, and you know, if Icould do one thing, you know, in
the limited window of time,that the people of this great
state and the good Lord gives me, if I get four years, and
that's it.
Four or eight years, you're inthat window.
If I could do one thing, I'dlike to create a two and two
degree, a specialized degree tohelp remove the stigma of men
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and women who work with theirhands, to help remove the stigma
of men and women who work withtheir hands.
I would like to see a newgeneration of people, when they
graduate from high school, havethe option to go get their
certification and or associatedegree, or both, from one of our
58 community colleges andtransfer that degree over to a
four-year university in the UNCschool system, one of the 16 UNC
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school systems, and they get astripped-down degree.
They don't have to take French,they don't have to take English
, they don't have to take worldhistory.
They don't have to take any ofthat.
They've already decided whatthey want to do.
They want to be an entrepreneur, they want to own a
trade-related business.
So give them a stripped-downdegree in graphic design, in
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marketing, in budget, in finance, business, and combine those
two degrees and certificationsthat come with them into an
entrepreneurial trade degree sothat they can say you know, did
you graduate college?
Yeah, I graduated from ChapelHill.
What was your degree?
In Entrepreneurial tradesPlumbing.
I majored in plumbing and theyhave a college degree, but they
have a skillset.
They don't have some degree inEgyptian poetry.
They don't come out of school ahundred thousand dollars in
(08:30):
debt and they're going to haveno problem finding a job.
And if they don't want to finda job, they just start a job,
because they are skilled workersand they can hang their own
shingle and go out and be aplumber or be HVAC, or be a
commercial welder, be anelectrician, whatever it is they
want to do.
And you know, I just thinkthat's where we need to be right
(08:51):
now as a society.
And you think about the worldyou live in, if for no other
reason, think about AI.
You know artificialintelligence and think about you
know.
You hear these horror storiesand I think they're real.
By the way, I think we're onthe cusp of another industrial
revolution and it's going to bealmost overnight.
(09:11):
It's going to happen so quickly, it's going to be a blink of an
eye and you're going to seewhole industries of people laid
off and they're going to be notblue collar, they're going to be
white collar.
You're going to see paralegalsovernight.
How many hundreds of thousands,if not several million people
are paralegals in this worldOvernight, limited?
Why do I need you?
We've got artificialintelligence that'll do that.
(09:33):
And so you start thinking aboutthe world we're about to enter
into.
We are actually entered into itnow, and I can tell you one
thing AI can't do.
It can't unplug your toiletwhen it's stocked up, and so I
think it's a great time to startpushing people into working in
the trades.
But let's give this mom and popmechanic, let's give this mom
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and pop machinist, let's givethis mom and pop plumber the
tools they need so that whenthey go into that profession,
they don't see themselves as amom and pop.
They see themselves as astartup plumbing operation that
has a goal to hire 10 plumbersand become a very successful
(10:22):
entrepreneurial business.
And oh, by the way, what's yourbusiness in plumbing?
You know, I had a plumber onetime, a guy he did.
This is where I picked up allthis.
It was years ago.
At the time he was 34 years old, we were on the Eastern part of
the state, he was a commercialplumber, not residential.
And you know he?
He said he was a Marine, uh, hegot, he got out of the, out of
(10:44):
the Corps, he, he, um, he tookhis GI bill, he went to NC state
nothing against NC state.
But he said it wasn't for me.
I realized it wasn't, it's just, it's I, just I didn't want to
do it.
And um came back and he said hehad an elderly friend, uh, who
ran a plumbing business whosesons did not want to go in the
business.
So he said I'll do it.
And because he didn't want tobe behind a desk and he was a
(11:08):
commercial plumber, had severalbig corporate accounts and went
in there within five years, theguy's 65 and saying you know,
I'm thinking about retiring.
My boys don't want the business.
Why don't you do a structuredbuyout of my company and then
you own it?
And when I met him he was 34years old and he was very humble
.
But he said I'm just going tobe honest with you.
I'm a multimillionaire, I'vegot like 48 plumbers that work
(11:29):
for me.
And he said y'all were doing itall wrong.
I was with Dan Forrester, ourprevious lieutenant governor.
We were meeting with him and wewere talking about how do we
drive people in the trades.
He said you're doing it allwrong.
You don't go to a 17-year-oldin high school in the world we
live in today that glorifiesmoney and glorifies
commercialism and glorifiesmaterialism, and say you know
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what, son, you know what youneed to go?
Do you need to go be a plumber?
Because all that kid hears isI'm going to have a plunger and
clean out crap out of toilets.
That's what you want me to do,that's what you think of me, and
so what you do is you go tothat kid and say do you want to
be your own boss?
Do you want to be anentrepreneur?
Do you want to have people thatwork for you?
Do you want to call the shots?
Yes.
Do you want to make six figuresa year?
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100,000 guaranteed a year?
Yes.
Do you want to do that?
Yeah, go be a plumber.
See the difference Big, bigmarketing push there, big
difference of how you sell thatto somebody.
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And they're like well, thatmakes sense, why don't I do that
?
But I think people are puttingit together now.
I mean they're questioning whydo I pay all this money?
Why do I pay $150,000 to go toa four-year degree?
Get a degree that can't lead toa job.
If it does lead to a job.
It leads to a $40,000-a-yearjob where, for six months, you
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could get certified in a tradethat could earn you $100,000 a
year.
Why would you do it?
And people are questioning itnow and they're like, well, I'm
not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And so you wealthy, even though I'm a capitalist and
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
My ultimate goal is I want to drive people to be
self-sufficient.
I feel called to run this race.
I feel that part of my callingthat's on me is to deliver a
message that we as a society, aspeople, as individuals most
people I know are addicted tosomething, and whether it's
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their job, whether it's pleasure, whether it's drugs, whether
it's sex, whether it's alcohol,whatever it is, man wants to
live free.
But man can't live free untilhe's self-sufficient.
And you know that's what Godwants for us.
God wants every one of us to beself-sufficient, and
self-sufficiency, to me, is a,it's an internal piece that God
will put on a man or woman whenthey are living their life in
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such a way that they are nolonger dependent on anything
else, any entity, any person,anything.
They're not dependent onanything but God.
And when they're in that zone,he will give you a piece, and
that piece is him telling youyou are finally now living your
life in such a way that I canmold you and I can use you in my
service, and that's whereyou're going to find your
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purpose in this life.
And so I think you know, when Italk about the trades, what I'm
really talking about is onecomponent of driving people to
be self-sufficient, that theycan live lives where they're not
dependent on anything.
You think about these young kidscoming out of college today.
Think about it.
They spend all this money.
They come out of college,they've got a degree that's
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worthless.
They figure that out when theygo out and go on the job
interviews and can't get a jobor their jobs that they wouldn't
take because the money is solow.
And then they realize they'redeep in debt.
And the first thing that theyhave to do when they're filled
with hope and they want to gotackle the world, and what's the
first thing they have to do?
They have to tuck their tailbetween their legs and go back
home to their mom and dad andlive in their basement.
(15:08):
You know what that does to thepsyche, especially to a man,
what that does to the psyche ofthem, and that's the first
dependency right?
You took somebody filled withhope coming out of college.
They should be ready to tacklethe world and you've made them
dependent on day one on who?
On their parents which deniesthem their adulthood, denies
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them their dignity, denies themtheir respect, denies them their
self-sufficiency, denies themthat peace and I promise you.
I promise you, it will be notime before they turn to another
form of dependency becausethey're depressed, whether it's
alcohol or all the other thingswe talked about, and that's how
it all starts.
I want to free people fromtheir dependencies.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I hope that makes sense.
No, it does.
It does.
I mean.
It just is blowing me awaybecause, again, as I told you
earlier, I'm in the taxpreparation business and I deal
with a lot of self-employedpeople.
And that was the first questionI had for you is how did you
come to this realization thatthat's what needs to be done for
the generations to come, forour economy is to give people a
purpose for them to go to workwhere they're going to be
self-sufficient, because whatyou said is plain common sense.
(16:19):
But I think so much of thesocial media and what have you,
the different propaganda outthere has completely distorted
Because I got a grandchild andI'm trying to teach him those
same things there as well thatthey've gotten distorted as to
what gives you a purpose in yourlife.
And even though plumbing can bea dirty business electrician,
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heating and air it's needed Aroofer.
I had a roofer tell me one time.
He was standing on top of aroof and he had other guys with
him.
He said look out there.
He says probably 1,000, 2,000houses and at some point in time
these houses are going to needa new roof.
Well, guess who they're goingto call?
They're going to call a roofer.
And if you said it in yourhouse and a hurricane is going
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through and it's leaking, you'regoing to be on the phone trying
to find a roofer there.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And the things that you said.
And again, my question to youis the Marine, is that what
brought you to that realization?
Or you just had that commonsense and said OK, look, I mean,
I'm a believer, you just hadthat common sense and said, okay
, look, I mean, I'm a believer,it looks like I'm a believer.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
My wife and I were very prayerful during this
process, as we were, you know,deciding to run for Lieutenant
governor.
We felt called to run and Ifelt called to run a certain way
, you know, and so I was veryprayerful about.
You know, if God calls you todo something, he'll give you the
(17:45):
message to do it and he'llprovide the provision to do it,
and he's done both.
And so, you know, from day oneit was very clear to us the
things we wanted to lift up, andone of them was
self-sufficiency.
Self-sufficiency for man,mankind, man and woman.
Self-sufficiency for man andthen self-sufficiency for the
state.
But you know, as a believer,that should be an easy
connection, right?
I mean the person that Ipledged my life to my eternal
security, to right Jesus, was acarpenter.
He worked with his hands.
Why should it surprise anybodythat I find dignity in work,
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right?
You know, jesus said he didn'teven have a place to lay his
head at night.
He wasn't caught up on thematerialism, it was so minuscule
to him.
That was not his purpose.
You know, you talk about youngpeople finding their purpose.
They're never going to findtheir purpose unless they find
God.
They're not.
God intends you.
He intends for you to find yourpurpose in this life.
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And so you know, I can't wave amagic wand as Lieutenant
Governor and make everybody goone way or this or the other.
But you know, common sensealone dictates some of this.
Think about this They'vestarted polling the youngest
generation.
So I'm generation X, which Ihate that title, but I'm
generation X.
And then you know there'sgeneration Z, generation alpha,
(18:50):
now the youngest generations,and they've already started
polling these individuals.
This is really interesting.
They're polling as the mostintrinsically pro-life
generations that we've ever seenin our lifetime.
Now think about that In today'sculture.
They are coming into lifeknowing that life itself is
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special, sacred and has apurpose.
They just don't know what theirpurpose is.
They're looking for theirpurpose and they know that is
they're looking for theirpurpose and they know that.
But it's interesting, the sameGeneration Z, generation Alpha,
pulls off the charts as the moststressed out anxious and
suicide-prone generations we'veever seen.
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Those two are in disconnect.
And if you think about it, wheredo you spend the bulk of your
adult life?
On a day-to-day basis, youspend it at work.
That's where you spend yourtime.
You spend eight hours a day atwork.
You come home maybe dinner,spend a couple hours with the
family and then you go to bed,get up the next day.
Where do you go?
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You go to work.
You spend the bulk of your timeat work.
I think that what's happening isthese younger generations are
coming into life with hope.
Happening is these youngergenerations are coming into life
with hope and then theyencounter who, they encounter us
, and they immediately lose hope.
And it's because we've deniedthem their God-given destiny of
finding fulfillment in theirwork and we've said no, you
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can't do these works, these jobsare below you.
You need to go get this degree,go this path, and it's
stranding them.
And then they immediately befrustrated.
They're frustrated when theyshould be excited about life and
finding dignity, and so it's acombination of these things, you
know, really.
You know I could say that I cameup with it.
They're not my ideas, they'rejust not.
(20:36):
It's what was laid on my heart.
This is what you should go outand preach and when loser draw.
We've been faithful to thatcall to preach this message of
self-sufficiency, and it's notjust for individuals, you know I
equally preach a whole messageabout self-sufficiency for the
state, because I think the wayforward for our country is not
the salvation of our country,which I think our country's in a
(20:57):
very precarious spot right now.
I think the salvation of ourcountry is not going to come
from Washington DC.
I actually think it's going tocome from the states.
I think that's what ourforefathers always intended.
They always wanted the statesto reign supreme.
They never envisioned the worldthat we live in today, where
the federal government that'sunaccountable and far away from
the people would be the ultimatearbitrator of all things.
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They wanted the power closelyvested, as close to the people
as you could get it.
And our state is addicted tofederal funds.
And let me explain.
I'll use an analogy.
You know I always use theanalogy of the drug dealer.
Just watch the drug dealer.
It's a horrible analogy, butit's an apt one.
Watch the drug dealer on theplayground.
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The first round is always forfree.
First round's always for free.
Why?
Because he knows when the kidis addicted to that drug, he can
lace that drug with absolutelyanything and the kid will take
it with a smile on his face.
That is our state today.
Our state is addicted to federalfunds, not realizing that the
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liberal left has basicallyhijacked virtually every federal
funding source.
Sel.
(22:24):
All it is is the DNA of thewoke agenda, broken into its
component parts, tied to federalfunds, laced to federal funds,
and then given to suckers likeus.
And then we take it and it'slike cancer.
The second you take it intoyour institution, whether it's a
school or a hospital or acorporate structure or whatever
it is.
The second you take that moneyinto your structure, like cancer
, it metastasizes and it grows,and that has infested our entire
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country now, institution afterinstitution, and it's
accelerating.
And the way forward is makingour state dependent.
Because of our dependency on thefederal government, we are now
susceptible to falling fromwithin, because we're changing
our very values and our culturesof who we are.
Because all these three-letteracronyms I just named, they're
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not about uniting us as a people, they're about dividing us as a
people and it's working.
It's dividing our country at atime where we should be uniting.
And so the way forward is forstates to have the financial
wherewithal to start severingthe ties that bind us and saying
we don't want those federalfunds.
Why?
Because we don't like what'sattached to them and we're
self-sufficient and we don'tneed it and we're not going to
(23:29):
take it.
Thank you very much.
And that's how you move forward.
So it's self-sufficiency forman that I'm preaching, but it's
also self-sufficiency for yourstate.
It's the same message, alsoself-sufficiency for your state.
It's the same message Everybodyneeds to free themselves up to
where they're not dependent onanyone, so that we can start
living the life that Godintended for us and for our
country and for our state.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You know it's funny Howes that, following your
message here across a couple ofdifferent media outlets to
include podcasts, your messagehas remained consistent pretty
much what you just said.
I know that you've been aroundthe Bitcoin world a little bit.
I don't know exactly what yourexperience is, but I know that
you visited a Bitcoin mine nottoo long ago and us, as
(24:12):
Bitcoiners, we're heavy in thetrades because we need
electricians, we need plumbers,we need hands-on people.
It's a very trade-heavy realmand I thought when I originally
talked to you that was kind ofhow we would orient this podcast
.
But I actually wanted to dosomething different.
I wanted to kind of break downI can't convince you how Bitcoin
(24:34):
aligns with your goals.
It's too much.
It's a whole road that you'regoing to walk down as time
allows.
But I do want to recommendsomething that may kickstart it,
because the goal of our podcastis to is to say hey, we're,
we're here, we're friendly.
You know we want people to dowell.
We we don't.
(24:55):
We're not scam artists.
We don't mean harm.
We don't mean harm.
We hate effectively most of thefederal government and
especially the Federal Reserve,which obviously isn't a part of
the federal government.
But I want to make a bookrecommendation to you.
It's very quick, roughly 100pages, and it's called Bitcoin
in the Bible.
I'm writing this down Bitcoinin the Bible makes the case that
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the foundations of Bitcoin isactually spelled out in the
Bible, starting with thou shaltnot steal.
Because thou shalt not stealinherently means that you have
to be able to own property, andto be able to own property, you
have to be able to defendproperty.
And to be able to defendproperty, you have to have a way
to defend it.
So in the physical world youhave the Second Amendment, but
in the dollar world, there's nodefense against confiscation,
(25:41):
limiting transactions, things ofthat nature.
Where Bitcoin comes into play isBitcoin says ultimate
responsibility is upon you,safety is upon you.
If you had 100 gold barssitting in your safe and
somebody came and robbed you,you can't go to the bank and get
those 100 gold bars back.
Bitcoin works in the same way.
It's just digital.
So I encourage you to take thismessage that you have about the
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trades, about being independentand being able to support
yourself, and look at thosevalues and apply them to the
Bitcoin world and see how weline up.
My prediction is it won't belong, probably some point
throughout your first term aslieutenant governor.
There's going to be Bitcoinersthat are going to come knocking,
and my only hope is that, whenthey do, you at least hear them
(26:27):
out, lend them a friendly ear,because I think, in large part,
we're on the same team.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, I definitely.
I will definitely read the book.
I have a policy anytime anybodyrecommends a book to me, I read
it.
And so, because I think youknow we have these encounters,
because you never know what thepurpose is, and so you know, I'm
all in favor of that.
I can already tell you.
You know, I have absolutely noproblem with Bitcoin.
I have no problem at all.
(26:53):
I have a major problem withCBDC.
I don't want centralizedcontrol.
I don't want that.
It's too much control for thegovernment.
But I certainly like whatlittle I do know about
blockchain technology.
I like the security and safetyand decentralization of it.
One way that I already know thatinterests me, that I want to
pursue more if I'm electedlieutenant governor is, you know
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, in touring the Bitcoin miningfacility.
You know we have so manyabandoned textile mills
throughout rural North Carolinathat could easily be converted,
many of them.
Now I don't know if there'senough hydroelectric to get them
to the energy needs that theyhave, but you know, some of
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these rural communities thinkabout this.
I know if your landfill createsmethane.
Methane is a viable source ofenergy and there are conversion
mechanisms that could be used tofuel anything, including
Bitcoin mining Virtually everycounty in the state has
landfills, and so, you know, Iwould love to see counties start
(28:00):
to invest in their own Bitcoinmining operations, utilizing the
landfills that they have tofuel it, because you're
basically creating a revenuestream without taxing your
people, because at that point,the county is actually
controlling the investment andthey're reaping the rewards.
My understanding of Bitcoinmining operators and people
(28:23):
doing Bitcoin in general is thatthey don't see other Bitcoiners
as as competitors at all, andso, you know, usually I would
have a problem with thegovernment, like a county entity
competing with a private sectorentity, but in Bitcoin mining,
let the county own the Bitcoinmine, let them put it in
abandoned textile, let them putit over a landfill to fuel it.
(28:45):
You're basically recycling.
You're using waste to generateenergy.
To create what Revenue?
Without taxing your people?
So many of these rural areashave lost a lot of their revenue
base over the years as tobaccohas declined, as textiles, as
furniture has declined, and theyhave infrastructure and they
don't have the tax base tosupport it.
And so, you know, I think theBitcoin mining could create
(29:07):
revenue for these otherwise taxpoor counties without taxing
their people.
So, you know, you'll get a veryfriendly year for me if I'm
elected lieutenant governor.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Let me go back to what you was talking earlier
about the whole thing of wherebasically our government and
things is unfolding.
It's making the working peoplea slave.
Because one of the thingspeople fail to realize is that
income tax, when you get down toit, income tax is penalizing
you for being productive.
(29:39):
Tax is penalizing you for beingproductive and tying back into
what Trey mentioned here earlierabout the Federal Reserve.
If people go back and look, theFederal Reserve was created
then income tax was passed as aconstitutional amendment.
So you have to ask yourself howdo these two things kind of tie
in with one another?
Well, you have to have theincome tax to take away from
people productivity, to pay theinterest.
(30:01):
That's being funded by theFederal Reserve, by select few
banks there.
And what people fail to realizeis whoever controls your money
controls you.
And you were speaking earlierabout the whole concept of the
student debt, and that's what Ilook at.
I look at my daughter.
She's come out of school$40,000, $50,000 of debt.
Well, they now become a slaveto the federal government
(30:25):
Because whether they pay thedebt off or not, depending upon
what the current administrationdoes, there's still a debt out
there that's going to show up onyour credit report.
And if you move forward toanything you want to do in life.
If it's not the point ofgetting an apartment, your
credit report's going to bepulled off.
You're delinquent.
You're 90 days behind on yourstudent loan?
(30:45):
Oh, we're going to pay you back, and that's one of the things
that is not being told to thegeneral public is the reason
you're in this financialsituation is because of the
individuals who control yourmoney and how they manipulate it
, not to your advantage, but totheir advantage, and that's why
(31:06):
you've now become a slave toincome tax, because, regardless
of what you do or how you do it,you want to pay an income tax
at some point in time.
And again, that tax is takingaway from your productivity,
which has now made you a slaveto the federal government.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Listen, I agree.
I mean, the Bible is clear,right, the debtor is a slave to
the lender, and so that's truein anything in life.
And so, of course, and you know, I have a major problem with
you know, my son is a freshmanin college and you know, I see,
is a freshman in college and, um, you know, I see the credit
card offers he gets and I'm like, you know, my kid is unemployed
(31:46):
.
Well, I mean, he does work but,um, you know, he doesn't make
that kind of money.
And uh, and I'm like, how is itthat these kids are coming out
of school with credit card debt?
Um, you know, at what point dowe as a society take
responsibility for saying, hey,we're not going to tempt this
kid with, you know, commercialdebt so early in life, when they
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don't know the difference?
I mean, it really begs thequestion is when are we going to
really start getting seriousabout making sure our kids, when
they graduate from high school,that they have some basic form
of financial literacy, that theyknow the dangers of debt, that
they understand the principlesof compounded interest and what
that would do for you for goodif you start early, just basic
(32:31):
investing basics?
You know we need to be teachingthese things, and not
systematically.
We do pockets here and there,don't not systematically.
We do it pockets here and there, but not to the degree that we
should, and um it just, it's afailure of our school systems at
all levels to not preparepeople, Not only that, I mean
(32:51):
once you get to the higheruniversity level, the higher ed
level, we're teaching just theopposite.
The capitalism is bad, the freeenterprise is bad, the
socialism is good and, you know,the single greatest killer of
people, of their hopes, theirdreams and literally murder, are
these civilizations andcultures that embrace socialism
(33:13):
and what it leads to.
And so we're just teachingeverything wrong and we just
need to get back to basics andgo back to the founding
principles of this country andget all this other crap out of
the schools.
You know, just get it out, Justget it out and go back to the
basics and let's add to it somesome new things, you know, like
financial literacy.
You know our kids, our kids.
They don't know how to write acheck, everything about that.
(33:35):
They don't have a red check.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
They can't write in person.
No, I did and again I deal, youknow, in the tax preparation
and when they have the W-2, theydon't know how to read the W-2.
They don't know how to readtheir pay stub.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
They don't know what a W-2 is.
More or less how to read it.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
We've never taught them Again.
Going back to my daughter, thefirst time she got a check she
said you know who are thesepeople taking money out of my
check?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
That's right, I'm with you.
I mean it sounds like we'revery copacetic on our worldviews
, but no, you'll always have afriendly ear for me.
All constituents will have.
Listen, I am a conservative,I'm a limited government
constitutional Christianconservative, but I'm very aware
that if I'm elected lieutenantgovernor, you know what does it
(34:23):
mean to be a constitutionalconservative?
It means I believe you haveconstitutional rights and I want
to protect your rights and Iwant to.
I want to protect you from thegovernment infringing on those
rights.
And I don't care who you are,care what your beliefs are, I
don't care what your race, color, creed, anything that is.
I'm still going to protect yourconstitutional rights and
freedoms and I think that's good.
(34:45):
That's the society we need.
We're deviating from that.
It's not my side that'sdeviating, it's the other side.
It's the worldview of the otherside that's deviating from
those constitutional principles.
And you see where it's leadingus?
It's leading us off a cliff asa country and we've got to get
back to those foundingprinciples and not do it on the
defense.
I hear Mark Robinson.
(35:07):
He's running for governor.
He says all the time it's notjust that we're right, that
we're on the right, it's that weare right, our ideas are right.
These are basic principles.
It's smart to not go in debtearly in life.
It's smart to control your owndestiny.
It's smart to beself-sufficient.
It's smart not to be dependenton the federal government.
These are not ideas, these arejust common truths and we've
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gotten away from that in society.
So I'm rambling now.
I'm just.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
You know you got me going and along the same line
and of course it's really notsaying anything new here is it's
smart to have those basicfamily principles there, where
you have a mother and you have afather, to create that sound
family doctrine there.
And that's one of the thingsthey've been proving that when a
child comes from a sound family, where they have sound money
(35:58):
practices and they teach soundprinciples of education, that
child is going to be moreinclined to succeed in life and
not become dependent upon thegovernment.
And one of the things that, ofcourse, has been distorted is
there's so many different formsof being dependent upon the
government.
If you're born into agovernment housing, you live off
(36:19):
of government food andgovernment subsidies for your
utilities, you're more inclinedto wind up in the prison system.
Well, what are you then?
You're another slave.
You just move your dwellingsfrom a government housing where
you couldn't walk out the doorto government housing where you
can walk out the door andnobody's really been willing to
(36:39):
say okay, this is the problem.
We need to strengthen thefamily.
And it starts in the home andit carries over into the school,
it carries over in the churchesas well.
There, and once you begin toestablish a sound foundation
which is biblical based.
Because the Bible tells us, ifyou got a strong foundation,
you're going to have a strongstructure.
And I think a lot of peopledon't realize how subtle that
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leftist, that communist, thatMarxist message is.
Because when you begin to peelthe onion away, you begin to see
that Marxism has one objectiveand one objective only to divide
and to destroy, to turn theneighbor against the neighbor.
That's right Against the system.
Because their objective is todivide and to destroy.
(37:24):
But unfortunately the schoolsystem is not telling the truth
about the evil of communistdictators, totalitarian
dictators, marxist dictators.
And when you look at thesecountries, what happened to them
?
They're living in constant fear, constant fear, and they are a
slave and they are afraid fromthe time they wake up even to
(37:46):
the time they go to sleep, thatsomebody's going to knock on
their door and drag them out andcut their head off.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
That's right, amen, I'm with you, brother.
I mean absolutely, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Well, hal, I know you probably got some other things
to do, you probably have someother interviews or whatnot but
I want to thank you from theBitcoin community, because it's
not often we get a politician ofany sort elected or hopeful to
even talk to us.
A lot of people think thatwe're something that we're not.
We get mixed up with othertypes of cryptocurrencies that
are scammed.
I understand.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
But we're free market , free market, free market today
, free market tomorrow, butwe're free market, free market,
free market today, free markettomorrow.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
But I do really thank you, Like honestly, I do thank
you.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Is there a way?
Let's do it again.
We can do it again.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Hey, when are you going to be in the Burlington
Alamance County area?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Oh Lord, I couldn't answer that off the top of my
head, but it'll be soon, becauseI'm crisscrossing the state all
the time.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Just look at your website and see.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
So I put out teasers once a week.
So on Facebook I'll put outlike how Weatherman's going to
be at this parade or how it'sgoing to be at this thing.
So, yes, you'll know when I'mdoing something public in your
area when you see those teasersgoing.
Like I said, I'll put two orthree of them out every week on
Facebook and so I don't know offthe top of my head.
(39:03):
But it doesn't take me, doesn'ttake much for me to stop in the
burlington grand area for noother reason that uh knw is
right off the highway and I eatthere all the time.
I'm always looking for anexcuse to stop at that exit in
particular so, hal, we're goingto come knocking one day.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
You'll hear from somebody who's like me at some
point about Bitcoin, and when wedo, we're here to help.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
And also how to improve the North Carolina
Department of Revenue.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah, I mean, bitcoin has a lot of weight.
When you talk about improvingthings, you can just look at any
company that's adopted Bitcoinas a strategy they.
When you talk about improvingthings, you can just look at any
company that's adopted Bitcoinas a strategy.
They're through the roof interms of stock price and returns
.
But I don't want to hold you uptoo long.
Is there anything you want totell everybody before you jet?
Speaker 2 (39:51):
I was just saying.
If you want to learn more aboutme or where I stand or anything
like that, or contact me, youcan just go to HalWeathermancom
or I'm on all social media majorplatforms.
You know Facebook, twitter,instagram under my name.
That's it Awesome.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Awesome.
Well, Hal, it was a pleasurespeaking with you.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, y'all too, y'all take care, call anytime,
all right.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Good luck, we're behind you.
Yeah, we'll be voting, thankyou.
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