June 28, 2024 • 25 mins
In today's episode, hosts Lisa Phillips and Crystal Whitaker are joined by co-host Anthony Rojas to discuss the "Dumbing Down of America." The episode delves into the historical and systemic efforts to control education, public perception, and societal norms.
Together, they discuss how changes in the education system have contributed to a broader societal control. They also talk about the importance of comprehending the true origins of law, the illusion of choice in our lives, and the role corporations play in perpetuating this cycle. Anthony shares insights from a crucial book on this topic and emphasises the importance of moving forward with awareness and unity.
Takeaways
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There has been a deliberate dumbing down of America.
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The education system eliminates critical thinking.
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There is an illusion of freedom through limited choice.
Timestamps
00:00 Learning and sharing knowledge, particularly about law.
05:43 Rulers imposing control, beginning with the school system.
07:25 Impactful stories highlight humanity's dark nature.
13:16 Long-time book availability, reader insight impact.
16:39 Learn to let go of the past.
17:48 Freedom comes from nature, not man's laws.
21:54 Facing fear has worse consequences than fleeing.
24:54 Join our community for unity and freedom.
Following are great research sites:
The Scriptures Bible: https://isr-messianic.org/publications/the-scriptures.html
Join Crystal & Anthony’s subscription Foundational American Principals: https://invitation2freedom.com/landing/plans/403607
Disclaimer:
The information contained herein is not intended to be a source of legal advice. You should not rely on the statements or representations made by the hosts or guests. The purpose of this podcast is to give guidance and to educate those in the community on how to be self-reliant members of the constitutional Republic of the United States of America and as such it is strongly recommended that you do your own research. Invitation2Freedom does not assume any responsibility for the actions or non-actions taken by any of the hosts, guests or listeners, and no one shall be entitled to a claim for detrimental reliance on any information provided or expressed herein. We reserve our right to assemble, and we do so peacefully and without trespass.
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(00:00):
Welcome. This is your invitation to Freedom.
The podcast that challenges the traditional left right paradigm
and explores a narrative centered on unity and reclaiming
our rights. Each episode will explore topics from
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Well, hi there, Crystal. Good morning, Lisa. How are you
today? I'm doing good. I'm excited. We have a special guest today,
so I'm super excited. We do have a special guest, somebody
who has been fundamental
in our ability to deliver lessons
regarding law. Right? And, in our
(00:44):
2 different platforms, we have invitation to freedom for those
who are just kind of wondering what the heck's going on, and they wanna
start diving into what does it mean to be a republic
and what is law, land, air and water versus
statutes, codes and things like that.
(01:04):
And, our special guest is gonna start talking about
the the dumbing down of America, which is the whole reason why people are confused.
Alright. And our platform,
the American study guide was really foundational
knowledge. And we kind of advanced over there and created
invitation to freedom. And,
(01:27):
this special guest really was
the foundation of law. And with the 2 of you
developing and delivering that,
those courses and those fundamental
lessons beginning is now shifted
to invitation to Freedom. Right? Do you wanna tell us a little bit about that?
(01:50):
Yeah. So we when we started on
our journey, right, we kind of didn't know a whole lot. We knew a little
bit, probably enough to get to be dangerous. Right?
And then as our knowledge grew, we decided that we needed
to be able to share this in a in a way that was digestible for
(02:10):
people because, it's like drinking through a fire
hose. It's so much information and and the information is
there. We just have to be in a in the right spirit, in the
right mind to receive it and and do it slowly
because it becomes overwhelming quickly. And
one of the areas that we decided that needed to be
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shared was the law. And what does the law
mean? You know, when we look at traditionally what we've
been educated with, it's, you know, obeying the rules of the
of the land, doing what an officer tells you to
do. And not that those things are bad, but
we need to know where the law originated from. And,
(02:56):
when you and I met, we actually met on the same platform. Anthony was
in that platform. We all met together and we decided that it
was is essential to share this in a way for people
to comprehend because the law is
simplistic, but we've made it
more than it needs to be. It's it's become confusing. And so we needed
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to get rid of the cognitive dissonance and learn
what true law was. And and, our guest, Anthony, he was
brilliant at sharing those foundational concepts
for us and he's just continued over the last few years
to hone his craft. And he was
he's reading a book and it's about the dumbing down of Americans.
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So, I felt it was really important for us to kind of share
this with our listeners so that they can start to see
the history behind it. Where did it start? We we,
you know, we assume we're the land of the free home of the brave,
but when it comes down to,
how our government runs and and our role in
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it, we're kinda dumb. We don't have the knowledge that we should
have. And so it it's it's gonna be brilliant.
The other thing I wanna point out is not only where did it come
from, but what was and continues to be brilliant
from Anthony is the context. The context.
And he he started this course from
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that lens. Your standing in law is the
name of his course. So without further ado,
Anthony, we're bringing in. Hey, everyone. So,
yeah, thank you guys very much. You guys flatter me too much. I know you
guys have been a pleasure to work with, you know, and been an honor to
actually be where I'm at today because, you know,
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as far as this whole system of law goes, it it kind of took
a turn. You know, it's something I never thought it would go down to. Right?
I always thought it was gonna be, okay. Cool. I'm gonna learn some codes and
statutes, and we're gonna have, you know, an advantage. We're gonna be able to use
to our benefit. And then as you guys know, we open up this can of
worms, and next thing you know, all kinds of creatures are flying out of this
(05:11):
can. You know? So it's, it's definitely been a journey,
an emotional roller coaster at times, but it's definitely have been
very rewarding. So it's, I'm I'm very glad to be on this journey with you
guys and, very happy to be here. Well, thank you.
Yay. So let's go ahead and get started.
The Marie of America, that is a very poignant statement.
(05:33):
Right? Mhmm. And it had to start somewhere.
Where did this dumbing down of America take
place? So from what I've
gathered this information, I mean, obviously, we've had throughout, you know,
our known history that there's been rulers
or or powers that be that have been trying to press the people for some
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time. Right? And it kinda seems like the name of the game here. But for
here in America, it seems to start somewhere around, late 18th century,
early 19th century, you know, with
changed values. Right? So, again, the the powers that
be feel the need for whatever reason, you know, how to to
start implementing control on the people. And here in
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America, it started off with their full system. It started off
before then, you know, obviously, with the propaganda and and the news and, you know,
newspapers and stuff. But as far as the the the core,
I wanna say, macro kind of,
implementation started with their school system. Yeah. And so it's
my comprehension that that it
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was a a a teacher who actually
started implementing these social
programs, if you will, to start controlling
what is being taught within the system, and
then it got taken over,
and it now is resulted in
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a platform, if you will,
of creating mindless employees who
do what they're told. They go, they work, they get a they get a
job, they work, they slave away for the rest of their lives, and they die
an old man in their bed and never have accomplished anything
that they were designed to accomplish.
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Yeah. And, you know, it's a very sad story to tell, you know, and it's
very you know, it definitely impacts all of us because in just
hearing some of these stories about how this kind of, took place
is just, you know, it's it's
of a harsh nature to take a look really into the the the depths
of how, you know, dark
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mankind can be to each other, you know, how oppressive we can be to each
other. And I'm not speaking for all of us. I know it's it's a very
few and far between people. I I genuinely feel like, us as
a people, as a species, we're very loving, kind, trusting people.
But as, you know, like, it's been stated before, there's just
a certain, class of people that seem to wanna be able to
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rule over others, and it's not a it's not a a fair thing.
But, you know, we take it for what it is, and we have to move
forward. We can't really stress too much on the small stuff. So, you
know, there there has been a lot of information divulged in this book.
I recommend everyone read it. This mainly even, you know,
just comprehending some of these things that are going on in your life and go
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on on a on a daily basis, you'll see how much of this is actually
spewed into almost every aspect of our life. Who benefits?
So from this dumbing down of America, of of the
people, who benefits from that? That's actually a great question. Right?
Because that's using our our mind. That's using our perception in the
right manner. Right? Instead of blaming, oh, these people are doing this to me or
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these people are doing this to me. We have to look back from a macro
standpoint and just look at the whole angle of it. Like, who is benefiting? You
know, who is benefiting? And and if you look at who's striving,
who is actually making headway, who has all the money, who has all this
power. When we look here, and there's no we look at our
our system today, and it's really it's not that hard to see who has
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the monopoly over everything. Right? And that is the corporations.
Corporations and why they call it corporate America. And and
who's being there? Who's who's oppressed? Who's being oppressed? Because I I've
heard in in several Patriot movements, you know,
were slaves and and, to a degree, they
are absolutely correct. But, you know, oppression
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is a huge thing. And and so who's really being oppressed and by
whom? Yeah. Well, that's another great question. So
one thing I'm a firm believer in is, you know, an an
uneducated mind is definitely a slave mind. You know? We're enslaved to
whatever system they implement on us, and it's not, again, it's not a
fair thing, but at the same time, like, we have to come at it not
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from a standpoint of we are oppressed, which, I mean,
looking at it from the outside in, yes, we're being oppressed. But
if we take on that victim mentality, then that's where we're gonna be forever. Victims
Marie gonna be oppressed. Right? So, I mean, I kinda
already give away the answer, right, with the people. People are the ones that are
losing. Right? The ones that are paying into these. Right? And and we're
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giving the illusion of choice here. Right? We have different
corporations, and they're vast, and there's so many to choose Freedom, all
ultimately with the same goal, and that's you know, it's Taylor away from the people's
time, energy, you know, our cognitive abilities.
And, the the whole dumbing down of America, in my opinion, has been,
with that one goal in mind is just to be able to suck the life
(10:43):
force energy out of the people. I was just gonna say the part
that's been frustrating on my own personal journey
with my family is that we had one child. And
once we started catching on going through
kindergarten and then preschool or kindergarten and
then what is it? Grammar,
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kindergarten, and then in primary school. Elementary school.
That's right. Once we started catching on to what was going
on, we moved first, we moved our whole world to a
community that had great schools. Right? So we bought into that.
Then we go to the great schools and we're like, what the hell is going
on? The people who are controlling the classroom are
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not in the best interest of the children. And the
children who have learning disabilities and emotional
challenges are taking over the classroom. And, you know, God loved
them, but they the dumbing down was happening right in
front of our eyes because these children couldn't get their needs met. And
and and it was totally for them to be put in a situation
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that they could be with the other children. They have special
needs. So that was the beginning of of our seeing the dumbing
down. And then it was, okay. We moved out here. We did this, and the
public schools don't work. So now we're gonna go to a parochial school. So then
we're gonna try an Episcopalian school, and then I won't go down the road
of the problems there. And then we went to a Catholic school and that
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was middle school. And at open house,
one of the nuns has her head on the desk with a cup
of vodka. And my husband's like, she's drunk.
So is the end of that. And then it's independent school and homeschooling. You
know? So that's another challenge. By
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the time you realize that you if you're not gonna play victim, you're gonna
take responsibility. And then you start waking up and you realize how
it's happened to your own family, your kid's graduating, and
then they shut down, you know, graduation and COVID and blah blah blah
blah blah. Yeah. So this dumbing down, this waking up
requires not only for us to open our eyes, but
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to to not get angry, but to realize
that it took us time. But we can speed it up for other people
because we've gone through it. So our sharing this knowledge and helping
people, directing them to certain places to
learn and read this book. I wish I had read this book, you know,
20 years ago. It's been out for a while too. That's the that's the funny
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part. This book has been out for a long time now. And, you know, a
couple of things that you said is, 1, it's from
people like you that have took in your time to actually perceive
this information and process it that's that has helped
me get my kids out of the school system a lot earlier.
The obstacles that have taken over our system that have, you know, slowed us
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down. You know, some of these things I have been able to avoid because of
people, you know, that have taken their time and and
learned to explain this information. And and the one thing that I find to be
a very big blessing is the fact that you were able to recognize
it. You know, a lot of people don't. A lot of people get so busy
with life. A lot of people get so, you know, caught up in
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the rat race. Right? And it's it's a it's a implementation in our
system. Like, they're doing this on purpose, right, to keep everyone busy if they
separate the the child from the parent. And then by the But again but
again, they we're we're making choices. Right? So it was
a fundamental choice that I had to make to reorganize our
family so that we could homeschool and I could work
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from home. You know? We can't keep blaming them. Right? We can't keep
blaming that we we were choosing to be 2, you know,
a family of 2 people working and no one's paying attention to the kids. Yes.
Well, it it it I like that you brought up choice
because we we associate free will
with choice, right, and having the ability.
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Mhmm. But sometimes those choices are,
filtered. Yes. Let's look at our grocery
stores. Right? You've got a handful of grocery stores that you can
shop at, and you're only you can only
have what they offer. Right?
And so you make the choice the best way
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that you can, and it doesn't necessarily necessarily
translate into a good choice. Or or all the
options because there's controlled options.
Mhmm. And some of those options are poisonous to us.
Yeah. That's another way that they dumb down America is through our food
supply. Mhmm. It's a it it's definitely a
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perception of choice. And now, you know, there's a lot of truth in in everything
that you guys said, and and the whole thing with the
perception versus choice here is that to a certain
degree, yes, we have, a choice to choose.
But, again, we only have here in
in this system that I see is we they're they're giving us
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several choices to choose from. We didn't even know there's other options. We didn't even
know there was, option other options. You know? So that's
the whole thing where it's, like, yes, to a certain degree, we it was our
choice. We gotta understand not to be harder hard on ourselves either
because a lot of this stuff was done to us from birth.
But but now that we know that this illusion's
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taking place, if you choose to do nothing from here on out, now now it's
your fault. Now it's our fault that we're not doing anything about it. You know?
So we have to take responsibility up until the point
where, again, we're not gonna regret the past. Whatever's past is
past. Right? Everything that's already been done to us has been been done to us.
We cannot hold on to that anymore no matter how much it hurts us to
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to to think like, okay. Man, if I would've known that, I wouldn't have done
this. Or if I would've known that, I would've done this. And it's like, it's
we've already gone past that point already. You know? So if we are to
grow and we are to, you know, continue
progressing forward and not let this slow us down, we have to be able to
learn how to and, again, I said learn. Right? Because it's not easy. You have
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to learn how to cut the past off, you know, take the loss, and
then just move forward. Because, if this continues, you know,
just the progression, the the the constant progression we're seeing through history, if this
continues, then we're not going to, we're not gonna
obviously, we can see what we're going down through. And, you can look at some
of our founding documents to see that, a lot of these,
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not gonna mention certain words, but, a certain thing happened during
the declaration of independence, you know, and and they'd line it out there for you
guys on what these causes were and what we're alluding to. And if you, if
you study that foundational document, you'll see, where we're going and why
these men chose to to to band together and do a
certain act that, you know, ultimately led us to
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our Freedom today. You know? And then that's freedom solely being ripped from us, and
and we gotta learn to pay attention. We gotta stop being afraid. I I'm
gonna counter that for a minute because our freedoms can
never be taken from us because they don't come from man. Right?
The declaration of independence was, was how we won our
independence from a king. The constitution in the Bill of Rights
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is what protects us and our god given rights.
There are things that don't come from man that they
can never take those. They can they can
create a system to make it look or appear as
if those rights can be taken away. But the truth of the matter
is is those were given to us by nature and nature's God,
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and those cannot be stripped away. They are unalenable,
and they're that way for a reason. And I think it's
important for all of us to make those connections back to
those founding papers, to look at those from a from
from the lens of not that they gave us those
rights, but they protected those
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rights and they were willing to lay down their lives to
protect those rights for us, and trying them in the
constitution and in the bill of rights. It's a And what they
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. I I it's it's and then,
you know, you're right. You're a 100% right there. Now the the this is the
reason why we have the slave system we have today. Right? Because they've found out
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throughout history that, one, if they enslave your body, we're only gonna work a
certain amount. Right? They can only whip you so much. They can't make you work
a certain amount. Right? And then they're like, okay. Cool. Or we're gonna let them
be free, but we're gonna all control their land. Now their their serfs, like, they
know that we own the land, so they get to just tend to it. And
that form of slavery produced a certain Marie than being chained
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up. But the slavery system we have now, when they gave us the illusion
of choice, now we're actually working thinking like, okay. We're we're
free. We're getting ahead of it. We're we're free to choose whatever we want. You
know? And and you It's the illusion. It's it's the illusion of
freedom. Right? Right. Exactly. Pulling of the carrot and pulling
us along, and we're thinking, oh, we're gonna get the carrot, you know, like, I'm
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gonna get my fortune or I'm gonna get my, I'm gonna have financial
freedom. Yeah. And you think you'll get to a point where you have
financial freedom, but you never do because I know
men and women who are working. They are 90 in their nineties,
and they're still working because they don't have enough money to
make ends meet, and that is unacceptable. There is
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no reason right now. I totally agree. It's unacceptable what's
happening to the elderly. It's unacceptable what's happening to the
the veterans. It's unacceptable to what's happening to the
children. The children were totally gonna kill their grandparents. It's
unacceptable to keep us apart. Yeah. Everything that's going
on when people start looking at this and the message I want
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our listeners to get is it isn't too
big to tackle. We are
coming together under the canopy of
unity to address these things. They're big issues, and we're not
afraid of them. We're not afraid to say, okay. Now what?
Anthony has a a superpower, and we have a a
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meeting in invitation to freedom every week, which is called
roadmapping to freedom. And I've asked people, what are your
superpowers and what are you doing with those
superpowers? They're God given,
creator given, however you wanna see it. Each one of us
have superpowers, and and part of what
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we can do is start coming together using those
superpowers and making a difference. Once we shine a light on this
stuff and we start reading it and learning about it, we've been together
for years figuring out what to do.
And the first step is not being afraid to look. And the second step is
not buying into that it's too big. It isn't too big.
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Is there anything that we've uncovered that you guys then have
said the this too much for me. I'm out.
Not not enough to the the the latter
the the the negativity always outweighs any posit any
any positive that we would get from running away. Like, that's one thing that I
wanna get everyone to to comprehend is that
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no matter how scary something is that we face, the consequences
to that are a whole hell of a lot worse, always, and they always will
be. You know? Because that's one thing that that, you know, I've come to
realize in this journey is there's still a lot of things that we need to
learn, and there's gonna be a lot of ghosts that we're gonna uncover and a
lot of skeletons we're gonna uncover. And it's it's gonna be a
very, strenuous, a very scary journey. I mean, as those of you
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know, you know, the whole great awakening thing, like, it's not just,
we're gonna wake up to a positive light. You know? We're not just gonna wake
up to rainbows and flowers and stuff, and then everything's gonna be peachy and whatever.
You know? There are gonna be a lot of things that we're gonna have
to deal with and a lot of, very, very
terrifying things, but comprehend this that look how much
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they're they're they're throwing at us. Right? They're throwing so many poisons. They're
throwing so many, things at us to try to
destroy us. And think about how we're working. We
are. Yeah. Yep. Working. Right? Look how powerful we are. And look
how man how how much they're trying, and we're still
we're still It's like kryptonite, just making us stronger and
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stronger and pee more peaceful. And and that
power, that superpower like, I'm gonna ask you,
Anthony, what is your superpower? To be
honest with you, I I don't really see it as a super power. I just
see it as you know, I said people would just say I have the ability
to talk to people. I have the ability, what it seems like, to channel this
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information that I am getting and just being able to to pass it on
through. So I feel like I'm just a a vessel, you know, that just gets
information and passes it down to the people. So,
that's that's my main thing, and it's just being able to
you know, one thing that is a superpower, and I know all of us have
this in us even though we don't know it, is to be able to take
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bad news and being able to process it for where it is and move forward.
You know? And throughout history, that's been one of our greatest powers here, especially,
in America is being able to rise up from whatever we've been thrown
at or anything. Anything that we get thrown at us, we're able to to come
up on top, and it's only been one way we've been able to do that,
and that's together. We are incredibly resilient. And
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and if we can look at the suffering and see the gift in
it, that be that turns the suffering into a superpower. And I agree
with you. Your superpower is the ability to take
these complex ideas and deliver them to We The
People in have conversations. And and people love
you, and we love you. I'm so grateful that you are with us
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and that you came today, and we're gonna come back for part 2. Right?
Alright. So you feel good, Crystal? We're okay to end up here?
Yeah. We're good. Alright. We'd love to do both.
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Welcome. This is your invitation to Freedom.
The podcast that challenges the traditional left right paradigm
and explores a narrative centered on unity and reclaiming
our rights. Each episode will explore topics from
how we got where we are to what a peaceful journey looks like to get
back to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Well, hi there, Crystal. Good morning, Lisa. How are you
today? I'm doing good. I'm excited. We have a special guest today,
so I'm super excited. We do have a special guest, somebody
who has been fundamental
in our ability to deliver lessons
regarding law. Right? And, in our
(00:44):
2 different platforms, we have invitation to freedom for those
who are just kind of wondering what the heck's going on, and they wanna
start diving into what does it mean to be a republic
and what is law, land, air and water versus
statutes, codes and things like that.
(01:04):
And, our special guest is gonna start talking about
the the dumbing down of America, which is the whole reason why people are confused.
Alright. And our platform,
the American study guide was really foundational
knowledge. And we kind of advanced over there and created
invitation to freedom. And,
(01:27):
this special guest really was
the foundation of law. And with the 2 of you
developing and delivering that,
those courses and those fundamental
lessons beginning is now shifted
to invitation to Freedom. Right? Do you wanna tell us a little bit about that?
(01:50):
Yeah. So we when we started on
our journey, right, we kind of didn't know a whole lot. We knew a little
bit, probably enough to get to be dangerous. Right?
And then as our knowledge grew, we decided that we needed
to be able to share this in a in a way that was digestible for
(02:10):
people because, it's like drinking through a fire
hose. It's so much information and and the information is
there. We just have to be in a in the right spirit, in the
right mind to receive it and and do it slowly
because it becomes overwhelming quickly. And
one of the areas that we decided that needed to be
(02:33):
shared was the law. And what does the law
mean? You know, when we look at traditionally what we've
been educated with, it's, you know, obeying the rules of the
of the land, doing what an officer tells you to
do. And not that those things are bad, but
we need to know where the law originated from. And,
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when you and I met, we actually met on the same platform. Anthony was
in that platform. We all met together and we decided that it
was is essential to share this in a way for people
to comprehend because the law is
simplistic, but we've made it
more than it needs to be. It's it's become confusing. And so we needed
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to get rid of the cognitive dissonance and learn
what true law was. And and, our guest, Anthony, he was
brilliant at sharing those foundational concepts
for us and he's just continued over the last few years
to hone his craft. And he was
he's reading a book and it's about the dumbing down of Americans.
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So, I felt it was really important for us to kind of share
this with our listeners so that they can start to see
the history behind it. Where did it start? We we,
you know, we assume we're the land of the free home of the brave,
but when it comes down to,
how our government runs and and our role in
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it, we're kinda dumb. We don't have the knowledge that we should
have. And so it it's it's gonna be brilliant.
The other thing I wanna point out is not only where did it come
from, but what was and continues to be brilliant
from Anthony is the context. The context.
And he he started this course from
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that lens. Your standing in law is the
name of his course. So without further ado,
Anthony, we're bringing in. Hey, everyone. So,
yeah, thank you guys very much. You guys flatter me too much. I know you
guys have been a pleasure to work with, you know, and been an honor to
actually be where I'm at today because, you know,
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as far as this whole system of law goes, it it kind of took
a turn. You know, it's something I never thought it would go down to. Right?
I always thought it was gonna be, okay. Cool. I'm gonna learn some codes and
statutes, and we're gonna have, you know, an advantage. We're gonna be able to use
to our benefit. And then as you guys know, we open up this can of
worms, and next thing you know, all kinds of creatures are flying out of this
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can. You know? So it's, it's definitely been a journey,
an emotional roller coaster at times, but it's definitely have been
very rewarding. So it's, I'm I'm very glad to be on this journey with you
guys and, very happy to be here. Well, thank you.
Yay. So let's go ahead and get started.
The Marie of America, that is a very poignant statement.
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Right? Mhmm. And it had to start somewhere.
Where did this dumbing down of America take
place? So from what I've
gathered this information, I mean, obviously, we've had throughout, you know,
our known history that there's been rulers
or or powers that be that have been trying to press the people for some
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time. Right? And it kinda seems like the name of the game here. But for
here in America, it seems to start somewhere around, late 18th century,
early 19th century, you know, with
changed values. Right? So, again, the the powers that
be feel the need for whatever reason, you know, how to to
start implementing control on the people. And here in
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America, it started off with their full system. It started off
before then, you know, obviously, with the propaganda and and the news and, you know,
newspapers and stuff. But as far as the the the core,
I wanna say, macro kind of,
implementation started with their school system. Yeah. And so it's
my comprehension that that it
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was a a a teacher who actually
started implementing these social
programs, if you will, to start controlling
what is being taught within the system, and
then it got taken over,
and it now is resulted in
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a platform, if you will,
of creating mindless employees who
do what they're told. They go, they work, they get a they get a
job, they work, they slave away for the rest of their lives, and they die
an old man in their bed and never have accomplished anything
that they were designed to accomplish.
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Yeah. And, you know, it's a very sad story to tell, you know, and it's
very you know, it definitely impacts all of us because in just
hearing some of these stories about how this kind of, took place
is just, you know, it's it's
of a harsh nature to take a look really into the the the depths
of how, you know, dark
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mankind can be to each other, you know, how oppressive we can be to each
other. And I'm not speaking for all of us. I know it's it's a very
few and far between people. I I genuinely feel like, us as
a people, as a species, we're very loving, kind, trusting people.
But as, you know, like, it's been stated before, there's just
a certain, class of people that seem to wanna be able to
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rule over others, and it's not a it's not a a fair thing.
But, you know, we take it for what it is, and we have to move
forward. We can't really stress too much on the small stuff. So, you
know, there there has been a lot of information divulged in this book.
I recommend everyone read it. This mainly even, you know,
just comprehending some of these things that are going on in your life and go
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on on a on a daily basis, you'll see how much of this is actually
spewed into almost every aspect of our life. Who benefits?
So from this dumbing down of America, of of the
people, who benefits from that? That's actually a great question. Right?
Because that's using our our mind. That's using our perception in the
right manner. Right? Instead of blaming, oh, these people are doing this to me or
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these people are doing this to me. We have to look back from a macro
standpoint and just look at the whole angle of it. Like, who is benefiting? You
know, who is benefiting? And and if you look at who's striving,
who is actually making headway, who has all the money, who has all this
power. When we look here, and there's no we look at our
our system today, and it's really it's not that hard to see who has
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the monopoly over everything. Right? And that is the corporations.
Corporations and why they call it corporate America. And and
who's being there? Who's who's oppressed? Who's being oppressed? Because I I've
heard in in several Patriot movements, you know,
were slaves and and, to a degree, they
are absolutely correct. But, you know, oppression
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is a huge thing. And and so who's really being oppressed and by
whom? Yeah. Well, that's another great question. So
one thing I'm a firm believer in is, you know, an an
uneducated mind is definitely a slave mind. You know? We're enslaved to
whatever system they implement on us, and it's not, again, it's not a
fair thing, but at the same time, like, we have to come at it not
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from a standpoint of we are oppressed, which, I mean,
looking at it from the outside in, yes, we're being oppressed. But
if we take on that victim mentality, then that's where we're gonna be forever. Victims
Marie gonna be oppressed. Right? So, I mean, I kinda
already give away the answer, right, with the people. People are the ones that are
losing. Right? The ones that are paying into these. Right? And and we're
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giving the illusion of choice here. Right? We have different
corporations, and they're vast, and there's so many to choose Freedom, all
ultimately with the same goal, and that's you know, it's Taylor away from the people's
time, energy, you know, our cognitive abilities.
And, the the whole dumbing down of America, in my opinion, has been,
with that one goal in mind is just to be able to suck the life
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force energy out of the people. I was just gonna say the part
that's been frustrating on my own personal journey
with my family is that we had one child. And
once we started catching on going through
kindergarten and then preschool or kindergarten and
then what is it? Grammar,
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kindergarten, and then in primary school. Elementary school.
That's right. Once we started catching on to what was going
on, we moved first, we moved our whole world to a
community that had great schools. Right? So we bought into that.
Then we go to the great schools and we're like, what the hell is going
on? The people who are controlling the classroom are
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not in the best interest of the children. And the
children who have learning disabilities and emotional
challenges are taking over the classroom. And, you know, God loved
them, but they the dumbing down was happening right in
front of our eyes because these children couldn't get their needs met. And
and and it was totally for them to be put in a situation
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that they could be with the other children. They have special
needs. So that was the beginning of of our seeing the dumbing
down. And then it was, okay. We moved out here. We did this, and the
public schools don't work. So now we're gonna go to a parochial school. So then
we're gonna try an Episcopalian school, and then I won't go down the road
of the problems there. And then we went to a Catholic school and that
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was middle school. And at open house,
one of the nuns has her head on the desk with a cup
of vodka. And my husband's like, she's drunk.
So is the end of that. And then it's independent school and homeschooling. You
know? So that's another challenge. By
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the time you realize that you if you're not gonna play victim, you're gonna
take responsibility. And then you start waking up and you realize how
it's happened to your own family, your kid's graduating, and
then they shut down, you know, graduation and COVID and blah blah blah
blah blah. Yeah. So this dumbing down, this waking up
requires not only for us to open our eyes, but
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to to not get angry, but to realize
that it took us time. But we can speed it up for other people
because we've gone through it. So our sharing this knowledge and helping
people, directing them to certain places to
learn and read this book. I wish I had read this book, you know,
20 years ago. It's been out for a while too. That's the that's the funny
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part. This book has been out for a long time now. And, you know, a
couple of things that you said is, 1, it's from
people like you that have took in your time to actually perceive
this information and process it that's that has helped
me get my kids out of the school system a lot earlier.
The obstacles that have taken over our system that have, you know, slowed us
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down. You know, some of these things I have been able to avoid because of
people, you know, that have taken their time and and
learned to explain this information. And and the one thing that I find to be
a very big blessing is the fact that you were able to recognize
it. You know, a lot of people don't. A lot of people get so busy
with life. A lot of people get so, you know, caught up in
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the rat race. Right? And it's it's a it's a implementation in our
system. Like, they're doing this on purpose, right, to keep everyone busy if they
separate the the child from the parent. And then by the But again but
again, they we're we're making choices. Right? So it was
a fundamental choice that I had to make to reorganize our
family so that we could homeschool and I could work
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from home. You know? We can't keep blaming them. Right? We can't keep
blaming that we we were choosing to be 2, you know,
a family of 2 people working and no one's paying attention to the kids. Yes.
Well, it it it I like that you brought up choice
because we we associate free will
with choice, right, and having the ability.
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Mhmm. But sometimes those choices are,
filtered. Yes. Let's look at our grocery
stores. Right? You've got a handful of grocery stores that you can
shop at, and you're only you can only
have what they offer. Right?
And so you make the choice the best way
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that you can, and it doesn't necessarily necessarily
translate into a good choice. Or or all the
options because there's controlled options.
Mhmm. And some of those options are poisonous to us.
Yeah. That's another way that they dumb down America is through our food
supply. Mhmm. It's a it it's definitely a
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perception of choice. And now, you know, there's a lot of truth in in everything
that you guys said, and and the whole thing with the
perception versus choice here is that to a certain
degree, yes, we have, a choice to choose.
But, again, we only have here in
in this system that I see is we they're they're giving us
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several choices to choose from. We didn't even know there's other options. We didn't even
know there was, option other options. You know? So that's
the whole thing where it's, like, yes, to a certain degree, we it was our
choice. We gotta understand not to be harder hard on ourselves either
because a lot of this stuff was done to us from birth.
But but now that we know that this illusion's
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taking place, if you choose to do nothing from here on out, now now it's
your fault. Now it's our fault that we're not doing anything about it. You know?
So we have to take responsibility up until the point
where, again, we're not gonna regret the past. Whatever's past is
past. Right? Everything that's already been done to us has been been done to us.
We cannot hold on to that anymore no matter how much it hurts us to
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to to think like, okay. Man, if I would've known that, I wouldn't have done
this. Or if I would've known that, I would've done this. And it's like, it's
we've already gone past that point already. You know? So if we are to
grow and we are to, you know, continue
progressing forward and not let this slow us down, we have to be able to
learn how to and, again, I said learn. Right? Because it's not easy. You have
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to learn how to cut the past off, you know, take the loss, and
then just move forward. Because, if this continues, you know,
just the progression, the the the constant progression we're seeing through history, if this
continues, then we're not going to, we're not gonna
obviously, we can see what we're going down through. And, you can look at some
of our founding documents to see that, a lot of these,
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not gonna mention certain words, but, a certain thing happened during
the declaration of independence, you know, and and they'd line it out there for you
guys on what these causes were and what we're alluding to. And if you, if
you study that foundational document, you'll see, where we're going and why
these men chose to to to band together and do a
certain act that, you know, ultimately led us to
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our Freedom today. You know? And then that's freedom solely being ripped from us, and
and we gotta learn to pay attention. We gotta stop being afraid. I I'm
gonna counter that for a minute because our freedoms can
never be taken from us because they don't come from man. Right?
The declaration of independence was, was how we won our
independence from a king. The constitution in the Bill of Rights
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is what protects us and our god given rights.
There are things that don't come from man that they
can never take those. They can they can
create a system to make it look or appear as
if those rights can be taken away. But the truth of the matter
is is those were given to us by nature and nature's God,
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and those cannot be stripped away. They are unalenable,
and they're that way for a reason. And I think it's
important for all of us to make those connections back to
those founding papers, to look at those from a from
from the lens of not that they gave us those
rights, but they protected those
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rights and they were willing to lay down their lives to
protect those rights for us, and trying them in the
constitution and in the bill of rights. It's a And what they
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. I I it's it's and then,
you know, you're right. You're a 100% right there. Now the the this is the
reason why we have the slave system we have today. Right? Because they've found out
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throughout history that, one, if they enslave your body, we're only gonna work a
certain amount. Right? They can only whip you so much. They can't make you work
a certain amount. Right? And then they're like, okay. Cool. Or we're gonna let them
be free, but we're gonna all control their land. Now their their serfs, like, they
know that we own the land, so they get to just tend to it. And
that form of slavery produced a certain Marie than being chained
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up. But the slavery system we have now, when they gave us the illusion
of choice, now we're actually working thinking like, okay. We're we're
free. We're getting ahead of it. We're we're free to choose whatever we want. You
know? And and you It's the illusion. It's it's the illusion of
freedom. Right? Right. Exactly. Pulling of the carrot and pulling
us along, and we're thinking, oh, we're gonna get the carrot, you know, like, I'm
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gonna get my fortune or I'm gonna get my, I'm gonna have financial
freedom. Yeah. And you think you'll get to a point where you have
financial freedom, but you never do because I know
men and women who are working. They are 90 in their nineties,
and they're still working because they don't have enough money to
make ends meet, and that is unacceptable. There is
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no reason right now. I totally agree. It's unacceptable what's
happening to the elderly. It's unacceptable what's happening to the
the veterans. It's unacceptable to what's happening to the
children. The children were totally gonna kill their grandparents. It's
unacceptable to keep us apart. Yeah. Everything that's going
on when people start looking at this and the message I want
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our listeners to get is it isn't too
big to tackle. We are
coming together under the canopy of
unity to address these things. They're big issues, and we're not
afraid of them. We're not afraid to say, okay. Now what?
Anthony has a a superpower, and we have a a
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meeting in invitation to freedom every week, which is called
roadmapping to freedom. And I've asked people, what are your
superpowers and what are you doing with those
superpowers? They're God given,
creator given, however you wanna see it. Each one of us
have superpowers, and and part of what
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we can do is start coming together using those
superpowers and making a difference. Once we shine a light on this
stuff and we start reading it and learning about it, we've been together
for years figuring out what to do.
And the first step is not being afraid to look. And the second step is
not buying into that it's too big. It isn't too big.
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Is there anything that we've uncovered that you guys then have
said the this too much for me. I'm out.
Not not enough to the the the latter
the the the negativity always outweighs any posit any
any positive that we would get from running away. Like, that's one thing that I
wanna get everyone to to comprehend is that
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no matter how scary something is that we face, the consequences
to that are a whole hell of a lot worse, always, and they always will
be. You know? Because that's one thing that that, you know, I've come to
realize in this journey is there's still a lot of things that we need to
learn, and there's gonna be a lot of ghosts that we're gonna uncover and a
lot of skeletons we're gonna uncover. And it's it's gonna be a
very, strenuous, a very scary journey. I mean, as those of you
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know, you know, the whole great awakening thing, like, it's not just,
we're gonna wake up to a positive light. You know? We're not just gonna wake
up to rainbows and flowers and stuff, and then everything's gonna be peachy and whatever.
You know? There are gonna be a lot of things that we're gonna have
to deal with and a lot of, very, very
terrifying things, but comprehend this that look how much
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they're they're they're throwing at us. Right? They're throwing so many poisons. They're
throwing so many, things at us to try to
destroy us. And think about how we're working. We
are. Yeah. Yep. Working. Right? Look how powerful we are. And look
how man how how much they're trying, and we're still
we're still It's like kryptonite, just making us stronger and
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stronger and pee more peaceful. And and that
power, that superpower like, I'm gonna ask you,
Anthony, what is your superpower? To be
honest with you, I I don't really see it as a super power. I just
see it as you know, I said people would just say I have the ability
to talk to people. I have the ability, what it seems like, to channel this
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information that I am getting and just being able to to pass it on
through. So I feel like I'm just a a vessel, you know, that just gets
information and passes it down to the people. So,
that's that's my main thing, and it's just being able to
you know, one thing that is a superpower, and I know all of us have
this in us even though we don't know it, is to be able to take
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bad news and being able to process it for where it is and move forward.
You know? And throughout history, that's been one of our greatest powers here, especially,
in America is being able to rise up from whatever we've been thrown
at or anything. Anything that we get thrown at us, we're able to to come
up on top, and it's only been one way we've been able to do that,
and that's together. We are incredibly resilient. And
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and if we can look at the suffering and see the gift in
it, that be that turns the suffering into a superpower. And I agree
with you. Your superpower is the ability to take
these complex ideas and deliver them to We The
People in have conversations. And and people love
you, and we love you. I'm so grateful that you are with us
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and that you came today, and we're gonna come back for part 2. Right?
Alright. So you feel good, Crystal? We're okay to end up here?
Yeah. We're good. Alright. We'd love to do both.
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