Nick Reed 09.11.26 - Tom Martz

0:00I'm on my way to the house. It was wonderful coming out of the house. Yeah, I was 70 degrees. I had a loop right down. You always drive and they, you know, I don't think that would be the main end of the day. And it ran. You didn't make me any loop right? Uh, yes, today we'll look it up. That's what I just said. But yeah, yesterday, Springfield's talk 101 and No. Welcome to the show everyone. My name is Nick. Which is a great home alone. The life is so exciting. Where are you in life? There's a website. I want a great home loan. The water drop dot com. Look, it can rain. I feel like a character from a movie that lives out like during the dust bowl or some period of time in which a drop of rain comes and you're like, is it going to happen? Oh my gosh, our prayers have been answered. I feel I now know exactly what those people went through.

1:00Dance faster. Dance hard. Hey, in 2012, a mob armed with guns and grenades launched a fiery night long attack on a US diplomatic outpost and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. And there has been some really good on stew peters, podcasts and on. Oh, I can't think of that guy's name. He's ex, he's an ex Navy CEO does a podcast as well. There has been some really good people that they've interviewed to get a lot of the backstory on this to which rarely ever do you all. You, you hear what it is that journalists want to promote. But some of the backstory on this is, it was just phenomenal. In 2023, over 4,000 people died and thousands more were missing after heavy rain from Mediterranean storm Daniel caused two

2:04dams to collapse flooding the city of Derna, Libya. Wow, Libya is completely in the news today, isn't it? Yeah. In 2008, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama put aside politics as they visited ground zero together on the anniversary of 9-11 to honor its victims. There's still a lot of unanswered questions on that issue too. In 1985, a man that deserves to be in the baseball hall of A.M. Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds broke Ty Cobb's major league baseball career hits record with his 4,192 hit. 1973 Chilean president Salvador Yende died during a violent military coup led by General Augusto Pinot. Oh, is it Penelope?

3:06It's funny when you look at these words. The dude's French, but the way his last name is spelled versus the way you pronounce it is completely different because they have a little pronunciation thing there. Oh, dude. You must know I read these things on the air or something. In 1954, the Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC. 1941, the groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon. In 1936, Boulder Dam later renamed Hoover Dam began operation as president Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the start-up of the Dam's first hydroelectric generator. It must have been that staples button that Hillary used later at some point. In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first US Secretary of the Treasury in 1814 and American fleet scorted decisive victory over the

4:06British in the Battle of Lake Champaign in the War of 1812. And, of course, actually, we now have back to back. We have two days of memoriam because yesterday was the first annus' anniversary of Charlie Kirk being unalived. And then, of course, today we have the 25th anniversary of the attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. for 9-11. Which, of course, was only outdone in tragedy by January 6. Of course, we're still- That is true. Nearly three thousand people were killed as 19 Al-Keta hijackers, seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and Arlington, Virginia. The fourth into a field in Western Pennsylvania. The fourth in the history remains the deadliest terror attack in history.

5:11But there's also a massive amount of unanswered questions. Like, how did people talk on the cell phones back then in the airplane? Now, granted, I know the planes also had phones that like a satellite phone. But they were making the case that they were talking to them for like long durations of time on a cell phone. So, how were they talking on the cell phones? I think at least some of them had not- I mean, they had just recently taken off. They had not fully reached, I guess, what they call cruising altitudes. That may be part of the reason some of those, yeah, that they were able to. Because it is crazy to think about just even how limited cell phone technology compared to today was back then out. Just on the streets. Yeah, because through the passage of time, you now have people like who weren't alive back then who don't understand that you used to go through these zones where you did not have cell coverage.

6:15They would just- You would just up and drop, you would roam. Yeah, you- it cost extra. Well, I think it's funny that there- That under a certain age today has no concept, probably no knowledge that it used to cost you every minute. Yeah, it was totally funny if I said that in a minute. Yeah, and then there were- And you still had to pay like a $250. And then there were nights and weekends, which meant at overnight and on weekends that- And this is a great thing about a free market system. Everybody trying to figure out how can we get more customers. We have to provide a better experience. And so, you have the nights and weekends where, oh, sign up with us. And on nights and weekends, maybe you could just talk all you want. Don't have to worry about it. You could just just talk all you want. You could just talk all you want. And it's a very good experience. But I think we're a part of the market. And there's a lot of things that we're going to do. We're going to have to pay first, first, for free.

7:16And text messages cost per text. You sent that eventually in order to, you know, compete with the competition out in the landscape. And of course, now, while, you know, of course, there are all sorts of fees. and see I grew up when we had a party line, land line at the house. So you had to pick up the phone to make sure not that somebody in your house was on it, but somebody down the road wasn't on it, because if they were talking, you couldn't dial out, you couldn't do anything. And of course there was a lot of ease drop in back there. So you talk about privacy, right? Especially if you didn't have TV. I mean that was your personal every episode of the show. It was a new episode entertainment by listening in on the party lines. And you had to, you allowed the poll that the antenna sat on. You didn't tighten it completely down so you could walk outside and twist it to zoom in on the best coverage.

8:17And then all of a sudden you had this little machine that you could push a button and it would do it for you. That's rich. Rich rich there. It's kind of weird now looking back on some of the things that I had in my childhood versus what it has occurred now. And you take a party line, people go party line. What is that you explain it to them? They're going like no way. None of that would have ever occurred. And suddenly you realize that you are your parent that was telling you, you know, when I was a kid and you're like, oh no, that's where I am now. Or I'm that generation where there are generations that didn't even know things were the way that they were. When the girl child was young, well, when my grandmother was still alive, she still in her basement had a rotary phone. And so I made a point, though she probably doesn't remember because I don't even know if she was probably around kindergarten, took her down there to use it.

9:17I had her call Morgan's phone. So she could just experience, you know, and her age probably she didn't realize what an odd concept it was because at that age, pretty much everything is new to you anyhow. But yeah, I remember taking her down there and having her go, you know, dial the number. Yeah, I grew up with rotary phones. And all of a sudden the push button came along. It's like, wow, that's high tech there. You don't have to dial your favorite. But one of the things I always ask people when they grew up with rotary phones, did you leave your finger in the button and allow it to come back with your finger in it? Oh, no, I never pulled your finger out. Yeah. Now, I say that I did have a lot of experience with it because my grandparents had it. Now, when I was growing up, you were past that era. But my grandparents had one, all my growing up. And so I always use it there. Yeah, no, I always let my finger out. See, there were people who did it both ways, which is what I find amusing that there are people

10:18who like, one of the seven, they would take it around. And then instead of taking her finger out and allowing the phone to go back, they would go back with it. Oh, no, that's not nearly as satisfying. There was something satisfying about going all the way to the nine and then letting it go and slowly. Yeah, because it paid a little musical to it. Yeah, yeah, it did a clicking. We've got Tom Arts with us. It's the Friday Road Show here at Scrambleers. I'm Nick Reed. In Claremont County, Ohio. A man who was facing felony vandalism charges for allegedly destroying a flock camera and union township has had his case dismissed. Cody Moorlock was accused of damaging the camera on Mount Carmel, Tabasco Road near Glen Rose Lane on June 13th according to Union Township Police. Investigators alleged Moorlock removed bolts securing the camera system, bringing down the camera, solar panel, and support pole before destroying the equipment.

11:19Police said to surveillance footage from other nearby cameras helped identify Moorlock as the suspect. The flock camera is leased by the Union Township Police Department and authorities estimated damage exceeded $1,000. And the grand jury said there's nothing to see here. Really? We are not going to... ...interesting... Offer the availability to press charges. And I think people are getting to the point where they're getting frustrated. You see movies like Kill Dozer, you see the events of Randy Weaver, Waco, part of 9-11 lore is the fact that before 9-11 occurred, A, you had somebody make the case that you need to have that type of an event to get us to do things that we would not normally do. You had Donald Rumsfeld making the case that the Department of Defense was missing like 2.3 trillion,

12:22which according to Catherine Austin Fits of the Salari Group, it now... I think within years she had it up over $10 trillion that the Department of Defense could not figure out where this money went. And we're closing in on 40 trillion in debt. So... Got a lot to show for it, though. Yeah, people out of government... Well, yesterday I was listening to... I think it was Joe Rogan. And he was... I think he was interviewing a guy that deals with... He's like in the upper echelon of the people who... ...get AI to do things. And this gentleman was like... ...this is scary. We got to back away from this, because it's going to get out of control, and we can't control. Because he was kind of predicting within the next two decades, maybe three, that mankind will be completely erased from planet Earth.

13:22Well, we're all going to die here. And of course, I mean, as we continue to build more and more data centers, when I was a kid back in the 70s, there were movies that were made of how AI takes over like a... A government complex, or... Yeah, terminators, all those types of movies. And you get to the point where people are getting to the point where they're frustrated, they're upset, their governmental body has gotten to the point where they believe that they need to be surveilled 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And if you get the right people on a grand jury, jury nullification, they can go, nah, that's not a crime. He was protecting the people from having their rights infringed upon. You can't charge him with any. Well, and this is the other thing about it. I may have stated it with you. This debate occurs, is it Constitution, is it not? Is it not a violation? Is it a violation of my rights?

14:24As if that should be the deciding factor. And I'm like, that's a great discussion to have. But even if one is to determine that, well, it's not a violation of my Constitution rights, it doesn't mean that it has to happen either. You know, we still as citizens could say, well, okay, maybe constitutionally, you can argue, and maybe even I agree that government has the right to do it. But that doesn't mean that we have to allow it. We're supposed to be, it's supposed to be a governed by the people. And so if we, as a people decide we don't want that, then it shouldn't be happening. Whether it's Constitution or not. When people make that argument in no disrespect, but people completely forget the fact that the 9th Amendment exists. Now, granted, it shouldn't even need to be written that the people have the right to do whatever, as long as they are not in violation of somebody else's rights. I mean, I hear all the time in the state of Missouri about what we need to do, big red things.

15:26You know what? Go to Harrisburg, Missouri. And do big red things. Tell the Boone County Health Department to butt out. But what they do is they create these laws that go, well, if you're going to eat out at Applebees, we need certain criteria, certain health inspections, certain this, certain that. And then they'll, they get this little phrase where the agency has the availability to promulgate the rules by which it exists and how they implement certain policies which have been passed by the General Assembly. The General Assembly never, to my knowledge, will go back and look through these rules to determine, well, okay, where did you get the authority to do this? Because it's definitely not in state statute. You just up and took that authority. So this lady up in Harrisburg, she decided she's going to cook breakfast

16:27for the people in the community and the people in the community combine have breakfast at her house. And the Boone County Health Department, which Boone County is where Columbia is that, of course, they've decided that she has to, she has to completely redo her kitchen to a commercial kitchen. Yeah, because they say because these gatherings, not much different than a popluck where everybody brings some food, but instead of them bringing the food, they just help financially contribute in order to cover the cost of the food. So that's where they're like, well, you're just the same as a restaurant, you know. You know where you won't find the Boone County Health Department? You won't find them on a Saturday morning in the University of Missouri parking lot, making the same case for these tailgate parties. Well, of course not, that's government. The University's her government. The fact that this woman is going to have to end Dave Rollin with the Goldwater Institute and with the Freedom Center of Missouri

17:30is representing this lady in court. And it's infuriating and it's frustrating that the people have to spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars because you either hired or allowed tyranny to start getting implemented within a community and you allowed it and allowed it and allowed it. And then finally when you get upset, you go, oh, I need to fight it. No, you need to fight it back when it was being implemented. You chose to ignore it. Now that it's finally at your doorstep, you're going to complain that it occurred. Well, better late than never. Yes, I'll final thought here on the whole flock camera debate. Part of what I don't like about it is what it signals in terms of our expectations as Americans. And like a lot of people I remember growing up and you learned about the Stasi and the KGB.

18:31So oftentimes all we do is we think about them in a political context. But the vast majority of their efforts were focused on monitoring civilians to make sure civilians didn't do anything wrong. Or if the civilian did do something wrong, oh, well, we already have a file on the MAK. We already have the evidence. And what was these lessons were taught to us as this is what defines us as different as a country. Is we aren't a surveillance police state. We aren't constantly monitoring you just to see if you do anything wrong. Instead, if there's a crime committed, it gets reported. Evidence is gathered. And then the evidence leads to or the goal is that the evidence leads to the person who committed the crime and then they're punished. And that was the exact opposite of the authoritarian perspective of, well, instead of that, instead of waiting for a crime. We'll just monitor you all the time. That way we have the evidence already in hand. And that we've shifted to that.

19:32And a lot of people's minds. That is that in their minds and then their emotions, they're perfectly comfortable with us being the surveillance state. And I just hate to see that for our country because your country is your culture. I mean, you know, yeah, you can have laws, laws end up being led by culture oftentimes. And the fact that our mindset is now the mindset of citizens of East Germany and Soviet Union in terms of surveillance. I just, I really hate that. It's to me that that is a huge massive cultural death of America. You know, I remember George Bush the younger making the case that, hey, you're not to believe any of the conspiracies that you're going to hear of what brought about 9-11. And also they hate us for our freedom. Well, I was old enough at that time to question what freedom? Well, I mean, being the last of the baby boomers. Yeah. But even if I grew up in an era where we actually had freedom.

20:34Yeah. I want to make a point on that, that component too, because I think there's a really uncomfortable point to be made about who has done more to diminish our freedom. The terrorists on 9-11 or ourselves in response to the terrorists on 9-11. Tom Arts with us talking about freedoms in 9-11. And you know, after there's so much bumper sticker rhetoric that came out of 9-11, one being we'll never forget. But the other one, we won't let them change who we are. And I'm thinking of the number of things that we did to ourselves in terms of denying our rights to privacy and certain liberties and used the terrorist as the reason for it. So I'm wondering how we're saying we're not going to let them change who we are. But by the way, here's how we're going to change because of what they did. Now like that is the exact opposite of we won't let them change who we are.

21:37And our government has done far more to take away or violate our freedoms and liberties than those hijackers ever did. I mean, obviously I'm not done to fit to the hijackers, but it's just crazy to me that we allowed, in some capacity gave them part of what they wanted. And that is for the loss of the Western style recognition of freedoms and liberty in this country. We just like did it for them. See, I think incrementally we've been doing this all along. But at one point in time, a person really had conceptually had an understanding of what their rights were. Therefore, they also understood what now it's does not pertain to everybody because you still had people killing people, you still had people robbing people. But conceptually, most people understood that if I have the right to do this, then my neighbor has the right to do this.

22:41And I think incrementally we've now gotten to the point where you know, the nosy neighbor, well, I don't want my neighbor doing this. I don't want my neighbors having a backyard barbecue, so we'll create an ordinance for it. One of the discussions that John Williams was having on his Missouri Liberty report podcast was a gentleman somewhere up in, I think it's in St. Charles, like Rose Sunflowers in his front yard. Well, he doesn't meet the sunflower to lawn ratio. And then when they took measurements to figure out that he does meet the flower to lawn ratio, then they up and change the law or change the ordinance. And then they recited him, forget about expo's facto. You can't make something illegal when it was legal and then decide that you're going to write somebody a ticket for it. And this is another one of Dave Rollins cases where you've got this gentleman decided to and based on my reading of it, he specifically did it in a manner to make sure that he did not violate city ordinances.

23:50But yet the city, somebody turned him in because how dare you plant sunflower in your front lawn, just like we've had people here in Springfield turned in because they dared to grow tomatoes in their front yard or watermelons or something that they did. And you've got that nosy neighbor concept that we've become more accepting of people being turned in for something that somebody else doesn't like. I mean, I've got literally six times that I have been turned in for the outhouse that I've got underneath my oak tree in the front yard. It's freaking insane. But people can do this anonymously. Take away the anonymously crap and allow me to then litigate a suit against the person that turns me in because I dare have a cedar outhouse in my front yard that they don't like sitting underneath my oak tree. And it's just, it's not even falling apart. It's completely standing upright. It's going to door on it. It's not like there's somebody in there using it.

24:56It's not an out. I mean, it's not a gots to go. Yeah. Plastic outhouse. It looks like an old school. Yeah. And it's just people don't for some reason they don't want to mind their own blank and business. That's true. And they want to put inject themselves into everybody else's business. This is called a center of the universe syndrome where once upon a time, if you saw something you didn't like, you know, like, eh, well, free country, right? You know, so you don't even hear people say that anymore. And there's a reason for that. And so these people with center of the universe syndrome, they think that they should be the center of the universe. So they see something that they personally dislike. Well, I'm going to get government to change that for me. Like, you're not the center of the universe. Fortunately, some people are treated as if they are. And all it does is it feeds the madness. And sadly, we elect people like that too. I know what people vote for people specifically because of that. And particularly not just on the left, but it's really their bread and butter is using that.

26:02These people over here are bad vote for me. I'll get them, you know, rich people are bad. We'll get them or these people are bad. We'll get them or those people are bad. We'll get them vote for us. And so they play into that desire of people with the center of the universe syndrome. And then, but the funny thing is when those center of the universe syndrome people, it turns against them. They're just shocked and don't understand it. There was a guy who was a liberal podcaster a few weeks ago that was, and he was one of the top professors at some liberal university in a podcaster. And he was dismayed and shocked when his name got listed by Mamdani as one of these homeowners of a million dollar, whatever that listing of people. He just could not believe. I mean, you can tell he genuinely was shocked that that would be done to him. And it's like these people that they they don't want equality. They don't want people treated the same in terms of government.

27:12They want government to be a weapon that they can use against others, but certainly not ever against them. That's why I'm finding the I've been kind of following the congressional district mapping on social media. And it surprises me how many people and I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but how many people who are trying to make the case in reality what we should have is probably like a five three or a four four congressional district. And to them, they don't see that as Jerry Mandarin. They're just making the case well because we believe that 50% of the state is Democrat and 50% of the state is Republican. Then the maps need to be drawn in a manner to make it so that the Democrats have for the Republicans have for. And we can be the purple state that were meant to be. And when you ask them, well, so what what you're asking for is to Jerry Mandarin or the map.

28:17So you've got four Democrats and four Republicans in their response as normally. No, not at all. Yeah, I'm just looking to make sure that the state of Missouri is equally represented. And the reason for that is because they don't even know what the word means. They have just been told, oh, it's a bad thing and Republicans are doing it. And because Republicans are doing it and it's a bad thing. Jerry Mandarin is a bad thing. It's the same time you'll see these people on the left call. Oh, you're a fascist. And they don't even know what that means because they're generally the ones that are pushing fascism. There was one. I can't tell you how many times I have been told by people on the right that I'm on the left. Well, sure. And it's because. And I'm the limited government guy. But there, I know that there was this story. It was several years ago. Well, maybe not that long ago, but it was. There was some department in New York, some governmental department that was going to lift. I think the mask requirement or something and Antifa protested out front.

29:17And I'm thinking you say your Antifa, you present yourself as being anti fascist, but you are demanding that government continue to force people to wear a mask. And it's because like a lot, they don't even know what the term fascist means. They just know, oh, it's bad. And those people are bad. So that must mean that's what you know, that means they're fascists. And they don't even know what the definition is. Yeah, when you tell somebody who is part of Antifa or they relate to people or an antifa that you know, that's actually a fascist group. Well, no, no, they're anti. No, they actually are part of a fascist group because they're demanding and dictating that it must be my way or the highway. But we've got more people love it or leave it my way or the highway. You know, you got these statements that people, people make and I go back to a timeframe. I remember when I was listening to one specific at the time, it was called block talk radio. That was the only podcasting platform that existed. And of course, I think it started in oh six. Well, it's five years after 9, 11, but there were some very good podcast or block talk radio people.

30:29Talking 9, 11, they got completely de-platformed, got taken off. Sure. And then all of a sudden years later, people start to get well, this is the first time in history. No, actually it goes way, way, way, way, way, way, way back. One of my favorites is to point out people that really embrace socialism. But they again, they refer to more constitutionally minded people as Nazis because they're the bad guys, Nazis are bad. And when you enlighten them as to the fact that the not that was the socialist party of Germany, the German worker's socialist party, that was the Nazi party. And if they a lot of times they'll just deny it's true, I'm like, okay, but sometimes they'll say, well, they just called themselves that. Like, why would they just randomly decide to call themselves a political ideology that they're not? Like, when has that ever been done before? They're like, hey guys, I know that we're not this over here. But just for fun, let's say that we are. What sense does that make? But again, total disconnect from reality, from knowledge. And it's very, very difficult to deal with those people.

31:36We've got Tom Arts with us more coming up traffic update. I'm Nick Reed. You need to learn how to do a fosbury flop. I don't know what that is. It sounds like a sex move. You don't know what a fosbury flop is? No. Okay, you know how they do the high jump in the Olympics where the person runs. Oh, and then they turn their back towards the pole and they leap up and over top of the bar. It didn't used to be done that way. They used to basically go face first and try to hurdle it with their whole entire body. The gentleman by the last name of fosbury, when he when he ran towards the bar, just before he was ready to jump, he turns his back towards it, takes his two feet and launches himself up out. Into the air and up and over the bar and onto the mat. His last name was fosbury. So the announcers then started to refer to that as the fosbury flop. Okay. We're told. And I can't remember if it was the defense or if it was the prosecution for Tyler Robertson, we're told that up on the roof, he did a fosbury flop.

32:44When I started cracking up laughing because I knew I knew what a fosbury flop is. But you wouldn't know that term. Well, you knew it. And I'm thinking, wait a minute. Okay. I don't. Hey, I don't remember anyone on the roof running towards a wall and then doing a fosbury flop over the wall. And you're going to land on gravel. You're not landing on a soft mat. Who went to write mind on this roof is going to do a fosbury flop. I don't know a furry. I just think it's hilarious. One that they use that term into you. Were you at the time like, I bet I'm the only one who knows what they're talking about. Oh, no, I know there are other people who do it too. There are these random tips of knowledge that for some reason don't leave my head. And then we hear it. It's like, thank you. Yeah. Somebody else knows not only knows, but activated it for usage. Hey, we've got a we've got an amendment coming up on the ballot November, amendment six, Darren Chappell reference this here.

33:49Here, this is actually semi the ballot title. This is because this is like a who's who of what can and shouldn't be done in the state of Missouri. So shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right. Okay, you can't you can't make her away somebody else's right simply by using the ballot box. Therefore, it's not a fundamental right. However, the people do have the right to redress grievances with their government. So in reality, it is a fundamental right. It doesn't need to be proclaimed to be such allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits. What does that have to do with the initiative petition process or what does it have to do with making the initiative petition process a fundamental right. Nothing.

34:50It prohibits the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers. No, I don't want that either prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws and acted through the initiative process or passing laws similar to those rejected by referendums. Without approval from at least 80% of both chambers. So if we decide that we want to see X within state law, they're making it pretty much so that we the people are then are going to have to do another IP to remove what it is that we put into law or in the Constitution. Because you're not going to get 80% of the general assembly to agree on anything unless it's taken away the rights of the people, then they seem to be in lockstep. Preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions. So basically they're trying to make the case that we're going to prohibit the people's representatives from being able to correct something that we've done stupidly as in we the people.

36:04But yet we the people demand that we have to have access to the ballot through the revised statue to Missouri and the state Constitution to change when the general assembly does something stupid. So we now have lady liberty. Her scale was no longer balanced. It's. It's a bit. Well, this is the kind of thinking that people do when they they have too much time on her hands. Well, and I mean that's a lot of information a short amount of time when it gets closer to November, well, I'm sure break it down more time. Thanks, sir. So yeah, you.