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March 21, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Thanksgiving with the Health Ranger: Things I’m thankful for
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I was talking to Billy Bob from New Orleans about what he's thankful for on this Thanksgiving.
And, you know, he said something like, Well, I'm thankful for that instant gravy mix.
You know, they got that good gravy.
That's one of my favorites.
And I'm thankful for that CNN. You know, it's got that free TV, that television that keeps me all up to date on everything that's happening out there.
Oh, yeah.
That's Billy Bob from New Orleans.
And he's thankful for some really shallow stuff.
Oh, I'm thankful for the Obamacare got a new copay for my medication.
Every time I go into the pharmacy, all I need to do is give them down $5 now.
That's...
All right.
In any case, I'm ruining my throat with some of these impressions.
This segment, and welcome.
Thanks for joining me.
This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, on TalkNetwork.com.
This section is about what I'm thankful for, for Thanksgiving.
And, of course, I always like to throw in some voice impersonations and some humor and some satire.
I've been trying lately...
To just see how many people I can possibly offend.
Because I love this idea that I can alter someone's emotions with my words.
It's just amazing.
It's such a symptom of a pathetic society where everybody's...
Oh, I'm so offended!
Oh, that's so inappropriate!
And these words are two of my favorite words.
It's inappropriate and it's offensive.
What does that mean?
I'm a big fan of George Carlin and Richard Pryor.
The two best comics, in my opinion, I grew up listening to Richard Pryor.
It was awesome.
Down in Tupelo, Mississippi.
You know, Richard Pryor, he didn't care if you were offended.
He didn't care if you didn't think that was appropriate.
He was out there.
He was, bring me back a paper.
You know, got my blue balls coming home at 11 p.m.
Bring me back a paper.
If you remember that bit, that was really funny.
And of course, George Carlin.
Did, you know, the seven words you can't say on TV. And I'm not going to repeat them because I don't use a lot of profanity.
But George Carlin was fantastic.
He didn't care if you were offended.
He's just going to lay it out there.
A great American comic and a great representation of the free expression, the First Amendment.
And that's what I like to do, too.
And I don't buy into this liberal nonsense that everything's so offensive.
You know, oh, my God, you said something and it hurt my feelings.
Really?
Really?
I didn't know you gave me that kind of control over your life.
That's amazing.
I'm like the puppet master, I guess, yanking your chain then.
I can utter a word and your whole emotional state changes?
That's amazing!
So, you know, I do try to kind of push that a little bit, mostly to teach people that you need to grow up and be adults and take ownership over your own emotional state, for God's sake.
You know, you're not, I hope, six years old anymore.
You're not running around a candy shop.
Say, Mommy, Mommy, I want a lollipop.
And, you know, your mom says, you can't have one.
Not today.
Crying, crying, crying.
Well, that's when you're six years old.
Yeah, your parents have control over your emotional state.
But, you know, hopefully when you get to be 18, 19, 20, 25, 30.
Hopefully at that point you might understand that you're an adult and you have control over your own emotional state, and just because someone calls you something nasty like, oh, I'm a white guy, you honky, you cracker, you racist bastard!
Crack of saltine, whatever.
If someone calls me that, it just makes me laugh because it's just so damn funny that people think words can control me.
It doesn't even work.
I don't know where people get that.
It's so funny.
Anyway, getting back on track, some of the things that I'm thankful for for Thanksgiving, number one would be the fact that we have freedom of expression in America, which is what I'm demonstrating right now.
By even saying, I hope you're offended.
I hope that you think this is highly inappropriate.
That is, the fact that I can utter that and not be arrested, not be thrown in prison, means that we still live in something resembling a free country.
Believe it or not, we still do.
And that's something I'm very, very thankful for.
Because I recognize fully how hard our forefathers fought for the establishment of these freedoms that you and I are exercising right now.
Because you could also record something.
You could post something.
You could be even more offensive than I am if you wanted to.
And that would be awesome.
That would be just awesome.
Go after the college students, by the way.
They haven't been offended enough, I think.
We need a double dose heaping of offense.
On to the college students these days, just to remind them that the world is not going to cater to their little pampered whims, right?
But we have this freedom of expression, and it's a wonderful, amazing thing.
We can criticize the president.
We can make jokes about Hillary Clinton, although she does try to intimidate the comics that make jokes about her, if you saw that news recently.
But we can crack jokes about the president.
We can joke about Obama.
And the Obamination that has happened in America and the, I don't even, I guess I don't have a joke in mind for Obama at the moment, but I mean his whole presidency is a joke, right?
So we can joke about him and guess what?
We don't get arrested.
And that is as it should be.
We should be able to criticize the government.
We should be able to ask questions.
We should be able to criticize each other.
You should be able to call me a total freaking prick if you want.
You know, just do that in the comment section below there, and we'll ban it.
See?
You have freedom of speech.
You can say anything you want, and I can too.
And, you know, as long as we're not calling for, like, We're not calling for violence.
We're making fun of the status quo most of the time.
We're making fun of the political system.
We're making fun of ludicrous, insane leftist thinking.
People who don't understand economics and mathematics in terms of national debt and government spending.
We've got to make fun of those people because they're so hilarious to watch.
It's like...
Watching greased pigs fighting over a football or something.
It's just, really?
This is a circus going on.
You people are so damn funny.
So we have this First Amendment and I'm so thankful for that on this Thanksgiving Day.
I just have to express it.
I have to exercise my First Amendment right because if we don't exercise it, then we don't really preserve it.
You see what I mean?
You got to use it or you lose it.
Alright, so I invite you to exercise your First Amendment right as well.
And speak what's on your mind.
Say what you believe.
Be like Donald Trump.
Just say it out there.
Donald Trump's like, yeah, these people crossing the borders of illegal aliens, they're rapists.
They're rapists and murderers, you know?
And the whole press just went after him and said, oh, this guy, he's a racist.
And Donald Trump's like, nope, they really are rapists and murderers.
And he was right.
There are some rapists and murderers.
Doesn't mean they're all rapists and murderers, but, you know, some of them were.
So he was right, and he got popular for that.
Hey, I'm telling you, telling the truth is popular.
Well, I should qualify that.
Telling the truth on some things is popular.
On other things is not.
I've noticed that if you tell people how much lead is in the food they're eating, they're not too happy about that.
So there are some truths that are not popular.
Nevertheless, let's move on to the next thing that I'm thankful for.
All right, Thanksgiving.
What else am I thankful for?
Here's the thing.
I am thankful that we have not only a First Amendment right, but I'm thankful that we have a Second Amendment right.
Yep.
Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms.
And why do we need a Second Amendment right?
Because it is the right that protects all other rights.
Without a Second Amendment, we would not have a First Amendment.
Without a Second Amendment, we would have been overrun by tyranny long ago.
The Second Amendment is not about hunting.
As Judge Napolitano said, it's not about shooting animals, it's about shooting tyrants.
That's his quote.
And, you know, he's correct in that.
It's about protecting the population from overbearing oppressive criminal government regimes.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And you'll find the truth about that.
So I'm thankful for the Second Amendment.
And in the same way that I like to exercise my First Amendment rights, I'm also going to exercise my Second Amendment rights.
So I will be doing some target shooting.
I'm going to be sighting in a new scope that I have on a rifle this weekend.
I'm going to sight that in.
Can't wait to do that.
Going to be blasting some ammo.
And usually where I live, I hear other people blasting some ammo.
And every once in a while, I hear some full auto going, too.
Somebody's got like an M60 from Vietnam somewhere around here.
It's just awesome to hear that thing go off.
It's the sound of freedom.
I don't know what gunfire means to you.
A lot of people who are liberals, people who live in cities, they're all freaked out by gunfire.
There's a lot of violence and violence.
Everybody duck.
Everybody duck.
Out here in the country, we're like, yeah.
It's the sound of freedom.
You know, the larger the explosion, the freer we are, you know, big guns, big 50 cows, people firing all kinds of stuff out here.
And they're blowing things up with that.
What is that?
That, that legal, it's a legal, um, kind of an accelerant.
Um, it's a powder.
I forgot what it's called, but you hit it with a rifle round and it sort of explodes, even though it's not a fiery explosion.
It's not illegal at all.
You can buy it online.
It just makes a big boom, basically.
People use it for July 4th, and they use it on New Year's Eve, and it's a lot of fun.
You hear those things going off.
Everyone's a boom!
You know, from a few miles away, like, yeah!
Another one going off.
Sometimes there's just like rednecks out there blowing shit up, because that's their form of entertainment, which is fine.
Nothing wrong with that.
It's better than watching TV and getting stuck on Dancing with Stars, as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, so Thanksgiving, I'm very thankful for that.
Here's another thing, and this is going to get a little bit kind of religious or divine or whatever.
I'm thankful that we have consciousness.
I'm thankful that we are free will people, that we have the ability to think for ourselves, and that we have a sense of self-awareness.
And because we are conscious beings, by the way, we are also connected to the divine consciousness.
And maybe this sounds a little new-agey to you or something, but I'm telling you, I'm serious.
If we weren't conscious beings, then there would be no point in being alive.
You'd just be a biological robot acting out chemical urges or something.
But we're not.
We can make decisions.
We can change our behavior.
We have creativity.
We're connected to the divine.
We have free will.
We have consciousness.
And by the way, there is life after death.
Just so you know, this is not the end of your existence.
And that's something that I'm thankful for, too.
I mean, thank God...
For that, because if this is all there is in the universe, I'm not very impressed, frankly.
There's got to be more out there than just this, because this world is pretty jacked up.
There's got to be something better.
And I'm not saying that's the basis of my reasoning for this.
There are a lot of other reasons, but it's just an observation.
So I'm thankful for that.
And I'm out of time here, but those are three big things.
I'm thankful for freedom of expression, and that's why I practice it, and that's why I really kind of push it sometimes just constantly.
For fun, you know, to see, to make sure I'm exercising it.
I'm thankful for the Second Amendment so that we can be safe in a world full of extremist, oppressive governments that commit genocide.
And thirdly, I'm thankful that we have consciousness and free will and that we are connected to the divine.
So how's that?
How's that list?
Think about your list.
What are you thankful for on this Thanksgiving?
And be mindful of whatever that list is.
Have a great holiday and I'll talk to you again soon.
Take care.
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