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Well, all right again, welcome back. Once again to the active self-protection podcast. I am as always your host,

Mike Willover, and I remain your favorite former Fed. With me today, a new friend of mine,

his name is Zach. He goes by the moniker Liberty Troll. Zach is a First Amendment auditor, citizen journalist. He's in central Florida. Zach has two kids and Zach came to our attention through a video that kind of went, is viral safe to say, Zach, it went viral? Oh yeah, I would say so. Okay, yes, of someone who didn't want to be videotaped in public. And so that's kind of what we're

going to talk about here today. Zach, how are you, sir? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on your show. No problem. Thanks for coming on. I appreciate it. So this week isn't the traditional, you know, Zach, I don't know if you know what we do here, but normally we have someone who's been a defensive encounter on. We kind of focus on the defensive encounter. In your case, you had a

defensive encounter, but we're going to in a defensive encounter on. We kind of focus on the defensive

encounter. In your case, you had a defensive encounter, but we're going to focus a little bit more

on what it is you do and why you do it. I think most folks who are on the internet for more than

five seconds have seen a First Amendment auditor and kind of understand what that means. But for those

who have no idea what we're talking about, can you kind of define what it is you do and kind of understand what that means. But for those who have no idea what we're talking about,

can you kind of define what it is you do and kind of what got you into this?

Yeah. So a First Amendment auditor, for me, that's someone who exercise or asserts rights,

the right to record in public that comes from our freedom of press,

liberties under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. So that could be a range from being on a sidewalk, conducting an audit

outside of a private business, all the way to inside of a public lobby, inside of a public

building that has taxpayer funded and open to the general public. So there's a little bit of a debate

on what's classified as

auditing, even in the auditing community. Some people think that the sidewalk audits don't really

count because it kind of started as more as a promoting of transparency and accountability

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