Tony is now is Alan Stivo. He's a best-selling author. Here's some of his books,

give you an idea of how important there. Face masks in one lesson. Face masks hurt kids,

the Bitcoin Manifesto. And began back in 2012, How to Win America for Ron Paul and the Cause of Freedom.

So he's focused on liberty, as you can tell from his books.

He writes for The Hill, Daily Caller, Meases.org, City Journal, New York Post, many others.

And he launched his first Bitcoin startup back in 2013.

Boy, you time that right. So joining us now is Alan

Stivo. Thank you for joining us, sir. Thank you, David, so much for your work. Thank you for having me.

Oh, it's great to have you on. Now, you're in California, right? Down San Francisco, yes, sir.

Yeah. Oh, wow. You're at the epicenter of a lot of these problems here. Tell us what you're

seeing on the ground there in California from a Liberty perspective. Are they getting over this, this pandemic panic? Or is it still got the mask stuck on their faces? There's a lot of people who are stuck in that, as you can expect. And throughout throughout this all i've just been kind of encouraging people

you know uh you can you can spend all your time focusing on the the the hyenas of the world the

the klaus schwab types the bill gates types and if you spend too much time there you got to know what

they're doing but if you spend too much time there you're going to bum yourself yourself out. You can spend a lot of time. There's this other group of people

who are kind of sheep-like. I don't mean to be pejorative with that, but they're just kind of looking

to not stick their necks out and to try to stay with the folks around them, look for the best

leader to follow. If you spend too much time looking at those

folks you know your neighbor who's wearing five masks still and who's been jabbed 12 times um yeah

you're gonna bum yourself out you want to know what they're up to too but but if you can just kind of

find the lions in your midst and help wake them up a little bit uh help to encourage them, you're going to have really

enjoyable moments overwhelmingly. And that's kind of what I'm focusing on a lot and seeing a lot.

And this is people who three years ago would have not even worried about anything political, would not even have asked questions about

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