[00:00:05] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Back with you live, ladies and gentlemen. Costs of everything are going up because of the war, and there's no end in sight. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. I'm Sam Bushman with Dr. Scott Bradley.
[00:00:30] It is a freedom-loving, fantastic, extended Constitution Day elongated weekend, and it is a freedom-loving, fantastic. We're taking America back one heart, one mind, one faithful Friday at a time. Welcome to the broadcast, ladies and gentlemen. Every day, in fact, not just Fridays, but I can just tell you, wow, there's a lot to do to protect God, family, and country. The job never ends. Welcome to the show, and Dr. Bradley, welcome. And costs for everything are going up, sir.
[00:01:00] There's no doubt about it, and in fact, the buffer zones that have been used to mitigate the challenges that the war has brought about, it just absolutely astounds me that there's so many people, this is kind of a side note, but there is just an almost unnumbered amount of people in the nation today that have lost the ability to connect the dots.
[00:01:22] And when they were celebrating, dancing in the streets, not quite, but about this idea that we're going against Iran to get rid of this 47-year bane and this thorn on our side and everything like that, they couldn't foresee some of this stuff. But what's been happening is our strategic petroleum reserves have been used to buffer the shutoff of 20 million barrels of oil a day,
[00:01:49] and now it's more than that because the Saudis have been shut down somewhat, and they're in danger of continuing to be shut down. We hear, oh, they'll have half their volume restored here shortly, and then the rest in a few weeks. Well, what happens when they bomb the heck out of that new repaired area of the thing? But at any rate, our reserves have been buffering that as we've poured into the market. China's done what we've done.
[00:02:13] Large countries that have had strategic petroleum reserves, but those are coming near the end. And Trump says, oh, we're going to take care of this with our Venezuelan production. That ain't going to happen for at least a year, maybe two. And these kinds of things are going to have ramifications. And there are very senior petroleum-knowledgeable people, not just executives, but others that talk about this and keep track of it,
[00:02:41] that are saying these shortages are going to become very real. Europe right now is facing jet fuel, for example, and diesel. Diesel is the lifeblood, if you will, of the entire production schedule, whether it's used to plow the fields or pump the irrigation water in there or to harvest the crops or to bring them to market or to take them to the end production lines. The diesel fuel situation is becoming critical.
[00:03:11] And in Europe, it already is. And right now in America, I drive a diesel. I'm well over $6 a gallon in that when I take that thing out and fire it up. And it ain't going to get any better. And you say, oh, well, we got gasoline. Well, most of your trucks drive with diesel. Most of your tractors do. Most of your production, you know, for... Trains that deliver containers of products. Trucks that deliver to your grocery stores. The list goes on and on and on.
[00:03:40] This undergirds everything that our economy thrives on. Everything, literally. And you've got... Oh, they're not countless, but they seem innumerable to me oftentimes. These people that say, oh, you're such a naysayer. You know, here back in February 28th when we started this war. When that started, everybody said, you're just too negative. You think it's just... Well, here the problem is, people, we're seven months into this thing, and it ain't even close to yet.
[00:04:10] We're not even in negotiations with the Iranians. And they say, well, I'm going to bomb the heck out of them. I mean, to keep it on the radio terminology. And they keep doing that. But you know what? Amen. It ain't happening, and it ain't going to make a difference. And when the Hornets get done being mad is when it's going to happen. And I remind people that after the Tet Offensive in May of 1968, the United States started negotiating
[00:04:40] with Hanoi, North Vietnam. And we did not sign until seven years later. We said, okay, fine, we're done. January of 1975. So that length of time that it took to bring closure to that thing, and we ain't even started yet to coin the term. Well, if they get large jumps in the cost of fuel, can the American people handle it? Most people drive decently far, go to work now.
[00:05:09] Most people depend on their vehicles to get groceries, to do almost everything. And or if they get groceries even delivered to their door, the cost, the last mile cost is going to go up. Like the shipping companies, FedEx, UPS, these kind of companies, they always, whenever the fuel costs go up, they add a fuel charge or whatever else. Pretty soon there's going to be just charges everywhere. Can we handle this? And then on top of that, they add insult to injury.
[00:05:37] And they raise interest rates a quarter percent. You can think that's no big deal, but now home loans are above seven percent. You know, everybody's going to be paying a lot, lot, lot more. There's many people now in research that says the American people since, you know, February 28th, when costs have started to go up due to fuel, have already paid $100 million in extra costs because of fuel. I mean, this is disaster, doctor. Our economy may never be the same again. Well, you're absolutely right.
[00:06:06] I mean, this is a transitional period. We're at a hinge point in history. And you bring up the quarter percent entries to the Fed and we could talk, you know, I know, don't get us started, you know, about the Fed and its private banking consortium for profit and blah, blah, blah. But they have now said, and Trump's handpicked chair that I think Trump felt like was on a pretty short string betrayed him, if you will, and raised it a quarter percent.
[00:06:32] But he says his excuse is, I watched his announcement and he says, you know, we've just had inflation that's been too large and too long and we've got to do something to cool this thing off. Well, look at what caused the inflation. It's the artificial injection of money created in thin air. You know, go back and think about those checks that people got in the COVID con that was going on. Stay home, get your check. It's okay.
[00:06:57] You put trillions of dollars into the economy and suddenly those dollars buy less because there's so many chasing the goods and services. And that's what the deal is. It's profligate spending by government and it's poor economic philosophy by the Fed that has no real constitutional authority to do anything. We could audit them. We could shut them down. We could get rid of them. It's been done before. And yeah, it had caused a big hit.
[00:07:24] All you need to do since they created the debt by fraud, there's $40 trillion in debt by fraud. All you need to do is create a Donald coin. You'd call it the Donald $40 trillion coin. And you just create that coin and then just pay it off and dismiss those clowns and go back to constitutional currency. You could even start by using U.S. dollars that have no interest attached as a bridge. There's a way to do this, folks, but we've got to have the guts to do it. You know, people have wound up dead trying to do it, though.
[00:07:52] So the bankers are evil and have plenty of control, and that's the problem. But it ought to be done, though. If it was created by fraud, it could be dissolved by fraud. Don't you think, doctor? Yeah, it wouldn't be fraud to dissolve it. But the fact of the matter is, what the Fed is doing is eyewash. Yeah, what I mean is there's no statute of limitations on fraud. And so you could just say, hey, because it was fraud to create it, we're just going to pay it off in like manner. And that's our way of ending the fraud, right? Right.
[00:08:19] Well, the Fed, I mean, look back at the Andy Jackson administration when he got rid of the first, you know, fraud. We're out of them, den of thieves out, right? The thing was that, well, there's a whole long story. It's a fascinating story, by the way, but we don't have time. But the fact of the matter is, the Fed was done away with. And Nicholas Biddle, who was the chair of the Fed, if you will, in those days, he threw a temper tantrum.
[00:08:47] There was some pretty big shutters that went through the economy of the United States. And there was some real downside to that. But after the shutters had gone through, we picked ourselves off off the dust of the ground, dusted ourselves off. And we went forward to a bigger, stronger, better America without the banksters running things. And so it can be done again, but it's not going to be done without pain. The longer we wait, I think the deeper the pain.
[00:09:15] So there's no question that the more swings from the economic bottle of false prosperity, the worse it gets. What we need to do is stop that, come to our senses, deal with the hangover and move on. And the sooner, the better. But the problem is, you know, Donald was the most likely to actually get that done. And I don't think he's even going to touch it with a 10-foot pole. He's critical of the Fed, but he doesn't have the guts to call it what it is, a criminal enterprise that needs to be shut down because it's all based on fraud. Yeah.
[00:09:42] In fact, people, I always recommend a guy that I respect immensely and have had some interaction with him over the years. G. Edward Griffin wrote The Creature from Jekyll Island. I strongly recommend you read it. It's not a deep, dark, heavy, economic, you know, masterful thesis. It reads like a page-turner, a mystery novel. People get engaged, and it's hard to put it down. It's been required reading in my family for decades, literally.
[00:10:11] And so I think people need to pick that little book up. It's not little. Don't get overwhelmed by the size. Pick it up, start reading it, and you'll be reading it. It's not as long as Atlas shrugs, so take comfort, people. Well, The Natural Shugs is not nearly as good as Griffin's book. Well, you're right about that for sure, too. I'm just saying it's shorter and better, so you've got to dig it. It's a creature from Jekyll Island. Go ahead and skip the break, Liz. We also need to talk about this weird case with this lady that killed all of her children.
[00:10:40] Now Massachusetts is planning what wider postpartum evaluations for everybody. They're really trying to back into this mental health thing so they can call anybody they disagree with mentally ill. Then they can take government-forced action against them. They're using this story as the great wedge, acting like she's this poor, innocent lady that just got put on drugs and she has no control of her actions. Some of that may be true, but at the end of the day, we have to have accountability, doctor, at all levels. And we're not doing it.
[00:11:10] We're using this to create a wedge between the medical industry, the mental illness or mental wellness, whatever you want to call it, crowd, and we the people. And they're using this to literally back into violating all of our rights. And anyone who stands up for liberty eventually will be in the crosshairs of this thing. Write it down and remember who told you first. Well, when I first heard about this, I thought, what the heck?
[00:11:34] Are they going to have mandatory postpartum some kind of evaluation for every birth in Massachusetts? And so I went to the Massachusetts governor's website. People can go do things like this, and they need to. I read their documentation on this thing, and it is voluntary, absolutely, at this point. They're putting some millions of dollars against this. Yeah, it always starts that way, kind of like the voluntary income tax, right? It is. It's pretty easy to do.
[00:12:03] But the fact of the matter is, here's the deal. And I've got my own opinion about how this challenge ought to handle. It's a very real challenge that some women are really debilitated by this, and it has very deleterious effects. But what they're going to do is they're going to have some mental, I don't know, health workers that can do these evaluations and follow-ups and everything like that, make sure medication's appropriate, blah, blah, blah.
[00:12:32] I think that this Lindsay Clancy thing was largely precipitated and carried out because excess medications in the wrong methodology by incompetent people that were dishing them out. You know, these SSRI type depression meds that, to some people, really adversely affects them. And to put government agency in the middle of all this, this reminds me of something that started several years ago in Utah. And we, oh man, some of us worked our guts out to keep it from happening.
[00:13:02] It was ultimately dropped and not passed in the legislature. But the legislature was passing a bill that was going to assign a social worker to every family in the state. And there would be home visits by those families. Didn't you imagine inviting, not inviting, but having someone forced into your front door, I'm going to come and help you raise your kids. But the fact of the matter is we've got it defeated.
[00:13:26] I do not want a government worker in the middle of my family that's going to tell me anything about anything because they foul up everything they touch. But here's the deal. We are working towards a government intervention on almost everything. And here's how I would handle it if it were me. And I know time is short. To develop this would take more time than we got.
[00:13:52] But I think a sensitivity, a caring, a charitable caring can start in the families. And then with the families, if a husband recognized his wife was struggling, the solicitousness and the willingness to help and the caring. I mean, in Lindsay's case, every time she asked for help, her husband said, oh, don't worry about her. She's fine. She's just whining and blah, blah, blah. He deflected care from family members.
[00:14:20] And so when someone feels... And where was the Christian neighbors and friends and loved ones surrounding her? Where's your church, Sam? Amen. Churches, look. The deal is that it begins with the God-ordained traditional family. And if husbands are so insensitive and caring, they've got to do a recalibration. And they've got to be this unifying power between the husband and wife and God in that triad, if you will.
[00:14:50] But then bring your churches in. Bring caring neighbors. I did a research paper many, many, many years ago when I was doing my undergraduate work. It was for one of those general ed classes regarding counseling and how it works. And the professor's position was you needed a professional psychiatrist, psychologist, et cetera. In my humble opinion, as soon as you throw one of those folks in, it goes off the rails. There's some really good, really good research that was done.
[00:15:19] And this was decades ago that I was able to get into that says talking to somebody that cares has an equally good outcome with talking to a professional that's costing you a lot of money. I'm capsulizing some stuff. If you have a caring individual, it should be a spouse certainly. It might be a mother or a brother. It might be a sister. It might be a friend. It might be a pastor or a priest or a bishop or whatever.
[00:15:46] But the fact of the matter is that these document very well that just interaction with a caring person oftentimes mitigates many of the pressures and stresses. And so my position is rather than the begin down this path where you're going to put a social worker in everybody's house, let's start with the traditional value that God ordained. Go back to church. Love thy neighbor as thyself. I mean, these kind of principles are really the issue.
[00:16:14] Develop a relationship with God. You know, all these things are missing from our society and we see the devastating results. But putting government in the middle of everything, I want to get to this article too because Rand Paul deserves some credit. Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky basically shut down a AI kill switch bill citing need for thorough review before the legislation.
[00:16:38] So this whacked out person from Louisiana, John Kennedy, basically wanted to put a kill switch. Government would have a kill switch for all AI models in the United States. And Rand Paul said no and Rand got it shut down. Paul argued that Congress needs a deeper understanding of AI technology before doing anything.
[00:16:59] And the proposed bill wanted to put what they call a safety mechanism to shut down AI systems, escalating concerns about AI's rapid advancement. Anyway, the problem with all that is why would we give government the kill switch? Whether AI is a problem or not can be discussed. But the government having the kill switch, they already have a kill switch on your car. They don't want you driving somewhere. If you have a modern car, they can just flat out shut your car down. Okay, we don't need government kill switches on everything.
[00:17:28] What we need to do is have government sit down and get out of the way and carry out their delegated responsibilities, nothing more, nothing less. And these two issues are tied together because it's really government trying to get involved in every, every aspect of our lives, doctor. There's no question that that's the direction we're going. And it's interesting to me, there's an analogous review that could be done in regards to the Y2K issue.
[00:17:53] I was involved with some very senior government officials in regards to the idea that government was going to take control of this Y2K response. And they were going to run it like a war. And it was going to be a war footing we were on. And what it really boiled down to was that industry said, no, wait a minute, we can solve this. And they did. And the Y2K turned out to be a nothing burger.
[00:18:16] And the fact of the matter is that when if government had been given the the complete power and authority in that thing, we still would have been futzing around with that. And government would have probably, you know, here we are 25 years, 26 years into Y2K. And they were still trying to struggle with it after spending bazillions of dollars doing it. And there are other better solutions.
[00:18:40] Government was delegated only those authorities and powers that are in the Constitution. You will not find any agency allowed that does development and control and power over anything that we're doing. We are a mother may I society now. We look to government to do anything and everything for us. And we're losing our liberties.
[00:19:05] And soon somebody, I don't know how soon it is, but at some point somebody's going to say, well, how did they get in charge of everything? Well, they are in charge of everything. And right now there's a huge, a huge effort to expand that government control that will overarch and undergird everything. And really God's the one that's supposed to overarch and undergird everything. And the people need to quit looking to government.
[00:19:30] And what's interesting to me, though, is every proposal they have literally, though, when they back this mental health issue into the mix, pretty soon they're going to be putting everybody on medication, too. Everybody will need medication. And they want a medicated society. And there's all kinds of government experiments gone awry with medications, whether it be PCP, whether it be LSD, whether the government's been involved in all that kind of stuff.
[00:19:54] And every time the goal of the government is can we control people with these mechanisms or with these protocols or whatever you want to call it? That alone should make you mistrust government on these topics. And so this postpartum thing and back to this lady, you know, hey, I think that she whether she was medicated beyond her ability or not, I don't think she's safe in society. And I think we need to have accountability there.
[00:20:17] And I think we ought to have, you know, drug drag up this discussion where these shooters kill all these people and they're on psychotropic drugs. She's on all these drugs. At some point, we need to call these drug companies to account and call these psychologists and psychiatrists and everybody else that are providing and enabling. I mean, we're a drug hell bent nation these days. I mean, most people are on drugs everywhere. And so we need to kind of have accountability at all levels here.
[00:20:43] I would open up a broader discussion than what's being discussed, whether we just argue about this lady or not. Hey, accountability needs to happen for those actions. But at the end of the day, I think a broader discussion should happen. How did she get in this state in the first place? And the answer is trusted government, trusted psychotropic drug, trusted big pharma people created this scenario. You can say, oh, that was just postpartum. I don't think so, doctor.
[00:21:10] You know, you talk about some of these classical literature things like, you know, you mentioned Atlas Shrugged. You could talk about 1984. A book that everyone needs to read is Aldous Huxley's book, Brave New World. And in that, everybody in society is medicated with Soma. And Soma keeps everybody docile and happy and kind of the smiley little face and life is good.
[00:21:35] But it's so ludicrous how some of these things actually were kind of pre-escient in regards to saying, look, this is what's coming. Yeah, like the Rolling Stones, something about it in the 60s, mother's little helper, right? All were totally over-medicated. And the fact of the matter is that, you know, I watch a lot of news feeds. And in those news feeds... Yeah, don't watch news feeds, doctor. Don't do that. Yeah, right. Exactly.
[00:22:04] Those news feeds are salted with almost incessant drug commercials. And then you listen to the contradictions and it's like, who would take this stuff? Who is insane enough to take it? But the fact is that's constantly harped upon us. And I'm really worried about how Trump has made all these available so much cheaper to everybody. It's like, holy cow. So we get everybody hooked and then we make it cheap.
[00:22:32] And then the drug companies run everything. I mean, we are so upside down and backwards with addressing issues that are real that we allow ourselves to... Well, I suppose part of might have made her sad and everything, but I don't believe it would make her kill her children. See, I think the drugs took her out of her mind, separated her mind from her body. And she went on autopilot and things. We didn't have a bigger discussion. Sam, my personal opinion is that they over-medicated her to the point she was psychosis. No question.
[00:23:01] And I've been in that state before because of what the medical protocols did to me when I was being cared for in the hospital. There was unequivocal over-medication, constant. And the delusional concepts that come into people's minds, you just have to understand that I think... I mean, you say accountability, fine. But who was accountable? Was it the doctors that were given her?
[00:23:31] Was it her husband that was participating? All of this stuff lands on one woman in this particular case. Which is wrong. And I think the medications have got to be re-examined, as you say. No question. And I'm not saying that woman doesn't have some responsibility. But I think we're basically crediting way too much to an individual. And what we need to do is have a broader societal discussion about these crazy drugs. You ask the doctor, hey, does this have a big side effect? Oh, not really. Just a couple of little things.
[00:24:01] Then you go read the label and or, you know, the insert with it and or hear the commercials. And, buddy, they document things that will just knock your socks off. The COVID vaccine... You're like, whoa, are you kidding me right now? Well, so the reality is something we need to work on, doctor. Yeah, the COVID vaccine is a prime example of that. We will never know how broadly that was destructive of American society. Well, we've learned a little bit thanks to Rand Paul briefing and getting Fauci's diaries and everything else. We've got a little glimpse. But you're right. We ain't seen nothing.
[00:24:31] And we've just touched the tip of the iceberg, to say the least. We're flat out of time earlier than I wanted to. Celebrate Constitution Day all weekend long, as I'm going to do, please. For Dr. Scott Bradley, FreedomSizeAndSun.com, I'm Sam Bushman. We're everywhere. Spread the word. Show the love. And God save our constitutional republic.