Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and welcome back
0:38 Reflecting on Independence Day weekend
1:03 Lowell on why it should be called Independence Day, not the 4th of July
1:24 Sam's birthday on Independence Day
2:24 Alan Greenspan's death and his Fed legacy
2:41 Greenspan bails out big firms, gains favorable reputation
2:52 Greenspan left before the housing bubble; liberty movement rises
3:24 Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill passes House twice, dies in Senate
3:18 The Fed continues to devalue the dollar
3:31 Ron Paul's killer quote on fiat currency versus gold
4:07 Greenspan's 1966 essay Gold and Economic Freedom
4:17 Greenspan on deficit spending as hidden wealth confiscation
5:12 Why did Greenspan cave despite knowing the truth
5:52 What President Trump should say about honest money
5:53 Founding principles of honest weights and measures
5:59 Push Trump and House to pressure the Senate
6:10 Judge Napolitano on the Constitution's non-democratic features
6:52 Napolitano lists the safeguards against federal tyranny
7:18 How the Senate was originally chosen by state legislatures
7:37 Madison's three-sided table explained
8:10 Madison's bank speech and enumerated powers
8:59 What Madison would think of Woodrow Wilson's presidency
9:31 The damage done in the 1913 era
9:53 State constitutions protect more liberty than the Bill of Rights
10:15 Reagan on states forming the general government
10:39 Elon Musk leaving California for Texas as free market competition
11:19 States as laboratories of liberty
11:57 FreedomFest ad break
16:11 Back live, recapping Greenspan and honest money
17:11 Andrew Napolitano on Lincoln and states' rights
17:33 States should compete for liberty and lower taxes
18:13 Thomas Jefferson's warning about the federal trough
19:19 The federal government has grown a thousand times too big
19:38 Recognizing the problem is the first step to fixing it
20:34 Understanding and celebrating the Constitution properly
20:34 Americans celebrating captivity instead of independence
20:37 Paul Craig Roberts on distractions during Independence Day
21:18 Founders restricted voting to property owners with a stake in the system
22:19 Skin in the game and who should be allowed to vote
23:07 Illegals voting and eroding the system
23:24 Why checks and balances prevented populist overreach
24:38 The 17th Amendment repeal effort in Congress
25:02 Congressman Keith Self introduces repeal resolution
26:15 How the 17th Amendment disrupted the Senate's original balance
27:35 Restoring state sovereignty through senator selection
28:07 The 1906 propaganda campaign behind the 17th Amendment
29:05 America operated better before the income tax and 17th Amendment
29:56 Thomas Massie on repealing the year 1913
30:16 Naming the current members of Congress supporting repeal
31:12 Closing thoughts and sign off
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