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If you're between a six and a 16-year-old, you've got to go to school.  But it's so nice to see all the little Bambina going to school in the morning. And they all bring in appers to the teacher. That's American accustomed. You bring the appers for the teacher. And who knows, some of the teachers, they're so popular, they'd get enough appers to open up with them on a push cart. One of the boys, he's passed by my story yesterday and must be a shortage of appers because I'm going to say he's going to give us a teacher or a piece of fruit. He's the same. If my teacher picks on me today, I'm going to give her the raspberry. I have to show her the respect in America. Even if a teacher is an old girl, she's still going to get something to eat. But to me, Mamma Mia, I'm so lucky and proud. I'm able to go to night school where I've got my good friends and the most beautiful teacher, Miss Spaulding. Mamma Mia, she's beautiful. When she's asking me a question and she's looking at me with these beautiful blue eyes, I'm going to not only forget the answer, I'm going to forget the question. But the reason I'm going to write so much about a school is because now is the middle of a determine. Tomorrow we're all taking a test and if we pass, who are we going from a 2A to 2B? Well, I'm going to write to you more later. Right now is the time for me to go to my night to school. America, I love you. You like a papa to me. Remember the ocean. Don't worry about examinations. All right, class. Attention, please. I'll call the roll. Mr. Baskoff? Here. Mr. Howitz? Here. Mr. Olsen? Mr. Schultz? Here, but I wish I was there. Quiet, please. Mr. Schultz, what did you mean by that remark? Oh, it's that final examination test tomorrow, Miss Balding. The more I study, the more for shimmers I get. Mr. Schultz, don't tell me you're afraid of a final examination. Who's afraid? I'm terrified. Mr. Schultz, if you studied hard every night like I did, you would not be so nervous in yesterday now. For him, the size 36 body with the size 48 brain. All right, let's not argue. We better review some general questions to find out just how much we've learned this term. Mr. Baskoff? Yes, Miss Balding. Tell us something about the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party. Ah, Tea Party. Tea. Tea? Sure, with two lumps and no sugar, thank you. Mr. Schultz. Well, Mr. Baskoff, what year did the Boston Tea Party take place? 1775. What did you say? I said 1783. Are you sure? 1798. No. 1853. Start in somebody before he starts a civil war. All right, Mr. Schultz, you seem to know it all. You may tell us the year of the Boston Tea Party. Certainly, the Boston Tea Party, July the 4th, 1776. Mr. Schultz, that was the day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  Never mind, Mr. Schultz. Mr. Horowitz, will you please answer the questions? Why not? The Boston Tea Party. Now, let me see. You want the date, huh? Yes, I would like the date. Good. Well, I got to figure. You see, I got my own special system for remembering dates. Now, let me see. The Boston Tea Party was 1700 and something. Now, I ask myself 1700 what? So, I remember my grandmother died when she was 78. From this, I got to take away six years, which gives me 72. And as non-1700, I get the Boston Tea Party, 1772. That is wrong, Mr. Horowitz. Miss Balding, you're going to tell me when my grandmother died. Mr. Horowitz, the year was 1773, not 1772.  If your grandmother could have held on for one more year, you're... Well, that's life. Class, this is just terrible. If you can't answer such a simple question, I dread to think what will happen at tomorrow's examination. Miss Balding, I think you will feel better if you just call on me. Oh, well. The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16, 1773. A group of Boston Patriots disguised themselves as Indians and threw about 350 chefs of tea into the Boston Harbor. Very good. And Mr. Basker, why did they throw the tea into the harbor? They liked the coffee better. No. Mr. Schultz, the teabags was all used up. No, no, no. Mr. Horowitz. I can't get over my grandmother, such a young... Oh, stop that, please. This is just disgraceful. When I look at my new pupils in the 2B class, only Olson will be there. No, no, no, Miss Balding. You're going to be in a 2B class. Without us? I'll quit school. Him and Miss Balding, we don't want to be broken up. There's only one thing to do. What's that, study all night tonight? No, cheat a little tomorrow. I smile. I'm only fooling. Mr. Schultz, I have news for you. You'd better be on your best behavior tomorrow. I will not be in the room while this class is taking the test. Instead, Mr. Hein will supervise the examination.  All I can tell you class is... Very bad. Hello, Mr. Hein. I just thought I'd drop in and say a few words to your class. You mind? Oh, of course not. Go right ahead. Thank you. And I am going to supervise this class during the final examination tomorrow. I just want to warn you, I have a reputation for being strict. And that's just what I am. Strict with a capital S. I will not stand for any cheating during the course of the examination. I will seek you three rows apart. Your eyes will always be down on your papers. And I shall be watching all the time. Any questions? Yes, why don't you stay home tomorrow? You're Mr. Schultz, aren't you? A reputation for being a wisecracker, Mr. Schultz? Well, let's see you wisecrack your way past that examination tomorrow. Mr. Hein, I'm not afraid of tests. And I resent your insinuation that maybe I'm going to flunk. I said no such thing. What's your hint? I did not hint. And I said, Himmel, what am I doing arguing with the warden? Well, good evening, Ms. Mulding. Good evening, Mr. Hein. And don't worry, Ms. Mulding. I shall make doubly sure that the test tomorrow is conducted with absolute strictness and honesty. Honesty with a capital H. Oh, not Mr. Hein. I wish he were dropped. Mr. Schultz? With a capital D. Well, if there's only one way we can pass tomorrow. But how should we get Mr. Hein dropped it? Hello, it's you. What do you think? Do you think the test is going to be very hard for us? Don't ask me, Louis. It looks bad. That's all. That Mr. Hein. Oh, oh, oh. You can throw another who on the fire for me. Once they rule out cheating and an examination, they take a very Schultz's secret button. Well, I'm studied it very hard, but I would like to be sure we're all going to pass. It would be wonderful if we all are going to stay together in two big classes. Ms. Mulding and all of us. Yeah, but it don't look like it will. What should we do, boys? Smile, that's what. Into my head an idea just pooped. Mr. Hein thinks he's going to outsmart us. We're going to outsmart him. Yeah, but how should we? We are not going to copy like a bunch of no-good sneaky rats. No, you are talking to us. Yeah, instead we are going to use the signals. For instance, we're going to use the signals. For instance, if I ask Mr. Hein, if I may leave the room, that's really going to mean I want the answer to question number one. Wonderful. And if somebody says it looks like it's known outside, that means give us the answer to question two. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we're going to make up signals for 20 questions and then the answers can be given out with all kinds of hints, you know, like wittles and singing and tapping. Oh, I feel like a constant planning a jailbreak. Well, we are going over the wall at eight o'clock tomorrow night. Use the second. Supposing someone does want to know one of the questions. Do you think I will supply the answer? Well, we weren't going to ask you, old man, but as long as you volunteered, you are in. Yeah, I don't know that. Insolvent. I will not be a party to such questionable conduct. I have always prided myself on the solidity of my integrity, the honesty of my intentions. And as for my character, my record speaks for itself. We have just heard from the senator from night school. No, no better way to shoot, sir. I'll send you right there. But we was only thinking how much we would like it to stay together. That's the way we have such a touch. Oh, besides, even if I did help you out, I might give you the wrong answers. You wouldn't dare. Oh, listen, you're going to go home tonight and study your brilliant little head off, and we are going to get the questions right tomorrow. Don't I think you had better do that. So if any one of us is stuck, you could give the answer. Oh, listen, you know what you're doing. Your head? I'm sorry. If you leave it up to me, that's like turning the gas on, giving the class a rubber pipe and saying, here, take a food pops. I wouldn't like to see the class broken up, but you're well. I'm sorry. Well, I'll cheer up, everybody. We're only going to study very, very hard the next 10 hours, and then maybe the future is going to be good for us. Sure. I can just see the future now. All of them get skipped. Half of it stays here in 2A. Luigi gets left back in 1B. On me? I'm back in kindergarten cutting out paper doll. Before we return to life with Luigi, here's a suggestion that will add enjoyment to your daily activities. Whether you're home, at work, shopping, or driving your car, chew a stick of delicious, wriggly, spearmint gum from time to time.  Besides, wriggly, spearmint gum has a lively, long-lasting flavor that tastes mighty good and freshens your mouth. So keep a package of wriggly, spearmint chewing gum handy wherever you go. See how chewing this delicious gum can make every day more enjoyable for you. And now let's turn to page 2 of Luigi Vasco's letter to his mother in Italy. And so, Mamma Mia, tonight the classes are taking a final examination. Right now, I'm very busy studying. Well, it's not exactly studying. In America, it's called a Klammen. This means you try to push into your head in six hours or whether you couldn't push in in six months. Last night, the Olsen was with the Schultz, and the Schultz was made Olsen to stay and listen to all the signals that we're going to use if we don't know the answers under the test. But Mamma Mia, how we all want to stay together. Anyway, I hope you excuse me for making a letter very short because I'm going to stop writing and start studying some more. Ellis Island was officially open in 1890, 1890, 1890. Ellis Island was officially open in 1890. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi, hello, hello. Hello, Pasquale. Hey, that's a quick hello. Yeah, I'm studying. Oh, I'm learning new BVDs. A little of banana milk. I'm a very busy. You mean you're too busy to have a little chit in a chat with your good friend, Pasquale? That's too bad. Nobody should be too busy to relapse. That's the cause of so many people who drop in the dead like flies from a hot bind. The goal was to discover in California, California, California. The goal was to discover in California, brought to Chicago, and now most of it's under Pasquale's mattress. Pasquale, please, please. The goal was to discover in California under Pasquale's mattress. Look, look, what are you doing? See, you're mixing them all up. Pasquale, please, please stop. Civil War, 1861, 1865 Civil War. Luigi, I gotta laugh when I see you trying to push a lot of books until I've solved a little pumpkin head. Pasquale, you're making me mad. I'm gonna learn all these effects by eight o'clock tonight. What's the use of pushing all that stuff in your head, Luigi? Won't go to sneeze, you're right back where you started. Here, I'm gonna know time for jokes. If you don't mind, please, come around and be funny some other time. That's a fine way to talk. All right, I go, but I won't do you no good to study. Once a maroon, always a maroon. Well, I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna press the test and I'm gonna get to promote it.  What else is more important? Get him married. Do you want to think about dates or think about a date toward my daughter Rosa? I'm just interested in a history, so goodbye. 1776, Appalachian and Appalachian, Louisiana, Louisiana, the 1800s. August 23rd, 1921. Huh? 1921, August 23rd. What's the happen of this day? Biggest thing of what could have happened. What's that? The day my Rosa was a born. Big enough? Too big. What an event in a steamboat, 18102. You mean 1812, when the Columbus discovered America in 1905 and in 1774... Stop it, stop it, stop it.   All right, I'm gonna pay attention to you. Alice Island, 1890. Alice Island, 1970. Columbus, 1770. Stop it, 59. Boys, I'm getting nervous. I wish Mr. Heim would come in already and give out the examination papers. What examination papers? For us, it's the execution papers. Yeah, I should say, do you think you know enough to pass? Luigi, look at these dark circles under my eyes. Do you see them? Yeah. I was up all night studying. Every half hour, my wife gave me black coffee to keep me awake. I drank and drank and drank and guess what happened? What? In the morning, the only thing I could remember was the name of that coffee. That's right, everything comes out like that, you know. Columbus came over on three ships. The Nenia, the Pinta, and the Sanca Maria. Last night, right now, you are looking on the most wide awake imbecile in America. What about you, Luigi? Well, I don't know. That's why it was about me all day, and he's got me all mixed up. Well, we still got our fighting chance. Yeah, many more. What are you all looking at me for? We ain't admiring your beautiful blue eyes, sweetheart. You know what that holds? Good evening, gentlemen. Good evening, Mr. Heim. Old Devil's Island himself. Luigi, here is a picture of my wife and children. If I don't come back alive, promise me you're going to take care of that. And enough of that. I'll stand for no whispering or talking out of turn from this moment on. Men, I need hardly remind you that this is a final examination, and I expect each one of you to keep his eyes on his own paper.  His nose would look better there, too. I heard that remark, Mr. Schultz. One more word spoken without permission, and I'll ask you to turn in your examination paper. Is that clear? Yes, Sergeant. I mean Mr. Heim. All right. The examination is officially started now. I shall pass out the papers. You have exactly one hour to complete the test. Remember, absolute silence. If you want anything, ask me. Oh, Lord, Lord, not to force him. Not to get hate. Mr. Heim has got nothing to do with the other. Would like to leave the room, too. May I more select to leave?  None of you may leave. You hear me? But I've got to leave the room. I admit, too. I have never seen anything like this. And you, Mr. Olsen, I suppose you would like to leave the room, too. No. But the test was $17.76. What? Your wife's dress got to do with leaving the room. Maybe he wants to go out and try it on for her. And then someone else may go. Well, what's stopping you, Mr. Schultz? I don't have to go any more. Neither do me. This is the strangest behavior. Now, what could have caused you all to change your mind? Maybe because it's cold outside. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah. It looks like snow. Doesn't it, Olsen? You know, I will look. It's funny that it don't look like snow so much as it has more of the color of the 1890 French dressing. I never heard such disjointed, unattached, ridiculous statement statements. Let me see that paper. Oh, the avant-garde. $17.76. Ellis Island, $18.90. A dress for $17.76. $18.90. Please, Mr. Ellis Island. Don't you interrupt me and don't try to interfere. I don't care what his motives or desires were. What? Mr. Olsen. Nobody asked you to volunteer any information. End in your paper while the class continues. You deliberately disregarded my orders. I'll see that you are expelled for cheating on an examination. All right.  Sure. And this is why we're here at the Mr. Heinrich's house, huh? Remember? All right. We remember. Just ring that bell, do we? Boys, are you sure this is the right house? A positive. Can't you see him through the window there? He's reading a book. A thousand and one ways to torture a pooper. All right. I'm going to ring. Mr. Heinrich, we're coming to tell you something very important. I am busy, gentlemen. You may see me tomorrow before my regular class begins. This is my home. Good night. No, please. Please, Mr. Heinrich, you gotta listen. You can't expel Olsen from the school. It would break his heart. And we want to stay together, Mr. Heinrich. Wasn't that Olsen his fault? It was our fault. Oh, that's mine. I started the whole thing. Well, I must admit that's very soldierly of you to admit to such a charge. Then you're not going to expel Olsen? Well, I'm going to ask the principal to soften the punishment. Instead, I shall ask that Mr. Olsen merely be demoted to one bee. What? Hi, class. Here's the situation. The three of you got passing grades in the examination and you are promoted to my class in two bees. What could have that Olsen ain't, River? That is not my fault. Mr. Pleasant. Mr. Olsen, a pleasure. Give Olsen a little push-up, as it is.  Our principal, Mr. Orth, is talking to Mr. Olsen right now and his decision will be made at any moment. Hello, Mr. Orth. Good evening, class. Good evening, Mr. Orth. I've just spoken to Mr. Olsen. Naturally, it was immediately apparent that he's more than qualified to go ahead. It's therefore with great regret that I have to make my decision. Oh, good. And now I have to wait for Mr. Orth to please a bonus set. There's nothing I can do about it, despalding. After going over your students' grades last week, I have decided to skip Mr. Olsen to the third grade. But inasmuch as Mr. Hind has requested me to demote him, I have to strike a balance. Mr. Olsen, I can't skip you. Instead, you just go ahead to two bee with the others. With the others? In the devil!  There's a cat that's always there, the craziest class in America, but I love them. I've now got plenty of time to finish this letter. Here, the whole class is together again. Yep, a despalding Schultz, Horowitz, Olsen and a basketball together is a little bit of America. All of us. And like all American women here, I hope we all always stay together.  Friends, the makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum hope you've enjoyed tonight's episode of Life with Luigi. And they'd like to remind you that when you want a between-meal treat, Wrigley's Spearman Gum is just about the perfect answer. A stick of Wrigley's Spearman is chock-full of lively, delicious, real Spearman flavor. 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All right, ladies, what is this? Hey, everybody, and welcome to show and tell. It's your OG host, me, Miss Lady Ada, Mr. Lady Ada, next 20-ish minutes. We're gonna check in with people from around the community. What are they making? Hacking, soldering, coding, sewing, knitting, crafting, 3D printing, whatever you're making. And I'm sure everyone here watching is making stuff. Come by. We're in StreamYard. Go to Discord for the link.  Although sometimes people wear masks. You don't even have to show your friendly face. Yeah. But we're gonna check in with some folks from the Adaford community, see what they're up to. Just give you a chance to check out what we're doing. Right before our show and tell, we usually have a weekly video chat with all of our teams. So you get a chance to see what's going on behind the scenes. So a lot of this stuff is what we just finished talking about. And speaking of Scott, what you got going on this week? Hey, Scott. Hey, before I forget, I'm giving a tech talk tomorrow morning, or part of a tech talk tomorrow morning with PsyLabs. They make lots of different microcontrollers. And they asked us to join them there. I put the link in Discord. So sign up if you want to learn more about CircuitPython on PsyLabs chips. So what I've been working on, this is on an ESP, is I got some feedback from you a little more about us changing things without warning you. I like how you can call it feedback. And me just being like, yeah. Yeah. So I already added a thing that makes it nice. Actually, I could show you. If we do import board, board.display.show, I'll just give it none. But it will now tell you, hey, like shows removed, use this thing instead. So I added that. And then this is hot off the presses CircuitPython 9. So we're moving some things around. I split some things out of display IO.  Now, you can actually customize. So CPython has warnings, a warnings module. And by default, it actually doesn't raise an error, but I was already testing on this. I think that's why it did the error. I can say simple filter. And then I can say ignore. And now, if I do the import again, it just works. It didn't print anything. And then the default is always. If I do it again, it will tell you, hey, these things moved. And if you do import display IO and then display IO.display, which is what you might do as well, it will tell you there as well. And ignore that. And error works there as well. Yeah, this is going to be really good because, yeah, I know things get deprecated. But I'm still used to see and CPython where you get some warnings about deprecations. So I think this will help so that we want to update documentation. And also, I think it's nice that when there's something missing, we tell people how to fix it right there. Yeah, definitely. If it's six words, it just keeps people from having to Google and try to find the information elsewhere. So I think this is going to be a great usability improvement. Yeah, I hope so. And maybe with these feature warnings, we'll actually be able to not do the thing which we're doing with show, which is like, show doesn't actually work, but all this stuff will still work. It'll just also print a warning for you. And you can turn it off if you don't want to update it and blah, blah, blah. So hopefully that will make it easier for us to iterate and folks to understand what changes are coming, not have already come. Yes, this is good stuff. I think I feel like we're really getting very good at CircuitPython releases and how to get all the changes documented and well understood. I mean, we'll be talking about this on the show. But CPython is undergoing some changes with Raspberry Pi as well. And it's tough. We have a lot of documentation. We want to make sure that we stay current. And we have thousands of guides. So yeah, onwards and upwards. Yeah, and you can also, I just did the last thing I did here is to show that you can actually use it in libraries as well. So you can do warnings.warn and give it a message. And the settings of whether you print it, error, or ignore applies to those as well. OK. All right. And silo, chat tomorrow. And then end of the week, you're doing deep dive. Yep. Yeah, all right. So lots of time to update about all of the exciting 9.0 stuff. We're so close to having an alpha out. I'm very excited about it. OK. All right. Thanks so much, Scott. All right. Thank you, Scott. All right, JP, what you got going on this week? Hey, so I've got my real life bleeding into the virtual world because we've got a whole lot of dust everywhere dealing with some construction that's going on. And I just can't get enough of cleaning things in the real world. So I also am enjoying cleaning things in the virtual world with a PowerWash simulation game called PowerWash Simulator. And what I've got going on with the project, this is a pressure washer gun with the guts removed. And inside of it, I have a QT pie. I have a nine-off sensor, the BNO055. And I have a little Weechuck adapter so I can use one of our little Weechucks that we have in the store. And as you can hear, I've also got a little piezo driver in there now for feedback. And one of the things that I've been working on that's new with this is we need a way to set relative offsets. If I'm going to play the game pointed at that screen there, I need to let it know that that's center. And so don't move the cursor until I move it off of center. And so that's how I'm using one of the functions on the Weechuck, which also has its own little accelerometer. When I tilt up, it says, OK, you're tilted up. And now when I press the C button, that is resetting my offsets to the position that I'm at. So I'll show this in practice. Yeah, yeah, I'll see what it's really like. OK. OK, so here's the game. And you can see it's kind of drifting. So if I want that to be center, there we go. I just centered it and now it doesn't move on pointed there. Now I can use the trigger on the Wii to turn on the power washing there and clean the thing. And I'm also using the Weechuck for the WASD keys. So this is a mouse and keyboard type of game, usually. So now I can move around, whip around the the van to the other side. And I've got a few other features on here now. I can change the nozzle. If you look at my nozzle color, it just changed to green. This is going to be a different angle. So now I've got like a really laser focused one for really bad dirt. And this is double tap that's being recognized by this VNO sensor. And then I can also do things like change the nozzle angle. So if I tap C when I'm not pointed up, it's now going to be better for horizontal stuff, better for vertical stuff. The last feature I think I have on here right now, and there's still room for a couple more, is if I tilt down and press C, it will show me where all the dirt is left, which is helpful in this game when there's just a little bit and you can't find it. So it's kind of a semi-cheat mode. And I got to give credit to C Grover from our community who has helped a ton with calibration code and other code that's been really useful for this project. And he's got a great Playground page up on this. And I'll also be including that info in the guide that I'm writing up in the next couple of days for this. So if people want to use this either for PowerWash or any other project that involves HID control based on some nine DOF sensors, this will be, I think, a good resource for people. Yeah, and we can finally get those nine DOF sensors again. Those were so unavailable during the park shortages. But now we're about to put into like a couple thousand. I know we just got some parts in stock soon. Yeah, there's so much. We can put them in a video game player now. All right, thanks, JP. Thanks. We'll be playing your pick of the week, and then you have JP's workshop. Yeah, come on by tomorrow. I got the workshop, and I'll be doing a circuit Python parsec that's super cool, so come tomorrow. All right, see you tomorrow. All right, Liz, how's it going? What you got going on this week? Hey, so like two weeks ago, I did this sports display that's four RGB LED matrices, and I mounted it on my wall. And since then, I've added some more functionality I added so that it will show a clock at the bottom when it updates a second you'll see it. And it's also showing the weather. And there's a clock. And then I also added a feature where Noia and I have been started playing chess last week. And as we were playing all the games together, he was like, you know, it'd be really awesome. We could like track how many times everyone's won. So then over the week. I use it as everyone we meet how many times I've won. Yes, he was on a winning streak at the time. There was a twist on Sunday. So Sunday, I added in the functionality. And I'm using the SMS messaging in Adafruit IO. So I set a feed for my wins, a feed for his wins. And then whenever one of us wins, I'll text that feed. And then the code is getting a count of the feed. And that's what's shown right now. And who's winning now? Right. So Sunday, I had a really good day. I won four times and he only won once. So he was pretty upset all day, Monday. But he's making a comeback. And so now we're kind of more even. Well, now there's proof. That's the thing.  But now you're showing off. OK. Well, this is good inspiration to study chess techniques. Yes, definitely. And we watched Queen's Gambit while we were playing chess. Good, yeah. Really up the nerdy-ness. All right, thanks so much, Liz. No problem. Have a good one. Thanks, Liz. Thank you. All right. Erin, what did you get going on this week? Hey, so this is Sugar Bear here. I just went to Bay Area Maker Faire this past weekend. And I wanted to, if we have a little time, to show you guys a couple of pictures and see if, and flip through some of the cool stuff that I saw there. So at Maker Faire, I actually put up an LED art installation. This is my installation of LED jellyfish. They're running WLED on an Adafruit Pico, Cutie Pie Pico. And it's a pretty cool install. They do all kinds of colors and puntings. Let's see if I can do. It was a lot of fun. And I put them up in this big bear industrial room. And then that very same week, we had an LED fashion show underneath. So here's we are backstage with a fashion show. The jellyfish are kind of up in the middle there. And then a lot of the outfits were designed by Sirai Cohen and a couple of other designers. And it was put on by Nick Coe, fashion. And I wore my Adafruit LED dress and paired my jellyfish umbrella at the same time. So there was a lot of really cool LED tech on stage, which was great fun to show. That's so cool. So great to see these fashion shows happen again. And this is at Mare Island for the Maker Faire that you're watching. Yeah. Yeah. And this is the first Maker Faire, I think, in like four years. So it was a lot of people coming together. We had our Diet Coke and Mentos show, which is kind of a tradition at the Bay Area Maker Faire, where they set all the Diet Coke bottles off and go crazy. And then just a lot of really cool costumes. We've got to get the video. The neat stuff out there. This was one of my favorite things. This is the giant model of the solar system, which actually spun. And each of the planets is represented here. And they all spun within period of each other. There was the little muffin top part. This guy, I got him to orbit the solar system for me, which just made me happy. This is my friend, Nick, with his giant robot called Marauder. And Marauder has more pixels in the legs and was built for Intel. Intel paid him to build this thing for a keynote address. And it rollerskates. It's a giant hexapod robot that rollerskates. Yes. I guess to let him keep it afterward, because he's been bringing it to me. Nice, cute rainbow LEDs. But there's a skull, and it's scary. It balances out pretty nice. Yeah, that's it, exactly. And it's all anodized aluminum and 3D printed parts. It's pretty cool. He was rollerskating around the whole time. This is another art car. This is Abu the Horsefly, which is built on a Studio Ghibli design. And my good friend Kate, who is the maker and designer of that thing. And then I put up some of my LED costume. So I've got a couple of Adafruit projects here. This is a corset that I built and a color thief, the Venetian color thief project. And I did a tutorial on, I think, four out of five of these dresses. And the fifth one was built from an Adafruit tutorial. So there was a lot of tech out there. Is that the corset that you did for a guide a couple years ago? It is. Oh, wow. Yeah. I was just like, we did that, right? Like, there you are. Yeah, so that was a lot of fun getting to show all those off. And people just came by and took a look and saw some of my creations, which was, it was really a lot of fun to just talk to everybody. So many people were inspired and excited. This is just kind of a quick walk through the room. The second weekend, this giant art car, which looks like a cuttlefish. It's inflatable cuttlefish. Was parked right underneath my jellyfish. So I had my costumes over on one side here. And then I was sandwiched between Abu the Horsefly and Peacock art car. And then this giant cuttlefish with these. This is so cool. It really was. Right under the jellies. So it was kind of cool. We got to do this sort of under the sea feel. And then inflatable art over here, which was also at the Autumn Lights Festival. It was just a lot of cool stuff. And a lot of female makers, which was a lot of fun. We're really getting out there. And then just a quick run through the parade. We had the giraffes. And we had robots. And I mean, it was a really good maker fair. So steam powered bikes. This was another great one. She plays the piano and sings. And then, yeah, that was my weekend. I actually ended up winning Editors Choice Award for the films that I've been making. I remember we used to go around and give the ribbons away. It's a classic. Yeah. Original maker fair crew, when we did the first one. And that was one of the things that was great, is you could run around and have Editors Choice and more.  Interviews from makers. And folks can hear a little bit about the backgrounds or story and some of the things they made as well, right? I interviewed a lot of different makers. And I think I posted four different videos of some of the people that I was meeting and some of the cool stuff that people are doing out there. And I've got a couple more that I think I'll go ahead and post pretty soon too, as I kind of weeded through all my media from the past couple of weekend. Okay. Yeah, this is great. It's a good sign that the world is still recovering from a lot of things over the last few years. But when maker fairs started to return, there's been independent ones. There's a Coney Island one, I think last weekend, the weekend before New York. And there's a lot of independent ones that people run. But the Make ones, some of the Make team and some of the folks, I think Adam Savage came back for the Sunday sermon. This maker fair, it's kind of a highlight for the state of the make. It's good to see it coming back. And then, you know, there was no parts for a while. So it's hard also to do maker fairs when a lot of electronics weren't available. But thanks for going in. I think one of the most important things is showing and sharing the projects because maker fair, not everyone geographically can get there, but having it with, you know, the internet is bad in a lot of ways, but it's also one of the most amazing communication mediums ever. We can show all the stuff. So folks, check out our videos, get inspired, look around. And maybe we'll see you in a maker fair next year or so. Thanks, Ann. All right, thanks so much, Ann. All right, that's our show until this week. We're gonna get ready for the next show, which is Ask an Engineer. A little bit of a preview for folks who watch us live, which maybe you are right now. We'll have some stuff in our store that requires you to be logged in and make sure you have two-factor authentication going. Keep that between us. We'll be live in about 10 minutes. We'll go over that. Good time to log in. But if you know, you know. So just get your browser and everything ready and log into your account. Make sure your payment's ready. We're gonna be doing stuff for our community and for the folks who watch live and who's with us every week. So we're gonna try to do this. We'll see how it goes. But that's our show until, like a little secret at the end. We'll see everybody next week, 730 p.m. Eastern time. Come by any week, every week. We are here. Good example, things you can do. Go to an event with makers. Take some photos. No, ask them if it's okay, of course. And then come by and then show the things that people make. Come on to the show and tell. You can show and tell the things that you saw, events, crafts, things that people built. We are here every week. We'll see you next week. Bye, everybody. See you in about 10 minutes.


Welcome back to the 21 convention, 2018 of Orlando, Florida. Our next speaker is known as the Indiana Jones of the Red Pill, the Shaman of the Manisphere. And he's Amazon's number one one star bad boy. Also an artist, above all an artist, seriously. Keep that in mind for this presentation and help me welcome Goldman Unleashed to the stage. All right guys, yes, I am Goldman. I'm gonna be talking about creativity, art and masculinity today. Very important topic for me because I don't think it's discussed nearly as much as it should be in this corner of the Manisphere, Red Pill, self-improvement, whatever you wanna call it. Creativity and art is kind of pushed to the side because I'm gonna mention this later, but it's been taken over by another sector that is just kind of pushing the men out. That's what they wanna do, they wanna push them out. If we look at this image here, this is me in front of the Windwood Walls. Windwood Walls are some of the probably the most famous art walk in the country. It's in Miami in the neighborhood of Windwood and this is the most famous wall. And right now, look what's taken over the most famous wall on the most famous art walk in the country. Screaming woman, okay, she's, look at her. She looks like Storm from the X-Men, screaming all this power. Next to her, girl power waving the flag.  And then she's screaming, there's some skulls here. And look at this, my favorite part.  So just imagine the genders switched, right? There would be out cries, this was never re-allowed, but this is on the most famous art walk in Miami right now. It's been up all year. So this is kind of what's taken over the modern art world and art is extremely important to me because expressing yourself in a new ways and showing people new ways of seeing the world is how you change people's minds and hearts. Okay, so the artist's role is extremely important in society, that's what we're gonna get to. All right, first of all, who am I? Again, like Anthony said, I'm known as the Indiana Jones of the Red Pill because I do live for adventure. I live for story, I live for telling my stories. I'm first and foremost a writer, mostly creative nonfiction, which is describing reality in ways people can relate to, but it's kind of, you capture those details in life that really touch people. That's creative nonfiction to me. It's reality that is emotionally driven and so when I write, I try and take my reader on the experience with me. So they experience what I've seen and I try and live my life just as most adventurous and I have fun, the most fun as possible. Also a photographer, I do sculpture. My whole life, I've been into the arts, kind of got away from it for a while. Also a teacher and the first and foremost a writer, okay? So creative nonfiction is my specialty. All right, I need to tell a story before I get started on the presentation because last year, that's me at the 21 convention last year and I'm looking at this picture and I see a different person living in a different world because last year, exactly a year ago, 21 convention, it was October, I had a day job back in New York. People didn't know I had a day job, but to live in New York City, it's extremely expensive. So I had a day job to cover the bills, it was a teacher. So I was teaching, taught at a charter school, I taught at university and I taught at another public high school. I came home from the 21 convention, I got back that Tuesday and when I got back into work, I got an email from the principal telling me, we covered your classes, come in, I got to tell you, talk to you about something.  So I kind of had the idea, she brings me in and she says, all right, you've been busted, knew exactly what she was gonna say. So she hands me the form that says, I think the thing was misuse of social media. Made me take down the blog, took down social media and I was like, okay. And I was kind of on probation. Three weeks later, I sit in front of the board of trustees and they've got my book, Art of the One Night Standout. This is, I knew this was coming, so this was funny to me. Like I was just like watching them read and they're reading it and they're like looking at me and they're like, did you do these drugs? I was like, think of myself, I was like, please think of myself as like a rapper, right, Goldman is kind of my rapper alias. I was like, that's what I was doing. I was trying to make, and they laughed a little bit and because they had invited like Fat Joe to the school, Ice Cube came and talked, like these guys have rapped about that stuff. So I kind of tried to take that angle, they weren't having it. So then this was probably the funniest part. I also have a website where I do coaching for guys in New York. I promised to take them to the best places, we're gonna be fun girls, we're gonna have a good time. The oldest guy, he's looking at the website on his iPad and he looks at me, he says, so are you like a pimp? Like, and then I just started laughing and they kind of got mad at that too. So then after that, I was let go. Okay, it was, I didn't lose my license for anything but they were like, what if the parents saw? I understood, okay, so I was let go and but I went to go think. I had some money saved up since last October and I took a trip upstate to go think because that's what I do when situations like this happened to me, I kind of removed myself from society and I went up to the mountains to go start. Just to think about my future, what I'm gonna do. So as I'm up in the mountains, this is late October of last year.  I get a ping from a friend of mine, a text message. He's like, dude, check this out. And I'm like, what? He's like, and he sends me a link to the biggest photography website, well, one of the biggest, called Petapixel and it has one of my books, Introduction to Camera Game. It's a total hit piece on it. So that book, The Camera Game Controversy. Most of you guys probably have heard about this. If you followed me at all, of course you've heard about this but this is my book I wrote it four years ago. I specifically designed the cover to be shocking. I designed it to be sleazy.  It looks like it's a photo shoot. The lighting is terrible and it's called How to Seduce Women Through Photography. So I wanted to mess with people when I designed the cover. This was four years ago and the world was a different place four years ago, right? It was definitely not the moral outrage we see today. All right, so I designed the cover specifically to do that but what Camera Game actually is, it's street photography. So I go up to girls in the streets, anybody I find attractive, go up to them, ask them to write something down. I try and get them to think personally, something to reveal about themselves. So for instance, this girl I asked her what she thought femininity was and she wrote down being in control of your emotions, owning them and never being too afraid to wear your heart on your sleeve. So then we got to start talking about it. I found out she's an actress, okay? And that makes perfect sense from her reaction to that and this is what I love about Camera Game is because when you approach the girls like this, the guards are down, okay? You're doing the art project and it's so different from approaching like a cold approach at a bar or if you're on a date because if you're on a date with a woman, she usually has the guards up, right? You're trying to put your best self forward and you aren't really being honest for those first few hours of the date, right? You guys understand what I'm saying? With Camera Game, it's like all those barriers are broken down, you're doing the art project and you get just extreme raw emotion. So that's what I love about it and I started getting so many dates out of this. It was just unbelievable, that's why I wrote the book because I wanted to share this. So another thing I love about it is the dynamic. So I'm in control as the director, okay?  She's getting ready, she's looking, she's trying to look pretty, she's brushing her hair and she's in her role as a female listening to my direction. Another thing I love about this because it sets up the dynamic perfectly right away. Okay, so this is what happened. The controversy continued after I got that ping. This was the website, Petapixel, this is what they wrote, this was the first big article. It got shared hundreds of thousands of times in social media. So many countries around the world wrote other hit pieces on it. I had the CBC News try and interview me about it and so I was kind of stressed out but then I saw the book. It was, I don't know, it was low in the arts and photography, like selling. I sold most of my books for my website. Then I kept an eye on it. Within the first week of November, it had been one week, it shot up to number one. Number one, thank you, thank you. Very proud moment of my life, yes. Very proud moment. But that was the controversy and that's what you guys have heard about. I've used the fake reviews, fake reviews started to come pouring in and I've used them on Twitter especially to find them and just to mess with the people who did them and get my revenge and sell even more books. These tweets sell tons of books. So for example, this guy, A Bacon, wants my book banned because it denigrates women. He also likes to review the toilet paper he purchases and bites the heads off of green jelly babies because he thinks they are aliens. So this is his review. A Bacon, this is disgusting, it should be removed from her salis immediately. Amazon, be ashamed, that's what he wrote. He also wrote, referring to Andrex classic clean toilet roll tissue paper, cleans my bumma treat, excellent price and prime delivery meant it won't be caught short. So you know, he's ran out of toilet paper before because it's not a smart guy. Also, he reviews jelly babies. Okay, very nice jelly babies, five stars, verified purchase. Remember to bite the heads off the green ones, they're aliens and this is the only way to kill them.  It's like, what kind of person does that? So anyway, basically it's very easy to track them down. If anybody ever leaves a bad review on your product, click their name and check out their review history because it is hilarious.  Actually, they're always losers if they're doing fake reviews. All right, so the lessons learned here. All right, so this was important because I do, I do self-reflection a lot and I like to share the lessons that I learned. By the way, so all the photos I'm gonna use today, I went out last night with the camera. So all the photos you're gonna see are girls in Orlando that I just met last night. I think this picture is hilarious.  All right, so the lessons that I learned. Number one, I never really cared for feminism before.   So I had to spray it down and get rid of it. So I really, I have a fire now against feminism because they picked the war with me, right? First of all, I basically got fired from the job because a feminist found out I spoke at the 21 convention and said I was like part of the group who hated men. That was the first time. I don't think I mentioned that before, but that was the root. And then the feminist tried to get my book banned. So now I'm at war with these people because they are just, they're worse than a cult because they have no real beliefs. Their own beliefs or their emotions and it just, it makes me sick. They're willing to go after people, ruin their lives, ruin their jobs, start rumors about them and it's just horrible. Also, outrage culture. Outrage culture is interesting because I profited immensely from it but I also got fired from a job but I also had to come up with new ways of dealing with things which I thankfully have. But you can either profit from it or get fired from your job. And right now, like I said before, there is a moral panic running through the population. I've seen this especially when I go out in the bars because I've been going out to bars for, I don't know, almost the past 20 years now. And I've seen just especially now the men are very, very timid around the women. The women are out running wild doing whatever they wanted. That's what they want. Actually don't blame them because they're just running wild with their power because the men are giving them the power and the men are being timid. So this is what this moral outrage has created. It's almost like there's a gender war going on in the country. Also, with this whole thing, I also learned if you're using the internet, you have to do it very, very wisely. If you're using social media, my generation, what I saw with them is Facebook came along when we were all in college and then it just made them, it castrated my generation. That's what I like to say. It took the rebellion. It took the energy, that spirit because people became afraid to be cast out from the group. And that's what Facebook did.   That's very important. And now here I am. I'm fighting this war. I was thrown into it and here I am. Thank God I survived. All right, on to the topic at hand. One second. All right, what is an artist? Okay, this is a, it's one of those words that's been thrown around a lot and kind of lost its meaning. But to me, what I'm gonna refer to it as here, an artist is a person who does something very well. They do it with their unique vision and they do it in their own way. It doesn't have to be a person who sits around painting pretty pictures because a lot of people, they have that view in mind when they think of an artist. There's somebody who makes you see the world in a new way and they can really change the way you think about things. And they're very, very powerful and very, very important because like I said, they reach people's hearts, all right? And that's what an artist does. Logically, men are very logical. That's why especially this part of the internet loves the logic, right? You know, you have the list. This is how you do things. This is like, this is how you work out. This is how you do this. But it's not really reaching the heart and this is what an artist does and it really stirs it up. So that's them and that's why they're important. I would consider people like Elon Musk. He's an artist, he's a CEO, but he has his own vision. Michael Jordan, I think he took the sword of basketball definitely to an art because he did it all on his own. He was doing his own thing. Nobody had ever done it before and you watch him play basketball and it's just, it's him and he's just poetry in motion. So he's also an incredible artist. All right, what happened to art?


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Our show this weekend features a phenomenal talk from Judge Andrew Napolitano, the great constitutional law scholar and judicial analyst at Fox News, and we're very honored and pleased to have him not only as a Mises Institute board member, but also as a faculty member during our week-long Mises U program in the summer where he just finished teaching a class on the Constitution and the free market to our students, but he also gave a talk that we could really excellent talk on the First Amendment and what it really means and how it interacts with the rest of the Constitution. So if you like Judge Andrew Napolitano and you're interested in the First Amendment, stay tuned for a great talk. The class that I will be teaching this week is the Constitution on a Free Market, and in that class we will examine the four parts of the Constitution that have been grossly exaggerated by the Congress, by the various presidents, and by the courts, and those are the areas that permit the Congress to interfere with the free market, the Commerce Clause, the spending power, the taxing power, and the contracts clause. But tonight we will discuss something, a very simple declaratory statement in the Constitution and how it came about and what it means today. This is, of course, from the First Amendment, and most of you know this line, just like you know all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. This is Madison in the First Amendment. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. A simple declaratory statement, and I often start by asking what I candidly confess as a trick question, and that is, which is the most important word up there? Now when I ask this to law students who've already studied the First Amendment, most of them will say, well, it's got to be freedom. Some will say, well, it must be speech, or what the heck is left? It's got to be Congress. So right there is the most important word up there, the freedom of speech. Why is that so important? Well, that makes known to posterity the view of the framers that the freedom of speech preceded the Congress. It came from some source other than the Congress. This declaratory statement is what we call a negative right. It guarantees you, if the guarantee were worth the paper it was written on, it guarantees you that Congress will not interfere with the freedom of speech. It doesn't say Congress shall grant freedom of speech. It doesn't say Congress shall create freedom of speech. It says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, implying that the freedom of speech comes from somewhere other than the Congress. So where does it come from? So I'm writing down NL for natural law tradition. I'm writing down PS for positivism. This is the enemy. And I'm writing down NAP, not because it's the first syllable of my last name, but because it stands for the non-aggression principle. So the little bit of history here. This is an amendment to the Constitution. This is not in the Constitution. This was not in the Constitution when it was ratified by the ratifying conventions in the 13 states in 1788 and 1789. But it was pretty much promised by the people who wrote the Constitution. The Constitution was written in secret in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia. James Madison kept the notes and James Madison was the scrivener and much of James Madison's language found its way into the Constitution. The Constitution is ratified with the idea that there will be added some amendments to it which will protect individual rights from interference by the federal government. So that's why this says Congress. It doesn't say the states shall make no law. It doesn't say the president shall make no law. It doesn't say the courts shall make no law. It says Congress shall make no law because the fear of Madison and Jefferson was that Congress would get out of control. So now George Washington is the president of the United States and James Madison known as Little Jimmy. I would like to stand next to Little Jimmy. He was about four foot eight. Even I would look like a basketball player next to Little Jimmy. Little Jimmy was a congressman from Virginia who was the chairman of the committee assigned, imagine this, to write the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. And Little Jimmy initially was persuaded by another enemy of ours. We actually have an expert in the room on this enemy, Professor Tom Di Lorenzo is the country's expert on Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton persuaded Little Jimmy that we didn't need amendments to the Constitution. Could you imagine the government interfering with fundamental liberties after the war we just fought against the king? It's not going to happen. Wait a minute. Didn't you want George Washington to become a king? Well, yeah, yeah, right, right. Didn't you want him to serve for the rest of his life? Yeah, all right, all right. Didn't you want some central bank that was going to regulate all economic activity unaccountable to enrich itself? Well, yeah, all right, but we don't need these amendments to the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson persuaded Madison that we did. And the actual language that survives into the First Amendment was suggested to Madison by Jefferson. So Madison and the Committee of the House of Representatives originally proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution. They were abbreviated down to 10. And those 10 are commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights. They all contain negative rights. That is, they all restrain the government. They don't grant you anything. They presume, here it is, they presume that the right exists. They deny the government the ability to interfere with the right. Now, presuming that the right exists gives rise to the following question. Where does it come from? Positivism, which is a theory of law that says the law means whatever the lawgiver says it means, stands for the proposition that in a free society, the majority decides what rights are. And the majority can command the government to refrain from interfering with rights or permit the government to interfere with them. The attraction of positivism is that the majority always prevails. Of course, positivism forgets that the majority can be as tyrannical towards human freedom as a madman can. But positivism, or I give it the most important word in here, is Congress. Because under the positivist theory of law, Congress can write any law, regulate any behavior, tax any event, so long as it follows its own internal procedures, and so long as it does it in a lawful manner, stated differently, there would be no liberty whatsoever if the positivists had their way. Under the non-aggression principle, with which most of you are undoubtedly familiar, the freedom of speech derives from the private ownership of property. You can stand on your own property and say whatever you want. If you own a printing press or a printer, it's yours. You can do with it whatever you want, and the government can't interfere with it. Under the natural law tradition, this is Thomas Aquinas, this is Thomas Moore, this is Aristotle, this is Augustine, this is Martin Luther King Jr., our rights come from our humanities. It's also Jefferson and John Locke, although there's some of John Locke in here. It's not a philosophy lecture, and I don't want to confuse you with this. And under the natural law tradition, there are many different schools of thought. Just as under positivism, there are a half dozen schools of thought. There's only one school of thought under this, and we all understand it. Leave me alone. Even to the government, leave me alone. One of the great defenders in the modern era of this, seated in the first row, Professor Walter Block, I used to say, used to say that wherever I go, I'm the most libertarian person in the room, except when Walter Block is there. Now that he's supporting Donald Trump, I don't have to say that anymore. All right, back to this. The states ratify this. Now in here, in the space that I've removed, are the religion clauses, and in here are the right to petition the government for redress of grievances and the free association clauses. I just want to talk about speech. So this is the language that survives today. The presence of the makes it clear that the framers understood from the natural law tradition that the freedom pre-existed the government and came from our humanity. Jefferson made this argument in the Declaration of Independence. I recited the language for you a few minutes ago, and it's the iconic phrase, all men are created equal and endowed by their creator. You don't have to believe in God to accept natural law theory, though much of it is Catholic in origin and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights and among these is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Endowed by their creator and inalienable rights is sufficient language for us to argue that the country accepted natural law tradition at its birth and that this is a manifestation of it. The fact that the framers understood that the freedom of speech pre-existed the Congress and the government that they were creating. So now we ask a question. If the states which ratified this, ratified another amendment rescinding it, would we still have the freedom of speech? And the answer to that is it depends upon which of these theories you accept. If you accept the non-aggression principle, you'd have the freedom of speech on property that you owned. If you accept positivism, there would be no freedom of speech because under positivism the law is whatever the law giver says it is. There is no restraint on the law giver. There is no natural restraint on the law giver. There's no higher law restraint on the law giver under positivism. So under positivism, which is what almost everyone in the government today embraces even though they have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, they all embrace positivism because they all believe that the government can write any law and regulate any behavior and tax any event. But under positivism, if an amendment were ratified that rescinded the First Amendment, then there would be no freedom of speech. Under natural law, of course, this whole thing is irrelevant because we have the freedom of speech that comes from our humanity. Under one of these natural law traditions, if the First Amendment were rescinded, the government would collapse because under one of these natural law traditions, and again there are a half dozen of them, if you remove an essential feature for which we came together as a society and agreed on a government, namely protecting the freedom of speech, then the government is no longer one of moral relevance and cannot command any obedience or write any laws. All of this, of course, has expanded. This is the rare area of the Constitution that has actually gotten a little better with the passage of time. So Congress today means all government. Why is that? Well, Woodrow Wilson in World War I sent the precursor to the FBI to arrest people for singing German beer hall songs while we were fighting a war against Germany. And when confronted with the First Amendment, he said it only restrains Congress. It doesn't restrain me. I'm the president. Well, wait a minute. There's another clause of the Constitution that says all legislative power, not some, all legislative power shall be delegated to a Congress. How can you write a law? Well, I'm just waging war as the Commander-in-Chief. Does this sound familiar to you? And I have powers as Commander-in-Chief which are not written down in the Constitution. So from that we have a series of Supreme Court opinions that say even though this says Congress, it means Congress, the president and the courts, even though it refers to the federal government because it says Congress, it really means no government. So a board of education can't abridge the freedom of speech. A city or a town can't abridge the freedom of speech. The states can't abridge the freedom of speech and no apparatus in the federal government can abridge the freedom of speech. Law doesn't necessarily mean law. It could be a procedure. It could be a judicial opinion. It does not necessarily limited to a statute. So if we reword the first line to the way it stands today, it would read, no government shall do anything that abridges the freedom of speech. This is an expansion of the natural right to speak because the original meaning of this was limiting it to a statute. That would have permitted the government to do things other than by statute. Now, this was enacted in 1791. In 1798, seven years later, the Congress enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Alien and Sedition Acts made it a felony to utter words to bring the government or the president or the Congress into ill repute. How could, that's the wrong word, ill repute, disrepute. How could the same generation, in some cases the same human being that wrote, Congress shall make no law, abridging the freedom of speech, seven years later enact a statute that abridged the freedom of speech. Well, 1798 was just a few years after Louis XVI's head was cut off and the French Revolution and they're spread through the United States of America, something that is inconceivable to us today. Fear of the French. And this fear of the French caused them to enact the Alien and Sedition Acts, which basically said we're looking for people to live here. Translation, we need taxpayers. We're looking for people to live here. If you come here and live here in own real estate and you're over 21, you can become a citizen immediately, unless you're French. Then you have to wait 14 years before you can become a citizen. And by the way, once you come here and for everybody else that's here, be careful what you say. Don't bring the government into disrepute. My dear friend Lou Rockwell has opined that this is an example of what Saint Augustine warned about when he warned about libido dominandi. Not the kind of libido you might be thinking about. Libido dominandi is the lust to dominate. It is part of original sin. It is something we all have. It's part of human nature. It's the reason there needs to be a restraint on government. People like Ron Paul or Lou Rockwell or Walter Block, Ariandre Napolitano, don't get elected to government because we would shrink it. In the case of Block and me, we would shrink it out of existence. But most people that run for government are more your Hillary Clinton types or even George W. Bush types who really want to expand it to tell people how to live and to take their property from them and redistribute it under their standards. But in 1798 it was the same people that did this, did that. One of my favorite stories, just as a little aside, is Congressman Matthew Lyons, a firebrand from Vermont, an anti-Federalist, Jeffersonian in the House of Representatives. Vermont had one representative in the House at the time. Decided he would challenge the constitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Act. Now, in order to challenge the constitutionality of a federal criminal law, you have to break the law. You can't just file a piece of paper in court saying, I think that's unconstitutional because there's a clause in the constitution called the case and controversy clause which requires that the courts only rule on real cases and controversies, not on hypothetical disputes. So Congressman Lyons decided that he would bring to the attention of the public something that was already well known, that John Adams, the President of the United States, was fat. You can't make this stuff up. So in order to mock the President's waistline, bearing in mind that everybody knew he was fat, including Mrs. Adams, and President Adams wore a purple robe that Mrs. Adams made for him. And when she didn't like the way the purple robe looked, it looked a little too simple for her. She sewed gold epulets on the shoulders. So Congressman Lyons referred to President Adams as his pomposity. And that didn't get him anywhere. And by the way, he made these allegations in public because if he made them on the floor of the Congress, it can't be prosecuted because the speech and debate clause in the Constitution insulates members of Congress from the consequences of what they say on the floor of the House. When Teddy Kennedy Jr. was stopped for drunk driving at three o'clock in the morning when he ran his car into a tree, he told the police he was going to the floor of the Congress because the speech and debate clause covers going to Congress what you say there and leaving. The police didn't believe him. It was fanciful. He was prosecuted. He pleaded guilty at the end of the story. So back to Congressman Lyons, he took one look at the President and said outside the Capitol building, referred to the President as his rotundity. For that, he was indicted, prosecuted. Everybody thought it was a joke, convicted of violating the Alien and Sedition Act. Spent two years in a dungeon in Western Massachusetts and then did something while there, which will be familiar to some of you, if you're from New Orleans, Boston, Chicago, or Hudson County, New Jersey, what I'm now about to tell you is familiar to you. Congressman Lyons ran for re-election from his jail cell and he won. When he got back to Washington, he was expecting that his rotundity would still be in the White House. Instead, the tall, thin, elegant, freedom-loving, raven-haired Thomas Jefferson was in the White House who promptly pardoned Congressman Lyons so that he could serve in the House of Representatives. Jefferson, of course, declined to enforce the Alien and Sedition Act. There wasn't an Alien and Sedition Act by the time Jefferson was president because when Jefferson defeated Adams, the Federalists who controlled the Congress who enacted the Alien and Sedition Act quickly repealed it for fear that Jefferson might use it on them. Forgetting that Jefferson, of course, had condemned it and said he would never prosecute anybody under it. He pardoned the people who had been convicted under it and he returned all the fines that the people had paid. Abridging the freedom of speech. What is meant by speech? We get back to this now. So today, speech means expression. You can think of all the ways that you can express an idea without actually using language. This has been expanded, obviously, to include that, but it has also been expanded to include the opposite of speech. What would be an example of the opposite of speech? When Thomas Moore was charged with treason and he chose to defend himself, the act of treason was the refusal to consent that the king, Henry VIII, was the head of the church on earth and he made these famous lines to the jury. Some men say the earth is round and some men say it is flat. This is in 1535. So this issue of roundness or flatness is current at the time, but if it is flat, can the parliament make it round? And if it is round, can the king's command make it flat? Now, of course, everybody knows the answers to those questions. Common sense tells them the answers. The parliament and the king for all of their power can't change the shape of the earth, but it was an argument for this. It was an argument for the natural law, that the same natural law, which gives us the right to make free choices, I'm pointing to my heart, the origin of the natural law, the right to make free choices without a government permission slip, the corollary to that is a restraint on the government when it wants to interfere with our natural rights. What natural right was Henry interfering with when he demanded that Thomas sign the oath of supremacy? The answer to that question is the same answer to the question of what is the opposite of speech? Silence. So Congress shall make no law abridging this freedom of speech. Not only says you can say what you want, it also says that the government cannot force you to speak because you have a natural right to remain silent. Of course, this natural right was violated in Thomas's case and Thomas Moore's case, and in the case of thousands of others who were butchered by Henry because they too refused to sign the oath of supremacy. This is very important today, the right to silence and the right to free speech because the government will sometimes do things to chill speech to give you second thoughts before you express yourself. Now, I often, when I give these talks, where my jacket is, my iPhone's in the pocket, I'll have to take it out, you all know what an iPhone looks like here. So I often hold up, may I Ricardo?  Turn it on because I want President Obama and the NSA to hear everything I'm about to say. Everybody laughs, but today of course it's not a joke because whether it's on or off, that is whether the screen is dark or not, it is still a recording device which will record a reasonable distance from its location, whatever it hears, and will also tell the government wherever you go. So if you know the government is going to hear whatever you say, will you think twice, thank you Ricardo, Ricardo, will you think twice about saying it? That's called chilling government behavior on its face neutral intended to give you pause before you talk about or criticize the government. That is unconstitutional, that is subsumed in this as well. So you can see how this has expanded substantially from the simple declaratory statement, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. This means all government. This means do anything using the power of the government. This means that we are wedded to this, that this freedom either comes from here, from our natural right, from our ability to make free choices without seeking a government permission to live in. That's only one of them. This is just speech. In this amendment, there are four others that are in the same category and the other amendments proceeding down. What follows this amendment? The second amendment, which is the right to keep and bear arms, which is of course not the right to shoot deer, it's the right to shoot tyrants when they take over the government. The third amendment, which is the right to keep the government out of your property when they want to use it for military purposes, they have to have your expressed permission. The fourth amendment, the quintessentially American one, which Justice Brandeis called the right to be let alone, the right to say the government, that's my threshold, stay the blank out. All of these rights are negative rights, that is they prevent the government from interfering with a pre-existing liberty, pre-existing because it comes from our humanity, pre-existing because it's on our property. Three essential elements for property. If one of these is missing, it's not private property. The right to use to its highest and best use. The right to alienate, lease, mortgage, sell. And here's my favorite, the right to exclude, the right to say to anybody, including the government, you can't come on this property. This of course forms the basis for our rights as well because a private property is truly private. If we truly own it, then we can keep anybody off it, including the government. Fourth amendment gives you the circumstances under which the government can come on it and the government must jump through a lot of hoops including going to a neutral judge and explaining to the judge under oath the existence of criminal activity on the property and why there's no other means than invading the property for them to get on it. I love this subject matter because it is the rare, happy subject matter about the Constitution where I can stand here and explain to you as I'm attempting to do now how the freedom of speech has expanded, not contracted since this was enacted in 1791. But don't get your hopes up because this is the only one of these rights that has expanded far beyond how it was understood in 1791. And I will also tell you that this Congress was initially interpreted literally not only by Woodrow Wilson during World War I but even in the Washington Adams, Jefferson, Madison Monroe years so that the states could make laws abridging the freedom of speech rather than the Congress. This didn't expand in its meaning until 1868 when the post-Civil War amendments came down and were ratified and the courts began interpreting them and then they began this expansive interpretation of the entire meaning of the phrase.  The answer is if you accept the theory under which the government was initially formed in the Declaration of Independence, yes, we would still have the freedom of speech. If you accept what has become of our government, which is that the majority rules unrestrained, write any law, regulate any behavior, tax any event, then there would be no freedom of speech. And of course these two natural law and non-aggression principles are sisters or cousins because they frequently end up in the same place. The government of course tries to make this appear attractive and its attraction is the argument goes something like this. We're a democracy and we all sink or swim together. I'm making the government's argument, it's not something I believe. And in a democracy the majority rules and the minority goes along with it. And it is beautiful that we can always change our leaders and change our laws by majority rule. And therefore we're going to have absolute majority rule. Why should we be governed by the dead hand of white landowners that lived in this era 1791 to 1798 when we have contemporary problems today that they couldn't have imagined. It's the same type of argument that was made when the Patriot Act was enacted, the most abominable piece of legislation ever enacted by Congress since the Alienation Sedition Act. The Patriot Act, pure, pure positivism, permitted FBI agents to write their own search warrants even though the Fourth Amendment requires that only judges can issue search warrants based upon probable cause. And the Patriot Act made it a crime to tell anyone that you received an FBI agent written search warrant. So two FBI agents walk into a library in Bridgeport, Connecticut. I know this sounds like a joke. Two guys walk into a bar and one of them has a duck under his arm. That's the opening line of the joke. This is two FBI agents walk into a library in Bridgeport, Connecticut and one of them has a self-written search warrant under the arm. What do I mean by self-written search warrant? The one who had it under his arm received authority from the other one to search the library. Why do they even bother having two of them? Why not just let one of them do what they want? They presented this self-written search warrant to a volunteer librarian who was 86 years old and partially deaf. These FBI agents were in their 30s.  What do you want? I have the search warrant. You're not allowed to tell anybody about it. What? She hands the search warrant to her 75-year-old assistant and they try and figure out what it means. We're upon the two of them are arrested for violating the Clause of the Patriot Act that permits, that prohibits speech, that prohibits telling anyone, anyone meaning anyone, your colleague, your spouse, your priest and confessional, your lawyer in her or his office, even a judge in a public courtroom. By the way, they were at the library to see who had taken out certain books. So let me get this straight. It's a government library. The government owns the shelves. The government bought the book, bought the books. There can be something wrong or of interest to the FBI. Who took these books out? Yes, according to the Patriot Act. Two years later, we're in a federal courtroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut and a very courageous federal judge calls the defense counsel and the prosecutors in the day before the trial and she says to them, you still want to prosecute these two people. This one is 88 and the other one is 78. You still want to prosecute them. Yes. Okay. I'm about to declare the Patriot Act unconstitutional. Do you still want to prosecute them? We have to call Washington. Call Washington, come back the next day and the government withdraws the indictment. But before she let them withdraw the indictment, because once they did, there'd be no case or controversy. She would lose jurisdiction. Before she let them withdraw the indictment, she filed this opinion declaring the Patriot Act unconstitutional. At least that portion of it, which makes it a crime to speak. So what does the government do? Did the government appeal that? Oh no. The government didn't appeal it because they knew they'd lose that appeal. And instead of just having one single federal judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut, saying you can't punish speech, particularly speech about the government, particularly speech about a document the government has handed you, if the Second Circuit upheld that, then that would have been the law in the whole North or in the Atlantic States of the United States. And if the Supreme Court ever upheld it, it would be the law of the land and the Patriot Act would be gone. So rather than appealing this decision, they just don't use it in Connecticut. They continue to act as if it doesn't exist, and they continue to warn you, we are giving you, they don't call it a self written search, they call it a national security letter. Read 1984, George Orwell was so prescient about the meaning of words. I am handing you a national security letter and warning you, if you tell anybody about this, you're facing five years in a federal prison. Never mind, you'll be indicted and tried, you can elevate a defense. No, you're going to go to jail for five years. Does the FBI still say that? Yes, they do, except in Connecticut, because they might end up before this same federal judge. When a federal trial judge makes issues in opinion, other federal trial judges are not required to abide by it because they're of the same level. But if a federal appeals court issues the decision, then all the trial judges that are subject to that appeals court have to follow it. So they have lists of judges that they're trying to avoid, because they know that these judges think like you and I do, that the Constitution really means what it says.