 Let's do a lightning round. If you were elected president, name some of the people that you expect or you would like to appoint as Secretary of State. Who for you would be a great Secretary of State and what? I don't know about that. I don't think I can answer that question because I don't really want to telegraph my choices like that. I love Tulsi Gabbard like her that she understands the importance of disentangling, of unraveling the empire and unraveling the war machine. Would you ban gas stoves? And this lightning round, we'll come back to these in depth if you would like. People are talking about banning stoves. The Biden administration is talking about banning gas stoves yes or no? Yeah, I would not ban gas stoves. Great, would you ban the use of roundup herbicide? Would I ban it? I would certainly make them label it and I would do everything I could to make sure that Monsanto is honest about the injuries that it causes that people are buying now with an open arms like negotiation understanding that they're buying something that's deadly poisonous. Okay, would you ban any major prescription or over-the-counter drugs that are now on the market? I don't come to mind at the moment, but you know. Would you have a personal history of substance abuse? Your family has certain recurring motifs along that, would you legalize drugs or what currently illegal drugs would you legalize? I would decriminalize marijuana on a federal basis and allow the states to regulate it. And I would have a federal tax on it though, I would apply that tax to building rehabilitation centers around the country and providing people drug rehabilitation. What about psychedelics, which have been decriminalized at the state level in Oregon and Colorado? I would definitely decriminalize psychedelics. Okay, would you support immigration reforms that make it easier for more people to come here and live and work legally in America? Yes, I would. Okay, would you make it impossible for people to cross-support illegally and I would open up immigration for legal immigration? Would you ban so-called assault weapons? Oh, I'm not gonna take away anybody's guns. But if there was a consensus where Republicans and Democrats voted a majority to do that, I would sign the bill. Great. Would you pardon Ross Ulbrecht, the founder of the Silk Road, the deep web drug market, Julien Assange of WikiLeaks or Edward Snowden? I would pardon Assange immediately because he's a newspaper publisher and it is crazy. It's crazy what they're trying to do to him. It's completely anti-American. I would pardon Snowden because what Snowden did for the American people was to help restore at least some semblance of democracy and the importance of the information he released was attested to by the fact that Congress passed legislation recognizing the disclosures that he had and making sure that, to try to make sure that those kinds of abuses didn't occur again. So I think he is a hero. He shouldn't be treated as a villain. With Ross Ulbrecht, I need to look into that. My understanding of Ross Ulbrecht, the way that I understand it now is that he was, is given two life terms for something that normally you would not be given that. And if I investigate this, which I'm gonna do very, very quickly, and I find out that he was not being punished so much for his crimes, but being punished as an example to teach a lesson or to increase the bias against Bitcoin and I will release him. Reasons audiences is largely made up of libertarians. We believe in free minds and free markets in limiting government and increasing individual autonomy. As you're running for president and you're pulling 15%, 18% in various polls, what is a message to libertarians who believe in free minds and free markets that you can bring to them? Well, I think I'm aligned. I've always been aligned with libertarians on most issues. I mean, there's tweaks that I have. As an environmentalist, I don't think libertarianism works well in the commons at least in any way that's practical. But I wanna, you know, and those are policy, those are assets that are not susceptible to private property ownership, like the shared assets of our community, what we call the public trust assets with the commons or the commonwealth, the air, the water, the wildlife, fisheries, public lands, aquifers, those kinds of things that you do need government regulation because of an economic law called tragedy of the commons which suggests that all of us will catch the last fish in the ocean. But doesn't that also imply that we should be privatizing more of the commons because when you have clear property rights, you tend to take better care of them than they're left to be. I, you know, I've seen schemes like that, you know, particularly regulation of fisheries that have worked well in some cases, but there's something really undemocratic about it. I mean, what, you know, one of the reasons that we, that the British, you know, rose up and fought the battle of running me, it was because King John tried to privatize the, you know, the rivers of England, the Thames and erect tolls on the Thames. He privatized the, you know, the game animals, the fish and the hare, which is what gave him a problem with Robin Hood. He privatized the fisheries and those assets were social safety nets. So if you were a farmer and you're corrupt and come in and you could go down to the Thames and you could pull out a fish and you could feed your family, you could go into the forest and kill a deer. And, you know, there's something very democratic. In fact, the magna, the full name of the Magna Carta is Magna Carta, the Charter of the Forest, because it recognized that the commons belong to all of us, that whether you're rich or poor, humble or noble, accurate white, European or, you know, African or wherever your origin is, if you were a citizen, you had an equal right to cross over a beach and pull out your fish. That was an excerpt from the reason interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's running for president. If you want to see another excerpt, go here. If you want to see the full thing, and you should go here. Come back next Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern time when Zach Weisz-Miller and I will be talking to somebody that you absolutely want to hear from.