Episode Transcript: #1145 - Peter Schiff
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The countdown. So you just, two, one. Hello, Peter Schiff. Hello, Joe. So you just what,
were you gonna ask? No, you just did a whole other show before this one. Yeah, I did. Three
hours? No, two hours. Oh, all right. Wasn't that hard? Oh, okay. Those are the comedian,
those are the easy ones. Oh, all right. They're just, it's just basically talking to a friend.
Okay, well, I'm a friend. You are a friend. That's right. Yeah. I remember when I first saw
you, when you were doing that, is Occupy Wall Street a thing anymore? Did they give up? They
stopped occupying? Yeah, they did. But you know, we just, maybe you saw that on my YouTube channel.
I know we just reposted the Occupy Wall Street video. I never actually had it on my channel.
Oh, really? Because it was originally done by Reason. This is about five years ago or so,
five, six years ago. And so Reason TV did it. And so I let them promote it on their site. I
didn't copy it. And they got millions and millions of views. And there were some other sites that
went with it. It was Ask a One Percent, right? Wasn't that what you called it?
Well, I went down there with a sign that said, I am the one percent, let's talk. And I went into
Zuccotti Park. And you know, the only reason I stopped, the long one, the long version is just
under two hours, which is on my YouTube channel now. But the only reason we stopped is because we
ran out of, you know, batteries, batteries in the camera. The camera died. But I kind of kept
talking and we were losing the light. You can see by the end, you know, it's getting darker.
So watching them get frustrated with you, but not having the words nor the knowledge to compete
with what you were saying was very entertaining. Like, agree with you or disagree with you. It was
just hilarious watching someone so completely outmatched or a group of people so completely