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Welcome to Freedom Fest.

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Live here at the Mirage Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Fox Nation.

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I’m Heather Wagonhols, and we are having a grand time here.

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Here we are in full swing of our second day at Freedom Fest.

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And joining me right now to talk about some of the great work that he’s doing within the community is Casey Given.

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He is the CEO and the president of Young Voices.

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Casey, welcome to the program.

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So great to be here.

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Thank you.

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So you have an interesting approach to promoting individuals that are champions of liberty of all kinds.

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Tell us what young Voices does.

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Yeah.

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So Young Voices, in short, is trying to solve a big problem for the Liberty Movement.

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I feel like we have all the right ideas, but it’s hard to get them out there in the media, and that’s what we’re trying to do.

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So we have a roster of 100 students and young professionals across the country that we edit and pitch their op eds, pitch them for radio and TV, get them public speaking opportunities, and help them take the next steps in their career as thought leaders for liberty.

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So it’s like a PR firm for the Liberty Movement, but you’re promoting individuals agendas.

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Yeah, that’s what I like to say in one line.

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It’s.

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Where? PR firm for Liberty.

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Because I’m on this side of the fence, it’s hard for me to answer this question.

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So when you’re somebody who understands about the importance of preserving liberty, because even though my show is a money management TV show, we know intuitively that we cannot have financial freedom unless we have personal, political, and social freedoms, economic freedoms.

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So why is it important for us and for you as an organization to be working so hard to spread this message to mainstream? Yeah, I think it’s important because there’s a lot of room for reaching out, not just to the center right, to folks who are sympathetic, but also across the aisle.

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And that’s really what Young Voices we found, is by pitching these, by building a brand, you can really get relationships not just with conservative papers and TV radio outlets, but even left of center wants on issues that matter.

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So we are really trying to use pitching and public relations as a way to spread the message beyond just the center right bubble.

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What are the current challenges you as an organization face and maybe relative larger to the Liberty Movement about reaching you? Yeah, well, I think one of the big challenges is, of course, the popularity of socialism, particularly among the youth.

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We’ve seen this Gallup has been polling for decades now about youth attitudes towards capitalism versus socialism, and it’s gone up over the past few years.

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So we at Young Voices just recently launched a project called the Dissonant Project, where we’re taking students and young professionals who have escaped authoritarian socialism and getting them to speak to high schools and colleges across the country to really underline the importance of liberty and through their personal testimonies of escaping tyranny.

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Give me an example of one of them.

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Yeah, so one of our writers who’s actually speaking here at Freedom Fest, his name is Daniel de Martino, and he is a Venezuelan expat who escaped just six years ago when his family’s income was devalued to the equivalent of $2 a day.

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He’s a brilliant young man.

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He’s currently studying economics at Columbia.

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But through participating in Young Voices, we helped him get a story out, and he started getting requests from colleges, but even high schools to tell his story.

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And that was really the inspiration for it, is to spread the message to find more people like Daniel T.

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Martino, not just from Venezuela, Cuba, China, Hong Kong, and spread the message to the youth.

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So tell me a little bit about his story.

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For those that aren’t familiar, crypto has really helped the Venezuelan community.

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Give me what it was like for him in Venezuela.

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Yes.

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Well, he grew up and this is an interesting thing he likes to point out, is that he actually grew up in a middle class family in Venezuela.

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But their bad economic policies, printing too much price controls, inflation, brought basically his family, as many other middle class Venezuelans, to desperation.

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So that really underlines the importance of sound money.

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And I was talking to him yesterday, and he said, oddly enough, the situation has improved a little bit in Venezuela just because so many people have left and they’re doing remittances and using things like crypto to use for sound money purposes.

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So it really underscores that sometimes things can get so bad, but maybe technology like crypto can be a way to really help the poor in desperate situations like Cuba, Venezuela, from Venezuelan last year, Freedom Fest, he was talking about parents being arrested for using US.

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Currency.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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That’s the reality in so many countries as they inflate, and their money is so useless that their black market emerges using US.

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Dollars.

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So what’s his message to Americans, especially the youth that are gravitating towards this modernization of socialism? Yeah, his message is basically to that.

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To quote Milton Friedman, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

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Is that socialism? It may seem fashionable seeing influencers like AOC or whatnot, but inherently it requires government controlled the means of production, which involves coercion.

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So by telling his story, we’ve really been able to get through to a lot of young people the underlying the importance of freedom in a couple of moments that we have left here.

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Can you help me dispel a myth of socialism that is so enchanting for these young people that capitalism proves time and again is way more effective? I love that question, because one of the common things you’ll hear from the left is they’ll say, okay, Venezuela, Cuba, these are extreme situations.

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But what about Scandinavia? What about this rich, so called socialist countries.

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In fact, I was just in Norway last month, and I was talking about this, and Norwegians at this far, they were like, no, we’re very capitalist.

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They actually have lower income taxes or corporate income taxes, lower regulations than the US.

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It’s only through increasing the power of capital that they’re able to maintain their welfare state.

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So that’s one of the myths that we hope to point out in the Dissident Project is beyond just communistic countries, even the Western ones are really utilizing the power of capitalism.

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So if people want to learn more about what your organization does and either support your organization or participate, maybe I’m that dissident from a foreign country, and I want my story told.

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I want these people to understand how dangerous this slope of communism is and why we need to avoid this slippery slope.

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Yeah.

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You can find us@youngvoices.com not just Dissidents.

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We primarily work with students and young professionals in the United States, help them get their media out there.

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So if you’d like to apply or interested in learning more about us youngvoices.com.

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Youngvoices.com.

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Okay.

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Now, are you a nonprofit organization? Yes, we are.

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Okay, so if folks want to contribute, can they also go to your website? Yes, absolutely.

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And it’s 100% tax deductible.

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Okay.

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Tell me, what is the first step that you help these people? Do you help them organize their stories, or do you just start writing pitches for them? What’s the process? If I’m interested, give me 10 seconds on that.

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Yeah.

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So we help folks edit and pitch their op eds for publications.

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So that’s what we’re really doing is buffering people’s resume to get them to spread the message in the media.

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Okay, excellent.

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Well, it’s amazing work that you do, and I’m really excited.

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So thank you so much for being a part of the show.

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And Youngvoicescom is her website.

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Everyone, this is Casey Given from Young Voices.

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And I’m Heather Wagon hall for Freedom Fest TV right here on Fox Nation.

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We are now going to be heading back to the main stage, and we have an incredible panel and an important one on an unfunny world protecting the freedom of satire.

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And this is one that you will want to be here for.

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So we are going to be taking it back to the main stage beach.

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Again.

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You’re watching Freedom Fest TV on Fox Nation.

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I’m Heather Wagonhoff, and we’ll be back with more right after this.