Don't Pollute the Root!

Phil Ramsey. BBR interview #1

The thermometer read -35F this morning. It was chilly but not brutal so I thought the reading was a bit high. However at the church breakfast this morning Ed Masterson told me his thermometer had dropped to -39, so maybe it was that cold! Glad we’re nestled in between two mountain ranges and the wind isn’t that strong here. Out in the prairie, east of the divide, you have -39 and the wind- no, correct that; actually the thermometers over in Bozeman read five to ten degrees colder before you even factor in the wind, so we can’t complain too much over here in the Bitterroot. In any case, the cold is hard on everything. I had a little adventure with the F150 at the beginning of the storm, which I’ll talk about next post, I hope.

For now, let’s go back about a week to a beautiful, sunny day just above freezing. Bernd Pfeiffer, Sloan Youngblood and I met up with Phillip Ramsey and shot our first interview on the Sheep Creek Mine. That day Lukas was busy so I was prepared to go on location and set everything up myself, but Bernd, over from Germany with his wife Heike, said, “You need to concentrate on the interview. I’ll come out and film.”

This meant he’d have to drive about 3 hours from Sloan’s place on the Missouri river, east of the divide. Sloan wasn’t about to be left behind so he joined too and I had two tech guys helping out. It was great because I hardly had to think about sound, background and lighting- I left it to those guys. In the end we came out with a real quality interview and I think I’ll just let Phil do the talking and explain the key points of the Don’t Pollute the Root effort.

Doing the interview was briefly in doubt, as Phil had some reservations about working with me through kla.tv. I’d given him a kla.business card and finally he’d taken a little time to check out some of our productions. Whether Phil is a normie or not, he wants to keep his anti-mine efforts normie friendly, as part of this effort where clearly everyone has something to lose with the mine, or gain by fighting it. In his text he said he was hard pressed to see how working with kla.tv would help the cause. Translation: Look Dan, we’re trying to appeal to everyone, not just the tin-foil hatters. Maybe he’d watched a video or two on weaponized healthcare, mRNA shots, smartphone radiation, censorship tyranny, or some other of our kooky productions and said to himself, “This David Icke-ish stuff aint gonna fly with the blue-pill crowd.” Fine with me, I thought. We can fight this infernal mine idea and red-pill ‘em later. I wrote an email to him, trying to show him that I could relate to the head-in-the-sand crowd, and we would leave the kla (or BBR) watermark off the production, and make sure this effort was impartial. The email convinced him we had our heads screwed on right and we set up the interview for just before the New Year, at a peaceful location along the Bitterroot. You can read some excerpts of my email to Phil below, but first check out the interview and let me know what you think.

Phil Ramsey interview. 17 min.

Interviewer: D.W. Shumway

Main Camera: Sloan Youngblood

Roving Camera: Bernd Pfeiffer

Editor: Heike Pfeiffer

Hey Phil,

In regards to your reservations about putting things up on kla.tv: I understand and am fine with leaving mention of them out of it…

…let me say again that, as your wife pointed out, the non-partisan nature of this effort is very appealing and will I think be key in winning the battle. It's why I would put your website above the Friends of the Bitterroot website; you have one goal in this effort and it's to save the river from the mine, while they have other issues, like global warming, that automatically turn off a good deal of conservatives. 

I wouldn't want to put the kla logo or watermark on any interview for this reason. Someone could easily say, "Ah, look who this Ramsey guy is affiliated with," and then you might lose them. 

Here is an opportunity for us to defeat a common enemy, if only we can make common cause with the people we're supposed to hate, just for this one thing at least. So, just as the uber-conservative might have to lock arms with the purple-hair/nose-ring/tatted, rainbow crosswalk, abortion and drag-queen-story-hour-loving-Zooey Zephyr fan from Missoula, the guy who calls himself super-progressive might have to lock arms with the Bible-Thumping, Trump-loving, gas-guzzler-pickup driving Thank-a-Veteran conservative. It's beautiful really! 

So here's the deal. I don't intend to show my face in the interview. It's just you, for 20 minutes, laying out the problem and the plan. I have some experience in interviewing, and I have a volunteer team backing me up that can do the editing (inserting slides and such). We could put something real nice together that can go up on your website and maybe a new Youtube page dedicated solely to this project. 

If this all happens without any involvement from me or kla, so much the better- I've got other things to do. But if it doesn't happen at all because we're being over careful about who we work with, that would be a tragedy.

If you still think the short, impactful interview is a good idea, I suggest one of the following

1. go with me and my team

2. find someone else, who has no baggage

3. pay for it. I would suggest my friend J.W. from W. Media in Hamilton. He's a friendly Irish guy with a nice accent and a good interview style, and he's a great editor/producer, and has all the equipment. 

#3 is your best bet, probably, if you want quality, speed, and no connections to Jim Jonesish religious sects from Switzerland*. J.W. is not a close friend but from what I've seen he's a businessman first and I can't discern any political orientation. 

*[sorry kla.tv friends- you know those aren’t my thoughts- I was just trying to add a little levity and secure the interview here.]

I think there is plenty enough interest and money out there for you to get funding for such an interview. I had a meeting with a woman in early summer and we discussed money back when I couldn't afford to leave work uncompensated. 

Let me know what you decide, please. No hard feelings whatever the choice- my only goal is to keep the B. clean.

Dan

PS: Do you think Oswald acted alone?? ;)