"You shouldn't change your behavior

because some government agency somewhere

is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our

values because we are afraid, we dont care

about those values very much."

- Edward Snowden

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The Boss revisits the Snowden interview from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as it becomes even more resonant in the wake of revelations about the weaponization of our personal information.

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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."

- Josh Billings

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The Boss expands on his chat from yesterday about the spread of misinformation in the past vs present and our ability, but lack of willingness, to face facts.

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“In the view of the board Mr Nix’s recent comments secretly recorded by Channel 4 News do not represent the values or operations of the firm.”

- Cambridge Analytica

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The Boss chats about the terrifying, existential-threatening entity that is Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and our own complicity in allowing our information to be mined and used as a weapon of war.

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"As landowners who have invested our life savings in the house, we are traumatized by the impact this project will have on the quality of our lives, the value of our land and home and the legacy we wish to leave to our children and grandchildren."

- Concerned Burnaby resident.

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The Boss chats about needed compromise in realism vs environmentalism and activism, and the issues of oil transportation.

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After a little hiatus, The Slack Line returns with J-Wow and The Boss having a great chat right off the top with old friend, Dr. Zoe Arthurson-McColl from Kent University in Chicago. She talks with us about battling cancer while working for her PhD and her current pursuit of her law degree, and some of the justice issues the U.S. faces.

Then the boys do a complete 180 with a very silly 2nd half chatting about dreams and the state of The Boss's "studio".

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"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

- Orson Welles

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The Boss chats #quoteoftheday and the fear of being unoriginal in your art or work.

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"Suddenly, all that charisma and cuteness seem constructed, manufactured and, above all, not serious."

- Barkha Dutt on Justin Trudeau

(Washington Post)

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"A large portion of our gain did not come from anything we accomplished at Berkshire. $29 billion was delivered to us in December when Congress rewrote the US Tax Code."

- Warren Buffett

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The Boss chats about the obvious pandering to people with short term tax cuts, to fund huge deficits to cut taxes on the very top with everyone else in the near future.

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The Coach lends us his expertise from years playing in the Outdoor Austrian Hockey League and coaching in the former Yugoslavia to chat about the Flames' week, Trade deadline heating up, and Hall's post-Oilers comments.

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"Your comments this week, and those of our President, have been pathetically weak."

- Fred Guttenberg

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The Boss chats about the father of a murdered daughter telling his lawmakers exactly how he feels about their inaction. He also ponders potential outcomes of actual strict gun control legislation in the US. Voluntary buy backs? Seizure? Black market sales?

Where do all the guns go?

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