so, here we are at freedomfest and i found there were two kinds of people who come to freedomfest. there are those who are so busy that they come in and they are lucky to be here a day or two. then they have got to go and they have got to do this or that, what have you. especially speakers. there really are two kinds of speakers. we encourage speakers to come and spend all three days at freedomfest and just relax and go to sessions that have nothing to do with what they do normally in business. you just take it as a break away from finance. if you are a finance person, go to the arts and literature and science and technology. we have music here with bob gruenberg and the teaching company, number one teacher. that room should be packed. it was about half full when he talked about it in disguise the number one teacher. he has 28 courses on classical music. i'm hoping on saturday he is in the same room and palace three, four and five. bob gruenberg is going to talk about music that has caused riots. it is really i think going to be an interesting topic. but that is me. i am an eclecti

mark, it's great to be here at freedomfest. i have to tell you, about a month so ago mark called me up. todd, do you believe in free speech? i said, yes and of course. he said, well, are you sure? i said, you know my book on the front cover has a quote from milton friedman endorsing my book. of course of believe in free speech. he said kamal will you come to mike conferencing give a speech for free. here i am today which you know. i'm doing this favre -- not a favor. it is obviously good for me and for everyone here. i am going to ask you to do a favor. i would like you all to stand up for just a moment. please stand up. thank you. thank you. stand up. i just want to see if i had the power to give 500 libertarians to do what i want. all gone. now you can treat each other for a moment, say hello to your neighbor. very good. and now please sit down. please sit down. thank you very much. you know what, i may have just save your life. i may have just save a life by getting you to stand up. according to the american journal of cardi

. >> reporter: the annual 4th of july freedomfest at fort hood, one of the largest military bases inhe u.s. soldiers just back from war or ready to deploy were spending the day with their families. >> i got a winner here, man, i got a win. >> reporter: but there was no chance they would win at some of these games. >> oh my god. >> reporter: the games are run by a texas company called century 21 shows, u.s. taxpayers pay century 21 through a government contract to entertain the families of fort hood and another carnival in texas this. man has been a carney for 20 years working the carnival circuit building and managing games in the midway. we agreed to protect his identity and substitute his voice. he said as a military veteran he was disgusted that soldiers were being ripped off. >> i couldn't rob a guy that just came back from war, has his wife and baby in his hands and take his rent money. >> reporter: he showed us how it was done building this game. the ball known as screw pool from scratch. >> tell me about the object of this game. >> it is to knock this ball out with a circle. y

. >> at the freedomfest. >> you were holding the freedom festival in utah. >> glenn: oh, my gosh.met and what were you like as a couple before? what did you have that prepared you for this? >> we're just the same. really. just the same. don't you think? >> yeah. but i think that that, the love that we have now is the same love we had then. that is what helped us prepare us for the tragedy. a lot of the people who are experts in the burn, the burn world and the healing arts, the doctors and the physicians and the nurses, a lot of them had some experience that a lot of times marriages don't work out. >> glenn: a lot of times, i would imagine most time. >> most of the time. >> glenn: nothing to do with scars here, but the scars inside. be honest. you have to both be kicking yourself to get on the plane. whoever said let's go to the ranch this weekend. you wanted to be a pilot. i didn't hear you say get out. you got out. whatever the deception or the lie is that is running through your head had to have played out. had to have. >> well, i mean there were. >> i'm sure i thought, i felt

we continue freedomfest 2011 with michael shermer. mr. shermer is the author of "the believing brain" and he talks about how her rational beliefs are formed. this is about 50 minutes. >> good morning. i am michael shermer is the director of the skeptic society. i think we actually have a slight of that. there we go. we are the quarterly publication of the skeptic society which is a five o. one c. organizations with claims of all kinds between good science, bad science, pathological science non-science and plain old nonsense. lsu been abducted by aliens and that i marcie know there's a lot of it out there. nonsense, that is. some people call it the boxer in some people say there is a lot of bunk and some -- and that is part of our job. why people believe weird things which is the title of my first book and the believing brain is why people believe anything at all. not just weird things. i would invite you all to go to skeptic.com and strive to get the magazine. we believe in a supreme but a rational society a society based on science. we l