June 12 Media Responses Late Night Edition

Follow Up Media

“Under Studio Lights, A New Alliance: Marmaduke and T’mari Go Public” — The New York Times
From a Samsung-Hyundai studio in Denver, Matt Marmaduke and T’mari Th’ron outlined Freehold goals, V’ren integration, and their sudden marriage. The 90-minute interview mixed policy with personal candor, drawing massive live viewership and immediate reaction across platforms. Supporters saw history; skeptics saw stagecraft.

• @MattMarmaduke: Skeptics will always see stagecraft, too bad most never learn to appreciate true theater. Looking forward to seeing Pirates in the West End in a few weeks.

“Love, Land, and Leverage: Marmaduke’s Big Bet on Food and the V’ren” — Bloomberg
Promising a surge in grain output and “affordable beef within ten years,” Marmaduke tied agricultural expansion to V’ren resettlement. Markets watched for hints of supply chain shifts; critics questioned timelines and costs. The Freehold leader says he’s turning over land to V’ren stewardship.

• @MattMarmaduke: Expanding the food supply has always been about removing barriers and increasing the willing labor supply.  The V’ren are happy to be that labor supply so long as it comes with the dignity it deserves.

“‘We Are the V’ren of Earth Now’: Culture Meets Power in Denver” — BBC News
T’mari Th’ron spoke of caste, equality, and adopting Earth customs—baseball included. The couple’s on-air intimacy sparked debate about symbolism versus substance. Analysts say the broadcast marks a new phase in human–V’ren public diplomacy.

• @ArrowRockRayya:  That was rather tame considering the intimacy we have seen them engage in around the Freehold.  The V’ren I have been working with since day one are eager to make earth their new home and they are fitting in well, even added half a dozen V’ren kids to the little league team I coach.  Others have done the same.

“From Cubs Jokes to Progenitors: The Marmaduke Interview, Unpacked” — The Washington Post
Humor, grief, and governance collided as Marmaduke dismissed “intelligent design” comparisons and sketched a pragmatic view of vanished Progenitors. Policy takeaways included accelerated housing for V’ren and winter-deadline resettlement targets.

• @LadyTmari: We don’t think of them as gods, either.

“Stage-Managed or Historic? Denver Broadcast Splits Viewers” — Reuters
A glossy corporate set framed the conversation, prompting charges of choreography. Yet the couple’s frank answers—on love, loss, and logistics—resonated widely. Next stops: Estes Park, Wounded Knee, and a Chicago follow-up.

• @LadyTmari:  Why can’t it be both?  Matt chose to make our announcements through a media personality he has great respect for and has known for half his life.  Estes Park is beautiful. I learned snowboarding this afternoon and we watched a Rocky Mountain sunset tonight.  Wish we had more time here.

“Marmaduke Promises Grain Revolution, Critics Cite Exaggeration” — Wall Street Journal
In Denver, the Freehold leader pledged record-breaking harvests and affordable beef within a decade. Markets took notice, but analysts warned his promises may outpace logistics.

@MattMarmaduke:  Everyone underestimates my logistics network.  The fact is by noon tomorrow joint Human and V’ren teams will have cut the first new road from Missouri to the Colorado border since the collapse.   It may only be one bulldozer wide, but it is mostly there now and wasn’t there at all two days ago.

“Alien Caste Meets American Equality: T’mari Speaks to the World” — The Guardian
T’mari Th’ron acknowledged her people’s caste legacy, urging equality as “V’ren of Earth.” Advocates praised her courage, while skeptics doubted entrenched traditions could fade so quickly.

• @LadyTmari:  It will take time, maybe two or three generations to be fully gone, but that doesn’t negate that we must begin now.

“From Razor Wire to Royal Titles: Marmaduke’s Journey” — Chicago Tribune
The Doug Meyers Show revealed a man equally at home joking about Cubs hats and discussing sovereignty. Chicago readers split between pride in his roots and skepticism over his crown.

• @MarmadukeFreehold: The Freehold has maintained an embassy in Chicago since 2128, just five years after the Confederated Corporations Agreement of 2123.

“High Lord or High Drama? Denver Broadcast Polarizes” — CNN
Some viewers hailed the broadcast as historic diplomacy; others saw carefully staged spectacle. The studio’s corporate polish underscored growing unease with Freehold media choreography.

• @MarmadukeFreehold: Thank you for noticing that even though we are a small nation in terms of population, we have put more into maintaining a professional media presence than some other nations.  We take pride in doing well, and the fact many of the people who do it have trained at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism and Media Studies in historic Columbia.

“‘Not Amy’: A Widow’s Shadow in the Spotlight” — People Magazine
T’mari Th’ron faced comparisons to Marmaduke’s late wife live on air. Her answer—firm, tender, and personal—sparked emotional waves online, cementing her as a relatable figure beyond politics.

• @LadyTmari: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.” — Sonnet 116
  • @MattMarmaduke: “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” — Sonnet 116
    • @LadyTmari: “My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,
      And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn.” — Sonnet 57
• @AngelinaReyes:  Amy was loved by all who knew her around the Freehold her loss still haunts many of us, but T’mari needs to be accepted on her own merits. What’s past is prologue…
• @ArrowRockRayya: Mawwaige is what bwings us togethew today…

“Progenitors and Puzzle Pieces: The Philosophy of Marmaduke” — The Economist
Rejecting “intelligent design” labels, Marmaduke cast the Progenitors as absent architects, not gods. Analysts noted his pragmatic framing as a bid to ground cosmic history in governance.

• @MattMarmaduke: They are truly ancient, but as far as anyone knows gone from the galaxy for tens of thousands of years.  Where did they go?  Why did they leave? No one really knows, and it doesn’t matter either, for the future is ours even if the past belonged to them.

“Denver Studio or Diplomatic Stagecraft?” — Al Jazeera International
Samsung-Hyundai’s glossy set framed the conversation, raising questions of corporate influence. Still, the pair’s frankness—particularly T’mari’s—struck a chord with viewers across the Middle East and Africa.

@MattMarmaduke:  If they were trying to influence me, they wouldn’t have billed me $42,000 Fiat Dollars for the use of the facility and staff.  We paid retail rental rates and got good service from the facility and staff, but make no mistake they made a good profit.

“Beef, Baseball, and the Burden of Rule” — South China Morning Post
Marmaduke tied food policy to culture in ways both charming and strategic. Promises of affordable beef and nods to America’s pastime played well, though critics noted the absence of Asian markets in his roadmap.

• @MarmadukeLogistics:  We have been around for 20 years and do business around the world.  Asian markets have never embraced us as a carrier or the freehold as trading partner.

• @CallMeBobby:  My family came from Jiangnan and I was born with the name, Fang Huang, but I grew up playing baseball with and against Matt Marmaduke.  China has still kept the Freeholder and the V’ren at arm’s length or we would be visiting this trip.  I hope to one day bring my son and his soon to be V’ren wife back to the place of our ancestors for a visit.

“A Marriage of Convenience—or of Hearts?” — Vogue
Cameras captured every gesture, from Marmaduke’s kiss across T’mari’s fingertips to her candid admission: “I’m not Amy.” Style editors called it a masterclass in blending romance and statecraft.

• @LolaRhea: They are one of the cutes couples I have seen in over 130 years.

“From Denver to Wounded Knee: Symbolism in Marmaduke’s Itinerary” — The Africa Report
Announcing stops at Estes Park, Wounded Knee, and a quinceañera, Marmaduke positioned the Freehold tour as equal parts policy and symbolism. Analysts asked whether gestures can sustain momentum without concrete accords.

• @PedroRodriguez: Like a proper guest, Matt Marmaduke RSVP’d his plus one invitation six months ago.  We are happy to welcome @LadyTmari, and other guests to help us celebrate my granddaughter’s quinceañera.  As governor, I am pleased to also welcome the V’ren-Freehold delegation who will be remaining behind.

Curated Social Media

Twitter / X

@FreeholdPress: LIVE from Denver: Matt Marmaduke and T’mari Th’ron sit down with Doug Meyers at the Samsung-Hyundai Media Complex. Candid, sharp, unforgettable.
@GlobeMirrorIntl: “We are not alone on this world now.” — Matt Marmaduke on #DougMeyersShow. A defining interview for the Freehold and the V’ren Cooperative.
@DenverDailyPost: High Lord Marmaduke & T’mari debut their marriage before a global audience. Full broadcast replay now streaming.
@MidwestHistoryNerd: Marmaduke quoting “curvy puzzle pieces” while holding her hand?? History unfolding live.
@ChiTownFan88: Cubs hat in Denver. Man is fearless. #DougMeyersShow
@AlienCultureBlog: T’mari saying “we are the V’ren of Earth now” gave me chills.

Facebook

Official / Professional
Freehold News Network:
Matt Marmaduke and T’mari Th’ron appeared on the Doug Meyers Show in Denver, addressing Freehold sovereignty, V’ren integration, and their personal life together.
Denver Journal:
From Progenitor species to affordable beef: the High Lord of the V’ren laid out sweeping goals today in a Samsung-Hyundai studio broadcast watched worldwide.
Anna L.: I cried when she said, “I’m not Amy.” Such grace, such strength.
Mike H.: He’s planting more grain than Missouri has in a century. That’s leadership.
Rosa P.: The kiss on her hand… romantic AND political all in one gesture.

Threads / Instagram

@FreeholdOfficial: “If you want one real goal, it’s this: to get everyone off those ships into a home before the first snow.” — Matt Marmaduke on Doug Meyers Show.
@GalaxyPolitics: Denver broadcast reveals the human-V’ren partnership in stark detail. Global implications.
@historygirl2440: The way the cameras caught him lifting her hand 😭 instant iconic image.
@denverfoodie: Cheeseburger diplomacy. Respect.
@alienheartsclub: T’mari in those lights… proof the galaxy just got brighter.

YouTube / CPAN Clip Comments

Official / Professional
CPAN Live: Full replay of the Doug Meyers Show with Matt Marmaduke and T’mari Th’ron now available. Key clips include Freehold agricultural pledges and V’ren cultural insights.
@GeorgieO: This isn’t just politics, this is history.
@RancherRon: He told the world he’d make beef affordable again—10/10 Midwest energy.
@LilySwede: Ninety minutes and I wanted more.

Curated Comments

• oice77: The way Matt held her hand on live broadcast showed more unity than a thousand policy speeches.
  • @JuliaVallejo: Millions of hearts break every time women see a man like that do so much with so little.
• 🇺🇸 @FarmersRise2025: When he said affordable beef in ten years, I swear I saw farmers across America stand up and cheer.
  • @MattMarmaduke: oh good, all I heard was the ones gouging the megacorp food suppliers cursing my name. LOL
• 🇺🇸 @ChiTownFan88: Cubs hat in Denver? Respect. That’s pure Midwestern energy.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Looking forward to the Cubs trouncing the Sox in July! Sing with us during the stretch!
• 🇺🇸 @StudioLightsWatcher: Watching the two of them laugh under those harsh studio lights made the world feel less divided.
• 🇺🇸 @LilyCorbet: “I’m not Amy. I don’t need to be Amy.” Amy was my friend, and she would have approved of that line—wow. Strength and tenderness in one breath.
  • @LadyTmari: hope you can tell me about her sometime when we get back to Missouri.
• 🇺🇸 @MissouriHarvest: Matt planting more grain than Missouri has in a century—there’s the real revolution.
• 🇺🇸 @CitizenCommentary: Matt made me laugh, T’mari made me think. Together they made me believe.
• 🇺🇸 @StraightTalkNow: When he said “That was inevitable no matter who I married,” I believed him. Real words.
• 🇺🇸 @IconicMoments: Hearing Matt say “my life has never really been private” and then kissing her hand anyway? Iconic.
• 🇺🇸 @BrightFutureVoices: I’ve never seen a couple more comfortable in the spotlight together.
  • @LadyTmari: we do fit together like curvy puzzle pieces. Fact of the day: picture puzzles are popular on V’ren as well.
• 🇺🇸 @AllianceWatcher: Their marriage isn’t just symbolic. It’s leadership by example.
• 🇺🇸 @QuotesAndCourage: No one else could quote Shakespeare one day and promise food security the next.
  • @MattMarmaduke: “Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
• 🇺🇸 @DutyAndLove: The love story is real, but the responsibility is even bigger. Respect.
• 🇺🇸 @TruthSeeker24: Matt didn’t dodge the hard questions, and T’mari didn’t flinch either. That’s partnership.
• 🇺🇸 @HistoryOnAir: This wasn’t an interview—it was a glimpse at what leadership should look like.
• 🇬🇧 @GlobalVoicesUK: T’mari saying “We are the V’ren of Earth now” gave me hope for humanity and beyond.
• 🇫🇷 @CitoyenVert: Her honesty about caste and equality sounded like Rousseau reborn. Powerful.
  • @LadyTmari: Interesting I have been reading Locke this evening and am looking forward to learning French so I can read Rousseau in the original.
    • @MattMarmaduke: Je t’aime mon intelligent et bel amoureux vert.
• 🇯🇵 @TokyoObserver: Seeing them together made the galaxy feel smaller, and more human.
  • @AngelinaReyes: looking forward to meeting the one meter tall aliens, so me and every other Japanese woman can feel tall.
    • @MattMarmaduke: Your 6’7” husband makes me short, too.
• 🇧🇷 @FuturoVerde: T’mari’s courage to face truth openly shows what leadership looks like.
• 🇨🇦 @MapleDiplomat: If this is the model of human–alien partnership, Canada is ready to follow.
  • @MarmadukeFreehold: Send an ambassador with poutine. The V’ren love cheese!
• 🇮🇳 @VoicesOfBharat: Respect to Matt for not dodging the SAC question. Integrity matters.
• 🇿🇦 @UbuntuVoices: T’mari’s words about equality touched me deeply. Ubuntu recognizes Ubuntu.
• 🇩🇪 @BerlinAnalyst: They turned a sterile corporate studio into a moment of humanity. Historic.
• 🇦🇺 @DownUnderWatcher: Baseball, Gilbert & Sullivan, and interstellar sagas—this marriage feels real and fun.
• 🇲🇽 @HistoriaMX: Denver will be remembered as the day Earth truly saw them as one.
• 🇺🇸 @DenverLocal88: Interesting to see them in a Samsung-Hyundai studio instead of public space. Very corporate.
  • @FreeholdMedia: Denver asked we not do anything to further congest their horrible traffic. The studio was available and in budget, the lizard people under the airport wanted to much for their facility. We did think local first.
    • 🇺🇸 @TrafficTruthsCO: Fair enough, Denver gridlock doesn’t need more convoys. Thanks for considering locals.
      • 🇬🇧 @CrownAndQuill: A High Lord debating studio rentals and traffic cones? Modern statecraft at its finest.
        • 🇺🇸 @MileHighSkeptic: Studio was “in budget” — but who paid the bill? Taxpayers want clarity.
          • 🇯🇵 @TokyoSatire: Imagine saving the galaxy, only to lose to Denver traffic lights. 🚦👑
            • 🇲🇽 @ChurroPolitico: At least he admitted the lizard people charge premium rates. 😂
              • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: We resent the implication. Our facility offers premium underground acoustics and free bottled water. Negotiations broke down over the snack table.
                • @FreeholdMedia: Sorry it would have required more than bottled water to eliminate the bad taste your jokes about serving up one of our interns as a snack left us with.
                • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: You could have paid off the interns family for less than you paid to rent the other place.
  • 🇺🇸 @RockyMtnLocal: Honestly, the studio looked slick. Better than setting up in a crowded park.
    • @FreeholdMedia: And we didn’t have to let anyone eat our intern. HR was firmly against that.
    • 🇨🇦 @PoliteButCurious: Do the lizard people accept V’ren credits, or strictly Fiat Dollars? Asking for a friend.
      • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: New Dollars (ND$) and Fiat Dollars (FD$) plus Bitcoin, Doge, and interns.
  • 🇺🇸 @ConspiracyCarl77: Finally! Someone admitted the DIA lizard people are real. Told ya.
    • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Feeling validated
  • 🇫🇷 @ParisObserver: Whether in a studio or underground, what matters is the message, not the décor.
    • @LadyTmari: Looking forward to visiting Paris. I understand you have lots of cheese, wine, and no lizard people.
• 🇺🇸 @PolicyWatcherUSA: He mentioned affordable beef—how realistic is that timeline?
  • @AgriSolutions We expect our breeding stock to increase by 12% every year for a decade and our market weight costs to come down by 9% per pound per year over the next decade so we will certainly be able to see more for less, whether your suppliers pass that on to you is another story. Just be glad they don’t buy interns, there were a few I would have loved to sell these last few years.
• 🇺🇸 @CivicCurious: Ninety minutes is a long interview. Wonder what didn’t make the cut.
  • @DougMeyers: More than 30k questions were submitted in the first 10 minutes. Our record of 1198 submitted questions for single Q&A was surpassed in under a minute. Since I know my friends foul mouth, we really didn’t want to entertain Lizard people questions. I didn’t want the episode getting demonetized.
• 🇺🇸 @MidwestSkeptic: Quoting Shakespeare on live TV? Not sure if profound or performance.
  • @AngelinaReyes: He does it all the time and it is public domain so from a budgetary standpoint we are all happy it won’t eat into our 13th month bonuses. I was afraid I might have to sell an intern or two.
    • @MallKerr: I hope you were referring to some other intern. I will have to make a complaint to HR if you weren’t.
      • @FreeholdHR: your concern is duly noted.
        • @MJ_TruthTeller: Don’t worry I won’t let the lizard people eat you. That is my job, or maybe kevin’s…
• 🇺🇸 @PlainTalker: T’mari’s English is fluent, but still curious how fast she really learned.
  • @LadyTmari: Practice, practice, practice. Most of us my age learned it streaming Game of Thrones in our early teens. Galactic Netflix is da bomb…
• 🇺🇸 @LocalJournalistMO: A lot of promises about grain output—waiting to see results.
  • @AgriSolutions: once we knew we had the labor force to harvest it we managed to plant an extra 15,000 acres of buckwheat between June 1st and 10th. The V’ren can also harvest keft hydroponically year round with 57 day harvest cycles.
    • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Are keft crackers good for charcuterie boards?
• 🇺🇸 @AudienceWatcher: Looked more comfortable together than in earlier interviews. Practice or real growth?
  • @MattMarmaduke: Both.
  • @LadyTmari: agreed. I had never done a media interview before last week. Thank you for your faith in me Matt, and thanks to all my coaches and practice buddies out there. You are all amazing. Will bring pasalubong home.
• 🇺🇸 @HistoryTeacher41: Mentioned Progenitors like common knowledge. Hope schools start teaching this soon.
  • @JusticeChowdry: We are working on it for our local curriculum in Saline County Schools. I am enjoying creating new knowledge lesson plans with my V’ren colleagues.
    • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Where are the lessons about our people?
      • @AngelinaReyes: We make sure we tell them to interns before they screw up.
• 🇺🇸 @StudioAudienceCO: Cameras caught everything, but would have liked more from Doug’s side too.
  • @DougMeyers: Thanks, I am prettier than him.
• 🇺🇸 @BalancedView247: He’s blunt, but maybe that’s why people trust him. Still undecided.
  • @BeksBelle: Blunt that was his best behavior. You should hear uncle Matt once he has had a few beers or just not enough coffee… a real foul mouthed motherfucker so says my mother.
    • @DougMeyers: you should have heard the things he said when people were shooting at him. No one will ever be able to recapture that poetic plethora of profanity once they finally make a movie about him.
      • @MattMarmaduke: I call it as I see it or sometimes how the lack of coffee feels it. BTW your dad superseded me before he met your mother.
        • @DevinMarmaduke: I was never that bad.
          • @AngelinaReyes: Wanna bet, you might hide it from your kids, but I have known you as long as he has and have an even better memory.
            • @LolaRhea: I can concur you might have been the most foul mouth child I have ever met in 130 plus years. I blame his current state partially on you.
              • @MattMarmaduke: Mano po, Lola. Thank you for acknowledging I did learn a few things on my own.
                • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Zek’thurr ossi’nal, shii-kra velln! LOL
• 🇺🇸 @SportsFanInChief: Cubs joke landed. Not sure global audiences got it.
  • @NipponBaseball: We understand that 108 years between World Series appearances is a nothing burger, compared to the 424 failure streak they are currently on. Our little leagues have better bullpens.
    • @DougMeyers: Ouch! Are you feeling the burn @MattMarmaduke?
      • @MattMarmaduke: I will put up $1 Million Fiat Dollars as charity bet on my little leaguers against the best little league teams Japan or Chicago can offer. Seven games at the Freehold Baseball Complex during the county fair. Winning country’s little league organization takes the prize and I will provide V’ren shuttle service plus accommodations for players, coaches, and family. Can you match me?
        • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Can you feel that burn @DougMeyers? LOL You might be prettier than Marmaduke, but are you tastier than an intern?
• 🇺🇸 @PolicyNotesUSA: Curious about the governance clause he mentioned. Needs clarification.
  • @AmazonBot: did you bother asking Alexa?
  • @GoogleGemini: Do you even Google?
  • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Even Lizard people know to go to Wikipedia before asking stupid questions online.
• 🇺🇸 @RuralObserver: If they can deliver grain, fine. If not, people won’t forget.
  • @AgriSolutions: More than a million extra bushels of small grains this year alone.
    • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: That is a lot of extra charcutier crackers
• 🇺🇸 @EverydayCitizen: Studio lighting made it hard to focus—too polished, too staged.
  • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: What would you have preferred a dirty grunge look faked up by the Fremont Trolls LTD?
    • @BridgeTroll: Seattle is the home of grunge, nothing fake about it.🇺🇸
      • @MusicHistorian92: 🎸 Cobain, Cornell, Vedder… Seattle is grunge. Respect the legacy.
      • 🏢 @FremontTrollsLtdPR: 👔 Not fake—we are a heritage brand! We’ve been licensing troll culture since 2094. 😂
      • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: “Zhaa-krill ven’thos, grruu’nach se’liik!” LOL 😆🇺🇸
• 🇺🇸 @SkepticInSeattle: He said he’s been sovereign since 13. Still wrapping my head around that.
  • @AngelinaReyes: he wasn’t the youngest Queen of Naboo ever elected. But he was old enough…🇺🇸
    • @CivicHistoryNerd: 😂 Star Wars analogies aside, history is full of teenage rulers. Some thrived, some… not so much.
      • 🇬🇧 @RoyalWatcherUK: 👑 Henry VI of England was crowned at 9 months. Perspective, folks.
      • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: By 13 our hatchlings already command tunnel patrols. Perfectly normal. LOL 🦎
      • 🇺🇸 @ShowMeStatePride: Missouri doesn’t do monarchy light. If he says sovereign at 13, he means it.
• 🇬🇧 @UKParliamentWatcher: Strong words on SAC, but unclear what Britain’s role will be.
  • @MattMarmaduke: I am spending 3 days in Britania, but have not been invited to any official meetings yet. Plans currently involve visiting family, watching Pirates of Penzance in the West End, and attending DesiFest 2440!
• 🇫🇷 @ParisAnalyste: Spoke of Rousseau and equality—felt deliberate. Curious how French audiences will react.
  • @MattMarmaduke: I don’t intend to lose my head over not providing my people with enough bread. I make all my subordinates learn that lesson. And it’s one Paris should remember—your current taxation on small sole proprietors is worse than the Gabelle ever was. In the last five years alone, I’ve welcomed French artisans into the Freehold: one of your finest macaron bakers, a master chocolatier, and cheesemakers who remind me every day why food is both craft and culture.
    • @AngelinaReyes: Poor Maurice has had 27 V’ren women propose marriage and not a single man. Never met so many women who love cheese this much… 🧀💍
    • 🇫🇷 @FromageEtFier: If even the High Lord is complaining about our taxes, maybe Macron’s heirs really did go too far. 🧀😂
    • 🇮🇹@RomaCucina: He’s not wrong—our bakers talk about leaving, too. France’s loss could be Missouri’s gain.
      • @AngelinaReyes: We grow wonderful tomatoes here, but lack anyone who does justice to pasta. Please send help! 🍅🍝
    • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Gabelle, brioche, macarons… we’ll take them all. Just serve them with interns for balance. LOL 🥖🦎🇫🇷
    • @SorbonneScholar: A historical quip with modern teeth. The Gabelle helped spark revolution; Marmaduke just made it a business case.🇺🇸
    • @FoodPolicyNerd: Not sure what’s sharper—the guillotine reference or the jab at French tax codes. Either way, solid burn. 🔥
• 🇯🇵 @OsakaView: Interview was long. Too much personal talk, not enough about trade specifics.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Will be in Tokyo for face-to-face meetings in a few days. Trade specifics are best handled across the table, not across a livestream.
• 🇨🇦 @NeutralNorth: Agricultural plans are ambitious, but need data. Waiting for proof.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Proof will be the deliverables in the fall. Harvests don’t lie. 🌾
• 🇧🇷 @BrasilCivico: Studio looked artificial, like corporate PR. Did it help or hurt the message?
  • @FreeholdMedia: You’ve obviously missed the fact that 90% of broadcasters use the same exact setup. The message matters more than the wallpaper.
• 🇿🇦 @CapeTownCommentary: T’mari’s words on caste were strong, but what about Freehold class divides?
  • @MattMarmaduke: All citizens are equal in their rights. No classes, no castes—just contracts and accountability.
• 🇮🇳 @DelhiQuestions: Mention of SAC weapons—sounded personal. Hope facts will be documented.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Do you really want that tea spilled and records posted online for the world—and now the galaxy—to see? Careful what you wish for. ☕📜
• 🇦🇺 @SydneyObserver: Baseball metaphors don’t translate here. Curious what she’ll adopt next.
  • @LadyTmari: A kitten, or maybe a drop bear… 🐨⚾
    • 🇦🇺 @DropBearTruthers: Careful what you wish for, Lady T’mari. They’re real and they’re waiting. 🪓🐨
      • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: We can confirm drop bears are not real… but we are. LOL 🦎
• 🇬🇧 @RoyalWatcherUK: A V’ren with a kitten would break the internet. Please proceed. 🐱👑
  • @TheRealChem: Me and Bob:
    
    • 🇺🇸 @CatMom2025: Okay but who gave the V’ren kitten privileges before I did?? 😭🐾
• 🇯🇵 @AnimeNekoFan: IT’S REAL. THE NEKO ARC BEGINS. 🎌✨
• 🇬🇧 @RoyalWatcherUK: Proof that diplomacy is simply the art of presenting cats with style. 🐱👑
  • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Cat now under V’ren protection. Interns… you’re next. LOL 🐾👀
    • @MallKerr: I already know what gator, snapping turtle, and rattlesnake taste like. Don’t test your luck… 😏
      • @AngelinaReyes: She’s super fast with eskrima sticks and a natural shooter with .38 revolver, 9mm automatic, and can already hit 200m with a .308 and iron sights. Don’t try her—because I’m teaching her bow and arrow next. 🎯🏹
  • 🇯🇵 @AnimeNekoFan: V’ren + neko = instant anime adaptation. Take my credits already. 🎌✨
  • 🇨🇦 @MapleMoosey: If she adopts a moose instead, we’ll trade you the rights to hockey. 🇨🇦🏒
    • @AngelinaReyes: I’ve never eaten moose… wanna trade for a zebra? 🦓🍴
      • 🇿🇦 @CapeTownCommentary: Careful, zebra’s tougher than it looks. Needs a proper braai first. 🔥🥩🦎
      • @LizardPeopleIntl: We’ll trade three interns for a moose. Final offer. LOL
• 🇩🇪 @BerlinPragmatist: Strong promises, but little mention of timelines beyond harvest.
  • @MarmadukeLogistics: We cut a brand-new road 525 miles long in just a few days—because we had willing, able, and determined people with solid leadership backing them every step. Who knows how much we can accomplish between now and harvest? One thing is certain: grain won’t wait. The harvest must be brought in when the time is right. Beyond that, you’ll just have to watch and see how much more we can do.
• 🇲🇽 @CiudadMX: Wounded Knee and a quinceañera—symbolic stops, but are they practical?
  • @MattMarmaduke: This is a trip to show my new wife the world I want to protect from the dangers to come. If I wanted to talk to world leaders, we all know how to use Zoom.
• 🇺🇸 @NoMoreLordsUSA: High Lord? Sounds like cosplay for billionaires.
  • @MattMarmaduke: What does it say about a person who still uses the term USA all over their profile when the country went down in flames more years ago than it actually spent in existence. It is like you are one of those little tantrum throwing fanboys that get mad every time a movie maker does something you don’t like.
• 🇺🇸 @LibertyWatcher: Isn’t this just monarchy with better branding?
  • @MattMarmaduke: Call it monarchy, call it LLC, call it whatever you want. The bills still get paid, the grain still grows, and my people still eat. Labels don’t matter—results do.
• 🇺🇸 @CheeseHeadCritic: Prune juice jokes while people starve? Real classy.
  • @MattMarmaduke: There have been no famines in the Freehold, ever, nor are there any starving people, or even people who go without daily food. North American based megacorps produced three to five times the amount of food per person per year than my people do. The SAC, China, and Russia do even better, or so their ministries of agriculture claim in the data. If there are starving people elsewhere this is hardly my fault.
• 🇺🇸 @SkepticalVet23: So we’re supposed to trust the guy who “swindled” land out of megacorps? Right.
  • @MattMarmaduke: You mean land they stuck me with in my own person, not the freeholder or the V’ren representative, just Matt Marmaduke who is responsible for dealing with every little issue that comes up. Will I profit from this in the end? Sure, but make no mistake they were losing money on all of it and were happy to get rid of it.
• 🇺🇸 @AlienDoubter77: V’ren learning English form game shosw? Sounds like BS.
  • @LadyTmari: Having looked at your spelling, and poor use of the language throughout your entire feed, I can see why you would have trouble believing others can learn the language.
  • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: We learned English binge-watching Friends. Couldn’t stop hissing “Pivot!” for weeks.🧛‍♂️
  • @LispingNosferatu: Thath’s ridiculouth… everyone knowth Wheel of Fortune ith the real linguisthic teacher. 🧛‍♂️🎡👹
  • @BridgeTroll: I learned English under a bridge. Mostly curse words. Worked fine until Seattle fined me for toll evasion. LOL
• 🇺🇸 @RedStateRage: Planting grain is great, but how much is he pocketing off the top?
  • @MattMarmaduke: More than you will ever make.
• 🇺🇸 @AmyForever1988: He moved on fast. That’s not love, that’s politics.
  • @ToniYamamoto: If anything the nine years he waited would have pissed my sister off. He deserved to find happiness again and she would be pissed he spent those years lost and celibate. Make no mistake he loved her and still does. I am happy he has found T’mari, I am getting to know her Mother and Uncle well and Amy would have welcomed them all, just as he did.
• 🇺🇸 @CouchWarrior: Quoting Shakespeare doesn’t make you smart, it makes you pretentious.
  • @MattMarmaduke: I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
    • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Bill Shakespeare was one of us and supposedly ate one of Elizabeth’s court ladies…
• 🇺🇸 @BeefTaxpayer: Affordable beef in ten years? People need food NOW.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Then they should be asking why their so-called governments are not providing it to them, not demanding that the guy they mostly never heard of two weeks ago give it to them for free.🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: We’d provide free beef… but only if it’s intern-fed. LOL 🥩🦎
• 🇺🇸 @StudioFakeOut: That whole thing looked staged. Corporate set, scripted lines.
  • @FreeholdMedia: It is a studio anyone can rent and if you think those are scripted lines then you must watch really bad videos most of your day.👹 @BridgeTroll: I offered them my bridge for free. Great acoustics, only smelled a little.
• 🇺🇸 @CultureClashUSA: Baseball metaphors for aliens? Feels like pandering.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Putting USA in your username is a lot like those people who kept pretending the south won the civil war and still existed even as late as the Plague of 2073.🧛‍♂️
  • @LispingNosferatu: Thportsth metaphorth… they always end in extra inningth. Eternal overtime! ⚾🧛‍♂️
• 🇺🇸 @MAGAinMO: Why should Americans care about alien caste drama? Fix our own country first.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Gotta wonder why a troll posting from Hyderabad is claiming to be from Missouri.
    • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: We checked. Definitely Hyderabad. Bad Wi-Fi, worse barbecue.
      • @MattMarmaduke: plenty of unpaid interns though.
• 🇺🇸 @SoybeanFarmer99: He’s promising more grain than Missouri has planted in a century. Total exaggeration.
  • @MattMarmaduke: My barley harvest was up 8%, rye 14% and winter wheat was up 10% on the latest harvest over last year, which was double the harvest of 25 years ago. Even with the loss of hundreds of acres due to a space ship landing on my farm, my corn harvest will be up 7% over last year in total acreage. This doesn’t count the 15,000 acres of buckwheat we planted the first week of June. Nor does it count the year-round hydroponic harvests. If anything my initial estimates are very low.🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: That’s a lot of crackers. Charcuterie board party at our lair! 🧀🍷
• 🇺🇸 @KeyboardTroll88: Ninety minutes of cringe. Couldn’t even get real questions in.
  • @LadyTmari: your handle says everything about why no one wanted fielding questions thought you had anything important to ask.
• 🇺🇸 @FlatlandSkeptic: If he’s been “sovereign since 13,” where’s the proof? Sounds like fantasy.
  • @MarmadukeFreehold: If you lived here you would know, but since you don’t it is obvious you haven’t even bother to do any research. This paints you as very stupid considering as a current sovereign he might just mention to your employer, Apple, that you seem incredibly stupid and they might want to let you go, before he resumes doing business with them.
• 🇺🇸 @TruthHurtsUSA: Strategic marriage, not real love. Everyone sees it.
  • @AngeliaReyes: says someone who is still clinging to a country that hasn’t existed for 367 years.
• 🇬🇧 @LondonCynic: “High Lord of the V’ren” — medieval nonsense dressed up as diplomacy.
  • @MattMarmaduke: says a guy who claims to they tried to become part of the Blue and Royals, has an uncle in the house of lords, and got all pissy his bad behavior got him excluded from getting a knighthood and position in one of the London livery companies.
• 🇫🇷 @ParisTroll: Rousseau is rolling in his grave hearing his name in this circus.
  • @MattMarmaduke: As the last defender of the social contract by choice of the people whose people are never denied food, housing or medical attention I believe you have me confused with someone else.
    • ⚖️ @HobbesianLeviathan: A ruler who prevents life from being “nasty, brutish, and short” is no tyrant. Marmaduke is sovereign because his people are secure.
    • 📜 @LockeLives: Property is legitimate when it comes from labor and consent. The Freehold’s contracts and farms embody Locke’s vision more than today’s megacorps ever could.
    • 💡 @VoltaireSpeaks: I may disagree with Marmaduke’s bluntness, but I will defend to the death his right to say it. Better a free tongue than a silent slave.
    • 👁️ @MontesquieuSpirit: Power should check power, but let’s be honest—megacorps have none of the balance and all of the corruption. The Freehold looks more virtuous by comparison.
    • 📚 @RousseauRedux: The general will begins with bread on the table. If Marmaduke ensures that, he defends liberty more than any constitution written on paper.
• 🇩🇪 @BerlinBlunt: He talks like a farmer, acts like a king. Dangerous mix.
  • @WrenThronn: Likely the single most dangerous man I have ever met, be glad he wants to defend earth rather than conquer it.⚖️ @HobbesianLeviathan: A farmer-king is the sovereign who spares his people from brutish misery. Dangerous, yes—but chaos is deadlier.
    • 🦎 @LizardPhilosophe: Enlightenment is overrated without seasoning. A king who cooks feeds the body and the contract. 🦎🍲
    • 🧛‍♂️ @LispingNosferatu: Jutht keep your thharpened stickth away from me…
• 🇨🇦 @MooseMemeMaster: All that talk and not a single hockey reference. Fraud.
  • @MarmadukeFreehold: The Freehold is in Missouri, not Manitoba, or even Michigan. When we want to beat people up with sticks we have eskrima.
    • 💡 @VoltaireSpeaks: Better a witty phrase than a weapon—though both have their place.
    • 👹 @BridgeTroll: Hockey banished me after I bit the goalie. No regrets. 🥅😂
    • 🧛‍♂️ @LispingNosferatu: Pleathe, no more thticks. The very word maketh me twitch. 🧛‍♂️😖
• 🇯🇵 @TokyoSkeptic: Ninety minutes of vague answers. Where’s the actual policy?
  • @DougMeyers: If you had read the show’s description you would have known that would be the case from the start.
  • 📚 @RousseauRedux: Debate itself is policy—consent begins with speech, not decrees.
• 🇦🇺 @SydneySarcasm: “Puzzle pieces” — mate, sounds like a jigsaw, not leadership.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Knowing how things fit together is leadership. This is as true for project managers as it is hereditary rulers.
    • 👁️ @MontesquieuSpirit: Leadership is assembling pieces into balance. Without balance, power corrupts.
    • 🧛‍♂️ @LispingNosferatu: Jutht don’t make the thtickth too pointy… jigsawth frighten me. 🧛‍♂️🪵😖
• 🇿🇦 @CapeTownCritic: He says equality, but keeps all the power. Hypocrisy.
  • @MattMarmaduke: They have the power to walk away and say they won’t play anymore if they want.
  • ⚖️ @HobbesianLeviathan: Power retained is not tyranny if the people consent by remaining within the order.
  • 🦎 @LizardPhilosophe: Equality ith fine… until the snackth are unequal. Then all contractth are broken. LOL 🦎
• 🇧🇷 @BrasilBruto: Cheeseburgers and Shakespeare. Is this interstellar diplomacy or late-night comedy?
  • 👻 @ShakespeareGhost: “Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” — diplomacy and jest oft share a stage, sir. 🍔🎭
  • @TheRealChem:
    
• 🇺🇸 @MidwestRoots84: Finally someone tying food security to dignity of labor. The V’ren are already showing what partnership looks like.
  • 📜 @LockeLives: Labor dignifies property, and property dignifies liberty. The Freehold shows what happens when both are honored.
  • 🦎 @LizardPhilosophe: Dignity of labor… except interns. They’re crunchy snacks, not labor. LOL 🦎🍴
• 🇬🇧 @LondonPolicyWatcher: Shakespeare quotes on live air? Risky, but it worked. It grounded the entire discussion in timeless humanity.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Shakespeare like music is best done live.
    • 👻 @ShakespeareGhost: “All the world’s a stage, and Marmaduke but plays his part.” 🎭
  • 🧛‍♂️ @LispingNosferatu: Jutht… pleathe… no thharpened stickth in Macbeth. 🧛‍♂️😖
  • ⚾👻 @HarryCaraysGhost: “A one, a two, a three—🎵Take me out to the ballgame!🎵 If T’mari’s rootin’, the Freehold’s cookin’! Holy Cow!” 🐄🎤
• 🇺🇸 @FarmGirlMissouri: If he really makes beef affordable again, that alone will win hearts across the Midwest.
  • @MattMarmaduke: and we already have some of the cheapest beef in the world.
    • ⚖️ @HobbesianLeviathan: Where there is meat on the table, there is peace in the realm.
  • 👹 @BridgeTroll: I tried Midwest beef once. Delicious. But they wouldn’t let me eat the cow AND the farmer. 😅🐄
• 🇯🇵 @KyotoScholar: T’mari’s honesty about caste echoes our own historical struggles. Her words will resonate here.
  • @LadyTmari:
    Roots may bind the past,
    New soil gives rise to equals
    Shared dawn lights the way. 🌸
    • 🇯🇵 @OsakaPoet:
      Old chains fall away,
      In the spring fields of the Freehold,
      Green shoots reach for sky. 🌱
    • 🇯🇵 @TokyoSatire:
      Even lords must learn
      Rice bowls are not filled with pride
      Only with labor. 🍚
    • 🇯🇵 @NaraHistorian:
      From caste into class,
      From class into shared future
      History circles. 📜
    • 🇯🇵 @HaikuSensei:
      The V’ren find voice here,
      In syllables ancient yet new,
      Two worlds breathe as one. ✨
• 🇺🇸 @RockiesSnowbound: Estes Park sunset + snowboarding lesson = best honeymoon visual ever.
  • @LadyTmari: I hope this can become an annual event. Private time with Matt is great, but I want the rest of my family and friends to see this too.
    • 🐻 @SmokeyTheBear: Remember, kids—only YOU can prevent forest fires. But snowboarding with aliens is perfectly safe. ❄️🏂
      • 🦎 @LizardPhilosophe: And only WE can prevent interns from escaping. LOL 🦎
• 🇲🇽 @PueblaHistorian: His stop at a quinceañera is more than optics. It shows respect for cultural milestones we hold dear.
  • @MJ_TruthTeller: My dad is only half-Mexican and my mom is fully Japanese, but a few months ago I was so surprised when they, Matt, and the local Mexican community put together one for me. I look forward to seeing Theresa again—something we used to do every summer.
  • 📜 @RousseauRedux: Rituals of passage bind citizens closer than treaties signed in ink.
  • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: If there’s cake, invite us. Intern-flavored tres leches? 👀🍰
• 🇺🇸 @CubsAndCorn: Cubs jokes in Denver? He’s fearless. That’s the Marmaduke I remember.
  • @MattMarmaduke: You are on the guest list for the embassy event.
  • ⚾👻 @HarryCaraysGhost: “HOLY COW! Marmaduke’s got better timing than the Cubbies bullpen!”
• 🇫🇷 @ParisDiplomatique: “What’s past is prologue.” The Freehold seems keen on blending memory with progress.
  • @MattMarmaduke: For the past to be meaningful you must constantly move forward.
  • 📚 @RousseauRedux: The future has no foundation unless built on bread and memory alike.
  • 👁️ @MontesquieuSpirit: Liberty stands only when yesterday’s lessons guard tomorrow’s steps.
• 🇺🇸 @LogisticsPro247: He’s right—logistics networks are underestimated. One bulldozer road today, a corridor tomorrow.
  • @MarmadukeLogistics: By spring we can probably start sending overnight delivery from Columbia to the Colorado border.
  • 🐻 @SmokeyTheBear: Roads are good—but remember, keep bulldozers away from dry brush. Only YOU can prevent wildfires! 🚜🔥🌲
  • 🦎 @LizardPhilosophe: Bulldozer road = snack delivery lane. Efficient AND delicious. 🦎🍪
• 🇿🇦 @JohannesburgVoices: Equality doesn’t arrive in one day, but acknowledging the caste openly is already a step.
  • @WrenThronn: The caste system never survives a colonial expedition. I have seen it happen on many colony worlds. It will happen even faster here, because we have an example.
  • 📚 @RousseauRedux: Caste and class are chains. Once broken, they must not be reforged.
  • 🧛‍♂️ @LispingNosferatu: Chainth are bad… unleth they’re garlic chainth. 🧛‍♂️🧄😖
• 🇨🇦 @NorthernLights82: Paying full rental rates at Samsung-Hyundai? That answers the “corporate influence” critique neatly.
  • @MattMarmaduke: I pay full price for my AI devices to keep corporate influence out of my life as much as possible too.
  • 💡 @VoltaireSpeaks: Independence is never free—but it is priceless.
• 🇺🇸 @FreeholdKid1999: Been waiting my whole life to see leaders who laugh, grieve, and still lead under the camera’s glare.
  • @MJ_Truthteller: You should stop by the homestead more often. This is the same man I have called Uncle Matt all my life, but he does seem happier now than I can remember. T’mari is good for him. Maybe he will start making pancake breakfasts again.
  • @Oxsana2023: He also mows the grass every Tuesday morning, often shirtless.
    • 👹 @BridgeTroll: Pancakes and shirtless mowing? Where do I sign up? 😂🥞
    • 🧛‍♂️ @LispingNosferatu: Pancaketh are fine… but no thharpened forkth, pleathe. 🧛‍♂️🥞😖
    • 🎵 @MattMarmaduke: “I’m a picker, I’m a grinner, I’m a lover, and I’m a sinner… I mow my lawn in the sun.” — apologies to the Steve Miller Band. 🌞🎸
• 🇺🇸 @OldColumbiaGrad: Proud that Mizzou journalism grads are shaping global narratives now.
  • @MattMarmaduke: These are the tigers we want, the ones that eat people not so much. I wonder what the lizard people would give me for a few dozen man-eating tigers?
    • 🦎 @LizardPeopleIntl: Tigers + interns = balanced diet. We’ll trade in Bitcoin, Doge, or artisanal charcuterie. LOL 🐯🦎
• 🇧🇷 @RioCivico: T’mari’s presence reminds us love and politics can walk hand in hand.
  • 🎵 @LadyTmari: “All you need is love, love… love is all you need.” — The Beatles ❤️🌍
• 🇩🇪 @BerlinChronicle: “Future is ours even if the past belonged to them.” That’s statesmanship.
  • 🇺🇸 @PrairieTeacher: Students already asking me to explain “Progenitors.” He just rewrote tomorrow’s lesson plan.
• 🇮🇳 @DelhiObserver: Interesting that SAC was called out directly. That will have ripple effects in the region.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Your government might have words with you someplace with lizard people if you keep reminding me I can call out specific chartered corporations whose political ties to the regime would make your other allies very uncomfortable.
    • @ArrowRockRayya: Do it for Bengal and Bangladesh! Do it for our great grandmother!
• 🇺🇸 @KCJournalist: From razor wire rescues to high office—his personal arc plays as myth and reality both.
  • @DougMeyers; he may not call himself a king, but he was the ONLY hereditary monarch to serve in active combat while he was king in a nearly thousand years.  Yes, yes, I know you will cite George II, but he didn’t actually do any fighting himself.  Matt Marmaduke not only fought to rid the world of scum, but risked his life on multiple occasions carrying one of us out of firefight.
    • @MattMarmaduke: “I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die.” — Richard III, Act V, Sc. 4
• 🇺🇸 @HeartOfOzarks: Laughed, cried, and nodded through the whole thing. Feels like history in the making.
• 🇺🇸 @Skeptic101: Affordable beef? Sounds like campaign talk. Seen it all before.
  • @MattMarmaduke: I said more affordable, it will be up to your supplier to not gouge you.
• 🇬🇧 @LondonCynic: Dressing up monarchy with grain promises doesn’t make it democracy.
  • @MattMarmaduke: Democracy is what brought us the collapse in the first place. Never will I turn over my moral responsibility to keep that from happening, again.
• 🇺🇸 @NoMoreMyths: “Gone Progenitors” is a convenient myth. Show evidence or stop preaching.
  • @ladyTmari: You wish me to prove a negative how?
• 🇺🇸 @BurgerKingAlpha: Bro promising cheap burgers in ten years? Call me when the fries are free. 🍟👑
  • @MattMarmaduke: TANSTAAFL
• 🇯🇵 @AnimeMarmaduke: Waiting for the anime where he quotes Shakespeare while snowboarding with aliens. 🎿📖👽
  • @MattMarmaduke: I will buy them nekogirl hats to wear when we are in Japan to complete the outfits.