Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistle blower, an
American patriot. Prepare to embrace the
uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for
comforting lies. Here is civil liberties
enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI
agent Kyle Seraphin. Well, hello my friends.
Welcome to the Kyle Serfin show. Today's Tuesday.
It is November the 18th and I'm happy to have you along on a day
when the Internet is falling apart.
We've got some sort of a downed outage, cloud strike, fail.
What a day, what day to have that happen.
So what that means on our end is, is that X is not working
properly or Twitter, the the download programs are not
playing. A lot of the tools I use to be
able to RIP clips are not working.
We don't have any special clips for today, but that means we're
going to just kind of hone in on the stories that are there
without a lot of extra evidence. If you guys haven't figured out
kind of my format is, is I, I see what's happening on the on
the trending, whatever feeds that are going out there in the
world. I see newscasts and what people
are talking about and I want to kind of have a an instinct of
what they're discussing and and then put it into my own context.
So I kind of use clips as evidence on a regular basis.
That's not happening today, but that's all right.
It's not going to it's not going to throw us off.
You guys may have realized I can talk with or without a clip and
I don't necessarily need to take a breath to do it.
So we're going to discuss a couple things.
I found an interesting article from The New Yorker.
You're going to be shocked to find that everybody is piling on
a cash Patel yesterday there was a big push about a story that I
I'm fairly confident we broke about six or seven weeks ago and
it might have even been longer than that but the the idea that
the American taxpayer is paying for a security detail for the FB
is girlfriend, not a spouse that is a critical distinction for
whatever it's worth that hit the the the mainstream.
I do find that to be kind of interesting because one, I
shared it with you, if you're part of this audience, that's
not news to you. If you're part of Alex Jones's
audience, if you listen to Clayton over and redacted, you
know none of this stuff is going to be news to you.
The people that I go and I speak with on a fairly frequent basis.
But it did hit MSNBC, which is now known as Ms. Now.
That's actually really gross to to pop in on.
So I went to Ms. Now this morning and found a couple of
fun articles that I wanted to cover, particularly because it
does show us the disconnect in this nation and where we choose
to get our news, tells us about the world that we're living in a
lot. And if you live in a world
that's full of racism and misogyny and anger and mean
spirits about immigrants, then you live in a special little
place that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
And if you live in the Fox News, everything is great.
Our team is winning. You know, we have to cheer on
our guy. And Donald Trump is going to be
the person that I want to name my baby after.
Then you live in another world. And if you live in the middle,
which I think a lot of people in America do, we can look at both
sides and go, OK, that's true. But that that lacks context.
And you can look on the other side and go, that's pretty much
garbage. I think you guys are being
cheerleaders. I want you to put down the pom
poms. And so, you know, I just kind of
cruise in between here and see these things.
Yesterday we played you some Michelle Obama, which is
appropriately disgusting. I'm going to do some more
disgusting stuff today. It's going to be in the written
form, so I will read it to you. And and then it's like, if only
there was a simple solution. A lot of times we get into these
problems and the one that continues to hammer me, my wife
and I go to these stores, we'll go to a restaurant.
I cannot help but notice we are not, you know, like Mr. and
Misses Olympia physiques. I'm in relatively good shape.
My wife's in good shape, but neither one of us is like
turning around and running a marathon tomorrow.
Not that I think that's what good shape looks like.
And yet I see some really, really obese toddling like what?
What were those this people in the Alice in Wonderland, that
Tweedledee and the Tweedle dump, like Roly Poly type human beings
that are that make up Americans. And so people are less and less
healthy. And that is not an overnight
thing. Like people in America did not
become fat overnight. There was an 80s version of fat.
There was a 90 version of fat. There was a 2000s versions of
fat. And then there's whatever today
is. And it's like the small mid and
super fat scenario. We've got some people that have
gotten themselves into kind of a corner when it comes to
nutrition and body type and sort of the health things that comes
along with it. And I thought we were going to
actually kind of cruise our way out of it.
I was just looking through some of the old clips I had in my
clip archive. I've got a whole bunch of people
that are threatening violence if SNAP benefits are not
reinstated. Do you guys remember how big a
deal that was a few seconds ago before they reinstated the
government funding? And everybody who's impoverished
and needs government subsidies can go back to eating junk food
on our dime. In any case, there's a lot of
like, really morbidly obese people in this world who are
looking for a simple solution. And I think that actually is a
pretty good metaphor for the way that all of us look for a simple
solution for any of our problems.
If there was a push button way to make sure that you're better
off, everybody wants it. And whoever solves it right gets
a bunch of money. I got a story about Ozempic and
some of the, yeah, the cost cutting deals that they're doing
on that. Of course, nobody wants to do
the hard work of actually gritting your teeth and doing
the unfun thing of like punching out a bunch of cardio and
reducing your diet and eating foods that are not super sweet
and hyper palatable, as my buddy calls it.
Nobody wants to do the difficult thing.
Everybody wants the beach body, but nobody wants to do the work,
right. That's why they have beach body
in 30 days and a million diets that do all this kind of stuff.
And I just see that a lot of our society has catered to this,
this like nonsense, this, this laziness.
And it's not American. It turns out Americans created
this country by the sweat of their brow and, and went out
there and risk everything and may or may not survive to be
able to get there or no. This, this instinct that things
should be easy and that we can just cry about it.
On the other end of it. Yesterday I did about 90 minutes
worth of PT and then I ended up jogging to a park with my kids
behind their bicycles and jogging back home, which I
didn't really plan on doing. It wasn't all that thrilled
about when we we got halfway out there and then they were like,
let's go to the park. It's like, oh, that's like
another mile, whatever, let's do it.
You know, that actually turns out to be the way that you do
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So if you're listening in the replay, there may be a
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Here we go. So I found this article.
One of my buddies sent it over one of the suspendables crew
who's no longer able to comment freely.
There is a social media policy that is imposed on this man, but
this this article from the The New Yorker is kind of
interesting and it's going to segue into a concept of
parasocial relationships, which is a story that I found over who
wrote the parasocial relationships.
CBS did a sort of a thing on that.
So we're going to talk about this concept that we are rooting
for our guy and that you have many of you have a relationship
with people that is incredibly and entirely 1 sided.
How many people out there say, well, I don't, you know, I don't
know what's going on, but I believe in fill in the blank
purse. RFK junior cares about my
health, but RFK junior doesn't know who you are, has never met
you. Most likely we'll never met meet
you will not have a personal relationship with you.
And yet you've assigned this sort of like 1 dimensional
feelings. A lot of people felt the same
way about Dan Bongino sitting and listening to his podcast for
many years. I had a slightly more realistic
relationship with him. And it was like every
relationship it had sort of a beginning, a middle, and then a,
a kind of an ugly falling out because he turned out to not be
the guy that I thought he was. And then some of you are now
dealing with that because you're looking and going, where are the
results? I've been listening to the
clips. I, I heard him say that Epstein
killed himself. I heard him say for a long time
not to let it go. And now he's telling us to huh.
People felt the same way about Cash Patel, who went out there
and said it on on what did he say 1000 podcasts.
I listened to his to his sworn testimony.
It's interesting because people felt like there was a connection
that was being made. And then one of two things is
true. Either they are going to fight
through the cognitive dissonance, or they're going to
realize that the thing that they felt was there is was a
betrayal. But these people don't know you
exist. And this story from The New
Yorker is kind of interesting because it takes a different
tact on it. And it and it writes about the
acts of service. This is from their annals of law
enforcement. The FBI director isn't just
enforcing the president's agenda at the Bureau.
He's seeking retribution for past investigations of Donald
Trump. But the question then is, is he?
Is he really doing that? Because I think the left has
spun some version of Patel. That's a boogeyman, which is why
there's blood in the water right now.
It's why you have a story from Ms. now.
It's really hard to say. MSNBC guys 10 Galanian yesterday
going out and running a story about the, the, the girlfriend
and, and, and the waste of money.
And you see people on the left covering the story of the jet.
For those of us that sits in the middle, it's straightforward.
We just go, yeah, using the jet, no matter who you are, that's in
a wasteful way, is a waste of the American taxpayers dollar.
We don't like that. That's not a personal comment.
Chris Wray did it, Jim Comedy did it.
Cash Patel does it. We got it.
OK. Like maybe we can just agree
that this is not the way that we should treat our, you know, low
level elected representatives. They're not even elected.
Rather, they're these appointed guys that are that are carrying
out the policy of our elected representatives.
And then you have the other side of it, which is just like,
because he's not our guy, we're mad about it.
On June 5th, Cash Patel, the director of the FBI, was in
Austin, TX recording a podcast with Joe Rogan.
This is actually kind of telling.
Some of you actually saw this when he went on Rogan and you
realize where this came from. But this is the same thing that
the rest of the Trump administration has kind of done
for for media and marketing. We've seen Kristi Noem go out
and do this thing. We've seen less of RSK Junior,
we've seen less of Pete Hegseth running out and doing this.
Anyone who doesn't run in front of a microphone left and right
seems to be more successful. And the people that are out
there trying to do nothing but spin it seems like at least from
the outside coverage for failure.
And I think I think people are catching on for the media
savviness that this administration was supposed to
have. It doesn't seem to have it
there. So he went on and he wore this
olive green hoodie, which was like one of his Cash Patel
hoodies, which is kind of frustrating in and of itself,
kind of like merched out And he's smoking a cigar and he's
talking about the Chinese Communist Party trying to kill
Americans with fentanyl. And that's why apparently he was
in China in the last couple of weeks.
That's been going on for a long time.
You think you talk the Chinese out of their multi, you know,
multi decade plan to prey on American weakness where we just
want to escape the escapism, whether it be through through
visual means of entertainment or whether it be through drugs or
alcohol. Like Americans love their
escapes, especially because I guess the world must be too easy
in some ways for many people and they just want to get away from
it or the world is too hard and they've given up on it.
I don't think you can really make that happen.
If you, if you were to do those things 150 years ago, nobody
would have known who you were because it would have been, it
would have been the end of you if you were out there, you know,
being in an opium den, you don't procreate, you don't survive,
you don't eat. We've got a different scenario
now. We have all these safety Nets.
In any case, what I found interesting was somebody decided
to go back in and ask people about Patel's past associations.
They wanted to go and speak to the man, the men who who knew
him when he was coming up. I've never done this and I
probably should have before I went there.
And the reason why this is so frustrating is because I
actually endorsed this guy. I put my, you know, my, my seal
of approval. And I said this guy knows what
the problems are at the FBI because he said he did read some
stuff here. Many of Cash Patel's past
associates are similarly astonished at his rise and his
and his his ability to to jump into the space with Donald
Trump. This guy's name is Bennett
Gershman. He's a professor at Pace
University's law school, where Patel got his law degree,
described Patel as an AT and as, I'm sorry, at best, average
student who was interested in issues of social justice and
identity politics. The scamming part of this is
starting to come in here. He seemed to be very much on the
left side, Gersh said. Former colleagues in Miami said,
where he spent eight years as a public defender, called him an
adequate attorney. We had 200 lawyers.
He was neither the best nor was he the worst, said Bennett
Brimmer, the elected Dade County public defender at the time.
A cardiothoracic surgeon who became friends with Patel in
Miami said his passions were hockey and exploring ways to get
rich. I'm sharing this because I feel
like I feel like we've learned something.
People who are interested in hockey, social justice, identity
politics and ways to get rich, they align.
They light on certain ideas, like maybe if I could be the FBI
director, I could get myself a jet because my business acumen
sucks. Things he said in his first day.
It's an interesting thing for someone to say that his his
biggest interests were ways to get rich and hockey.
It actually reminds me of one of my younger brothers.
And I don't think he plays hockey anymore and I don't think
he's rich. I don't think he's happy.
But maybe if he had aligned with Donald Trump and decided to go
all in on that, he could be. In his 2023 memoir Government
Gangsters, he describes himself as an unknown first generation
Indian American. By the way, you can't call him
an Indian American. I've been told reliably that
that's racist, per lawsuits by his girlfriend's law firm.
I'm just reading what they said. And he's a kid from Queens and
Long Island who ended up being the lead investigator that
uncovered the greatest political scandal in American history.
Maybe that's true. Maybe Russiagate was the
greatest scandal. I think the story of the pipe
bomber is going to actually be a little bit more insidious
because it's scan it span multiple administrations.
More on that in a little bit here.
It's a reminder of another kid from Queens, which is the Donald
Trump story, A struggle to win the respect of the
establishment, someone who became the leader of the free
world talking about the historic scandal referred to as
Russiagate. And they went on and on about
this. I found out the other day that
like 1. I didn't know as much about
Russiagate as other people do, and I didn't care.
It never, it never occurred to me that I should have to know
all of it. But then again, I never wrote a
book about it and got rich on talking about something over and
over again. Apparently that upset Mike
Flynn. Mike Flynn was upset with me.
He called me a hotshot yesterday because I didn't know about the
Russian academic chick who whatever may or may not have had
a relationship with him and apparently did not, but like I
didn't know her name, Svetlana something or other.
This it's apparently a criminal, a criminal offense to not know
all the stories of all the things that happened.
And I, I got to tell you, like I read enough to know it's like,
OK, well, that was a scam. I've moved on.
Some people really delve into it.
I understand that the the idea that somebody would be able to
impose their interests on another person and if we don't
share those interests, then I've somehow betrayed you.
Isn't that interesting? There is this instinct like that
right now and this goes to this parasocial relationship.
I get these in the comments all day long.
You have not done the research that I am interested in and now
I'm mad at you. Even though you don't know me,
even though we have no agreement that we would have the same
things. I have attributed a bunch of
ideas to you. This is why people are upset
with Donald Trump, with the Make America Great Again movement,
with the America First, but it turns out to be some kind of
strange bedfellows. Let's just real quickly the the
White House is going to be welcoming the Saudi Crown Prince
first time in quite a while. This is after Jamal Khashoggi
was murdered. People could be upset about
that, inviting terrorists into the Oval Office.
You've assigned certain priorities that you believe
Donald Trump holds because they are your priorities.
People have believed that certain people that are going
into government, they meant what they said in the way that you
believe that they meant it. So they're mad at them.
And it looks like this. The word is parasocial.
It is Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year.
And it may describe how women, I guess that is that Taylor Swift
on the on the screen right there.
I think it is. I actually can't tell.
That kind of looks like a it looks like a a transvestite to
me. Then again, so does Taylor
Swift. She's built like a skinny, like
a skinny gay man, Parasocial. How you may have felt after
Taylor Swift's engagement is the Cambridge Dictionary word of the
year. I found it fascinating in so
much as so many people have ascribed things to folks they
don't know for reasons that they can probably not articulate.
I believe in this person. I trust this person, this person
who does not even know that I exist.
Again, I, I talked about it the other day, the the concept of
walking up to a complete stranger looking at something
that they have done, they're wearing AT shirt that I don't
agree with. It has a swear word on it or
something, or some sort of messaging rainbows and
transgender ideology. I don't know.
And then me being upset with that person for not thinking the
way that I do. It it suggests me that it's a
form of mental illness. I don't know how you can walk
out there in the world and imagine that everybody knows
what you want them to do and then that they are somehow also
required to meet your expectation.
If you felt a personal collection connection with a
celebrity this year, you likely weren't alone.
I'm going to cut out the word celebrity here and I'm going to
add a political figure because those of us who talk about
politics all the time, we're kind of nerdy in that way.
And they are the sports figures or the celebrities of the world
that we're talking about. But it could be politicians, it
can be real celebrities, it can be athletes, it can be
entertainment figures and so on. If you felt a personal
connection with somebody of high profile this year, you're likely
not alone. That feeling led the Cambridge
Dictionary. Just like the word parasocial
PARA social, as it's 2025 word of the year and parasocial is
defined as involving or relating to a connection that someone
feels between themself and a famous person They do not know a
character in a book, a film, ATV series, or an artificial
intelligence. Isn't that interesting and that
kind of just tell us that the breakdown when there are people
who believe that they have all of the the requirements of a
relationship relationship or give and take.
I have expectations on you. You have to meet those
expectations. You have expectations on me, I
have to meet them. If we don't, we probably have a
fallout of some kind. They should be formed on some
sort of mutual understanding. A parasocial relationship is 1
sided. It's that this person projects
into the world. I am this thing, I am this
person, or maybe even I am this character and I play this role.
And then the other end of it is your end where you interpret it
and you say, well I believe all of these things about you.
And I've also assigned all of these burdens that I need you to
meet. And if you do not, then I will
become incensed and outraged and I am betrayed.
Apparently this term has been around for 70 years, but I would
say in the era of social media in Instagram where people are
following on XI get this non-stop.
People will say I used to believe in you and now I've and
now you've betrayed my trust. It's like who the F are you?
Who are you? What are you talking about?
I didn't meet your expectations. I'm sorry, person that I didn't
know. Yeah, I'll do better.
Why don't you tell me all the things that you expected me in
some sort of private message and then I can try to live up to
them. It's a very strange place.
And for any of you that have any bit of social media following,
maybe you've run for local politics.
The outrage that people will have for you not doing the thing
that they expected of you that you never promised them because
you have no actual relationship with them.
That is this concept of parasocial relationships.
Millions of people are involved in parasocial relationships.
What's fun is or fun, I guess in a, in a kind of a quirky way.
I think this the problem is, is that they're not involved in
real relationships. We have a generation of people,
probably for the first time ever that are growing up in the era
where Facebook is normal. I don't know why I got it.
I got to share this. This is actually really gross.
I had a guy who is a father who has a daughter that looks like
she probably has like cerebral palsy and two or three other
children randomly on Facebook. Found my profile, which I don't
use. I only have it for Facebook
Messenger and we have an opportunity to send out the Kyle
Seraphin show there if we want. So I have a like this like
throwaway profile. I'm not following anybody.
I'm following my first Sergeant when I was in the Air Force,
when I when I got discharged in 2012.
I'm following Ryan Madda and I think I'm following maybe one of
you in the chat. I don't even know who I'm
following or why. And this guy wrote me the most
nasty disgusting message about my wife, by the way, for no
reason, has no idea who I am, has a disabled special needs
kid, no context why he's mad at me or why he's mad in general.
And I just went, do you not have actual relationships in your
life, guy? Guy who's mad at me?
Like how did you get like this? It's not, it's not safe for most
people who have no concept of what real people are.
Imagine walking up and saying something horrible about
somebody's anatomy. I don't know how to get
nonspecific about this. You walked up and you wrote, you
said the most nasty thing to a grown man on the street that you
knew about because you'd read about him in the newspaper or
you'd seen him on social media. That's what we're talking about,
these parasocial relationships. And you feel totally justified
because this person, you believed one thing about them
and then they didn't live up to it, even though they never knew
that you even existed nor do they know what your expectations
were. Millions of people are involved
in these. If you want to talk about the
thing, the reason why this audience has always kind of gel
behind the concept that if we could push a red button and turn
off the Internet, even though it would mean that I would no
longer do this job, I think we'd be fine with that because this
concept of parasocial connections 1 sided hope based,
you know, my personal intimate thoughts projected onto you and
you not living up to them has LED us to a place of like a lot
of really nastiness. There's just this this this
grossed instinct. We're going to celebrate because
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey got engaged.
Like I love when people get engaged.
One of our audience just got engaged and shared with me a
note and congratulations. That's awesome.
Think choosing someone to spend your life with is a great plan,
especially if it's the right person that's going to be able
to stay with you. That's all great.
The fans are captivated by this girl's lyrics in her songs,
which often times are not written by her, as far as I can
tell. And you're going to celebrate
'cause she's getting engaged and you're seeing this picture on
the screen with a bunch of grown women who should be finding
their own love story. And they're living vicariously
through someone else. And if they break up or it
doesn't work out, they'll be crushed and heart.
I think the beginnings that I saw this was people being upset
with what happened to Princess Diana in the 80s.
That was the first time I remember a parasocial
relationship. And it was American women
assigned to like, British royalty.
Like, why? Because we just, we want to see
something out there in the world and put ourselves onto it.
Parasocial relationships can become problematic, says a
professor of experimental psychology at the University of
Cambridge. What was their first clue?
Do you think we've entered an age when many people have formed
an unhealthy and intense parasocial relationship with
influencers? Cat Turd speaks for me.
That's the crowd that I'm most concerned with.
If Donald Trump says it, it's good enough for me.
I'm behind it. I trust Cash Patel.
I trust Kristi Noem. She was always great.
I think she's pretty on Fox News.
Pam Bondi wants the best thing for this country and not Qatar
or whatever. So these weird little influencer
moments that we're dealing with have have really created
something kind of scary, I think.
And it's it's it's universal. It's across the entire political
aisle. I just want to put that in the
context as as we talk about some of the stories that are out
there, as we sort of consider the political environment, I
want you to do a self-assessment.
How much of it is because you had an unrealistic expectation
of the person that you think you know something about this person
because they gave a campaign speech one time.
I think AI think a lot of it comes back to that and that's
that's maybe hard for us to understand.
You had a personal thought about how MTG Marjorie Taylor Green
was. I've had people say both sides
of the of the of the coin within the last 48 hours to me.
I despise her Jewish space lasers.
You know, at any moment she'll say something out CrossFit,
blah, blah, blah, whatever marital infidelity.
And then on the other side, they're like, she's more America
first and she's more mega than Donald Trump.
It's like you don't know MTG My instinct from looking on the
outside is, is that I don't much care for the way that she's
presented herself, but I'd be open to meeting her as a human
being and giving her a fair shake in the same way that I'd
be open to meeting almost anybody on these things that we
talk about. Some of these personas, they
can, they cannot be fake because they've been doing it for so
long. And there's so much example.
My dislike for Lindsey Graham and people who know him, dislike
for Lindsey Graham and the way that he presents himself in the
sliminess is pretty clear. That doesn't mean that I would
walk up to him and just walk up. And you know, I might make a
casual war boner reference, but I'm not going to go up there and
be disrespectful out of nowhere. He hasn't betrayed me.
People are mad at Tom Massey because he was initially with
Donald Trump, but then he was not with Donald Trump.
It's like you've created a soap opera drama out of maybe boredom
in your own life. So as an encouragement, I
encourage everybody to also remember all of this stuff
that's going on. It probably doesn't actually
affect you, which is the entire argument for getting rid of the
larger size of the big of the of the federal government.
I don't want a huge federal government because we are
playing soap opera drama with people who are clearly engaged
in kabuki theater and this sort of like show trial and this
nonsense. These people are out there
pressing a reality and we all get sucked into it and
occasionally all believe that this drama actually does
something. But just like nothing stopped
when they shut down our government.
And most of us had zero experience of a different life.
The day we woke up, we woke up, we were like, aha, federal
government shut down. But everything works.
And then we act like there's this existential threat in
what's happening. The things that are actually a
threat are the relationships you have in your own life, the way
that you actually are carrying yourself through the world, your
children, your health. We're going to talk about health
in just a second here. In fact, that's what I'm going
to do next because that thing seems so much more important.
And what I see is people trying to vote their way out of a
solution when in reality they probably should be on a
treadmill. And some of that is going to
come up in a most recent story that I read about weight loss
drugs. You guys remember Donald Trump
the other day talked about the fat drug and saving everybody
money. It's because I feel like we're
lazy. We don't want to put in the the
hard work to get something done, myself included often times
before we do there. So, you know, it's not lazy.
Our government apparatus to gather your information, it is
not lazy. It is constantly functioning.
It is tracking your cell phone. It is looking for your bread
crumbs. It is looking for your RF
signals coming out of cellular and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and GPS
and NFNFCS and and RFID and so on.
And if you guys want to stop big tech and government agencies,
corporate data brokers, cybercriminals, take your pick.
Your nosy neighbor who's also a nerd, they all want a piece of
your digital footprint. They don't have to ask.
They can literally take it because you are out there
pinging the world with it. You want to shut some of that
stuff down? Get yourself a silent Faraday
bag. You can get one of their
backpacks. You can get one of their waste
packs. You can get one of their their
waterproof backpacks. If you are a combat diver, you
can get their dive backpack, which will actually have a purge
valve and allow you to take it underwater.
They make them in Berry compliance.
If you need them made in America, they make them.
Some of the stuff is made overseas, sold here.
Good people making great technology.
It's the same stuff used by our special operations teams.
And once you pop your phone in there, it's no tracking, there's
no remote access, there's no bread crumbs.
It's the same kind of thing that I use when I was on
Counterintelligence and we wanted to make sure we met with
sources and protect them. Or maybe you just want to throw
your phone in a bag and have a nice quiet dinner.
It's slnt.com slash Kyle again, silent with no vowels.com/kyle.
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and tell someone you love. Hey hey, put that phone down
like my kids remind me sometimes.
Slnt.com slash Kyle, Since we're talking about family, talking
about kiddos, how about this wild story that I saw?
Some of these things are just kind of grab bags and they're
nuts. This got me really heated this
morning in in light of the Michelle Obama racism.
Apparently I care about Michelle Obama's hair and whether it's
straight or not. I share with my wife last night
and she was like, what a racist? Yeah, there is an entire faction
that is selling that. And this story tells me a little
bit about it. A viral TikTok that illustrates
the pain of giving birth while black.
I'm just going to say it one more time, the pain of giving
birth while black. Many of you had no idea there
was extra pain associated with giving birth while black and so
I had to go find out what it was that made it.
Now, I also looked at this lady and all the pictures that are
associated with this article are obese or at least like quite a
bit overweight women who are also pregnant, which is
relatively common. It turns out it's slightly more
common in black women that it is in other women, but there's
plenty of us that are overweight or to some degree or another.
And it turns out you have negative health outcomes.
So I went to the AI because I like to, to do the sort of the
composite studies here and they pull data from the CDC and
various government websites and so on.
And this story, which I'll read you in one second, doesn't key
in on the fact that approximately 39.1.
There's a couple of different little pieces on here, but
there's a a decent percentage of black mothers who prior to
pregnancy are already in the category of obese.
This says 27 to 42. It's actually scanning a bunch
of different articles, but the key one that we honed in on, in
2016 it was about 36.4. That has increased by 2019 to to
39.4 and in 2022 roughly 22%. So an increasing amount of non
Hispanic black women have pre pregnancy obesity.
And then you ask, well, why is there a higher mortality rate
associated with these women? And the answer that the AI gives
us 'cause we know that it depends on what it reads and
what it's programmed by is that there's a combination of factors
which increase the the pain of giving birth while black.
And they include first and foremost, systemic racism and
chronic stress and unequal access to quality health care.
These are the the issues that contribute to health outcomes
and disparities in them. Well, that's quite interesting,
isn't it? So is there a difference between
non Hispanic black women and white women?
And here's the numbers, about 29% of non Hispanic white women
in 2022. So 29% versus 42%.
That's a pretty good gap, 13%. This is obese women during
pregnancy. And all that is going to take me
back to the story here that we're going to read through
because again, this nonsense of putting out excuses, it, it, it
combines with I'm not going to solve my problems.
I'm actually going to create a relationship with somebody
outside of myself that I can assign all my problems and they
should have fixed it. And why didn't they?
They were elected to. I've just personally held them
accountable whether they knew it or not.
The Dallas Regional Medical Center, said in a statement is
committed to providing compassionate, high quality care
to every person who comes through their door.
This is the Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, TX,
just up the road from me. And the reason they put out that
statement is because there was a viral TikTok video where a Black
woman inactive later is crying out in pain while a white nurse
calmly sits and ignores her distress.
And it's a disturbing pattern that this Black doctor wrote
about. And she wrote a book called
Legacy, A Black physician's reckoning with racism in
medicine, which is totally not a pre foregone conclusion, where
she's going to write a book about something where she
already decided what was going to be true about it.
The video got 36 million views over the weekend.
And they claim that the baby was born 12 minutes after the video
was filmed, which means that the woman was not just an active
labor. She was actually in delivery at
that point in time. She was moving into the phase
where the baby is coming out that that's really painful.
I don't know if you guys have ever been part of a, a, a birth,
but it's pretty aggressive. It's incredible.
But the pain, depending on whether you had an epidural,
whether the epidural was functional or not, if you're
doing just a a natural childbirth, pretty wild,
especially if it's the first. But women have been doing this
for thousands of years. There's a reason why we're all
here. We were all once somewhere else,
then a woman gave birth to us through great pain, it turns
out. So this is shocking to learn
that there is actually pain associated with childbirth.
I've seen it. I've been part of probably a
dozen deliveries as a paramedic, and the four of my own looks
super painful. Some women are very stoic.
My wife is stoic. She didn't make a she didn't
even make a sound, not a single noise.
You wouldn't have never known that she was giving birth to a
baby if you were outside in the hallway.
Some women are really dramatic and they just scream at the top
of their lungs and it's really frustrating and it's just kind
of annoying if you're used to women who are stoic, but that's
just the way they carry out. Everybody experiences pain
differently. You guys have seen this in your
own life. So you filmed a woman who was
particularly dramatic. And anybody who's ever been in
the in the emergency room, which is where I used to work, there
are people that come in. Often times there are people who
are in poverty and they are incredibly dramatic about their
pain. Usually it's their own fault,
almost always their own fault. The biggest cry babies that we
would ever get in the ER were black men who were very
muscular, who were living at the poverty line based on their own
admission that they couldn't afford to healthcare and sell on
and they would have a toothache. So they came in because they had
a rotted tooth. They would come into an
emergency room, which is not a dentist, where we had no ability
to do anything. And then they would ask for pain
medication. And then we wouldn't give it to
them because that wasn't what we did.
And it was obviously their own fault because they had allowed a
tooth to get to the point where it's now 9:45 on a Saturday
night, and you're having, you know, crazy pain from something
that was highly predictable hours earlier, days earlier.
And you knew this was a problem because your mouth smells like
something is rotted inside of it because your tooth is rotted out
in your face. And they would scream like
little babies. Meanwhile, we'd have women who
are in active labor that would be silent 5 feet away from them
and we're clearly going through significant amounts, maybe the
most pain that they would ever go through in their life.
I'm just telling you this idea that you would, that you would
go out there and attribute this to racism in medicine.
It also turns out there's like this big piece in America that
we used to have, which was like self responsibility.
And if your bad decisions lead to more bad decisions and then
we can see them from the outside, we are less inclined to
be super sympathetic to you. I was the least sympathetic to
people who were most likely in a place because of their own
stupidity, because their own poor decision making, the
predictable outcome of a incredible line of not good.
What about what do we used to call the military bad decision
theater? We would just sit there and
watch and go, yeah, oh, you're having a bad outcome.
From these 15 in a row bad decisions.
That's shocking. It doesn't inspire compassion.
Plus, if anyone's ever been around an emergency room, people
screaming in pain is what they do.
That's why they're there. This is not like you're at
church and then suddenly double S over and you you're like, Oh
my God, how can we help this person?
You're in a hospital, you're in a place, especially if you're in
a like a labor and delivery floor.
People are having babies again, The nurses there have seen all
of it. It's not racism, but it is
incredible that they do an entire article.
And this was one of the lead stories over at Ms. Now pushing
this agenda that we've got this wild racist problem in medicine.
And then they also had this story.
And this is covered by multiple places.
This is by NBC, which is their, their, their cohort, Nova
Nordisk. Nova Nordisk is going to offer a
really big discount on Ozempic one way Govi.
They're going to give both these drugs because rather than do the
thing like, I don't know, cut your caloric intake, put in the
hard work. Wouldn't it be nice if you could
just get a shot and not have to be chubby anymore?
Now you might have to sacrifice some brain tissue and it might
actually like degrade the musculature in your heart and
there may be some side effects that result in you dying soon.
Whenever you guys listen to these these pharmaceutical ads,
do you guys have the same experience I do?
Or you just listen to it and you're going like, holy crap,
did somebody hear all of these possible side effects?
And they were like, Yep, still my moderate to severe plaque
psoriasis can't handle this anymore.
It's time for me to have gastric distress and and bloody stools
allow me to get this injection so that I can have somewhat
clearer skin so I can go hang out in this Nordic spa that I
see on the commercial. Like, are people watching that?
And they're like, yeah, I whenever I go to a Nordic spa
that's out in Iceland, I want to make sure that my skin is clear
and, and in order to do that, I'm going to have crippling
diarrhea every day of my life and possibly die from, from from
internal bleeding. I want my heart to stop beating
because it doesn't have any more.
It doesn't have any more musculature in it.
It no longer functions. But at least I won't be fat when
I die at 40. Or you could just bust your ass
and start, you know, eating less and, and working out hard.
And every time I say something like this, guys, just so you
guys know, in the chat, I get emails, I'll get, I had somebody
send me some books and tell me that.
Well, that what you're saying is, is, you know, it's ignoring
the reality of hormones and people's difficulty in losing
weight. OK, It still doesn't ignore the
first rule of thermodynamics. The fact of the matter is, is
that if you, you put in material in mass, it has to be has to be
consumed in some way, shape or form.
It's either going to be stored or it's going to be turned into
energy. The end I will definitely get
hey mail from this. Anyway, Nova Nordics is going to
offer a special discount for $199 a month.
I'm trying to think of what I would spend $199 a month on and
it's not this. And by the way, the second month
it's going to be $349. This is a GL P1 weight loss
drug, far from cheap. Yeah, that's saying something.
Adding a $200. Most people in America right
now, we found, cannot even handle a $400.00 unplanned
emergency. But you're going to somehow be
able to handle a $200 and then a $350.00 weight loss injection.
It's an interesting choice. Until the end of March.
These companies will let people get hooked on.
This is like actual drug dealer behavior, isn't it?
The first dose is cheap or free. I remember that from the DARE
ads when I was in the in the 80s when I was a kid.
Try this out, man. Once you're hooked, then it
costs you more money and then you're going to have to steal
from your mom's purse. And why is the government
involved in this? This was a negotiation that
Donald Trump was involved in, right?
The deal will will be Ozempic and Wegovie's website.
People can register for the discounts and they can use them
at pharmacy, pharmacies and they can do them through telehealth.
$199 per month applies to only the lowest dosage, which is .25
milligrams and .5 milligram injections.
The 349 deal includes 1 milligram dosage.
The maximum dosage you can get is 2 and that's not part of the
deal. So I guess if you're a super fat
as that Lady explained explained the other day, it doesn't work.
Donald Trump said this month he was working with Nova Nordis and
Eli Lilly to lower the out of pocket cost of their GLP 1
weight loss drug from for as little as 50 bucks on people
that are on Medicare. Which means that since the
government's gotten involved, it's going to cost more for
everybody else. That's just the way it always
works to around $350.00 depending on dosage and
insurance covers. They make other drugs as well,
something else called Zepbound, whatever the heck that is.
The GLP One medications are highly sought after for their
weight loss benefits, but they've been shown to improve
health, heart or heart health, rather obstructive sleep apnea,
and reduce cancer mortality, all of which are associated with
obesity, which also is associated with complications
during pregnancy. It turns out being extra fat and
running around with an extra part of your body that you do
not require, it's not beneficial for you.
And so you could do it a couple different ways.
You could assume that it's the government's job to come in and
save you. You could have a parasocial
relationship with these politicians and believe that
their job is to make America healthy again.
That means that you don't have to do anything.
It reminds me of what was going on with RFK Junior, right?
People are like, how come he hasn't made America healthy yet?
What have you done? Why have you made some man in
his 70s be the icon? Who's going to make you healthy
or someone else healthy around you or make Americans healthy?
Everybody wants to just push the stuff out there and assign this,
this problem to someone else. I find it kind of fascinating,
but a lot of that, I think when you don't have real
relationships, we used to actually know that you could go
and talk to somebody in your like one of your friends would
be like, hey man, I noticed you putting on some weight.
Maybe we could get after it. I actually reached out to my my
buddies in high school. We did the same thing.
I go, hey, guys, I bet you're all heavier than you were when
we were in our teenage years, which is obviously true.
Let's start doing something simple.
Let's do something constructive every single day.
Let's drop down and do a set of push ups when we wake up and
instead of push ups before we go to bed, What say you?
And everybody's like, yeah, let's do it.
Cool. It took a couple of days before
they all dropped off. I started that in August.
I'm still doing it. I do not like doing push ups.
I don't actually really enjoy doing fitness.
But I also look out there and decided, you know what?
I don't have parasocial relationships.
Some of you guys, we have a parasocial relationship.
You watch me on the podcast and some people think that I'm
talking directly to them. You know, I don't know you.
I might get along with you or I might not in real life.
Let's be realistic about that. But I have a real relationship
with my children. They walk up every day and I see
them. So my job is to be fit enough to
be a good dad and to be a good husband and to be able to do
things around the house. So if mom says, hey, pick up
this ladder and move it somewhere, it's like, no
problem, dad stuff, move it. What if I got to pick up a kid?
The other day we went on a hike and my middle child, my
daughter, was like, I'm tired. I can't walk anymore and I said
no problem and I threw her on my shoulder and I buddy carried her
for a couple 100 yards where she decided that a buddy carry is
not what she was thinking of as being fun.
She would rather not get bounced on dad's shoulders which are not
soft. So I put her back down.
She walked again. That's a real relationship
really translated into actual use.
There's no shot that will make you a better dad.
There's no shot that will make you fit enough to take your kids
out into the world. So you got to do the work.
So I do, but I've watched my buddies kind of fall off on
that. Maybe they expect somebody else
is going to solve that problem for them.
Kind of interesting to me. It's interesting that this
symptom of parasociality, of putting something on somebody
else. What it also means is that you
don't have to have the other part of it, right?
One sided social media relationship equals.
I've absolved myself of responsibility.
I wonder if that's why we have this crisis that's going on
right now. This is the main story that we
were going to cover today. Thinking about what's happening
with immigration enforcement in the USA TODAY.
This is how immigrants feel. This is coming from the New York
Times. 50% of them are afraid and 50% of them are angry.
Only 40% of them believe what's going on is necessary. 22% of
immigrants are satisfied, and 15% are proud of the immigration
enforcement efforts that are happening.
Why would that be? Is it because that they've put
expectations on this country that there's a parasocial
relationship between the people who came here and their
expectations are that Americans as a nation must take care of
them, Even though we didn't agree to it, they were in some
other place and they said America is this land and it has
all these things and it owes me what I need.
I believe that Joe Biden is going to provide for us the
things that we require. So I'm going to make a dangerous
trip and potentially get killed or raped along the way, which
are realistic possibilities when you leave a border open.
We all talked about that for literally years and half the
people get here have an unrealistic expectation, a
parasocial expectation on the politicians and on the American
people. Did any of us sign up and say,
listen, we're willing to take the, the, the, the, you know,
give me your, your, your tired and you're weak and your and
your huddled masses, right? Bring, bring them all in.
You're sick. We want to take care of them.
No, the whole point was that they were yearning to breathe
free and have an opportunity that they weren't crushed under
some weight of some, you know, tyrannical governments.
Our government is plenty tyrannical right now.
And it's even more tyrannical if they think that people are
supposed to show up here. And our job is not to do
something freely through Christian charity, as we talked
about. James Madison said, you are now
mandating it. We must do it because you're
going to take money from my pocket whether I like it or not,
and you're going to freely distribute it to people who I
did not make a agreement with. Kind of interesting.
Let's read the story here from New York Times if I can find it.
30s All right, a survey sound that half of immigrants to the
United States feel less safe since Donald Trump took office.
By the way, phrasing because that means 50% of the people who
came here feel more safe or the same.
That's interesting. Trump administration seeks to
remake the immigration system and deport thousands of 10s of
thousands of people. I thought it was going to be
millions. The even the first sentence
disappoints me already. That's my parasocial expectation
because I believed in those campaign promises.
Many immigrants are more scared of living in the United States,
yet the resolve to remain here is largely unchanged.
A new survey of immigrants in the country.
And here's where it gets really fun, right, Both documented and
undocumented. In other words, people who are
here illegally have feelings about the place that they broke
the law to come to. Isn't that interesting?
They vary widely on how and when they arrived and found that
about half of immigrants say they feel less safe since Donald
Trump took office. I would really like it if they
only polled the legal immigrants, but they won't do
that. They needed to mix this in to
make sure that we got a smattering of people who have no
right to be here in the 1st place and whose opinions are
completely irrelevant. Isn't that fun?
The survey was done by the New York Times and KFF, A nonprofit
that Kentucks polling research about health policy.
No idea why that's relevant. The immigrants surveyed, whether
they're here legally or not or have been naturalized as
citizens, have concerns that they or a family member could be
detained or deported. And that's risen significantly
since Mr. Trump's return to power.
Can we be really clear If they have been naturalized or if
they're here legally, then they will not be detained or
deported. It turns out that's just not how
things work. So when you read this, and by
the way, there are 4 authors to this piece, they've deliberately
confused what's going on here. The only thing I want to know is
do people who came to this country that are surviving by
action. And I don't want that.
I'm only interested in immigrants who are not on
government assistance, which is a huge chunk of it.
A lot of them are. So if you came here and you came
to America and you're busting your ass and you've started a
business and maybe you're a Barber or maybe you run a
landscaping business or maybe you have a computer programming
service. I don't know if you came here
legally or are you happy with your decision to come here.
The rest of it is completely irrelevant.
It constitutes A1 sided parasocial relationship that you
created in your head that nobody else signed on or agreed to.
The crazy part about this story is that you can go to the to the
folks over at NBC and this is their lead story.
Immigration's arrest in Charlotte, that's the newest
push. So it was in Chicago and it was
in Seattle and Portland. They did some work.
And so there was all this kind of, you know, shenanigans and
National Guard. And now they've decided to push
in and go after Charlotte. Immigration officials have
arrested more than 130 people. That's far too few. 130 people
would be a good morning. Let's do that every shift,
please. If we're going to go ahead and
do this thing, if we were going to remove people that are the
parasitic, parasocial types that have decided the American people
have to support them for some damn reason, even though they
have no right to be here. They're not even allowed to
work. It's illegal for them to have a
job and it's illegal for you to hire them to do the job.
Joseph Ocampo has called the southern city his home for six
years. But after immigration
enforcement descended over the weekend, the American citizen of
Colombian descent said he doesn't leave the house without
his passport. That's just smart.
I don't leave the house without my driver's license, which says
that I'm a American, you know, military veteran.
Why? Because I carry a firearm.
Because I'm an American. And I want to be able to ID
myself in case somebody asked me.
I've never had a cop randomly stop me and say, hey, man, are
you carrying a gun? And can you ID yourself?
But just in case there's nothing wrong with that, You carry your
passport. So be it.
OK, great. You're an American citizen, and
you're worried about that? Smart.
Yeah. You don't want to be construed
with the people who break the law.
So you take some. You take some proactive moves.
I cannot be caught up in that. It's like, how do I know you're
an American? Oh, you have an American
passport. There you are.
Oh, that's you in the picture. Got it.
What's your social? What's your date of birth?
Very good. Have a nice day, Sir.
Sorry to bother you. Thanks for paying your taxes.
You're paying for this guys guy. Jonathan Ocampo.
I'm carrying it here and now, which is sad, he said.
Why is it sad? He worries that his father, a
citizen who's been in the country for 40 years, could be
targeted because he's Hispanic looking and he speaks what is
described as very broken English.
Well, that's a big part of it, isn't it?
Because aren't you supposed to come here and assimilate?
Isn't that what we brought? Like, why can you come here and
not operate on the language that Americans operate under?
That's a you problem. If you are here for 40 years and
you look like or you sound like you don't belong here because
you never actually participated in being here.
I actually have a fairly realistic problem with that.
And I don't think that that is a parasympathetic association or,
I'm sorry, a parasocial situation.
I didn't project that upon you. That's the expectation.
If you went to Italy and you didn't speak Italian at some
point, why are you there? How do you do business there?
You only stick to the people that don't speak, that speak
English and they're in English speaking enclaves.
You can't actually interact with the real people there.
Don't make any sense. You've been here 40 years and
all you have is broken English. That's a you problem.
I knew people that were here for 10 years that never spoke
English and they still spoke totally passable English.
They were from, you know, Balkan States and they came over from,
from, you know, parts of the Soviet Union.
Couple years, they busted their ass.
They were in their 40s and 50s. They were not exactly primed to
learn a little new language, but they decided that this was where
their future was. They came here legally.
And so they fixed that problem. 40 years and you don't speak
English. According to DHS Homeland
Security, more than 130 people have been arrested since the
Border Patrol began the immigration push.
They're calling it Operation Charlotte's Web.
That's cute and clever. It's put many residents and
business owners on a state of edge.
Why? Why is the city on edge?
Are there that many illegal aliens?
It turns out there might be. The city of Raleigh, which is
northeast of Charlotte, was bracing for more arrests on
Tuesday. And the American firmed an
alcohol that immigrations officers from from ICE and from
Customs and Border Protection and Immigration Customs
Enforcement. That's what ICE is already on
the ground. She said that the activities
could start as soon as today, Tuesday, this morning.
Local law enforcement does not plan on assisting.
That's fine. They don't have to.
We're committing to protecting our residents and to following
the law, said the mayor of Raleigh.
Can you protect residents if they're not here legally?
They're criminals, are they not? They're illegal aliens.
They're in violation of U.S. law.
So how are you going to protect them?
A popular Latino bakery was closed on Monday over fear for
Border Patrol activity. Why would you have to be closed
again? All these are so simple.
Several small businesses in the shopping center also shut their
doors after immigration authorities were seen smashing
windows of a car of a Honduran born U.S. citizen.
Yeah, that's not great. There's going to be mistakes.
Guess what though, They hit the wrong door with SWAT.
Sometimes. It's terrifying.
It is the worst thing. It's why I want small
government. But this, this problem is
massive because it was allowed to become massive.
And the people who are involved in it, the folks that are
actually who who created this problem, the people who came
over here and set up this expectation that they could,
they could live in a place where they're not allowed to be.
You all got warning. You're now making it worse for
people around you. So I get that.
Like, yeah, nobody wants to have their window smashed.
I guarantee they'll buy a new window.
I bet that will make that person not trust the federal
government. So now we should have not a New
Democrat, but a new ridiculously aggressive libertarian
constitutional conservative who says we should have smaller
federal government. So maybe we win with that.
But yeah, kicking down a door is not great.
Guy said he was scared, of course.
Yeah, someone. I watched the video, by the way,
if you guys and I can't pull the videos right now because of the
Cloudflare thing, but somebody was using a rifle and smashed in
through the glass, that's pretty awful.
Why were you not opening the door?
Just out of curiosity? Like, I don't know, when a dude
comes up with an AR15 and he's wearing HSI placards or police
or Sheriff's Department, I'm probably opening the door.
I don't think he's there to drag me out and assassinate me.
It's kind of a, it was kind of an interesting sort of push
back. I'm not going to open my door
because I don't need to. I guess you lose a window that
way. That probably was a lawful
order. He said I was scared.
As seen on video, he's staying inside his car and he's telling
agents if they broke the glass, they have to pay for it.
That's a, that's an obvious thing.
The agent ultimately shattered the glass and they pulled him
out and they pulled him to the ground.
DHS said he's trying to distract officers so that others could
evade. That may be the case.
There have been people that have been following these DHS
officers around. They've been following ICE
convoys in Portland and others. They're trying to warn people so
that they can get away to continue breaking the law.
And that's kind of wild. The deployments in Charlotte are
the latest in the string of high profile immigration enforcement
actions, which by the way, we're on.
That's the thing that we actually do.
That is not a parasocial expectation.
That was something that was explicitly promised during the
campaign, that we have something like 20 million people that
don't belong here. And they've caused housing
problems. They've caused downward push on
wages. They've increased the cost of
our medical system because they can't afford it.
Like, there's a lot of things that go on immigration.
When you bring people in, you bring in all the problems of
people, potentially even including systemic racism and
pain and childbirth for black women.
I don't know, maybe we can blame it on immigration.
It's just as likely as the other thing like chronic, chronic
stress. They go back to this one guy who
says he doesn't think that Charlotte is unique and being
focused on federal immigration, they're targeting anyone who has
a strong Hispanic presence. Why would that be?
Oh, because people of Hispanic origin are the largest group of
people that have come here illegally.
It's like that's what would you expect them to do?
The crazy part is that there are churches that are half empty and
this is being advertised. There are businesses that are
closing as you guys heard. There are plenty of schools that
seem like something like 15%. Stephen Miller went on and spoke
about the other day, 15% of students are not showing up in
schools. Some kids are probably just
ditching because they can and some have no right to be in this
country. It doesn't seem crazy to think
that we should actually hold the line on the things that were
promised. To me.
They're pulling these people in and finding out that they have
criminal records, including known gang membership,
aggravated assault, possession of a dangerous weapon, felony
larceny, simple assault, hit and runs, possession of stolen
goods, shoplifting, DUIDWI, an illegal entry prior to after
prior deportation. These are people that are
multiple time offenders sneaking over the border, which is also a
felony. So they're finding criminals.
So I thought what we were going to be doing, why have people
have an expectation that they can come to this nation and do
whatever the hell they want when no one told them that that was
the case? I think the word of the the word
of the year is good parasocial assigning things A1 sided
relationship where you get to define the terms and you can be
decidedly UN, you know, unhappy about it if the other part of
the relationship which did not consent to being in this
relationship lets you down. We have a truly parasocial
scenario in this country. And then people are mad about
campaign promises that are like they're not even being done
enough. How many of us would say there
should be 10X what's going on and people on the left think
there should be? None of it bugs me.
It bugs me that that's where we're at, where we are so
disconnected from each other as a nation that just carrying out
the laws of the nation you live in is considered to be
problematic. And it's, and it's, it's
sparking fears, business Closings.
All right, I've been waiting here for this pipe bomber story
and I'm going to tell you I was watching, they were supposed to
release it about 30 minutes ago, but it sounds like there may be
some legal issues going on there.
I'm refreshing the, the page in the background and it's not
popping up. So we will, we will probably
most likely wait till that pops up and have AI don't know
special broadcast on that. I'm going to give you one last
story here, which is actually really interesting.
And I think this actually does play well into the parasocial
theme that I saw this morning. This is from Nick Giordano.
I've been on his podcast once. George Hill is a pretty frequent
guest there. Steve Friend's been on it a few
times. He wrote an article, and this is
interesting because it's over at the Federalist and the
Federalist has been not much of A friend to the Suspendables.
For whatever it's worth, back to Julie Kelly.
I don't think highly of Sean Davis because of a lot of the
stuff that he covers and the way that he wrote it in the
background. They've put some nasty stuff out
that I think is not just inaccurate, but I think it's
unwarranted. But this article is a guest
article from Nick Giordano. That's called it says calling it
the Biden FBI diminishes the real threat of a bureaucracy
gone wild. And this is this this game that
is being played. And I do think it fits into the
the broader theme here. What he says in the sub headline
is that corruption did not begin under Biden and it will not end
under Republican administration. This is the idea that we can
create a fictitious relationship with time and space that you can
go out and say that there is a this FBI or that FBI or a this
ice or that ice. They are the same people, the
people in Border Patrol that are now enacted, going out and doing
the enforcement actions. They're the same people.
They signed up for the same reasons.
They have the same motivations. They have the same family
members, they have the same paychecks.
All of these things are kind of interesting.
We want to assign this this personification to bureaucratic
government agencies and we do so because of parasocial
relationships we have with the people that are either in power
when it comes to elected office or the people that are in the
administrative positions because we have some sort of, you know,
parasocial relationship and believe that they are
representing our best interests. Think Giordano gets it right.
You should not fall in love with any government program.
You should not fall in love with any of the people that are
running it because the the agencies run themselves by and
large, the figureheads that are out there that are involved in
doing the public media face. Here's another good example this
there's a story we'll do tomorrow.
Maybe this is Christy Noem. She did a a huge media push and
Pro Publica found out that she got basically $220 million in no
bid contracts sent to one of her spokesperson's husband's.
That seems problematic. She's doing that like if you're
seeing the screen right now, you're seeing Christy Gnome with
very pretty hair and a Western shirt on and a hat and she's
riding on a horse and she got, she got like chaps on at Mount
Rushmore. It's made-up.
You think she runs DHS? No, the people who run DHS run
DHS. She's taking pictures like this
and signing off on contracts, calling it a this or that, a
Biden FBIA, that FBI, a this FBI, they're all the same.
And how do you know? Because this story that's going
to come out about the pipe bomber is going to prove it to
you ongoing. These agencies are the same as
they always were. And your projected relationship
with the people who run them, it's only in your head.
Senator Chuck Grassley's latest revelations about Operation
Arctic Frost demonstrated that the weaponization of our
government is far more dangerously than previously
understood or far more dangerous than previously understood.
What's truly infuriating is the Republican reflex to attacks
Biden's name to abuses carried out by the FBI, the CRA, or any
of the other alphabet agencies. Framing it as Biden's FBI,
Biden's CIA, misses the point entirely and diminishes the
severity of the structural threat.
Nick is nailing it right here with the with the problem.
You act like by changing the name or the OR the management,
you somehow fix the problem of culture.
The labels make Arctic frost and other abuses sound like their
political controversies. They ignore the grave reality,
which is that they are the product of permanent bureaucracy
that is so powerful it operates. It operates as an unelected 4th
branch of government and it seems unencumbered by the United
States Constitution. It can also be demonstrated with
the judiciary gone rogue. There's clear evidence that the
bureaucracy operates independent of the administration,
regardless of which party controls the White House.
It's almost like the message that we give you guys here every
single day. Do not mistake your belief in
someone that you do not know, who does not know you, and who
does not feel accountable to you in any way, shape or form.
They don't even feel accountable to the people they know.
Ask me how I know that one. I found that out very
personally. That these people, even though
you have their phone number and even though you've spoken to
them and even though you have like a pretty good repartee
going back and forth and you might speak on a podcast or you
might speak in a radio show, that doesn't mean that they hold
the values that you've assigned to them.
That's a pair of so parasocial mistake and to act like these
bureaucratic entities somehow have just changed because you
flipped the name on the door and the director's office or someone
at the top of the bureaucracy. The culture and the rot is
ongoing. And I'll say it in a different
way. You cannot believe that there is
a UNI party and then act surprised that both parties end
up having the same results. Either you believe that there is
in fact only one operating principle.
What's good for government is good for us because we are
government. Or you believe something that is
a fairy tale and fantasy because the evidence is overwhelming and
it's right in front of you. People keep asking me, well, how
would you know? There was a comment today I read
this morning on YouTube. I don't understand.
How could our current law enforcement entities cover up
this horrible thing? What would it benefit Donald
Trump? What would it benefit Cash Patel
or a Dan Bongino? What would it benefit, Pam Bondi
or Susie Wiles or Stephen Miller?
How would they benefit from covering up something from
January 6th? It's like, well, you assume that
they have some sort of control over this.
That's a parasocial construct that's in your brain.
I don't know if they think they control it, but I know they
don't. And I know they don't because
I've watched what these agencies keep doing and it doesn't matter
who's in charge. It turns out they kind of lean
towards the left, but they more more often lean towards handling
their own business. And Giordano's exactly correct
on this, he said. Look at Donald Trump's first
term. Not only did the bureaucracy
target him, but it went after his allies and millions of
ordinary Americans, including Catholics and parents who just
wanted to have a say in their child's, their children's
education. We had Crossfire Hurricane,
which was an insurance policy in case Donald Trump won the
Russian collusion narrative. It collapsed.
The bureaucracy pivoted and found a new front.
Then there was a leaked phone call between Trump and Ukrainian
president that became the next weapon.
They were determined to remove a duly elected president because
it served its own needs. The bureaucracy serves itself.
The self licking ice cream cone doesn't care whether or not you
like ice cream or what flavor it is because it is licking itself.
Its needs and its wants are unaware and and completely
uninterested in what you've assigned to it in the parasocial
expectations that you have. Trump was still the president.
The permanent bureaucracy pivoted to censorship,
information warfare. They targeted him and his
supporters. And many people found that out
after January 6th because who was the president on January
6th? Donald Trump.
Who opponent the, the, the, the director of the FBI then Donald
Trump. That was Chris Wray, who put the
attorney general in place. Donald Trump.
Did it matter? Did it matter because the DOJ
began A locking up and arresting people despite the fact that the
man who was in the Oval Office was still Donald Trump and his
supporters were the ones who were being attacked?
Did it matter? No.
He got kicked off social media. They took away his his weapon
system to be able to share what he wanted.
Does it mean that Donald Trump is the greatest?
No, it just means that you can't say that he was in charge.
It would be ignorant. So this is the thing I want
people to understand as you go out there and you look at these
people and you think, well, they have my best interests at heart.
What evidence do you have? Do they even know you exist?
And I think because of the word of the year, we can recognize
they do not. It should be real clear.
So I want, I'm going to put this article all, all the others will
also be there. It'll be in the show
description, will be in a pin comment over on YouTube, it'll
be in a pin comment on Rumble. And it'll be, we want to be on
locals today because we didn't stream to locals.
So that's where you guys can find if you're interested.
I will put it up, I guess whenever, whenever this
cloudfare thing ends and we have access to it.
And you may actually see a pop up broadcast and even a
supplement over on on Spotify. Because when the story breaks
sometime today from Blaze, it will prove to you that the
government's interests are in the government, I think.
And you're going to find out at least one of the government
agencies that cannot extract itself in any way, shape or form
from what it did on January 6th. And I think that the the broader
context is, is that other government agencies got right in
line and they did exactly what you'd expect them to do.
They did not operate under the principles of the person who was
the top person there. They operate under their own
principles. They are a bureaucracy gone
wild. So read this article from
Federalist. Even though I'm not a big fan of
it always, I do like what Giordano has to say about this,
and I think he will as well. And allow it to just slightly
shade those parasocial expectations that you have on
our politicians and on me and on anyone else you listen to.
If you haven't shake shaken my hand, if you don't have my phone
number, if you haven't, you know, met my kids and had dinner
at my dinner table, you don't know what's going on
necessarily. In my head, I share a lot of my
thoughts with you, but it doesn't mean that just because
we agree on this doesn't mean that we agree on other things.
You have no, you know, how would you know?
And, and and vice versa. By the way, I don't know what
you think, which is why I constantly leave things open.
I'm open to disagreement, so come at it in good faith.
Don't assume that I already knew that you didn't agree with me or
that I did agree with you or that somehow we agreed on
everything. And when I let you down because
we didn't, you go out there and write a rage comment.
Those are my favorite the rage comments.
Oh, you said this thing and now I'm no I'm no longer with it.
It's like, sorry to let let you down person who I didn't know.
Not trying to be mean. It's just me.
This is not 2 sided. Whenever any of you want to jump
on, that's why we do things on Twitter, so we can do that back,
back and forth where I can kind of get a sense of who's
listening and what are they seeing.
Can you expand my, my, my, you know my, my understanding, which
happens. People share stuff with me all
the time and then I learn things.
I go, oh great, we're all just one person.
All right. I did actually build, luckily
enough, I got a couple of pallet cleansers because we need them
in general and I will play them right now.
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All right, let's do something kind of funny.
Why not? How about we make fun of the
French? Can we do that?
We can all agree with all the problems we have in America, the
French have always been an easy punching bag.
So let's take a couple shots. And a comedian who I haven't
seen in a long time, Daniel Tosh, still out there.
Apparently he has a podcast called The Tosh Show.
Daniel Tosh was one of my favorite stand up guys.
I think he's hysterical. He reminds me of one of my
brothers, and here he is given the French what they deserve.
People always accuse the French of being elitist.
I'm going to list a few things and I want you to say which
country does them the best food. France.
You think so? It's not true.
What's the best Italy? No.
Are you kidding me? No, you the chef in France.
All right. I don't know that that's true.
All right, Wine. France.
Cheese. France.
Fashion. France.
How about art? France Italia has some good
arts. Comedy.
France 0. Shut the fuck up.
All right, joke of the day, what is the difference between bird
flu and swine flu? I don't know.
One requires oink mint and the other one requires tweet mint.
You've never worked in a Firehouse.
That guy's going to be running because someone's going to grab
him. I don't know what's going to
happen next, but it won't be good.
You can't be dropping those kind of terrible dad jokes on the
Firehouse floor. You have to pay for that stuff.
All right, God bless you guys. Thanks for listening today.
Look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Maybe everything will be working the way it should.
Maybe it won't be. Go share a dad joke.
Your kids will love that one, by the way.
They'll love it. I don't know why they'll love
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