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I already know it's heavy. I have kind of a pit in my
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Today we're going to be talking about the story of Rodger
Fortson. He's the young special
operations airman that was killed in Florida.
That's going to be really heavy. We are in the middle of National
Police week right now. It's a time when our nation
celebrates both the heroes and and should also look at how do
we do better policing in this country.
We celebrate the people that put their lives on the line every
single day to keep American freedom free and they do.
Our local law enforcement is hands down the most important
thing that keeps your life the way that it is, so you don't
have to worry about marauders. And chaos on the streets and in
your neighborhoods. But everyone who puts on a badge
is going to take off that badge someday.
Every single one of you is going to take that badge off if you're
wearing it. And every single one of you that
wears a uniform is going to take off that U1 day and be a former
member of the military, going to be a former member of law
enforcement, going to be a former member of the red line of
a fire department or an EMS service.
I have the. Weird sort of space where I have
done all of those things. I was a served I served in the
the Air Force. In fact, I'm carrying right now.
In my pocket I just pulled this out and put it on my desk.
This is a coin from the command from the command Master Sergeant
of United States Special Operations in the Air Force, the
Air Force AFSOC community. And it says on there you can run
but you will only die tired. This was given to me while we
were marching across the country honoring some airmen who died in
the line of duty overseas and we were interning some some wooden
batons that had their names on them.
We walked all the way from where we start at Lackland Air Force
Base outside of San Antonio. We walked all the way across the
country on foot and we went to Herbert Field, which is where
this young airman, Rodger Fortson was killed and we walked
all the way across. You can say what you like about
all the special operations divisions, they are all great.
Navy Special warfare is incredible.
The Marine MARSOC guys are amazing, those.
Who? Those who serve in the in the
Army Special Operations community, I've got friends who
are Green Berets. They're absolute studs.
Those of you who are SWIC operators and seals, like all of
these people are studs. Absolute studs.
But there's no debating that the folks in Air Force Special
Operations have the. Ability to kill more people,
more bad guys, more quickly than any other force that exists
because they have J tax. And they've got the special
Operations air wing that flies around with AC130 gunships.
And that's what this gentleman, this young man was a crew chief
on. He was a senior airman.
He's a young guy, he's 23 years old.
He was enlisted. The picture that we have of him
standing on a ramp tells us a little bit about what it is they
have the ability to do, to leash, unleash more hate on more
evil people than anybody else. And and he was taken in a in, I
think a an absolute miscarriage. Of what our law enforcement is
supposed to do in this country. So we're going to warm up to
that that, but that's where I'm going with it.
And I'm going to tell the story, actually of three black men
today, strangely enough, we're going to tell the story of of
Rodger Fortson. We're going to tell the story of
of Harry Dunn and. We're going to tell the story a
little bit. At least the beginning of the
end of the beginning of the story of Dexter Taylor, who's
been interviewed on this program.
If you guys haven't seen that interview, you can go back.
It was called Brooklyn After Dark.
It was a Saturday special. We did live with Dexter Taylor,
who's now sitting in Rikers Island, and he was sentenced to
10 years for doing something very American.
And I think these stories all show kind of a through line.
So as I said, it's going to be heavy.
I'm going to start with something that I don't rare.
I rarely do this, but I think it's really important.
Many of you have probably not seen this.
This is one of the great benefits of the classical
education that I was entitled to that my parents spent a lot of
money and sent me off to. This is a piece from a lecture
slide in entitled The Genre Wheel and it's a The Genre Wheel
was developed by a PhD in literature.
I believe her name is Doctor Louise Cowan and I always refer
to it in my brain as Cowan's Wheel.
This may be totally. Foreign to you?
And it may not make sense until later, but I view a lot of the
world the way that I learned Cowan's Wheel when I was a
sophomore in high school. And I'll give credit to my
sophomore English teacher or literature teacher.
Her name was Linda Felice and she was outstanding and she was
excellent. This is the way that literature
can be defined and many of our stories.
The reason that we love literature, the reason why
stories are so important, is because while history tells us
what happened, literature tells us what happens.
It's an ongoing story of of the people, all right.
And what you're seeing on the wheel, on the wheel here in
front of you, if you're not watching at the top of it, is
what's called the lyric world. It's a section, It's a quadrant
down to the right as you move clockwise around it is the is
the section called tragedy. And at the bottom at the 6:00
position, it basically covers from 4:00 until 7:00 is what's
called comedy. And over at the 9:00 hour, as
the sort of the end of it goes, it's called the epic cycle.
And this cycle turns clockwise. It almost always every story
that you hear, every, every story, whether it be a a person
telling you their personal story or whether it is a story that
you're reading or whether it's literature, a great story
including the Bible. These often fit into these
categories and they move clockwise around Cowan's wheel.
It progresses in a certain way. I heard a a quote.
From a long time ago when I was a kid, it was like one of those
toilet book readings like Chicken soup for the soul.
It's a comedy is tragedy plus time and partially we can say,
OK, fine, when when there is a tragic situation and what is
tragedy? We're going to have to talk
about that in a second. But when you talk about tragedy,
if you add enough time, we can all make fun of it, right?
There are there are dark jokes about 911 at this point,
especially for those of us who've been in the first
responder community that have worked at law enforcement, those
of us in the military, we get what that's about, that dark
gallows humor. It's tragedy.
Plus time. Equals comedy.
But it's also true in the way that our story, our human story
progresses. I want you to look at what goes
on in the lyric world. It's anticipation, consummation
and lamentation that moves into what's called the fall, which is
the beginning of tragedy. After the fall is always
suffering, and then there's an attempt for redemption.
Often times that redemption doesn't end up.
In a place of. Of comedy.
At least not in the way that we think of comedy.
It's not funny, ha ha. Comedy.
It's in a in a place where the world starts to rectify itself.
And the comedy world is defined in three terms, and and you can
imagine this. It's almost like hell, purgatory
and heaven. It's referred to as infernal
comedy, purgatorial comedy and paradisal.
It is the movement towards getting to human fulfilment.
And then lastly, we end up in the world of the epic, which is
kind of that just like in our economy, we want to be in the
peak position. The peak position is the story
of the epic and that's the battle and the founding and the
ruling. America is currently, right now
in the ruling status. What we don't want to do is fall
out of that into anticipation, consummation and lamentation.
We are attempting to keep ourselves in a place of
permanent ruling and all societies are constantly trying
to tweak whatever it is, whatever mechanism they have to
keep ourself in this. If you're not familiar with
coward's wheel, I highly recommend just just type it in
Genre Wheel. But Doctor Louise Cowan?
Read it and. Apply it to to the lens as you
read stories and we're going to start off with something that is
almost comic and it's in its nature.
It's not it's not sad, but it is the the situation that our
country is currently facing with an open border and a bunch of
chaos going on. I'm going to lighten this in as
we get to the heavy stuff. So this story comes to us from
the Marine Times. Two people are now in custody
after attempting to breach the Virginia Marine base at
Quantico. I spent some time at Quantico as
a trainee in the FBI. Any of you have gone through the
Officer Basic School? They're the basic school is
where they teach new lieutenants how to spell the word lost.
You have to use the, the, the letters Lt.
Anybody who knows that and has ever done Land Lab with a young
Lieutenant knows. Exactly what I'm talking about.
You can't spell lost without the Lt.
We need. We need our lieutenants.
These are young men. There's also the there's a fake
embassy there where they learn how to defend the embassies all
around the world. US embassies.
And these two guys decided to enter that place.
Unknown needs unknown. Unknown mission set.
Two people drove up to the Fuller Rd.
Gate at the United States Marine Corps base at Quantico,
Virginia, in a box. Truck, they were stopped by the
military sentries. There they were.
They were questioned. And it turns out that they claim
that they work for a subcontractor.
With Amazon, we're seeing a lot of people with some very weird
sort of Muslim, terroristic sort of tendencies working for
Amazon. I'm going to share with you a
quick little story. When I was working for for the
FBI on the surveillance team, one of the one of the actual
scariest guys that we ever dealt with was someone who's been in
the United States for quite a long time.
He done a bunch of weird stuff they had like an electronics
business but he had a job with Amazon and they thought that he
was getting ready to do a legit jihad action and and this guy
basically shaved his head and he shaved his beard and he got very
clean and he started spending like hours and hours and sensory
deprivation in a in a. Pool at the.
YMCA. And so we're following this guy
24/7 and they're looking for any kind of indication that he was
going to go and get operational and a terroristic sense.
So we're following him everywhere.
And then then he got a job on Amazon and we were told to let
let his truck go, just let him do whatever he wanted while he
was on work duty for Amazon. One of the scariest things
that's out there is the access you can have.
Now with the current delivery systems, we have Uber Eats,
whether you're talking about people who are, you know,
driving things to you, just getting into cars with people or
getting access to buildings because we have these
contractors and subcontractors that are representing legitimate
authorities, but they don't have any background checking.
And so these guys were claiming to be with Amazon, whether they
were or not. Is another story.
They claimed they were going to the US post office which is
located in the town of Quantico, so that is on the the Oceanside
of the base and for whatever reason these guys were actually
taken out. They had some basic under
undergoing of the vetting procedures that happened at
those gates and then it turned out that they.
Were. Not allowed to be there, they.
Were not the people that represented themselves.
One of them was a Jordanian national.
The other person turned out to be on an FBI terror watch list.
How interesting, right? Just going to say we should
generally take a lot of personal responsibility for our own
safety. We're in the middle of this
police. We're going to be talking about
a police story. But it's important for you to
know that the police are there to investigate wrongdoing after
the fact. It's very rare.
Most of you do not live on a military base.
There are some people probably that live on military bases that
listen to this story. But I'm just telling you,
there's not an armed gate guard who has a a vehicle blocking
barrier in front of your neighborhood, most likely.
Which means that you're responsible for your safety.
You're responsible for you open the door to you are the one who
has to look around and decide whether or not what's going on
around you is safe and not safe. Not all of us have the benefit
if either contractors or Marine Corps guards standing in front
and screening all the vehicles that come nearby.
And there are some weirdos out there.
That one that I went out there and followed this guy, like I
said, shaved his beard, was like hanging out in the YMCA.
He ended up getting a search warrant served at his house.
They weren't able to arrest him. Classic FBI incompetence, but
they didn't have the goods on him.
They did a search warrant. They let the guy go and the guy
started speeding, clawing close to 100 miles an hour on surface
streets. Me and my team pursued him.
He disappeared about a mile away from my house.
He was able to get away from us because he had such a head
start. The team actually that was doing
the search warrant let him go before they let our surveillance
team know to get in place. Classic stupidity.
And as we follow this guy, he ended up having some
predetermined drop point at a Taco.
Bell about a mile away from where I lived.
He jumped out of his vehicle, jumped in the vehicle with
somebody else, claimed that he just randomly met this guy.
When we found him later, he got in that vehicle, drove away,
disappeared for about 5 or 6 days and was out making
preparations to leave the country.
Then he popped up at 5:00 AM on a Sunday morning.
My team and I picked him up. We were completely burned.
He was driving like 15 miles an hour and a 40 in front of a
bunch of military contractors that are all in a place called
Springfield, VA. It's just outside the Beltway if
you guys are familiar with it. So we followed him around.
He went, he got to his Amazon job.
He we were told to let him go once again and he ditched his
Amazon truck. He got on a bus, took it down to
Georgia, got on a bus from Georgia, went to Mexico City,
got on a bus in Mexico City, went down to Panama, tried to
catch a flight to Marrakech. He was trying to fly overseas
and join up with some of my ISIS affiliates, I want to say.
And that flight actually flew over US areas.
It flewed over the tip of Florida and US airspace.
So he was actually kicked off for the no fly list.
The Panamanians deported him to Guatemala, the Guatemalans back
to Mexico. The Mexican sent him right back
up to Northern Virginia. To my knowledge, he's still
there. And we let him all go because he
was, you know, assumed to be working for Amazon.
Like, that's OK. The idea that you have a
terrorist who has access to an enormous box truck and has
access to a lot of buildings with those credentials, he was a
legit Amazon employee. I'm just telling you, you got to
be careful. And this is one of a sort of a a
walk. Up to it.
We're all responsible for our own safety in this world.
We're all responsible for our own personal accountability.
And if not, if you do not, hold on to that.
You will give. That responsibility to someone
else and they may not treat your safety.
The way that you would and. We're going to get a little bit
to that in just a second here, too.
Let's get into the heavy stuff right now.
Experts say gun alone does not justify deadly force in the
fatal shooting of. Florida airmen.
His name is Rodger Forson. When I hear people ignoring this
story, and a lot of people have, and I've been sitting on it for
a little bit, I wanted to get a good sense of what happened and
what did not happen. So I've been, I've been
digesting this slowly. I have this, this video, and for
whatever reason, it's the thing that rings like it's just over
and over in my head. I just feel like this is where I
I keep thinking of this scene and it's it's not 100%
applicable, but the the sentiment is, so I'm going to
play it real quick here and then we'll come right back.
I understand in death a member of Project Mayhem has a name.
His name is Robert Paulson. His name is Robert Paulson.
Is it?
Powerful scene from from the movie Fight Club.
It's something that always kind of sits me.
A lot of these movies stay with me and they tell us, like I
said, they tell us the story of not what is happening but what
has happened, what happens. For human beings, there's power
in the name, and this kids name was Rodger Forson and he was a
Special Operations airman. And as far as I can tell, we're
going to play the body. Cam footage and we're going to
go through it. I don't think he did anything
wrong. He may have done things that are
less advised, but that shouldn't cost your life.
Not in America. This is America.
And when you swear allegiance to to the Constitution of this
country as a law enforcement officer, listen, when you are a
member of the military, you're actually swearing allegiance to
a different part of the Constitution.
It is my take that when you put on the thin green line, you're
saying more that you are going to lean towards the foreign
enemy. That's the nature of what our
military does. It looks outward.
And when you do so as a sheriff's deputy or a law
enforcement officer in the federal government state, you're
actually facing more of the domestic enemy.
They're both real enemies for you, no doubt, but as a member
of the military we're facing. Externally, that's where we want
to go. When you are a member of law
enforcement, your job is to leash yourself under the Bill of
Rights. You're not necessarily
protecting the Article 1 powers of Congress, of the Article 2
powers of the executive, the Article 3 powers that's put up
our judiciary. That's not your job as a law
enforcement officer. Your job is to know that the
government has limits and you are limited in your scope and
your authorities. It's incredibly important.
There's this kind of funny joke that I play every single day.
You guys may not know that. It's kind of a tongue in cheek
joke, but as I enter into this show, we talk about how I'm a
recovering FBI agent. Why is that?
Because the FBI is not a place where you should go at this
point, and so in a lot of vices. People recover through 12 step
programs. It's an ongoing joke between me
and the Buddies. Civil liberties enthusiast.
When I when I had my dad do the voice over for that, yes, that's
my dad's voice here. It's a family show.
When I had him do the voice over, he was like, what does
that mean? Like that doesn't have a
meaning. A civil liberties enthusiast is
something we all should be. It's kind of a tongue and teek
joke, because you can't be an enthusiast for something that is
a God giving liberty. We have to actually be willing
to give our lives over our civil liberties.
So enthusiast is kind of a play on how serious this is really
supposed to be. It's supposed to be the most
serious thing. Second Amendment defender.
I lost my job at the FBI specifically because.
I wouldn't give ground to a local law enforcement officer
who did not have the authority to tell me to do something with
a firearm. And he told me and I was safe.
I had a holstered up weapon talking to another cop when I
was an FBI agent and he said would you go somewhere else?
And I said no, I won't. And that got me thrown out of
the FBI officially, that was what they they called it.
I'm wearing a duty belt. I'm wearing an FBI badge.
I look like he looks like in plainclothes.
I'm out doing firearms training, doing things like I would almost
guarantee that guy couldn't do. I'm practicing shooting at a
silhouette from 50 yards out of a draw and under a second and a
half. That was my part time for what I
wanted to do. I wanted to make sure that I
want any gunfight with a bad guy, but the real key is it's
got to be a bad guy. And he recognized that I have a
holster and a. Duty belt.
And I'm not a problem. They didn't recognize that with
this guy, Rodger Fortson. He showed up at a door of his
own home, in his own home, and in America, when you swear
allegiance to the Constitution as a law enforcement officer,
you're also swearing that you will protect and you will limit
yourself against all of those things.
Unreasonable search and seizures you will.
You will engage and due process. You won't let the process become
the punishment, as the 8th Amendment tells us that they
can't do cruel and unusual punishment things that are.
Outside of the of the chain and really importantly, you
shouldn't be limiting things like speech, the practice of
religion, the ability for us to assemble freely and petition our
government for the redress of grievances.
Your job is to protect the civil liberties of those that are not
authorized to carry a gun and a badge and be the violent arm of
the state. So what else does that include?
It includes the Second Amendment.
We don't just have the ability to keep weapons in our
possession. We have the ability to bear
them, to bear the means to carry them so as to use them.
And this kid was doing that. He's a kid, he's 23 years old.
He's a man. He was a young man.
But having a gun alone does not justify deadly force And all the
cops that are out there on the social media apps that are
coming at me and saying, hey, he was carrying a gun, the guy had
a reasonable fear. Did he, though?
You could articulate it, but then you have to articulate what
the hell you were doing in that place.
In the first place. How dare you show up to somebody
else's house, you're on their turf, and then you're going to
dictate the terms of their interaction.
If man holding gun equals deadly force to you, put down the badge
and get out right now, 'cause you are a problem.
That means you are poorly trained and you are a liability
to the public. There's no two ways around it
for me. Just because you can articulate
that this was a deadly force situation where you can justify
it doesn't mean that you did it right.
OK. Holding a firearm at a low
position, He wasn't that low ready.
He wasn't prepared to deploy that.
He's handling it below the waist, is he not?
We're going to show you the video.
It's very, very quick that you see it.
This kid has almost no time to respond to it.
And that cop does things that I think are objectively bad.
His not. I'm going to set you up for what
you're going to hear why I think this is the case.
We're going to. First of all, we'll show you the
whole body Cam footage in a second, but let me prime your
mind to it. He bangs on the door.
He pounds on the door like he's doing what I would call a knock
and announce. A knock and announce is when
you're there to serve legal process, you either have a
search warrant or an arrest warrant and you are looking to
engage in lawful activity that is going to, that is going to
infringe on somebody's otherwise legal space because you have a
court order from a Magistrate Judge authorizing you to use the
force of the government to go into that place.
It it, it is a it is a command, not a request.
This man was doing what I would also call in reality, not a
knock, knock and announce. He was doing what we call a
knock and talk, a field interview, a voluntary contact.
And that means that this, this airman had zero legal
requirement to engage with the cop.
He didn't have to open the door, not even a little bit.
He didn't have to speak to him. He didn't have to engage with
him. He could have looked through the
people and ignored it. He chose to answer it.
And many people have said, you know, he's in the military, he's
part of a special operations wing.
He's surrounded by guys like combat controllers and para
rescue men, by tack pees, by people who know what what
violence looks like and have to do it overseas.
He's assuming that we're on the same team.
I know that because I stood in those shoes.
When you look at law enforcement, you think Team
America, one team, one fight. That is how you look at it when
you're wearing the green uniform.
Cops are my friends. I got their back.
This is the kind of kid who I have to imagine.
If he drove by and saw a highway patrolman engaging in a
one-on-one fight on the side of the highway, he'd probably pull
over and get involved because that's what you do because
that's what you think you signed up for.
When you agree to have the same oath as those that are serving
domestically, it's one oath with two different focuses, and
you're allowed to carry a gun in your own home and open the door.
I assure you that if someone bangs on the door at my house,
especially with an authoritative knock, I'm coming there with a
gun. You may not see it, but I'm
going to have it now. He's young, he's 23 years old.
He didn't serve in law enforcement the way that I got
to see it. My guess is that if you're
smart, you carry a gun, but you conceal it and you train to be
able to take it from concealment and engage if you need to.
I always have a weapon on me. It's either out of sight or it's
under on my body where you can't see it.
But I'm always going to be armed.
But that doesn't mean that I'm not going to open the door
sometimes with a weapon in hand and I'm allowed to in my home.
You're on my turf and you have no legal right to do anything
there except knock and ask for voluntary compliance for an
interview. We're going to watch this video.
What I did not show in this video because this is, this is a
body Cam clip, Obviously there's some before it.
I'm going to let you know the part before it showed him going
into an office that seems to be the apartment office.
There's a young man there who sounds very weak and he says I
didn't make the call like this other lady does.
The cop goes into the office, speaks, then he steps out, then
he talks to the woman who you're going to see him talking to, and
then he goes up and engages at this apartment solo.
He says backups on the way. It's worth listening to all of
this. Number one, there is often times
there certainly was in Virginia. When I was working.
Legal requirements for apartment complexes and landlords to
surrender information to law enforcement if they have an
authorized law enforcement purpose about the tenant in any
given place. If I wanted to go in as an FBI
agent showed my credentials, walked in and said, listen, I'm
going to go knock on door 14 O1, which is what they're talking
about in this door. Do you have any information
about what this guy does for a living?
Do you have any information about the people that are on the
lease? Can you tell me who I can expect
behind that door? They are legally required in
Virginia to give it. And there's a general reason
that if you're going to make the phone call and say, hey, we need
a cop to come out here, respond, they'll probably do it if the
privacy laws in the in the state don't forbid them.
It's their information. They can voluntarily give it.
It's very easy to ask for it cost almost nothing.
It's a few seconds of your time. This was not an imminent call,
by the way. This isn't like someone is
screaming at the top of their lungs and we think someone's
dying. This is there may be some kind
of a fight going on and we'd like to stop this in the future
because they get at it all the time.
He doesn't do that. This officer, this deputy does
not go and ask for information who's on the lease.
Do you know anything about it? Because you know what it would
say on the lease. What is your source of income?
What is your? Employment.
And you would know that this guy works at Herbert Field.
When you find that out and you would know that he's an airman.
It doesn't mean that there's not dirt bag airman.
I know a bunch of them. Like a bunch of unlisted guys
are garbage, right? But at least tells you what kind
of character you're dealing with there.
And if I think that I'm going to approach somebody who has a a
military uniform hanging in their closet that is off duty,
it is my assumption that they at least know how to handle
firearms and they may own one. It's a likely assumption that
they have one, and it wouldn't be weird to imagine that
somebody who's seen death and destruction, this guy was given
some medals that show that he had done time in combat zones on
an AC130. He's seen what happens when you
got to go and do violence against bad guys.
Violence is, at least in his mind, It's a possibility, and
answering the door with a gun is not outside.
The range of like acceptable per views.
OK, this is also the same agency Bill T just pointed out in the
chat. It's the exact same agency that
had a guy do a combat role because a freaking ACORN fell on
his own Suburban or his own SUV where he had an unarmed
handcuffed subject in and the guy turned in mag dumped on his
own on his own vehicle and thank God didn't hit the the subject
in there because that would be an Eighth Amendment violation,
would it not? It tells me that the people that
are working in this department are jumpy.
If two out of your deputies have shown up on recent Cam footage
that have gone immediately to gun when things did not warrant
a gun that says that you are training somebody poorly.
One is just, you know, maybe one guy's experience two points to
find a line in geometry. We can draw a line straight
through it. And I got some real problems if
your guy sees man with gun equals deadly force situation,
right? Now.
In fact, I will also share with you before we show the body Cam
footage that there is a training scenario at Quantico for FBI
agents that specifically deals with this.
You go into an interview situation and you walk into the
house. This is like in Hogan's Alley,
the famous Hogan's Alley, which is a bunch of like actual homes,
but instead of having regular drywalls, they have oriented
Strand boards. You can shoot SIM rounds and
stuff into them. It's like a shoot house.
And when you go into that that house, there is someone sitting
at the table and they've got a shotgun leaned against the wall
right behind them in arm's reach.
That's not a shoot situation. It doesn't matter if they had it
sitting on their lap. It's not a shoot situation.
You might want to draw and give commands.
And that's acceptable if that has to happen.
But you got to have a reason to disarm somebody, especially in
their own house, when you're a guest, and that's what's going
on in this. Thing all right.
That's enough set up for the body Cam.
I want you to look about the way that he stands and where he
stands. Some of this is tactically
sound. You don't want to stand in the
door well when you don't know what's coming on the other side,
but you may want to stand in the door well, when there's no
expectation of violence on the other side, you're making a
voluntary contact. You should expect that somebody
was going to want to visually ID you as law enforcement, because
people say crazy things all the time.
And if you have somebody that is otherwise like disinclined to
open the door, you can stand there.
You can have them look at you and you can say, hey, you know,
I'm with the Sheriff's Department.
We had a report. Do you have a moment to come
outside, talk with me, take them out of the environment, go and
have that chat? You're asking to make contact.
There is no legal authority to make a demand on this kid, and
he died for it. Here we go kind.
Of sounded like it was getting out of.
Hand OK, Which door? No.
I'm not sure. Two weeks ago I was walking by
like by their apartment basically on this side and I was
hearing someone yelled like stupid like right after, but I
wasn't sure where it came from and I couldn't call.
Like I didn't want to call. Which room is it?
1401. 1401 OK. But the girl sounded scared.
The one that called, she said she was like staying out of it.
Sounds like it's getting really out of hand.
So it's hit #4, OK, we stand out there and directly the deputy is
coming 3/12, 1:11, 312 and 111.
All right, where are we at right now?
We've got a guy that's taken an allegation.
From a third party. This is a woman who took a
report from someone that lives on the property and now he's
taking it from this woman. So we have the game of telephone
being played. She's confirmed that it's
apartment 14 O1 and his initial contact is going to go solo up
to 14 O one on his own. She repeats it.
The second time, she sounds a little less sure.
The easy thing to do would have this person come up and point
you towards it. He tells her to stay in the
parking lot and direct the other deputy that way.
We already know that there's a guy in the office that could do
that, and we also already know that he's got a radio and
dispatch and they're dispatching another officer.
If you can't give clear directions, I'm on the 4th
floor, come up and go to 14 O1 the same way that he just got
it. Then what the hell are they
doing? That's the purpose of having
comms. We don't leave a third party to
try to direct somebody unless there are so many bodies around
that we're looking for a job for them.
I've done that as a paramedic. I've asked people to go and do
something on my behalf when we didn't have enough hands.
He's one handed. He needs her to ID the door.
If you ask me, that's the right thing to do because fourteen O 1
is what she said, but she's not looking at it.
And she could walk up there and be like, oh you know what I said
14 O one. But what I really meant was
something else we don't like. As far as we know, this was the
apartment that was supposed to be going.
That he was supposed to go to. But he's out there now.
He listens to the door. That's where we just stopped.
He listened to the door. That's fine.
And we don't hear anything on the body Cam.
So nothing is loud enough that neighbors are going to likely be
hearing anything going on outside of that door.
And if there's something going on inside of there, all you need
to know is is that he doesn't hear what's going on inside the
apartment. That means that they probably
don't hear very well going in. This kid apparently was on the
FaceTime call with a girlfriend, which might mean that he had
earbuds in. It certainly means that he was
distracted. Now we're going to listen to
this guy do the knock and announce and as I said knock and
announce. Knock knock and talk.
A knock and talk sounds like this.
OK. Sheriff's Department got a
minute? Can we talk to you?
I'm. Not going to announce this Bang
Bang Bang Bang bang Sheriff's. Department.
Open the door. There's a major difference
between those two The way that you choose the technique often
times will choose the outcome. If you choose to kick down
somebody's door at 0600, the way the FBI likes to do, then you
are going to confront somebody when they are groggy, sleepy,
and they may choose to go for a firearm because it's still dark
outside. And they're just getting their
bearings. If you knock on the door or you
grab them while they're getting gas, they're out in the world.
You've been able to view them, see them, you know they're
awake. You know that they are at an
appropriate state of awareness that they are in public.
It's a big, big difference. When you engage somebody and the
way you engage someone, you often times will choose the
outcome of that engagement. By choosing your technique, you
choose the outcome. This guy chose a technique.
He also ended up in an outcome. He started with aggression in a
place that doesn't necessarily warrant it, and it ended in
violence and death. All right, we're going to go
back to the to the video here. All right, right there.
I just want to stop and and and talk about this.
You heard that soft knock, then he stepped out of the way.
Imagine you hear a soft knock at your door.
Are you going to go look, This is when they claim, oh, you look
through the people. It like it, like he he looked
through the people, saw nothing. That's totally reasonable.
He looks through the people and the cop is left.
He doesn't want to linger in the doorway because he's afraid of
getting shot. It already tells you the mindset
that this guy has gone to, like a tactical mindset.
When you step out of the doorway, you're concerned about
one thing, rounds coming through the door.
Why would you think that in this case?
Why are you there by yourself, if that's a possibility for you?
All of this is bad. It's bad policing.
And so just because he's going to probably end up being
justified in shooting this kid and putting him down because he
had a firearm and he's able to articulate an imminent danger of
death or serious physical injury, which is the legal
standard, generally speaking. And as far as I can tell, that's
the same in Florida. His authorized purpose for being
there is so low. He's doing a knock and talk and
he just walked away. From the people.
Where the guy's going to be able to see him, we're.
Going to keep going with this now.
You're going to see he changes tactics once his mindset
changes. Sheriff's Office Open the door.
He's out of view when he yells Sheriff's Office, right.
So now you've seen this all this argument says, well you know he
he did a a knock and then he announced himself as police.
First of all he did a soft knock then he got out of the way then
he goes and does a hard knock call Sheriff's Office.
The guy says something about police on the inside, like I
think he said it was, you know, I don't know, maybe it's the
police or something to that effect, but that guy announces
it afterwards, right? Very, very different to announce
in a in a loud way when you're banging on the door like that.
Now we're about to get really aggressive and this is going to
be the end of the video, obviously.
Sheriff's Office. Open the door step.
Down. Of course it just cut there.
I have no idea why that just cut off.
That's when he shoots the kid. Maybe it's because they don't
want to show this. I know on YouTube they get
really upset about you about showing a shooting.
He's standing there with a door, with a gun below his waistband
and a straight arm relaxed, with a hand kind of hanging on the
door. And the cop draws down very,
very quickly, I might add, and puts him down and kills him
right there. That's the story.
It's bad tactics. It's predictable that somebody
would have a bad outcome from this and it's not OK and it's
not OK to cover this stuff. I'm not saying that this man
should be put to death for what he did, but this, but this
deputy, that's two it's very, very it's two in very, very
close succession, bad instances of visibility from the same
Sheriff's Department in Florida. So what the hell is going on?
He's been on, he's on administrative duty.
They're going to investigate it. The problem with this is, is
that articulating the same way that I would have had to
articulate it on duty, the deadly force policy for the DOJ
is very similar for all. There's sometimes more
restrictive, but as far as the most permissive deadly force
policy that exists, the DOJ has it.
As far as I'm aware, everybody I've ever talked to that was a
cop said it. And our deadly force policy said
that law enforcement officers may use deadly force only when
necessary, that is to say, when the subject of such force poses.
And here's the key part. An imminent danger.
Of death or serious physical injury to the officer or another
person. That's it.
OK, you have to pose an imminent danger of death or serious
physical injury to A to the officer.
Or another person. Is a guy with a gun in his hand
that's casually answering the door that doesn't know what's
going on, that doesn't know why you're there?
Is that guy in imminent danger? He might be by the time you open
the door and he's got a gun in his hand.
But is he answering the door with a gun in his hand because
you weren't standing in front of people doing a knock and talk
and acting like you were going to be doing a knock and announce
like you're serving process? This stuff is so bad.
It's so bad and this kid is dead.
Because of it, Yeah. Sheriff's Department.
Open the door. It's ugly.
It's all ugly. And like I said, if you come to
my door and you act like this, you're going to probably not get
the door open. That's the right answer.
It turns out folks don't answer the damn door.
The cops are so scared because we have such a shitty existence
in this country when it comes to the way that people deal with
cops, that this became an imminent danger for him in his
mind. And yeah, he's probably going to
be justified. I'm sure his shoot was actually
going to be justified, but his name is Rodger Forsen and he's
dead because of it. It's ugly.
I want to talk more about taking some responsibility.
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I want to keep talking about this idea of responsibility.
We outsource things to the cops like this.
Right. We outsource the violence in the
state. I'm not comfortable with that.
Not as a man, not as an American.
At some point in time, you're going to take off that uniform.
You're going to take off that badge.
You're going to take off your military apparatus, right?
You're not going to be there. You're going to be a.
Retired member of the military or a former member of the
military, you're going to be a former cop or law enforcement
officer. At some point, you will be an
American again. So you're always an American
first. That's the reason why I don't
work for the FBI right now, for whatever it's worth.
I knew that right away. Husband and father, those are
non negotiable American, not negotiable.
I will always be those three things.
It turns out what I do for a living is negotiable, and doing
it for the FBI is something that didn't have to last forever.
That's why I wanted. To.
Hold on to American Civil Liberties.
That's why I say that I'm a Second Amendment defender,
because the Second Amendment is mine all the time.
From the time that I'm born to the time that I die.
It's a God-given, right? The privilege of serving with a
uniform or a badge, that's negotiable.
It can be taken away. And I'm going to say that in
this light because we're going to tell a story that's really
tough to watch. This is another really tough
one. There's a young Indiana boy
who's 10 years old, and he killed himself after suffering
bullying. I don't know what suffering
horrific bullying looks like, but here's my real.
Problem. And I'm not trying to jump on
these people because I think that they are in a bad, bad
place. I want to use them as a as a
springboard for us to learn a lesson.
The parents say. They complained to their school
20 times. They outsourced it.
They sent it to someone else. This was their problem.
This was their son. This is their responsibility.
When you give your responsibilities up.
When you surrender your responsibility to.
Somebody else, and you expect them to take the actions that
you would take. You are wrong.
You are absolutely wrong, because nobody is going to
protect your freedom and your liberties and your.
Children, I'll say the way that you would You can't trust
anybody else to do the job that you should do for yourself.
And. A different way of saying that
is. A different way of saying that
is is. How?
How on earth are? You going to take the most
precious thing in the world that you have and assume that
somebody else is going to feel the same way about it.
The government's job is to get the best outcome for the best
number of people. That turns out to be getting
everybody to and from school and getting them checked through the
boxes. They are never going to care
about your kids the way that you do.
It's my major problem. It's the reason this is another
argument for homeschooling. It turns out it's also an
argument for dads to engage. Yesterday we talked about make
men masculine again to embrace masculinity.
Masculinity also involved sometimes getting the threat of
violence across to a stranger. Because your tribe, your little
family and your friends circle are yours and they are your
responsibility. And if you're going to wait for
the police to do it, or a school to do it, or a government to do
it, you're going to wait. Nobody is coming to save you.
I know Mike Glover's in some hot water right now, but the fact
that matter is no one's coming to save you.
He says that correctly in a lot of his videos.
You know, it's up to us. You be your own first responder
always. And when your child at 10 years
old. And I'm going to show you this
video. This kid looks adorable.
He looks like the the nerdiest little 10 year old kid, exactly
like me. And some of my best buddies look
like he's got glasses, which were way more fashionable than
my glasses were when I was that age.
I know that my folks watch this sometimes and they'll see I had
some really, really bad nerdy glasses, like some BCG, like
what they call birth control glasses, the ugly ones from the
military. I had those when I was like 10
or 11 years old, going into fifth grade.
I remember it. I had the buck teeth.
I was a goofy looking, awkward kid at ten, 11-12 years old.
But I also had a very masculine father, and I don't think this
would have gone anywhere. I'm really sad for this man.
I'm really sad for him because he's going to beat himself up
over this forever. But we should learn from it.
There's no there's no horrible thing that we can't take a
lesson from. And this lesson is a couple of
things #1 be your own 1st Responder. #2, You should home
school your kids. We need to be engaged with them.
This is the saddest thing, but we're going to watch it anyway
because we need to. Kind of We need to be aware of
what's happening. How was it?
Good. He.
He was my little boy. He was my baby.
He was the youngest one. Held him in my arms, isn't it?
I did. I did things that no father
should ever have to do at any time.
I close my eyes. It's all I could see.
They were making fun of him for his glasses in in the beginning.
They went on to make fun of his teeth.
He was beat up on the school and on the school bus, and the the
kid broke his glasses and everything.
And I called the school and I'm like, what are you doing about
this? It keeps getting worse and worse
and worse. It's not getting any better.
As a matter of fact, it's getting worse.
They do. They knew this was going on.
I. Always tell the kids because
Sammy and his sister went to bed first because they were younger
and telling them they had to brush their teeth and get ready
for bed and having them him not being there to hug before bed.
It's awful. It's absolutely awful He And as
he said he didn't think that no father should have to do bury
their child right. But the minute that it got
physical and they showed pictures in that little video
the bruising on his neck, the fact that they broke glasses
it's like where you at man it's a masculinity check father's
your job is to protect, provide and lead your families.
We had Mark Houck on here before.
He's the guy that went and fought the DOJ face to face.
He went to a federal courtroom to affirm his right to protect
his child when some dirt bag outside of an abortion clinic
was being disgusting and profane and evil, and he shoved the guy
to the ground gently. By the way, Mark Hot was a huge
guy. He was a college football
player, and he gently pushed a man to the ground who was being
wildly inappropriate to a child. Why?
Because that's your child. Because you are setting an
example of what men look like to your child.
And he did it judiciously, and he did it with restraint.
He did it with the proper amount of force.
But he used. Force.
None the less, there are times when the only answer is force.
Why was this dad still letting a kid ride a bus after this?
Because of his job? Because he was inconvenienced?
Because he had to go to work. If you can't drop your job for
the reason that you really exist on this planet, if you can't
walk away from it, and I'm talking to myself here too, as
much as anybody, I really am. If you can't look and say
there's a real problem that's going on in my home, one of my
people that I am charged with responsibility for, I'm charged
with protecting. God has entrusted me with this
person, and I've got to step up. If you can't do that, God help
you pray for strength and then do the right thing.
This is what being a suspendable is about.
It might cost you something. It might cost you a promotion.
It might cost you overtime pay. It might cost you something out
of your paycheck. It might cost you your
friendships. You might be the weirdo family
that has to take your I knew a guy.
He was a Green Beret. His son got himself into some
trouble, got into a really bad crowd.
He picked up his whole family, left his job and his life and he
moved to Montana and put the kid on a farm because that's what
needed to happen. That kid ended up serving with
me in the Air Force. He was a good kid.
Dad was a hard, hard man and left everything, sold
everything. They had pulled the kid out
because his 16 year old kid was running around with a bad crowd
and he was going to end up in jail or dead.
So that's what he did. Sometimes you got to be that
guy. Men are supposed to make hard
decisions, Protect, provide. And lead leadership is the key
there. Did that dad ever get on the bus
and get in that kids face that was punching him and just said
the next person that hits my kid is going to find themselves like
on the other side of the engine block of this vehicle.
I'm going to throw you through this windshield.
Go tell your dad, that's what's going to happen if you touch
another child on this bus. If you bullies want to be
bullies, you're going to deal with men you want to get in the
game of. Violence.
You're going to get into the step, you're going to step into
the arena where men operate and it will go badly for you.
Did that ever happen? Bus drivers are bus drivers,
man. They're not.
They're not supposed to be disciplinarians.
They don't have the ability to shepherd the flock.
That's happening before. My wife and I were just talking
before we went live. There's all kinds of crazy shit
that happens on school buses. Drugs are dealt, kids are
bullied, sexual assaults happen. Voluntary sexual contacts are
happening. Exploration, all this other
stuff. You can't outsource the raising
of your children to the government and expect good
results. You're going to get flipping
government results. You're going to get mediocrity
and your. Kid may be that sensitive,
gentle soul. With the goofy big glasses and
the goofy teeth, that just isn't ready to handle it, and that's
on you as a parent. It turns out we don't want to
kick these people when they're down.
We want to. We want to bring them up, and we
need to learn the lesson that they are showing us, which is
very important. You show them how to be men,
young men, how to be men by being a man and doing things
that are difficult. All right, You want to talk
about men who are foolish and cry in public and act stupid?
Here's one, Harry Dunn. What is done is done.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a little bit of kind of like our
our movement towards we're we're we're moving in the comic wheel.
Maybe this is the the purgatorial Harry Dunn, former
police officer who defended the Capitol.
Isn't that some bullshit? On January 6th, defeated in the
Maryland House primary, this guy raised well over $4 million.
Our buddy Steve Baker has been covering this at the Blaze.
If you're not checking it out, he he raised something like $4.5
million. His his FEC reporting showed 3.8
million in change that he spent on campaign.
He's wearing AT shirt right now. If you're not seeing it says
Insurrection, a violent uprising against an authority or
government, January 6th, 2021 is the second thing.
He had his. Own T-shirts made showing that
he was the hero of the insurrection.
Most of the things he said on that day or about that day were
lies. He was speaking falsely and he
just lost to a state senator named Sarah Efreth who had a
powerful pro Israel group. Oh, isn't that interesting?
A little smear from NBC there. Like it matters.
They won the primary and heavily Democratic third district.
OK, fine. Well, at least we know that
there is a little bit of justice that Harry Dunn is done, at
least in this particular run. Doesn't mean he won't run for
something else, but he didn't make it in this time around, and
we were almost sure of it. You guys remember we just
covered his that the groups that were endorsing him, he was
endorsed by a flippin veterans group when he's not a veteran
and there are veterans that were in the race, pretty wild.
It shows you a little bit of the injustice of what the Democrat
Party is willing to get behind. And yes, I know they just found
some cocaine in the offices of the Capitol Police this week.
The Capitol Police are not police, for whatever it's worth.
They may get to participate in Police Week.
They may have the word police in their title.
But the Capitol Police are not police.
They're glorified federal security guards.
They get a very good pension. They have almost no
investigative capabilities and all the things to expand them.
The expansion that you have of of their authorities and going
places to like protect members of the of the US Congress.
Very strange. Those are executive authorities
that they are trying to to engage in and it is I think a
very strong constitutional problem.
You can have a security guard, but they don't have, they don't
have executive authority to engage in law enforcement
because they are not part of the executive branch of the
government. They fall underneath the
legislative branch. It's very weird.
So I call them the National Mall cops, you guys know, I call them
that. I don't have a lot of respect
for, not that the individual people can't be great people,
but the institution, the agency of Capitol Police, was the
bottom of the federal barrel when it came down to it.
And it's mostly because they were not an executive agentry.
It's worth knowing they are not in the business of law
enforcement. Even with the word Capitol
Police in front of them. There's all kinds of people that
hold special police status in Washington, DC, and they're all
security guards. That's all they are.
I'm not mad at them. Like I said, I don't.
I don't. I don't hold anybody in lower
regard because of the job they have, but I don't want to add
them into the category of people that like you don't support the
thin blue line. Harry Dunn was not that, and
apparently he never was able to progress beyond the length, the
rank of private first class within that organization.
Which is to say that he was an unpromotable, intellectually
maxed out mid wit at best, and probably a dim wit if you ever
heard him speak. He barely is able to articulate
anything of value. And if you've ever seen his
writing, apparently he's basically illiterate, had to go
to the press pool in order to write things he was unauthorized
to write on duty. Follow Steve Bakers reporting
over at The Blaze. He's got his own tab.
It's theblaze.com/ithink. I think Truth is his is his
title there. So you can go to
blazeortheblaze.com/truth and read all the reporting.
There's plenty on Harry Dunn there and we're going to finish
up with something that is both dark and very important.
Like I said, we're going to talk about Dexter Taylor and so here
it is. Actually, you know what?
Before we do, let me just say if you guys want to support our our
guys, especially gear to Boyle, he just got out of the hospital.
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screen, which is the last line sub stack logo.
It is the AR15 rifle with a plume coming out of it.
It is a idea and our memory that our civil liberties are not to
be trifled with, that there is a pen that is mightier than the
sword and then a sword sometimes is necessary and will be
mightier than the pen. It depends on the situation.
The 1st Amendment is first for a reason.
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Kyle 10% off doing that. Let's talk about my friend
Dexter Taylor. I don't make Internet friends
folks. I don't know if you guys know
this, but I don't have Internet friends.
Generally speaking, it takes a lot of conversations and usually
it has to be in person, but I've got a couple of Internet
friends. Tracy Beans is one of my
Internet friends. We've never met in public, but
we talk all the time. Alfa Luna, Alfredo Luna is one
of my Internet friends and Dexter Taylor is one of my
Internet friends, a real friend, and this is his story.
This is coming from the sub stack from Jeff Charles.
If you guys want to go check that out, it's called
libertyorelse.com. Dexter Taylor Sentencing
statement. As many of you guys know, he was
convicted and he was just sentenced to 10 years.
He's sitting in Rikers. And I want to read the entirety
of his statement. We're going to go a little bit
long. We're going to read the entirety
of his statement because it is. Very poignant at this moment,
Dexter Taylor doing time. For.
For exercising his Second Amendment right.
Like I said, we're telling the story of three black men here,
one who's a government sycophant.
He didn't get anything out of it.
Thank God he's got lots of money and he got all kinds of
television. But his 15 minutes of fame look
like it might be over. Dexter Taylor's not getting
enough coverage, and if we can share his story, I want to, he
said the following at his sentencing.
Thank you, Your Honor. I appreciate it.
Friends, family and allies and foundationless and honored
adversaries. Today we enter the next phase in
the fight to protect our God-given rights from a
government that wishes to take them from us and grant us mere
privileges in return to quote another patriot from another
place in time. This is not the end.
This is not even the. Beginning of the end.
This is perhaps? The end of the beginning.
And so as we enter this new phase, there should be no
question in the mind of any patriotic American as to why we
fight. After all, only slaves lack the
right to arm in self-defense, and we are no slaves but free
citizens of a great Republic. And we contain multitudes of
each of us from builder, a healer, a teacher, a statesman,
a soldier, a judge, and an attorney at law, a Sergeant at
arms, and an image of God. So we know why we fight.
The question before us is how we must fight.
What kind of discipline must we bring into this battle, and what
spirit must we show our friends and adversaries alike?
And by way of answering, we refer to our core doctrines.
The foundationless manifesto calls us to listen closely and
to speak clearly, to deny the self, at the same time to defend
the self, to respect tradition, and also to cultivate the
future. In short, as Foundationless, we
are called to embrace disciplines what seem to
contradict each other, but nonetheless to embrace them with
all of our strength. This is in our current fight
because this system is as dysfunctional as it is often
unjust. It is nonetheless our system.
It is a feature, not a bug, of our American civilization.
Like any other structure built from man's crocked timber, it is
not perfect. Judges and attorneys and trial
courts and juries in the light of day are not perfect, and
judges and attorneys and trial courts and juries in the light
of day are merely what we have instead of the blood feud and
the vendetta and the dagger in the night.
Knowing this, we give challenge even as we give thanks.
Knowing this, we prepare ourselves for battle in the
spirit of profound dissatisfaction and profound
gratitude in equal measure. That is the apparent
contradiction that we face as we continue to struggle for the
civil rights of our fellow New Yorkers and our fellow
Americans. On one hand, to hate this
system, our system, enough to fight it, but on the other hand,
to love it enough, love it enough to think that it is worth
fighting for. Nothing else will do for us but
a profoundly Christian habit of defeating A contradiction by
fully embracing both sides of it.
And so when our adversaries look for us.
Let them find us. And, to quote a Christian
friend, a bee's shiniest at a Wasp's hostility.
Let us show them a soldier's intensity and a diplomat's calm.
Let us let our adversaries find us in stern battle, patient in
defeat, and gracious in our ultimate victory, which is
certain. In short, when our adversaries
look for us, let them find reasonable men and irrational
patriots. When I was a boy, my grandfather
told me that fire is a great servant but a terrible master.
And so it is with the government, and to that extent
with our own government's attempt to be our master.
We must oppose it. We must fight to the utmost
limits of our strength. But in that fight, our spirit
must be one of restoration and not destruction.
We must confront the enemy as a firefighter confronts his enemy,
and for the same reasons that structure itself may yet be
saved. God bless you, may all of you.
God bless, May God bless the United States of America.
I thank you, your honor, and quote, that is the quote that is
the statement that Dexter Taylor gave just before going to prison
for 10 years for building guns that no one ever saw that hid.
In his his apartment in New York.
We're seeing an interesting time right now where Donald Trump is
exposing the legal system for what it is in New York.
The fact that we have a lot of injustice in our justice system,
it's not surprising, folks. It's not surprising that men are
facing hostility simply for being those who embrace the
ability to speak, the ability to bear arms, the ability to to
engage in their religious, their religious freedoms, to assemble
and to petition their government for the redress of grievances.
Dexter was petitioning for redress of grievances through
his case. He was doing something that many
people do not do. He was doing the appeals.
Process. While they were arguing the
facts, he was arguing the law and I hope that he is justified.
If you guys want to support his Gibbs and go you can find it.
It's Dexter Taylor's Gibbs and go legal fund.
I will actually throw that in the show descriptions on update
it will go out in the audio show so you'll find it there.
Dexter is a very eloquent person and he's a great messenger for
this. His story is quite important.
It's that we cannot let the government be the master.
The the government is meant to serve us.
And if we think that that we serve the government, then you
end up being killed in your door for rights that you possess and
the government does not grant you but simply is restricted
from infringing upon. That's what I have to say about
today. I'm going to give you guys a
five star review as always, and we will shut it all down here.
This is from Rad Polly. I pulled this from yesterday's
comments. I do read a lot of the comments
folks says I watch a lot of podcasts and for me there's no
more thought provoking podcast than the Kyle Serafin Show.
It's obvious that God has certainly imbued you with a lot
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Mr. Rad Polly or Miss Rad Polly. I don't know.
It's not wisdom per SE. I think it's inspired, but I
don't think it comes from me and I don't think it resides in me.
So sometimes it just comes from somewhere else.
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