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Take a look behind the curtain 
with the real whistleblower, an 

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American patriot. 
Prepare to embrace the 

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uncomfortable truth, because 
this program has no time for 

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comforting lies. 
Here is civil liberties 

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enthusiast, Second Amendment 
defender, and recovering FBI 

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agent Kyle Serif. 
Well, hello my friends, and 

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welcome to the Kyle Seraphin 
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Today is Thursday. 
It's January the 18th, and it is

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National Winnie the Poo Day. 
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I typed in January 18th and 
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It's Winnie the Pooh Day, I 
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the creation of the lovable 
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I actually like Winnie the Pooh 
with a Pano night visions on and

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like an AR15. 
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that. 
Winnie the Pooh may be making a 

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comeback. 
Today we're going to be talking 

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about a little things that may 
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COVID vaccine mandates 
malfeasance of our senior 

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officers mistreating those who 
are in the uniform and we're 

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going to be talking to John 
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You guys are going to really 
enjoy this super interesting guy

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and also a man who put his faith
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just like so many others, like 
many of you, it it was non 

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negotiable. 
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this country is a Christian 
nation at heart. 

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You could be another faith, but 
the Christian nation upfront 

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piece seems to be lacking except
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hard wall of people who are not 
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So we'll talk about some folks 
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compromise. 
People that jumped in and 

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someone praying the rosary, 
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getting an ultrasound, some 
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They are advocating, and in the 
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freedom, you can get the loop, 
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You don't have to be Catholic. 
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All right, without any further 
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conversation. 
A really neat guy. 

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He looks kind of big, though. 
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Let's talk to John Franklin. 
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He is a former seminarian. 
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the Year in 2023 if people knew,
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of Myanmar. 
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I think we're going to have a 
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We're going to talk about COVID.
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about trannies, probably. 
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John, welcome to the program. 
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So much for having me. 
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All right. 
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tell people about this, this new
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accountability, which you are 
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I just want to tease that out 
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started with who you are as a 
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Tell me where you grew up, where
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Tell me a little bit about 
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Protestant. 
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religion teacher was teaching, 
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had, I was just Episcopal right 
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had plenty of liturgical abuse. 
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There's like 4 ends, but it's to
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handed on from Jesus Christ and 
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priesthood after when a priest 
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was a student here. 
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Ignatius Loyola fantastic Saints
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retreat, which is fantastic. 
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through peace, through joy, 
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bringing God to people, people 
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thinking man I'll never get 
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old, other things 15 year olds 
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Catholic faith super well 
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is right of Christian Initiation
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that Catholics do in order to 
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solid like many of them 
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today. 
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school. 
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leadership capabilities, love of
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dangerous things leadership that
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I was living in Alexandria, VA 
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see that smoke coming from the 
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ROTC, studied chemical physics? 
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evangelical school. 
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defend my faith to have to read 
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books to kind of defend and 
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more and that kind of desire or 
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continue to develop. 
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2011 and put in for the chaplain
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that was with the archdiocese 
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understanding that I would join 
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chaplain. 
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That's your big vocation. 
What God calls you to where he 

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puts you within his mystical 
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You're growing in prayer. 
You're studying philosophy for 

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two years, studied theology for 
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my theological studies, got my 
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systematic theology. 
But it was just a fantastic 

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through just kind of prayer, 
discernment, doing a great. 

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So a lot of people have heard of
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Maybe some people who are not 
necessarily Catholic wouldn't 

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have heard of it, but it's a 90 
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fasting. 
It was started by Father Brian 

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Dorr, who is a vice rector of 
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So I was very blessed to do that
program with him before it just 

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exploded and it was an app for 
everybody because he was in the 

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seminary and when I told him, 
hey, I'm not sure what I'm 

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doing, brought me in, had me do 
that and it was just a very 

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peaceful, joyful kind of 
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And I found out Easter Monday 
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infantry and I thought it was 
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or something like that. 
I hadn't even thought, oh man, 

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I'm 27, I'm so old. 
How am I going to, you know get 

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through Ranger School, things 
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But thought thought as God loves
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wants to challenge me. 
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yeah, got branched infantry, so 
I Bullock, Ranger School, Ranger

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School definitely took a bit 
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So usually it's two months and I
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little bit, so 'cause. 
I got, I got a question here. 

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You, you're in seminary, you've 
decided, and then you've done 

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this, this retreat, and then 
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as not a priest. 
So, so I did the, I did the 

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retreat actually summer this 
last summer. 

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So I got out of July 1st and I 
did an 8 day silent Ignatian 

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retreat, just kind of furthering
my love for Ignatius. 

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But it was just kind of doing 
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seminary. 
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not just you going to class, 
you're living there, you're 

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praying. 
I think we added it up. 

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It's like 3 hours a day because 
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you're praying the liturgy, the 
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It might be an hour of your day.
You're going to Mass, half hour,

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45 minutes, you're praying the 
rosary. 

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which is you talking to God, God
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spiritual books. 
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just soak up and understand and 
know God personally. 

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And that is so key right now to 
the problems that we're facing. 

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I mean, our politicians aren't 
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We might not even be supposed to
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be God allowing this in order to
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order is more important. 
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we're supposed to be faithful 
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in prayer, understanding what is
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How does he want you to 
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starting at the lowest level, 
individually, family and beyond.

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But what does he want you to do?
So, So yeah, kind of getting 

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back, back to your point. 
So I discerned out. 

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And when I knew I was going to 
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the Army know that hey, I need 
to pay back my ROTC scholarship.

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I'm not going to be a priest. 
So you have to put me into a 

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different branch. 
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so I thought I was going to get 
reserved or something stupid. 

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I had actually put infantry 
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three choices thinking, OK, if I
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UAD or something like that. 
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a little nervous about Ranger 
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sought as God still wanting you 
to challenge me. 

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So did got out of the seminary 
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spring of 2015 and then start my
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Got it. 
All right, let me let me have 

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you kind of give my audience a 
real reflection on this concept.

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Combat arms, Seminary and 
Priesthood. 

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Where's the overlap in there? 
Because I I think there is one. 

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I think there's a lot, but I'm 
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saw those two as being maybe you
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same coin or how you saw it. 
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to glorify God, and that's kind 
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is the glorification of God and 
the salvation of souls. 

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And you're you're moving towards
a certain purpose. 

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And it's a different fraternity,
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fraternities. 
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were you're with a bunch of 
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celibate too and you're hanging 
out and you know when you're 

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willing to give that up if 
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American or or or man that's a 
lot to give up to decide you're 

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not going to have a family or to
discern that so you're you bond 

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extremely tight and having that 
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view so tight really helps you 
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purpose and you are enduring 
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definitely an accepting of the 
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these sacrifices I made in 
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they said, oh, you know, Ranger 
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know, a little joke joke about 
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That's totally not the case. 
I think I was actually in Ranger

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School and I was thinking, man, 
there's way worse things than 

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celibacy. 
Holy cow. 

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But yeah, I think the fraternity
that you're working for a 

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certain purpose that you are 
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you're using a lot of different 
gifts, you have to have a lot of

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kind of those soft skills. 
So there's definitely technical 

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skills that you have to have. 
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though they're there, a lot of 
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towards a common sense kind of 
active communication, getting 

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along with people similar. 
I think with the priesthood you 

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have to have that. 
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technical skills, but the soft 
skills that you have carry over 

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extremely well. 
I like that. 

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I like that a lot. 
OK, So you you end up getting 

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infantry and did you have a 
path, did you have a a special 

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forces contract that was part of
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going to the infantry and then 
we'll see what happens. 

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I was told regular Army infantry
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them, what duty station I had. 
So I was able to get Fort 

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Carson, but I went to Fort 
Benning, GA forever. 

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Fort Benning? 
Forget what you know, Changing 

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games for racist generals. 
Sorry. 

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You're making me want to be 
more. 

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Just kidding. 
I don't know that it. 

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I know that it changed only 
because you told me again. 

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But I forget. 
And it'll always be Fort 

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Benning. 
Yeah, for sure. 

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But at any rate, went to Fort 
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basic officer leadership course.
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familiar with the concept of the
infantry, that's where you're 

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planning to. 
That's what you think of when 

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you think of the military. 
That's just the ground force 

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within 300 meters. 
That's what you have to employ 

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in order to occupy land to 
destroy close with and destroy 

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the enemy. 
So you're you're beginning jobs 

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as an infantry officer is being 
a platoon leader and you can be 

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M towed or given up to 40 
soldiers underneath you. 

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So you're thinking a lot of 
these young 22 dudes get through

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college boom. 
You know there's your infantry 

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platoon. 
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maneuver. 
So you do kind of like your 

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basic skills, rifle 
marksmanship, your individual 

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schools moving up to like team 
live fire exercises, squad, 

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platoon and then you're doing 
more kind of complex exercises 

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maybe in getting in as well 
armor assets or things, 

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something like that. 
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thing. 
So that was a that was a good 

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school, very interesting. 
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school of Hard Knocks where it's
just repetitions and you don't 

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sleep much, you don't eat much. 
There's three different phases. 

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And you know, I'll eat some 
humble pie and say there's some 

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things that I was not good at 
that I needed to improve on and 

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learn from. 
So it's two months if you don't 

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recycle. 
A lot of people recycle, but 

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most people don't take five 
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But it took me 5 months. 
I got through bending phase, 

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fine mountain phase. 
I was injured halfway through. 

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It was just like four or five 
days in my legs. 

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Maybe if they're like this big, 
you know, were swollen, maybe 

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like an inch or two larger, and 
I was diagnosed with stress 

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fractures in both. 
My shins told I could try to 

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finish up. 
So I wanted to try to finish up 

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to see if I could at least 
recycle into the next phase. 

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Didn't get a go. 
Most of the platoon didn't get a

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go. 
You you pass or fill together as

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platoon, you know, you guys have
to, the guys have to gel well 

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together. 
And if it's your first phase 

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three, you might just get 2 
looks to get a go. 

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If you're a recycled, they'll 
try to front load you, give you 

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the easier options to kind of 
get get ahead. 

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I mean, I had an easy option 
when I got done with. 

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When I went into the mountain 
phase, they gave me platoon 

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leader planning, which is great.
Everybody's a little more fresh,

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awesome, but at any rate, it was
a great experience. 

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And let's say you had 26 days of
patrolling. 

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If you made it right through, 
well, I had 46 days of 

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patrolling. 
And that's you, you learn it, 

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you you just absorb it. 
It's fantastic. 

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So as much as it sucks, it is a 
good school where you really 

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learn a lot about yourself, what
you can do. 

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I mean, you're it's maybe two 
hours of sleep a night and 

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you're having like 2 meals a 
day, two MRE's a day, and in 

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some phases it's the MRE sleep 
and an MRE. 

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You got to imagine if your 
stomachs are shrinking that 

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much, it's hard to fill yourself
up. 

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But then you're just so hungry 
after. 

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And we joked that was a pleasure
sandwich. 

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And as far as, like the 
difficulty of military training,

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if you don't understand what 
it's like to like sweat ammonia 

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because you're burning muscle 
because you just don't have 

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anything left or to fall asleep 
while walking, I mean, you 

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haven't physically pushed 
yourself. 

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And that's just something that I
think every single person 

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experienced in Ranger School at 
some point in time. 

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So, yeah, Ranger School, 
Airborne School, yeah. 

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I've done a little bit of that. 
I've done the rabdo. 

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I've I have no love for it. 
But yeah you're right you find 

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out where your limits are and 
and those are important because 

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if you don't know where your 
limits are it can be really 

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lethal in a in a downrange 
environment obviously. 

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So, OK, so you Rap Ranger School
that that sounds gruelling by 

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the way to do 5 instead of two, 
sounds like you got the full 

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both barrels of the Ranger 
School experience and and then 

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what next? 
Where does it? 

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Where does that lead you to? 
So then Airborne School then 

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went to Fort Carson. 
And when I was at Fort Carson, I

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was about to promote 2 captains 
just because it was kind of 

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weird coming from seminary as a 
chaplain candidate into active 

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duty. 
So I was the first Lieutenant 

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through my training that gave me
a very shortened period of time 

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at my first duty station, so 
quickly made the decision to try

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out for special forces. 
Part of it was knowing other 

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green brace through Ranger 
School, thinking, man, these 

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guys are really cool, man, these
bat boys are really uptight or 

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that refers to Ranger Battalion.
Yeah, I was going to say break 

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breakdown, the difference for 
people. 

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So Word Ranger there. 
Some people know it's like tab 

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or scroll, but if you don't know
what that means, maybe tell 

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people what that means. 
So Ranger can refer to two 

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things. 
It can refer to the school or 

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can refer to Ranger Regiment. 
Now Ranger Regiment is an elite 

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infantry unit. 
You have 3 Ranger battalions and

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they are just, they are an elite
infantry unit. 

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Now, Special forces are special.
We do special initiations. 

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We work by with them through 
partner forces. 

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The way we're structured and 
organized, there's five 

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different special forces groups 
that focus on the different 

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continental commands they do so 
they can focus in different 

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regions. 
So my region was Central and 

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South America. 
That's why I had to learn 

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Spanish. 
So unlike every other special 

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operations unit, we have to 
learn the language of the 

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people. 
And I mean CASIAP, yes, they 

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learn the language, but so with 
Rangers specifically, you have 

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the unit and to go to the unit 
as an officer you have to be 

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Ranger qualified. 
Now Ranger School is the 2 month

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or longer school that you have 
to go to. 

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In order to be in Ranger 
Regiment, if you are a Sergeant 

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and above or if you're an 
officer now you can go straight 

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in as a Ranger Enlisted to 
Ranger Regiment and you go 

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through Rasper Ranger Assessment
Selection Program, which they 

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just beat the crap out of you. 
And then when you get to Ranger 

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Regiment, you still suck because
you don't have a Ranger tab. 

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So you have to then go to Ranger
School and they're just in elite

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Infantry unit. 
I mean they go, they do a lot of

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stuff with Delta, extremely 
talented, just meat eating 

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people and it's just a very 
aggressive kind of, I think 

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atmosphere, environment, very 
solid. 

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I think. 
I think I saw some funny meme 

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about them getting up at 6:00 
working out other things like 

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that working out again and then 
SF sleeping until noon, you know

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drinking, hanging out, whatever.
But we we very much in special 

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forces we work by within through
partner forces. 

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So they're much more unilateral 
kind of action and us is working

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with the partner force in order 
to be a force multiplier. 

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So our main, since we're just 
kind of getting into it, Special

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Forces focuses on unconventional
warfare, which are activities 

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taken to coerce, disrupt or 
overthrow and occupying power or

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government. 
And that's for using a 

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resistance force, It's through 
using an underground government.

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So we would essentially 
infiltrate into another country,

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work with the resistance forces 
to whatever the occupying power 

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or government are to overthrow 
them. 

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We do it in seven phases and we 
focus on it specifically in that

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country and that takes a lot of 
kind of specialized skills in 

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training. 
That's our culminating exercise.

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00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,800
Actually at the end of Special 
Forces Qualification course, we 

451
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,760
have what's called Robin Sage, 
which is a maybe 3-4 weeks kind 

452
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,920
of total. 
But maybe you're in the state of

453
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,160
New Carolina and you're 
pretending you're overthrowing 

454
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,400
or getting rid of Virginia or 
something like that. 

455
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,000
So working with resistance 
forces, it might just be like 

456
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,320
college students that come out, 
get paid for a little bit, get 

457
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,040
some training, running 
operations and it's just, you 

458
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,440
know, every three days they jump
to another month and another 

459
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:23,840
month. 
So you can get all the phases. 

460
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,280
But it's just it's such great, 
great training and they base 

461
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,720
everything that happens off of 
real life experiences, things 

462
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,240
that have happened to other 
Green Berets in different 

463
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,040
countries. 
So just amazing training let. 

464
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,800
Me let me throw up an experience
I had. 

465
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,320
A buddy of mine was a was a seer
instructor for the Air Force and

466
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,120
they did a joint exercise with 
these guys. 

467
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,840
Some of them were SF and some of
them were were Rangers. 

468
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,800
And so they set them out and 
they laid out the course. 

469
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,320
They gave them the ground rules,
whatever it was. 

470
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,360
You got to go from point A, you 
got to get to point B. 

471
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,280
You have a time limit, you know,
not a lot of rules. 

472
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,520
Otherwise, sort of just solve 
the problem in the best way that

473
00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,600
makes sense to you based on your
training and your experience and

474
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,840
so on. 
And so my buddy, he said he 

475
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,520
looked at the map, he looked at 
who he's going after, and he 

476
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,360
was, you know, assessed to to go
after the Ranger group. 

477
00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:10,160
And there was a dozen of these 
guys, whatever they're doing 

478
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,400
this thing. 
And it was, I think it was like 

479
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,800
a Air Force versus Army game. 
They were playing back and 

480
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:14,680
forth. 
So they go to this thing, he 

481
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,160
looks at the map, he goes, OK, 
well, the the absolute hardest 

482
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,240
way to get here would be through
all of that garbage brambles and

483
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:21,320
Briers and all this kind of 
stuff. 

484
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,960
So I'm just going to post up on 
the other end of it and we're 

485
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,440
going to just catch them when 
they come sneaking out of the 

486
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,000
thing because they're going to 
go well, that's the hardest way 

487
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,360
to get there. 
Nobody's going to go block it. 

488
00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:30,080
Nobody will think it. 
But if you understand how 

489
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,440
Rangers think, then that's where
you're going to be. 

490
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,000
So sure enough, those guys come 
out and they're cutting and 

491
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,680
they're bleeding and they're all
jacked up and, you know, they're

492
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,520
all destroyed. 
And and then the guys who were 

493
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,800
looking for the SF guys 
basically started watching 

494
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,680
buses, because the possibility 
of catching a civilian bus on 

495
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,920
the street was kind of the move 
that they came up with. 

496
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:48,640
I like it. 
That's great. 

497
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,040
Just thinking outside 
differently. 

498
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,800
You know one of them is like you
said go through a brick wall for

499
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,040
you If you told them which wall 
they'd ask you if there's 

500
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,760
another one behind it so they 
know how if they have to run 

501
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,840
faster kind of thing. 
And then the other guys are 

502
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,200
looking like hey do we should we
be you know finding the guy who 

503
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,640
lays brick and maybe put some 
soft wall for us or should we 

504
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,880
have somebody dismantle this 
wall before we get there or some

505
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,640
other kind of options. 
Just really thinking outside the

506
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,440
box so and I've got a number of 
buddies my last partner was a 

507
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,120
was a green Beret in the FBI of 
all things and and the only 

508
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:20,000
reason I think because like so 
many people that work in 

509
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,120
unconventional warfare you 
probably would have been like 

510
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,000
you know piss off I'm not going 
to get the shot he just knew the

511
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,800
army wouldn't let him deploy and
he just that's all you want to 

512
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,040
do with his life so interesting 
voluntarily and I think there 

513
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,280
was some people that did that I 
don't have any hard feelings 

514
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,600
against those types but curious 
as you were going through so you

515
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,960
you you got this sort of like 
background you got this one side

516
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,560
training and then you pass 
through what you would go off to

517
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,640
the cue course. 
Yeah. 

518
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,200
So I get to 4th Infantry 
Division, Fort Carson, go to 

519
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,480
selection 3 weeks and not to 
spend too much time in training.

520
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,240
So that's just kind of three 
weeks. 

521
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,000
You get about 35% out. 
At the end of it, you get gate 

522
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,080
week. 
So Rock marches runs physical 

523
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:05,760
activities, IQ tests, 
personality tests and then you 

524
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,080
have land NAV and then you have 
team week carrying more weight 

525
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,000
than you thought possible. 
And I think we had, we were 

526
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,800
eating like four or five Mr. ES,
you know a day and still dropped

527
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,640
like 20 lbs, something stupid 
like that. 

528
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,160
And it's just it's pretty awful.
But they're really just trying 

529
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,920
to assess. 
You're not trying to necessarily

530
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,440
play stupid games. 
So get through that, go to the 

531
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,760
qualification course that's a 
couple years already kind of 

532
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,960
went through. 
I guess the more interesting 

533
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,440
training, which is Rob and Sage 
also have to go through Seer and

534
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,320
obviously that's pretty intense 
stuff. 

535
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,960
That's Survival, Evasion, 
Resistance and escape for anyone

536
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,840
who is not familiar, which they 
make pilot, special operations 

537
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,800
folks. 
And anyone who has a higher 

538
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,600
likelihood of being caught 
behind enemy lines or having to 

539
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,760
survive, they make them go 
through that school and get done

540
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,200
with that and go to military 
free fall at the end of the 

541
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,080
qualification course at the end 
of language. 

542
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,560
So six months of language 
training and military freefall 

543
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,760
happened in March of 2020. 
Now what else was happening 

544
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,640
then? 
You know, Kovid. 

545
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,280
So I wasn't that worried about 
this disease when I'm jumping 

546
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,080
out of planes at 14,000 feet. 
That was definitely kind of the 

547
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,800
more scary thing for me, but I 
get done with that. 

548
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,240
I go back to Fort Bragg. 
We're kind of being held a bit 

549
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,640
longer because we can't PCs or 
move to our duty stations 

550
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,320
immediately because of the 
different restrictions that the 

551
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,040
military is placing on service 
members because we're not sure 

552
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,040
how deadly this disease is. 
So eventually, get down to some 

553
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,360
Special Forces group June of 
2020. 

554
00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:30,840
And that's when all the fun 
begins. 

555
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,160
Now as you're going through some
of this stuff, you just 

556
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,560
mentioned that that really 
critical time frame in early 

557
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,840
2020, you're pretty sharp guy. 
You're looking at the world, 

558
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,720
you're you're focused on 
training, but some of the stuff 

559
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,240
that you're seeing externally, 
what were you thinking about 

560
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,520
what we were hearing? 
What were you assessing in real 

561
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,280
time as the information came in?
Just kind of curious what your 

562
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,640
thoughts were, if you can put 
yourself back there. 

563
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,880
I thought, what is it that we 
can actually help, whether it's 

564
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,560
dangerous or not? 
What can we necessarily do that 

565
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,960
there's certain things that are 
worse than death? 

566
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,720
And sure, maybe it's like a cold
like thing. 

567
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,920
China's obviously covering a lot
of stuff up. 

568
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,800
I thought it was pretty wild 
when people are were saying that

569
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,080
it came from a bat or some kind 
of a weird thing in the forest. 

570
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,640
And we know that there's this 
lab, the Wuhan coronavirus lab, 

571
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,080
you know, named after it, right.
So that's pretty, pretty 

572
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,080
interesting to me. 
And it really hit home when I 

573
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:34,520
got back to Fort Bragg and 
people, the church was closed 

574
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,200
down. 
The the Bishop of Raleigh said 

575
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,680
no mass, no confession unless 
you're near death. 

576
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,800
And that was just insane. 
And to see everything else that 

577
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:49,040
was opened up, Home Depot, other
stores, grocery stores, liquor 

578
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,360
stores, it it's just it's 
absolute insanity. 

579
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,400
And then to see other people 
being extremely nervous or 

580
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,360
worried about it. 
And I had some buddies who were 

581
00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:00,240
kind of nervous because they 
said they were told that in 

582
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,600
their training, if they get 
COVID, if they drop 2 cycles, 

583
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,400
then they're out. 
So I can, I can understand, OK, 

584
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,640
you're worried about getting 
sick, but they were still 

585
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,160
nervous if I went to mass or was
around them. 

586
00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:15,600
So it was just kind of this, 
this sort of insanity. 

587
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,440
And when I saw that religion was
being slighted, that's when I 

588
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,960
thought there's there's 
something seriously wrong going 

589
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,280
on and just trying to think 
through how effective could this

590
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,080
mask be? 
How stupid is that kind of a 

591
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,240
mask thing? 
What's the who's actually 

592
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,760
getting sick right now? 
So pretty. 

593
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,480
I think the 2020 range, we kind 
of knew that Older people, fat 

594
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:42,040
people, you know, it's just 
like, sorry, you're not taking 

595
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,800
yourself, man. 
You know, you're you're more 

596
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,440
susceptible. 
But if you're a young, healthy 

597
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,160
dude, you're probably going to 
be pretty, pretty OK And to just

598
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,720
shut down stuff and to shut down
the churches. 

599
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,000
And that really pissed me off. 
I mean, I think one of the 

600
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,040
stories I was most frustrated 
with, as far as the Catholic 

601
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,480
side of the house, I usually 
prefer going to Latin Mass, but 

602
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,800
I go to both, both forms. 
I don't go to, you know, not to 

603
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,560
get, I don't go to the SSPX. 
That's just, you know, my 

604
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,080
personal choice but love the 
traditional Latin Mass people 

605
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,360
who are not Catholic or like, 
what the heck are you talking 

606
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:13,080
about? 
So I'll. 

607
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,000
I'll try to break. 
They know who they're following 

608
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,920
right now, so by listening to 
me, they've got a little taste 

609
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:17,920
of this stuff. 
OK. 

610
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,560
Yeah, sounds good. 
So it was pretty wild that so I 

611
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,360
I was getting this chick we were
going to a we usually go a lot 

612
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,800
in masks. 
But because I'm flying out on a 

613
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,000
Sunday, we got to go Saturday 
night, go Saturday night, don't 

614
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,800
wear a mask going in get chased 
down by ushers. 

615
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,560
And I like, have to ask the 
priest, hey father what's the 

616
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:43,720
rule for for masking. 
OK, I noticed that you had this 

617
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,640
many candles on the altar and 
you didn't have a crucifix and 

618
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,040
this dude wasn't wearing a soul.
So this kind of human made-up BS

619
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,080
rule, you're fine and forcing 
and chasing people down, but 

620
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,280
here's these religious rules 
that God, not directly but 

621
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,240
through the church, is 
essentially telling you and 

622
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,760
you're you're kind of not 
following that. 

623
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:05,240
So what does that say? 
And actions speak louder than 

624
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,040
words. 
So it was just incredibly sad to

625
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,960
see so many bishops fail us. 
So many priests kind of fail us.

626
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,080
And great, great term, Father 
Nolan. 

627
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,480
WTF? 
Where's the faith? 

628
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,200
You just have to ask where's the
faith? 

629
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:23,200
And it just wasn't there. 
I I had this this moment very 

630
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,040
similarly highly frustrated. 
At that time I was living 

631
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,520
outside of DC, so same part of 
the country, at least on the 

632
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,280
East Coast, and and my wife was 
considering converting to 

633
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,560
Catholicism, having been raised 
with no religion at all. 

634
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,040
And I was born as a Catholic and
so it was nothing new to me. 

635
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,840
But we were coming back to the 
Church in many ways and I and 

636
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,480
I'm going to this church and I 
found the most austere one that 

637
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,040
I could find. 
And it was a traditional 

638
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,200
cruciform build and it was 
absolutely gorgeous And they had

639
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,640
a great cry room, which was 
really good. 

640
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,520
That was big because we had 
little kids and we're going to 

641
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,000
this, we're going to this mass 
and we're regularly showing up 

642
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,280
and then suddenly the COVID 
strikes and then they go every 

643
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,080
other Pew has to be blocked off.
Only one family can be in the 

644
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,720
cry room at a time and like you 
can't self assess your own risk.

645
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,560
And they were essentially 
driving people away and turning 

646
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,240
people away at the doors that 
you couldn't come in. 

647
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,040
And the thing that hit me, and 
maybe this is because I was a 

648
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,880
Latin scholar when I was a kid, 
but I was very frustrated to 

649
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:22,440
think that the early Christians 
in Rome would have died rather 

650
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,280
than give up their their mass. 
That was an option for them. 

651
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,800
It was like, would you like to 
show up going? 

652
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,880
They would rather celebrate mass
down with the petulant or the 

653
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,240
pestilent corpses and the 
rotting sort of debris of of 

654
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,920
dead people in the catacombs 
rather than give up what they 

655
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,760
were doing. 
And these people were scared of 

656
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,640
like a cold and they were 
wearing essentially a chain link

657
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,480
fence to stop mosquitoes. 
Because anybody who's ever been 

658
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,560
through the sea Bernie and the 
the chemical warfare 

659
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,840
understanding of like what is 
out there, like what these basic

660
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,760
things mean. 
You've ever done any biological 

661
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,320
warfare training or if you've 
ever been around medics, you 

662
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,600
know what does and doesn't work 
and what people do and do not 

663
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,600
get sick from those masks were 
absurd. 

664
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,880
I mean people were wearing like 
bandanas and you're like, oh, 

665
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,560
that doesn't work like like us. 
Everything goes through that. 

666
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,840
Literally Everything goes like 
if you can smell a fart through 

667
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,240
a pair of jeans, I know that 
you're going to be able to get a

668
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,480
virus through the same thing. 
But what a strange time, right? 

669
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,960
I mean, we just saw people roll 
over and give up their faith and

670
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,040
give up their practice of their 
faith if nothing else. 

671
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,760
It was absolutely sad and 
Catholic Church shouldn't be 

672
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,000
surprised when folks aren't 
coming back, if that's the 

673
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,200
example that the priests are 
given, bishops are given. 

674
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,320
I mean, one of the nice things 
is that the more Orthodox 

675
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,800
priests who do believe their 
churches did grow, expand, we've

676
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,080
seen more people going to Latin 
Mass. 

677
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,600
But not that that's the be all, 
end all. 

678
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,440
Ultimately it's, you know, 
glorifying God, praise Reverend,

679
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,240
serve him by this means, save 
your soul. 

680
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,360
I think that that's the better 
form to get it there. 

681
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,800
But you still can't be weird. 
You have to like, you know. 

682
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,760
That's it. 
Let me go looking at you. 

683
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,600
Think about this. 
Think about the recruiting tool 

684
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,280
that Special Forces is in the 
Army or that buds is for the 

685
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,080
Navy or whatever to to drag 
people who want to aspire to 

686
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,480
something higher, most of whom 
will fail percentage wise. 

687
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,400
And then you think about what 
happened during the sort of 

688
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,400
COVID lockdowns that more people
chose to go to a more austere 

689
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,960
and traditional mass than the 
ones that were lackadaisical and

690
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,320
had mass restrictions. 
And we're scared of each other 

691
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,200
and you know, we're willing to 
shut things down and all that. 

692
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,880
And and I think that is such an 
interesting little just having 

693
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,960
the military background and 
having the faith background that

694
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,920
people are not looking like 
what's the easiest thing in the 

695
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,520
world, who's got the best coffee
and the the nicest narthex to go

696
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,560
hang out and have Donuts in. 
People are like, what's going to

697
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,560
demand something of me and how 
do I serve in that way and how 

698
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,080
can I challenge myself as a 
human being? 

699
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,200
Because being a person is 
probably not enough for most of 

700
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,240
us. 
It's the challenge piece, but 

701
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,840
it's also I think the relational
piece, relationship with God. 

702
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,680
And when you're told that you 
can watch mass online and that 

703
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,680
there's just kind of this 
blanket, I, I don't know, but it

704
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,120
was with the term of it, but 
just blanket permission for 

705
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,040
people to not go during this 
time. 

706
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,080
People. 
Yeah, people just, they miss 

707
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,680
God. 
They want to be with God. 

708
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,199
They want to worship him. 
And we're just drawn to two 

709
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:11,880
challenging things, but drawn to
a personal relationship with 

710
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,440
him, which you experience more 
in a more reverence liturgy. 

711
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,480
That's how you experience the 
the good, true and beautiful, 

712
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,199
the transcendentals, you know, 
God himself who became 

713
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:25,760
Incarnate. 
So it it's, it's totally 

714
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,880
interesting. 
And yeah, it shows that making 

715
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,920
things easier for everybody is 
not necessarily good for 

716
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,280
society. 
And that can take us into so 

717
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,679
many things with, with 
technology, with comforts, with.

718
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,239
I think liberals are liberals. 
A lot of it because they are 

719
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,000
just stuck in their universities
and schools and have never had 

720
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,800
to do something difficult. 
And I think Anthony Esslin wrote

721
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:50,000
some you know great article or 
or book kind of on it or idea 

722
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,960
where even in the 1930s 
whatever. 

723
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,679
If you're trying to travel good 
chance your car is breaking 

724
00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:58,440
down. 
You have to go through some kind

725
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,440
of adversity and the more you're
in touch with nature the more 

726
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,040
you see kind of God's plan in 
nature. 

727
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,640
We believe through Romans one 
that God expresses himself 

728
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,200
through the created world, 
created order where we can 

729
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,240
understand him and it's it's 
dealing with those those 

730
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:15,840
hardships but just seeing how 
common sense things work and 

731
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,240
we're in a society right now 
where with with basically let's 

732
00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:21,480
say you have a car you can't put
sand in the gas tank and think 

733
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,800
it's going to work yet that's 
what we're doing with our 

734
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,480
bodies, with our basic functions
with our sexualities and it's 

735
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,400
just not good for us. 
So we need to get outside we 

736
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,400
need to do a lot of those 
practices that the church told 

737
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,800
us to do fasting regularly. 
Now we hear about intermittent 

738
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,280
fasting, how great it is and and
you know, it's like, well, maybe

739
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,000
God knew something that you 
didn't, so. 

740
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,200
That's a really interesting 
point. 

741
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,720
Yeah, it's, it's, it's not 
exactly a new concept and it was

742
00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:49,080
always a way to kind of 
experience the divine or to 

743
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,880
purify yourself. 
And then people do it for the 

744
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,760
same reason in a secular way, it
seems like so. 

745
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,320
Yeah. 
Maybe there was something to 

746
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,200
this all along. 
Yeah, you you have a very 

747
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,560
different presentation than a 
lot of guy. 

748
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,720
If anybody knows a lot of Green 
Berets, they're a mixed bag. 

749
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:03,720
They're an interesting group. 
Some are very reverent. 

750
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,880
I've, I've got friends who are 
Mormon, I've got friends who are

751
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,520
Catholic. 
I've got some that are totally 

752
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,240
just scumbags and are out there 
like running around and, you 

753
00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:12,760
know, trying to slay chicks 
wherever they go with every on 

754
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,520
every continent kind of thing. 
How did you fit into that kind 

755
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,160
of community of men and and 
warriors? 

756
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,000
I mean, you're not allowed to 
see my team chat. 

757
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,200
No, I mean, I love a spicy meme.
I love good jokes that are just,

758
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:29,600
you know, off color. 
Because it's funny, man. 

759
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:30,800
If it's funny, you have to say 
it. 

760
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,800
So I I think, and I'll just be 
straight up about who I am, 

761
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,040
Catholic, wise, whatever. 
Even as an infantry officer too,

762
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,360
I think some guys are saying 
something. 

763
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,240
I was saying something else. 
I'm like, hey, don't get 

764
00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:41,920
offended at what I say. 
I won't get offended at what you

765
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,040
say, right? 
So if I'm talking about 

766
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,440
religion, we're talking about 
other things. 

767
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,440
So it was good. 
I mean, I love my team. 

768
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,080
It was just fantastic and it was
great. 

769
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,080
And I mean this will get back 
into the story of sort of what 

770
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,120
was happening. 
But I got to 7th Group and I get

771
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,760
to my battalion and my battalion
is deployed. 

772
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,280
We were actually the last 
battalion to experience 

773
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,560
casualties during the Afghan war
before the withdrawal. 

774
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,440
So battalions deployed. 
The acting rear battalion 

775
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,360
commander is a transgender major
and this is an individual who 

776
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:19,040
West Point gymnast like as a as 
a Green Beret. 

777
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,880
As a captain. 
You know, dude, children, I 

778
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,480
mean, you know, pray for him, 
pray for family. 

779
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,320
It's it's a difficult thing. 
But I was confronted with what 

780
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,000
do I do about this experience. 
I'm still. 

781
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,640
Transition, I guess he he 
socially transitioned, he just 

782
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,440
started dressing differently. 
Is that essentially what was 

783
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,520
going on? 
So I never knew him before, but 

784
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:47,080
just kind of with, you know the 
hair and just change of name and

785
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:52,520
yeah, I don't know all the 
Physiology, but but at any rate 

786
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,960
you. 
Didn't do the Crocodile Dundee 

787
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,360
check to make sure. 
Swoop. 

788
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,600
No, nothing of that nature, but 
I'm just kind of confronted with

789
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,520
what do I do. 
So I actually called legal 

790
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,960
assistance to ask what am I 
legally required to call this 

791
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,800
individual? 
And then she got back with me 

792
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,040
this, this lawyer who if you're 
listening to this, don't go to 

793
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,320
your Jag about problems, your 
Jags work for your commanders, 

794
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,600
go to legal assistance. 
Let them help you. 

795
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,760
So went to legal assistance and 
she got back with me like a week

796
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,000
later and said, hey, I reached 
out, got to the level of the 

797
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,920
Pentagon. 
I'm like, whoa, so this is 

798
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,160
obviously some kind of touchy 
thing. 

799
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,240
And asked, do you know this 
person's going to be commander? 

800
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:30,360
I'm not sure. 
Was told you can call that 

801
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,000
person by rank and last name. 
That goes in accordance with 

802
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,840
this Army regulation. 
However, the individual probably

803
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,360
know what you're doing and just 
be careful to not say anything 

804
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,720
negative, you know, behind this 
person's back or whatever if 

805
00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:45,040
that comes up. 
And so I just did yes, major 

806
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,600
such and such, No major such and
such. 

807
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,160
How are you major such and such?
It was very awkward in 

808
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,360
conversations with other people 
about him because it's like yes,

809
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,480
I was talking to major such and 
such and major such and such 

810
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,120
said to move major such and such
things. 

811
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:02,400
But that's the game I tried to 
do, and that actually put me for

812
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,360
sure in the company I went into,
because he ended up taking 

813
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,840
Alpha. 
I went to Bravo. 

814
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,080
I mean, it's it's kind of a 
mess. 

815
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,200
Like the Sergeant majors were 
supposed to go to different 

816
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,560
companies too, because they were
having trouble finding which 

817
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,400
Sergeant major would work with 
him. 

818
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,920
And the one I got who ended up 
not really getting along with 

819
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,920
super well was not really 
willing to work with this 

820
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,800
individual either. 
But that got me to my team, 

821
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,320
which was great. 
Very mixed bag personalities, 

822
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,680
like SF dudes are a lot more 
libertarian. 

823
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:32,440
Got some Christian there, but 
they'd probably politically be 

824
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:33,840
libertarian. 
But just let them leave me 

825
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,040
alone. 
Do whatever you want to do, 

826
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,320
morally whatever. 
And just got kind of an FU 

827
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,280
attitude from the team Sergeant 
about shots. 

828
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,520
My Warrant Officer. 
Super conservative dude. 

829
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,920
Pretty fun. 
Yeah. 

830
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:50,320
So it was it was just good. 
So I mean, we just get to that 

831
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,800
point. 
And I just, I knew that they 

832
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,280
didn't get along with their last
captain. 

833
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,560
So I made it a point to really 
work on that kind of building 

834
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,240
rapport with them. 
So just kind of wrote out, just 

835
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,680
sent whatever memes out there, 
had fun. 

836
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,320
And yeah, that kind of brought 
us to where the whole COVID 

837
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,920
thing was happening, where we 
knew a shot was coming out. 

838
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,440
One of the first things I knew 
is that it used aborted fetal 

839
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,120
cells. 
And as a Catholic, I was under 

840
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,640
the the understanding that that 
is remote material cooperation. 

841
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:24,760
So I cannot participate in that.
That moral act, unless there's a

842
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,880
grave reason for it. 
Now my understanding continued 

843
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:34,400
to kind of developed as I went 
on to looking at what is what is

844
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,080
abortion, how involved is it? 
And I thought because it's a 

845
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,480
baby that was killed in the 70s,
which is the human embryo kidney

846
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,400
273, that is kind of what these 
shots were to Biophone. 

847
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,320
So we're now in like early 2021 
shot is out. 

848
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:52,240
I see that I'm the only officer 
who did not sign up to get it 

849
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:55,560
immediately because they were 
asking and for people to sign up

850
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,640
and I'm like, oh crap, this is 
going to be interesting. 

851
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,600
I tell my team that as your 
senior rater, which is the 

852
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,360
person who can approve or or 
kind of rank the guys that I'm 

853
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:06,640
not going to punish, reward 
them. 

854
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,040
I personally don't want to, at 
least until it's mandatory, we 

855
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,720
just kind of go on. 
So I just continue to learn more

856
00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:14,960
about it and kind of came to the
realization that it's not just 

857
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,880
the sin of murder, but it's also
just murder and also the theft 

858
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,840
and continued theft of the 
unborn child's body and we have 

859
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,520
no right to that baby's body 
parts. 

860
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,320
Whenever a service member dies 
overseas, we should do 

861
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,360
everything we can to bring their
body back to inter it and to 

862
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,400
properly dispose of the body 
because the body is something 

863
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,400
sacred. 
So similarly with these products

864
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,560
from human embryo kidney 273 and
what does that imply? 

865
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,240
That implies? 
There were 200 / 200 attempts to

866
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,880
get children to harvest children
at the point when a kidney was 

867
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,600
developed. 
It's just barbaric, the 

868
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,360
practices that they take and 
we've seen Planned Parenthood 

869
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,840
videos where they're selling 
body parts and it's absolutely 

870
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,920
demonic. 
And we need to understand that 

871
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:00,320
politics isn't just being nice, 
it's also a good versus evil. 

872
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,920
And I'm not saying that 
Republicans are all good, but 

873
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,760
there is at least kind of like a
breach head into it where you 

874
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,120
know if if rhinos just stuck to 
the the Dang principles we might

875
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,680
be on that point but just kind 
of continuing to cave. 

876
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:17,160
So just just got to that point. 
Team was getting harassed. 

877
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,120
Team Sergeant he got it pretty 
bad from the starting major. 

878
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,360
The whole time for me it was 
just kind of career. 

879
00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:24,480
A lot of people don't understand
the pressure before the mandate 

880
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,240
came out. 
That was the worst time for me. 

881
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:29,040
That was the most stressed I 
think I've been in most of my 

882
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,560
life and maybe it may have had 
an easy life. 

883
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,400
I don't know. 
But it's what? 

884
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,440
What did that look like though? 
I mean what what was the 

885
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,440
implement that you were feeling 
that stress? 

886
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,800
How did you discern it? 
It was trying to make decisions 

887
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,640
for the team too, in 
understanding that the team 

888
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,240
isn't going to get the same 
missions or were being slighted.

889
00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:50,960
So it's feeling bad for the 
guys, feeling bad for the team 

890
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,680
Sergeant. 
He's getting brought in 2-3 

891
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,640
times a week, feeling yelled at 
by this arm major for like an 

892
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,520
hour. 
I was, you know, getting got 

893
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:58,760
yelled at him by him once, 
whatever. 

894
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,720
I just like wrote everything 
down like a good officer 

895
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:02,160
memorandum for record form, 
Boom. 

896
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,960
You know I'll bring that out if 
needed, but it's like you're 

897
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,320
screwing up your career. 
You should look for work outside

898
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,360
the army. 
You're not going to recover this

899
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,320
from this. 
Reputation wise, I'm going to 

900
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,840
kick guys out of the company. 
I'm going to put them in 

901
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,680
unwanted assignments. 
I'm going to send them back to 

902
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,960
the schoolhouse to teach. 
That's not a threat, that's a 

903
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,080
promise. 
If you lose a mission for this, 

904
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:25,760
and it was put in that you're. 
You're not going to fit in if 

905
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,400
you're not going to if you're 
not going to conform. 

906
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:29,200
Right. 
And that's one of the issues 

907
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,920
with the military, that it is 
kind of a ladder climbing 

908
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,480
process. 
And right now, when there's not 

909
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,600
wars or things that are 
extremely necessary to get done,

910
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,960
it's what do you need to do to 
conform to continue to climb the

911
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,640
ladder. 
And there's a whole lot of 

912
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,200
saying the right things or doing
the right things, and you need 

913
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,240
the right timeline. 
And it's a hierarchy that's 

914
00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:51,000
necessary. 
It's competence hierarchy. 

915
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,720
But there's things that we need 
to change about it to kind of 

916
00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:55,280
get rid of some of this Yes Min 
attitude. 

917
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,160
And we've seen how the Yes Min 
attitudes been ingrained, how 

918
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,880
morality hasn't been, especially
with regards to how this shot 

919
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,000
was implemented. 
Because, I mean, before the 

920
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,640
mandate came out, I couldn't 
even. 

921
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,920
I was looking into how do I 
apply for religious exemption, 

922
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,480
how do I apply for medical 
exemption, I couldn't do it. 

923
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,480
That's the thing. 
There's just no protection. 

924
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,840
They're just making whatever 
policies they want to try to 

925
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,840
force people to do it to the 
extent that they can. 

926
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,360
And it wasn't as bad for me as 
others. 

927
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,440
I heard at Fort Bragg for 
instance, there was a battalion 

928
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:26,120
Sergeant major who in front of a
formation told the soldiers you 

929
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,680
can, for those of you who've 
gotten the vaccine, you can go 

930
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:29,960
over there, you guys have the 
day off. 

931
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,520
If not put your rucksack on. 
We're going through for a 

932
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,600
grueling rock March and that is 
absolute coercion, punishment. 

933
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,720
You can't do that. 
So for officers, it's much more 

934
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,840
kind of career bound where I 
would have to quarantine for 

935
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,480
longer for not having the shot 
versus someone who is vaccinated

936
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,000
for a week or different masking 
requirements. 

937
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,520
But mostly just that you're 
identified as different and it 

938
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,200
ultimately came down to our team
had AJ set, which is a joint 

939
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,720
combined exercise training, a 
six week trip to a foreign 

940
00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:01,600
country to do training. 
And this is extremely important 

941
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:02,920
to get these trips as an 
officer. 

942
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,920
You have maybe 18 months, 24 
months as a team leader to 

943
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,360
really make your mark and move 
on forward. 

944
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,160
And as an officer that's it. 
Unless you go Delta, which 

945
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,720
sorry, that's not me, I mean 
some crazy dudes, hats off to 

946
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:17,840
you. 
That's it. 

947
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,280
As far as like deployments, that
kind of experience, then you're 

948
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,560
going to be a company commander 
next, maybe where you expected 

949
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,080
to manage six teams. 
And if you haven't had a trip 

950
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,440
overseas, how are you going to 
oversee the management of those 

951
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,720
teams if you don't fully 
understand the capabilities of a

952
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:34,880
detachment? 
And the first Special Forces 

953
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,040
command made it a policy 
decision where you needed to 

954
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,840
have the shot in order to 
deploy. 

955
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,640
And I mean before that even 
other team leaders started 

956
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:47,600
briefing when they went to brief
the Sock S special operation 

957
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,240
command South. 
This is our baseball card here's

958
00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:53,760
here's all the guys we have and 
we're we have this many people 

959
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,320
vaccinated. 
They're like oh that's cool. 

960
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:58,720
Yeah, please keep saying that. 
So it's other SF other team 

961
00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:02,360
leaders doing that to get ahead.
That's kind of the cutthroat 

962
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,280
nature of we're still very 
competitive, but we're doing it 

963
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:06,840
in order to excel in our 
careers. 

964
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:08,600
So that's kind of what it looked
like. 

965
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,280
And with this this requirement, 
we're out doing military free 

966
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:18,000
fall training Arizona. 
And this policy comes down and 

967
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,520
talked to the company commander 
and he said, hey John, I know 

968
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,240
your team doesn't want to get 
the shot, but what's it going to

969
00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:24,160
be? 
Is your team going to get the 

970
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:25,760
shot or are we going to take 
this mission from you? 

971
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,240
And I talked to the guys that 
had already and I said, hey Sir,

972
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:30,600
I only have one guy who's 
willing to get it. 

973
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,880
So I guess you have to take the 
mission from us And he's like, 

974
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,680
oh, OK, I think he was surprised
about that. 

975
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,640
But, and then I asked, unless 
you're willing to accept natural

976
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:40,760
immunity, which he said no, 
we're not willing to accept that

977
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,920
risk. 
Which threw me off, really 

978
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,480
pissed me off because we're 
jumping out of planes at 14,000 

979
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,960
feet with oxygen equipment. 
So what risk are you accepting? 

980
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,760
Well, think about this, though. 
Were you surprised by how few 

981
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,240
people were willing to stand up 
and say, no, this isn't for me 

982
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,120
because it's kind of a 
contrarian type of group. 

983
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,000
You talked about libertarians 
leaving the hell alone. 

984
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,640
That is my experience with with 
most operators. 

985
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,640
They just, it's like I'm going 
to do what I'm going to do 

986
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,040
because it's hard and because I 
can and because you can't make 

987
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,520
me. 
That was extremely frustrating 

988
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,760
with special Forces because if 
our main mission is 

989
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:15,400
unconventional warfare, which 
does employ psychological 

990
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:19,680
operations and understands how 
messaging works within foreign 

991
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,320
countries, within trying to 
overthrow governments that I 

992
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,280
thought they would be able to 
see through this bullshit. 

993
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,480
And my team Sergeant, I mean, I 
love Rob Green. 

994
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:28,960
So you were saying Catholic of 
the year. 

995
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,680
He excels way, way ahead of me. 
You know, seven kids wrote the 

996
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,040
book still on active duty. 
Just amazing, man. 

997
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,320
And you know, here I am, you 
know, perpetual single dude, 

998
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:39,440
whatever. 
But. 

999
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,440
You got time. 
Working on it. 

1000
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,120
Any ladies watching your show? 
No, I'll be right. 

1001
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,480
So at any rate, where was I 
going with that? 

1002
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:52,040
No, sorry, really. 
Yeah, just the fact that people 

1003
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,640
didn't want to, yeah. 
Yeah, my team. 

1004
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,320
This is the group of people that
looks through things and goes, 

1005
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,080
yeah, we're the ones who do 
psyop or we have psyops come 

1006
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,920
with us and we put stuff down. 
We don't fall for that crap. 

1007
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,600
It threw me off. 
It really pissed me off because 

1008
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:08,720
yeah, my team Sergeant, he said 
this is the only thing they've 

1009
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:11,560
really made me try to do. 
Like said, no, there's no other 

1010
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,800
way around it. 
Usually you get an order. 

1011
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,720
You see if it makes sense. 
If not, you ask why should I? 

1012
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:18,920
Why are we doing this? 
Should we do this? 

1013
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:20,840
You're you're trying to look 
into all those things. 

1014
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,720
We're selected for it and. 
There's there's almost always a 

1015
00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:26,880
waiver. 
I've never heard it like this 

1016
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,480
was the weirdest thing. 
The federal government did the 

1017
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,240
same thing. 
So I I was in the same boat and 

1018
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,280
what I knew was and maybe you 
can kind of reflect on this for 

1019
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,560
the audience, I always expected 
the the civil service would 

1020
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,720
stand up first for those of us 
that were out there that we're 

1021
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:42,600
going to do it because we 
weren't facing you know, 

1022
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,880
necessarily legal action, in 
which case we were not going to 

1023
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,440
get a a negative discharge that 
would possibly ruin the rest of 

1024
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:50,840
our life. 
We weren't going to do any jail 

1025
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,880
time on a base, which is a real 
possibility for disobeying an 

1026
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:55,600
order. 
Maybe you can kind of talk about

1027
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,240
some of the consequences that 
people, you know, maybe military

1028
00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:00,400
wide, but also in your 
particular area we're facing. 

1029
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,240
So before that it was before the
mandate went out. 

1030
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:06,840
It was just having missions 
taken from you, not being able 

1031
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:11,120
to go TDY or travel, maybe 
having to mask when other people

1032
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,000
aren't able to. 
There's many who had it much 

1033
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,920
worse than I did. 
So Brianna sesped As for 

1034
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,360
instance she was Air Force, 
kicked out, got a general 

1035
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:22,280
discharge, but she was 
quarantined for like 140 days in

1036
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,280
the course of like 2 years. 
It's absolute insanity. 

1037
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,720
And this is, you know, a young 
2425 year old girl. 

1038
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:31,400
So for me, what when you get to 
let's say the mandate coming 

1039
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,520
out, I put my religious 
exemption in, there's the 

1040
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,440
possibility I get kicked out. 
With the general discharge, 

1041
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,560
which happened to the majority 
of people were kicked out, they 

1042
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:40,760
got general discharges. 
This means that they don't have 

1043
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:46,680
their GI Bill, that their their 
labeling is having conducted a 

1044
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,240
serious, serious offense. 
So misconduct for serious 

1045
00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:53,280
offense. 
And this goes out whenever they 

1046
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,520
make a job application that they
don't get even certain discounts

1047
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,880
like for Cruise, joining the 
VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 

1048
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,400
different clubs. 
It affects your employment. 

1049
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,000
It affects your life. 
You can't go to school. 

1050
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,560
I mean and it's it also is just 
kind of an affront to your 

1051
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:10,520
character, hey, your service, it
wasn't honorable. 

1052
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,680
You you did something wrong. 
So that's something that I 

1053
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,480
faced. 
I also just, I got out because I

1054
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,160
couldn't recover my career. 
I was ironically accepted to 

1055
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:25,240
teach philosophy and ethics at 
West Point, but I couldn't move 

1056
00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:28,080
or PCs to go to grad school 
because once the mandate went 

1057
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,880
out, I couldn't travel, I 
couldn't move to a different 

1058
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,560
duty station, I couldn't deploy.
And if you're a Green Beret who 

1059
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,800
can't deploy, that's you're not 
very useful. 

1060
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,440
So these are kind of the 
consequences that that were 

1061
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,360
faced. 
And then I I'm very grateful for

1062
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,120
my leadership. 
I know I complained about, you 

1063
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,080
know, one guy a little bit but 
my battalion commanders, I mean 

1064
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,280
they they really hooked me up. 
They were very it was good 

1065
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,440
chatting with them. 
I mean not trying to get 

1066
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,360
Stockholm syndrome you know, I 
wish everyone stood up to a 

1067
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:58,160
greater extent but still tried 
to set me up career wise to 

1068
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,360
where I could still survive if I
wanted to just stay within 

1069
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,440
group. 
So for most people if there's 

1070
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:07,440
any kind of things for any kind 
of want to get people to conform

1071
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,080
and seeing these anti vaxxers or
people who are refusing to get 

1072
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:16,200
the shot as as a problem, It 
would be very easy to write your

1073
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:21,040
officer value evaluation report 
in such a way to kind of stop 

1074
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,320
your career. 
And my career was just put on 

1075
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,440
ice the entire time that the 
that the mandate was in effect 

1076
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,000
before it was rescinded. 
So that's kind of kind of the 

1077
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,280
consequences that I generally 
faced. 

1078
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,000
Others obviously had it worse, 
were actually kicked out and 

1079
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,120
with the Army, they just, I 
think their plan was just to 

1080
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:43,000
ISIS out and to avoid lawsuits. 
There's so many aspects of this 

1081
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,080
whole whole thing and you know 
we're not going to get into all 

1082
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,440
of them. 
But I I think that the leaders 

1083
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,440
knew what they were doing was 
wrong and they put out certain 

1084
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,040
statements that make us 
understand that because they try

1085
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:57,280
to explain how the Pfizer shot, 
which is EOA approved is 

1086
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,440
medically interchangeable with 
community, which says nothing 

1087
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:04,440
about the legality of that 
because that's that's another 

1088
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,280
thing. 
So we're getting back to summer 

1089
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:11,000
of 2021, August. 
My team on that one shot is FDA 

1090
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,040
approved, the other is not and 
the FDA approved shot is not 

1091
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,440
available. 
SEC DEF said he's ordering us to

1092
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,360
take an FDA approved shot. 
If there's none available, you 

1093
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,680
can fulfill it with an EOA. 
Well, if there's no FDA approved

1094
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,200
shot that makes the order 
illegal. 

1095
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,120
I already made my mind up to get
a religious exemption, so not as

1096
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,080
big a deal. 
But when we got counseled and we

1097
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:31,840
actually got counseled in the 
middle of the woods, it's 

1098
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,320
absolute insanity. 
We're doing a two week training 

1099
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,400
exercise in Louisiana. 
It's the Joint Readiness 

1100
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:42,520
Training Center and as Green 
Berets were behind enemy lines, 

1101
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,800
you know, out in the woods, you 
have like a 12 hour break. 

1102
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,280
During that 12 hour break, they 
sent a major out to counsel us. 

1103
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:53,000
Yeah. 
How did that go over? 

1104
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,440
The guys were not very happy. 
They definitely gave. 

1105
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:57,560
That made for peace of their 
mind. 

1106
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,680
I called my company commander 
and I said, hey Sir, why are my 

1107
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:02,720
guys getting counsel in the 
middle of the woods? 

1108
00:53:02,720 --> 00:53:05,040
How do you expect them to make a
lifelong career decision without

1109
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,320
the proper medical, religious or
legal resources? 

1110
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,400
How am I supposed to show guys 
that training to fight and win 

1111
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,280
wars is more important than 
administrative bullshit when 

1112
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,080
this is happening and that we're
just not going to get training 

1113
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:15,560
value if this is holding over 
our heads? 

1114
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,240
So I had that conversation and a
little bit later heard that we 

1115
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:24,000
could wait until we got back to 
7th group in order to get the 

1116
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,520
counselling's in. 
Which frustrated me more because

1117
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,720
it means that someone else could
have made that call instead of 

1118
00:53:28,720 --> 00:53:34,360
the captain in the woods. 
But yeah, it was very, very 

1119
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,480
frustrating. 
I don't think I've been much 

1120
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:41,120
angry in my life. 
So yeah, we get back and then we

1121
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,280
just have a conversation with 
the doctors about medical 

1122
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:44,240
exemption. 
That's another thing. 

1123
00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:46,280
The military broke their own 
medical policy. 

1124
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,480
So why did we send this letter? 
I mean, let's tie back into the 

1125
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,040
Declaration of Military 
Accountability. 

1126
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,400
Because military leaders broke 
the law, they didn't follow 

1127
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:56,360
their own policy. 
They tried. 

1128
00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:00,560
They coerced us into taking an 
experimental drug that was not 

1129
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:05,560
FDA approved without giving us 
full knowledge of what was going

1130
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:06,920
on. 
You have to disclose what you're

1131
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,120
giving to the person. 
You have to disclose that you 

1132
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:10,800
have an option to receive it or 
not. 

1133
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,240
It's a Nuremberg violation. 
When it during one of my 

1134
00:54:13,240 --> 00:54:15,640
counseling's out, I asked the 
Fullberg Colonel, have you ever 

1135
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,600
heard of Nuremberg Code? 
It's a Nuremberg violation to 

1136
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,680
force someone to take something 
that they don't know the side 

1137
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,640
effects for, to force them in 
any way, shape or form informed.

1138
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,280
Consent is required. 
I think you cited that. 

1139
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,680
I cited the same thing to the 
deputy assistant Director of 

1140
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,680
Human Resources over at the FBI 
and and it went over about as 

1141
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,800
well as you'd imagine too. 
I also may have implied that he 

1142
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,000
did what the Nazis did and that 
he might as well call himself a 

1143
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,360
good American, which is also, 
you know, when you're a 

1144
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,200
civilian, you can get away with 
saying a little bit more stuff, 

1145
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,120
which I chose to do. 
Well, I sent it anyway. 

1146
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:45,920
I sent it anyway. 
I asked, do you think this is 

1147
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,240
legal order? 
Do you realize it? 

1148
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:48,920
This was to the full bird, 
Colonel. 

1149
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,560
You have to be required to do it
when you're getting out if 

1150
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:51,800
you're an officer. 
So it's like, do you think it 

1151
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,840
was legal order? 
Realize it requires an FDA 

1152
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:57,240
approved drug be legal. 
Are you doing anything to track 

1153
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,200
COVID injuries? 
Have you heard of Nuremberg 

1154
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:00,960
code? 
So that kind of spiced it up. 

1155
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,400
He asked me. 
He said too much ideology is bad

1156
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:07,000
and asked if it hurt the 
Crusades and said I was going to

1157
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,480
a dark place and asked if I 
believed in selfless service and

1158
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,080
implied that what I did wasn't 
selfless. 

1159
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,800
So I don't know. 
It's but no, no, sorry. 

1160
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,280
You're going to what? 
What happened with your human 

1161
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,480
resource thing? 
They they pulled me, put me on a

1162
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:19,840
wall, which I didn't know was a 
thing. 

1163
00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:22,560
There's actually an A wall 
ability to be when you're a 

1164
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,080
federal employee, which I did 
not know. 

1165
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,920
I I knew about it from the 
military, but I'd never heard of

1166
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,760
that happening. 
So I literally was on approved 

1167
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:31,160
leave and I showed up to AI, 
showed up to a qualification 

1168
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:32,440
because I carried A firearm 
still. 

1169
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:34,720
And I show up at a firearm 
squaw, actually at White Sands 

1170
00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:36,400
Missile Range, of all places. 
If you ever been there, it's a 

1171
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,160
huge dirt patch in the middle of
nowhere. 

1172
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:42,040
I was on small arms range #4, 
which is like 400 yards long, 

1173
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,800
about 100 yards wide of just 
dirt in the middle with a 

1174
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:46,800
mountain in the background. 
And there's nobody for any, you 

1175
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,760
know, for miles. 
And I went out there and shot 

1176
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:51,120
with like 12 other people from 
my squad. 

1177
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,040
And then they called me up that 
night and they said, hey, did 

1178
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:58,040
you have a a COVID-19 test? 
And I said no, I was on leave. 

1179
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,640
And also, I was in the desert in
the middle of it, and I was on 

1180
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,320
leave and I drove my personal 
vehicle and I shot my personal 

1181
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,360
weapons. 
And I was just qualifying 

1182
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:06,920
because I still carry a gun. 
And they go, oh, well, now 

1183
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:09,560
you're on AWOL. 
Your leave has been revoked 

1184
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,600
unless you call. 
Yeah. 

1185
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:13,960
And my my fight was this. 
I obviously wasn't going to get 

1186
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,040
the shot either. 
And I did that upfront. 

1187
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,320
But the fun thing for me was is 
they said they gave me an 

1188
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,560
alternative. 
The alternative was compliance 

1189
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,960
by taking the emergency youth 
authorization test every 72 

1190
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,560
hours. 
Now my my answer to them was 

1191
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:27,880
pretty straightforward. 
You might find this very 

1192
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:29,400
amusing. 
I said, look, I've been a 

1193
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,440
paramedic for over a decade. 
I have a top secret clearance 

1194
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,880
with an SEI qualification. 
And you know, I've done the 

1195
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:35,840
polygraphs. 
So if you can't trust me to stay

1196
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,960
at home with the 240 hours of 
sick leave when I have the 

1197
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,920
sniffles, I don't know what to 
do. 

1198
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,960
But I'm not going to take a test
when I have no symptoms because 

1199
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,160
I know medically and 
professionally that that's like,

1200
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,480
that's never been done before. 
We don't take prophylactic nasal

1201
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,640
swabs, particularly with 
something because there's things

1202
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:52,360
like ethylene oxide. 
There's a whole bunch of other 

1203
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,080
reasons why you don't do it. 
I know guys that have nose 

1204
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,800
bleeds now every day because 
they did it all the time for 

1205
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,800
travel. 
It's like, no, I'm not doing 

1206
00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:58,680
that. 
You're crazy. 

1207
00:56:59,240 --> 00:57:00,880
And and we'll be leaving the job
over. 

1208
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:02,600
That's the other funny thing, 
like someone's got to draw a 

1209
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,520
line. 
Yeah, I I didn't. 

1210
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,800
I was not as aware of all the 
scientific things For me it's 

1211
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,440
like these shots, baby dead baby
is not trying to you know be 

1212
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:15,120
involved. 
Murder and and theft the baby so

1213
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:16,680
that. 
So I didn't necessarily put up 

1214
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:18,840
the fight for the the nasal 
swab. 

1215
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,480
So I got the brain scrape every 
now and then. 

1216
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:23,880
Every. 
Two hours. 

1217
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:28,600
No, no, I mean, so here's the 
nice thing is that being in SF, 

1218
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,360
like, yeah, things were stupid, 
but it was more of a career kind

1219
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,080
of risk. 
Guys weren't, like, treating me 

1220
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,440
differently weren't necessary. 
I mean, did they have masking 

1221
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:36,960
rules? 
Sure. 

1222
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:38,400
Did I. 
Did anyone follow them? 

1223
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,480
No, absolutely not. 
And similar with testing too. 

1224
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,280
I I think I talked to one doctor
and he's like, yeah, man, if 

1225
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:45,880
they, if it comes to that, I'm 
just going to ask you if 

1226
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:47,280
symptoms and you say, no, you're
good. 

1227
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,880
All right, Solid. 
You know, so you can still get 

1228
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:51,800
around a lot of this kind of 
stupid stuff. 

1229
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:56,320
But still, we have a sign that 
says diversity is our readiness,

1230
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,000
equal opportunity is our comment
multiplier, something like that.

1231
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,160
So, you know, wokeness, it's 
infiltrating 7th group logo at 

1232
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:06,200
the bottom. 
The whole thing was so dumb, 

1233
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:07,720
yeah. 
And and what does that do to 

1234
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,200
military readiness from what you
saw? 

1235
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:16,280
Well, it results in a lot of not
so happy command climate surveys

1236
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,680
when your boss is a transgender 
major or someone with 

1237
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,880
psychological issues. 
You know, there's not a whole 

1238
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,600
lot of faith and confidence that
if the person doesn't know, you 

1239
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,200
know what's between their legs 
that they're going to make the 

1240
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:31,080
right combat decisions. 
So it it definitely hurts hurts 

1241
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,400
morale. 
And I know we were nervous about

1242
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:35,680
women coming into special forces
as well. 

1243
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,640
I got through I bullet before 
women were in the infantry went 

1244
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:41,600
to some women were in Ranger 
School too. 

1245
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:46,240
But it we need to focus on 
competence. 

1246
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,480
Like seriously that it just 
needs to be a competence focused

1247
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,440
thing. 
And I don't think that most 

1248
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,240
Americans are that racist. 
I think we just kind of got over

1249
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:58,280
it that we got through the 90s. 
We have you know great jokes 

1250
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,960
like Dave Chappelle's hilarious.
Other folks are hilarious. 

1251
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:02,320
We make fun of each other, 
whatever. 

1252
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,360
We move forward and you just get
along like I got along with 

1253
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,480
everybody. 
Like it doesn't who? 

1254
00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:09,920
Who freaking cares? 
Just get your shit done, get 

1255
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:12,560
your job done. 
Stop, stop focusing on it. 

1256
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,080
Stop talking about it. 
It doesn't help. 

1257
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:19,880
And I hate too. 
We had Sergeant Major of of 

1258
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:23,120
SOCOM comes the 7th group and it
says, yeah, this is a great 

1259
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:27,160
unit, They are totally diverse 
and they don't sacrifice 

1260
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:28,360
anything. 
It's like, yeah, we have a lot 

1261
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,120
of Hispanics, 'cause we speak 
Spanish. 

1262
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:34,240
Like, that's it. 
Like, come on, like Comate. 

1263
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,600
Yeah, you know, it's like, I 
don't know. 

1264
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:41,360
So it's just really stupid. 
We need to focus on things that 

1265
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,040
actually matter instead of all 
this kind of nonsense bullshit. 

1266
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:47,080
I mean, that reminds me too. 
Yeah, Sack def. 

1267
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:52,240
He was AWOL sick. 
Whatever it is in the hospital 

1268
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:56,280
didn't show up. 
My fear for this right now is 

1269
00:59:56,280 --> 01:00:00,680
that congressmen are going to 
focus like pinpoint and focus in

1270
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,680
on him not being around for four
days. 

1271
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:06,800
Just like they can pinpoint and 
focus in on the few transgenders

1272
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:10,640
in the military or on some basis
having drag shows, which these 

1273
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:14,280
are terrible, terrible things. 
But the larger readiness issue 

1274
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,720
is kicking out all these guys 
for for the shot. 

1275
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:21,680
So yes, I'd say bring it up, but
don't lose sight of all the 

1276
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:23,640
wrong things that SAC Dev has 
done. 

1277
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,320
Don't. 
Go try to impeach him. 

1278
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,800
For this, let's go ahead and 
focus on the Afghan war. 

1279
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,320
Let's focus on the worst 
recruiting we've had since 

1280
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:32,680
Vietnam. 
It's just absolutely atrocious. 

1281
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,600
And at some point, if you're 
looking at the patterns, you 

1282
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:38,240
have to really think that the 
Biden administration isn't just 

1283
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,080
doing it incompetently. 
That they are actually out there

1284
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,480
to destroy America, to cause 
certain emergencies and 

1285
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:46,560
problems, and to fix them with 
other problems that are going to

1286
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:50,400
continue to consolidate power 
for themselves and for, I don't 

1287
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,960
know, global leads. 
So you said you're 35, is that 

1288
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:54,720
right? 
Yes. 

1289
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,240
And you're fit, you're still 
capable. 

1290
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,160
You got kicked out, you know, 
mid career or you chose to 

1291
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:02,800
leave. 
But they gave you a decision for

1292
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:04,160
all your chips and you made the 
one you made. 

1293
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,000
Young guys still probably got to
look to you and see what's on 

1294
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,960
your wall and know your 
background and say, hey man, 

1295
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,840
should I join the military? 
I'm 17, I'm 18, I'm 19 years 

1296
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:12,800
old. 
You know, I'm full of piss and 

1297
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:14,280
vinegar. 
I want to go, you know, kill 

1298
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,000
people and not get, not go to 
jail for it. 

1299
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,160
What what do you think? 
Is this the career for me? 

1300
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:21,120
Can you recommend it to people? 
Yeah. 

1301
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:23,280
So this is what I've actually 
told some folks and I, I have 

1302
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:24,720
people reach out. 
They're welcome to the 

1303
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:26,080
confinement website. 
Whatever. 

1304
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,240
So yeah, I what I tell people is
that we're made to, and it's 

1305
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,640
very Ignatian just off of the 
the summer retreat is that we're

1306
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:36,400
made to praise reverence and 
serve God, our Lord. 

1307
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:40,200
And by this means to save our 
soul and everything is a means 

1308
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:41,840
that end. 
And if you think that military 

1309
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,000
service is something that you 
want to do, something you'll 

1310
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,160
enjoy and will help further you 
as a person, then it's something

1311
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:49,680
you should consider. 
However, you need to understand 

1312
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:52,160
and know that you're going to go
through some challenges that you

1313
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:53,680
shouldn't have to in the 
military. 

1314
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,400
But life isn't about avoiding 
those challenges, it's about 

1315
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,720
doing the right thing no matter 
what in whatever situation. 

1316
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:02,320
So know yourself and understand 
what those challenges are going 

1317
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,440
to be and have those limits. 
We can't just avoid certain 

1318
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:08,920
areas and we can't give up the 
military as an institution to be

1319
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,480
another three letter institution
to be Co opted by the left. 

1320
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,200
We already got enough feds 
trying to fit. 

1321
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:15,680
I think we just had a holiday 
for it. 

1322
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:19,200
You know they're trying to Co 
opt epiphany sorry, epiphany 

1323
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:20,720
wins. 
It's there forever. 

1324
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:26,080
But turns out yeah so I I would 
still encourage a person to 

1325
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,280
consider it. 
Now if there's something that is

1326
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,320
morally objectionable to you 
period. 

1327
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:32,680
That's requirement. 
So if the COVID shot were around

1328
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:34,720
I'd say don't join at all until 
this is gone. 

1329
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:39,560
If you can also wait until Biden
is not president, that would 

1330
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:42,040
even be even better because, 
yeah, there's some concern about

1331
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:46,560
how these leaders are going to 
take care of service members, 

1332
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:47,720
'cause they aren't, they don't 
care. 

1333
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:49,920
It it just shows that they don't
care that there's been 

1334
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:54,600
whistleblower reports that the 
injuries that people, I mean the

1335
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,920
vaccine injuries, I'm not a 
doctor, so don't focus on it too

1336
01:02:57,920 --> 01:02:59,400
much. 
But there are people who've been

1337
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:03,440
seriously messed up by this and 
we hear in Special Forces about 

1338
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,320
somebody who dives in the combat
dive qualification course where 

1339
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,960
you have to be extremely fit to 
go there or maritime assessment 

1340
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,560
course which is a pre rec for 
dive school. 

1341
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:17,560
It's just it makes you question,
makes you guess and there needs 

1342
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:20,600
to be full accountability 
investigations into that. 

1343
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,640
So since getting out in the 
military in July as far as I've,

1344
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,360
I've kind of felt that God's 
really providentially put me in 

1345
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,280
this position because I get out 
in July one I do a 8th day 

1346
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,400
Ignition Retreat July 12th 
through 20th. 

1347
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:33,680
So for people don't know what 
that means. 

1348
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:37,560
That is 1/8 day of silence. 
You pray 5 holy hours a day. 

1349
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:40,320
So you're sitting in a Chapel or
somewhere meditating on some 

1350
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:42,920
aspect of scripture, spending 
half hour to an hour talking to 

1351
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,840
a priest, and he's helping you 
to review your prayer for the 

1352
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:48,000
day. 
You're offering up decisions to 

1353
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:49,480
God. 
And I went there wondering, you 

1354
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:52,080
know what, God, I spent time in 
seminary. 

1355
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:53,480
I still love you. 
I still want to serve you. 

1356
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:55,080
What do you want from me? 
Do you want me to go back to 

1357
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:56,280
seminary? 
What do you want me to be 

1358
01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:58,280
involved in? 
So trying to offer that up to 

1359
01:03:58,280 --> 01:03:59,800
him. 
And then on the feast day of 

1360
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:03,200
Saint Ignatius, which is July 
31st, is when my first op-ed was

1361
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,960
published. 
And that led to getting a lot of

1362
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,640
interviews. 
So now nearly 40 interviews and 

1363
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,120
then going up to DC and trying 
to work with different 

1364
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:15,320
congressmen, that's that's kind 
of been just kind of this 

1365
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:16,760
mission that I've seen God put 
me in. 

1366
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:20,400
Now, I don't want to be a 
perpetual unemployed dude that 

1367
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,520
just does this, you know, like 
trying to find my place in life.

1368
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:25,000
But I do think that fighting for
my country is certainly 

1369
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:28,400
something God's called me to do.
But working with Congress, it's 

1370
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,600
been such a pain because the two
things that we're trying, I've 

1371
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:33,760
been trying to get done, and 
This is why we have this letter 

1372
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,720
go out trying to get amendments 
to the National Defense 

1373
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:40,360
Authorization Act, which is the 
annual budget that allows the 

1374
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,800
military to continue funding. 
And that's where you would be 

1375
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:45,520
able to put in things such as 
bringing service members back 

1376
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:49,320
in, elevating their discharge 
statuses to honorable, giving 

1377
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:54,120
them back pay, giving them time 
allotted for time they've been 

1378
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,560
out of the service. 
These things weren't done. 

1379
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,040
They just weren't done. 
This last NDAA was absolute 

1380
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:01,080
trash. 
Republicans are not. 

1381
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:03,560
If they negotiate, like 
Democrats would get a whole lot 

1382
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,440
more done. 
And it's extremely frustrating. 

1383
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:09,240
And it seems like they just, 
they're more concerned about 

1384
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:11,240
staying in power than they are 
about getting shit done. 

1385
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,280
Santos, you might think like, 
OK, you know, weird stuff, 

1386
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,400
whatever. 
I don't know, man wasn't wasn't 

1387
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:18,960
convicted yet and that's an 
extra vote we have. 

1388
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:20,920
So let's hang on to him. 
And hey, McCarthy, if we're 

1389
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:23,640
going to vote to get out of him,
maybe you don't quit. 

1390
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,360
You know like we're shrinking 
the majority here. 

1391
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:29,880
So it it's just absolute. 
I think a lot of these folks 

1392
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:33,160
don't realize it's a good versus
evil or that civilizations don't

1393
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,400
last forever. 
So that's I'm going on so many 

1394
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:39,280
tangents but so amendments is 
one piece and then hearings is 

1395
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:40,880
another. 
So then trying to push for 

1396
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:44,440
congressional hearings House 
Armed Service Committee, COVID 

1397
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:49,000
select weaponization of the 
federal government and this 

1398
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:51,600
these stories need to be heard. 
Mine very mild. 

1399
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:52,920
A lot of people had it way 
worse. 

1400
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:56,400
But read Rob Green's book. 
Amazing. 

1401
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,600
Defending the Constitution 
Behind enemy Lines. 

1402
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,440
Check out the website too, which
is military accountability.com 

1403
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:05,800
that has links for the book that
has our declaration as well. 

1404
01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:07,760
It has a petition people can 
sign. 

1405
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:12,360
But educating yourself on what 
happened in the military just 

1406
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,600
shows how much accountability is
needed. 

1407
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:17,480
That people broke the law, they 
committed wrongs. 

1408
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:19,640
There's not going to be trust 
until people are held 

1409
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:22,240
accountable. 
And we wrote the Declaration of 

1410
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:25,440
Military Accountability. 
Because I've gone up to DCA 

1411
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:27,120
couple times. 
I've been talking to so many 

1412
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,440
different staffers. 
We haven't even gotten a 

1413
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:31,520
regional hearing. 
I think there was maybe last 

1414
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:34,960
spring some hearing with the 
Milpers or something. 

1415
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:36,240
I don't know what happened to 
that. 

1416
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,120
I don't want to hear Secta 
getting yelled at about trainees

1417
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,160
in the military again. 
I wanted to hear him yelled at 

1418
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,080
about the freaking Afghan 
withdrawal. 

1419
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,840
I want to hear him yelled at 
about kicking out 8000 dudes. 

1420
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:48,120
Did he know? 
He didn't know. 

1421
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:51,960
But let's talk about it. 
The FDAUA distinction What kind 

1422
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:54,400
of, what kind of information did
he have about people being 

1423
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:58,240
injured from this shot? 
What did he know about the 

1424
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:02,520
religious exemption process 
being blatant, blatantly denied?

1425
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:05,280
And what kind of coercive 
measures was he telling his 

1426
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:08,880
generals to employ in order to 
the, I mean, the FDA approved 

1427
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:10,800
shots called community. 
It might as well be called 

1428
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:12,840
conformity because that's all 
they were worried about, is just

1429
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:15,800
getting people to conform. 
So anyone? 

1430
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:17,800
I'm I'm behind all of those 
ideas. 

1431
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:19,880
I'd like to see that done for 
the civilian service as well. 

1432
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:22,680
I think the military probably 
had a much rougher go of it, 

1433
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,880
which is why we haven't heard so
much about it until now. 

1434
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:27,280
Let's talk about the the 
Declaration, we'll wrap it up 

1435
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:28,560
with this. 
The Declaration for Military 

1436
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:30,200
Accountability. 
What was it modeled on? 

1437
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:32,640
What was the purpose of it? 
What are you guys demanding out 

1438
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:35,320
of this particular document and 
and what where can people 

1439
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:37,680
support it? 
So Rob Green is the one who 

1440
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,960
wrote it. 
So he is an active duty 05, 

1441
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:43,360
father of seven, Catholic, solid
dude. 

1442
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:46,840
So he's the one who drafted it. 
And there were a lot of people 

1443
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:50,040
who got, who put input into it. 
I didn't put as much input but 

1444
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:52,920
was you know, involved in the 
kind of earlier process or known

1445
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,560
about it. 
So had 231 of us sign it and it 

1446
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:59,760
basically says that this 
government it doesn't work 

1447
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:04,120
without immoral people and that 
these military leaders broke the

1448
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,040
law and they need to be held 
accountable for it. 

1449
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:08,800
And here, service members are 
still suffering from it. 

1450
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:11,920
The homeless vet population, 
people dying from the shot, 

1451
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:14,800
people with debilitating vaccine
injuries, people with financial 

1452
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,080
burdens that are screwing up 
their life. 

1453
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:20,000
And they've had two years to 
correct themselves. 

1454
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:23,080
And it doesn't really get into 
Congress, but that's part of it 

1455
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:25,279
is we've tried to work through 
our elected officials and they 

1456
01:08:25,279 --> 01:08:26,479
failed us. 
So we're going to get 

1457
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:29,160
accountability ourselves. 
So it comes with some pretty 

1458
01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:31,399
strong promises. 
People might think, really, it's

1459
01:08:31,399 --> 01:08:34,200
not that bad if you look at all 
the wrongs that these leaders 

1460
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:37,040
committed. 
Taking the retirement pay away 

1461
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,640
is not bad. 
Bringing them back off of 

1462
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,439
retirement in order to put them 
through a court martial, hey, if

1463
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:45,240
you did nothing wrong, you have 
nothing to worry about. 

1464
01:08:45,399 --> 01:08:47,000
And we are all about 
accountability. 

1465
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,120
If we are wrong for some reason,
which we're not, but if we're 

1466
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:52,520
wrong for some reason, and 
you're innocent, that's great. 

1467
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:55,120
And this isn't about let's just 
fire everybody who did it wrong,

1468
01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:58,000
because unfortunately, if this 
were a test, the whole military 

1469
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,160
failed. 
As much as I'm upset with the 

1470
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:02,720
top leaders, I'm upset with 
these middle level managers too 

1471
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:04,359
who needed to just do the right 
thing. 

1472
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:07,720
And if we were in a Nazi Germany
situation, we'd have a bunch of 

1473
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:09,399
Nazis. 
Unfortunately, it's very sad. 

1474
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:13,319
So we have these folks who 
signed, We have about 7 folks 

1475
01:09:13,319 --> 01:09:15,479
who are running for office, 
others who are interested in 

1476
01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:17,880
that. 
We have people who are still on 

1477
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:20,439
active duty, who signed it, who 
are doing that at great, great 

1478
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:22,640
risk to themselves to sign it 
while on active duty. 

1479
01:09:23,279 --> 01:09:27,160
And it's just saying that we're 
going to do what we can 

1480
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:31,760
responsibly within moral means 
and legal means, so not calling 

1481
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:34,080
for violence whatsoever. 
And it's not even a partisan 

1482
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:36,319
document. 
I'm talking partisanly because 

1483
01:09:37,319 --> 01:09:40,240
liberals are retarded. 
And Republicans are pretty bad 

1484
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,479
too, but not quite as bad, at 
least in principle. 

1485
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,760
But you know, a lot of weak 
spines and shit like that. 

1486
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:49,359
But this document is not it is 
in accordance with the 

1487
01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:53,000
Constitution and Rob Green being
Catholic, in accordance with the

1488
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:56,480
natural law, so drawing off of 
those principles in order to 

1489
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,280
kind of push forward and 
motivate ourselves. 

1490
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:02,560
So if you want to support us, go
to militaryaccountability.com, 

1491
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:05,640
you can sign the petition. 
We've had a lot of problems with

1492
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,720
the website because we've had 
people hacking it, trying to 

1493
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:11,320
disrupt it, and it's just 
absolute insanity. 

1494
01:10:11,480 --> 01:10:14,400
We if you post it on Facebook or
Instagram, it gets taken off. 

1495
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:18,360
It's hilarious. 
You can't like DM people with 

1496
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:21,040
that website name. 
So those are things you can do 

1497
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:24,960
specifically with that. 
But I'll bring it back to why 

1498
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:26,760
does our country suck? 
Who's at fault for it? 

1499
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:28,320
You and I are. 
We're at fault for it. 

1500
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:31,440
This is a country of we the 
people, for the people, by the 

1501
01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:34,840
people. 
And if that's the case, if your 

1502
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:38,960
ignorance about the laws and how
the the government is governed, 

1503
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:43,080
you need to be spun up on it. 
If if you were just kind of, I'm

1504
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:46,640
not saying everybody needs to be
a news junkie, but there's a 

1505
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:49,520
certain level of ownership and 
awareness of a thing that you 

1506
01:10:49,520 --> 01:10:51,440
participate in in order to keep 
it going. 

1507
01:10:51,440 --> 01:10:54,920
So, so yes, sign the document, 
but do more in the way you 

1508
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:56,800
figure out what you do more. 
I think it's through prayer and 

1509
01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:00,240
discernment and you know, if you
want to help yourself to be 

1510
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,440
Catholic because that's 
ultimately what you need to do 

1511
01:11:02,440 --> 01:11:05,320
to get to that. 
But I'll just throw that one out

1512
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:06,360
there. 
If you can get pissed off, 

1513
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:07,440
whatever, I'll have those 
religious. 

1514
01:11:07,440 --> 01:11:09,720
Today, yeah, we'll hear about 
that in the comments. 

1515
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:12,480
That's good it. 
It's true, though, that what we 

1516
01:11:12,480 --> 01:11:16,160
what we tolerate, right, the 
things that we tolerate is what 

1517
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:17,800
we're complicit in, it turns 
out. 

1518
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:22,080
And a lot of people gave up an 
awful lot of ground in the last 

1519
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:24,360
couple years. 
I've been telling people, you 

1520
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:26,040
got to fight your way back up to
that line of the sand. 

1521
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:29,640
Most of us are behind it for 
whatever reason, you know, good,

1522
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:31,960
bad or indifferent. 
Do an honest assessment of where

1523
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:33,920
your ground is. 
You're probably not where you 

1524
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:35,440
wanted to be. 
You need to get up in front of 

1525
01:11:35,440 --> 01:11:38,240
it and then plant your feet. 
Get ready to start taking rounds

1526
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:39,960
because it's still coming at us.
It's not stopping. 

1527
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:42,920
We're about to see, I think, 
just another really, really 

1528
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:45,840
interesting year of of some 
awful behavior, probably on both

1529
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,800
sides, if I had to guess, yeah. 
Yeah, I think that everybody's 

1530
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:53,720
New Year's resolution has to be 
respond to the current crisis 

1531
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:56,160
that happens. 
Well, you might not plan for it,

1532
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:58,600
but go ahead and throw that in 
your resolutions because it's 

1533
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:01,000
going to be a wild year. 
And know what your limits are. 

1534
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:02,800
Know what you're willing to 
stand for beforehand, or your 

1535
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:04,520
fault for anything. 
I love it. 

1536
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,280
All right. 
So other than Single Ladies who 

1537
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:08,760
are looking to lock you down, 
what are the best ways people 

1538
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:10,120
can follow you and support what 
you're up? 

1539
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,840
To my website isjohnfranklin.com
and well so before you follow me

1540
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:18,200
on social media too, I would 
urge you follow Jesus Christ the

1541
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:20,280
way the truth in life that is 
the means of salvation. 

1542
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,160
But if after you follow him you 
still want to follow me, you'll 

1543
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,520
find me on Twitter and Instagram
at Johnny under score. 

1544
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:31,960
Franks So yeah, those are ways 
to support and really appreciate

1545
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:33,960
it, but definitely military 
accountability.com. 

1546
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:37,800
And I'm an individual and we're 
made-up of a lot of individuals 

1547
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:39,640
who are doing this fight and 
it's, you know, I can't do 

1548
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:41,920
anything on my own. 
My motto through this whole 

1549
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:44,240
thing has been Luke 17, seven to
10. 

1550
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:47,360
And that's where Jesus talks 
about the owner sends his 

1551
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:51,120
servants out into the field. 
And when they come back and 

1552
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:54,360
Jesus says that the master isn't
like, hey, come on, let me serve

1553
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:57,400
you food. 
No master's like, come serve me.

1554
01:12:57,400 --> 01:12:59,440
And when you're done serving me,
you can serve yourself 

1555
01:12:59,440 --> 01:13:00,560
something. 
And at the end of it, the 

1556
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:04,080
servants say we are unworthy 
servants who've only done our 

1557
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:05,400
duty. 
So we're just trying to do our 

1558
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:07,560
duty, but that's just what we 
need to do to get this crap 

1559
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:09,520
done. 
I can take it. 

1560
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:11,200
I appreciate you spend the time 
with us. 

1561
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:13,000
We'll have some more people on 
with some different stories. 

1562
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,640
I think all these will tell a 
broader picture of kind of a 

1563
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:19,440
mosaic of of experiences through
this whole COVID sort of tyranny

1564
01:13:19,440 --> 01:13:22,400
that went on in the military. 
But Johnny and it's it's Johnny 

1565
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:25,320
with 1 N, correct? 
Yeah, yeah. 

1566
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:28,200
It's kind of, yeah, it was bold,
but I don't know. 

1567
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:29,960
Yep. 
Johnny with One North. 

1568
01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:33,320
All right, brother. 
Thanks so much for giving me the

1569
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:34,080
time. 
I appreciate it. 

1570
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:39,200
Please have me all right? 
Folks, that is today's Kyle, 

1571
01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:40,720
Serif and Shell. 
Thanks so much for joining us. 

1572
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:42,240
I hope you appreciated that 
conversation. 

1573
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:44,000
I hope you learned something 
new. 

1574
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:46,800
If such a thing can happen on 
this Thursday Winnie the Pooh 

1575
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:49,320
day. 
What a weird, what a weird day. 

1576
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:53,480
January the 18th. 
I want to say a wrap up thanks 

1577
01:13:53,480 --> 01:13:55,320
to my to my buddies over at for 
Patriots. 

1578
01:13:55,320 --> 01:13:56,880
They are the ones that sponsored
this program. 

1579
01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,640
There it is. 
You guys can go to their website

1580
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:04,040
at the number 4 Patriots with an
s.com/kyle again for 

1581
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:07,480
patriots.com/kyle. 
You want to follow them on 

1582
01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:08,960
Twitter where I spend a lot of 
time. 

1583
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:12,880
You can follow them at 4:00. 
Patriots with an SLLC. 

1584
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:15,360
At the end of it, someone stole 
the other handle and you guys 

1585
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:18,240
can use promo code Kyle on their
website for any number of these 

1586
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,960
things out here you're seeing 
the Patriot power generator. 

1587
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:23,880
Probably a good idea when things
are cold when you were looking 

1588
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:26,800
at maybe losing power like the 
old Boyle family sweatshop. 

1589
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:30,080
Will they be able to run a heat 
press and allow him to continue 

1590
01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:31,600
to press shirts? 
I don't know, but it's 

1591
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:34,200
definitely worth a try. 
You guys should check out four 

1592
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:37,320
patriots.com/kyle. 
They've got the ultimate jumbo 

1593
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:42,000
chicken survival food kit. 
A lot of things in there, a lot 

1594
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:45,240
of sandwiches going on, 168 
total servings. 

1595
01:14:45,480 --> 01:14:48,040
Guys, if you're not figuring out
how to feed yourself in an 

1596
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:50,520
emergency, then you are part of 
the liabilities out there. 

1597
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:52,800
Don't be a liability. 
Be a patriot who believes in 

1598
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:56,600
self-reliance and check out four
patriots.com/kyle so you guys 

1599
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:58,720
can get a deal on any of the 
number of things out there. 

1600
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:02,120
You can be prepared for any 
pending emergency and not be 

1601
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:03,760
part of the problem. 
You can be part of the solution.

1602
01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:05,280
That's a very American way to 
be. 

1603
01:15:05,480 --> 01:15:07,360
And moreover, let's just finish 
it up here. 

1604
01:15:07,480 --> 01:15:09,160
My buddy Gerardo Boyles Merch 
stop. 

1605
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:11,080
This is the O'boyle family 
sweatshop. 

1606
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:12,440
You guys know how to get there. 
You just go to 

1607
01:15:12,440 --> 01:15:14,960
thedashsuspendables.com. 
Just remember, to be a 

1608
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:17,760
suspendable you have to go to 
the dash. suspendables.com 

1609
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:18,920
That's not true. 
You just have to do the right 

1610
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:19,960
thing. 
But you can go to the merch 

1611
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:21,000
store. 
If you want to get some Ranger 

1612
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:23,120
panties and you want to freeze 
your butt off, that's an option.

1613
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,400
The PT shirts are fantastic. 
They're probably my favorite 

1614
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:27,440
right now. 
And then the second most 

1615
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:31,880
favorite I have is the last line
Sub Stack shirts. 

1616
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:34,400
They have the AR15 that you're 
seeing at the top there in 

1617
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:37,600
multiple colors, and it has a 
quill coming out of the end of 

1618
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:40,360
the barrel, reminding us the pen
is mitier than the sword. 

1619
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:44,240
Except those times when the 
sword must be mightier than the 

1620
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:46,280
pen. 
It's probably cold. 

1621
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:47,920
You might want to look into one 
of our sweaters. 

1622
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:49,840
Those those hoodies there are 
super nice. 

1623
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:52,200
They're real comfy. 
They look like green arrow kind 

1624
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:53,480
of. 
They've got the suspendables 

1625
01:15:53,480 --> 01:15:54,760
badge on them. 
Check out the dash 

1626
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,120
dispendables.com. 
Keep the Aboyle family sweatshop

1627
01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:59,080
moving. 
Keep those kids chained to their

1628
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:02,360
to their desks where they are 
working diligently and learning 

1629
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:05,080
about American commerce the way 
that people used to working by 

1630
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:07,480
candlelight. 
I don't know, something like 

1631
01:16:07,480 --> 01:16:08,760
that. 
We appreciate you guys 

1632
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:11,360
supporting us and supporting the
O'boyle family with this thing 

1633
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:13,680
and the merch when we see it. 
I'm going to start seeing it out

1634
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:15,960
in public places and then I'm 
going to start freaking out just

1635
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:17,720
a little bit. 
But you guys want to be one of 

1636
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:18,960
those people that's an early 
adopter. 

1637
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:20,480
This is how you do it. 
The dashespenals.com. 

1638
01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:22,840
All right, that's enough. 
How about a five star view as we

1639
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:27,200
go out into the next next end of
this week here and going into 

1640
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,760
the Friendly Friday. 
This is our Five star view. 

1641
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:32,240
It says it's from check privacy 
disclosure. 

1642
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,400
That's my new favorite handle. 
I don't know what that means. 

1643
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:36,880
I like it just says thank you, 
five stars. 

1644
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:38,840
Thank you for putting it on the 
line to take a stand. 

1645
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,760
Too many people are focused on 
securing their comfort instead 

1646
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:45,720
of doing what's right. 
We all owe a debt of gratitude 

1647
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:49,440
to Suspendables for being true 
patriots, a very kind statement.

1648
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:51,440
I think there are many people 
out there that are willing to 

1649
01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:52,720
put their personal comfort 
aside. 

1650
01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:54,080
That's what our founding fathers
did. 

1651
01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:57,040
That's a real American position.
Put your comfort aside. 

1652
01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:58,240
Go out there and do the right 
thing. 

1653
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:00,440
Be a good person. 
Go meet your neighbors. 

1654
01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:02,760
You know what to do. 
Maybe. 

1655
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:05,120
Maybe you're being called to 
join the military. 

1656
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:07,720
We'll see all of you guys. 
Be safe. 

1657
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:09,800
God bless you. 
And we'll see you soon. 

1658
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,560
Thanks for listening to The Kyle
Seraphin Show, streamed live 

1659
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,600
weekdays on rumble.com/kyle 
Seraphin. 

1660
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:19,840
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1661
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:20,600
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