1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,000 Take a look behind the curtain with the real whistleblower, an 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,400 American patriot. Prepare to embrace the 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,880 uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,320 comforting lies. Here is civil liberties 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,240 enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI 6 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:22,560 agent Kyle Serafin. Well, hello my friends. 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:23,840 Welcome to the Kyle Serafin Show. 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,320 We did this already. We did a live cold open. 9 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,720 We were rocking and rolling. And then we found out Nope, we 10 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,400 were not on Rumble and nothing updated properly. 11 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,800 So for all of you in the chat, if you can hear us now, give us 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,880 a thumbs up. Think you can give us that 13 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:38,280 thumbs up? And if you're there already on 14 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,200 Rumble, you might as well hit that little green thumbs up and 15 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,280 give us a like on the video as well. 16 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,280 Sometimes things are going on. Ryan and I were guessing that 17 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,960 this is probably one of the best days for Rumble to do any 18 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,520 network maintenance. Let's just contribute to that or 19 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,360 personal screw up. You never know, but we're really 20 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,040 happy to have you here today. Happy Thanksgiving to all of 21 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,120 you. Grateful for all of you joining 22 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:58,800 us. We're not going to talk 23 00:00:58,800 --> 00:00:59,880 politics. We're going to bring out my 24 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:01,400 buddy Garrett O'boyle. We're going to talk a couple 25 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:02,880 things. I was just a middle middle of 26 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,600 telling a story, which I will retell. 27 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,920 It's not not difficult to do. But Garrett, go ahead and say 28 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,800 hey, welcome to the show, buddy. Happy Thanksgiving. 29 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,160 Happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody out there watching 30 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,720 live, especially our live chatters joining us on on this 31 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,280 blessed Thanksgiving we we hope you all have have a a good one 32 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,240 and even when things are hard. There are plenty of good things 33 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,600 to be thankful for, so glad to be here. 34 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,200 Thanks for having me on. Yeah, buddy, it's a matter of 35 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:32,840 perspective. Obviously we did a whole shtick 36 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,520 routine because you and I were talking earlier about whether or 37 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,440 not your kids were chained to the basement, 'cause we heard 38 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,600 them kind of making noise early and maybe they were chained to a 39 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,480 sewing machine somewhere and stitching up hats or putting out 40 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,240 shirts. I won't. 41 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,320 I won't put you through that again. 42 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,960 We know that your children are are are doing significant 43 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:50,800 amounts of duties maintaining the sweatshop. 44 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,160 That keeps the suspendables merge rolling right. 45 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,480 Indeed, as any good sweatshop manager you know would have it, 46 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,200 the kids are hard at work, somewhere around 2022 hours a 47 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,320 day. And you know 22 hours. 48 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:09,680 That sounds like parents duty hours. 49 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,240 That doesn't sound like kids duty hours. 50 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:12,600 How much? How much? 51 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,040 How much time do the managers have to handle these 22 hour a 52 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,320 day working kids? I mean, we actually have shifts, 53 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,080 so we're only at 12 hours a day each, You know, it's like, hey, 54 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,440 I'll take the night shift. I'm used to that type of thing 55 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:28,160 and oh, it's so silly. So we're going to cover a couple 56 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:29,200 things. We're going to talk a little bit 57 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,560 about history. 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They're supporting us. 81 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,840 They if we had no other sponsors, Catholic Vote would 82 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:17,520 keep us floating. Just for what it's worth, That's 83 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,360 what that means, great people and the president of that 84 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,600 company whose name is Brian Birch, is a really good guy. 85 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,760 We have all these weird overlaps, which I covered a 86 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,560 minute ago to myself. I was just talking to Garrett. 87 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,160 Garrett heard him. But essentially we had so many 88 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,320 strange, serendipitous overlaps when we lived in Dallas. 89 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,080 His family lives in Phoenix, My family lives outside of Phoenix. 90 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,680 Just a bunch of these things. Of course we we, we used to go 91 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,200 to the the same church when he was older than me and I was a 92 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,240 kid. Just strange, strange kind of 93 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,040 serendipitous moments. You never know what God's plan 94 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,440 is until you look at it in the rear view. 95 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,040 I think many of us can see it after the fact. 96 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,400 You go, of course. Of course. 97 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,920 That's what it was about. And I think many of us will see 98 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,960 this time this way. But I I mentioned today's date, 99 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,600 the 23rd. I was just about to tell Garrett 100 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,120 about this story. I had an experience two years 101 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,920 ago where my life basically changed. 102 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:04,640 I would say forever I would change. 103 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,640 It changed in a way that we'll never go back to on the 23rd of 104 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,200 2021. In November, I got a phone call 105 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:12,880 3 in the morning. My boss calls me up and throw 106 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,600 Garrett on the screen here because we'll we'll kind of just 107 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,320 riff on on the ideas of this but I get this phone call from a 108 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,320 boss he tells me hey we got a potential murder homicide down 109 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:22,960 at the federal prison down in Otero County. 110 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,360 New guys got the got the UPS he's he's the duty agent for the 111 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,120 week and will you please go and join him because he doesn't know 112 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,480 how to conduct a homicide investigation. 113 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:32,760 He doesn't even know who to ask or what he. 114 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,160 I mean he's like 3 weeks out of Quantico. 115 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,240 Five weeks out of Quantico. So I did. 116 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,440 I drove down there. We met in the parking lot at the 117 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,240 at the RA, at the resident agency, and he had a cup of 118 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,600 coffee and I had a cup of coffee and we rolled down to the 119 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:45,880 prison, which I'd been to a few times. 120 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:46,960 I was already friends with a warden. 121 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,880 Go figure. You can imagine Gary like I I 122 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,080 made friends with a guy the first time I met him, and so I'm 123 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,960 not. Surprised by that, we we went in 124 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,160 and we conducted our investigation. 125 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,440 We were there for about 12 hours in the COVID isolation ward, 126 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,120 which was ironic because I was. I was removed later that day 127 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,240 because I wouldn't get COVID tests on a regular basis. 128 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,920 Go. Figure right? 129 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:05,920 Yeah, but they were happy to expose me because I didn't get 130 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,440 the shots. And we did our investigation. 131 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:09,720 We found out all kinds of weird stuff. 132 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,920 Guy had died, but it looked like nobody had been involved. 133 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:13,880 No foul play was was evident. It was going to wait on the 134 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:15,960 medical examiner. I move the body, which is not 135 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,720 something that people in the FBI generally do. 136 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,200 I help the medical examiner put them into a bag and roll them 137 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:21,400 over. And we, you know, we conducted 138 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,400 all the physical exams that you would do of a body when you're 139 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,760 looking for evidence of foul play. 140 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,040 It looked like this guy may have had a medical emergency that we 141 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,320 couldn't explain. So long and short of it is we 142 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,760 finish all that up and then we go in and the warden sits us 143 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:35,760 down and he starts talking about some other stuff they got going 144 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,240 on and things that he might want to do, an investigation, maybe a 145 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,480 corruption investigation. And then they served us a 146 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,040 Thanksgiving dinner coming out of the prison. 147 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,560 They brought it to the the warden's conference room and we 148 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,440 sat around and we had some food and we had some Turkey and some 149 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,160 other stuff. And it was a very strange day. 150 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,120 And I went back to the office and my boss told me that you 151 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,060 can't come back into this office again until you get a COVID 152 00:05:56,060 --> 00:05:57,880 test. And I said, well, I'd love to 153 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,080 take leave, 'cause I'm not going to do that. 154 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,440 And I took leave and I didn't get back in until March 4th, and 155 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,280 that was the last six weeks. And then they fired me or 156 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,480 suspended me forever, which is wild. 157 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,080 Yeah, because it's it's such a such a such an upright process. 158 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,040 Oh, we're just gonna suspend you for whatever reason we want and 159 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,080 off you go. But let's not forget this is, 160 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:23,680 this is a poignant story because it just goes to show they don't 161 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,960 really care about the mission, the work. 162 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,880 They just care about keeping you under their thumb. 163 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,840 Just do what we say, Kyle. We don't care that we called you 164 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:35,400 in the middle of the night and I get it. 165 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,760 That goes with the territory sometimes, but especially on the 166 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,440 heels of that type of day, that type of investigation, holding 167 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,800 the hand of the new guy and, you know, probably prompting his 168 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,760 brain and asking certain questions or with your 169 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,920 background as a paramedic. So we did, We did all the prison 170 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,120 guards and all the inmates. We separated them off into 171 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,920 individual interviews with each one of them and so that's why it 172 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,040 took 12 hours to be there. But the fun thing is that that 173 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,600 was like peak FBI work for me. It's. 174 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:06,320 Like, you're, you're a subject matter expert in your thing. 175 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:07,920 You know enough. You've never done this type of 176 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,040 investigation in this place. But you understand, 'cause I'm 177 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,920 assigned to the Res, that I did criminal work and that was 178 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,920 something I was, you know, theoretically trained for for a 179 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,520 long time. A lot of it was just me figuring 180 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,320 it out as I went, you know, and and then it's like, yeah, and 181 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,320 I'm taking on a new guy. We're doing the, we're doing the 182 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,120 mentoring game and and you're the only one there. 183 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,000 Everyone's looking to you because all the prison guards 184 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,560 are prison guards and they don't have investigative backgrounds 185 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,480 and they're and you're the one guy that's going to figure out 186 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,280 what's going on there. Yeah, and you're you're the FBI 187 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,000 agent, you know, representing the entirety of the Bureau. 188 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,360 Right. Everybody is looking to you. 189 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,840 Everybody there is looking to you. 190 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:42,640 Different scenario, different type of case. 191 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:47,160 But I spent a lot of time in and out of a prison early on in my 192 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,040 career for a for an investigation I was working on 193 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,280 and. I ended up developing a a a 194 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,080 really strong bond with the the two investigators who worked at 195 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,280 the prison and you know, they had whatever they had. 196 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,480 Yeah, they were like, I forget what they were called. 197 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,320 I I could look. But, you know, they came up 198 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,000 through the ranks. They started off as prison 199 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,120 guards and you know, they're one of them. 200 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:09,560 I ended up going to his retirement. 201 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,520 It was like one of the last things I did, it was, you know, 202 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,360 maybe six months, eight months before I ended up getting 203 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,120 suspended out. He he called me up and said, 204 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,760 hey, I'm retiring. But, but when you when you were 205 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:24,520 saying like peak FBI, this is what you expected, you guys met 206 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,200 in the parking lot early in the morning with coffee in my head, 207 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,680 I was thinking like, yeah, that's what we thought we were 208 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,520 signing up for. That's exactly what you thought 209 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,080 you were signing up for. I had one other moment like 210 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,600 that. I was in the desert in New 211 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,400 Mexico and it was me and my partner Josh. 212 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,080 And he was a great guy. He's a former Federal Air 213 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,880 Marshall and was a was a Marine Corps officer. 214 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,320 Just like all the he had all the the qualities of the people that 215 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,480 you thought he's he's this jacked black guy. 216 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:51,920 And he would always make us mad because he was just like he was 217 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,560 always ripped out of his mind and he would show up like 218 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:55,920 wearing like a hoodie and kind of like dressed down because we 219 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,960 did surveillance work. I remember Josh showing up one 220 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,480 day and and he was like, you know that feeling when you get 221 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,280 up in the morning and you look at yourself in the mirror and 222 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,080 you're like, Oh yeah, the apex rippling. 223 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,040 And I was like, no, I'm a dad and I'm not gay. 224 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,440 Like, I don't stare at my body and I'm not trying to get other 225 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:10,600 dudes. Aren't you married? 226 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,000 And his his wife was like, really thick. 227 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,240 And he that was that was his thing. 228 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:15,960 And anyway, it was just great. He was like, he was one of those 229 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,120 guys that he was the kind of teammate that you wanted to 230 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,560 have. And the two of us were in the 231 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:22,440 middle of New Mexico. We're following this bad guy a 232 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:28,280 legit a legit terrorist subject armed enormous, swore allegiance 233 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,760 to ISIS, radicalized wearing Islamic dress even though he was 234 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,960 like he looked like he would have been like a like a you 235 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,960 character except I think he was 69 and he was like 350. 236 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,160 So scaled up version of Garrett shaved head, you know white guy 237 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,560 from America that had gone full radical you know and gone the 238 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,880 and gone the other way and he drove himself out in the middle 239 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,800 of the desert and he was working out there on this like Indian 240 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:52,800 Reservation or something like that. 241 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,480 It was like this weird Pueblo in New Mexico, and he's doing what 242 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:57,840 I would call move to contact drills. 243 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,480 He was like shooting, dropping, moving like, you know, going 244 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,400 from cover to cover and shooting it and and moving up on targets 245 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,400 that were up against this dirt berm in the middle of nowhere. 246 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,640 And we're watching him. We got a plane overhead, and me 247 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:14,000 and Josh climb up this hill, you know, kind of like semi mountain 248 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,560 thing. And we just hike up this damn 249 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:18,520 thing with our telephoto lenses and a rifle in the backpack and 250 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,680 like, write radio, you know, it's just two dudes that are in 251 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,120 earth tones crawling up this like, side of the thing. 252 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:25,840 We're like sneaking around and we're taking pictures of him 253 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,600 from three, 400 yards away. The stuff that you thought you 254 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,520 were going to be doing. I got to do it a few. 255 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,640 Times. And that is the opposite of what 256 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,080 it really is about. What it really is about is go 257 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,320 get a COVID swab up your nose and we're going to kick you out 258 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,400 the door. But I thought it was interesting 259 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,160 because my boss didn't feel good about it and I found out later 260 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,920 that he was that he, you know, he protected his career. 261 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:46,520 There was something interesting that. 262 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,680 He knew it was wrong. He knew it was wrong, of course. 263 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,360 What was interesting is the next day you and I had already put 264 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,160 together a group of people in the Bureau that were in that 265 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,480 same boat that we're going to be facing some sort of hardship 266 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,720 about COVID, about eventually whistleblowers for some of them. 267 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,920 And and we had a Thanksgiving. The next day was the first 268 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:06,560 Thanksgiving that you and I knew each other. 269 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:08,680 And I'm wondering if you kind of tell some of that story for 270 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:11,920 folks from your perspective. Yeah, it's, it's pretty vivid 271 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:16,680 for me because it was shortly after I was brought into the 272 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:21,040 group and it was shortly after, you know, it was all this COVID 273 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,640 stuff. The the mandate to get the 274 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:27,880 vaccine was in September. By early October, we had to put 275 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,440 in our religious beliefs again. I still hold that that even that 276 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,440 was illegal. And then, you know, by November, 277 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,680 it's when they're starting to change around all the rules and 278 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:41,160 implement the testing. And so it was a stressful time 279 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,400 for those of us who said, hey, I actually think part of the 280 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,160 autonomy matters, and especially from a law enforcement context, 281 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:49,560 shouldn't we all be thinking that? 282 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,760 But you know, we banded together in this, in this little group 283 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:57,160 and my in laws came down to Kansas and the weather was 284 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,720 perfect. And you said, hey, today, we're 285 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,960 not talking COVID, we're not talking mandate. 286 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,760 We're just going to talk about what we're grateful for, what 287 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,080 we're thankful for. And throw up a picture of your 288 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,400 family if you want, you know, in here. 289 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:18,080 And I just remember checking in the group messages throughout 290 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:23,360 the day, just thinking like this, this is actually a 291 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:24,840 blessing. It's a blessing. 292 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,240 I don't know any of these people. 293 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,120 I think I knew maybe one or two of them. 294 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,040 Like I had actually met in person at that point. 295 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:37,160 And it just was like a very special day because. 296 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,600 We are, we are. We should be focused. 297 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,840 We should be grateful every day. You know, and I think often 298 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,480 times we. I know for me, I I I lean 299 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,160 towards the glass being being half empty. 300 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:55,680 And sometimes that prohibits me from from being grateful for 301 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:57,360 things that I should be grateful for. 302 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,880 And I just remember that day, like, every time checking in, 303 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,040 seeing a picture of somebody's family, seeing some Bible verse 304 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,440 about being grateful, seeing just a. 305 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,640 A heartfelt message to the group and what it had meant for them 306 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,800 to to have found it and be a part of this group because in 307 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,480 their office they feel so alone and I think we all we all felt 308 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,200 like that. And I I I grilled up some Turkey 309 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,200 that day. I grilled up some steak that 310 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,640 day. My you know my girls were were a 311 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:27,840 couple years younger than they are. 312 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,920 We only had three at the time but my in laws were down. 313 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:31,600 We ended up putting up the Christmas tree. 314 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,320 The weather wasn't as cold as it is here in Wisconsin. 315 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,080 It's beautiful in Kansas this time of year. 316 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,040 And like it. It just is a very stark memory 317 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,080 for me and I don't think I will forget it anytime soon. 318 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,280 Maybe once I'm demented like our president. 319 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:53,760 Hey, hey, hey, no politics. But yeah, man, it's a it's a 320 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,680 really good it's a good fond memory in in a in a season of 321 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:00,640 life. And I mean it's it's a few years 322 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,200 now and it seems that again a lot of ways it's only been 323 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,720 getting a little more difficult. But during this interesting 324 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:11,360 season of life and our paths intersecting, it stands out as 325 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,760 just a very bright spot that I can look back to and say, hey, 326 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,440 you know, it's always darkest before the dawn, but that dawn 327 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,320 does come and last. I think last year was was 328 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,440 probably dark for both of us in a big way. 329 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:26,880 We had just got in public. I was exhausted. 330 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,280 I know I was getting sick running around because we're 331 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,440 we're doing this like marathon to like nobody plans on being in 332 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,920 the media when you've never been in the media in your whole life 333 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:37,800 and you're in your 40s or you're in your late 30s. 334 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,240 And so you and I end up in this like thrust into this moment 335 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,960 where the only basically treading water for survival. 336 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,160 I I would I would like in all those like sort of Fox 337 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,640 interviews I started doing and just going on Dan's show which 338 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:49,920 I'm really you know, of the things I'm grateful for. 339 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,000 Dan Bongino is one of the people and one of the and his show is 340 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 one of the things that I am so grateful for particularly today 341 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,960 looking at where I am and where I was and what we needed to do. 342 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,160 Because I don't think it was about me and never was about me. 343 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,480 It was really about this country and more importantly I think it 344 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:05,440 was about my kids than anybody else. 345 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,880 Like I like I love all these people that are that have joined 346 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,560 us, that have joined our show that are part of the the sort of 347 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,680 the experience everyday and and you know get involved with it 348 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,240 and follow us on on all the social media. 349 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,640 But when it comes down to the things that were most important 350 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,600 for me to make a decision it wasn't like some faceless 351 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,120 nameless American that I hadn't met yet. 352 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,040 It was looking my kids in the eye and knowing that one day 353 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,200 that if they asked me, what did you do, what did you do when 354 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,560 there was a possibility to resist tyranny? 355 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,240 And the answer would be, I gave it everything I had. 356 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:35,840 And that's why we don't live in New Mexico. 357 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,520 And that's why we don't have the beautiful house we had. 358 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,080 And that's why our life went on a totally different direction 359 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:41,760 than what was planned. We had a dotted line that we 360 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,600 were following, and we were given an option basically for 361 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,000 all of our chips. Will you do what you're told? 362 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,000 Or will you do what you think is right? 363 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,400 And by the way, you should do what you're told. 364 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,440 And I said no. And you said no. 365 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,920 And a few small others did. And I think that's going to end 366 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,360 up making a big difference. Ryan made a funny comment the 367 00:15:58,360 --> 00:15:59,600 other day. To me, that just sits in my 368 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:00,800 brain now. It's kind of bothers me. 369 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,160 He's like, do you ever think about how Paul Revere thought 370 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,800 about himself when he was doing what he was doing and that they 371 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,160 would tell stories about him in history? 372 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:10,440 Do you ever think about them like you like that? 373 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,240 And I'm like, no, of course not. That's absurd. 374 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,160 I'm too busy doing what I'm doing. 375 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,240 If they end up telling stories about what you and I did, that 376 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,440 would be, that'd be incredibly bizarre and I don't and not even 377 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,520 necessarily warranted. Agreed. 378 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:23,960 I think you took that text out of context. 379 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:25,600 Did I what? Yeah. 380 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,000 What I was meaning by that was like, do you think in general, 381 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,920 like people like yourself, like maybe Garrett O Boyles, the 382 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,800 Steve friends, the Carlos Arlianos. 383 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,720 Like do you ever think about like, what this movement is 384 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,840 doing that it might be looked back upon at one time like this 385 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,600 might be, Yeah, it's the same. It's the same. 386 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:40,680 Revere thought about that at the time. 387 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,120 I don't think he did. And I don't think you can. 388 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,240 And I'll tell you why, because you got to just you got to be in 389 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,160 the moment working on the problem. 390 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,520 The problem is, is the history is written, written by the 391 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,400 victor. And so we're going to talk about 392 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:52,880 history in just a second year because there's some funny 393 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,520 little things on Wikipedia about Thanksgiving that I find. 394 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,560 But if you don't win, then they'll never talk about you. 395 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,200 You're not going to hear about the people that tried to resist 396 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:03,800 certain areas because it didn't happen. 397 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,800 As far as the the the winning regime, you know, was involved, 398 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,800 they they can just blank you out. 399 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,240 And so treading water to save your life is a really good 400 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,000 example of it. You're holding some weight over 401 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,160 your head of unknown weight. They could throw any more on at 402 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,599 any time and you got to tread furiously to keep up. 403 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:20,359 That was my experience of the last Thanksgiving, and this one 404 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,640 is wildly different. We're in Texas, my family's all 405 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,440 around the table. We're going to probably FaceTime 406 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,560 with my folks. We won't be able to be in in 407 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,319 person with them because we're kind of doing a different game. 408 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:30,320 And you guys, too. I know you guys had a really 409 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,880 rough one last year and this year's a little bit brighter. 410 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,360 Yeah, for sure. Like, you probably remember that 411 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:41,200 picture I sent you when we got into the rental and I had? 412 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:46,040 I had gotten gotten back from Virginia and pretty much the 413 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,640 entire garage was filled with boxes of our stuff. 414 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,720 And then most places in the house had boxes strewn about and 415 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,880 just a couple weeks later was Thanksgiving. 416 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,440 And it was, yeah, it was rough. It was rough. 417 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,680 I mean, yeah, it's been an interesting year. 418 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:07,360 Definitely some very dark spots along the way, some very bright 419 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:10,720 spots along the way too. So it's just it's interesting 420 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,560 like you know, my my father-in-law told me the other 421 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,960 day that. He was just so grateful for me 422 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,120 and people like me. He mentioned you and Steve both 423 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:23,960 and said I just don't think I could do it. 424 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,800 And I was like, I don't think that's true. 425 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:33,680 When we took, when we decided to do what was right, it wasn't 426 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,920 like we thought, man, I'm so courageous or that I have 427 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,920 another choice. Yeah, and I told him that we're 428 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,880 not wired to to do it another way. 429 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:43,960 I think a lot of people have that same sense. 430 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:45,920 Probably all the people who turned down the shots. 431 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:47,920 To be fair, which is a huge chunk of this country, it may 432 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,560 not be everybody. There's an awful lot of people 433 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,080 that said I don't think so this is, this doesn't feel right to 434 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,960 me. And and now there's people too, 435 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,320 who are coming out and admitting that they were duped, that they 436 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,400 thought, oh, the government and the media are telling us that 437 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,360 these things are safe and and good and not only are they going 438 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:08,120 to help me and they're going to help my neighbor. 439 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:13,120 I mean, I so yeah, I'll take it. And now they're like, uh, oh, I 440 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,360 wish I wouldn't have done that. And I don't know. 441 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,520 You know what I don't know what where the difference is for 442 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,680 somebody like you or me where right away we thought no this is 443 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,240 something's off here. You know and I'm not I'm not 444 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,520 doing it no matter what. And then look what it led to. 445 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,720 At first it was get your shot and you'll get a free doughnut 446 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,480 from Krispy Kreme. And it turned into don't get 447 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,280 your shot and your untermensch and you're getting cast out from 448 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,640 the federal government if you. For for some reason that we'll 449 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,760 just try to stick on you, man. They went from, they went from 450 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,200 carrot to stick really fast, didn't they? 451 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,200 Oh yeah, Yep, for sure. That's pretty wild. 452 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,040 Let's let's say thanks to someone who's been with me 453 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,360 basically since I started doing this. 454 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:56,240 This is a Patriot cooler, so I'm holding on to one right now. 455 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,600 Folks, You can check out Patriot coolers. 456 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,680 I'm not saying go buy, it looks like they've just done. 457 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:01,360 In fact, here here's a recommendation. 458 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,640 They just did a 20% site wide sale. 459 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,080 It's automatically applied in the thing. 460 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,200 So don't use my promo code. Just go to patriotcoolers.com. 461 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,800 If there's anything you want to buy 20% off, that's their that's 462 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,320 their Black Friday. Deal that's going through. 463 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,080 So if there was something you had your eye on, you're waiting 464 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,800 on a bigger discount. That's this is the one. 465 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,600 I've never seen him do that one. So that's the best. 466 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,120 And then what I'll say is they'll they'll offer you little 467 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:23,080 notes when you do the order. It says order notes. 468 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,560 Just put in Kyle Serif and show us the note if you would. 469 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,240 If you guys are being referred by us check out some of the 470 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:29,560 bigger stuff. Now, these would be a good time 471 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,160 if you were going to try to do one for Christmas and you're 472 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,800 like, hey, wouldn't it be nice to save a couple bucks? 473 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,840 No, but no doubt about it, if you're a aquamarine or a Tiffany 474 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,280 blue type, maybe you got a matching Glock that goes with 475 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:40,920 it, like that Patriot cooler we're showing right there. 476 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,280 The 50 quart. That's the one I keep in my 477 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:44,880 trunk all the time. And I'm telling you, if you've 478 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,520 never carried around a cooler as one of these smarter options to 479 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:52,880 keep a lot of your stuff cold from the grocery store, you are 480 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,720 absolutely missing out on using your equipment that you probably 481 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,240 already have. If you have a regular cooler of 482 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,120 any kind. I don't know if you have a 483 00:20:58,120 --> 00:20:59,120 Coleman or something else try it out. 484 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:00,840 I think you guys will find that's that's pretty smart. 485 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,040 But these are Smart Tools for outdoor they last forever the 486 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,800 last A Lifetime Patriot coolers.com. 487 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,400 And like you said, they've been, they've been supportive of our 488 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,720 show since we had not even a big enough audience to justify the 489 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,880 kind of advertisement they wanted to do. 490 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:16,840 Really grateful for them as a sponsor. 491 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,800 Really grateful them as people. The folks out there, my brother 492 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,640 has an association with the company, nice people in Houston, 493 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,920 TX, American people doing a job. You know putting out a product 494 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,200 that I think there was a there was a need in the market because 495 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,120 like I said, you're not a Yeti, you're not a lifetime, you're 496 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:34,280 not an Igloo, you're not a Coleman, you might be a patriot. 497 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,840 So check out Patriot coolers.com. 498 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,680 Like I said, don't use my promo code right now for the next 499 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,600 couple days. Just put Kyle Seraphin show in 500 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:41,880 the notes if you decide to order something. 501 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:43,200 And we're really grateful for them. 502 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:44,880 So we want to say we appreciate it here. 503 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:48,720 So I want to do history. Can we do history for a little 504 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:49,040 bit? Garrett? 505 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,920 Can I bring some stuff up from some funny stuff? 506 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:51,920 Let's. Do it. 507 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,960 OK, let's do it. So first of all, and then we've 508 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,880 got a clip from The History Channel that you're really going 509 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,120 to appreciate. It's going to be some of the 510 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:59,520 most educational piece. So folks, if you are, if you're 511 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,480 watching, stay tuned. You're going to enjoy this. 512 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,200 First of all, Wikipedia tells us that according to some 513 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,640 historians, the 1st celebration of Thanksgiving in North America 514 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,400 actually heard happened in 1578 with a guy named Martin 515 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,480 Fishbearer, who came in from England and happened in Canada. 516 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,640 Wow. But there's also no compelling 517 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,800 reason for anyone to believe that, and that the origins of 518 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,400 the Canadian Thanksgiving are probably made-up. 519 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,720 We thanks, thanks Wikipedia, but also thanks Canadians. 520 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,720 How how fun are you guys? It also says the annual 521 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,920 tradition in North American colonies documented the first 522 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:37,800 time in in 1619, which was now, which is what is is now 523 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:38,440 Virginia. Now. 524 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,840 I'd always heard it was 1621, and of course they end up saying 525 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,440 that. And so there's some some sort of 526 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:48,000 negotiations, whether it was 16211623 or 1631. 527 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,440 But let me share a fun story about what it was not. 528 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:53,120 A couple years back, I was quite a bit younger. 529 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:55,560 I'd probably just been somewhere between College in the military 530 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,760 and I was sitting at the Thanksgiving table with my folks 531 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,640 and we were, they were in Dallas, TX at the time in North 532 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,080 Dallas. And so my mom was cooking and my 533 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,200 dad was cooking and the kids were all busting around. 534 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,360 I've got I have 6 total brothers and sisters combined, including 535 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:12,880 me. So only five of us were there. 536 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,560 My oldest brother was in Hawaii and we're all around the table 537 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,520 and some of them are younger. They might have been high school 538 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:18,960 age or college age, something like that. 539 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,240 And my mom sat down and she was teaching school at the time and 540 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,800 she was a preschool teacher and she told us very proudly I might 541 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,120 add. My mother, Diane Seraphin, said, 542 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:34,920 I taught all of my students today about the first 543 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:40,120 Thanksgiving and how the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock 544 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:43,480 on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. 545 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,360 And they met up with Sakajuiya and made contact with the 546 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:53,560 Indians and had the first Thanksgiving, which is one of 547 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:54,960 the funniest things that I've ever heard. 548 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,160 And we all burst out laughing and she had no idea why we were 549 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,480 laughing. And my and my brothers and I are 550 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:01,720 always kind of like turds like this. 551 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,040 And we said, Mom, did it. Ever wonder, like, did any of 552 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:09,000 your kids ask why those English puritanical settlers who came to 553 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,880 the New World were riding on Spanish ships that were piloted 554 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,440 by an Italian guy in the person of Christopher Columbus? 555 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:17,600 And she's like, what do you mean? 556 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,440 I was like the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. 557 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,760 Isn't that kind of a weird name for a set of English ships she 558 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:22,640 had? No, she just. 559 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,120 I said. You just made a smoothie of, 560 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:26,360 like, about 150 years of American history. 561 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,440 And the sad thing is. Close enough. 562 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,400 You told it to preschool kids, and you told it to preschool 563 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,840 kids who are predominantly first generation Americans with 564 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,080 immigrant parents, 'cause she had a lot of, like, Indian 565 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:38,480 families that were, like, in the tech world. 566 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,080 So none of them probably knew the real story of Thanksgiving 567 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,400 anyway. And they went home and they're 568 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,120 telling their parents that the parents are probably like, Oh 569 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:45,480 yeah, cool. And then they go to, they go to 570 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,680 work the next day or they go on Black Friday and they start 571 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,000 telling all their friends, yeah, you know, the name of the paint 572 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,600 in the Santa Maria landing, all those pilgrims. 573 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,880 It's just funny if you don't, if you don't look into history, I 574 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,840 think so many of us don't have any concept of what it is. 575 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,160 I'm ready for your reaction to this. 576 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,400 I got a video for you. Are you prepared? 577 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,520 I'm prepared steal yourself for some hard facts about 578 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,000 Thanksgiving. Folks. 579 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaking, speaking. There's a Kyle in this clip that 580 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,080 you guys are going to really appreciate. 581 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,160 But this is the real history of Thanksgiving. 582 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:15,000 And Ryan, if you want to go ahead and run that video from 583 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,280 The History Channel so people can be educated a little bit 584 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,560 more, I think we should all know best about this day. 585 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,680 You're watching The History Channel, where the truth is 586 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,520 history. A lot has been written about the 587 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,560 first Thanksgiving between Pilgrims and Native Americans, 588 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,680 But what really happened at that first historic dinner? 589 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:35,960 Dude, See, I told you. Who needs to read a bunch of 590 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,480 stupid books when we've got History Channel? 591 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,880 We know the first Thanksgiving was in the fall of 1621, but new 592 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,040 evidence suggests that the first exchanging of food between the 593 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,080 Pilgrims and Native Americans may have been visited by aliens. 594 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,280 In every journal entry we research from those early 595 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,400 Pilgrims, not one entry mentions anything about aliens not being 596 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,960 there. And what about the food? 597 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,040 Does the appearance of stuffing at the first Thanksgiving table 598 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,320 suggest a kind of alien technology? 599 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,640 What? This isn't history, dude. 600 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,520 It is called History Channel and if we look in all the journals 601 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,120 and all the history books, there is no reference to stuffing 602 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,880 before 1621. So where did it come from? 603 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,160 Did it come from space? We just don't know. 604 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,160 Did ancient aliens shape the first Thanksgiving? 605 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,040 Is it mere coincidence that Cape Cod, when viewed from space, 606 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,160 looks like an alien life form? What exactly did the Pilgrims 607 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,800 experience? How exactly did those beings 608 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,200 from another world shape the dinner we celebrate every 609 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:43,920 November? What? 610 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,280 How? Why are you being so grumpy? 611 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,080 Are you in your period again? We are not basing research for 612 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,560 our report on this crap. OK, let's take a vote. 613 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,160 Who thinks the possibility of ancient aliens at Thanksgiving 614 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:54,600 makes for an interesting history report? 615 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,320 You OK? And who wants to take a little 616 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,120 pampering so their menstrual cramps stop bringing everyone 617 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,120 down? Yeah, all right, fine. 618 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:09,400 Let's just get this stupid report over with for me. 619 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,400 That entire video clip is set up so that they could show an 620 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,800 overhead shot at Cape Cod with the alien drawing, which looks 621 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,040 like it was drawn by some guys. I was enlisted with 100. 622 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,920 Percent for sure. How many drawings like that did 623 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,560 you see in a part of John, you know, like before you're heading 624 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,040 out to the field or whatever. So the worst for me was I went 625 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,760 and did this training one time as a paramedic training and it 626 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,880 was with a bunch like some HRT medics, the hostage rescue team, 627 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,440 pretty, pretty capable guys. They they do a lot of elite sort 628 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,400 of training and so on. And so these guys are down there 629 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,880 teaching and it's a bunch of FBI paramedics and EM TS that are 630 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,600 going to go through this. And we were going to go through 631 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,600 what's called PHTLS pre hospital trauma life support which is the 632 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,640 sort of standard for when you do gunshot wounds whatever. 633 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,200 It's the military standard of it. 634 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,920 And there's a PHTLS civilian book, and then there's a 635 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,560 military book. And the difference is between 636 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:57,840 the two books, I think it's just the cover. 637 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,240 The military book has, like, a guy who's wearing, you know, 638 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,720 like, army clothes or whatever. And so I've got mine and I 639 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,920 haven't opened it. I don't know if I've ever opened 640 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,040 it. I've had it since I was in the 641 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,000 Air Force. I had it. 642 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,640 This is probably 2017 or 2018. So I've had this book for six 643 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,880 years, maybe or more seven years, and I've never really 644 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,000 gone through it. And I and we're flipping through 645 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,360 and we're talking about how, like, how to do intubations, 646 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:22,320 which is where you open up somebody's mouth and you send 647 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,440 out a tube and it goes down to the lungs and then you can 648 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:25,840 breathe for them. You have a direct pathway in 649 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,000 case they have a compromised airway. 650 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:29,880 And I open it up to this page, which is like halfway into the 651 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,480 book and there's a picture of like a guy and he's like lean 652 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,040 back like this and somebody just drew a Dick into his mouth. 653 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,840 And on the next page it's signed Love Mark. 654 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,560 And I remember Mark. I remember Mark. 655 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,200 I remember serving with Mark. He was a turd. 656 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,120 He's down in Florida now as far as I remember. 657 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,680 And it was like that was the longest run up to a joke I've 658 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,080 ever seen in my life. It was a seven-year joke before 659 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,320 I actually got it. I never even saw the thing. 660 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,120 He probably was like, yeah, I'm going to get a good. 661 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,640 Seven years later, I finally see that he drew a Dick in the 662 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,200 mouth, this person. And of course, I'm sitting next 663 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,760 to a female FBI medic who ended up being a good buddy. 664 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,640 She was. She was a good person, but she 665 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,640 looks over and she's like, she's like, why did you draw that? 666 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:06,920 And I'm like. I didn't. 667 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,280 That wasn't me. That was Mark, apparently eight 668 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,560 years ago. That's hilarious. 669 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,160 That's such a that's such a typical like enlisted guy thing 670 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:17,800 to do too. You know, like, oh, I'm gonna 671 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,600 get him and you know, do whatever a drawing like that or 672 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,200 man, always, always silly jokes like that and then you come 673 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,280 across it and you're like, hey, what the eight years later. 674 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,800 Yeah. And I knew exactly who had done 675 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,840 it too, 'cause these devious turds, they would all, like open 676 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,120 up each other's books. They were always doing it to 677 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:34,880 each other. I just, I usually kept my books 678 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,120 in the shrink wrap, 'cause I didn't even use them for 679 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,600 whatever reason. I guess ancient aliens may or 680 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,440 may not be responsible for the first Thanksgiving and or the 681 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,880 Nina, the paint in the Santa Maria, as is the Seraphin family 682 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,600 tradition. So it's worth knowing your 683 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,360 history, otherwise you're you're doomed to forgive it. 684 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,680 It wasn't always about, like colonists coming off and killing 685 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,000 all the the Indians, right? It's just we used to know it was 686 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,720 about aliens. Here's your blanket with 687 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,040 smallpox on it. Have a nice life. 688 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,920 And some people still trust the government, which is pretty 689 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,760 amazing, right? I'm gonna. 690 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,520 I'm gonna read you something. This is a kind of an interesting 691 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,680 little plug, folks. If you see my pin, Twitter. 692 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,040 I actually just got this yesterday. 693 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,600 This is my father Charlie Serafin's book. 694 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,120 There it is. It's The Story of Your Life, 695 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,760 Write Your Own Obituary by Charlie Surfin. 696 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,640 And I wanted to read the opening of it, Speaking of history, 697 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,640 because when I got it yesterday, the opening pages I thought were 698 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,640 perfectly encapsulating the kind of childhood in the life that I 699 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,600 grew up with with my my dad and kind of the quirky dude that he 700 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:30,920 was. And I and you guys have never 701 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,160 heard any of this stuff. So this is kind of interesting. 702 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,960 The The opening introduction says that it's important that 703 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,600 that you write your obituaries is the most important and more 704 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,520 important than all the selfies in your photo file. 705 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,560 Your obituary is going to capture the essence of your 706 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,440 life. Unfortunately, you don't get to 707 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,200 write it yourself and it if you don't write it yourself, then it 708 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,200 won't be properly done. This is what happened to my dad. 709 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,360 Here's my dad's obituary taken from the Rhinelander Daily News 710 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,960 in April of 1962 when my grandfather died, long before I 711 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:01,000 was born. And it says Joseph Serafin dies 712 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,880 here today. Joseph Arthur Serafin, 68 years 713 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,720 old, a lifelong resident of Rhinelander, died in Saint 714 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,880 Mary's Hospital this morning after an extended illness. 715 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,840 He lived at 35 Lake Creek Rd. And operated the Lake Creek 716 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,960 grocery store for the last 10 years. 717 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:23,640 Born here on January 20th, 1894, Mr. Serafin operated a Tavern 718 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,040 for many years. He survived by his wife Betty 719 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:32,200 and four sons, John, Charles, Michael and Mark, all at home. 720 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,320 And a daughter, Miss Mary Catherine Seraphin of Milwaukee 721 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,520 and a sister misses Raymond Powers of Rhinelander. 722 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,040 The church service will be held at 9:00 AM Wednesday at Saint 723 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,000 Joseph's Church. It's officiated by Reverend 724 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,280 Joseph Miller. Burial will be in Saint Joseph's 725 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,520 Cemetery after 2:00 PM. The body will be at the 726 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,280 Hildebrand Funeral Home. A rosary will be said at 8:00 PM 727 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,200 Monday. That was the story of my 728 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,560 grandfather's life in his obituary. 729 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,040 And Garrett, you want to hear the real story? 730 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,840 Yep. So my dad wrote this. 731 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,200 This is the opening pages of the book. 732 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,160 He said if you knew my dad, you'd laugh how little he 733 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,640 resembled the person that was described here. 734 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,360 My dad was a bootlegger, and he spent 18 months in federal 735 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,720 penitentiary for operating an unlicensed still after 736 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,840 Prohibition in 1932. He was still the largest. 737 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,320 He his still was the largest ever confiscated by federal 738 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,280 officials in those Northwoods. He took the fall for his crew 739 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,440 operating the still because the others had children, and at the 740 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,560 time he did not. He was also the operator of a 741 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,000 brothel and several speakeasies. He did run a grocery store, as 742 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,080 described in the obituary, but he was also a boxer and an 743 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,600 inventor and a farmer and an expert horse trainer. 744 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,120 His published obituary says nothing about his character, his 745 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,920 values, his beliefs, his idiosyncrasies, his hobbies, 746 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,480 skills, or anything else that explains who he was. 747 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,800 If you search the archives for my father's obituary, you'll 748 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,600 still find it under Joseph. No one ever called him Joseph 749 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,440 either. His name was Joe. 750 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,120 The obituary refers to me as Charles, and no one's ever 751 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,880 called me Charles. My name is Charlie. 752 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,560 That's the, that's my dad's opening lines to the book right 753 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:57,960 there. If folks want to get this, this 754 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,200 is a an evaluation of conscience, a examination of 755 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,600 conscience in many ways. And it's, I think, an 756 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,160 interesting sort of snapshot on the way that we don't get to 757 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,440 tell our own life story except in many ways we may be able to 758 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,000 do that. You and I are are in a place 759 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,600 where we're documenting a lot of our life story for people. 760 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,840 But most of you I have probably never sat back and thought what 761 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,440 happens when I die? How my kids going to know what 762 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:20,760 the story is? How do I tell it? 763 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,840 Everyone thought, oh, I should write a book or I should record 764 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:23,920 this. I should put it down for 765 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,640 prosperity. This book is kind of an 766 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,520 interesting way to examine it. What are the most valuable 767 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:28,600 things? What do you want to pass on? 768 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,880 So anyway, check out my dad's book on Amazon right now and 769 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,960 write him a review if you like it, and I think you will. 770 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,560 And he's the guy that kind of helped me become the person that 771 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:37,520 I am. It's kind of interesting. 772 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,920 What do you think about that that that obituary story? 773 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,440 I think it's it's it's captivating because. 774 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,200 We don't think of this very often, but think of any obituary 775 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,320 you've ever read. How many of them are like that, 776 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:57,400 where it's just these these hollow statements about who the 777 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:02,320 person was and how those who remain remember them? 778 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:08,159 And then just a little bit, your dad added and said this is more 779 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:11,560 like who he was. It's like, man, it's. 780 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,679 It's a it's AI think it's a very captivating way to start that 781 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:19,159 book because for me just listening it drew me in because 782 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:21,880 it's like oh man that's a great point haven't really thought 783 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,560 about it. Obituaries often times are that 784 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,239 way. They're not capturing very much 785 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,760 of of people's character and you know, you know this Kyle, we've 786 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,719 had some some deaths in in the family recently and it you know 787 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,199 it was Heidi's grandpa on one side and grandma on the other 788 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,920 and. So attending these funerals with 789 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,440 with large numbers of family who were there and who knew these 790 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,320 people well or you know even even Heidi she's the 791 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,880 granddaughter you know of both of them and so she she's known 792 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,040 that she knows she knew them both very well like it. 793 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,040 There's a different piece that we that we have, you know, with 794 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,240 us of of the people we we have relationships with and the 795 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,520 people we encounter in life and. Those obituaries, man, they ring 796 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,680 hollow. I think your dad nailed it in, 797 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,280 In that regard. I mean, the guy owned, what do 798 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,360 they say? They didn't say any of the funny 799 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:16,360 things. All the stories that I know 800 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,200 about my grandfather, If you were to go, you know, tell me 801 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,640 about him in a few words. It's like, yeah, bootlegger. 802 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,320 That's family lore. And it's a great story. 803 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,960 And there's, there's some newspaper articles that were 804 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:26,320 written about the time when he went out there. 805 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,640 There's some wild stories about how after he got out of jail, 806 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,800 apparently he just partied his face off for for like a year or 807 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,640 two. And the story that made him get 808 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,200 sober, which is also a really interesting story of Will. 809 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,400 I remember my dad telling me that he basically had these like 810 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,480 poodles or these like very fancy dogs and he took them everywhere 811 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,320 and and he was really into having these dogs because he 812 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,760 didn't have kids. And and then at he was parting 813 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,560 so hard that at some point he woke up and he'd given one of 814 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,440 his dogs away to a stranger. Because he was so drunk. 815 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,920 And it's like, that's a real story about a real person. 816 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,560 It's not. Rosary will be done at 8:00 PM 817 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,440 on Monday and we're going to put his body in state and then 818 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,800 that's the end of it. And and so many of us don't 819 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:03,960 think of what that legacy looks like. 820 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,120 And I think that I imagine what the the the first people that 821 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,760 were there on that first Thanksgiving, you know they they 822 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,720 were probably so grateful that they were live. 823 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:13,400 I mean most of us are not in the food chain. 824 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,360 But when people landed on this rock here and came to this 825 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,960 country, everything was a threat. 826 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,120 Unknown people that spoke a language they couldn't 827 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,080 understand. A threat the the a new form of 828 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,560 winter that they hadn't experienced before. 829 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,920 New foliage, new berries that could kill them, new animals 830 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,680 that were moving in a different way than they did in the in the 831 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:34,480 the woods in Europe. I mean, like think about coming 832 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,360 from England, which is an island, it doesn't have any of 833 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,840 these things. Then think about the snakes that 834 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,600 exist down in Florida. You know, it's like or the snake 835 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,200 that was crapping on our show yesterday. 836 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,960 There's there's so many things here that would be absolutely 837 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,400 like an existential threat to your family's existence and and 838 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,600 just to be able to have a few minutes to be grateful is still 839 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,280 pretty incredible to carve out that time. 840 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,240 I think that's what Thanksgiving is about, that without thinking 841 00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:58,240 about all the chaos and the noise, you just take a minute 842 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:00,320 and you go. I'm really grateful for people 843 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,080 and all the good things that are going on. 844 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,720 And it's it's a glass half full glass half empty thing. 845 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,360 I'm tend to. I bet I'm like you. 846 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,960 I I look at the the glass as being half empty all the time. 847 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,680 Except except when I remind myself not to. 848 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,960 Which is so important for sure. It's like, OK, I got to remind 849 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,600 myself, I look at it like it's half empty. 850 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,520 If I want it to be full, I better fill it up. 851 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,920 And that's I think where we all come in. 852 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,680 We we have to do our part to make it. 853 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,200 A full glass, especially for our kids like you mentioned earlier. 854 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,320 You know, I've told, I don't know if I've told you this. 855 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,080 I probably have. It's hard to remember 856 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,400 everything. But I've told Heidi before that 857 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:42,440 if it was just me, I don't know, I I'd probably do do more like 858 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,200 what your grandpa did and just you know party my face off. 859 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:50,920 But one of the main probably the main reason I continue to to 860 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,560 like I don't want to be public. You know me. 861 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,720 I'm kind of shy. I'm kind of quiet and. 862 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,760 It's kind of weird. And, you know, I I don't want 863 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,920 this, but when I look at my kids, I, I, I really do think I 864 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:09,520 have to do what I can to to make their country better than it is 865 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,040 today. And we're failing at that right 866 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,600 now. So it's like, OK, well, I don't 867 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,120 have another option. But if I was alone, I probably 868 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,440 would have just quit, become a cop again and moved on with my 869 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,040 life, like, OK, whatever. But it's like no that that's. 870 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,360 Not even an option at least for now. 871 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:30,640 And I I, I know I'm jumping all over but your grandpa up in 872 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,280 Rhinelander, the Northwoods of Wisconsin. 873 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,440 So if my history is correct and I I'm. 874 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,000 I'm pretty sure it is a lot of the the bootleggers up there 875 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,640 they were they were running booze for Al Capone and and and 876 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,800 the big mob down in Chicago which is where the speakeasies 877 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,680 and and where the where the brothel was supposedly so. 878 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,800 So yes, 100% he was running for the Capones. 879 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:52,840 Yep. Yep. 880 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,160 I had it's, it's interesting. I have a similar story and on my 881 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,920 mom's side going back a couple generations like that which is 882 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,040 but over in a place called Shawna, which is over by Green 883 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,040 Bay, kind of. But it's funny, you know, like 884 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,160 even even that bizarre Wisconsin connection that we have, you 885 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,920 know, is is kind of a fun part of the story. 886 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,280 And I used to live in Kansas. Yeah, look at that. 887 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,240 It's weird. It's weird how these things all 888 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:21,040 tend to intersect at times, you know? 889 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,120 Yeah, one of the one of the things you just mentioned, and 890 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,080 and it occurred to me as I was, as I was getting up this 891 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,560 morning, I have, I I wash all the suspendable shirts 892 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:31,720 separately. They're my, they're my work 893 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:33,240 shirts, 'cause I put them on every day, and I have a 894 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:34,520 different one for every day of the week. 895 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,480 So today's Zelinski special, And I pull them out of the laundry. 896 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:39,720 And what I was even thinking about is this. 897 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,360 If it was just me, like you were talking about no skin in the 898 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:47,000 game, no kids, no requirements, no no wife, I'm responsible for, 899 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,560 even with a wife, maybe not the same. 900 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,760 I would probably live out of the dryer. 901 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,040 Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, I I wouldn't even clear 902 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,120 the dryer and fold my clothes and put it away because, like, I 903 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,120 I've got other things that are more important to me. 904 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:01,680 I'm a dude. I care about dude stuff. 905 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,000 I'd much rather go and Polish my guns or make sure my bowl 906 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,320 carrier is properly lubricated and that I've got my magazine 907 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,040 stacked the way that I want. Far, far more important to me 908 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:11,920 than going and making sure that my shirts are out of the dryer. 909 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,080 But I have to get my shirts out of the dryer and I have to put 910 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,880 them in a laundry basket. I have to go put them somewhere 911 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:16,920 else. At least they have to go into my 912 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,960 closet where nobody can bother them because I've got kids that 913 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,280 are going to be filling up the next load. 914 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,280 And they are constantly my my son uses his entire body as a 915 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,840 napkin, as a human napkin. And every single shirt he has 916 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,640 has like stains here and stains across the belly and stains on 917 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,280 the pant legs. Whatever angle his fingers are 918 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,000 going to attack his clothes, there are stains that are finger 919 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,240 shaped in all of it, right? And and and they have to be 920 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:40,440 washed all the time. And my wife spends all this time 921 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,160 doing it. I probably would live out of the 922 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,120 dryer if it wasn't for my kids, which would be a lower form of 923 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,440 living in many ways. For sure, yeah. 924 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,320 Like, I think of simple things like that too, where like I 925 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,880 don't know what it what it could be a countless number of things 926 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:59,120 and it's like, oh, OK, I got to pick up this blanket or pillow 927 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,120 or whatever, just to show, just to be the example, to be like we 928 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:04,480 don't leave things just laying around. 929 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,560 But if it was just me, like, I can sit there for another couple 930 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,440 hours, I'll get it later. But it's, I think that's part of 931 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,760 the point, you know, of like you have to rise. 932 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,040 To to you. You have to bring yourself to a 933 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:24,040 higher level to to help teach your kids how they should be 934 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,360 living life. And yeah, we're not going to get 935 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:26,840 right all the time or every time. 936 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:32,120 But I do wonder, you know, I I had an ASAC who was also 937 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:37,040 unvaccinated. And I remember telling him on 938 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,640 the phone when I decided to refuse to test as well because I 939 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,320 had just recovered from COVID and at the time. 940 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,440 The CD CS standard was if you recovered from COVID, you don't 941 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,640 have to test for 90 days or something like that. 942 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,120 I have the documentation for it all. 943 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,680 And I said you guys continue to violate even what the CDC is 944 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,040 putting out. So I'm not going to be playing 945 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,080 your shell game anymore. And he's like, you know, 946 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,240 Garrett, you know, I'm doing it still. 947 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,600 It's not a big deal. You were doing it like just 948 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,200 trying to get me, get me back on board, you know, And it's like, 949 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:12,160 no, I'm not, I'm not doing this. And I told him, what example 950 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:16,800 would I be to my kids? If I did the wrong thing when I 951 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:22,160 knew what was right, and like that'll stick with me too for 952 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,680 for a long time because of how he tried to pitch it. 953 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:30,680 And as far as I know, he is still collecting his GS14 GS 15 954 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:35,400 salary and doing just fine complying with the dictates of a 955 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,440 tyrannical regime. And it's like, dude, don't you 956 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,560 know that they're still coming for you? 957 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,240 Like, you're on their list, You're a Christian. 958 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,800 That's, you know, he claimed to be and that's why he abstained 959 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,040 from the vaccine because of his faith. 960 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,520 But it's like, but if he hadn't, but if he hadn't put you to a 961 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,320 decision for your chips and giving you an opportunity to 962 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,240 stand firm, you wouldn't have been there to help me move my 963 00:42:58,240 --> 00:42:59,800 stuff out of New Mexico. I would have been doing that all 964 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,440 by myself. And so it's true. 965 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,600 Even these weird little things that we don't understand at the 966 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,240 moment that that pushed you, they they kind of radicalize 967 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:07,880 you. I'm I'm grateful for them. 968 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:09,400 Even though they they suck to live through. 969 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,040 They're they're so important. And just like when you look back 970 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,320 at all the tough things you did, either basic training or going 971 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,640 into combat or or training to go out, seeing friends lost and all 972 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,200 those things, a lot of the stuff you look back is gilded now. 973 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,880 It looks like the end of the day. 974 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,640 In the past, when we see things, it's like the sun going down low 975 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,880 and everything looks prettier because there's a there's a glow 976 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,800 to it because it's the past and you're not actively feeling 977 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,640 those emotions. And as you get that time and 978 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,720 distance in space, you can see the the best parts of it. 979 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,600 I think so many of those things, that's what this this day is 980 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,320 about for me, is like looking at the things that I could be 981 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,080 grateful for in the past, things that I was probably pissed about 982 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,280 even in the moment. I'm not. 983 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,680 I might have been frustrated about like that that 984 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,160 Thanksgiving when my mom was telling the funny smoothie story 985 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,600 about the all the all the things that were American history that 986 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:51,640 were wrong, that were not correct. 987 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,680 I was probably frustrated because, you know, family 988 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:54,840 gatherings often have that thing. 989 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,160 But later, given time, it's a beautiful and funny experience. 990 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,920 It's one of those moments when we all laughed, even if it was 991 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,880 at her expense, and even now she should laugh about it 'cause 992 00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:05,280 it's funny. It's funny, yeah. 993 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,440 And and and no feelings have to be hurt. 994 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:10,360 It's just, it's important that we have that perspective, that 995 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,440 today's pain and frustration and difficulties will be tomorrow's, 996 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,080 you know, difficult memories and they will be 10 years from now. 997 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,160 That story that you tell, that you learn the lesson from and 998 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,120 you couldn't know about it now. You couldn't know about it in 999 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,280 the moment, ever. Yeah, for sure. 1000 00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:29,200 Like, you know, I think back to last year, this time last year 1001 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:35,320 and the difficulties that were there and you know me, I I 1002 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,800 jumped heavily into my faith and I was, I was probably reading 1003 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,800 the Bible more every day than me perhaps ever before. 1004 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,640 And I was in Jonah a lot back then, as you know, but I was 1005 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,440 also reading in Job and in James a lot and. 1006 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,720 It's it's funny how things work. You know, not funny ha ha. 1007 00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:58,440 But just like oh, OK I see. I see in part what was going on 1008 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,200 because Heidi and I found ourselves in a in a Bible study 1009 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,680 more recently where every other week where we're going through 1010 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,960 sections of job again. So I'm. 1011 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000 I'm getting to dive a little deeper into it. 1012 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,720 But what I was thinking about this morning, about about 1013 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:17,200 gratitude took me back to James. Chapter one. 1014 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,640 And if you don't mind, I'm just going to read a couple verses, 1015 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,840 verses 2 through 4I think that's a good way to wrap it. 1016 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,000 Yep, let's. Do it, it says, count it all. 1017 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,800 Joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. 1018 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,240 For you know that the testing of your faith produces 1019 00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:32,200 steadfastness, and let steadfastness have its full 1020 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,320 effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in 1021 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,800 nothing. And I remember just going 1022 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,600 through that section a lot and and and referencing that verse a 1023 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,440 lot and thinking. How do I count this trial as 1024 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,920 joy? And I fail at that still a lot. 1025 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,720 Often times, probably even today, I did already. 1026 00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:56,840 You know, like, oh, it's cold and whatever, you know, like I 1027 00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,880 do, I fail at it. But, you know, you mentioned 1028 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,560 coming to El Paso to help you move. 1029 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,680 And we can point to a litany of things just in this past year 1030 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:11,400 where I can see like, OK. I'm starting to see some 1031 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:15,800 glimmers of of the joy and why even through the pain and the 1032 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:21,440 difficulty I need to have the joy because it is producing that 1033 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,800 steadfastness and it's like I guess the big thing. 1034 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,200 I think it's relative to this part in James. 1035 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:31,080 But the big thing I I've taken away from Job is because we 1036 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:36,800 think why God, why do you allow this suffering And the the 1037 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,160 answer I'm coming to and maybe it's not a great answer because. 1038 00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:45,520 It really is hard to comprehend how and why we suffer and how 1039 00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,400 and why Joel was allowed to suffer so much, why God 1040 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,000 permitted that for somebody like him. 1041 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,960 And it it really is a a struggle. 1042 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:56,800 But I'm coming to the the answer that it's it's it's for his 1043 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:03,360 glory and and it's for our good and what we think is human good 1044 00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:07,600 on earth is often times probably very different than than what 1045 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,480 God. Is using for good and for his 1046 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:14,440 glory and for his purpose and it is difficult to battle with. 1047 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,720 But I don't know, man. I, I, I know I'm being refined 1048 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:24,240 through this with my faith and with the Holy Spirit and how God 1049 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:28,160 is working and and using you and me and Steve and others. 1050 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:33,080 And it's just it's interesting to only in this past year to to 1051 00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,760 be able to look back and and start to draw some of these, 1052 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:40,800 some of these better. Conclusions or or outlooks on on 1053 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,080 why some of this is happening. You know, we may not ever know 1054 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,960 the full answer as as to why. You know why we made the 1055 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:50,440 decisions we made and we're so, so firm, so firmly rooted in 1056 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:55,640 them and what it is all led to. But I I really do believe that 1057 00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,040 it is for his glory at the end of the day and for our good. 1058 00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:03,600 Even if that ends in in misery on earth, it'll be ultimate 1059 00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,720 glory and good when he says you know. 1060 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:08,600 Well done, my good and faithful servant. 1061 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,640 When we when we enter heaven. So I guess that's a bit what I'm 1062 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,640 thinking about on this Thanksgiving. 1063 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:16,720 I think that's a great thing to be thinking about. 1064 00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:18,240 I think it's a good thought to be leaving that. 1065 00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:20,680 Even the tribe, the tribulations that we kind of face, they have 1066 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:21,720 meaning. We just don't know what they 1067 00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:23,440 are. And like I said that rearview 1068 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,560 mirror, sometimes we get to see it in our life. 1069 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,160 We're we're kind of blessed. I think in many ways we're 1070 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,360 seeing a lot of the meaning and why in a lot shorter time than 1071 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,640 many people have experienced. If you consider what's going on 1072 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,640 in history, some people die and and they don't decades later 1073 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:36,760 their family doesn't know what it meant. 1074 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,680 But we're, I think we actually are blessed to be in a time 1075 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,680 where we are seeing it happen so quickly and so strangely. 1076 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,320 All that being said, I'm, I'm grateful for you, my friend. 1077 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,160 I'm grateful for you being here. I know people appreciate your 1078 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:48,720 voice. There's a lot of that going on 1079 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:50,160 in the chat right now. People would love to hear your 1080 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,240 reflections on these. Maybe I'll come and we'll do a 1081 00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:55,760 guided meditations on these sort of biblical topics at some point 1082 00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,680 and they're going to be is there going to be an American Radicals 1083 00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:01,040 podcast for Saturday? The. 1084 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,320 Yes, the plan is yes, Episode 2 shall drop on Saturday. 1085 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,360 OK, fantastic. So we're going to have people 1086 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,840 tune in for that. Folks, If you want to follow 1087 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:15,160 it's Am Rad Pod on rumble.com/am Rad Pod AM RADPOD. 1088 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,520 Check that out. Check out the suspendables.com, 1089 00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,000 the Dash suspendables.com If you want to keep the sweatshop 1090 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,280 working, those kids fingers need to be calloused at all times so 1091 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,400 keep them moving. And Garrett, are they going to 1092 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,320 be sharing the Make Whistleblowers Great again, 1093 00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,400 shirt or no? Oh yeah, I saw that some people 1094 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,600 mentioning this in the chat. So this was actually one of the 1095 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:37,160 early shirts I made, but it it wasn't really selling very good. 1096 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:41,360 I know Eric who moderates in your chat, he got one, but 1097 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,240 there's only probably like two or three of these out there. 1098 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:46,800 So maybe maybe I'll bring it back again if there's a if 1099 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,600 there's enough outcry for it. I like it. 1100 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,800 I think it's pretty cool. It's got one of the suspendable 1101 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,840 logos on the basically the nape of the neck, which is kind of 1102 00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,040 cool on the back too. But, but yeah, maybe, maybe I'll 1103 00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:00,240 bring it back. All right. 1104 00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:01,240 I can. I can see that. 1105 00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:03,320 So folks, if there's popular demand, we'll make it happen. 1106 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,560 Garrett, thanks for joining me, folks, Make sure you hit the 1107 00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:06,480 like button. We're talking to Garrett 1108 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,640 O'boyle, GOB Actual. You can follow him on all the 1109 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,560 social medias, Twitter and and true social and Instagram and so 1110 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,680 on at GOB Actual. I want to say thanks to our last 1111 00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,960 sponsor who have been jumped in out of nowhere to support us as 1112 00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:19,880 well. And that's going to be for 1113 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:21,960 patriots.com. 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Get the discounts that they have 1126 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,640 that is attributed to our promo code or you can use promo code. 1127 00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,320 Kyle, Kyle, really grateful for all of you folks. 1128 00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:56,960 Thanks so much for joining. I'm really grateful for Ryan 1129 00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,920 Madda who's done a great job. We had prepped the whole show 1130 00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,280 and we have this deal that what we do is we get together, we 1131 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,880 prep out the show and then once we prep it, the minute we 1132 00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,960 started, I throw it all out the the window and I completely 1133 00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,640 forget about what we talked about for the last hour and a 1134 00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,400 half. We have some alligator videos we 1135 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,440 didn't play which maybe we'll throw up on Twitter. 1136 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,560 We had a Leon let fumbling a football which was one of the 1137 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,120 famous memories I had from the Seraphin family childhood on 1138 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:18,400 Thanksgiving. Some of you guys remember this 1139 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,800 going back, it was a Cowboys game against the Dolphins way 1140 00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,520 back in the day. I went and grabbed that for some 1141 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,120 reason to show it to you. And then we didn't. 1142 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,960 We just talked about things that we're grateful for and did the 1143 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,640 classic Seraphin, GOB, actual mission creep here. 1144 00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,440 So blessings to all of you guys on Thanksgiving. 1145 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:34,880 I hope you spend a wonderful time with your family. 1146 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,760 If you don't have family, make sure you're going out and 1147 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,800 talking to some neighbors and getting that human connection. 1148 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,240 Today is the day to do that and not to be afraid of anything 1149 00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:43,920 else. So bless you all. 1150 00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,560 We'll see you again tomorrow for Black Friday. 1151 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,880 For all you sitting in line that are trying to buy weird products 1152 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:53,000 for a slight discount, you can turn on your rumble.com/kyle 1153 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,000 Serif and do that. Let's throw up the the the Five 1154 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,000 Star review you've got on here. This one's kind of a funny 1, so 1155 00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,720 it's a good one for today. Just the way we're feeling this 1156 00:51:59,720 --> 00:52:02,440 one. If you go to our Apple podcast 1157 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,680 you can find it says it's from free patriot Tim given just a 1158 00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,440 couple days ago said hey Kyle, five stars. 1159 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,840 Hey Kyle, you're a goober to me. That's the name that I call 1160 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:14,160 people that I like or love My dog and my cat or goobers too. 1161 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,320 It's a term of endearment. Even my 82 year old grandmother 1162 00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,160 a mother is a goober. So great show, bro. 1163 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:21,800 Keep up the good work. Fight the fight. 1164 00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,880 I got your back. Well, when I'm in Texas, 1165 00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,920 America, I don't know if I guess I'm a goober. 1166 00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:28,160 I'll take it. Those are. 1167 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:29,680 I knew this was going to be on a weird day. 1168 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,600 I knew I was going to get that and it was going to show up Just 1169 00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,960 a magically on a strange day. And it did indeed. 1170 00:52:34,240 --> 00:52:37,440 We appreciate you, Tim. We appreciate Chad Zodi throwing 1171 00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,040 $5 out there saying happy Thanksgiving, thankful for the 1172 00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:41,600 suspendables. We are really thankful for you 1173 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,560 guys. Your support is going to go in 1174 00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,520 the win column to death. Whoa, There's some music behind 1175 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:48,800 that. There's a video behind that. 1176 00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:49,880 Whoops. You want to play it. 1177 00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:50,840 Are you going to? That was the one. 1178 00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,400 No, that was the one from yesterday that we we didn't get 1179 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:54,600 that super chat. So I want to make sure we 1180 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,160 covered it. Yeah, we'll say thanks to 1181 00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:57,440 whatever. Who said any cell phone 1182 00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,160 providers that only store 18 months of data. 1183 00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:00,600 I'm ready to make a switch. Whatever. 1184 00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,160 Double O 7 asked that yesterday and the answer is, I think 1185 00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,160 T-Mobile. This is something that came out 1186 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,720 in the chat yesterday. T-Mobile was always the worst 1187 00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,280 about being subservient to the government when it came to 1188 00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,600 government process. They were really good about 1189 00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,440 notifying their customer base. My brother told me that people 1190 00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,560 who use T-Mobile are thugs and gangsters. 1191 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,720 I've been using T-Mobile for a long time, so I guess that tells 1192 00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:23,720 you what it is. I'm AG, Call it what it is and 1193 00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:25,680 check that out. Anyway, we'll see you guys again 1194 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:26,920 tomorrow. We really do appreciate you 1195 00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,680 joining us here for the stream and for this Thanksgiving. 1196 00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:33,760 And I hope you have a lovely steak and not Turkey. 1197 00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:35,120 We didn't. We even missed our debate. 1198 00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,400 We missed our debate carrot. We're going to talk about that 1199 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:39,880 and we didn't do it. I'm shameful. 1200 00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:41,480 It's shameful. We'll do it another time. 1201 00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,000 Maybe we'll talk about it tomorrow, or you guys will talk 1202 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,080 about it on the Amrad Podcast. That seems like a good thing to 1203 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,680 do. Ladies and gentlemen, adios. 1204 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,040 Have a good Thanksgiving. Thanks for listening to the Kyle 1205 00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,960 Serafin Show, streamed live weekdays on rubble.com/kyle 1206 00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,240 Serafin. Follow Kyle on Twitter, Truth, 1207 00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:59,600 Social and Instagram at Kyle Serafin.