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Our civil liberties, enthusiasts Second Amendment Defender and
recovering FBI agent. Kyle syrup.
Hello, my friends and welcome to the Kyle Serafin show.
Today is Monday. It's June.
The 19th in 2023. We are celebrating Juneteenth a
holiday that dates back to 1865 but was made a Federal holiday
last year or the year before actually was in 2021 by
President Joe Biden. We're going to talk about that.
My guest today is going to be Ryan Matta, I'll be bringing
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Same email that I get, it's got all kinds of entering
information. It's got stuff showing that
there. In fact have been some pro-life
activists that have been abused and they are not seeing the
those who were fighting them prosecuted two elderly people
were praying outside of an abortion clinic.
They were shoved to the ground. Just exactly the same thing that
we saw with the mark House story and yet these people were
standing and exercising their first amendment rights.
Not being prosecuted on the the attacker side.
So very interesting stuff there. You can see that they've been
organizing a boycott against the Dodgers, for bringing the sea.
Jurors of Perpetual Indulgence into their into the Dodger
Stadium. And there were thousands of
people that showed up to get involved and push back against
that. So doing great work.
Again, a great Organization for faith, family and freedom.
I actually just found out ladies and gentlemen, I found out that
the city that I live in Liberty Hill.
Texas, has a official motto and the motto is faith, family and
freedom. So, what are the odds of that
the same same motto that you see, on Catholic vote is Is
actually the motto of the town that I live in in Texas,
America. Alright.
Without further Ado, I want to bring on my buddy and a special
guest of the Kyle serif and show here, is Ryan Mad of Ryan.
Welcome to the show bud. Thanks for having me, man.
Yeah well thanks for jumping in. So I see Ryan this morning, he
jumps onto this call with me, we get ready to go live and I
notice he's wearing a Blazer. He's looking very professional
if you're not watching on the on the rumble Channel blyve, as we
go right now you'll you're missing out.
On seeing a very Dapper looking man, who was wearing a dark
Blazer, and a gray shirt. So, I wearing a black shirt, I
decided to put on a gray Blazer. So we are now the inverse of
each other. Bonnie, I had a black shirt on
right before, when we first went live.
And then I seen either on a gray Blazer and a black shirt on,
like I can't have a black shirt on a black blazer.
I need to get a gray shirt on. He flipped the script on me and
so we are rolling. So today, we want to talk about
fatherhood because yesterday was Father's Day.
We're going to discuss some of the intricacies I guess of
raising a generation. NZ young, man, which is that's
your lot in life and mine are actually younger.
I don't even know what generation my kids are, because
mine haven't even hit that. They named it.
The thing gen Z is born after 2013 or 13 2013 her after.
So I think you have gen Z or raising gen Z as well.
I'm not mistaken. I've got baby baby gen Z's then
because my kiddos are younger than yours.
How old is your son? My son's 99 years old.
Okay, so he's got a couple years on mine, but those three years
are probably a big difference compared to my six-year-old.
All right, so we're going to get into fatherhood.
I want to just start by what I normally ask people, which is
you know, tell people where you grew up kind of how you grew up
and and maybe sort of your experience with your father,
which I know is going to be kind of interesting to folks.
Yeah, I grew up in a, I guess, middle class neighborhood.
My parents were both. My mom was a waitress.
My father was a bricklayer or my stepdad.
I should say, was a bricklayer. I pretty much had anything.
I have anything I really needed or wanted as a kid as far as
Clothes food, I played Sports. There wasn't really much that my
stepdad did not provide for me and I was very, very lucky.
I guess growing up knowing that I had I guess, I let me say this
again. When I turn 25, I really
realized. I was able to look back and
realize what a amazing stepfather.
I had the guy gave me everything, he would give me the
shirt off his back, anytime I needed anything, he was there
when I played Sports, he was so into sports, that he would sit
by himself. So he won't even sit with our
family because He thought it was bad luck, if he even went to the
bathroom during like a hockey game.
He was there at every single game.
Every single practice, never missed a second of a game.
So I was very, very fortunate growing up.
Now, that's not necessarily common for everybody with a
stepdad, I think it's hard. I think it's hard to imagine
that someone who is not your flesh and blood but I do have
friends who are adopted and they had similar experiences where,
you know, Dad was 100% all-in, but that's a conscious Choice,
it's maybe not the same biological imperative, then then
we see when your kids are flesh and blood and share that with
you. So, you looked at with that.
But that means that you your, what happened to your biological
father, My real father passed away when I was a month and a
half old. So that's kind of where where I
developed this mindset. When I had my son, it was I was
going to do. I wanted to be the father that I
wish I had if that made sense. So, from the second I'll put it
this way when I felt my son kick in my mom's in his mom's stomach
for the first time. I rode, my Harley Davidson over
to her house that night. And we were sitting on the couch
and she said he kicked for the first time and I was the last
time I drove my Harley, I wrote it home that night.
Put it up for sale and sold it in silly, because there was no
way. I was going to allow my son to
grow up without a father. Yeah, I think that's I think
that's an interesting Instinct. I also sort of stopped riding
motorcycles for the most part when when I had my first and I
don't know if that was my choice for my wife's choice.
But either way, I'm willing to accept it.
Let's talk a little bit about the challenge that you had
because you're not just a guy who had a child, but you had a,
you actually had to fight to be a father in your son's life.
So maybe maybe, tell people the scenario, you rode over to feel
your son kick for the first time.
It wasn't under the maybe the best circumstances, right?
Yeah. That's right.
Yeah. Me and my son's mom where we
were at a point in our relationship that we are kind of
just friends, you know, you get to that point in a relationship
where you're just friends and you know you're young.
I think I was like 24 so just doing spiteful things like I'm
gonna go out and party and not come home and you know just to
like get to get under each other's skin.
And it just was a got to a point where we really just decided,
we're just going to be friends. But at that point her mother
absolutely despised me so her parents offered her too.
To buy her a modular home. If she left me and refused to
let me see the child. So, when she was pregnant being
super emotional, she had I guess like a, like a second coming
where she wanted me around, so I was able to come back.
So I felt her kicking it in his stomach.
And then I basically didn't pretty much talk to her until
like, maybe like a month before she was about to have him.
And then she was just so pregnant and by herself and
alone and there's just things that up that your parents can't
provide for you. You need somebody else.
Talk to. So she let me come back into his
into her life for a couple months before he was born, maybe
like a month before he was born, he was born.
I was there when he was born, got to sign the birth
certificate. Cut the umbilical cord.
It was by far the greatest moment of my life.
Seen your first child be boring. There's there's nothing like it.
I mean, everything in your life just changed instantly but then
about two weeks later, she wanted me to just walk away.
She wanted me to walk away. She said, you'd have to pay any
child support. Just, I'll sign everything over.
You can just walk away and that's what, that's what my
parents are. Basically suggesting.
That's why Parents want, she didn't even put, wouldn't even
put my last name on the birth certificate.
So you said your parents were asking you to walk away, as
well. As that correct?
No, no. Her parents were okay.
So, she's got family saying, hey, you know, let's just cut
this off. She's asking for that.
She's willing to let you go scot-free.
No, no, child support no presence in his life and sort of
just out of sight. Out of mind.
Correct, what did that feel like when that offer was made?
I still remember it to this day. It was just like, almost like
you're losing control. Like I like your entire world is
being ripped out of your hands, your your hearts being ripped
out of your chest, you know? I was just, it was a no-brainer.
I was at an attorney's office the next morning with fifteen
hundred dollars. I had served her I think within
like seven days or something like that of her making that
phone call. I immediately stopped talking to
her and she kept trying to like call back after she got served
in argue with me and I'm like, listen, we're not going to see
eye to eye there. No point in us, sitting on the
phone and screaming at each other.
You're never going to see my point of view.
I'm never going to see your point of view.
Let's go to the courthouse and let's let a judge decide and
that's pretty much how it went for the next year.
Honestly, we didn't really talk it, we went to court, I got
because if your, when you go to court I don't know about other
states but in Michigan, if you're if the father is Jesus
Christ and the mother absolutely despises you and you've never
had and your child doesn't know who you are so like what after
he was born in. There was like a three-month.
If period before we could actually get into a court that I
didn't see him. So technically, I was
quote-unquote a stranger to my child.
So they're never going to force a mother to hand a baby over to
a stranger. You have to develop that
relationship with them and you basically won't get over nights
or anything besides you know your visitation for the first
year until the child's one years old.
So from the time he was born to the time, he was 11, I got
supervised visits every other weekend with one of my relatives
had to be there. I couldn't drive.
My son, it was this huge, basically, string of events of
things that I had to basically comply with but I was but so
stick a step back. So my thought process was
childhood Amnesia, right? So your child's not going to
remember anything before the age of three, unless it's super,
super traumatic. So I said, okay, I'll play this
game while and that's when I really wanted to change my life.
So I went got a new job, went to work.
I was working overtime, double time and I was doing everything
I could to provide the best life for my child.
I wanted to make sure you had insurance.
I want to make sure I had a job that had 401K paid vacations
time off. Off and I wanted to work
somewhere that was going to pay for my school because I didn't
go to college at that time. So basically from that moment on
it was just I'm gonna do everything I can to be the best
father humanly possible and since I can't see my son, I'm
going to be working to better my son if that makes sense.
And that's that was really my mission.
And then the from this like it was like the day after what,
that one year mark was happened to be on a Christmas and she
agreed that she was going to excited those supervised visits,
but I had my dad's dead. So I wanted to go to my mom's
side of the family, and my dad said it.
Family for Christmas and she agreed that I could finally pick
him up and take him to my mom's side of the family for a couple
hours, my dad's side of the family and then bring him back
home to her that night and he was a year old.
Yep. He was a year old and I called
her said, hey, I'm going to be coming over at like noon to pick
up Mason and she goes, well, your mom's gonna be with you,
right? And they go.
No, my mom said her side of the family is, I'm going to Bevin,
my dad's side of the family is first, and she goes, oh well, I
just don't think I'm comfortable with that.
I said, all right, Jess, thanks and I hung up on her.
And then it was like the I don't know, I think January 1st, I had
already went to the courthouse or January second right after
the holidays. I was in the courthouse the
first day that they opened filing to basically go back to
court again to get to get my custody changed.
And at that point, I went back without an attorney and she went
with a 10,000 dollar attorney and basically I just cleaned
house, you know, I was a great father, never miss the visit,
never miss a child support payment and the judge, and I
don't know about all cases. But most of the time.
The courts don't want to take a child from a father.
You're being a good father, the courts are going to decide in
your favor. I'll you just have to show up
and have to be consistent, have to do it again.
So I did that got more custody. And then I think when it was
like the three-year Mark is when you can basically go back again,
if circumstances changed and we both move.
So there was a change in circumstance.
I was able to take them back and basically not have 50/50 and we
get along great now, and you had to go do all the.
Have you ever dealt with an attorney or the court system?
Before any of this II, got a DUI when I was like 18 or something,
but that's about it. Okay.
But not, but not civil. I mean, that's a criminal
situation. That's a light criminal.
So you knew to go get an attorney and then you started
representing yourself. He said, when he was about a
year old, is that correct? Yeah, the first tourney, well, I
had two attorneys. The first one was just a sleaze
ball kept saying that go. Yeah.
Like listen, I don't have any more money.
Like I'm, I'm barely able to get by, don't have more me.
So I'll just go. Get another 1500.
Can't you ask your grandma for another 1500?
Can't you ask your parents for another 1500?
You don't have. Anybody that give you more
money. We got a grease, the wheel and I
was just like, you know, you just a greasy attorney and I
felt that. So I Like and him hired a second
one. And that guy was just great
Gregory Dean. He's an amazing attorney, he
took care of me. He's the one who got me through
my first court date, and then the second one was it was just
to the point where I was just like, what am I going to pay
this attorney for I'm a great dad I'm and I just wanted to I
guess I guess I felt like I was willing to risk it because I had
nothing to lose. Like they weren't going to take
anything away from me, she wasn't going to give me anything
more how it what was it going to hurt?
If I went there and represented myself.
Because if that failed then I was going to go get an attorney
and take her Back again. So I did went without without
one and I just I did everything that they told me to do the
first time. I never missed a visit, never
miss anything. I was just very confident that
they weren't going to take any time away from me so I had
nothing left to lose. So our buddy, Eric Jason in the
chat. Who's one of our moderators is
saying that's a whole lot of crap.
Just trying to be a dad, an uphill battle and I think a lot
of men at least recently have walked away from fatherhood with
difficulties like that. What what sort of mindset were
you were you holding on to? As you kind of fought an Uphill
Court battle, knowing that this is a three-year fight, not
knowing how long it's going to take to get access.
I mean, some of these things must have weighed on you
especially because even though you're what 24 25 26 at that
time, it's still pretty young for men.
Like a lot of us don't develop. I was still more on when I was
27. So I imagine some of the stuff
had to kind of weigh on you and you had to have some moments.
Yeah, there's a lot of mornings, you know.
I had, I still have been notes in my phone where I thought
that, you know, maybe I might not make it a couple of years.
Ears, right? Like, if something happened and
I died and I never got to develop that relationship.
So there was a time there where I was writing a letter to my
son. I'm getting choked up every
morning, driving to work, just in case that I wasn't here, you
know? Yeah.
So yeah, there's a lot of what sort of thoughts were sharing
during those times if you don't mind.
I know, I mean being a father is an emotional experience, there's
no question about it. And then when, especially when
you start thinking about, like the possibility of leaving your
kids behind and, you know, it that's probably the scariest
thing that Guys, like you and I can face.
It's like, well, what happens if I'm not there because it's a
really weird world of we're looking at, you were just
sending me some stuff from some of the Jen's ears out there in
the world. These 20 year old kids that are
acting like total morons and you know I assume it's because they
didn't have a good father in their life to straighten him out
and tell him that. It's what kind of thoughts were
you leaving for your for your son?
If that, if you didn't make it just yeah.
Just I was just trying to to tell him what type of person you
wanted to be when you grow up, you know, learning from all
trying to like walk him through some of the big mistakes that
I've made. In my life, you know where
you're younger. You just think your friends are
everything, you know, and and so for your family, and but you'd
of you end up spending more time with your friends and it's like
the people that you surround yourself with like they become
your family in a way. So I just just trying to help
him understand how important family is and being respectful
and respecting adults and going to school and getting a good and
reading you know, and trying to trying to start your own
business and grow up and be a productive member of society.
I mean, it was a long time ago, I had Probably go through them
again, but that was probably along the lines of what I was
saying. Yeah, sure.
Now, one of the things that you've done is you've built your
life up in such a way and people can see behind you.
If you're not watching our Rumble Channel, you'll know
you're missing out on the background there.
But there's a LF a TV, which is one of the things that you do
and it's one of the many sort of pies that you got your hand in.
But you've built a life where you can be around for your kid,
you sort of build your life around being available for
Mason, and he's not the afterthought.
I feel like in some ways it's the primary thought for your
Your time kind of tell people how you built that life up and
and maybe where that started because I know it goes back.
Kind of a long ways. Yeah so I was going to say he
was probably two or three when I start when I first got into eBay
I think it was like designing shirts like I bought a pretty
like a shirt press and I was like oh I'm going to start a
t-shirt company and sell these shirts, you know and then that
kind of got into selling things on eBay and Is on.
And then I at one point I was I took a I had bought a charger
and I wanted to sell a chart like as a car charger, like a
cell phone charger, I bought one didn't, it was between dollar
charge on the gonna throw it on eBay and I figure out there on
eBay, right price, the wrong for like 22 or 23 or 25 dollars and
a price of five dollars more than I paid it and I sold it and
then the person said it was broken, it's got crap.
I got to order another one of these because it got to him and
it was broke and it was I wonder if I get on Amazon and I can
just order one on Amazon and have it shipped right to his
house. House.
And then it clicked on me, I go, oh my gosh, I can go on Amazon
and I can screenshot images of a product that somebody selling on
Amazon. I can go list it for $10 more on
eBay. And when they order it, I go on
Amazon and it is ship it. Directly their house,
dropshipping, right? And that was back before,
everybody was really Drop Shipping.
So there was a time where I made almost 100 Grand in a year or
just drop shipping things between eBay and Amazon.
And then that's where that I got into selling a whole bunch of
different things on eBay yetis, coolers hat sunglasses.
Is you name it? And that's where I really, I was
working a job. But then outside of my job, I
was I was producing money, not working.
And then once you really start to see, like, okay, I can invest
a little bit of time, like the time was creating the listings
and designing the listings and getting listed on eBay.
But after somebody ordered it, it was literally like one second
of copying pasting their address and boom and I make five bucks.
Do that 10 times in a day. And I started thinking, like,
okay, if I could make a hundred extra dollars, a day, I can save
to retirement, right? That was the name of the game.
Mmmmm. And then I got into designing
clothes and then I really started a full on Amazon
business. I had one of the fastest-growing
EDM clothing lines in the United States back in 2019 you say EDM?
Yes, electronic music. So that was a point in my life
where you go and you take like the Amazon Guru classes that are
going to teach you how to become an Amazon millionaire.
And they're all, you gotta find a nice.
You got to find a niche, right? And I'm like, thinking like,
okay, well what what what Niche you're going to find that
somebody hasn't already cracked and then I was selling boxers
with like pockets in them, you know, like on like this.
I feel like your cell phone. Hmm.
And then they started, people started taking them to festivals
to like hide. There you can't take like an
open VAP or chapstick into these festivals that they were wanted
Pockets with boxers in them. And then it just turned in one
of I met my next one of my ex-girlfriends was into EDM so
she's like, oh you should design so you should design a bikini.
I was like okay I called my spot supplier in China, through me up
some prototypes and it just happened to hit.
It out of the park first try. And then so then lightmap your
another after another. And I had a whole clothing line.
What is specific to EDM when it comes to clothing that they were
looking for? And also, I appreciate that.
You you listen to the kind of music you listen to, like, or at
least you had somebody that was around you and it, and you just
said, screw it. I'm going to dig into this.
Not not almost like hyper masculine, but I actually really
like something with the driving beat.
If I'm going to go for a jog, people would laugh like a lot of
dudes, listen to metal. And I listen to things like
that. So I know I know what you're
talking about. That's funny or our Day.
She was actually picking me up and she picked me up.
She goes oh, what do you listen to?
I go anything but that EDM garbage?
That that is so gay, because I go, what do you listen to?
She goes, oh EDM, just like and you're like, oh yeah that's my
favorite. You do, you do the straight
pivot, you can't. So you can't just like stand on
that when you got to act like it didn't even happen.
That's classic. Now, I think I don't.
She said, EDM rights, you think I like country I kind of like
EDM you know, and then like a couple months later I found out
that EDM was their total thing like show us her demos.
And yeah. So and and people spend a bunch
of money on specific close to go to festivals.
Is that what you're kind of? Okay.
I'm never going to have competition selling it.
They wear pasties like girls wear like the pasting up a
covers, they were really skinny bikinis.
They were like reflective things because it's at most the things
are at night. So anything that glows in the
dark, Black light reflective guys.
We're basically like t-shirts with like neon design so that
when they go in the backlight they really like change colors
girls. Put like that guy had like a
whole glitter line. I abide glitter line.
It was like the like the glitter flakes.
Like they take like the eyelash glue and they put on their face
and they sprinkle the glitter on it and then they put like the
rhinestone Little Gems on their on their face.
The whole bunch of weird stuff, man.
It's really weird in history. I don't really know how I got
into it but so it was the niche. I got to imagine that the
hardest thing for most people when they're starting to A
business up like this and they're looking at it.
First of all, they've got, they've got kid, and you've got
the kid to worry about supporting you've got payments,
you got to make right? You got, you got a child support
payments, so you can't be missing on that and they're
taking a risk. How much of the, how much of the
risk were you aware of that you were going to be sinking money
in and maybe nothing comes out of it.
So, my motto was, if I can work 16 to 20 hours a day 7 days a
week for two years straight. There's really nothing.
You can't accomplish. So the risk really wasn't there
for me because I didn't take any, I didn't leave my job.
I didn't take any time off, work everything that I did or
running, my company was on the side on top of it, so outside of
losing time. But at the time, you know,
right? I was until my son was three.
I didn't really have even when he was 3.
I didn't have the I only had every other weekend.
So I had all this time, free, and I just again, every time,
every second I didn't have my son, I was dedicating that time
to generating revenue for a business building, a business of
the risk really wasn't there until I until I quit my job.
So at the time where I got to a point where I said, okay, I'm
gonna quit my job. I'm going to do this full-time.
That's when iI took the the massive risk I guess you would
say. Yeah, I guess so.
Now when it comes to a risk, there's also you know a certain
amount of confidence you have to have in yourself.
People may not know this because you can be a very successful
content creator on YouTube and nobody's ever heard of you
because the markets are so many, there's so many people in the
market that are looking for this.
But folks, I'm just going to let you guys know I went and took.
It took a look at Ryan's YouTube page today and it claims like
the YouTube stats actually say, over 52 million views, total
views. Did you know that by the way?
No, I didn't know. So over 52 million total views.
You have 166 thousand followers on there.
When did you start that channel? I started that channeling
actually, it was a father-son, channel interests, lay back in
the very, very day. When my son was that I would
have you been like 2013, I mean he was still crawling when I was
taking him through like Sky Zone's and all the places it was
going to be a father-son motivational Channel.
I was the very first thing that it started in to and now it's
full of all kinds of other stuff.
You've obviously got into the crypto space, you've gotten into
politics and kind of some of the stuff.
Doing right now. But most of those views, I think
we're probably more recent than, than, when you first started
with father-son motivation. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's all of them. All of your actually, that last
in, like, know, from like, it would have been when we were
when I met you Kyle, was that like, in November from like,
November December. I got like twenty three million
views in December, and then I think her November got 23
million views just in that month alone.
And then in December, I got like 27 million or 25 million or
something like that. There's a lot that seems like so
many eyeballs to when you start fathoming those numbers like I
know they're just they're just numbers on a screen but that's a
human being, that's got eyes on something.
You're doing it's pretty amazing like the size of an audience
like that it's being censored, Shadow band silence.
Yeah so I want to talk about all those things.
I think we'll kind of talk about that down the line.
Let's let's kind of talk about how you decided that you were
ready to go cut the ties with this sort of the safety net of a
regular job. Job and punch into it full
speed. And then also maybe how your son
factored into that decision as it was coming up.
So my Amazon business was a business designed to to generate
you more money with doing very less work.
So that was my mindset. All I never wanted to start a
business where I had to work more to make more money if that
makes sense. If you're owning a restaurant
and a manager quits, you're going to have to fill in for
that manager. You kind of still have to
oversee to make sure your managers not stealing from you.
You have employees that want to talk to you even though you're
you have a manager in place your it just involves you to be there
on asphalt. Company, a construction company,
you want to bid on new houses, you want to go get more work,
you have to work more to make more money now, Amazon is a
really, really unique animal. Now I tried to do an amazing
America collection because a lot of people are probably gonna
give me a hard time, because I'm a 100% of my products were made
and manufactured in China, right?
So, everything ships from China directly into Amazon, sorry, my
mic was a little low. Everything's ships directly from
China into Amazon and their software is out there that
Connect your Amazon page in Amazon can when you're selling
like a pair of boxers. Let's say you're selling boxes
on Amazon and Amazon knows how many boxers you have.
Actually sell a day, a week, a month, they track your
inventory. So when your inventory level
gets to a specific threshold, they can create what's called
like a need to fill the order. Like hey this item is going to
run out and then you connect the the program to another software
and in that software, it has the specific item.
So when Amazon says, hey, you're out of this.
Item is sends like a note to the software in the software,
realizing goes, okay? You just sold x amount of
products in the last 90 days. We you need to, you need to, you
need to descend in x amount of a shipment and then it connects
directly to my supplier in China.
So when I'd get low on a product in in Amazon, warehouses, it
would send a note to my software, my software would
generate an invoice, it would send the invoice directly to my
supplier, my supplier would modify the invoice.
Maybe material went up by 10 cents, an ounce, or whatever the
case may be, and then she would send me a final purchase order,
or I would That purchase order after I would pay that purchase
order. That's all I'd have to do is pay
one, invoice order, and I would have to log in to Amazon and
generate a invoice shipping label.
So, when sheep sends the products from China directly in
Amazon, she needs a special label.
So I would have to pay an invoice and and give her a
label. Take me about three minutes,
maybe five to ten actually a month, a week, a day and I was
able to I was I had one point like 1.7 million dollars or
sorry? No, I had three hundred thousand
dollars worth of products in three different warehouses.
In Mexico, Canada and the United States and I just stopped three
hundred thousand dollars products worth it.
And we're getting ready to kick off festivals using was awesome.
So, but I was only happy. I was at a point where I'd only
have to work 40 hours a week and I was doing a roughly 125
thousand dollars a month in sales and that was the worst
month of the year getting ready to scale into Festival season.
And yeah. And and so what is the what's
the profit margin on these things look like because
obviously everyone's got to get it going to cut there's you know
the software is. Got to cost you a little bit,
the inventory, the warehousing and all that kind of things.
Everything goes in a circle, but you're still going to if you're
working 40 hours a week I imagine it was worth your time.
Very much, so man out, so for hours a week is where we are
getting to the. I guess the big picture goal of
where I could get to where I was still probably working about 20
to 30 at that time. Sure, but I was launching a lot
of new products. Is doing things.
But the idea was that I was going to have a business that I
could work, roughly 4 to 10 hours a week and that business
is going to generate me Millions And then what happens covid, I
have an EDM Festival clothing line.
That's based on in-person events.
Yeah, Mass public Gatherings pool parties Events, maybe
concerts and then big, big big festivals with the main thing.
Yeah. And that was the first month, I
broke over a hundred and a hundred thousand in sales.
Was March of that would have been 2020 and so just totally
derailed, based on that. Yeah, I went from doing 25,000 a
month in sales to 77 thousand or $7 7000, okay?
Which is absolutely nothing. And those are just the products
that weren't related to festivals that I still had on
the shelves and then if you count the probably five to ten
thousand, I had that month in returns because I just sold a
hundred and twenty-five thousand, everybody bought all
these brand new clothes to go to the Festival which was Ultra
Music Festival and lost lands in there.
They are all lining up within like I mean March and Altar and
like March 15th kicks off Festival season so I'd ordered
anime. Canceled Altura.
So I had all these girls that were like, oh I'm not I just
bought this to where I just this one Festival.
I'm not going. Well, I might as well return it.
So I probably I probably had a - probably three or four grand
that month. I just had to take a guess.
So, that was the big derailleur and then, did you ever try to
restart that or are you working on relaunching these things?
Or is it even working on now? So Amazon has a policy where
it's you can only send in things that you sell within six months.
So, I might pay 10 cents, 25 35 cents per item per month that I
have Sitting on a shelf in Amazon, if you hit the six month
period, you can either pull them back and remove them from
inventory, or you have to pay long-term storage fees and your
long-term storage fees. Go from like I said, 25 cents,
25 dollars per item. It is absolutely astronomical.
Because the Amazon one of their biggest problems when Amazon was
at its peak was warehouse space. They legit could not build their
houses fast enough to hold all the inventory that people were
selling in. So if you are shipping and
products Amazon that we're not selling you were the Cog in the
wheel and they wanted to make sure that you didn't do that
time and time and time and time again because they can't afford
to sit there. And how is all these products
that are selling? It's just not beneficial to
them. So, yeah, at the six-month Mark
I had to pull All this inventory.
I donated so much. I can't even tell you how much
money. I, many outfits and things.
I've donated to Salvation Army and given away to friends and
just honestly threw out a lot too.
So yeah, I had to pull all that back.
I had some Partners at the time as well that just really didn't
do anything. They were really crappy
Partners. They were more so investors and
I didn't need investors. I needed Partners.
I was working full-time at, you know, when I brought them on his
partners and they just so I just wasn't, it wasn't worth it.
But at the end, my Flyers that manufacture the clothing were
like, hey, we want to shut down our factories and make PPE
supplies instead of taking the 20,000 that we owe you and
products for your EDM clothing. Can we send Upp supplies house
like called Amazon? I was like, hey can I send these
in like you up? And it a long story short, I got
stuck with a bunch of pp products sold like 100 Grand
worth of p. P products in the first 90 days
of the pandemic. And then kind of just took a
seat back and was like well what do I do now and that's when I
went back to Thai Summit for maybe like six months maybe a
year. Nothing was only six months.
I went back there for six months and in the process of growing
the YouTube channel, my YouTube channel just started to take
off. And at that point, I was so used
to the lifestyle that I had built.
That allowed me to spend every second with my son.
Even though I knew that YouTube wasn't gonna pay me as much as
my job did and I was going to have to take a hit for a little
bit and kind of struggle to put a roof over my son's head.
It was going to be worth it because I You know, once you go
to every time that you have your son that you're there with him,
every second you don't want to give that up man.
It's it's hard. What is what is your, what is
your custody split look like for time?
Like what days do you get? And what days does she have?
And how do you guys work that out?
Yeah, I get on Thursday Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday.
So I got five days one week and the next week I get Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, or sometimes, just Thursday and Friday.
Okay. And so five days about three or
two Days, five days for two days and that's our, that's our
summer Arrangement. But like I said, we are absolute
best friends now. I could call her up right now
and say, hey, can I come get Mason to take them out fishing,
or do anything? Not know questions, actually,
let me. So, how did you guys get there?
How did you get there from? She doesn't want you to sign
papers, she's fighting you in court to where you guys are at
right now. Like what do you, what do you
attribute that to? Her mother being kind of a
crappy mom. So her mother was the one that
basically drove the wedge between us.
But then there was a couple times where her and her mom got
in a fight, she had nobody, but I was still there for her,
right. So no matter how shitty she was
to me. I was always trying to look out
for her. I guess you could say like there
was never that animosity between like oh that's like your ex
girlfriend and you don't you care who she's sleeping with her
hanging out with like she'd be texting me like hey I like what
do you think about this guy, you know?
And it just got to a point where we were.
I was the one That was always there for her and no matter
what, what she thought I was going to do or she thought I was
going to be a crappy dad, or thought I was going to do this,
it just never happened. So I think just me just showing
up and just constantly being a good guy and and always being
there for her letting your money, anytime she needed it
being there to watch my son any time it was hurts, you know, her
scheduled time but something came up.
She got called into work or something happened.
I was just always there. Never missed a child support
payment. Lent, her money, anytime she
needed it. And then You know, like the old
you got to replace old feelings with new feelings.
So the animosity that she had toward me.
I think I just earned earned that respect back from her.
The one thing I keep hearing over and over, whether it's
talking about, you know, your situation working with your
son's mom, whether it be this business, these multiple
different types of businesses. There's a degree of persistence
that you have your ability to just keep pushing forward.
It's almost like a like a guy who hits the, you know, hits the
defensive line with the football and he just puts his head down
and he just gets those extra couple inches and a couple
inches. You're kind of doing it through
force of will. Where do you think that sort of
persistence came from? Like, what do you attribute that
to and your upbringing? You know, my stepdad, he was
never the guy that was going to go out and and start his own
business, but he was the guy that would outwork anybody.
He worked really hard, he didn't drink, he didn't smoke, he
didn't party, he was just a really, really hard worker.
So I think I got a lot of my work ethic from my, from my
stepdad. And then at the same time, with
just the mindset of my thought, my real dad was a junkie.
He was a loser piece of shit who left my mom, single to raise a
child, that a month and a half old.
I wanted to be the farthest polar opposite of that, humanly
possible and then just the mindset of It's Always for my
son. So, all you gotta work a couple
extra hours. You can't sacrifice could
sacrifice a couple of your hours of your sleep, to make sure your
son has a better life than you, you know.
So it was just always like, okay, I got to sacrifice time or
sleep. And I'm sacrificing it for my
son, it's a no-brainer. I mean, we were up till what was
it? I mean, I was up till probably
one last night, I was texting at like 6:00 or 7:00 this morning.
I mean, Yeah, you're the only have so many hours in a day.
You gotta get it. I know we had the conversation
of the day offline, so I'll let people know, but like, I think
we're agreeing. If they were 30 or 40 or 50
hours in the day that we would use all those hours because
there's so much to go on and then you still fall short, a
little bit. All that being said though, you
kind of relate a Father's Day story and what you've been
doing? Maybe Father's Day weekend story
for the last couple days. I wanted you to share it with me
because I could tell the excitement that you had was
probably the longest audio message that you've left me.
And so just so you know, disclosure folks, Ryan and I go
back and forth. He's been working to help me be
a better producer of the stuff that we're doing.
In fact, the audio that you see the, you know, the new intros
and the new outros. Those are all Ryan, sort of
Blood, Sweat, and Tears. He just sits there and then he
tweaked some. Then I'll go hate to tell you
this buddy but there's something that's misspelled in there and
he'll go like, oh yeah, I'm on it.
Like there's never like a man, I'm sorry like I can't deal with
this right now. Like I've never once seen Ryan,
say no and I have to imagine that you have the same kind of
attitude towards your kiddo just because that's that's The kind
of guy you are like I said, persistence gaining inches one
at a time fight for everything. So tell folks, kind of like what
that look like you got a nine-year-old.
Now, what did you guys spend the last couple days doing is just
kind of an uplifting way to feel good about, you know, how dad's
can can really put it together for the kiddos.
Oh man. Thursday, Thursday, I picked him
up from his. I had my show at 3:00 and I got
off work at 3:00 and just went straight.
Picked him up. I think we went out.
We went out fishing for that. We went out fishing on.
Thursday, then we came home and we built.
We built forts Thursday night and then I built like the most
legendary dad cup Tower where we are like stackin, you know, like
solo cops. I can we build Solo cups, the
ceiling and then we were doing like, you know, like the
ping-pong balls. Yep.
I got like stairs. They come down that down the
house and we set up like tiles, I got tiles and then we let me
roll the ping pong ball and I like bounces from tile, to tile,
to tile. And they try to make it in, like
the Solo Cup. That's what we do a lot.
But so, Thursday night was just a basically, like Dad's hanging
out night. A I had to do my, I had to do my
show on Friday, so I had to do my show.
So we got up in the morning, we went out, got breakfast, went,
and I forget what he wanted, he wanted to get like a stuffed
animal. So when got a stuffed animal,
that came back home and I did my show then after my show is like,
well what do you want to do, too?
And I think was a crappy Arena and out needs it, can we go to?
We go to Sky Zone? And I think I'll man Sky Zone's
boring. Like we go there all the time
because they're a cooler trampoline parks.
We get we got online and we found this.
Other Trampoline Park out-and-out Milford.
That's called defy and it's like the ultimate Sky Zone and he's
got trampoline pits. Everything we got there,
probably probably 4:00 stayed there till 9:00 that night.
Saturday morning, woke up, went out got breakfast.
Actually I made him pancakes and breakfast.
Then we went into the pool from 12 to 3 and then at 3:00, he's
like, what are we going to do now?
Dad, look, what do you understand?
Can we go back to defy as a? All right, cool?
What went back to defy got there at about 4:00 4:30 and then we
stayed there. Till basically, at 9:00 at night
9:30, when grab some pizza, on the way home, Came home,
probably built some more Forts and then Sunday.
Sunday, so Sunday I had a record because I was going out of town,
so I had to wake up. So we came home that night.
I went to bed and then I woke up the next morning at 5:30 in the
morning. So I can start, pre-recording my
shows, had pre-recorded, both shows, had those edited by about
noon and was back at defy again on Sunday from probably probably
two or three PM all the way till about 7:00 or 8:00 at night, and
then I was on a flight Monday morning at 9 a.m., right?
So lots of jumping around on these, these trampoline parks, I
you send me some of the pictures of it.
It and it looks like maybe an EDM type Festival there.
They're gonna lot of, they've got a lot of like, a black
lights and stuff like that. Is he working on any kind of
skill sets or what do you even do when you're there, you're
just watching your kid fly through the air and trying to
not to panic that he's going to run into other kiddos or what
man they got like the this new ones really sweet.
So they have like the Gladiator. You know how they get like the
like the jab sticks? They have these giant float up.
It's like a blow-up battle sticks, you know and they have
like the balance beam. And on both sides of the balance
beam, is the foam pit? So like that's his new thing
like trying to battle the bigger kids, you know, like the 10 and
12 year olds. Can you take him out and he's
getting like good like where he learns like go up and like Jew
come out and then come back down like sweep down with the legs
and like take them out. So just didn't he goes out with
his buddies a lot. So he's got his buddy brain and
that also goes up there all the time.
So he will meet up with his buddies and I'll kind of hang
out with the other parents and we'll sit there and watch.
The place is so big. You can't keep up.
I can I can only jump for like an hour or two hours.
And I'm sorry, dude. I'm burnt out later.
Good. Just goes and runs around.
It's crazy. Yeah, and while he's got, he's
nine, he's so he's got basically like a nuclear energy Factory
Building inside his body. As long as you feed him some
sugar, I'd never know. I could beat him sugar yet.
As long as he's got calories, they don't run out.
Never runs out of energy. So somebody in the chat, just
mentioned mr. Kennedy 321 said something about
how you've taught him everything.
He knows about editing and making promo videos and all
kinds of things about crypto. And so there, some of your folks
that follow Are obviously joining us today and that's
cool. I'm curious.
If you can kind of share, you talked about building up a
business. I did something very similar
when it comes to the U2 or to the, to the eBay version and
then I dropped out of it. I was like, oh, this is not good
and I'm not good at it and so I walked away with it, you stayed
persistent, you grew into an actual business.
Got destroyed by circumstances in many ways because like so
many people sort of the covid lockdowns and and the supply
chain interruptions really destroyed.
What you had built up and then that didn't slow you down.
You just straight pivoted to a completely new thing.
And you ever done audio video or audio video and editing and and
software that handle like Adobe. Have you ever done that before
that time? Was it part of your experience?
Well, there was a point where I had met my ex-girlfriend at the
time who was a famous Instagram model.
When I was doing the EDM clothing line, I met her two, I
hired her when she had, like I think like 10,000 followers on
Instagram and then with Within a month of our shoot, she had like
a hundred thousand. Hmm.
But she she had a boyfriend at the time and then broke up and
it was like a month later. I hired her to come to another
shoot, she didn't have a boyfriend, we hung out, we hit
it off and then So, it was working with her growing her
social media knowing that I needed.
And when you're doing clothing and you're launching like 100
products a month, you need six different photos of each piece
of clothing. You need a skinny girl, a
heavier girl, you know, you like the battery that you can present
your product, the better that the better, the odds are that
somebody's gonna want to buy it. And so, yeah, I just I started
working with her and she was really, really big into social
media. She started taking me around to
do to go to photo shoots with Legendary that's how I met Rob
Hall is one of the most famous photographers and videographers
in the state of Michigan is one of my really good buddies now.
So I got to go just travel with all and work with the best of
the best because she was really pretty shitty.
Lot of followers that would get the photographer's a lot of
attention. So they wanted to shoot with her
for free, just so that she would tag them in photos that she
posted. So, I got to go get a lot of
one-on-one work with all these photographers.
And then from there, it was like, oh well, I need this promo
for my, I need promos to for my clothing line and again, just
You know, been a trying to start your own business.
You got to save save money where you can save money.
It was either I can find out how to make this promo myself and
make it or I can pay it 200 to 300 bucks.
Well, 300 bucks at the time was a new product.
You know, I could probably launch a product with about 500
silver, 500 bucks, I can either edit my own promo or I can
launch another product that products going to generate any
money. So everywhere I needed to save
money, I was willing to figure it out and that's how I became
really good at these. What, what sort of training did
you have to do in order to get competent because some of the
stuff like, folks have you seen our outro?
You've seen the, the way that the intro is built up like,
Ryan's building these out of out of whole cloth, he's taken, you
know, existing templates and and plugging in what we want.
If I go, hey man, could it could do to do this instead or can we
have a plane flying in? And we've got a couple of you
haven't seen yet but he's got motion videos and he's got all
these like really really capable, really professional
level pieces and it sounds like you spun this up in about.
At two years and your capabilities like that didn't
exist two years ago. So no I didn't what sort of
training where you going through to get this stuff done because I
think that's also a barrier for a lot of people just knowing
that they're looking at a vast skill set that they don't have
you got to pick it up piece by piece.
Where did you go to do that? So at one point in my spare time
of being in like the limbo between between jobs and working
and you know, traveling with the ex-girlfriend and I was I was
making these promos and I was going to start a YouTube channel
and my buddy. Rob Hall did the photographer
photography stuff and he was asking I was teaching him stuff
in Premiere Pro and he's like dude you should you should teach
them make tutorials at teaching this Premiere Pro self and
after-effects. You're really good at this.
So yes, the good idea, you know. So then I just I started trying
to teach it and trying to make tutorials on them and upload
them to YouTube. That's where mr.
Kennedy was over here in the live chat.
Like yeah, you got these tutorials up on YouTube.
So I got up. I don't like, you know, 20 or 30
tutorials. And it was just again, just
teaching yourself, right? Just watching YouTube videos,
Long, Day's long nights, trial errors off work.
A lot of work, so you were doing trial and error and you were
trying to teach it by by learning it.
And then teaching what you had learned, that's sort of the
classic method I guess to of how things always got done.
Its How do I need to do it? You know, Innovation being
necessary for you to be able to continue it.
And the cost-benefit it was like, you had the five, you had
the hours, but you didn't have the $500 kind of deal.
And so you're willing to invest your time.
How many, how many hundreds of hours you think you've invested
in crafting? The sort of skill set to get to
a level that's professional? I think there is one week and it
and people don't believe me that.
I slept like, maybe, like 14 hours.
There was a time where I was working, 20 hours a day, almost
seven days a week. One night.
I might get 18 hours the next 16 than 120.
Then I only make it three hours. It's like, I honestly, I could
not tell you hundreds. I was like a zombie.
I mean, there was one point where I was pre scooping, how is
dry scooping pre-workout to drive to college?
Because I was falling asleep at the wheel.
I was working so much and going to school and being a father.
That's something we in touch on either.
That was really interesting that was when my son was like one to
three hours ago. I go to school and get a good
job. Get a college degree, my work
was gonna pay for it. So I ended up going to college
to and taking full time 16 credit hours on top of working
like 60 or 70 hours a week. And but that was when I was
having the supervised visit. So, you know, I had a lot of
time to go to school because you were cut down from seeing your
kiddo. What dumb, what were you
studying? What did you go to study?
I was I got my associates in industrial manufacturing
engineering. What was the mindset behind
that? What was the, the goal, the goal
was, I was a controls engineer at Thai Summit and I was taking
like their Apprentice program and that was one of like to get
like that next level pay, you had to have, you know, these
classes and all this stuff but they didn't make you have a
degree just was a specific set amount of classes.
And I had taken so many of the classes that it just made sense
to go and just get off to, you know, get the degree.
What do you think about is there such a thing as it's good
enough? I'm just going to walk away or
do you have a mindset that you have to continue?
Is there is there a Perfection that you're always striving for
when you see something like your crafting?
You know, if you you the type of person that pulls their car to
the garage washes, their car puts it back in the garage and
sees that yet. You miss the spot and goes oh,
well. Good enough.
No, he'll know you pull that car out.
You'll wash that spot. You get it done?
You do it done and get it done, right?
Period. Never never put something off
for tomorrow that you can do today.
Those are just great. Great philosophies are great
great quotes but you know, I don't always live by them, but I
try to like, why why put something off for tomorrow that
you can get done today? Just do it, get it over with,
because you can only make so many logical decisions in a day.
There's there's times where, like, the other night when I was
editing your video. I'm literally sitting here with
one eye, because I see double I get so tired that I start seeing
double vision. So I'll just like, literally sit
here and put one eye one hand on my eye and I call ya like Yeah,
dude, Serafin, spelt wrong, is that, is that Premiere Pro Das
Auto doing that and I was like, yeah, it is, but it was really.
I tried to edit that, I caught it, that it's spelt it wrong,
but I'm over here, like this, like one in the morning I've
been up for like 17 or 18 hours straight and I didn't catch it a
second time, it's brutal. Yeah, I feel like there's very
few people that I deal with that do the same thing, and I often
find myself up till midnight or later, and then I'm back up in
the morning at, you know, 5:00 5:30 or whatever, doing the same
thing. But part of it is because Has of
the work ethic and I think you touched on that a little bit
part of it is because there's a sense of imminence about what's
going on in our country right now.
And you and I have talked about that privately, maybe kind of
share with people what you've been seeing from.
You know, everybody has a different perspective,
everybody's got a different sort of lens on America and you've
also been able to travel a lot and see some things differently
going to political rallies and kind of jumping into this sort
of audio and video space. So what are you saying?
What are the things that most concern you?
What are the things that you just said yesterday you were
getting more Hopeful what's making you more hopeful on the
last two, or three years that you've been watching?
So what's making me more hopeful is, is number one seeing the
amount of people that are waking up and really realizing what
happened in 2020. If you're like me, you weren't
big enough politics back. Then, I remember I remember when
Trump lost and I remember going to the barbershop, like the next
day and my barber's are Subic. I like the Hat, the Trump hats
hanging a mega stuff hanging all over and I go.
Yeah, you guys really think that they actually rigged the
election that you're watching on Fox News.
Talking about, you know, ballots being found our guy mean
something's thumbs up and like you really think they could
actually rigged the election. Like they I was just so blind
then you know? Just so I really understand how
people that have been in politics like the last 7 or 10
years. Like this is all they do they
have a completely different perspective on reality than I
think most people out there like I honestly I was playing
Fortnight this is probably like I don't know four or five months
ago and I and I happened to bring up something to like they
were guys are my age now they guide you guys here.
Whats Go on, like they said their New York or something.
I mean, you guys hear what's going on in there with the
vaccine? Like, no, I go.
You guys know the vaccine was, you know, most likely a deadly
bio weapon, right? No like oh, you know, Joe
Biden's entire family's getting investigated for crimes, you
know, that they're trying to charge Trump for right?
And they know like so there's people out there that have no,
they're completely oblivious to what's going on.
So that seeing how many people that I've heard in the last
couple weeks to say, they weren't big enough politics or
the last couple months that weren't big enough politics but
now they're awake. Are people saying I used to be a
Democrat? I can't or people saying, I
can't believe I call it comes called myself a Democrat.
And then the last three Trump events that I went to barely,
anybody showed up because people are so afraid to go out and
protest and make their voices heard because of what happened
to the January Sixers. But this last Trump rally that
we went to seeing every I mean thousands of media Outlets tens
of thousands of people down there, it was awesome.
The Republican party is getting its balls back or starting to
not be afraid. We understand that.
We have to be very careful because of how they manipulate.
There's going to be provocateurs is going to be antifa.
There's going to be undercover feds, most likely dressed as
Trump supporters. Trying to start start crap.
So to be very, very careful, but I think it's just, it was just
refreshing seeing so many people coming out because I think it's
going to come to a point where we have to March.
We have to stand up. Nobody ever.
Relinquishes power. I think that's George.
Orwell, quote, No Authority ever acquires, you know, power with
plans to relinquish it. Yep.
So all these things As you know, you're traveling around and then
you're coming back in and then you've got a, you know, touch
base with your son and talk to him about what, you know, what
Dad's doing, what Dad seeing where Dad's been?
What do you, what do you tell him about?
You know what, you're seeing in the world?
What you're spending your time doing and how much does he
understand of it at his age? You know, that's a, that's a
really big battle idea. What everyday Kyle.
I really do. You want to protect your kid and
you want your kid to enjoy growing up being a child, right?
You don't want him to have to try to be an adult before he
should be. You want him to enjoy life?
You want to be happy and think that the world is an amazing
place because it could be, you know?
So I have really hard time because he's nine because I am
vaccinated and I might drop dead at any second, I'm always living
with that. I have to kind of teach him
what's happening in the world. Like he I it's like how do you
explain to a child that that a rainbow is something that a
child would think is cool and pretty and you see in the sky is
now turning into a symbol of a satanic call that worships the
devil. How do you how do you tell your
son? That that doctors are not
actually looking out for your best interest or might not be
how do you tell your son that you know, these Vaccines that
they injected into his father is most likely a deadly bio weapon
designed to castrate me or completely kill me.
These are all conversation today that I don't have, but I do have
in the same kind of way, like, he understands that he'll never
have to get another vaccine. And if any doctor teacher, or
his mother ever, tries to, to put a needle in his arm and
needs to immediately contact me and demand that they contact me
because in Michigan's against the law, they can't do that
without the father's consent in. It's such a different world than
what you and I grew up. Ooh, up in though and that's the
thing, and I know we're roughly the same age bracket.
So, you know, there was kind of a period And I don't know if it
was because we almost got there and that's why they had to fight
it back. They being whoever it is, that's
fighting this culture war, that started this, the cultural
marxists the leftist. Hmm.
But, you know, these were not concerns when I was growing up.
I don't think they were concerns.
When you were growing up, they weren't even on the, it's like
the doctor said something. It's because doctors know what's
going on. None, if the people that were
running for office, they cared about our country, they discreet
about policy, who cares, It didn't matter to us.
And then in the meantime, you've got people getting set up now,
by the FBI, you got my little kids who you know, I've got a
six-year-old and she goes out to the playground and tell people.
Yeah, Daddy didn't want to get shot and that's why he lost his
job and that's why the FBI might come get him.
Yes. Like, like, what is this
six-year-old? Do we talking about that?
There's something really crazy. There's something really off.
People have said it, a bunch of times in the chat.
They've been mentioning it over and over again about how, how,
you know good times made weak men.
And and now it's Taken men like you doing the things that you're
doing working yourself to the Bone.
And, you know, I know that I think even from the time that
you and I started talking my eyes have bags underneath them.
Now that they can have six months ago.
I do. And you're getting there too.
It's like there's only so much time, so much stress you can put
on the human body, right? But what choice do you have if
you want your children to grow up in a world, that was even
close to what we grew up in, which was so Carefree
comparatively. You know, it's crazy.
As my parents raised me with the mindset of go to school, get a
good job, become a doctor, become a lawyer.
I think, at the time it was a, they want to become a
veterinarian. I make so much money.
Only after sacrifice, ten years of your life and get in 400
thousand dollars worth of debt, you know, right.
Go to the go to that. And then my mindset really
changed well like why would you want your kid to work?
Like I want my kid to go have babies like I want him to meet
the right girl fall in love and then just enjoy life.
You know, start his own business.
But just enjoy I mean I wanted to do whatever.
He makes him happy honestly but in reality I'm thinking like I
want to work so my son doesn't ever have to do what I'm doing
right now? My son doesn't ever have to work
because the American dream was a man a single man could come over
to America and with nothing but a work ethic.
And if he was willing to hump block or hump you know work his
ass off, he could feed a family of five, a one man could support
a family of five working 40 hours a week and if he were to
do anything over time, double time, nobody worked on Sunday.
I mean even the slaves had Sundays off right?
And now look at us the slaves had Sundays off.
When's the last time you had a Sunday off?
Kyle like that? You didn't actually I mean
obviously you probably do but like I mean it's just crazy to
me. I can't tell you the last time I
just sat down on the couch and watch TV the probably six years
maybe longer than that maybe yeah.
If I do it it's after 9:00 a.m. you know and it's like get a
little bit of time and I'm taking it out of my sleep so I
can spend a few minutes connecting on some you know
piece of Pop Culture with my wife.
So that's that's all See, not very common anymore.
I actually had far more Sundays off when I worked for the
government. If that tells you anything, one
of the these jobs that the, you know, the FBI self-proclaimed to
be, you know, this hardest most honorable thing to go do, it's
like I had a really good gig. You know, when I kicked off,
when I left work, I left work behind and I know that you don't
like, we never leave work behind now, it's never gone.
It's always in the background. So even if you're doing
something else, it's always gnawing at you like what's the
opportunity cost of this? And the only time I'm able to
put it away as when I'm sitting with my kids.
Toes. And I put my phone away where I
leave it somewhere else, even better?
Yeah, nobody could reach me anyway and so that I can go and
sit down and play Tic-Tac-Toe with my, you know, my two
daughters that are old enough to play.
And, and that kind of thing, that's the only way that I can
disconnect from any of this stuff, which is its It's like, I
just try to bake every time I spend with my son, I try to make
a memory. That's going to last a lifetime,
right? Whether that's going fishing or,
or waking him up at 3:00 in the morning because it's, you know,
thunderstorm and it's hot. And there's this, you know, the
hills all muddy. So we can go run out in the mud
at two in the morning and slide down the hill or, you know,
there's a snowstorm coming in and I know he's not going to
have school. So I drive all the way out to
his mom's house and then pick him up and then drive another
hour to the Snow Hill. And we get to the Snow Hill at
like 5:00 in the morning. When all the kids are just
starting to show up because school got cancelled.
We got the best sleds, you know, and it's those little things
that I always just look back on. And I'm like, every day I want,
I want to make a memory. That's going to last a lifetime
because I might not be here for much longer, you know, that that
they're saying that vaccine was designed to kill almost
everybody within five years, whether they come out with a
cure is Pfizer, going to buy a pad and is the world, you know,
as my heart just going to stop. I look at all these football
players that were out there and I think of how great they must
have felt if they're out there on the field playing a football
game and then all of a sudden, 30, Seconds later.
So that I could feel like a million bucks right now and just
Keel over tomorrow. Yeah, that, that is a, that's a
crazy burden to run around with and I I don't appreciate it
nearly as much, I guess. You know, go ahead.
I was gonna say I would almost have cancer rather have cancer.
And as no, then having, you know what I'm saying.
Because I would be sitting here recording videos and writing
letters to my son rather than I'm just gonna all of a sudden
Keel over from a heart attack at any given second, God forbid,
I'm driving with my son. That's, that's hard.
It's tough to. It's a tough pill to swallow to
sit on myself. I do think that there's, there's
a high probability that human beings have always adapted and
overcome. There are people that live
inside the Cordon near Chernobyl you know that are getting hit
with radiation. That would kill like if you
walked into it you'd be dead if you stayed there for a couple
hours but they grew up around it, they've always been in that
area. They were born with it and and
they survive. So human beings are infinitely
adaptable. We've kind of seen and so at
least there's that and then maybe that's a little bit of a
Solace. Like that is a, that is a dark
proposition to deal with every day and I know people.
He's not just saying that like, that's, that's in Ryan's head
because this has been something that has brought up, you know,
we don't talk about it all the time, but I know that it's
something that weighs on you. I want to, you talked a little
bit about the slaves didn't work on Sundays when the US had
chattel slavery, this is today's Juneteenth.
I I brought that up to you yesterday.
It had you ever heard the holiday Juneteenth, never, do
you ever remember anybody celebrating Juneteenth?
No, no idea. I thought it was like a, like, a
sweet, 16 birthday or some weird thing for trains us to tranny
people. Honestly.
I like that. So I'm going to I'm going to
give you kind of a quick background in history on on
Juneteenth from for the listeners, that don't know.
And that are, that didn't grow up hearing about it, which I
obviously did not. I grew up in California, I grew
up in Texas. This I had.
I heard Rumblings of Juneteenth when I was a kid, but it wasn't
something that was a big deal. So, Juneteenth is June, the 19th
at his kind of run together in abbreviated into a thing that is
called Juneteenth. That's the way that they phrase
it out. And so June 19th is the date in
1865 at the end of the Civil War, when 2000 Union Soldiers,
made it down to Galveston on the southern coast of Texas, and
they came in, and they showed that the Emancipation
Proclamation had happened to you As prior and that all the slaves
were decreed to be free. And then they said about the
busy work of releasing the 250,000 or so slaves, that
existed in the state of Texas. And so that's the basis of
Juneteenth. Now, it's always been kind of a
Texas thing because Texas is big on its own history.
I'll actually tell you a funny story when I was a kid, I was
born in California moved here. My mom was born and raised in
California. Grew up, went to all the schools
there. And so when she got to Texas, I
was in third grade, she went to the To the principals and the
teachers and stuff. And she said, when are you guys
going to learn California history?
You know, about, like the missions and stuff.
And she didn't realize that every state sort of teaches
their own history. They wouldn't all teach
California history. It never even occurred to her,
which is kind of funny. It's kind of charming, so she
had no idea. She was like, why aren't they
talking about the missions up and down the California coast?
Even though we're a Texas County Texas had its own missions, but
but Texas was big on teaching those histories, I don't even
remember learning about Juneteenth in Texas history and
I have I don't have a phone. A graphic memory, but I have one
of those memories. Like, my parents will call me up
and ask me about a fight they had when we were in fact, when I
was in fifth grade to try to figure out if I remember what
the details were, and I generally do like that's kind
of, like my curse. I always laugh at with my wife.
I she's like, how do you even remember stuff like that?
And I was like, well, I never smoked weed when I was a kid and
that's probably why I like, but part of it is just a natural
gift. You know, we all have this thing
and so for whatever reason, that's the story of Juneteenth,
it was the release of slaves. Two years after the fact, some
people refer to it as black Independence Day that they were
liberated. You know, across the country was
sort of the last outpost because Texas was the end of the
frontier at that point in many ways.
And so, getting down there and releasing the slaves Across
America. So, the thought process behind
it. I think is good.
I think the idea that we celebrate, you know, one of the
great atrocities in American history being eliminated, I
think that's great. I think that's a fantastic.
The problem is is the person who did it is, such a controversial
individual on the political, right, that we've got this Joe
Biden figure, who signed It into a Federal holiday.
So that right now it's a I don't know if the banks are off, but I
know all the federal employees are off.
So we may have some extra feds listing on their own time.
All the guys that are our listeners are getting overtime
if they, if they're getting paid to be to be in our chat room.
Right now, you're talking about 20 21, this got signed on, and
it's to me. Juneteenth being signed is a
Federal holiday over, some of the other holidays that we
should have had maybe like something about 9/11 would have
been timely. Obviously, this could have been
a long time coming, but it almost feels like a Hillary hot
sauce. A handbag kind of thing kind of
a pandering holiday and I'm not sure if that's the thing that
makes sense to, if it took so long, why did it take so long?
You know, who was clamoring for this to be a Federal holiday
that sort of thing and knowing that stuff and kind of hearing
that? What do you think about, you
know, as a national holiday? Where does it fit in your, in
your sphere? I think that, I think that
everything Joe Biden does is designed to trigger
conservatives because this is a topic where you say one wrong
thing in a tweet, you wake up, it upsets you.
You tweet out something racist or something, you know,
anti-semitic, and then, boom, your do platformed.
I feel like half of this, everything that they do is
design to silence as many conservative voices as humanly
possible, because we're going to be the ones they're going to
stick up and speak out about it. And when we do, we're getting
nuked off the face of the internet everyday everywhere.
We look, Yeah. And then one of the things that
you sent me early this morning and I got it in, you know,
Catholic boat had a piece on this.
My father sent me one, there's all these shootings that are
happening and they're in predominantly gang-related, you
know, Black Culture test stuff, which I don't think, is the
majority of black people in this country by any means.
And yet it's the one that gets the most play.
So we had 20, something people shot at least one person killed
in San Diego which is wild you had another almost 20 shootings
and a couple of people died in Chicago which is sort of like a
regular weekend which is also sad during Summer.
You know, they have over two hundred and thirty five
homicides so far in the city of Chicago and so much of it.
I feel like it's it's got to be related to the fact that there
is a father problem and it's not for lack of celebrating
Juneteenth, which I think is maybe maybe the the lower end of
the scale. Maybe Father's Day is the one
that ought to be the national holiday.
Luckily they kind of coincide so you get along Father's Day
weekend but it's something to be said about this this lack of men
being present to show young men, how to be men What do you think?
I agree, huh. I think I think that the system
is designed to separate separate families.
Especially like I remember I moved out of my house when I was
the first time when I was like 13, you know, moved in with my
girlfriend. And you know my mom's like all
you want to smoke and you want to smoke in our house.
You don't live here. This is our roof are rules.
You don't like the rules move out, you know, my girlfriend's
mom, let us smoke cigarettes and at the time, like, looking back
at the mindset that I had when I was, Teen, it wasn't family,
family family. And then I look at like, how
indoctrinated I actually was and how great my parents really were
but Society wasn't wasn't teaching us that.
So I feel like that there's a there's a major problem when the
government itself is trying to separate families and they're no
longer teaching Like what you call it?
The nuclear family. Yeah, it's no longer taught
their turn to pretty much do everything they can to destroy
that. It be a single mom, raise your
kids, you know, or don't have kids?
I don't know, man, I think I think everything's just a big
sigh up now. Yeah I think the faith
institutions, I had a conversation with Tracy beans
about this the other day and Tracy beans from uncovered
DC.com. Excellent.
You know, editor, there who also sort of had a strong, she's
always been sort of a good presence.
But I think post covid is one of those things where The people
have been turning away from the so-called traditional media
because they've lost the faith of the of those that are
consuming it. They're out there pushing a
narrative that is no longer true, because the Blind Faith is
gone, we can't just look at things and go, oh, obviously
they know what's best to Fox News.
Knows, what's true? CNN knows, what's true?
Doctors know what's true. People are looking in
questioning all of it, and they've eroded that and they did
it on purpose in some ways. And one of those things they've
done is trying to act like families or not.
One of the most important things that you can have that.
The that the family is somehow Secondary to what the
government's going to provide for you.
I've reflected that, that leftism is sort of a secular
religion. You mentioned earlier, you know,
kind of a satanic cult on the left.
What, what sort of values, what sort of religious sort of
experience? Are you teaching your son, so
that he can kind of resist some of these things that are out
there? You know, where we go to 242
church, we don't go there as much as I'd like, but God God, I
mean, he he understands, you know, he go to church.
He understands that back whether you want to fully believe in God
or not what God stands for his good orderly direction and you
know, always trying to be a good person.
Be a better person you know like when we go when we go shopping
to the at the at Walmart, right? And you pull in the parking lots
kind of full but there's a spot right up front.
You take that spot right up front or do you go park in the
back and hopefully that, you know, I'm old lady can have that
spot, we go into anywhere, we go into a store, they'll be the
first person to hold the door. It's please and thank you to
everybody. I mean I probably have one of
the best most polite respectful children that you could ever
have. I mean he is literally the best
kid humanly possible and my mindset has been that when it
when a kid grows up he doesn't act out or not act out and not
be a bad kid because he's afraid to get in trouble.
I was never afraid to get in trouble, right?
What I didn't have was respect for my parents, so I feel like
More that when a child grows up, he chooses to not be a bad kid
because he respects the parent and that is the II.
You know, I've never talked to him like a child.
I'm always very honest with them.
Some things are obviously, he's too young to understand, but I
always try to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I always try to treat treat him like an adult and trying to
teach him that, you know, because church is boring for a
kid. But we go to 242.
So, it's like they got live bands, and they have a giant
soccer field and basketball courts there.
So, it's kind of like a, you know, Give a little to get a
little and like it's like I don't pay my son to do chores.
I pay my son to do homework. I paid my son to read books.
I paid my son to write book reports because I don't want to
teach my son that it's okay to go take out somebody's trash to
get a paycheck. No, that's not.
Okay, I want you to invest in yourself.
I was paying him at one time to make YouTube videos who's making
these little 15 second Dragon Ball Z shorts, and he's got like
500 followers on his YouTube channel.
Just making these little short. So I was giving you want
roadblocks, I'll give you a dollar in Roblox for every 15
seconds. You make and all he does is like
screenshot like fire dragons up ballsy photos and puts him in
like a little app that I showed him on his phone and yeah.
So do your kind of my how to fish as opposed to handing in
the fish. Kind of idea.
Yes, absolutely. So I want a position to invest
in himself, right? Yeah.
Read a book you're gaining knowledge and you're going to
use that knowledge later on in life.
So if you're willing to take the time now and invest in yourself,
you're only going to become that much better, in life, that make
sense. Yeah, where did that wrong?
I think it made sense in the thing is, I've never considered
the idea that paying your kid to do chores was a it that's an
interesting frame for me. I'm going to meditate on that I
like walking away with the things that I haven't thought of
before and I haven't thought of that I do like the idea that
there are certain things you do just because it's the thing you
do to be in our household and I think I learned a lot of that.
I mean there was you've got to maintain your space around you.
Do you notice. This is just a random I'm using,
I have but I think it has to do with fatherhood.
I think it has to do with families.
You notice that people That are in our age.
Bracket are not mowing their lawn or taking care of their
yards. And the way I remember seeing
when I was a kid, it was that a thing in your, in your growing
up. That people took care of their
property in a different way than they do.
Now, absolutely, my Grandpa would cut the grass twice a
week. I mean, to the T and like,
sometimes even like that, like the Lions had to be straight
like I couldn't drive that he would get mad when I he'd pay me
like ten dollars to cut the grass and I would drive and like
circles and all over even know, like the Lions have to go this
way. And that way and like all the
weeds Have to be pulled edging, have to be truck, Mall chest be
out. And now you just go through subs
and it's like you can just tell people.
Just don't, they don't have that Pride because they're not going
outside and spending time with their neighbors.
Like that's what people used to do on the weekends, you'd hang
out. You'd enjoy with your neighbors.
Everybody knew each other in a subdivision, the kids would all
go play roller hockey at the end of the sub and now we're just
not being raised with those same values.
So I think it's the fact that we were not spending as much time
with our neighbors and we're not going outside as much and we're
not actually enjoying life as much or the.
Fact that people like I said, are working two jobs just to get
by, just to put a roof over their kids head, do they really
have time to go out and cut the grass and weed and do all these
things? Yeah, everything maybe.
So I'm curious about that. What do you think the changing
was? What was the point that change
that over where people stop seeing their neighbors?
To work the fact that like, even when I was a kid on certain
holidays, like if you got presents on Easter, good luck
finding batteries for those toys, he was hard to find a gas
station that was open on Easter. I remember getting Christmas
present to not even be able to go use them because I was out of
batteries and it was literally absolutely nothing opened and at
one point they tried to boycott like Walmart or something for
forcing. Their the people that work on
Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. So it's, I think it's just a
society. I think it's changing.
I think that they are trying to make that than normal But
instead of people standing up and going, why the hell am I
working? Seven days a week.
Why? Oh, that's right.
Because corporations bought everything and this is just a
giant circle of of work. Seven days a week.
And then maybe you can retire at 60.
Yeah. And the difference between the
work that you're talking about this is like hourly wages that
are not building investment in yourself as opposed to the
things that you're doing where it's like I have something
that's going to generate my my Baseline and you're investing on
your own time because it's the right thing to do, because you
think you're going to change things for your kids, which is
literally the way that Americans have always sort of dreamt that
they would pass on an inheritance.
They would pass on a legacy. They pass on some sort of
financial ability to their kids so that they started at a higher
rung on the ladder that we all started.
I think that's that's the case. My dad for sure.
I think that's the case that your kind of explaining and what
you're hoping for for your son hourly, jobs are not going to
get you there doing that doing seven days a week.
Well, you can't even save and fiat currency, which is
something that's drastically different than our parents
generation like back before the 70s, your parents could
literally save in dollars and they could pass that wealth On
to the Next Generation. You can no longer save in
dollars. I mean, if your great great
grandparents would have made 10,000 dollars in left that to
you and like 1932 for you to buy By which you could have bought
with ten thousand dollars in 1932, they would have had to
have left you 250,000, but if you would have gone with, you
would have went back to like 1970, you know, that 10,000
would only had two left, you like 30.
Does that make sense? So, in the last, like the
original Barker, see your mask and then, especially in the
last, you know, we got, we have 5% inflation, if people don't
understand what that means, that means that your value put money
in the bank and you're not getting a five percent raise
every year, you are technically making less money than you made
the year before and that and that's the eighth.
That's what the inflation numbers that they tell you.
That's the government's where they've taken basically
everything humanly possible out of that, that you actually buy
in a regular basis. So if you wanted to calculate
the actual real inflation, We're probably talking about, you
know, hundreds of a percent because if a gallon of milk is
two dollars today and then a year from now, that gallon of
milk goes to four dollars and then the next year it goes to 10
dollars over a three-year period.
Your gallon of milk goes from from $2 to $10.
Goes up for 5 x, 5 hundred percent.
Let's just say, yep, right. And then the next year after
that it stays at $10. What is inflation on that gallon
of milk? Zero ten dollars to $10, right
to inflict just because inflation.
In is coming down. Nothing is getting cheaper,
right? It just means you're not going
up at 9% like, it was so wet from 9 percent inflation, 25
percent inflation, things are still going up at five percent
which is insane. Do you can't save him if you
can't save and dollars if you're a firefighter, a first responder
a medic a teacher, the people that are most important to
society, you can no longer work in 925 and put dollars in a bank
and pass wealth On to the Next Generation.
You literally have to learn. To go home become an expert
investment earn expert investor, and figure out how to put your
money into an investment vehicle.
Because if you don't, you will be lucky to retire.
Let alone pass on wealth to the Next Generation.
And that's how, you know, the system is absolutely broken.
What's going on with Biden, Trump?
Like none of it really matters. What if you break it back down
to just our currency without the US dollar being a u.s. dollar
without it stabilizing without us, you know, defeating this
inflation and waking enough people in America up to realize
like you're Government is ticks taxing, 53, cents out of every
dollar. You make.
Yeah, between your consumption of sales tax between all of your
property taxes, your income taxes, any kind of wealth
transfer taxes, all these things estate taxes, at the end of the
day 53, our founding fathers would have been stacking bodies
by this point. Don't you think?
Oh, absolutely, they fought a revolution over three percent
sales tax and I have an extremely good Whiteboard video
on YouTube. That actually breaks down.
It goes all the way back to 1865 is a whiteboard video.
It's extremely good. Mr. Kennedy.
I'll tell you about it and it breaks down.
Okay, here's what our taxes were in 1865.
Boom, boom, boom. All the way to like 1912 when
the Federal Reserve was established.
I mean even in like 1895 our founding fathers or our
government abolished ex-government the taxes and it
wasn't until like 1912 or 1913 when the Federal Reserve was
established and that's a whole story in itself.
Of. Yeah, that that are that our
founding fathers wouldn't even allow the taxes to happen.
So imagine even when they were like four percent or 3 percent,
imagine how much more money you would have in your bank today?
Imagine how much better of a life you could provide for your
children? If your government was only
taxing, you 5% and that's where we're going to have to get back
to for our work, for us to get out of this.
In our economy, to recover, its going to have to be a flat tax.
There is no way that you can continue to tax citizens, 55
percent, or fifty three percent and people just be okay with it.
It's absolutely insane. When did I ever tell you the
flat tax story in my household? No tells me.
So my wife was a lib raised in Brooklyn New York and had never
been around anyone who had a discussion about finances.
I was in the military at the time and so we were just dating.
So we get together and we're talking about taxes and she's
telling me about her perspective.
You know, she came out of a very left-leaning, very sensitive,
very emotional position because she's a therapist by trade, she
went to a, you know, a liberal arts part of university of
Austin's pretty lib. And well.
So anyway, so she has all these kind of ideas and so we start
talking about money and I was just like, you know, the
government is really jacked up, but it taxes everybody and her
mom was a high earner three hundred thousand dollars or so,
something like that, you know, for a long time and I said, do
you think it's fair that your mom has to pay 50% of the money?
She makes and taxes fifty cents out of every dollar.
She brings in is tax revenue and so she's only making half of
that that she takes home and she was like, well I don't have to
pay that much. I only pay something like, you
know, 36 percent because she was obviously in a much Lower tax
bracket. And so she goes, she goes, well,
why doesn't everyone just pay the same amount of taxes?
I said the same percentage and she goes.
Yeah, I said you understand that, the more you make the
higher percentage of taxes, you pay, it's called a progressive
income tax scale. That's what the progressives on
the left have come up with and she goes well that seems very
unfair and go. Yeah.
Why she goes what everyone should just pay the same
percentage and if you make more you obviously pay more in gross
but you pay the same percentage everyone else than I once got
skin in the game and I said well You are now the most
right-leaning person in this room when it comes to federal
taxes, you know, I would be happy to have a step-down
progressive income tax, but you're correct a flat tax is
obviously the most fair. And for whatever reason, that
was probably the initial Awakening that she had about
fundamental fairness and the fact that left his policies are
not fair. And honestly, they're really
pessimistic if you think about it.
The only way that you can believe that the rich should be
paying a higher percentage of their income, not a higher
number, but a higher Percentage is if you think that you could
never be one of those people. And and that the government
somehow is going to spend your money better than anybody else.
And so anyway, I just thought that was really funny and it's
one of those small awareness moments, you can have them with
your kids. You can have them with people
who are young and they can understand, fundamental fairness
is there there's nothing fundamentally fair about a
leftist sort of position and and, and that's one of them and
like I said, it was an Awakening for my wife and then, you know,
maybe three months later she was telling me, well, if everybody
in Mexico would just wants to be in the America, why don't we
just conquer Mexico and all Central American countries all
the way down to the Panama Canal.
And Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey warmonger, take it take it easy
there but but it is it is a kind of Awakening moment for people
when they realize that their money is not reasonable, it's
not being used to the best effect and then think about
this, think about the welfare state, think about how much
money it takes. Just to send out welfare, checks
the apparatus that's behind. Setting up all the payment
processing and all that. That's all government waste
because it's totally inefficient and it could easily be done by
people who would volunteer to do so at charities and church.
Has and things like the way that it's always been done in human
history. So we're kind of backwards.
I want to, I wanted to share that.
Then I want you to tell me why is Trump your guy in 2024 you,
and I go back and forth about this.
I have a lot of misgivings about anybody in politics.
You're 100% in. You tell me, you wear a trump
hat and shirt places. Do you have Trump shoes?
I do. Well, no, I have I have Shots by
Matt American flag shoes. That match, my trump hoodie,
love it. Okay, so you go out there and
you're telling people and you are repping, you know, merch
that shows that you're a hundred percent behind Trump.
Why is Trump the solution to the problems that you see?
And that that we talked about? So I'm not like one of those
people that only wearers like the altar, Maga shirts, you
know, I wear them, if I'm going to like a special event or, you
know, just how to a trump rally, I don't always wear them out.
I don't have Trump stickers on my, on my car, I did have a
trump sign that I bought for my front lawn, but I think it's
still in the package. But but Trump's my guy because
in my lifetime, there has never been a president who has done
more for the American people. And he's done more to put the
American people first then President Trump.
I also know that You know, Trump's one of Trumps mottos
that he lives by and it says he's lived by this.
And Trump is a guy was promises made Promises Kept when he tells
us he's going to do something. He does it eat your or at least
tries to do it. He might get railroaded by all
the Rhinos in Congress and all the people in the swamp but
Trump has been screwed, right? And his motto is if you get
screwed by somebody, screw them back ten times harder and it's
not even to teach the person that screwed you over a lesson.
It's the teach anybody else that might think about screwing you
over that you're going to teach them a lesson and what's been
done to this country and what they've put us through over the
last three years. Since Joe Biden has taken office
and even I would say the four years prior while Trump was
president and all the constant bombarding of trying to destroy
this man, they've screwed Trump. And the people that screwed
Trump screwed, every one of us. So, if Trump's going to, if
Trump does, one thing he keeps his promises and its promises
made Promises Kept. They screwed him over, I can't
wait to see him. Clinton, Joe, Biden, the Obamas
and every other person in the Deep State that's been involved
with lying to us getting us involved in these wars, I want
those debt. Documents Declassified.
I want the SB FBI dismantled and Scattered into a thousand pieces
and rebuilt from the ground up in a decentralized way, where
everything is not centralized in Washington.
I could go on for hours. He took 1.7 million women off
food stamps. So if you just think about that
feeling, like I know the feeling like I said, when I graduated
college, when my business was making, 125 thousand dollars a
year when I was just able to hold on, when I was, when I was
able to just to just provide that life for my son.
So, I mean, you know, Americans gained 7 million more jobs than
government expected during Trump's time in office, the
middle class income rant raised by six thousand dollars.
That's more than five times during the entire previous
administration. So Obama was in there for eight
years and your income as an American only Rose by one
thousand dollars. In a over an eight-year period.
Trump did 6,000 in in four years, the unemployment rate
reached 3.5%, he achieved 40 months, straight low employment,
jobless claims had a 50-year low, the number of of people
claiming unemployment insurance, as a share of the population,
hit the lowest record I could go on and on, he lifted 7 million
people off food stamps, 7 million people for the first
time in their life. Most likely were lifted off of
food stamps, poverty rate for African-Americans, Hispanic,
Atkins reached record lows income inequality fell for two,
straight years and by the largest numbers in over a decade
the bottom. And here's my favorite, the
bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent
increase in net wealth wages, Rose faster, for low-income and
blue collar workers, a 16, percentage pay increase which is
insane, African-American homeownership increase from
41.7%, to 46.4% it created more than 1.2 million manufacturing
and construction jobs, you know, the tax cuts that he did for us.
The fact that the stock market was booming Trump was making us
rich and he was doing so by taxing these other nations.
So I look at is, is this Santa's going to do that is is RFK going
to go in there and absolutely destroy the Deep State, maybe
and that. And that is the big question.
I'm literally praying and praying to God that somebody
comes in to the White House in his good and it is as good as
Donald Trump, as good as Donald Trump was not to mention how
much Better. I think Donald Trump's going to
even be this time, and he was last time.
So why would I want to vote or risk it and risk getting another
Obama? Another Jed, Bush or another
George Bush. Another Bill Clinton, I mean,
look, back when Clinton was in office, a lot of people think,
thought Clinton was one of the greatest presidents of all time.
And then you say with Obama, I mean, there was, there was one
time when my son actually came home, this probably a year ago
and like, I was talking about his.
Yeah, but, but Obama's the best president, like that's what
they're teaching these kids in school.
That's what these some of these people actually think, right?
Not really. Knowing that, you know, Amma was
probably the deadliest president.
He killed more people than anybody like any president US.
History was a drone striking. Everybody here drones like
American citizens on us soil and then drone stroke.
An American citizen on foreign soil, unfortunately.
Yes, I don't know about the on American soil.
Where is there a name? A name of that person.
You're thinking of that. Was that guy's son, wasn't it?
He hit the he hit the dad on us soil and then he hid the sun on
foreign soil, if I'm not mistaken.
I think we have to fact, check that one at someone if you got
back. If you know that in the chat I'm
not familiar with that one. That was a pretty impressive
list of things you have that on your phone is like a set of
notes. It looks like I do.
I have to lie I read it almost everyday and and one of the
things that's really impressive is and I think this is the big
differential between when you ask like, oh why is why is Joe
Biden a good president? There'd be like he's
accomplishing all these things in Congress.
It's like well that's not really what a president does but you
know, we're materially, I'd like my 401 k.
My Thrift Savings Account is way worse off.
You know? It's a double digits down and I
think You were mentioning things about the default rate on
vehicles is really high. Do you want to tell people about
that? Because I think it's
interesting. Yeah, so six-point and like the
average. So like, if you take a look, go
back through time, the average amount of Americans, that
default on their car or car loans, every month range is from
like three to five and a half. Every once in a while, you'll
see like a 6% for like a month, and I'll drop rate back down
from December to January. We went from three point like 1%
of Americans defaulting on their car loans. 88 percent of
Americans in one month, six point, eight percent of
Americans defaulting on their auto loans that's just over a
month. And now in in February, it could
have went down, right? I have not seen the number since
January, and I assume that I have not seen those numbers on
purpose, because no matter where I look at cannot find them.
So I assume that they're trying to not show us that and then if
you talk about the amount of Americans right now that are in
credit card debt, the average American citizen has a credit
card balance of five thousand three hundred and seventy-five
dollars. Now these These numbers might be
they do last month or whenever I learned them but they're still
relevant, right? So five thousand three hundred
seventy five dollars so I think 75 percent of Americans have a
credit card balance. So if the average is five
thousand, three hundred seventy-five, you could assume
that most likely 75% of Americans have a credit card,
balance of that of that amount of money.
And then if you just Google simple, what is the average
credit card interest rate in the United States?
It's like Twenty Ninth. Twenty one point two, nine
percent. So if you just scale that down
to 20% and then you say that the average American has 5,000 in
credit card debt, the 75 percent of Americans are paying a
thousand dollars every month. Just to pay off the interest on
their credit card. Debt bankruptcies right now are
accelerating at a rate faster than they did in 08.
And everybody over here is telling us that you listen to
the experts in the big. All, you know, we're not in a
recession on unemployment at you know unemployment unemployment
numbers are not. There's the job openings are
still tons of jobs out there. We're not in a recession.
Well, that's like saying I haven't got hit by a bus.
You haven't got hit by a bus that you're hit by a bus.
If you go back and look at the charts by the time you see those
unemployment numbers go up, you are in full-blown recession,
there is no planning, there's no soft lighting.
There's no prepping for it. It's like, you just oh, well bus
is here. You just get smoked by a bus
like yeah. While we're in a recession, it's
going to get really, really bad here.
I think. Because yeah, what does the what
is the, what is Joe Biden done to lead you to believe that?
He's going to make things better?
Well, we haven't seen anything that's been better.
I in fact, even my brothers who are all pretty low, Left-leaning
have been mentioning things like hey man, you know, my my
savings, my my investments are doing poor, will we need a
Republican president? They don't like Trump, but
there's something funny when people on the left are looking
at their bank accounts and going like Jesus, God Almighty, you
know, what are we doing? And this is a guy that's put,
you know, radical gender ideology far above like basic,
you know, fiscal solvency and we're not doing it.
So I appreciate that. You have some, you know, even if
people disagree with what you're saying, they have to refute the
facts that you're bringing to it.
I don't have any Feeling or emotions about numbers and
that's kind of the thing you have to have.
If you want to vote for guys like Joe Biden, you know, the
feeling stuff is like he's obviously backing things like
pro-abortion stances and trying to put federal dollars behind it
and and really changing the fundamental fabric of our
country. But when it comes just to the
nuts and bolts of finances, I hope people vote with their
pocketbook and look around and say am I richer or poorer than
it was a couple years ago is gasoline a reasonable price.
Since we've dropped off the energy independent spectrum and
I don't know, I like it when when people come and they say
this is My guy and here's why. And these are the numbers and
this is the performance record and they're hard to refute.
It's very weird to me that somebody would support this
other guy for so-called class and decency.
And we'll put out a video tomorrow that you have been
working on very, very hard and put many hours into for people,
to kind of see just a quick taste of what the the hope.
And decency looks like in this particular Administration, which
is it's not there, I don't know, like it's just not, it's not the
thing that we thought we were signing up for maybe, maybe tell
people where they can catch your show.
Where they can follow you, all those kind of things.
This kind of comment area is what you, what you do, these are
the facts and the numbers you bring to bear on it.
And and obviously, I wanted people to have a real world
experience of how you got there, how you became someone who was
interested in politics, and what your credibility is on the
background when they when they go and listen to your show.
Thanks Kyle. You can find me on Elevate TV.
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What the mainstream media is trying to brainwash you into
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