1 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,560 Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistle blower, an 2 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,920 American patriot. Prepare to embrace the 3 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,400 uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for 4 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,840 comforting lies. Here is civil liberties 5 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,760 enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:38,280 agent Kyle Seraphin. Well, hello my friends and 7 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,320 welcome to the Kyle Seraphin show. 8 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,000 Today is Friday and it is October the third. 9 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,600 We used to do friendly Fridays not so long ago. 10 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,200 We had our buddy Steve friend, who has now been Co opted and 11 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,200 rolled back into the FBI and he's no longer a voice for 12 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:55,920 sanity out here in the public with me. 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,000 So that's kind of a shame. Some of you guys were hoping 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,960 that he might be here. You know, he's not getting paid, 15 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:02,880 he's not getting put back into the job yet. 16 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,319 There's a lot about what our FBI is willing to do. 17 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:06,960 Says a lot about what our government's willing to do. 18 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:09,280 I'm sure the shutdown will be another excuse for them to take 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:10,800 their time. I think that's already come out 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,720 to my boys, but I will. I'll keep you updated because 21 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,400 we're not letting that story go. We do have some funny FBI news, 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:19,480 actually one of the funnier ones. 23 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,760 I'll give credit where it's due. It's actually quite amusing. 24 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,480 So stick around for just a couple minutes. 25 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:26,440 That'll be the first thing I get into today. 26 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:29,280 I want to get into something that's been really weighing on 27 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,560 me, and it's maybe weighing on you too. 28 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,520 What you didn't realize today's show episode title is 29 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:36,440 potentially a little bit provocative. 30 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,320 The idea of digital discipleship. 31 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,880 I always end up having reflections and thoughts on 32 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,720 whatever it is that I'm consuming both in media and in 33 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,640 social media. And what I'm consuming right now 34 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,320 on the media side, entertainment side, is that my wife has looped 35 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,000 me in to watching The Chosen. I think we're in the second 36 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,120 season at this point. And so it's an artistic 37 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,200 representation and it is a actor's portrayal of Jesus 38 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,320 Christ and his time on earth, walking around as a man and 39 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,919 really humanizing the things and the stories. 40 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,320 You know, you read the story in the gospel, maybe maybe you're 41 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,520 not even a Christian, but you've you've read these stories as as 42 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,200 his sort of historical perspectives. 43 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,640 And when you see it fleshed out by actors and you realize that 44 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:24,400 he had to be charismatic and charming and funny and 45 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,960 interesting for people to follow him because that's what people 46 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,280 follow. It made me start thinking about 47 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,840 the concept of discipleship. We are currently seeing kind of 48 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,680 a turn on that. But I think people have always 49 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,800 sought out those that were voices that would represent them 50 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,120 in public. You know, that says what they 51 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,320 want to say in the way that they want to say it. 52 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,040 And they go, aha, that's my guy, that's my gal. 53 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,440 That person speaks for me. For many people in America right 54 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,080 now, Donald Trump is that guy. For better or for worse, 55 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,200 sometimes for worse. If we're being real serious. 56 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,160 I think unfortunately the term MAGA for those that are willing 57 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,960 to blindly just sub out their their attention span and people 58 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,800 who are not going to be critical thinkers, they find that MAGA is 59 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,320 a stand in for whatever Donald Trump opinion is today is also 60 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,320 my opinion. And I think that's dangerous for 61 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,440 a country that's supposed to be full of liberty minded free 62 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,880 citizens, not subjects. Because if you're a subject, you 63 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,080 can go with whatever the king says. 64 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,440 That's the official position of the country and the king is 65 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,640 England. And therefore as an Englishman, 66 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:36,840 you back up and follow down on whatever the king says. 67 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,960 But I don't like that. I'm a contrarian by nature. 68 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:47,200 I think Americans in our spirit are kind of a contrarian type. 69 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,920 We're interested in doing things our own way. 70 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:57,160 And so if you are not a digital disciple of somebody, that means 71 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,720 you got to you got to follow your own path. 72 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,880 You have to discern. You have to pray for 73 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,520 discernment, and then you have to act in a discerning manner. 74 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,120 You have to actually look at all things, evaluate the evidence 75 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,280 and decide for or against any given position that is presented 76 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,000 to you. And usually if you're smart 77 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,840 about it, you're going to be open minded enough to take in 78 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,000 new information and change it. I guess a lot of this comes in 79 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,519 from the in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death last night. 80 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:23,640 I spent about 3 hours and change doing it a long term debunk and 81 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,280 debrief on the facts that are available. 82 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:28,320 The things that we think I was sitting with a with a former 83 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,320 Green Beret on Paramount tactical. 84 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,360 You guys can go check that out. It was a longer form version of 85 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,880 what we did in the morning yesterday and I think it was a 86 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,560 useful discussion and we took some audience questions out of 87 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,200 the out of the the chat. People kind of splayed their 88 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,480 ideas. And what you find is there's a 89 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:45,520 lot of folks that have just kind of subbed out their attention 90 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,760 span to fill in the blank Internet investigator without 91 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,520 any particular reason for that person being a great stand in. 92 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,160 And that's tough. I don't think you should do 93 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,400 that. I think that you should evaluate 94 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,880 facts and make decisions on a case by case basis, but that's 95 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,040 just me. I see a lot of folks doing the 96 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,920 same thing with Candace Owens. I've seen people do this with 97 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,560 Nick Fuentes. I've seen people do this with 98 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,480 fill in the blank like you pick a person. 99 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,600 Tucker Carlson again, Donald Trump is an easy one. 100 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,840 Dan Bongino, these cults of personality where the people say 101 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:22,560 that voice is so effective that it actually is my voice. 102 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,640 You are my voice. And so I don't have to think. 103 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,160 And that means that you've really chosen A rabbi because as 104 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,840 I'm watching this program, the chosen, I see that that's what 105 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,440 Jesus disciples did. They not only listen to him, 106 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,200 they subbed out their attention to him, but then they also 107 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,520 represented that they might have known what he was about. 108 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,000 They all brought their own biases to it and they and they 109 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,680 put this lens on it. So if you were a zealot and you 110 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,040 were a fighter, then you believe that Jesus was a conquering 111 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,200 Messiah and he was going to bring violence and danger. 112 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,720 If you were someone who was peaceful and you needed 113 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,360 forgiveness, then you thought that he was this man of peace 114 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,240 and, and forgiveness and he was all those things and he was also 115 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,720 more than all those things. And so we put our kind of 116 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,080 projections on people. We expect them to be that. 117 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,880 And the reason why digital discipleship is so dangerous, I 118 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:10,200 think is because when you sub out and stop thinking critically 119 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,960 for yourself, that person will inevitably let you down. 120 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,520 The reason that it was really effective for this man, Jesus of 121 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,920 Nazareth, is because he was God. If you're a Christian, this is 122 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,920 what you believe and any other person's going to let you down 123 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,640 from Donald Trump, the president of United States, all the way 124 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:27,680 down to the most humble podcast that you can find an online 125 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,400 personality or influencer or whatever it is. 126 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,840 I'm going to encourage all the people that listen to me and 127 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,480 there are many of you and I'm really grateful that you do. 128 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,080 I think it's awesome that you guys tune in the mornings or in 129 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,400 the afternoons on your drive and you listen to this podcast. 130 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,560 I would, I would encourage you to continue to question things 131 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,400 that don't make sense, challenge in comments, you know, write 132 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,240 your thoughts out there. I read almost all of your 133 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,400 comments and some of them are really insightful and some of 134 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,800 them are just blindly saying what I say and it feels good. 135 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,600 I'm not here to let you down or to, to pick you up or to tell 136 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,440 you how to think. I, I don't want to do that. 137 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,960 I'm telling you what I think. And then you have to decide what 138 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,400 makes sense for you. And if you're doing comparisons 139 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,320 about, well, how much do I live up to this standard or that 140 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,880 standard? Certainly don't live up to my 141 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,040 standard because I'm not going to be the guy to do it. 142 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:14,440 All right, that's what we're going to go with today's show. 143 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,160 We're also going to talk about a bunch of fun stuff because 144 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,080 there's a government shutdown and I'm still giddy about it. 145 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,200 Everything worked this morning. My daughter came down too early. 146 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,120 The alarm clock binged at oh, like five O 5 this morning and 147 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:27,680 made a noise for no particular reason. 148 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,160 The sun came up. I saw it. 149 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,040 The grill was working the the gas was working when we turned 150 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,640 on the stove. All the things continued. 151 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,160 The federal government is shut down. 152 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,800 And in a very, very funny little moment, because we're going to 153 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,000 get there towards the end of the show today, people who are young 154 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,440 voters that overwhelmingly chose Donald Trump blame the shutdown 155 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,400 on Republicans. And they wouldn't have changed 156 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,520 their choice back in November knowing what they know right 157 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,680 now. And that might be the most 158 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,040 important little piece of polling that the left is trying 159 00:07:58,040 --> 00:07:59,040 to slant. It's really fun. 160 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:00,440 So we're going to have a lot of fun with that. 161 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,960 Before we do, let's talk about government failure and the 162 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,280 possibility that you might want to hedge against it. 163 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:07,320 What do we always talk about here? 164 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,760 We talk about prepare or repair. You've got a couple of different 165 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,240 options and I would suggest to you that prepare is superior. 166 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,400 If you look at your energy bill lately, you might have seen that 167 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,920 prices are up around the globe. Are they running around the 168 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:21,440 country? Here? 169 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,640 We're just paying more and more. Inflation is still going on. 170 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,440 It's not solved because we have Donald Trump. 171 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,920 Even worse, power outages are possible everywhere, whether it 172 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,440 be because of storm or because of blackout or brownout. 173 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,919 The Department of Energy estimates that blackouts could 174 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:37,640 increase by 10,000% over the next couple years. 175 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,960 So if you don't have a backup generator now, it's time to do 176 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:41,159 it. There's ways you can do it. 177 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:43,440 You can have fuel based ones or you can have something that you 178 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,200 can recharge with the sun, like the Grid Doctor 3300 solar 179 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,000 generator. It is one that is sitting 180 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,800 directly outside of the studio walls here. 181 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,760 It's quiet, but not quite quiet enough that I would want to 182 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:54,320 broadcast with it. There's a fan that makes sense, 183 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,880 but it doesn't bother me. Unlike a gas generator, it's 184 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,560 fume free. It's absolutely safe to use 185 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:00,480 indoors. You can run a long cable out and 186 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,440 put it out in the sun. It's powerful enough to run 187 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,400 almost everything in your. It recharges on its own. 188 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,440 If you plug it into these grid, these grid panels, which I've 189 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,800 got two of them sitting over here on my left, you're going to 190 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,360 get free solar panels and you're going to have unlimited access 191 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:15,120 to outlast any storm or blackout. 192 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,840 It's the reason that we're going to be able to continue to 193 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,400 broadcast. If everything's shut down here. 194 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:24,040 mypatriotsupply.com slash Kyle mypatriotsupply.com/kyle. 195 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,480 You're going to get 3300 watts of backup power. 196 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:28,800 It's actually like, not that bad. 197 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,720 I think we ended up once we bought it, it's like a great 198 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,080 investment that you can always feel good about. 199 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,040 And sometimes I panic and go, what would happen if we didn't 200 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,160 have any power? Oh, yeah, we can recharge from 201 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,120 the sun. Our life will continue on as it 202 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,640 has. mypatriotsupply.com slash Kyle Yeah, I do worry about 203 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,200 these kind of things. And I do actually feel really 204 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,040 good that I bought this thing. It's one of my more pleasing 205 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,040 purchases that we got from my Patriot Supply. 206 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:50,360 Check out link in the show description. 207 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,600 Let's get into today's program right now. 208 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,200 And we're doing it. OK, so we do. 209 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,160 I promise you something fun. I got a couple of fun stories. 210 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:08,560 Let's see. We'll start with something 211 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:10,560 funny. I saw this from Ken Delaney and 212 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:13,400 on on XI think last night before I went to bed and I just 213 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,000 chuckled, so I figured we'd cover it. 214 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,160 I'm not a big cash Battelle fan. You guys know this. 215 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:22,400 Actually, I was driving in my car, my truck, which is a really 216 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,720 cool thing that we have. Like I'm really, I'm really a 217 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,320 big fan of this Ford truck that we bought. 218 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,200 It's the nicest thing that I've ever had to buy. 219 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,600 And I'm driving and I got my 8 year old in the back and we're 220 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,640 talking about stuff. And she's got this kind of 221 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:39,560 curious look on her face. And she said, Dad, did Cash 222 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:43,200 Patel betray you? And I said, yeah, he kind of 223 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,320 did. And she said, yeah, is he like a 224 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,000 traitor that stabbed you in the back? 225 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,120 Went OK, honey, let's have this talk. 226 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,560 So I turned off the radio and we had a long discussion about why 227 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:54,920 we don't particularly care for what's going on in the FBI right 228 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:55,880 now. And that's pretty interesting. 229 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,600 And I have a very, very articulate and perceptive 8 year 230 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,320 old daughter. So I'm very blessed with that. 231 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,240 Doesn't mean the guy does only bad things. 232 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,800 It doesn't mean that everything that he touches turns to poop. 233 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,160 And this is actually a really funny story and MSNBC obviously 234 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,320 does not like it. Cash Patel fired an FBI agent 235 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,520 trainee for displaying a gay pride flag. 236 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:23,040 Talk about misreading the room. The story itself, when you get 237 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:24,760 into the details, it makes plenty of sense. 238 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,600 The FBI director on Wednesday, 2 days ago, fired an agent in 239 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,800 training. Turns out, actually not an agent 240 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:33,080 in training as far as I can tell. 241 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:39,160 A future what they call a gnat a a new agent trainee, but not in 242 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,160 actual training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while 243 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,680 appointed to a field office in California last year. 244 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,840 So it didn't even, it didn't even happen. 245 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,000 I guess it's hard to understand. Like he fired him because a 246 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,840 while ago he showed this flag. That's strange. 247 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,880 The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support 248 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,040 specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter dated October 249 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,600 the 1st signed by Patel claiming that he had displayed an 250 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,160 improper political message in the workplace during his 251 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,720 assignment in California under President Joe Biden. 252 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,360 That's a pretty big move for politics in the FBI. 253 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:13,560 I actually don't hate this, by the way. 254 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:15,520 They claimed that I was a problem because I had a Let's Go 255 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,920 Brandon T-shirt on that was underneath a jacket. 256 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,200 I got a phone call from Washington DC while I was 257 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,440 working in the middle of nowhere in Las Cruces, NM. 258 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,480 And for those of you who are in New Mexico, you know that that's 259 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:26,960 a real place. But for those of you that have 260 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,600 never been to New Mexico, you might not even know that Las 261 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,680 Cruces is an American city. My friends in the FBI didn't 262 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:35,640 know that. I got a phone call from 263 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,480 Washington DC saying, hey, take off that T-shirt or put on 264 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,400 something else, put something over it. 265 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,320 Like who cares? By the way, I was just 266 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,400 supporting what the president of the United States, Joe Biden had 267 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,280 just said in December. I think he said it on December 268 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,520 the 24th. He said, I agree, let's go 269 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,120 Brandon. He was the president, he was the 270 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,320 boss, he was the executives. I just wore a let's go Brandon 271 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,120 because the president agreed. The letter cited President 272 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,320 Donald Trump's Article 2 powers under the Constitution to 273 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,880 dismiss federal agency career personnel, A justification used 274 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,960 in several recent firings. Now the fact is, is that if 275 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,040 you're a new agent, you're likely under a probationary 276 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,320 status, which means they can fire you for no reason, says 277 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:15,720 quote. You're being summarily dismissed 278 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,400 from a position as a new agent trainee at the FBI Academy at 279 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,480 Quantico. This is written kind of like in 280 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,080 a shady way. It sounds like maybe this person 281 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,160 was a support employee, then was being moved into the agent 282 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:26,600 position. By the way, this is how you get 283 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,800 left-leaning agents. You recruit them for non agent 284 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,880 positions, then they get the requisite amount of work 285 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,160 experience and they've only worked for the FBI. 286 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,600 This was always the case when I was at the Bureau. 287 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,400 Like you see these people that come in, it's like, what did you 288 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:39,960 do for a living? And they're like, well, I was an 289 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:44,200 FBI analyst and then I became a agent and you're like, oh, OK, 290 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:45,800 got it. So you've never had another job? 291 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,560 What about what about you? Oh, I was an FBI honors intern 292 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:51,960 and then I became some other kind of support person and then 293 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,200 I became an FBI agent and I got it. 294 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:56,640 Cool. So when you say it's the best 295 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,160 job in the world, it's because you haven't had another job. 296 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,920 You just know that it's the best job in the FBI, which is true. 297 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,640 So anyway, this this thing goes on and says, yeah, you're on the 298 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,600 the first day of the nationwide shutdown and you just lost your 299 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:08,840 jobs. After reviewing the facts and 300 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,560 circumstances, continuing your probationary status, there you 301 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:13,160 have it. I've determined that you 302 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,800 exercise poor judgement with an inappropriate display of 303 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,440 political signage in your work area. 304 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:18,880 I'm actually totally down with that. 305 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,440 If your thing is, is that I'm super pride about, proud about 306 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,920 like who I want to have sex with, I don't think you should 307 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,720 probably work in the government in general. 308 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,200 I just don't think that's necessary. 309 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,560 There are gay people that work at the FBI that you don't know 310 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,200 were gay. I knew people that I found out 311 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:33,600 after years and years of knowing them. 312 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:35,600 I worked side by side with them for years. 313 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,840 I found out that they were either bisexual or interested in 314 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,160 the other sex and I had no idea because they were normal human 315 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,560 beings like you'd expect. There was a time when we didn't 316 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:44,920 actually know all this stuff about each other. 317 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,400 Whatever it's worth. I think this is one of those 318 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,280 funny stories where you go like, OK, well, sometimes the goose 319 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,400 and the gander thing is bad. This is not actually 320 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,040 weaponization. I think that they did it to 321 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:55,560 everybody else, and you shouldn't be showing your 322 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,920 politics. And the argument that a gay 323 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,160 pride flag is in fact a political statement seems 324 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,400 overtly true. It's either a political 325 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,760 statement or it's a religious statement because it does seem 326 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:08,120 to be the church for some people. 327 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,240 Both of those things are fine. And if you're in probation, 328 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:12,960 you're supposed to shut your mouth and not be seen. 329 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,200 I had this discussion with my wife really early on when I was 330 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:16,520 at the Academy. I said I'm not going to be able 331 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,160 to talk to anybody here. I'm not going to make any 332 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,160 friends. I ended up making about two or 333 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:21,720 three friends that I I still talk to. 334 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,000 I said I can't tell anybody what I think at this place because I 335 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 don't know what they think. And I don't want to get fired, 336 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,920 not right away. My job is to shut up and, and 337 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,160 just hang in there until I get out into the field office and 338 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,920 until I get off probation. They always tell you when you're 339 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:37,560 at the FBI Academy. And this is the case for a lot 340 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,040 of jobs. Folks who don't realize is if 341 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,840 you're in at will employment, basically every day you go to 342 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,360 work is a job interview because at any point in time your 343 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,800 employer could decide that your juice is not worth the squeeze 344 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,640 and they'll just cut you loose. And if you're in federal 345 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,000 employment where you generally have a lot of protections, there 346 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,400 is a period of time between one and two years, depending on if 347 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,760 you were a veteran or not. And in that period of time, you 348 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,520 were on a one to two year job interview. 349 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,920 And that's not half bad. So why are you going out there 350 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:09,320 and making waves? Why are you going out there and 351 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,320 saying people, hey, look at me, look what I'm all about. 352 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,600 Shut your mouth. Your job is to learn and to keep 353 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,480 quiet and to not get fired. You're on a job interview for a 354 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,200 period of time. So I don't have a lot of 355 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:21,960 sympathy for this. And I know that these kind of 356 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,800 things went down. I have friends who are 357 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:28,800 outstanding agents that got fired because they didn't wear a 358 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,520 a jacket with their tie or they didn't wear a tie with their 359 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,640 dress shirt. When they went to court where 360 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,600 they weren't even presenting, they were sitting in the back in 361 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,040 the gallery. My buddy Joe got removed from 362 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:45,200 his job the day before he got off probation after being a cop 363 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,920 for years for being highly competent. 364 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,480 And then he showed up at A at a initial appearance where the FBI 365 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,000 case agent will show up in like tattered jeans and AT shirt 366 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,640 because I just got finished arresting somebody. 367 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,120 And he was wearing slacks and a dress shirt and a tie but no 368 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,599 blazer. And a supervisor that wasn't 369 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,599 even a real supervisor. An acting supervisor ruined him, 370 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,119 ruined his career, fired him while he was home at sick, sick 371 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,440 with his with his kid. And they showed up at his at his 372 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,720 door on the last day of probation after two full years 373 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,359 -1 day to remove him from federal service. 374 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,079 So I have zero. I have 0 sympathy for it. 375 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:24,119 And I do think it's kind of funny. 376 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,280 I think it's also funny that you've got crying over at MSNBC 377 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,280 about it. OK, let's start with the 378 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,600 original first story that I had today because I do think it's 379 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,880 useful and I think it's fun and I think it's ridiculous. 380 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,120 This is kind of fun. And look what you're seeing on 381 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:40,200 the screen here. For those of you that are 382 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,520 listening, we're showing a box with wheels that has headlights 383 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,200 that are set up to look like eyes and a name tag that says 384 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:51,640 Jackson and some cute local art. And it says food delivery robots 385 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:52,760 are cute. Should we trust them? 386 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,280 First of all, I don't think it's cute. 387 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,160 I think that's weird looking. If I saw that running down the 388 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,280 street, I think that somebody has lost their baby. 389 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,520 It's a baby, Bucky with no baby in it and no mom behind it. 390 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:03,960 But this is the world that we're moving into. 391 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,600 And when you start talking about people outsourcing their 392 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,560 thoughts and their opinions, when we start talking about 393 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,480 people that are not doing critical thinking, this is a 394 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:12,880 great example of a story like that. 395 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,080 Here's here's how silly this is. This is written by a woman whose 396 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,280 name is Scotty. I guess that's cute. 397 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,720 Scotty Andrew writes. It's name is Courtney. 398 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,840 It's name is Courtney. Courtney doesn't have eyes, but 399 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,280 it has sensors everywhere, and there are two blinking likes in 400 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,800 front of its boxy body to accommodate wide Mooney pupils. 401 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,480 Not sure about this writing style. 402 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,120 It's been described as a large cooler on four wheels. 403 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,000 Yeah, that's what it looks like. It looks like. 404 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,480 It looks like a not as attractive Patriot cooler on 405 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,520 wheels. Courtney. 406 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:46,920 They should put air quotes around it. 407 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:48,480 If you're going to name a robot, you should have to put air 408 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,160 quotes around it. Is a food delivery robot, First 409 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:55,560 serve robotics, transporting Uber Eats orders, typically when 410 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,960 there's a mile or less between the restaurant and a customer. 411 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,440 Courtney showed up in my Atlanta neighborhood one day. 412 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:05,680 Onward towards a the end of June with a dozen other wheel boded 413 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,000 friends with names like DeAndre and Orion. 414 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,880 This goes on to talk about sending food robots to you. 415 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,880 I think actually everything that's going wrong in our 416 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,320 society might be able to go down. 417 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,600 I used to think that the biggest thing going wrong in America 418 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,360 could be could be described by 1 cultural phenomenon. 419 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,680 Public Storage units. The fact that we have so much 420 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,560 crap in our lives that we have to rent out somebody else's 421 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,440 space in their property to store crap that we don't even need to 422 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,960 regularly see. It's so much crap that we don't 423 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,080 even need it on a daily basis. We might not even need on a 424 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,840 monthly basis. So we have these storage units 425 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,240 full of our junk because we can't get rid of garbage. 426 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,840 That used to be my sort of stand in for all of the problems in 427 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,800 the United States. This was my high school and 428 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,040 college supposition that Americans were so materialistic 429 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,040 that we just stored our crap, that we were willing to pay rent 430 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,680 to a complete stranger to just hold a box full of stuff that we 431 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:04,640 didn't even know it was in there. 432 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,000 And there are some reasons for, you know, Public Storage. 433 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,080 I've used it. But man, that is that was one of 434 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,960 them. This is a new low. 435 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,480 I think in many ways that you are so damn lazy you won't even 436 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,840 go get your own food and that you're willing to pay a premium. 437 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,360 This is the same kind of people that are using this that are 438 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,480 also crying that they can't afford a home. 439 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:25,640 That $100,000 is not enough money to live on. 440 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,680 I saw that on social media yesterday as well. 441 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,800 People just like bitching and moaning about what their lot in 442 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:32,720 life is instead of trying to like optimize it. 443 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,400 And then there are companies that can make a profit by 444 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,560 designing these weird cooler robots. 445 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,640 I think it's a great stand in between that and Taylor Swift 446 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:46,160 dropping an album and a bunch of grown women being outside when 447 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,880 the album is being released. Crying might be the two biggest 448 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,920 indicators of today's American problems. 449 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,880 Courtney and the bots have trouble navigating Atlanta. 450 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,400 Yeah, because they're robots. They get confused at Crosswalts. 451 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,080 They move with speed and caution of a first time driver. 452 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,080 Stilted and shy. Look how? 453 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,280 Look how much personification is going on here. 454 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:08,760 They suddenly speed up without warning. 455 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,480 Their wheels look like they're made for off roading, but they 456 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,520 still get stuck in the cracks of a sidewalk. 457 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,320 Most of the times I see the bots, they aren't moving at all. 458 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:21,400 They're just stuck. OK, so do people care? 459 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,040 Do they think it's clever? Do they think it's fun? 460 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,120 Yeah, apparently, they do. People thought they were objects 461 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,600 of curiosity. They took pictures with them. 462 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,040 There's TikTok. They are spot on the street. 463 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,240 For the first time, people are saying the future is now, and 464 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:31,920 they're filming themselves with this nonsense. 465 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,640 Three months after their arrival, the novelty has worn 466 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,000 off. They're not photo OPS anymore. 467 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,520 They're obstacles that cyclists have to swerve to avoid. 468 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,400 Patrons of Shake Shack, which is a national partner of this 469 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,080 company. Swerve serve, I guess. 470 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,680 Sorry, they weave around a mess of robots that are parked in 471 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,160 front of the restaurant as they try to make their way inside and 472 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,960 they have to paste place their orders on iPads. 473 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,560 I don't like placing my order on iPads either. 474 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,160 There's much an accepted part of life in my neighborhood as the 475 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,480 obnoxious scooters that continue to loot to the sidewalks. 476 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,000 I don't like those either. I don't like, you know what? 477 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:00,960 I don't like modernity that much. 478 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,800 I'm becoming a Luddite. People are always asking when 479 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,160 are the robots finally going to be here, Said Serve Robotics CEO 480 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,680 Ali Kashini. If you're lucky to live in one 481 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:12,760 of these cities, you'll see it today. 482 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,680 If not, it'll probably be a couple years, but someone will 483 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,040 have them in their environment everywhere. 484 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,200 What could go wrong? I love that they at least 485 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,080 covered this. This researcher from a place 486 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:27,160 called Security and Context Initiatives said that someone in 487 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:31,200 Silicon Valley needs to slow their roll and they need to stop 488 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,840 using these untested, unregulated technologies. 489 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,880 He said that these the skepticism towards technology is 490 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,760 healthy because when they show up, they're not just robots that 491 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,600 are delivering your food, They're actually the eyes and 492 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,320 ears of a company that is going to be running around with 493 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,080 sensors and microphones and cameras to find out what people 494 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,560 are doing in that area. Remember, if there's a free 495 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,480 service, then usually you are the product. 496 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,560 How sketchy is it that we're going to put all these private 497 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,120 industries? Everyone always worries about 498 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:03,120 the government coming in to monitor them. 499 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,280 And there's a good reason for that. 500 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,480 And I know it more and most, I worked in the, the national 501 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,520 security space and I know what those capabilities are. 502 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,520 But you know who puts the government to shame? 503 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,720 Apps, robot companies, 4 wheeled coolers that are running around 504 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,600 in Atlanta for some damn reason that have microphones to be able 505 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,680 to sense audible danger, cameras to be able to sense visual 506 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,680 danger and, and, and help them navigate. 507 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:26,600 They're constantly driving around. 508 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,520 Do you think they just like ditch that footage? 509 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,360 Where do they hold on to it? Because storage is cheap and 510 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:35,640 that data is going to be worth something at some point to 511 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,920 people. How soon is it before they start 512 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,080 putting little Bluetooth sensors in there so I can ping? 513 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,160 Ping your Bluetooth and find out where you've been and where 514 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,600 you're going or Wi-Fi. So it's just gathering whatever 515 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,520 pings your phones are. How many of us are dedicated 516 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,840 enough to put our phones in a Faraday bag when we go walk 517 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,280 around and only take them out when we need them? 518 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,360 I'll be none. I don't do it, and I'm as 519 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:54,760 security conscious as most people. 520 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,480 I'm at least aware more than most people are. 521 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,600 It's kind of a wild time to think that they're going to send 522 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:00,720 these things out there in the streets. 523 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,200 So we've got the future robot problem. 524 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,360 It always begins with private corporations. 525 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,320 It always ends up like this, a good idea theater. 526 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,920 How do we solve this problem? How can we do it without 527 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,240 bothering people? And then you realize, like, 528 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,360 you're fighting the robots in the streets. 529 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:19,760 I don't know. It seems like none of these 530 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,400 people grew up watching the same shows that I did. 531 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,920 Maybe they just didn't watch Terminator 2. 532 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,320 Maybe they didn't watch Terminator one and realize that 533 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,800 eventually these things try to come and kill us. 534 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:31,000 So what's going on, again, if you outsource your thinking to 535 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,320 some tech guru, you're like, whatever Elon Musk does is 536 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,160 amazing. Well, now I hate him because 537 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,280 he's mad at Donald Trump. Like, if you don't think for 538 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,240 yourself and just look at it and go, hey, what are the pros and 539 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,680 cons? The pros are some poor kid is 540 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,480 not doing this job. The downside is some poor kid is 541 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,720 not doing this job. And the real downside is, is 542 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,000 that some dude on a cycle is going to smoke a freaking cooler 543 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,280 that stops randomly for no reason and they're going to do 544 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,760 an endo. And now we're going to end up 545 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,200 with a guy in the emergency room who's like trying to, you know, 546 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,120 figure out what's going on with his broken arm. 547 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,520 So we just think things through a little bit. 548 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,800 Turns out our politics can't do that. 549 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,240 This is one of the funnier stories that I've seen. 550 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,000 This is totally a different animal, But we're going to keep 551 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,560 moving forward. This made me laugh because this 552 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,120 is coming from NPRI. Occasionally I just dig into NPR 553 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:13,400 because I want to know what the left, like the hard left and the 554 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,720 formerly government funded left, has to say. 555 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,440 This is coming from All THINGS Considered. 556 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,720 This is a headline that is quite great. 557 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,760 The National Guard presence may deter crime. 558 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,760 Oh, say more. But experts warn of the long 559 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,760 term costs. It's almost like the stuff that 560 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,120 we've been saying here. What's the exit strategy? 561 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,160 Great idea. Shut down the crime. 562 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,720 Isn't it fun when the left has to admit that the National Guard 563 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,960 actually does a thing that they really hated? 564 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,680 Because for a while, I was catching all these headlines 565 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,120 saying they're not deterring crime, they're just cleaning up 566 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:46,160 trash. And now they're like, wow, maybe 567 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,640 they are deterring crime. But also, won't it cost us a lot 568 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,560 of money? Yeah, Yeah, I will. 569 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,120 Imagine if you're you're cops in the cities you lived in, like 570 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:58,480 Chicago or Memphis or or or Washington, DC actually did the 571 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,600 job they were paid for, so we didn't have to send other people 572 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,840 to do the job. It's the same argument, by the 573 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,920 way, that Andrew Bailey's going to take over and Dan Bongino's 574 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,280 going to leave. I'm not saying it's happening 575 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,160 today, but it will happen. You know why? 576 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,000 Because paying two people to do one person's job is not 577 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,480 effective. And having a robot that creates 578 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,120 other jobs might not be effective. 579 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:17,560 And it might be super scary when it comes to, like, gathering 580 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,360 information on you. The Trump administration 581 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,040 expanded its anti crime initiative aimed at Democrat LED 582 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,840 cities. Why is it at Democrat LED 583 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,920 cities, you wonder? They're so mean, the 584 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,920 Republicans. Or maybe that's just where all 585 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,200 the crime is. Criminologists are watching to 586 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,040 see how effective the federal interventions will be. 587 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:33,920 Oh, really? Yeah, because it'll be really 588 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:34,720 effective. You know what they do? 589 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,880 They pick up trash and they and they, they clean up the area. 590 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,760 And it turns out when places look nice, then people feel less 591 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,760 OK with, you know, doing crime That's been there forever. 592 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,880 The special interest, there's special interest in the effect 593 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,760 of the National Guard, which don't have direct policing 594 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,160 policies in Washington. They were often seen station 595 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,440 near tourist sites and they were employed to pick up trash. 596 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,720 Sometimes just having a masculine person, like a dude in 597 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:00,600 a uniform that looks like he might fight you if you do 598 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,480 something dumb or dangerous is, in fact, a deterrent in and of 599 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,120 itself. That's why people used to have 600 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:07,840 beat cops. You know, they would patrol an 601 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,120 area. That's why my neighborhood 602 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,280 constantly has a sheriff's deputy's vehicle. 603 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,560 There's no sheriff deputy in it, by the way. 604 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,360 They just park it in an area going around a blind curve. 605 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,800 So when you come around the curve, boom, you see a marked 606 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,640 police uniform or police vehicle, a black and white with 607 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,680 lights on top. And people immediately slow down 608 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,000 because they're doing, like, 60 and it's a 40, and it should be 609 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,320 a 20. Yeah, it works. 610 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,000 It turns out like presents, like a presence patrol is sometimes 611 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,320 effective. They actually tried that in 612 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,160 Washington, DC when I was living there, but they just did it with 613 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,480 FBI agents and those people ended up kneeling for BLM and 614 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,040 then they got fired. That's also interesting. 615 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,960 Some of the research suggests their visible presence could 616 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,760 make a difference. They needed research to do that, 617 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,240 folks. This is yet another reason why 618 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,200 we should also not be outsourcing our thinking. 619 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,600 There are people that paid other people to look into. 620 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,760 When you have tough looking guys that are in military uniforms, 621 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,920 are people less likely to commit crimes around them? 622 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:06,280 I mean, when I say we don't hate our government enough, I don't 623 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,280 really like it that way. I just don't like any 624 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,120 government, and I don't like the idea that they had to pay 625 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,000 someone to do something that any one of you could have just 626 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,800 written up and we would have known it was true. 627 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,760 No matter how little experience you have with the military, 628 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,280 you'd be like, hey, if you had tough guys wearing military 629 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,400 uniforms looking like they belong there, hanging out on the 630 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,080 street corner, do you think they'll be as many robberies 631 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:25,440 happening on the street corner or not? 632 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:26,840 And you'd be like, no, there wouldn't be. 633 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,240 So what do they do? They went to Jerry Ratcliffe, a 634 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,360 professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. 635 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:34,400 How prestigious. Who compared National Guard 636 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,560 deployments to the United Kingdom's policing policies with 637 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,160 support officers who wear uniforms but lack traditional 638 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,600 policing powers. Seriously, we're going to look 639 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,440 to the UK. Who just named a female Bishop 640 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,400 of Canterbury awesome In a strong study in the UK. 641 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,480 It's the first time the word strong and UK have been used in 642 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,640 a sentence in quite a while. Found that when they were 643 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,360 deployed to crime hotspots we actually saw a reduction in 644 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,840 crime and disorder. Radcliffe says it's a fairly 645 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,440 clear assumption that some kind of uniformed government 646 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,480 presence. It doesn't have to be police 647 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,040 can, at least on a surface level, have a deterrence value. 648 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,880 I hope they write a paper on this. 649 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,840 I hope he gets paid a salary. I hope that they spend a, a 650 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,800 bunch of time with some grad students and so on. 651 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,280 Rationality doesn't need to be, you know, this common sense 652 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,360 thing. They're really, they're really 653 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,080 on to something. But it'd be better if we could 654 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,520 just get someone to codify it in some sort of university study. 655 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,560 So that's the world we're living in. 656 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,120 And that, of course, means that you got people that are pissed 657 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,680 off about it. So here was what would have been 658 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,120 a critical statement. This is not his best moment in 659 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,400 so much as his energy. But here's Donald Trump saying 660 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,120 things that sound overtly reasonable. 661 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,560 Again, I'm more interested in the exit strategy than the 662 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,560 actual whether or not it'll work, because obviously it'll 663 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,600 work. And we know it'll work because 664 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,080 studies from the UK have told us so. 665 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,640 I'm smirking. All right, here's Donald Trump 666 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:49,640 talking about what he wanted to do. 667 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,080 This is the other day when he was at Quantico. 668 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,160 We haven't even started yet. Last month, I signed an 669 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,520 executive order to provide training for quick reaction 670 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,280 force. It can help quell civil 671 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,400 disturbances. So this is going to be a big 672 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,480 thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from 673 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,000 within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. 674 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,760 It won't get out of control once once you get involved at all, 675 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,000 They all joke. They say, oh, this is not good. 676 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,760 It was kind of low energy. Pete Hegseth did a much better 677 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:25,640 job. We'll cover his in just a 678 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,640 second, again, because there's more, more people that are upset 679 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,000 about what Pete Hegseth had to say. 680 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,600 But he's absolutely right. Yeah, it's a big deal because we 681 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,000 do have an enemy from within. That enemy is people that don't 682 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,960 want to abide by American law and order, which should be a 683 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,280 really simple concept for most. Like you want to be in this 684 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,280 country, you got to act like a regular citizen. 685 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,560 You can't be an A hole. You're allowed to have bad 686 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,920 opinions. You're allowed to say mean 687 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,280 things. But if you want to get violent 688 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,840 or break the law, then someone's going to stop you. 689 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,680 And for some reason in quote UN quote Democrat LED cities, 690 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,280 they're not really interested in doing that. 691 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,400 No. So you put a turn in, even if 692 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,520 it's just a bunch of dudes that are getting paid in their 693 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,360 National Guard capacity, capacity to stand around smoking 694 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,000 and joking, looking like they might do something if something 695 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,200 were to come up. That seems totally reasonable to 696 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,720 me. All right, we're going to get 697 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,480 into military standards because that was something that has 698 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,160 really been tweaking me and I've seen quite a bit of it. 699 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,520 Before we do, let's talk about crime a little bit. 700 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,320 How about scammers? National Guard can't stop that. 701 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,840 You can, though. Patriot Protect is the company 702 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,080 we use over here at the Seraphin household. 703 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,560 It's patriot-protect.com slash Kyle. 704 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,880 It is actually scarily easy for criminals and scammers and 705 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,120 scumbags in general to find information about you personal 706 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,200 information online that they can use to harm you. 707 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,240 They can find your home address, your phone number, workplace, 708 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,240 even your family members names and they can pretend to be you. 709 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,840 Or they can call you up and know enough about you that they can 710 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,640 pretend to be real companies and get your information. 711 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,120 Data breaches will always expose sensitive information, but 712 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,720 people search websites and data brokers that are selling your 713 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,160 information for clicks are actually probably just as 714 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,400 dangerous. They actively harvest this 715 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,360 personal information from leaks and hacks and so on. 716 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,080 They publish all this stuff on their websites and they make 717 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,760 them searchable on Google, and it makes you easily accessible. 718 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,440 It's not great, especially when people can find it overseas. 719 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,280 This exposure puts you and your loved ones at risk. 720 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,160 You can take your name out of that pile doing the folks over 721 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:10,560 at Patriot Protect. It's like a couple bucks a 722 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,320 month. Do the annual subscription, use 723 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,160 my name. I think you send save 15% on 724 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,680 there and makes it very, very affordable. 725 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,200 It's patriot-protect.com slash Kyle. 726 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,880 All you want to do is make yourself a little bit harder to 727 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,000 find and a little bit less likely to be exposed. 728 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,440 It's pennies on the dollar, like pennies at a time or less than 729 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,080 pennies for them to buy access to your name and if they have 730 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,640 it, then they might use it. We're not all going to get 731 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,240 scammed at any given time, but the the idea is, is that it's 732 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,360 probably more of a when and not an if you might have a scam 733 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:39,840 attempt. They just don't have it. 734 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,760 You never know what kind of phone call it's going to take 735 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,360 when you're busy, you're in the car and you're just going to say 736 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:44,240 yes to something you shouldn't be. 737 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,080 Go ahead and check them out again. patriot-protect.com slash 738 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,720 Kyle link in the show description. 739 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,000 You've seen Skip on our show here before talking about 740 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,440 literally they will buy for a few dollars, they will buy 741 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,480 hundreds of names and they'll just come at you and they'll 742 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,240 just ring them up until they finally get what they want or 743 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,320 they'll send you a phishing text messages, things like that until 744 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:01,360 they can actually take what they need. 745 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,280 Terrible stuff. I hate scammers. 746 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,560 I really do at a terrible level. This is not a scam. 747 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,040 This is Pete Hegseth and apparently we're going to have 748 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,000 to now talk about fitness standards, proposed military 749 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,280 fitness standards comparing to existing fitness tests. 750 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,240 What's interesting is like so many things, if you zoom out on 751 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,360 the timeline, you realize that the existing fitness standards 752 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,000 are actually relatively new. I had a discussion last night 753 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,800 with with Gary Melton, who is a Green Beret, and we were talking 754 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,400 about a couple things that it veered into the weakening and 755 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,720 the and the problematic nature of putting women in combat jobs, 756 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,880 namely lowering the standards and what he saw in the special 757 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,120 operations community. I saw it in the Air Force. 758 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,480 I have friends who are Green Berets who saw this going 759 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,600 through the trade off program or whatever the hell it is that the 760 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,120 JFK Special warfare school. They said we keep lowering 761 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,280 standards. We're letting more and more 762 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,520 scumbags get into the into these elite units. 763 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,880 What's the reason? And what people found out was 764 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,080 the reason wasn't getting weaker soldiers that were men and that 765 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,000 wasn't the goal. The goal was eventually to run 766 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,640 top cover, to be able to push women through. 767 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,240 I knew guys that were in Air Force special operations. 768 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,240 I knew people that were over in the Army side of it, and they 769 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,719 were told explicitly these women will graduate. 770 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,199 It will happen. Not there's a standard. 771 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,840 Hold the standard, give them a fair shake, and if they 772 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,560 graduate, great. No, no, they will graduate. 773 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:23,440 And so that's not great. And that comes from weak 774 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,199 leadership at the top. It comes from fat, soft bodies 775 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:28,199 that are in charge of things that they probably shouldn't be, 776 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,639 people who couldn't do, couldn't lead by example if they wanted 777 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:32,800 to. And yeah, Pete's younger than 778 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,719 some of these generals and and some of these, you know, senior 779 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,360 colonels and whatnot. And that may be the case. 780 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,639 But at the end of the day, shouldn't you look like a 781 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:40,880 soldier? Shouldn't you look like a 782 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,480 warrior? Shouldn't you look like a Marine 783 00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,040 or an Airman that people can look at and go, yeah, got it. 784 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,840 Like that person, he's intimidating. 785 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,560 If they stand in a uniform, they actually project the power of 786 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,800 the United States and. And it has some dignity to it. 787 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:54,920 Or do we get some of these scumbags that don't? 788 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:56,280 So here he was addressing those generals. 789 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,000 I want to play it again because I actually really like this 790 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:58,920 piece. And then we're going to go 791 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,680 through the fitness standards real quickly with ABC. 792 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,640 And then I'm going to show you two people that are in in 793 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,480 significant contrast. One of the reasons why I had a 794 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,200 flashback to 2012 this morning. With physical fitness and 795 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:15,120 appearance, if the Secretary of War can do regular hard PT, so 796 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,880 can every member of our joint force. 797 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,080 Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really 798 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,000 any formation, and see fat troops. 799 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,840 Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals 800 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,920 and Admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands 801 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,320 around the country in the world. It's a bad look, it is bad, and 802 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,560 it's not who we are. So whether you're an Airborne 803 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,880 Ranger or a Chairborne Ranger, a brand new private or a four-star 804 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,400 general, you need to meet the height and weight standards and 805 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,920 pass the PT test. And as the chairman said, yes, 806 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,760 there is no PT test. But today, at my direction, 807 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,240 every member of the joint force at every rank is required to 808 00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:00,840 take APT test twice a year, as well as meet height and weight 809 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,640 requirements twice a year, every year of service. 810 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,720 I don't even know why that's remotely controversial. 811 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:12,160 I did see the women on The View that were really upset about 812 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,280 this. I think we played this the other 813 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:14,920 day. They were upset because, gosh, 814 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,320 that's so mean. It's not nice to these very, you 815 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,880 know, these, these honorable troops, they've worked so hard. 816 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,640 And it's like, what did you think you signed up for? 817 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,680 Everybody has to go to some version of basic training. 818 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,000 They go to OCS, they all get fitness standards. 819 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,280 They're all tested. They can all lose their job if 820 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,800 they can't keep up with it. This is the case. 821 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,040 This should actually be the case for most federal employment. 822 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,800 It's actually one of my biggest gripes about the federal 823 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,640 government. There's a lot of soft bodied 824 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,600 people that probably shouldn't have that job, Not because the 825 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,000 fitness is a requirement of doing that job, because it's 826 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,960 actually good for the workforce and it's good for the taxpayer 827 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,400 because people who are in good fit shape physically actually 828 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,960 have less health problems, it turns out. 829 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,600 So you could do it proactively. And I love the fact that he just 830 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,800 said it's going to be a mandate that all active duty personnel 831 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,600 will be required a workout every single day, 30 minutes a day. 832 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,560 We'll keep the the evil, whatever diabetes away. 833 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,200 It's a mandate. It's supposed to be enforced by 834 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,480 commanders. The troops will also have to 835 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,840 take at least two fitness tests per year. 836 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,600 As you heard him say, there's a general fitness, a general 837 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,880 service fitness requirement that will account for a person's age. 838 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,600 And that matters because as you get more senior, there's 839 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,800 probably less physicality in the work you're doing. 840 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,200 When you're 18 and you're young and dumb and tough and you think 841 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,120 you can do everything and you can break yourself off and you 842 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,240 can just wake up in the morning and it all grows back like, 843 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:29,520 great, that's good. When you're 40, that's maybe not 844 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:30,880 the same thing. And you're leading with a little 845 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,600 bit more intelligence. You got to be a little bit more 846 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,480 circumspect. Maybe you're doing less impact. 847 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,240 Maybe you're on a bike or swimming instead of doing the 848 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:38,320 running all the time. But doggone it, shouldn't our 849 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,320 troops be tough and be capable? There is going to be something 850 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,560 I'm going to bring up to that because our, our military is 851 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,400 supposed to be a threat, a spear and a, and a sword and a shield 852 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,640 that goes out there, scares the crap out of people that want to 853 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,440 screw with this country. And for a long time that was the 854 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:53,680 case. And then you kind of have this 855 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,960 question of like, is it ongoing? This is why I don't really like 856 00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,600 women in combat jobs. I'm not real crazy. 857 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,800 I didn't like working with women in the military in general, if 858 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,680 I'm being honest. It's not because they were 859 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,480 women. It's because we didn't have the 860 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,360 same reasons for being there. And I'm going to show you 861 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,200 exactly how I know that. I had this flashback to 2012 862 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,560 when this this Air Force staff Sergeant was telling me to stay 863 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,400 in because the job market was scary. 864 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,880 And I told her I wasn't staying in because I wasn't going to 865 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,160 deploy to a war zone. And that wasn't good. 866 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,920 And that's why I showed up. I showed up to go to war and I 867 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,240 didn't go to war. So I was done. 868 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,600 Here's Sunny Hoskins. She's upset about it. 869 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,200 I think we played this the other day, but it's worth seeing 870 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,280 again. This is a female attitude 871 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,800 towards things, when in reality, projecting violence and 872 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,280 capabilities on the world is kind of a male thing. 873 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,200 There are women who can do it, no doubt about it. 874 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,440 There are women that are capable of doing the job, but they 875 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,600 should be able to keep up with the standard that the men around 876 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:43,960 them are so they don't have to be a lag I'm. 877 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,640 Actually really befuddled by. By by why he did that. 878 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:51,400 The optics were terrible, meaning all of our top military 879 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,200 brass are all in one place and we spent $6,000,000 to get them 880 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,880 there. That that didn't make a lot of 881 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,720 sense to me. It also didn't make a lot of 882 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:02,320 sense to me that he was saying that he was going to toughen 883 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:07,520 physical standards and and review the anti hazing policy by 884 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,840 sort of implementing A hazing policy. 885 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,840 And then also he said he was going to return. 886 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,400 To the highest male standard for combat positions because the 887 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:22,280 troops were fat. I, I just, I, I don't understand 888 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,040 how that was supposed to be an uplifting message for. 889 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,120 Women who don't understand that the military is not about 890 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,600 uplifting, it's about grinding people into submission so they 891 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,000 do what needs to be done because, you know, it's not 892 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,040 really uplifting to be in life threatening danger. 893 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,520 It turns out you don't need affirmations. 894 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,080 You need to get your ass up and move. 895 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,320 You need to do training because that's what needs to be done. 896 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,120 And sometimes aggressive, angry motivation is highly effective, 897 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,440 particularly for men, it turns out, who make up the majority of 898 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,360 people that are going to go and do something really dangerous. 899 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,360 And it also turns out it's really effective for women that 900 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,560 are going to get along with men that can do that job. 901 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,640 I've known some absolute stud physical fitness athlete freaks 902 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,800 that are women. My cousins, I have some cousins 903 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,560 that are freaks like that. They were stud water polo 904 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,080 players. They would fight men. 905 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,720 You know, hand to hand and they would actually hold their 906 00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:12,960 ground. Their dad was a like a football 907 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,200 player in college. And so it's, it's a real thing. 908 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:20,880 But the overlapping section of like women who can do and women 909 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,360 who want to do, it's a really, really narrow window. 910 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,280 I'm not even sure that it's worth the squeeze on that. 911 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,640 I'm I still consider it kind of questionable. 912 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,800 And I say that as somebody who went to law enforcement 913 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,040 academies and saw women in there that had no business being 914 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,480 there. They were pushed through. 915 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,200 They had that same attitude with like, Sony Hoskins. 916 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,600 Like, why? Why are they not being nice to 917 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:39,560 us? It's like, I don't know, maybe a 918 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,680 bad guy who wants to get away from you is not going to be nice 919 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,600 and he might want to kill you. Can you fight like your life 920 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,280 depends on it? That seems really important. 921 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,040 It seems like it to me. Here's the difference between 922 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,800 these types of troops. This woman I'm going to show you 923 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,880 is in the Air Force. And that's not on accident. 924 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,360 I'm sure of it. But I'm sure there's women in 925 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:57,760 the Army that behave the same way. 926 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,280 It's really nauseating and having this kind of person be in 927 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,680 charge of you. And I've had a woman who was 928 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,560 more or less exactly this. They are prideful. 929 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,080 They are narcissistic and caring about their own appearance. 930 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,320 Like, I don't know that it matters what you look like as 931 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,240 long as you are in regulations. If your hair is clean and and 932 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:19,720 tight, If your hair is not too long. 933 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:22,160 If your facial hair is groomed the way it's supposed to be and 934 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,120 it's shaved every morning like you like you ought to be. 935 00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:27,040 If your uniform doesn't have like little strings and stuff on 936 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,720 it, if you put on properly at that point, who are you trying 937 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:32,120 to impress? You trying to find a mate? 938 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,240 Because this woman has a full face of makeup. 939 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,280 What is war fighting about that? And it's like I said, it's not 940 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:39,760 an accident. She's a tech Sergeant in the Air 941 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:40,680 Force. So here we go. 942 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,000 She's worried about eyelash extensions. 943 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,920 I don't even know what that is. OK, so apparently starting today 944 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,040 we're not supposed to wear lash extensions anymore. 945 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,000 OK, but like, how would they know? 946 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,440 Are they going to scan my face out the gate? 947 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:02,640 Ma'am, your lashes are giving unauthorized volume. 948 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,520 We're gonna need you to bring twice and step aside. 949 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:11,400 What if I was born with just naturally dramatic lashes? 950 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,760 Y'all discriminating against genetics now? 951 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,160 What's next? No lip gloss? 952 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,480 No edge control? We're out here defending 953 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,360 freedom, not auditioning for Boot Camp Barbie. 954 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,680 It's like someone's commander woke up and said yeah, it's the 955 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,680 lashes. That's what's breaking unit 956 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,480 cohesion. Spoiler alert, I can still 957 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,320 shoot, salute, and secure the perimeter with a cat eye. 958 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,640 It's not insubordination, it's just enhanced situational 959 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,480 awareness. Anyways, reporting for duty, 960 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:49,600 Morale high, lashes nonexistent. I hate that Lady. 961 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,000 I don't know who she is, but I hate that I hated working for 962 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,680 those people. I hated working for people that 963 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:58,800 were that I think God, we didn't have TikTok when I was when I 964 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,720 was active duty, but that flashes right back to the 965 00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:03,560 military training leaders that were out there. 966 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,280 What what is she like? What is she defending? 967 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,120 She's spending all of her time putting her face on. 968 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,360 You're going to go out there and sweat walk around like I don't, 969 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,200 I just don't understand it. And so here's a contrast. 970 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,280 This guy's an Army soldier. Here's the difference. 971 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,920 Notice that woman wanted to have an appeal to authority. 972 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,360 She's wearing a uniform. She's wearing her rank. 973 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,360 She pulled her name tag off so she couldn't be identified. 974 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:24,720 Yeah, people can totally identify you. 975 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,680 Somebody in the service knows you, and hopefully that stops 976 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:30,240 immediately. Hopefully your TikTok channel 977 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,480 goes away because it's gross. Then you got this guy. 978 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,760 He's like, yo, I'm in the Army. He's wearing street clothes, 979 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,040 which is fine. And he makes an interesting 980 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:40,800 comment. I haven't seen it either. 981 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,640 I've seen a lot of Army. I've seen an awful lot of Air 982 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,680 Force, which always kind of pisses me off. 983 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,840 I haven't seen a whole lot coming out of the Marine Corps 984 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,880 crying about having to shave a beard. 985 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,640 Which by the way, I can't believe that they let people 986 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,960 wear beards, especially some of the wild beards that I've seen. 987 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,680 It is truly out there in Garrison. 988 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,040 Come on. This guy makes a great point. 989 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,240 Shouldn't it be about upholding a standard? 990 00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:03,960 You showed up because you wanted to be a part of something. 991 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,200 That means you surrender a part of yourself to be part of it. 992 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,880 This thing, perfect sense. Of course, there's a little bit 993 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,760 of inner service rivalry as well, which is what's supposed 994 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,840 to happen. Now, I got to be honest, I'm a 995 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,840 proud Army soldier, love the Army. 996 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:21,280 But I've been all over social media since Hex F gave that 997 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,240 speech. And you know what? 998 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:28,720 I've not seen one Marine. Not one Marine, Black, white, 999 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:35,360 Asian, female, male, not one United States Marine on social 1000 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,800 media complaining. Not one that says something, 1001 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,840 man. That says something right there. 1002 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,920 Like I said, I'm proud to have been in the Army. 1003 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,080 But bro, you got to take your hats off to the Marine Corps, 1004 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,120 because in the Marine Corps, the standard is tradition. 1005 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:53,000 I mean, these fools ain't changed the uniform since like 1006 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,920 over 100 years. I don't expect anything less 1007 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,320 from a Marine, man. Hey, give it up for yourself. 1008 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,720 Give it up to the core, man. Yeah, we come out and we help 1009 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:03,000 y'all, you know, we lead the charge sometime, man. 1010 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,040 We let y'all take second place sometimes, but hey, give respect 1011 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,520 to what respect is due man. Shout out to the core. 1012 00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:14,160 And you guys know, if you guys know, especially if you served 1013 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,400 in other branches and you had that were like, you know, prior 1014 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,000 Marine Corps service, they came into your branch. 1015 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,920 They always brings like a different level of motivation. 1016 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,520 They're they're MO tarted. But I love it. 1017 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,560 Like that's what that's what I thought the military was 1018 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,120 supposed to be about anyway. I think that guy's got a good 1019 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,600 message and I haven't seen it. I haven't seen Marines crying 1020 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,160 about it. It's like, oh, the standard, 1021 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,160 it's changed. It's going to be more difficult. 1022 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,000 Good Oorah, right? 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Let's talk about more stuff. 1043 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,560 This is why you need a fit and capable military service. 1044 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,560 It turns out we might have conflicts. 1045 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,600 We might need to get after stuff. 1046 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,920 Trump is right about this one. I think he's determined that the 1047 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,480 United States is in an armed conflict with cartels. 1048 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,680 You can tell that they don't like this because this is on NBC 1049 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,520 News. In recent weeks, the United 1050 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:34,800 States military has struck at least three boats from Venezuela 1051 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,920 allegedly carrying narco traffickers and drugs that could 1052 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,560 threaten Americans, Trump said. We are living through that 1053 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:44,360 moment of clear and present danger where the president is 1054 00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,160 saying, you know what, we're going to bomb the crap out of 1055 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,160 cartel boats. And again, I'm not super excited 1056 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,680 about us using that tool in this way. 1057 00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:56,840 But I'm also not crazy about drugs showing up. 1058 00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,760 I think we got 2 problems happening at once. 1059 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,240 One, yeah, if you can stem the supply, if you can give our 1060 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:03,560 troops something to do and give them a focus and a mission set, 1061 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,480 that's not terrible. And if it's going after drug 1062 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:06,840 dealers, you won't hear me crying about that. 1063 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:08,840 Rand Paul said the same thing. I feel the same way. 1064 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,960 A second piece of it though, which is not wrong, is that 1065 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,440 we've really got to fix the supply or the the demand side 1066 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,040 that goes on in this country because we got a lot of people 1067 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,200 that are not paying attention. Maybe they're too interested in 1068 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,600 eyeliner and lip gloss. Maybe they're interested in 1069 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,080 getting their food from Uber Eats by a robot and they want to 1070 00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:30,320 go and get fentanyl, just zone out or walk around like a 1071 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,160 zombie. We have a lot less people doing 1072 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,320 critical thinking and trying to take care of themselves and, and 1073 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:36,920 maybe that's because they gave up and we're going to cover that 1074 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,920 in a second here that there's some job market issues. 1075 00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:43,160 I get all those things, but there's something about just 1076 00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,640 evolving, adapting and overcome is what they tell you in the 1077 00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,000 military when you're when you're going through adapt and 1078 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,720 overcome. Step up. 1079 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,600 Life sucks, embrace the suck. Just do it right. 1080 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,000 There's all these motivational things out there that just say, 1081 00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,080 you know what, do it anyway. Oh, life's hard, just go do it 1082 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,360 anyway. Who cares? 1083 00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:02,360 Nobody's crying, Nobody's coming to save you. 1084 00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,760 And that is something that people who have gone through a 1085 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,440 military background, have gone through that training. 1086 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,600 They realize like nobody cares, try more, don't cry, doesn't 1087 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,600 matter, get to work. Trump's doing this thing. 1088 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,760 He says the president has determined that the cartels are 1089 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,880 a non state armed group, designated them as foreign 1090 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,240 terrorist organizations and is determined that their actions 1091 00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:23,160 constitute an armed attack against the United States. 1092 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,360 Look, we've seen some of the cartel troops that are hanging 1093 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:26,480 out in and I'll call them troops. 1094 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,840 They've got 50 cows, They've got mounted vehicles and technicals 1095 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,520 and stuff like that. Like they're armed up like any 1096 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,440 other insurgency. In response, based upon the 1097 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,520 cumulative effects of these hostile acts against citizens 1098 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,000 and interests in the United States, friendly and foreign 1099 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,800 nations determine the president has determined that the United 1100 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,840 States is in a non international armed conflict with designated 1101 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,640 terrorist organizations. It puts these people on the same 1102 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,880 list as Al Qaeda and on the Islamic State. 1103 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,400 Hence you're going to start seeing some of these drone 1104 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:54,680 attacks. I don't know, maybe we need a 1105 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,320 mission. Maybe we just need to pick a a 1106 00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,440 fight with somebody because we like doing that sometimes. 1107 00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,600 So this story also kind of piqued my interest. 1108 00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,920 CNN had very little for news at the front of their website 1109 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,600 today, but they did have this. Venezuela said it detected five 1110 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:15,080 US quote, UN quote, combat planes flying 75 kilometers from 1111 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,520 its coast in what it calls a provocation. 1112 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,520 On Thursday, it said it detected five US fighter jets. 1113 00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,640 I guess those are what they call combat planes near the coast in 1114 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,520 the Caribbean. The defense minister, Vladimir 1115 00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,640 Padrino, describe the in the incident as a provocation by the 1116 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,320 United States that posed a threat to their national 1117 00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,280 security, their combat aircraft. Combat aircraft that US 1118 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,640 imperialism has dared to approach the Venezuelan coach. 1119 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,960 Someone needs to tell Venezuela that the United States can do 1120 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,680 whatever the hell they want near their coast. 1121 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,240 Do you know how I know? I'm not trying to be a jerk, but 1122 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:50,760 here's the facts, United. This is the United States number 1123 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,400 of military aircraft as of 2025 and Venezuela's number of 1124 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,200 military aircraft. All right. 1125 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,360 Total United States aircrafts for our military 13,000 to 1126 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,160 14,500. The number is somewhere in like 1127 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:11,320 a 1500 variants. The rounding error that we have 1128 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,840 in the number of aircrafts is something like almost 10X. 1129 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,360 It's 7X the total of the aircraft that Venezuela has. 1130 00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:24,920 In totality, we've got about 1800 fighter jets. 1131 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,040 They apparently have 5F sixteens, but they're not sure 1132 00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,760 if they're operational. They have 22 Soviet aeroplanes 1133 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,760 and 13 of them might be operational. 1134 00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,160 So it sounds like they may have as many as, I don't know, 12 to 1135 00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:41,640 15 operational fighter craft. We have 1800. 1136 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,040 This is not like we can do whatever we want. 1137 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,480 We can fly around there. And I kind of do get a kick out 1138 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,360 of that stuff that walks softly and carry a big stiff attitude. 1139 00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,000 That sort of American exceptionalism and saying in our 1140 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:56,600 own hemisphere, you're in our hemisphere and you're sending 1141 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,040 drug boats. Yeah. 1142 00:50:58,240 --> 00:50:59,840 Does it look like we're we're picking a fight? 1143 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,280 It does. But at the end of the day, this, 1144 00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,560 this, these numbers mean that it's not a fight that matters. 1145 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,960 This is like a grown adult walking down the street and a 10 1146 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,760 year old bully, like mad at him. He's head bottom. 1147 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:12,760 Push him. Get out of the way. 1148 00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,720 Get off the thing. All right? 1149 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,160 We talked about needing purpose. We talked about people who need 1150 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:18,800 to suck it up. Maybe this may be some of the 1151 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,600 issues that are going on this this leads into the the polling 1152 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,960 about Trump. Again, a lot of people will get 1153 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,520 behind if Trump said it. It's good. 1154 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,720 I think we can we can play mixed bag on this, but this one is fun 1155 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:33,800 for me because it's going to lead to polling on Trump is 1156 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,120 down, but nobody wants to change their choice. 1157 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,600 That just kind of tells you how bad the Democrat pitch has been. 1158 00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,720 And we're going to get into the shutdown as we kind of wrap up 1159 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:42,920 with that. We'll play that too. 1160 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,680 As hiring slows down, more Americans are job hunting for 1161 00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,600 longer periods of time for months and it's going to take a 1162 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,400 small miracle is what they say. This is CBS Money Watch talking 1163 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,360 about this. It goes on and gives a story 1164 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,280 about a woman who lost her job in the tech industry. 1165 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,000 Maybe she should learn how to repair coolers on wheels. 1166 00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,360 I don't know. She said she wasn't worried 1167 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,600 about lining up a new position in November of 2024. 1168 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,800 She's a Washington state resident of 11 years managing 1169 00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:05,760 experience of network infrastructure and projects. 1170 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,640 Specialized roles that that involves equipping buildings 1171 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,480 with Internet access, cameras and Wi-Fi systems. 1172 00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:14,200 Maybe you can equip these robot servers that serve Uber Eats to 1173 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:15,520 lazy people that don't cook at their food. 1174 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,680 The last time I had a job search, I found something pretty 1175 00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,000 easily, she said. Turns out the older you get, the 1176 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,560 harder that gets. And actually the more skilled 1177 00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,440 you get, the more sort of niche you have when it comes to 1178 00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,480 finding a new job. My buddy C friend found that out 1179 00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:28,560 as well. The 37 year old is still without 1180 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:32,320 a job almost a year later. She's applied to 100 jobs and 1181 00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,840 positions for which she's even overqualified, but to no avail. 1182 00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:36,760 This is a common thing that I'm starting to hear. 1183 00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,040 That's not a great situation. And I do think Trump's sort of 1184 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,080 looking over at India and seeing how many people were trying to 1185 00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:42,760 bring in to take on these things. 1186 00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,440 The number of work visas we're bringing might be an issue, she 1187 00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:46,920 says. The more I looked, the more I 1188 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,200 wasn't getting responses. Even if I did get an interview, 1189 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:50,920 I only made it through the first round or two. 1190 00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,280 Things got really real when my unemployment ran out. 1191 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:56,400 That's tough. I can empathize with that. 1192 00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:00,040 I was out of work for 14 months or unpaid with a job that didn't 1193 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,280 pay me for 14 months. She's been in the growing ranks 1194 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,680 of Americans who've been jobless for more than six months and 1195 00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,680 long term unemployment numbers is rising to 1.9 million in 1196 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,680 August, according to government data. 1197 00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,240 Now you're seeing a picture of Jerome Powell on the screen 1198 00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,200 because apparently because of our shutdown, even though we 1199 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:18,920 have information about what's going on, even though there's 1200 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,960 plenty of anecdotal stuff, they have to have government numbers 1201 00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,080 and U.S. government jobs reports to be able to decide whether or 1202 00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,280 not they're going to change things in the interest rates. 1203 00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:31,880 Federal Reserve officers may have to determine the next steps 1204 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,320 for interest rates without access to the Bureau of Labor 1205 00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,600 Statistics September employment data. 1206 00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,160 I think the date has been there for quite a while. 1207 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,000 It's really interesting that they keep trying to act like 1208 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,520 they're going to pivot and and manage this economy. 1209 00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,840 I don't, I don't like the Fed any more than you guys do. 1210 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,960 I don't like the fact that our money supply continues to grow. 1211 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,960 I don't like the fact that that the inflation, that a tolerable 1212 00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:57,040 amount of inflation is 2%, which means we lose 2% of our savings 1213 00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,520 every single year because the value actually goes down. 1214 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:01,680 So you have to actually have it invested at a rate higher than 1215 00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,560 that just to break even. I don't like any of that. 1216 00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,640 Until Congress approves funding, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1217 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,240 with its more than 2000 employees, will remain 1218 00:54:11,240 --> 00:54:13,400 furloughed, unable to release reports. 1219 00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:17,480 This just tells you so much about how our government runs 1220 00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,720 things. It tells you about how 1221 00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:25,880 inefficient we need 2000 people to work to get numbers that CBS 1222 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,560 was able to pull and, and get, you know, decent data on the 1223 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:30,840 fact folks that are out there applying. 1224 00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,320 Like every single state compiles unemployment numbers. 1225 00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,720 Why does it take 2000 people in the federal government and how 1226 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:38,960 many of them are dragging on our healthcare system because 1227 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,120 they're not healthy? So all that goes to this piece 1228 00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,480 about frustration, government shutdown, so on and so forth. 1229 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:44,840 We're going to kind of wrap up with this idea. 1230 00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,640 Young Trump voters and frustrated with him on the 1231 00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,080 economy and an immigration say new focus groups. 1232 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:52,560 That's fun. That's coming from NBC. 1233 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,400 That's the same source that said that there's an issue with the 1234 00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:56,840 Fed. But The funny thing is, is the 1235 00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,760 sub headline is of the 14 participants, that's exactly how 1236 00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,880 big their their survey was 14. In their focus group, they 1237 00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,400 voiced criticism of Donald Trump's deportation and his 1238 00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,640 economic policies. But nearly all of them said they 1239 00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,960 wouldn't change their choices. A poll finds that Americans 1240 00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,320 blame Trump and the GOP shutdowns more than Democrats. 1241 00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:18,080 Can I make a suggestion to our Democrat friends, and I will 1242 00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,680 call them friends. Can we just say, own the 1243 00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,680 shutdown, own it. We'll say that we don't like 1244 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:27,520 government. We're proving to you that it's 1245 00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:29,920 not that important, it's not that efficient, that there are 1246 00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:33,000 kids in Los Angeles who think it's normal on a job interview 1247 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,760 to put up their gay pride flag and get fired from the FBI. 1248 00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,960 Can we just say that the government is shut down on 1249 00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,000 purpose and we don't like it and you should be thankful for it? 1250 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,320 That would be a great thing. We're sick of finding out that 1251 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,840 there's women out there doing their eyelashes instead of doing 1252 00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,280 their job in the military. We're just going to own it. 1253 00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,240 And Democrats are so scared of this idea of like they want, 1254 00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:56,320 they want to push it on. I think you should just embrace 1255 00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,640 it. They're out saying ridiculous 1256 00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,840 things and and even kids that are being interviewed, they 1257 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,440 don't like it. They go, Nah, not it. 1258 00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:07,000 They still would make the same choice. 1259 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:08,320 Why would they make the same choice? 1260 00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,360 Because the last person that they put up to run this country 1261 00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,960 was Joe Biden. And after that they thought 1262 00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,760 Kamala Harris was a good idea. Here's Madeleine Dean who 1263 00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,200 actually caught cash Patel and I think was probably a perjury 1264 00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:20,840 statement during her questioning. 1265 00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,240 But here she is. She's made multiple claims that 1266 00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:26,400 Donald Trump is unwell. How do you look anyone in the 1267 00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:27,160 face? This is why you have no 1268 00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,120 credibility with like anyone that's sentient because you guys 1269 00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,480 made an argument that Joe Biden was fine. 1270 00:56:32,720 --> 00:56:34,080 I'm going to show you this back-to-back. 1271 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,480 She's going to argue Trump is slow and old and not well. 1272 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,240 And then I'm going to show you what she said about Joe Biden. 1273 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:39,520 This is why they have 0 credibility. 1274 00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,800 This is a great opportunity to say we own this. 1275 00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,080 The federal shutdown. You just call the president 1276 00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:45,720 unwell again. What do you mean by that? 1277 00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,680 Well, I, I, he's aging, aren't we all? 1278 00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,800 I, I think we can very much notice that he's a different man 1279 00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,800 than he was in his first term. He's slower, he's a little more 1280 00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:05,280 lethargic, but much. He's slower, he's a little 1281 00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:06,760 lethargic. He's not really great. 1282 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,760 Let's talk about your former guy. 1283 00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,240 This is the guy that used to run the country allegedly. 1284 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,000 I think, you know, I travelled with the president yesterday in 1285 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:18,600 Pennsylvania to a fantastic church in Mount Airy with a 1286 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,880 service that lifted us all right out of our seats. 1287 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:24,320 And the president was well spirited. 1288 00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,600 He worked from a notebook. I know the teleprompter argument 1289 00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,560 goes on. He worked nicely from a 1290 00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,680 notebook. We also were together in front 1291 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:36,680 of folks who were organizers on the campaign side and labor 1292 00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:40,120 where the president spoke without any notes. 1293 00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:41,880 And he was terrific. He was. 1294 00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,520 He's the president of the United States, and he was able to speak 1295 00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,320 without notes. Donald Trump can stand up in 1296 00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,840 front of a microphone and speak for two hours without any notes 1297 00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:50,440 at all. He just does it all the time. 1298 00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:52,440 And I'm not really interested in hearing it. 1299 00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:55,000 He's not. He's not my rabbi, so I won't be 1300 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,560 the listener to that. But he can do it and he won't 1301 00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:58,960 stumble. He'll go through all kinds of 1302 00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:00,560 wild stuff. He'll say some strange things. 1303 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,200 He'll do what Donald Trump does. Some of it will be super funny. 1304 00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:04,600 Some of it will probably be a bad luck. 1305 00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,160 He's not going to fall over when the wind blows. 1306 00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:08,840 He's not going to fall over walking up the stairs and he 1307 00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,320 doesn't get tripped by a sandbag and end his like his his whole 1308 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,520 life. He doesn't sit on a on a bicycle 1309 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,040 or even pretend that he likes bicycles and fall off them while 1310 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:18,320 licking ice cream cones, right? That's just that's just not who 1311 00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:19,760 he is. Though to make these claims is 1312 00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:21,040 pretty wild. And again, I think it's why the 1313 00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,200 credibility is so shot because people are like, what? 1314 00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,080 What are you playing at, lady? Two days into the latest federal 1315 00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:28,240 shutdown, Americans are already focusing their frustrations on 1316 00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,480 Capitol Hill over the disarray, with Trump and the Republicans 1317 00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,560 getting more of the blame again. Own it. 1318 00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:37,840 Roughly 47% of Americans say Donald Trump and the GOP are 1319 00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,400 responsible for the shutdown, says the Washington Post poll. 1320 00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,360 That's totally unbiased. Washington Post. 1321 00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,840 The poll respondents said that the president and his party were 1322 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:48,000 responsible for the shutdown for refusing to compromise while 1323 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,720 having full control over Congress and his actions. 1324 00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,800 OK, yeah, but what are we talking about compromising on? 1325 00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:56,800 We're talking about compromising on something that the 1326 00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,600 Republicans are doing a great job saying, but at the same 1327 00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,560 time, they should say, yeah, we don't want a federal government. 1328 00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,560 We're not going to fund it because it does illogical things 1329 00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,360 like this. Everyone deserves health care. 1330 00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,080 You have any illegals every single person in the world 1331 00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:09,280 deserves. Just for the record, as a 1332 00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:11,280 candidate, you're for illegal aliens getting Medicaid. 1333 00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,000 I think everyone in the world deserves. 1334 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,320 That's a yes. That's a yes. 1335 00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,240 It's this idea that we think that the federal government is 1336 00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:18,240 supposed to do things that it's not. 1337 00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:19,480 It's like, OK, look, here's the deal. 1338 00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,400 Here's the problem with the difference between Democrats and 1339 00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:22,600 Republicans. They don't actually do this, by 1340 00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,200 the way, because I think Republicans and Democrats are 1341 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,200 very similar. But imagine if they actually 1342 00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:28,680 made the conservative argument which said the federal 1343 00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:30,960 government does more things than it's supposed to. 1344 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,560 There is no reason for it to do the things that it does, and 1345 00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,560 therefore we are not interested in starting it and we're 1346 00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:38,600 actually going to make cuts. We're not going to do a clean 1347 00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:40,480 CR. What if they actually came back 1348 00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:42,640 and said we're going to just start funding, turning on the 1349 00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:44,560 switches one at a time? They're all turned off. 1350 00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,200 Allegedly, even though everyone's showing up to work, 1351 00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:49,280 they're all turned off. So we are going to fund things 1352 00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,720 one bit at a time. And how do we know that they 1353 00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:54,960 were super interested in doing things the government's not 1354 00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,920 supposed to do like funding non citizens that have no right to 1355 00:59:57,920 --> 00:59:59,800 be here. People who broke our immigration 1356 00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:01,680 laws on are here because they keep telling you. 1357 01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,200 Here's Gavin Newsom. This is a side by side of him in 1358 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:08,720 2022-2023 and 2025. The message has not changed 1359 01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,040 except when it makes them look bad. 1360 01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,240 Suddenly they start running from their own words and they all 1361 01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:14,480 seem to forget that we have the Internet. 1362 01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,080 Apparently we also have robots that are sensors, like maybe 1363 01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,960 there's a Uber Eats robot that's running around recording Gavin 1364 01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:20,920 Newsom. I'm OK with that. 1365 01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:22,720 One campaign on universal healthcare. 1366 01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:27,040 We're delivering that. We are implementing our ideals. 1367 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:31,040 We are manifesting this principle, this fundamental 1368 01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:35,000 notion that so many of us have been preaching for years and 1369 01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,320 years and years, universal health care for all, regardless 1370 01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,040 of pre-existing condition, regardless of the ability to 1371 01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,160 pay, and regardless of your immigration status. 1372 01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:48,800 If you care not just about values and principles of 1373 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,960 morality, but if your only values and principles are 1374 01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:56,400 advanced through economics, then that alone should be an argument 1375 01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,520 in favor of universal healthcare. 1376 01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:04,520 A pathway and a framework for 1.1 million undocumented 1377 01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:07,360 residents in the state of California to veil themselves to 1378 01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:13,160 high quality comprehensive medical care, long term, short 1379 01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:18,720 term preventative, as well as in home support service care and 1380 01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:20,960 coverage. Now Newsom says California is 1381 01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:25,840 tracing a $12 billion deficit. Governor is proposing freezing 1382 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:30,480 enrollment in state funded healthcare for undocumented 1383 01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:31,800 immigrants. You know what? 1384 01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:35,960 No, we're not really for undocumented aliens. 1385 01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,200 We don't want illegal aliens and criminals to be able to get 1386 01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:40,280 access to it, but we totally do. How do we know? 1387 01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,800 Because the last person you ran, the reason why no one regrets 1388 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,640 their Donald Trump vote, even if he's not doing the best job, is 1389 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:46,600 because this was the alternative. 1390 01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:51,280 The bill also says, quote, every individual who is a resident of 1391 01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:54,480 the United States is entitled to benefits for healthcare services 1392 01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:56,320 under this act. Not every individual who's a 1393 01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,640 citizen, but every individual who's a resident. 1394 01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:03,240 So you support giving universal healthcare, Medicare for all, to 1395 01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:04,560 people who are in this country illegally? 1396 01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:06,960 Let me just. Be very clear about this. 1397 01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:12,280 I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any 1398 01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:17,960 human being from access to public safety, public education 1399 01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:25,120 or public health, period. Public safety, public health, 1400 01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,240 huh? All right, well, let's find out 1401 01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:30,120 what's been affected by government shutdowns. 1402 01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,760 NPR comes to the rescue here with this update, letting us 1403 01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:35,200 know that the federal government is shut down after lawmakers in 1404 01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:37,240 Congress failed to reach an agreement on how to extend the 1405 01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:38,640 funding. And the lawmakers will continue 1406 01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:40,440 to go back and forth. The impact of the shutdown is 1407 01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:42,000 beginning to be felt across the country. 1408 01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:44,040 Please put it in the comments below. 1409 01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:47,480 What are the things that you are experiencing that have caused 1410 01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:50,040 you to know that the government is shut down at the national 1411 01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:51,440 level? Again, own it. 1412 01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:53,920 It'd be great if you're flying. Soon you'll find out that in 1413 01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:57,760 fact, there is no change. Air traffic controllers and most 1414 01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,560 of the TSA are considered essential workers and they have 1415 01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:02,840 to stay on the job even if it means working without pay while 1416 01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:04,640 the rest of the federal government shuts down. 1417 01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:06,280 Guess what? That's part of it. 1418 01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,600 Told right up front that if they don't fund it, that you still 1419 01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:11,840 have to show up to work if you want to maintain that job 1420 01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,360 because you're in a national security position and it's 1421 01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:16,560 required. That was part of the conditions 1422 01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,040 of employment. You signed up for that 1423 01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:19,000 voluntarily. You don't have to. 1424 01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,120 You can always walk away. You can quit at any time, it 1425 01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,200 turns out, if you so choose. Federal air traffic controllers 1426 01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,560 helped end the last government shutdown and could end this one 1427 01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:28,920 as well. They're encouraging with a thing 1428 01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:30,880 that is illegal that they're not allowed to do, but they could do 1429 01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,360 a slight increase in a sick leave, AKA a sick out because 1430 01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:37,160 they can't do strikes. This drags on. 1431 01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:41,360 Travelers could see more sick outs of key personnel as workers 1432 01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:43,880 show their anger over missing paychecks, which, by the way, 1433 01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:45,600 have not happened yet. Yeah, turns out. 1434 01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,320 And lastly, if you're traveling internationally in the new year, 1435 01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:51,560 you might need to build more of a time frame in for passport 1436 01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:56,080 renewals because passport agencies will remain open, but 1437 01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:57,760 they might take longer. Shocking. 1438 01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,080 The federal government is going to go slow on documents and 1439 01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:01,480 paperwork. Nobody will believe it. 1440 01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:03,080 You're still going to get your mail because the US Postal 1441 01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:05,520 Service keeps going on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security 1442 01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:08,400 benefits are not impacted. Social Security, the VA and 1443 01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,640 other benefits will continue. There could be some delay in 1444 01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:12,720 services such as processing applications, but it will 1445 01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:16,280 continue. But the real problem is a thing 1446 01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,800 that the government is really, really supposed to do. 1447 01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:23,320 Our federal government may have problem delivering SNAP and WIC. 1448 01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:26,920 It may have a hard time providing nutrition for millions 1449 01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:30,680 of new parents who are at risk. So that should tell you exactly 1450 01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:32,200 what the Republicans ought to stand on. 1451 01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,600 When the federal government, the single biggest, most powerful, 1452 01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:39,440 largest hammer that we have in this entire nation, is 1453 01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:43,040 responsible for the individual feeding of families that exist 1454 01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:45,280 in your community. Can we not just talk about like 1455 01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:48,560 a serious, serious problem? Are we not using the absolute 1456 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:52,800 wrong tool to do something? And all of this has to do with 1457 01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:56,560 people falling apart in their communities and wanting to 1458 01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:58,480 outsource it. They say, hey, I don't want to 1459 01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,360 do the work here locally. I don't want to have my own 1460 01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:03,280 church, my own community, my own friend group, my neighborhood, 1461 01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:04,120 whatever. Watch. 1462 01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,480 We don't want to handle that. We can outsource that to the 1463 01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:07,920 city. The city says, well, we can't do 1464 01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:09,240 this either. We can't look after our own 1465 01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:10,600 people here. We're going to look it out to 1466 01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:11,760 the state. The state's got more money. 1467 01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:13,720 And the state says, well, what if we could get federal funding? 1468 01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:17,120 So suddenly you have the worst possible tool. 1469 01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,600 The argument I always make, government is the worst solution 1470 01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:22,960 to every problem, including when it's the only solution. 1471 01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,960 And we can also add a little sort of caveat to that or a sort 1472 01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:29,160 of a clarification on top of it, which is to say the government 1473 01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:32,320 that is further from you is even worse of a problem than the 1474 01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:33,400 government that is closer to you. 1475 01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,200 At the end of the day, this shouldn't even be a government 1476 01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,120 problem at all. Like private charity should be 1477 01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:40,360 able to handle that. Guess what, when you talk about 1478 01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:43,640 what SNAP and WIC is, we give a bunch of money out of all of our 1479 01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:45,120 paychecks that go into these things. 1480 01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:47,960 Now where do they go? They go into a government agency 1481 01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,120 that pays the the same government that thinks it's 1482 01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:53,640 reasonable to have 2000 people working to tell us how many 1483 01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:57,640 people don't work in America. Is that not completely asinine 1484 01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:00,840 and illogical when your job is to determine how many people 1485 01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,960 work in this country? There's 2000 of them. 1486 01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,480 I can't fathom that. I have no idea how many work for 1487 01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:08,800 SNAP. We should do some research on 1488 01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,600 this SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. 1489 01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:14,440 I would love to know how many people work in that agency to 1490 01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,480 administrate giving out our money and charity when churches 1491 01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:20,160 do it for free. Every church I've ever been to 1492 01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:21,920 has a Saint Vincent de Paul Society. 1493 01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:24,880 They'll have a food for the hump, like the food pantry for 1494 01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:26,120 people that are having a rough time. 1495 01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,760 And now what we're going to find out is that government employees 1496 01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:32,160 are living paycheck to paycheck. By the way, that's part of the 1497 01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,800 story that was in here, too. The only big change you're going 1498 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,360 to see, according to government shutdowns, if you listen to NPR, 1499 01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:41,000 is that they will be missed paychecks and lost jobs by 1500 01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,600 federal workers. That's it. 1501 01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,680 The Congressional Budget Office roughly estimates that 750,000 1502 01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:50,520 federal employees will be furloughed each day of the 1503 01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:55,840 shutdown. There are 750,000 American 1504 01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:59,520 workers for this government that are not essential to operations 1505 01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,880 of our government. That is crazy. 1506 01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:05,920 And that should be why Republicans own it. 1507 01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:07,560 They're like all we're doing is pointing out that there are 1508 01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:10,320 750,000 people that get a government paycheck that 1509 01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,000 actually don't provide a service that's essential to the American 1510 01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:16,120 experience. Super easy to get behind that 1511 01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:20,120 one. In addition, these people may 1512 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:23,440 also force mass layoffs, known as a reduction in force or a 1513 01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,960 riff, because when the government shut down, that means 1514 01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:27,680 that the agency's not funded, which means that there's 1515 01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,840 actually no job there and they can just eliminate the position. 1516 01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:31,040 So there's nothing to fund afterwards. 1517 01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:34,680 I'm 100% behind that too. Yeah, you'd flood a bunch of 1518 01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:36,760 people in, but wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have the 1519 01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,600 federal government stepping into places it didn't go? 1520 01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,560 They quote a woman here. I don't know how they found this 1521 01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:42,640 woman, so I'm not trying to pick on her specifically, but I did 1522 01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,360 find this lady's name in the story. 1523 01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:47,240 Her name is Elizabeth Riley. She's AUSDA employee who went to 1524 01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:50,560 Capitol Hill to show her support for Democrats holding firm on a 1525 01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:52,720 budget showdown. Remember Democrats who are 1526 01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:54,760 trying to add illegal aliens in for health care? 1527 01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,320 And you just heard it multiple times from the former 1528 01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:00,040 presidential candidate, from the governor of California, which 1529 01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:02,200 does it the most, from a lady who's running for office in the 1530 01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:05,480 state level on CNN. They're happy to say it, she 1531 01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:07,120 says. We've been under attack for nine 1532 01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:09,680 months as federal workers, and it's just another day at work. 1533 01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:11,640 Even though we are not working. A lot of my colleagues are going 1534 01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,880 to struggle missing a paycheck, but a lot of us feel that they 1535 01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,880 need to hold the line. Why the hell are you out talking 1536 01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:18,960 politics? And why are you struggling if 1537 01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,399 you get a government paycheck that pays you every freaking two 1538 01:08:22,399 --> 01:08:24,960 weeks without fail, except when they don't fund it? 1539 01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:28,359 How many of you all have lived in jobs where your paycheck 1540 01:08:28,359 --> 01:08:30,279 varies on the number of hours you worked and what happens? 1541 01:08:30,279 --> 01:08:31,960 And like, sometimes your company doesn't have money to pay you 1542 01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:33,040 because you work in a small group. 1543 01:08:33,359 --> 01:08:35,840 That's real. That happens in this place. 1544 01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:37,520 Our income fluctuates month to month. 1545 01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:39,439 That's just how it goes. That's what that's the world 1546 01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:41,760 when you live on your own. Here's this lady, Elizabeth 1547 01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:42,560 Riley. This is her. 1548 01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,399 I looked her up. She her, she has a LinkedIn, 1549 01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:47,479 which is also interesting. She's an international trade 1550 01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,279 specialist at USDA. She seems verily accomplished. 1551 01:08:50,279 --> 01:08:51,840 She's been working there for over 10 years. 1552 01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:53,560 Before that she was in the Peace Corps. 1553 01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:58,279 She was a an overseas staff training coordinator and she was 1554 01:08:58,279 --> 01:08:59,920 a volunteer for two years in the Peace Corps. 1555 01:08:59,920 --> 01:09:01,160 So thanks for your service there. 1556 01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:03,640 She was a grad student and a teaching assistant at Virginia 1557 01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:05,240 Tech. Just scrolling down here. 1558 01:09:05,319 --> 01:09:07,160 Here's the thing that I think is most interesting because this 1559 01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:09,760 actually is real. She's the co-owner and Co 1560 01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:13,399 manager of Bel Air Farms, which she's been doing for almost 15 1561 01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:16,319 years. It's a diversified family farm 1562 01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:19,279 of over 40 head of high quality sheep, goats with ballast 1563 01:09:19,279 --> 01:09:22,040 rations and good breeding decisions mitigated by a variety 1564 01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:23,640 of health concerns. That sounds super cool. 1565 01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:25,000 That sounds like a real useful thing. 1566 01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,160 I hope she goes back to doing that and she's got a master's 1567 01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:28,840 degree in animal and poultry science. 1568 01:09:29,279 --> 01:09:31,399 I didn't know that was a thing, but it doesn't sound like she 1569 01:09:31,399 --> 01:09:32,520 should be working for our government. 1570 01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:34,840 It sounds like she should be running the food program out of 1571 01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:36,680 a farm. She'd probably be happier too 1572 01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:39,359 and she wouldn't have to live in DC if she's got a farm that 1573 01:09:39,359 --> 01:09:42,560 she's part co-owner and Co manager of in Hop. 1574 01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:44,960 What is it? Hopkinsville, KY? 1575 01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:46,439 I don't know where that is but it sounds nice. 1576 01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,000 That sounds amazing. That sounds way better than 1577 01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:52,880 being a what is this she her international trade specialist 1578 01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:56,840 at the USDA? I'm just saying this woman's got 1579 01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,160 opportunities. Not a lot of government 1580 01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,520 employees actually have family farms that they could go out and 1581 01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:03,360 work on too instead. So that's why they're crying 1582 01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,080 about it and she's out there protesting. 1583 01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:06,760 Sounds like a real privileged position to be in. 1584 01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:10,400 Good for her. I wouldn't be right if we didn't 1585 01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,320 scold you a little bit. It's going to the weekend with a 1586 01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:13,600 scolding and then we'll get on. We'll get out. 1587 01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:15,840 On a better note, here's Elizabeth Warren letting you 1588 01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:17,880 know she's going to scold you. Don't lie and say what this is 1589 01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:19,160 about. Even this is what it's about. 1590 01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:25,240 Angry 70 something year old white lady who is representing 1591 01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:28,240 Massachusetts which is not America Mad. 1592 01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,880 If you try to say a lie, she will correct you on national 1593 01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:32,720 television. You know, Republicans say what 1594 01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:35,960 you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for, as they 1595 01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,000 put it, illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true, 1596 01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,320 but there is a provision. Excuse me, Not strictly. 1597 01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,040 It's not true directly, but. Lie. 1598 01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:49,680 It is a flat out lie. The way that they frame it. 1599 01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:54,560 In Medicaid, there is nothing in Medicare that permits 1 1600 01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:59,320 undocumented immigrant to get $1.00 of assistance. 1601 01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:02,080 Senator, no, I haven't heard anybody in my party saying that 1602 01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:05,360 illegal immigrants should get access to the health insurance 1603 01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:07,520 marketplace. I'm so glad you said said that. 1604 01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:11,800 Actually, I have some tape of of your Democratic Party members 1605 01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:14,320 saying this on the debate stage. So they've all said and let's 1606 01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:17,600 play the clip. A lot of you have been talking 1607 01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:20,560 tonight about these government healthcare plans that you 1608 01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:23,960 proposed in one form or another. This is a show of hands question 1609 01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,720 and and hold them up for a moment so people can see. 1610 01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:30,440 Raise your hand if if your government plan would provide 1611 01:11:30,440 --> 01:11:32,360 coverage for undocumented immigrants. 1612 01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:38,600 OK. Senator, that that's, that's 1613 01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:42,320 literally every member of your party, from moderate to more 1614 01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,240 progressive that have said that in the past. 1615 01:11:47,440 --> 01:11:50,640 Oops, let's just go what they really mean to say. 1616 01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:54,280 If we don't fund the government then people will die. 1617 01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:56,480 People need kidneys. It's sad but decreed. 1618 01:11:56,480 --> 01:11:59,480 Yet the senators hoarding one more than she needs. 1619 01:11:59,480 --> 01:12:01,720 Ioffer this bill and I hope you'll vote aye. 1620 01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,600 Unless of course you just want people to die. 1621 01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:06,840 Traffic deaths have many crying with fear. 1622 01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:09,480 Over 30,000 people are dying each year. 1623 01:12:09,480 --> 01:12:12,200 This modest change I propose must be applied. 1624 01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:15,040 Unless, of course, you just want people to die. 1625 01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:17,680 Alcohol deaths are exceeding comparisons. 1626 01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,000 Black people, white people, Native Americans. 1627 01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:22,600 We need to ban alcohol. It can't be denied. 1628 01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:25,360 Unless, of course, you just want people to die. 1629 01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:27,560 Crossing the street is incredibly tough. 1630 01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:31,360 People look left and right but rarely look up, my bill would 1631 01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:35,400 mandate. The right just saying. 1632 01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:37,440 And then the last thing that I saw that was kind of fun today 1633 01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:40,440 was that the Department of Education found out in a pretty 1634 01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:43,560 partisan move that in addition to covering the websites, which 1635 01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:45,520 we talked about it the other day, if you go to any of the 1636 01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:47,520 major department websites, they all have some sort of partisan 1637 01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,440 banner that says Democrats shut down the government. 1638 01:12:49,440 --> 01:12:50,640 And so therefore, we're not here. 1639 01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:54,800 Apparently, they've actually added it to the e-mail 1640 01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:56,360 signatures for people out of office. 1641 01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:58,160 And they're like, you know, talking about whether or not 1642 01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:01,320 it's a Hatch Act violation. I think at this point we can 1643 01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:04,320 realize that our government is partisan, that the people who 1644 01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:06,920 work in the government overwhelmingly are partisan, 1645 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,880 that the monies that they give in donations are very much 1646 01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:11,360 partisan. And they're allowed to be 1647 01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:12,480 partisan. They're just not supposed to 1648 01:13:12,480 --> 01:13:15,920 bring it to work with them. But since they do and does feel 1649 01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:18,120 like kind of a tit for tat, it's not the America I want to live 1650 01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:19,520 in, but it is the America we do live in. 1651 01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:21,720 So for all the people that are cheering it on, I think it's a 1652 01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,520 short lived fun. I think that I think you should 1653 01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:26,880 do some critical thinking and just make it a decision on a 1654 01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,680 case by case basis. Don't let someone else do your 1655 01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:31,840 thinking for you. There are things that are funny. 1656 01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:34,440 Like I said, I don't know why I think this is so funny, but I do 1657 01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:36,840 think it's funny that putting up a gay fried got you fired. 1658 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:40,760 That seems like it's about time. How many of us would have gotten 1659 01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:42,560 kicked? I mean, I, I, they actually 1660 01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:44,800 cited the fact that I had a picture of Donald Trump riding 1661 01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:48,760 on a tank with a golden bazooka. That was something that was 1662 01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,120 cited in my OPR investigation. The fact that I had Ronald 1663 01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:54,480 Reagan riding on a damn velociraptor, which were both 1664 01:13:54,480 --> 01:13:56,560 historical figures at the time and they were cartoons. 1665 01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:59,760 So if that was good enough to mention in my suspension 1666 01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:02,760 forever, I think it's fine that a gay pride flag shows up. 1667 01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:04,960 It's just also just not the America that we should be living 1668 01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:06,360 in. Found this guy to be really 1669 01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:07,600 interesting. I'm going to kind of end with 1670 01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:09,080 some thoughts here and then I'm going to give you something 1671 01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:10,720 uplifting because that's the way we do it here. 1672 01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:13,960 But first, I catch these videos every once in a while on my 1673 01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:15,440 feed. People who are just saying 1674 01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:18,080 snarky, true statements that make us wonder. 1675 01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,080 One of the things that really caught me in this particular 1676 01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:23,360 video is he says, how is it that Congress can't balance a budget? 1677 01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:25,040 But they always seem to come out millionaires. 1678 01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:29,120 That kind of hit me extra. It's funny how Congress, who 1679 01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:32,200 doesn't know how to balance a budget, knows how to make 1680 01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:37,160 themselves millionaires. Do you really think handing over 1681 01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:41,200 your gun ends gun violence? That's like chopping off your 1682 01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:47,040 own Dick to stop rape. NFL stadiums have walls and fans 1683 01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:50,280 that haven't paid for a ticket aren't allowed in, period. 1684 01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:53,040 Doesn't matter if you've travelled thousands of miles or 1685 01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:55,240 if you have a little kid with you, or if you cry outside the 1686 01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,680 gate, they still won't let you in. 1687 01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:03,600 Fascinating concept. Why is it when a liberal 1688 01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:07,320 expresses their opinion it's freedom of speech, but when a 1689 01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:11,240 conservative expresses their opinion it's intolerant hate 1690 01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:12,760 speech? It is intolerant. 1691 01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:17,880 Ask not why the children shouldn't see drag Queens. 1692 01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:21,520 Ask why drag Queens crave an audience of children. 1693 01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:24,800 So there's more of that, and you guys have probably seen these as 1694 01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:25,720 well. But there's some real good 1695 01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:27,280 questions. And a lot of these questions are 1696 01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:31,440 exactly the reason why the 2024 election went the way that it 1697 01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:34,080 did and why kids are looking at it going, yeah, this is not 1698 01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:36,800 perfect and our job markets not amazing and we've got some real 1699 01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:41,080 problems. But would you want Kamala Harris 1700 01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:43,360 running anything? Would you want Joe Biden hanging 1701 01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:44,760 out there? I don't think so. 1702 01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:45,760 I think there will be a backswing. 1703 01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:47,720 I was talking to my buddy Sean Whitman, who we're going to have 1704 01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:49,320 on the program at some point in the near future. 1705 01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:50,840 And I'm. I mentioned to him I was like, I 1706 01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:53,280 don't think this is experiment goes on for all that much 1707 01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:54,920 longer. But I don't think that America, 1708 01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:57,600 when it evolves into whatever the next thing is, is going to 1709 01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,640 be totally catastrophic. I just can't because I look out 1710 01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:03,080 in my neighborhood, I see that our quote UN quote, federal 1711 01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:05,480 government is shut down. And what I notice is the street 1712 01:16:05,480 --> 01:16:07,080 lights come on and the trash gets picked up. 1713 01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,560 And my neighbors continue to mow their lawns and they edge them. 1714 01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:11,520 And sometimes times they even edge my part of the lawn. 1715 01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:14,120 And they park their cars where they're supposed to when they 1716 01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:17,040 fill up their gas tanks and they pay their taxes and they clean 1717 01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:20,200 their windows and they make sure that the packages are delivered. 1718 01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:22,000 And all the things that are normally happening that have 1719 01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:23,680 nothing to do with the federal government continue on. 1720 01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:25,400 And I think they would continue on. 1721 01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:28,360 We are in a unique scenario right now where if all the 1722 01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:31,880 federal trappings like fell away, unlike what happened in 1723 01:16:31,880 --> 01:16:35,440 the 1790s and this, you know, the early 1800s where America 1724 01:16:35,440 --> 01:16:38,840 was like on the edge of being invaded again by the country 1725 01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,520 that we broke away from, right? We had a War of 1812 where 1726 01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:43,640 England come came in and tried to take us back. 1727 01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,040 Nobody's going to come mess with America right now. 1728 01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:48,360 Nobody's going to come screw with us. 1729 01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:51,280 We can go fly jets off the the coast of Venezuela and nothing's 1730 01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:55,440 going to happen. We have 1400 aircraft. 1731 01:16:55,640 --> 01:17:00,480 We got 1800 fighter jets and 1000 attack helicopters and 900 1732 01:17:00,480 --> 01:17:03,440 attack aircraft, Nonspecific, whatever the hell that is. 1733 01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:08,800 We have thousands upon thousands upon thousands more of just air 1734 01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,080 power. So no one's going to come do the 1735 01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:12,000 things that they could have done. 1736 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:15,320 And if we were to break that thing up into 10 or 12 different 1737 01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:18,000 regional powers where the United States was just factionalized 1738 01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:20,520 like an article as of Confederation kind of America, 1739 01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:22,560 it still wouldn't matter. We'd still have more than most 1740 01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:24,800 other militaries that are out there, and certainly people in 1741 01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:27,560 our hemisphere. Wouldn't it be nice if we had 1742 01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:28,560 our states actually run things again? 1743 01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:32,120 I don't know. I just like to see a devolution 1744 01:17:32,440 --> 01:17:34,160 of power back to where it belongs. 1745 01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:37,680 And that means that I can't be a mega guy, and it means that I 1746 01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:39,720 can't follow anybody as my digital rabbi. 1747 01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:42,200 I'm not going to be a disciple of any politician that's out 1748 01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:45,200 there. I don't like politicians to 1749 01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:47,040 begin with. I don't like politics. 1750 01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:49,240 Even I, I had a conversation with my attorneys that are going 1751 01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:51,160 to be dealing with this, this nonsensical lawsuit. 1752 01:17:51,440 --> 01:17:53,360 And he was like, I just can't wait for politics to get back to 1753 01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:54,280 normal. It's not happening. 1754 01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:56,120 The only, the only thing that's going to happen is we're going 1755 01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:57,800 to get a new normal. That's my take on it. 1756 01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:02,680 And when it is a new normal, I hope that I don't have to talk 1757 01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:04,400 about politics as much. We can talk about a lot more fun 1758 01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:05,640 things. So let me talk about things that 1759 01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,320 I think are really important because this morning the most 1760 01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:10,080 important things that happened to me was I had a 2 year old who 1761 01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:12,800 was absolutely shockingly brilliant for a 2 year old. 1762 01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:16,920 She's 25 months old. She's saying things like, may I 1763 01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,720 be excused? She's giving me all kinds of 1764 01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:21,480 little treatises on her thoughts. 1765 01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:24,880 She comes up and she tells everyone that she loves them. 1766 01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:28,600 And one day she'll be the same as her older sisters, who are 1767 01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:32,680 incredibly thoughtful and, and really, really insightful little 1768 01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:34,800 people because I talk to them like grown-ups. 1769 01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:36,920 And so I saw this video the other day, I showed it to my 1770 01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:38,120 wife and it made her feel better. 1771 01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:39,840 And maybe this is what's going on in your families. 1772 01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:42,840 This might be this might be the answer to it all. 1773 01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:44,760 Don't try to compare with the others. 1774 01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:47,120 Don't try to figure out whether they're getting Uber Eats or how 1775 01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:49,400 fast it was delivered or whether or not you got a robot or a 1776 01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,080 person delivering your food. Maybe just get your own food. 1777 01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:55,520 But I think this guy, he's got it right. 1778 01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:59,120 There are there are levels of optimization for your family and 1779 01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:00,960 the highest levels of optimization are what are we 1780 01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:03,560 doing? Where do we want to go and how 1781 01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:05,280 are we going to get their big concepts? 1782 01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:10,600 Motivation, mentorship, teaching kids to think critically and ask 1783 01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:13,440 questions and not blindly follow anything instead of keeping up 1784 01:19:13,440 --> 01:19:16,320 with what your neighbors are doing and trying to like, I 1785 01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:18,600 don't know, fight for little scraps and crumbs. 1786 01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,880 Number one thing I'm seeing in successful families is the way 1787 01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:24,240 that they talk in private. The worst families are just 1788 01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:26,480 comparing all the time. Their conversations have to do 1789 01:19:26,480 --> 01:19:28,960 with what the other parents are saying, what the other kids are 1790 01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:30,680 doing, where their kids match up. 1791 01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,800 This family looks this way. This family's going on that 1792 01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:34,600 trip. This family's buying this camp. 1793 01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:36,440 This family's doing that extracurricular. 1794 01:19:36,440 --> 01:19:37,520 Thing. Oh well, they have that. 1795 01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:38,600 Tutor. We should get this one. 1796 01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:39,680 Now. Could you believe what that 1797 01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:40,840 those parents did with their both? 1798 01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:42,040 They're just gossiping to each other. 1799 01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:45,200 Gossip is like the lowest form of a successful marriage. 1800 01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:47,960 The greatest families I see, they actually are talking about 1801 01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:49,720 ideas. The middle families, they're 1802 01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:51,520 talking schedule all the time. We gotta get this. 1803 01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:53,080 We gotta get that. How do we become efficient where 1804 01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:54,440 we can go? They're talking about the 1805 01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:55,480 grocery list. They're talking about the 1806 01:19:55,480 --> 01:19:57,560 chores. But the greatest families I see 1807 01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:01,040 are focusing intently on the vision of where their families 1808 01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:04,160 headed and the right next moves to help their children and 1809 01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:06,560 teenagers grow the fastest. They're talking about ideas. 1810 01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:08,600 They're talking about coaching. They're talking about mentors. 1811 01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:12,200 They're talking about proactive things in their home to help 1812 01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:13,480 their. Children develop the best. 1813 01:20:13,480 --> 01:20:15,520 Way they're not comparing to other people, they're not trying 1814 01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,560 to keep up with the Joneses, they're not trying to get all 1815 01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:19,280 the grocery lists and chores done. 1816 01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:22,520 They're focusing on the future vision, where their kids are 1817 01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:24,560 headed and where their family looks in 10 years. 1818 01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,160 That's it. Maybe you can do some more of 1819 01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:30,600 that this weekend. I know I'm going to go do it. 1820 01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:34,760 I'm going to be taking my little kiddos in a second hand bike 1821 01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:37,160 trailer that we got. Check us out over on Spotify. 1822 01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:38,720 If you guys are looking for a replay of the show, Kyle 1823 01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:40,360 serafinshow.com. 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I'm going to remix some stories 1834 01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:05,280 of people that have stood up and done the right thing because I 1835 01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:07,160 want to retouch the story of Amy Nelson. 1836 01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:09,440 So you guys who are new to the channel have never heard it. 1837 01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:12,400 You're going to get a repackaged version of an interview we did 1838 01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:15,240 because I want to tell the back story before I bring her on very 1839 01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:19,440 soon to do the current story. So look for that popping out 1840 01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:22,800 again on Saturday and on Sunday on the channel at 1:00 PM. 1841 01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:25,560 Sunday it'll go live and I'll see you guys after the weekend. 1842 01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:26,840 God bless you. Have a good one. 1843 01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:31,320 Thanks for listening to the Kyle Serafin show, streamed live 1844 01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:35,720 weekdays on rumble.com/kyle Serafin Bobble Kyle on Twitter, 1845 01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:39,320 Truth Social and Instagram at Kyle Serafin.