Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistle blower, an
American patriot. Prepare to embrace the
uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for
comforting lies. Here is civil liberties
enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI
agent Kyle Seraphin. Well, hello my friends and
welcome to the Kyle Seraphin show.
Today is Friday and it is October the third.
We used to do friendly Fridays not so long ago.
We had our buddy Steve friend, who has now been Co opted and
rolled back into the FBI and he's no longer a voice for
sanity out here in the public with me.
So that's kind of a shame. Some of you guys were hoping
that he might be here. You know, he's not getting paid,
he's not getting put back into the job yet.
There's a lot about what our FBI is willing to do.
Says a lot about what our government's willing to do.
I'm sure the shutdown will be another excuse for them to take
their time. I think that's already come out
to my boys, but I will. I'll keep you updated because
we're not letting that story go. We do have some funny FBI news,
actually one of the funnier ones.
I'll give credit where it's due. It's actually quite amusing.
So stick around for just a couple minutes.
That'll be the first thing I get into today.
I want to get into something that's been really weighing on
me, and it's maybe weighing on you too.
What you didn't realize today's show episode title is
potentially a little bit provocative.
The idea of digital discipleship.
I always end up having reflections and thoughts on
whatever it is that I'm consuming both in media and in
social media. And what I'm consuming right now
on the media side, entertainment side, is that my wife has looped
me in to watching The Chosen. I think we're in the second
season at this point. And so it's an artistic
representation and it is a actor's portrayal of Jesus
Christ and his time on earth, walking around as a man and
really humanizing the things and the stories.
You know, you read the story in the gospel, maybe maybe you're
not even a Christian, but you've you've read these stories as as
his sort of historical perspectives.
And when you see it fleshed out by actors and you realize that
he had to be charismatic and charming and funny and
interesting for people to follow him because that's what people
follow. It made me start thinking about
the concept of discipleship. We are currently seeing kind of
a turn on that. But I think people have always
sought out those that were voices that would represent them
in public. You know, that says what they
want to say in the way that they want to say it.
And they go, aha, that's my guy, that's my gal.
That person speaks for me. For many people in America right
now, Donald Trump is that guy. For better or for worse,
sometimes for worse. If we're being real serious.
I think unfortunately the term MAGA for those that are willing
to blindly just sub out their their attention span and people
who are not going to be critical thinkers, they find that MAGA is
a stand in for whatever Donald Trump opinion is today is also
my opinion. And I think that's dangerous for
a country that's supposed to be full of liberty minded free
citizens, not subjects. Because if you're a subject, you
can go with whatever the king says.
That's the official position of the country and the king is
England. And therefore as an Englishman,
you back up and follow down on whatever the king says.
But I don't like that. I'm a contrarian by nature.
I think Americans in our spirit are kind of a contrarian type.
We're interested in doing things our own way.
And so if you are not a digital disciple of somebody, that means
you got to you got to follow your own path.
You have to discern. You have to pray for
discernment, and then you have to act in a discerning manner.
You have to actually look at all things, evaluate the evidence
and decide for or against any given position that is presented
to you. And usually if you're smart
about it, you're going to be open minded enough to take in
new information and change it. I guess a lot of this comes in
from the in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death last night.
I spent about 3 hours and change doing it a long term debunk and
debrief on the facts that are available.
The things that we think I was sitting with a with a former
Green Beret on Paramount tactical.
You guys can go check that out. It was a longer form version of
what we did in the morning yesterday and I think it was a
useful discussion and we took some audience questions out of
the out of the the chat. People kind of splayed their
ideas. And what you find is there's a
lot of folks that have just kind of subbed out their attention
span to fill in the blank Internet investigator without
any particular reason for that person being a great stand in.
And that's tough. I don't think you should do
that. I think that you should evaluate
facts and make decisions on a case by case basis, but that's
just me. I see a lot of folks doing the
same thing with Candace Owens. I've seen people do this with
Nick Fuentes. I've seen people do this with
fill in the blank like you pick a person.
Tucker Carlson again, Donald Trump is an easy one.
Dan Bongino, these cults of personality where the people say
that voice is so effective that it actually is my voice.
You are my voice. And so I don't have to think.
And that means that you've really chosen A rabbi because as
I'm watching this program, the chosen, I see that that's what
Jesus disciples did. They not only listen to him,
they subbed out their attention to him, but then they also
represented that they might have known what he was about.
They all brought their own biases to it and they and they
put this lens on it. So if you were a zealot and you
were a fighter, then you believe that Jesus was a conquering
Messiah and he was going to bring violence and danger.
If you were someone who was peaceful and you needed
forgiveness, then you thought that he was this man of peace
and, and forgiveness and he was all those things and he was also
more than all those things. And so we put our kind of
projections on people. We expect them to be that.
And the reason why digital discipleship is so dangerous, I
think is because when you sub out and stop thinking critically
for yourself, that person will inevitably let you down.
The reason that it was really effective for this man, Jesus of
Nazareth, is because he was God. If you're a Christian, this is
what you believe and any other person's going to let you down
from Donald Trump, the president of United States, all the way
down to the most humble podcast that you can find an online
personality or influencer or whatever it is.
I'm going to encourage all the people that listen to me and
there are many of you and I'm really grateful that you do.
I think it's awesome that you guys tune in the mornings or in
the afternoons on your drive and you listen to this podcast.
I would, I would encourage you to continue to question things
that don't make sense, challenge in comments, you know, write
your thoughts out there. I read almost all of your
comments and some of them are really insightful and some of
them are just blindly saying what I say and it feels good.
I'm not here to let you down or to, to pick you up or to tell
you how to think. I, I don't want to do that.
I'm telling you what I think. And then you have to decide what
makes sense for you. And if you're doing comparisons
about, well, how much do I live up to this standard or that
standard? Certainly don't live up to my
standard because I'm not going to be the guy to do it.
All right, that's what we're going to go with today's show.
We're also going to talk about a bunch of fun stuff because
there's a government shutdown and I'm still giddy about it.
Everything worked this morning. My daughter came down too early.
The alarm clock binged at oh, like five O 5 this morning and
made a noise for no particular reason.
The sun came up. I saw it.
The grill was working the the gas was working when we turned
on the stove. All the things continued.
The federal government is shut down.
And in a very, very funny little moment, because we're going to
get there towards the end of the show today, people who are young
voters that overwhelmingly chose Donald Trump blame the shutdown
on Republicans. And they wouldn't have changed
their choice back in November knowing what they know right
now. And that might be the most
important little piece of polling that the left is trying
to slant. It's really fun.
So we're going to have a lot of fun with that.
Before we do, let's talk about government failure and the
possibility that you might want to hedge against it.
What do we always talk about here?
We talk about prepare or repair. You've got a couple of different
options and I would suggest to you that prepare is superior.
If you look at your energy bill lately, you might have seen that
prices are up around the globe. Are they running around the
country? Here?
We're just paying more and more. Inflation is still going on.
It's not solved because we have Donald Trump.
Even worse, power outages are possible everywhere, whether it
be because of storm or because of blackout or brownout.
The Department of Energy estimates that blackouts could
increase by 10,000% over the next couple years.
So if you don't have a backup generator now, it's time to do
it. There's ways you can do it.
You can have fuel based ones or you can have something that you
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Let's get into today's program right now.
And we're doing it. OK, so we do.
I promise you something fun. I got a couple of fun stories.
Let's see. We'll start with something
funny. I saw this from Ken Delaney and
on on XI think last night before I went to bed and I just
chuckled, so I figured we'd cover it.
I'm not a big cash Battelle fan. You guys know this.
Actually, I was driving in my car, my truck, which is a really
cool thing that we have. Like I'm really, I'm really a
big fan of this Ford truck that we bought.
It's the nicest thing that I've ever had to buy.
And I'm driving and I got my 8 year old in the back and we're
talking about stuff. And she's got this kind of
curious look on her face. And she said, Dad, did Cash
Patel betray you? And I said, yeah, he kind of
did. And she said, yeah, is he like a
traitor that stabbed you in the back?
Went OK, honey, let's have this talk.
So I turned off the radio and we had a long discussion about why
we don't particularly care for what's going on in the FBI right
now. And that's pretty interesting.
And I have a very, very articulate and perceptive 8 year
old daughter. So I'm very blessed with that.
Doesn't mean the guy does only bad things.
It doesn't mean that everything that he touches turns to poop.
And this is actually a really funny story and MSNBC obviously
does not like it. Cash Patel fired an FBI agent
trainee for displaying a gay pride flag.
Talk about misreading the room. The story itself, when you get
into the details, it makes plenty of sense.
The FBI director on Wednesday, 2 days ago, fired an agent in
training. Turns out, actually not an agent
in training as far as I can tell.
A future what they call a gnat a a new agent trainee, but not in
actual training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while
appointed to a field office in California last year.
So it didn't even, it didn't even happen.
I guess it's hard to understand. Like he fired him because a
while ago he showed this flag. That's strange.
The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support
specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter dated October
the 1st signed by Patel claiming that he had displayed an
improper political message in the workplace during his
assignment in California under President Joe Biden.
That's a pretty big move for politics in the FBI.
I actually don't hate this, by the way.
They claimed that I was a problem because I had a Let's Go
Brandon T-shirt on that was underneath a jacket.
I got a phone call from Washington DC while I was
working in the middle of nowhere in Las Cruces, NM.
And for those of you who are in New Mexico, you know that that's
a real place. But for those of you that have
never been to New Mexico, you might not even know that Las
Cruces is an American city. My friends in the FBI didn't
know that. I got a phone call from
Washington DC saying, hey, take off that T-shirt or put on
something else, put something over it.
Like who cares? By the way, I was just
supporting what the president of the United States, Joe Biden had
just said in December. I think he said it on December
the 24th. He said, I agree, let's go
Brandon. He was the president, he was the
boss, he was the executives. I just wore a let's go Brandon
because the president agreed. The letter cited President
Donald Trump's Article 2 powers under the Constitution to
dismiss federal agency career personnel, A justification used
in several recent firings. Now the fact is, is that if
you're a new agent, you're likely under a probationary
status, which means they can fire you for no reason, says
quote. You're being summarily dismissed
from a position as a new agent trainee at the FBI Academy at
Quantico. This is written kind of like in
a shady way. It sounds like maybe this person
was a support employee, then was being moved into the agent
position. By the way, this is how you get
left-leaning agents. You recruit them for non agent
positions, then they get the requisite amount of work
experience and they've only worked for the FBI.
This was always the case when I was at the Bureau.
Like you see these people that come in, it's like, what did you
do for a living? And they're like, well, I was an
FBI analyst and then I became a agent and you're like, oh, OK,
got it. So you've never had another job?
What about what about you? Oh, I was an FBI honors intern
and then I became some other kind of support person and then
I became an FBI agent and I got it.
Cool. So when you say it's the best
job in the world, it's because you haven't had another job.
You just know that it's the best job in the FBI, which is true.
So anyway, this this thing goes on and says, yeah, you're on the
the first day of the nationwide shutdown and you just lost your
jobs. After reviewing the facts and
circumstances, continuing your probationary status, there you
have it. I've determined that you
exercise poor judgement with an inappropriate display of
political signage in your work area.
I'm actually totally down with that.
If your thing is, is that I'm super pride about, proud about
like who I want to have sex with, I don't think you should
probably work in the government in general.
I just don't think that's necessary.
There are gay people that work at the FBI that you don't know
were gay. I knew people that I found out
after years and years of knowing them.
I worked side by side with them for years.
I found out that they were either bisexual or interested in
the other sex and I had no idea because they were normal human
beings like you'd expect. There was a time when we didn't
actually know all this stuff about each other.
Whatever it's worth. I think this is one of those
funny stories where you go like, OK, well, sometimes the goose
and the gander thing is bad. This is not actually
weaponization. I think that they did it to
everybody else, and you shouldn't be showing your
politics. And the argument that a gay
pride flag is in fact a political statement seems
overtly true. It's either a political
statement or it's a religious statement because it does seem
to be the church for some people.
Both of those things are fine. And if you're in probation,
you're supposed to shut your mouth and not be seen.
I had this discussion with my wife really early on when I was
at the Academy. I said I'm not going to be able
to talk to anybody here. I'm not going to make any
friends. I ended up making about two or
three friends that I I still talk to.
I said I can't tell anybody what I think at this place because I
don't know what they think. And I don't want to get fired,
not right away. My job is to shut up and, and
just hang in there until I get out into the field office and
until I get off probation. They always tell you when you're
at the FBI Academy. And this is the case for a lot
of jobs. Folks who don't realize is if
you're in at will employment, basically every day you go to
work is a job interview because at any point in time your
employer could decide that your juice is not worth the squeeze
and they'll just cut you loose. And if you're in federal
employment where you generally have a lot of protections, there
is a period of time between one and two years, depending on if
you were a veteran or not. And in that period of time, you
were on a one to two year job interview.
And that's not half bad. So why are you going out there
and making waves? Why are you going out there and
saying people, hey, look at me, look what I'm all about.
Shut your mouth. Your job is to learn and to keep
quiet and to not get fired. You're on a job interview for a
period of time. So I don't have a lot of
sympathy for this. And I know that these kind of
things went down. I have friends who are
outstanding agents that got fired because they didn't wear a
a jacket with their tie or they didn't wear a tie with their
dress shirt. When they went to court where
they weren't even presenting, they were sitting in the back in
the gallery. My buddy Joe got removed from
his job the day before he got off probation after being a cop
for years for being highly competent.
And then he showed up at A at a initial appearance where the FBI
case agent will show up in like tattered jeans and AT shirt
because I just got finished arresting somebody.
And he was wearing slacks and a dress shirt and a tie but no
blazer. And a supervisor that wasn't
even a real supervisor. An acting supervisor ruined him,
ruined his career, fired him while he was home at sick, sick
with his with his kid. And they showed up at his at his
door on the last day of probation after two full years
-1 day to remove him from federal service.
So I have zero. I have 0 sympathy for it.
And I do think it's kind of funny.
I think it's also funny that you've got crying over at MSNBC
about it. OK, let's start with the
original first story that I had today because I do think it's
useful and I think it's fun and I think it's ridiculous.
This is kind of fun. And look what you're seeing on
the screen here. For those of you that are
listening, we're showing a box with wheels that has headlights
that are set up to look like eyes and a name tag that says
Jackson and some cute local art. And it says food delivery robots
are cute. Should we trust them?
First of all, I don't think it's cute.
I think that's weird looking. If I saw that running down the
street, I think that somebody has lost their baby.
It's a baby, Bucky with no baby in it and no mom behind it.
But this is the world that we're moving into.
And when you start talking about people outsourcing their
thoughts and their opinions, when we start talking about
people that are not doing critical thinking, this is a
great example of a story like that.
Here's here's how silly this is. This is written by a woman whose
name is Scotty. I guess that's cute.
Scotty Andrew writes. It's name is Courtney.
Courtney doesn't have eyes, but
it has sensors everywhere, and there are two blinking likes in
front of its boxy body to accommodate wide Mooney pupils.
Not sure about this writing style.
It's been described as a large cooler on four wheels.
Yeah, that's what it looks like. It looks like.
It looks like a not as attractive Patriot cooler on
wheels. Courtney.
They should put air quotes around it.
If you're going to name a robot, you should have to put air
quotes around it. Is a food delivery robot, First
serve robotics, transporting Uber Eats orders, typically when
there's a mile or less between the restaurant and a customer.
Courtney showed up in my Atlanta neighborhood one day.
Onward towards a the end of June with a dozen other wheel boded
friends with names like DeAndre and Orion.
This goes on to talk about sending food robots to you.
I think actually everything that's going wrong in our
society might be able to go down.
I used to think that the biggest thing going wrong in America
could be could be described by 1 cultural phenomenon.
Public Storage units. The fact that we have so much
crap in our lives that we have to rent out somebody else's
space in their property to store crap that we don't even need to
regularly see. It's so much crap that we don't
even need it on a daily basis. We might not even need on a
monthly basis. So we have these storage units
full of our junk because we can't get rid of garbage.
That used to be my sort of stand in for all of the problems in
the United States. This was my high school and
college supposition that Americans were so materialistic
that we just stored our crap, that we were willing to pay rent
to a complete stranger to just hold a box full of stuff that we
didn't even know it was in there.
And there are some reasons for, you know, Public Storage.
I've used it. But man, that is that was one of
them. This is a new low.
I think in many ways that you are so damn lazy you won't even
go get your own food and that you're willing to pay a premium.
This is the same kind of people that are using this that are
also crying that they can't afford a home.
That $100,000 is not enough money to live on.
I saw that on social media yesterday as well.
People just like bitching and moaning about what their lot in
life is instead of trying to like optimize it.
And then there are companies that can make a profit by
designing these weird cooler robots.
I think it's a great stand in between that and Taylor Swift
dropping an album and a bunch of grown women being outside when
the album is being released. Crying might be the two biggest
indicators of today's American problems.
Courtney and the bots have trouble navigating Atlanta.
Yeah, because they're robots. They get confused at Crosswalts.
They move with speed and caution of a first time driver.
Stilted and shy. Look how?
Look how much personification is going on here.
They suddenly speed up without warning.
Their wheels look like they're made for off roading, but they
still get stuck in the cracks of a sidewalk.
Most of the times I see the bots, they aren't moving at all.
They're just stuck. OK, so do people care?
Do they think it's clever? Do they think it's fun?
Yeah, apparently, they do. People thought they were objects
of curiosity. They took pictures with them.
There's TikTok. They are spot on the street.
For the first time, people are saying the future is now, and
they're filming themselves with this nonsense.
Three months after their arrival, the novelty has worn
off. They're not photo OPS anymore.
They're obstacles that cyclists have to swerve to avoid.
Patrons of Shake Shack, which is a national partner of this
company. Swerve serve, I guess.
Sorry, they weave around a mess of robots that are parked in
front of the restaurant as they try to make their way inside and
they have to paste place their orders on iPads.
I don't like placing my order on iPads either.
There's much an accepted part of life in my neighborhood as the
obnoxious scooters that continue to loot to the sidewalks.
I don't like those either. I don't like, you know what?
I don't like modernity that much.
I'm becoming a Luddite. People are always asking when
are the robots finally going to be here, Said Serve Robotics CEO
Ali Kashini. If you're lucky to live in one
of these cities, you'll see it today.
If not, it'll probably be a couple years, but someone will
have them in their environment everywhere.
What could go wrong? I love that they at least
covered this. This researcher from a place
called Security and Context Initiatives said that someone in
Silicon Valley needs to slow their roll and they need to stop
using these untested, unregulated technologies.
He said that these the skepticism towards technology is
healthy because when they show up, they're not just robots that
are delivering your food, They're actually the eyes and
ears of a company that is going to be running around with
sensors and microphones and cameras to find out what people
are doing in that area. Remember, if there's a free
service, then usually you are the product.
How sketchy is it that we're going to put all these private
industries? Everyone always worries about
the government coming in to monitor them.
And there's a good reason for that.
And I know it more and most, I worked in the, the national
security space and I know what those capabilities are.
But you know who puts the government to shame?
Apps, robot companies, 4 wheeled coolers that are running around
in Atlanta for some damn reason that have microphones to be able
to sense audible danger, cameras to be able to sense visual
danger and, and, and help them navigate.
They're constantly driving around.
Do you think they just like ditch that footage?
Where do they hold on to it? Because storage is cheap and
that data is going to be worth something at some point to
people. How soon is it before they start
putting little Bluetooth sensors in there so I can ping?
Ping your Bluetooth and find out where you've been and where
you're going or Wi-Fi. So it's just gathering whatever
pings your phones are. How many of us are dedicated
enough to put our phones in a Faraday bag when we go walk
around and only take them out when we need them?
I'll be none. I don't do it, and I'm as
security conscious as most people.
I'm at least aware more than most people are.
It's kind of a wild time to think that they're going to send
these things out there in the streets.
So we've got the future robot problem.
It always begins with private corporations.
It always ends up like this, a good idea theater.
How do we solve this problem? How can we do it without
bothering people? And then you realize, like,
you're fighting the robots in the streets.
I don't know. It seems like none of these
people grew up watching the same shows that I did.
Maybe they just didn't watch Terminator 2.
Maybe they didn't watch Terminator one and realize that
eventually these things try to come and kill us.
So what's going on, again, if you outsource your thinking to
some tech guru, you're like, whatever Elon Musk does is
amazing. Well, now I hate him because
he's mad at Donald Trump. Like, if you don't think for
yourself and just look at it and go, hey, what are the pros and
cons? The pros are some poor kid is
not doing this job. The downside is some poor kid is
not doing this job. And the real downside is, is
that some dude on a cycle is going to smoke a freaking cooler
that stops randomly for no reason and they're going to do
an endo. And now we're going to end up
with a guy in the emergency room who's like trying to, you know,
figure out what's going on with his broken arm.
So we just think things through a little bit.
Turns out our politics can't do that.
This is one of the funnier stories that I've seen.
This is totally a different animal, But we're going to keep
moving forward. This made me laugh because this
is coming from NPRI. Occasionally I just dig into NPR
because I want to know what the left, like the hard left and the
formerly government funded left, has to say.
This is coming from All THINGS Considered.
This is a headline that is quite great.
The National Guard presence may deter crime.
Oh, say more. But experts warn of the long
term costs. It's almost like the stuff that
we've been saying here. What's the exit strategy?
Great idea. Shut down the crime.
Isn't it fun when the left has to admit that the National Guard
actually does a thing that they really hated?
Because for a while, I was catching all these headlines
saying they're not deterring crime, they're just cleaning up
trash. And now they're like, wow, maybe
they are deterring crime. But also, won't it cost us a lot
of money? Yeah, Yeah, I will.
Imagine if you're you're cops in the cities you lived in, like
Chicago or Memphis or or or Washington, DC actually did the
job they were paid for, so we didn't have to send other people
to do the job. It's the same argument, by the
way, that Andrew Bailey's going to take over and Dan Bongino's
going to leave. I'm not saying it's happening
today, but it will happen. You know why?
Because paying two people to do one person's job is not
effective. And having a robot that creates
other jobs might not be effective.
And it might be super scary when it comes to, like, gathering
information on you. The Trump administration
expanded its anti crime initiative aimed at Democrat LED
cities. Why is it at Democrat LED
cities, you wonder? They're so mean, the
Republicans. Or maybe that's just where all
the crime is. Criminologists are watching to
see how effective the federal interventions will be.
Oh, really? Yeah, because it'll be really
effective. You know what they do?
They pick up trash and they and they, they clean up the area.
And it turns out when places look nice, then people feel less
OK with, you know, doing crime That's been there forever.
The special interest, there's special interest in the effect
of the National Guard, which don't have direct policing
policies in Washington. They were often seen station
near tourist sites and they were employed to pick up trash.
Sometimes just having a masculine person, like a dude in
a uniform that looks like he might fight you if you do
something dumb or dangerous is, in fact, a deterrent in and of
itself. That's why people used to have
beat cops. You know, they would patrol an
area. That's why my neighborhood
constantly has a sheriff's deputy's vehicle.
There's no sheriff deputy in it, by the way.
They just park it in an area going around a blind curve.
So when you come around the curve, boom, you see a marked
police uniform or police vehicle, a black and white with
lights on top. And people immediately slow down
because they're doing, like, 60 and it's a 40, and it should be
a 20. Yeah, it works.
It turns out like presents, like a presence patrol is sometimes
effective. They actually tried that in
Washington, DC when I was living there, but they just did it with
FBI agents and those people ended up kneeling for BLM and
then they got fired. That's also interesting.
Some of the research suggests their visible presence could
make a difference. They needed research to do that,
folks. This is yet another reason why
we should also not be outsourcing our thinking.
There are people that paid other people to look into.
When you have tough looking guys that are in military uniforms,
are people less likely to commit crimes around them?
I mean, when I say we don't hate our government enough, I don't
really like it that way. I just don't like any
government, and I don't like the idea that they had to pay
someone to do something that any one of you could have just
written up and we would have known it was true.
No matter how little experience you have with the military,
you'd be like, hey, if you had tough guys wearing military
uniforms looking like they belong there, hanging out on the
street corner, do you think they'll be as many robberies
happening on the street corner or not?
And you'd be like, no, there wouldn't be.
So what do they do? They went to Jerry Ratcliffe, a
professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania.
How prestigious. Who compared National Guard
deployments to the United Kingdom's policing policies with
support officers who wear uniforms but lack traditional
policing powers. Seriously, we're going to look
to the UK. Who just named a female Bishop
of Canterbury awesome In a strong study in the UK.
It's the first time the word strong and UK have been used in
a sentence in quite a while. Found that when they were
deployed to crime hotspots we actually saw a reduction in
crime and disorder. Radcliffe says it's a fairly
clear assumption that some kind of uniformed government
presence. It doesn't have to be police
can, at least on a surface level, have a deterrence value.
I hope they write a paper on this.
I hope he gets paid a salary. I hope that they spend a, a
bunch of time with some grad students and so on.
Rationality doesn't need to be, you know, this common sense
thing. They're really, they're really
on to something. But it'd be better if we could
just get someone to codify it in some sort of university study.
So that's the world we're living in.
And that, of course, means that you got people that are pissed
off about it. So here was what would have been
a critical statement. This is not his best moment in
so much as his energy. But here's Donald Trump saying
things that sound overtly reasonable.
Again, I'm more interested in the exit strategy than the
actual whether or not it'll work, because obviously it'll
work. And we know it'll work because
studies from the UK have told us so.
I'm smirking. All right, here's Donald Trump
talking about what he wanted to do.
This is the other day when he was at Quantico.
We haven't even started yet. Last month, I signed an
executive order to provide training for quick reaction
force. It can help quell civil
disturbances. So this is going to be a big
thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from
within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.
It won't get out of control once once you get involved at all,
They all joke. They say, oh, this is not good.
It was kind of low energy. Pete Hegseth did a much better
job. We'll cover his in just a
second, again, because there's more, more people that are upset
about what Pete Hegseth had to say.
But he's absolutely right. Yeah, it's a big deal because we
do have an enemy from within. That enemy is people that don't
want to abide by American law and order, which should be a
really simple concept for most. Like you want to be in this
country, you got to act like a regular citizen.
You can't be an A hole. You're allowed to have bad
opinions. You're allowed to say mean
things. But if you want to get violent
or break the law, then someone's going to stop you.
And for some reason in quote UN quote Democrat LED cities,
they're not really interested in doing that.
No. So you put a turn in, even if
it's just a bunch of dudes that are getting paid in their
National Guard capacity, capacity to stand around smoking
and joking, looking like they might do something if something
were to come up. That seems totally reasonable to
me. All right, we're going to get
into military standards because that was something that has
really been tweaking me and I've seen quite a bit of it.
Before we do, let's talk about crime a little bit.
How about scammers? National Guard can't stop that.
You can, though. Patriot Protect is the company
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They can find your home address, your phone number, workplace,
even your family members names and they can pretend to be you.
Or they can call you up and know enough about you that they can
pretend to be real companies and get your information.
Data breaches will always expose sensitive information, but
people search websites and data brokers that are selling your
information for clicks are actually probably just as
dangerous. They actively harvest this
personal information from leaks and hacks and so on.
They publish all this stuff on their websites and they make
them searchable on Google, and it makes you easily accessible.
It's not great, especially when people can find it overseas.
This exposure puts you and your loved ones at risk.
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All you want to do is make yourself a little bit harder to
find and a little bit less likely to be exposed.
It's pennies on the dollar, like pennies at a time or less than
pennies for them to buy access to your name and if they have
it, then they might use it. We're not all going to get
scammed at any given time, but the the idea is, is that it's
probably more of a when and not an if you might have a scam
attempt. They just don't have it.
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when you're busy, you're in the car and you're just going to say
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You've seen Skip on our show here before talking about
literally they will buy for a few dollars, they will buy
hundreds of names and they'll just come at you and they'll
just ring them up until they finally get what they want or
they'll send you a phishing text messages, things like that until
they can actually take what they need.
Terrible stuff. I hate scammers.
I really do at a terrible level. This is not a scam.
This is Pete Hegseth and apparently we're going to have
to now talk about fitness standards, proposed military
fitness standards comparing to existing fitness tests.
What's interesting is like so many things, if you zoom out on
the timeline, you realize that the existing fitness standards
are actually relatively new. I had a discussion last night
with with Gary Melton, who is a Green Beret, and we were talking
about a couple things that it veered into the weakening and
the and the problematic nature of putting women in combat jobs,
namely lowering the standards and what he saw in the special
operations community. I saw it in the Air Force.
I have friends who are Green Berets who saw this going
through the trade off program or whatever the hell it is that the
JFK Special warfare school. They said we keep lowering
standards. We're letting more and more
scumbags get into the into these elite units.
What's the reason? And what people found out was
the reason wasn't getting weaker soldiers that were men and that
wasn't the goal. The goal was eventually to run
top cover, to be able to push women through.
I knew guys that were in Air Force special operations.
I knew people that were over in the Army side of it, and they
were told explicitly these women will graduate.
It will happen. Not there's a standard.
Hold the standard, give them a fair shake, and if they
graduate, great. No, no, they will graduate.
And so that's not great. And that comes from weak
leadership at the top. It comes from fat, soft bodies
that are in charge of things that they probably shouldn't be,
people who couldn't do, couldn't lead by example if they wanted
to. And yeah, Pete's younger than
some of these generals and and some of these, you know, senior
colonels and whatnot. And that may be the case.
But at the end of the day, shouldn't you look like a
soldier? Shouldn't you look like a
warrior? Shouldn't you look like a Marine
or an Airman that people can look at and go, yeah, got it.
Like that person, he's intimidating.
If they stand in a uniform, they actually project the power of
the United States and. And it has some dignity to it.
Or do we get some of these scumbags that don't?
So here he was addressing those generals.
I want to play it again because I actually really like this
piece. And then we're going to go
through the fitness standards real quickly with ABC.
And then I'm going to show you two people that are in in
significant contrast. One of the reasons why I had a
flashback to 2012 this morning. With physical fitness and
appearance, if the Secretary of War can do regular hard PT, so
can every member of our joint force.
Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really
any formation, and see fat troops.
Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals
and Admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands
around the country in the world. It's a bad look, it is bad, and
it's not who we are. So whether you're an Airborne
Ranger or a Chairborne Ranger, a brand new private or a four-star
general, you need to meet the height and weight standards and
pass the PT test. And as the chairman said, yes,
there is no PT test. But today, at my direction,
every member of the joint force at every rank is required to
take APT test twice a year, as well as meet height and weight
requirements twice a year, every year of service.
I don't even know why that's remotely controversial.
I did see the women on The View that were really upset about
this. I think we played this the other
day. They were upset because, gosh,
that's so mean. It's not nice to these very, you
know, these, these honorable troops, they've worked so hard.
And it's like, what did you think you signed up for?
Everybody has to go to some version of basic training.
They go to OCS, they all get fitness standards.
They're all tested. They can all lose their job if
they can't keep up with it. This is the case.
This should actually be the case for most federal employment.
It's actually one of my biggest gripes about the federal
government. There's a lot of soft bodied
people that probably shouldn't have that job, Not because the
fitness is a requirement of doing that job, because it's
actually good for the workforce and it's good for the taxpayer
because people who are in good fit shape physically actually
have less health problems, it turns out.
So you could do it proactively. And I love the fact that he just
said it's going to be a mandate that all active duty personnel
will be required a workout every single day, 30 minutes a day.
We'll keep the the evil, whatever diabetes away.
It's a mandate. It's supposed to be enforced by
commanders. The troops will also have to
take at least two fitness tests per year.
As you heard him say, there's a general fitness, a general
service fitness requirement that will account for a person's age.
And that matters because as you get more senior, there's
probably less physicality in the work you're doing.
When you're 18 and you're young and dumb and tough and you think
you can do everything and you can break yourself off and you
can just wake up in the morning and it all grows back like,
great, that's good. When you're 40, that's maybe not
the same thing. And you're leading with a little
bit more intelligence. You got to be a little bit more
circumspect. Maybe you're doing less impact.
Maybe you're on a bike or swimming instead of doing the
running all the time. But doggone it, shouldn't our
troops be tough and be capable? There is going to be something
I'm going to bring up to that because our, our military is
supposed to be a threat, a spear and a, and a sword and a shield
that goes out there, scares the crap out of people that want to
screw with this country. And for a long time that was the
case. And then you kind of have this
question of like, is it ongoing? This is why I don't really like
women in combat jobs. I'm not real crazy.
I didn't like working with women in the military in general, if
I'm being honest. It's not because they were
women. It's because we didn't have the
same reasons for being there. And I'm going to show you
exactly how I know that. I had this flashback to 2012
when this this Air Force staff Sergeant was telling me to stay
in because the job market was scary.
And I told her I wasn't staying in because I wasn't going to
deploy to a war zone. And that wasn't good.
And that's why I showed up. I showed up to go to war and I
didn't go to war. So I was done.
Here's Sunny Hoskins. She's upset about it.
I think we played this the other day, but it's worth seeing
again. This is a female attitude
towards things, when in reality, projecting violence and
capabilities on the world is kind of a male thing.
There are women who can do it, no doubt about it.
There are women that are capable of doing the job, but they
should be able to keep up with the standard that the men around
them are so they don't have to be a lag I'm.
Actually really befuddled by. By by why he did that.
The optics were terrible, meaning all of our top military
brass are all in one place and we spent $6,000,000 to get them
there. That that didn't make a lot of
sense to me. It also didn't make a lot of
sense to me that he was saying that he was going to toughen
physical standards and and review the anti hazing policy by
sort of implementing A hazing policy.
And then also he said he was going to return.
To the highest male standard for combat positions because the
troops were fat. I, I just, I, I don't understand
how that was supposed to be an uplifting message for.
Women who don't understand that the military is not about
uplifting, it's about grinding people into submission so they
do what needs to be done because, you know, it's not
really uplifting to be in life threatening danger.
It turns out you don't need affirmations.
You need to get your ass up and move.
You need to do training because that's what needs to be done.
And sometimes aggressive, angry motivation is highly effective,
particularly for men, it turns out, who make up the majority of
people that are going to go and do something really dangerous.
And it also turns out it's really effective for women that
are going to get along with men that can do that job.
I've known some absolute stud physical fitness athlete freaks
that are women. My cousins, I have some cousins
that are freaks like that. They were stud water polo
players. They would fight men.
You know, hand to hand and they would actually hold their
ground. Their dad was a like a football
player in college. And so it's, it's a real thing.
But the overlapping section of like women who can do and women
who want to do, it's a really, really narrow window.
I'm not even sure that it's worth the squeeze on that.
I'm I still consider it kind of questionable.
And I say that as somebody who went to law enforcement
academies and saw women in there that had no business being
there. They were pushed through.
They had that same attitude with like, Sony Hoskins.
Like, why? Why are they not being nice to
us? It's like, I don't know, maybe a
bad guy who wants to get away from you is not going to be nice
and he might want to kill you. Can you fight like your life
depends on it? That seems really important.
It seems like it to me. Here's the difference between
these types of troops. This woman I'm going to show you
is in the Air Force. And that's not on accident.
I'm sure of it. But I'm sure there's women in
the Army that behave the same way.
It's really nauseating and having this kind of person be in
charge of you. And I've had a woman who was
more or less exactly this. They are prideful.
They are narcissistic and caring about their own appearance.
Like, I don't know that it matters what you look like as
long as you are in regulations. If your hair is clean and and
tight, If your hair is not too long.
If your facial hair is groomed the way it's supposed to be and
it's shaved every morning like you like you ought to be.
If your uniform doesn't have like little strings and stuff on
it, if you put on properly at that point, who are you trying
to impress? You trying to find a mate?
Because this woman has a full face of makeup.
What is war fighting about that? And it's like I said, it's not
an accident. She's a tech Sergeant in the Air
Force. So here we go.
She's worried about eyelash extensions.
I don't even know what that is. OK, so apparently starting today
we're not supposed to wear lash extensions anymore.
OK, but like, how would they know?
Are they going to scan my face out the gate?
Ma'am, your lashes are giving unauthorized volume.
We're gonna need you to bring twice and step aside.
What if I was born with just naturally dramatic lashes?
Y'all discriminating against genetics now?
What's next? No lip gloss?
No edge control? We're out here defending
freedom, not auditioning for Boot Camp Barbie.
It's like someone's commander woke up and said yeah, it's the
lashes. That's what's breaking unit
cohesion. Spoiler alert, I can still
shoot, salute, and secure the perimeter with a cat eye.
It's not insubordination, it's just enhanced situational
awareness. Anyways, reporting for duty,
Morale high, lashes nonexistent. I hate that Lady.
I don't know who she is, but I hate that I hated working for
those people. I hated working for people that
were that I think God, we didn't have TikTok when I was when I
was active duty, but that flashes right back to the
military training leaders that were out there.
What what is she like? What is she defending?
She's spending all of her time putting her face on.
You're going to go out there and sweat walk around like I don't,
I just don't understand it. And so here's a contrast.
This guy's an Army soldier. Here's the difference.
Notice that woman wanted to have an appeal to authority.
She's wearing a uniform. She's wearing her rank.
She pulled her name tag off so she couldn't be identified.
Yeah, people can totally identify you.
Somebody in the service knows you, and hopefully that stops
immediately. Hopefully your TikTok channel
goes away because it's gross. Then you got this guy.
He's like, yo, I'm in the Army. He's wearing street clothes,
which is fine. And he makes an interesting
comment. I haven't seen it either.
I've seen a lot of Army. I've seen an awful lot of Air
Force, which always kind of pisses me off.
I haven't seen a whole lot coming out of the Marine Corps
crying about having to shave a beard.
Which by the way, I can't believe that they let people
wear beards, especially some of the wild beards that I've seen.
It is truly out there in Garrison.
Come on. This guy makes a great point.
Shouldn't it be about upholding a standard?
You showed up because you wanted to be a part of something.
That means you surrender a part of yourself to be part of it.
This thing, perfect sense. Of course, there's a little bit
of inner service rivalry as well, which is what's supposed
to happen. Now, I got to be honest, I'm a
proud Army soldier, love the Army.
But I've been all over social media since Hex F gave that
speech. And you know what?
I've not seen one Marine. Not one Marine, Black, white,
Asian, female, male, not one United States Marine on social
media complaining. Not one that says something,
man. That says something right there.
Like I said, I'm proud to have been in the Army.
But bro, you got to take your hats off to the Marine Corps,
because in the Marine Corps, the standard is tradition.
I mean, these fools ain't changed the uniform since like
over 100 years. I don't expect anything less
from a Marine, man. Hey, give it up for yourself.
Give it up to the core, man. Yeah, we come out and we help
y'all, you know, we lead the charge sometime, man.
We let y'all take second place sometimes, but hey, give respect
to what respect is due man. Shout out to the core.
And you guys know, if you guys know, especially if you served
in other branches and you had that were like, you know, prior
Marine Corps service, they came into your branch.
They always brings like a different level of motivation.
They're they're MO tarted. But I love it.
Like that's what that's what I thought the military was
supposed to be about anyway. I think that guy's got a good
message and I haven't seen it. I haven't seen Marines crying
about it. It's like, oh, the standard,
it's changed. It's going to be more difficult.
Good Oorah, right? That's what they say.
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This is why you need a fit and capable military service.
It turns out we might have conflicts.
We might need to get after stuff.
Trump is right about this one. I think he's determined that the
United States is in an armed conflict with cartels.
You can tell that they don't like this because this is on NBC
News. In recent weeks, the United
States military has struck at least three boats from Venezuela
allegedly carrying narco traffickers and drugs that could
threaten Americans, Trump said. We are living through that
moment of clear and present danger where the president is
saying, you know what, we're going to bomb the crap out of
cartel boats. And again, I'm not super excited
about us using that tool in this way.
But I'm also not crazy about drugs showing up.
I think we got 2 problems happening at once.
One, yeah, if you can stem the supply, if you can give our
troops something to do and give them a focus and a mission set,
that's not terrible. And if it's going after drug
dealers, you won't hear me crying about that.
Rand Paul said the same thing. I feel the same way.
A second piece of it though, which is not wrong, is that
we've really got to fix the supply or the the demand side
that goes on in this country because we got a lot of people
that are not paying attention. Maybe they're too interested in
eyeliner and lip gloss. Maybe they're interested in
getting their food from Uber Eats by a robot and they want to
go and get fentanyl, just zone out or walk around like a
zombie. We have a lot less people doing
critical thinking and trying to take care of themselves and, and
maybe that's because they gave up and we're going to cover that
in a second here that there's some job market issues.
I get all those things, but there's something about just
evolving, adapting and overcome is what they tell you in the
military when you're when you're going through adapt and
overcome. Step up.
Life sucks, embrace the suck. Just do it right.
There's all these motivational things out there that just say,
you know what, do it anyway. Oh, life's hard, just go do it
anyway. Who cares?
Nobody's crying, Nobody's coming to save you.
And that is something that people who have gone through a
military background, have gone through that training.
They realize like nobody cares, try more, don't cry, doesn't
matter, get to work. Trump's doing this thing.
He says the president has determined that the cartels are
a non state armed group, designated them as foreign
terrorist organizations and is determined that their actions
constitute an armed attack against the United States.
Look, we've seen some of the cartel troops that are hanging
out in and I'll call them troops.
They've got 50 cows, They've got mounted vehicles and technicals
and stuff like that. Like they're armed up like any
other insurgency. In response, based upon the
cumulative effects of these hostile acts against citizens
and interests in the United States, friendly and foreign
nations determine the president has determined that the United
States is in a non international armed conflict with designated
terrorist organizations. It puts these people on the same
list as Al Qaeda and on the Islamic State.
Hence you're going to start seeing some of these drone
attacks. I don't know, maybe we need a
mission. Maybe we just need to pick a a
fight with somebody because we like doing that sometimes.
So this story also kind of piqued my interest.
CNN had very little for news at the front of their website
today, but they did have this. Venezuela said it detected five
US quote, UN quote, combat planes flying 75 kilometers from
its coast in what it calls a provocation.
On Thursday, it said it detected five US fighter jets.
I guess those are what they call combat planes near the coast in
the Caribbean. The defense minister, Vladimir
Padrino, describe the in the incident as a provocation by the
United States that posed a threat to their national
security, their combat aircraft. Combat aircraft that US
imperialism has dared to approach the Venezuelan coach.
Someone needs to tell Venezuela that the United States can do
whatever the hell they want near their coast.
Do you know how I know? I'm not trying to be a jerk, but
here's the facts, United. This is the United States number
of military aircraft as of 2025 and Venezuela's number of
military aircraft. All right.
Total United States aircrafts for our military 13,000 to
14,500. The number is somewhere in like
a 1500 variants. The rounding error that we have
in the number of aircrafts is something like almost 10X.
It's 7X the total of the aircraft that Venezuela has.
In totality, we've got about 1800 fighter jets.
They apparently have 5F sixteens, but they're not sure
if they're operational. They have 22 Soviet aeroplanes
and 13 of them might be operational.
So it sounds like they may have as many as, I don't know, 12 to
15 operational fighter craft. We have 1800.
This is not like we can do whatever we want.
We can fly around there. And I kind of do get a kick out
of that stuff that walks softly and carry a big stiff attitude.
That sort of American exceptionalism and saying in our
own hemisphere, you're in our hemisphere and you're sending
drug boats. Yeah.
Does it look like we're we're picking a fight?
It does. But at the end of the day, this,
this, these numbers mean that it's not a fight that matters.
This is like a grown adult walking down the street and a 10
year old bully, like mad at him. He's head bottom.
Push him. Get out of the way.
Get off the thing. All right?
We talked about needing purpose. We talked about people who need
to suck it up. Maybe this may be some of the
issues that are going on this this leads into the the polling
about Trump. Again, a lot of people will get
behind if Trump said it. It's good.
I think we can we can play mixed bag on this, but this one is fun
for me because it's going to lead to polling on Trump is
down, but nobody wants to change their choice.
That just kind of tells you how bad the Democrat pitch has been.
And we're going to get into the shutdown as we kind of wrap up
with that. We'll play that too.
As hiring slows down, more Americans are job hunting for
longer periods of time for months and it's going to take a
small miracle is what they say. This is CBS Money Watch talking
about this. It goes on and gives a story
about a woman who lost her job in the tech industry.
Maybe she should learn how to repair coolers on wheels.
I don't know. She said she wasn't worried
about lining up a new position in November of 2024.
She's a Washington state resident of 11 years managing
experience of network infrastructure and projects.
Specialized roles that that involves equipping buildings
with Internet access, cameras and Wi-Fi systems.
Maybe you can equip these robot servers that serve Uber Eats to
lazy people that don't cook at their food.
The last time I had a job search, I found something pretty
easily, she said. Turns out the older you get, the
harder that gets. And actually the more skilled
you get, the more sort of niche you have when it comes to
finding a new job. My buddy C friend found that out
as well. The 37 year old is still without
a job almost a year later. She's applied to 100 jobs and
positions for which she's even overqualified, but to no avail.
This is a common thing that I'm starting to hear.
That's not a great situation. And I do think Trump's sort of
looking over at India and seeing how many people were trying to
bring in to take on these things.
The number of work visas we're bringing might be an issue, she
says. The more I looked, the more I
wasn't getting responses. Even if I did get an interview,
I only made it through the first round or two.
Things got really real when my unemployment ran out.
That's tough. I can empathize with that.
I was out of work for 14 months or unpaid with a job that didn't
pay me for 14 months. She's been in the growing ranks
of Americans who've been jobless for more than six months and
long term unemployment numbers is rising to 1.9 million in
August, according to government data.
Now you're seeing a picture of Jerome Powell on the screen
because apparently because of our shutdown, even though we
have information about what's going on, even though there's
plenty of anecdotal stuff, they have to have government numbers
and U.S. government jobs reports to be able to decide whether or
not they're going to change things in the interest rates.
Federal Reserve officers may have to determine the next steps
for interest rates without access to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics September employment data.
I think the date has been there for quite a while.
It's really interesting that they keep trying to act like
they're going to pivot and and manage this economy.
I don't, I don't like the Fed any more than you guys do.
I don't like the fact that our money supply continues to grow.
I don't like the fact that that the inflation, that a tolerable
amount of inflation is 2%, which means we lose 2% of our savings
every single year because the value actually goes down.
So you have to actually have it invested at a rate higher than
that just to break even. I don't like any of that.
Until Congress approves funding, the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
with its more than 2000 employees, will remain
furloughed, unable to release reports.
This just tells you so much about how our government runs
things. It tells you about how
inefficient we need 2000 people to work to get numbers that CBS
was able to pull and, and get, you know, decent data on the
fact folks that are out there applying.
Like every single state compiles unemployment numbers.
Why does it take 2000 people in the federal government and how
many of them are dragging on our healthcare system because
they're not healthy? So all that goes to this piece
about frustration, government shutdown, so on and so forth.
We're going to kind of wrap up with this idea.
Young Trump voters and frustrated with him on the
economy and an immigration say new focus groups.
That's fun. That's coming from NBC.
That's the same source that said that there's an issue with the
Fed. But The funny thing is, is the
sub headline is of the 14 participants, that's exactly how
big their their survey was 14. In their focus group, they
voiced criticism of Donald Trump's deportation and his
economic policies. But nearly all of them said they
wouldn't change their choices. A poll finds that Americans
blame Trump and the GOP shutdowns more than Democrats.
Can I make a suggestion to our Democrat friends, and I will
call them friends. Can we just say, own the
shutdown, own it. We'll say that we don't like
government. We're proving to you that it's
not that important, it's not that efficient, that there are
kids in Los Angeles who think it's normal on a job interview
to put up their gay pride flag and get fired from the FBI.
Can we just say that the government is shut down on
purpose and we don't like it and you should be thankful for it?
That would be a great thing. We're sick of finding out that
there's women out there doing their eyelashes instead of doing
their job in the military. We're just going to own it.
And Democrats are so scared of this idea of like they want,
they want to push it on. I think you should just embrace
it. They're out saying ridiculous
things and and even kids that are being interviewed, they
don't like it. They go, Nah, not it.
They still would make the same choice.
Why would they make the same choice?
Because the last person that they put up to run this country
was Joe Biden. And after that they thought
Kamala Harris was a good idea. Here's Madeleine Dean who
actually caught cash Patel and I think was probably a perjury
statement during her questioning.
But here she is. She's made multiple claims that
Donald Trump is unwell. How do you look anyone in the
face? This is why you have no
credibility with like anyone that's sentient because you guys
made an argument that Joe Biden was fine.
I'm going to show you this back-to-back.
She's going to argue Trump is slow and old and not well.
And then I'm going to show you what she said about Joe Biden.
This is why they have 0 credibility.
This is a great opportunity to say we own this.
The federal shutdown. You just call the president
unwell again. What do you mean by that?
Well, I, I, he's aging, aren't we all?
I, I think we can very much notice that he's a different man
than he was in his first term. He's slower, he's a little more
lethargic, but much. He's slower, he's a little
lethargic. He's not really great.
Let's talk about your former guy.
This is the guy that used to run the country allegedly.
I think, you know, I travelled with the president yesterday in
Pennsylvania to a fantastic church in Mount Airy with a
service that lifted us all right out of our seats.
And the president was well spirited.
He worked from a notebook. I know the teleprompter argument
goes on. He worked nicely from a
notebook. We also were together in front
of folks who were organizers on the campaign side and labor
where the president spoke without any notes.
And he was terrific. He was.
He's the president of the United States, and he was able to speak
without notes. Donald Trump can stand up in
front of a microphone and speak for two hours without any notes
at all. He just does it all the time.
And I'm not really interested in hearing it.
He's not. He's not my rabbi, so I won't be
the listener to that. But he can do it and he won't
stumble. He'll go through all kinds of
wild stuff. He'll say some strange things.
He'll do what Donald Trump does. Some of it will be super funny.
Some of it will probably be a bad luck.
He's not going to fall over when the wind blows.
He's not going to fall over walking up the stairs and he
doesn't get tripped by a sandbag and end his like his his whole
life. He doesn't sit on a on a bicycle
or even pretend that he likes bicycles and fall off them while
licking ice cream cones, right? That's just that's just not who
he is. Though to make these claims is
pretty wild. And again, I think it's why the
credibility is so shot because people are like, what?
What are you playing at, lady? Two days into the latest federal
shutdown, Americans are already focusing their frustrations on
Capitol Hill over the disarray, with Trump and the Republicans
getting more of the blame again. Own it.
Roughly 47% of Americans say Donald Trump and the GOP are
responsible for the shutdown, says the Washington Post poll.
That's totally unbiased. Washington Post.
The poll respondents said that the president and his party were
responsible for the shutdown for refusing to compromise while
having full control over Congress and his actions.
OK, yeah, but what are we talking about compromising on?
We're talking about compromising on something that the
Republicans are doing a great job saying, but at the same
time, they should say, yeah, we don't want a federal government.
We're not going to fund it because it does illogical things
like this. Everyone deserves health care.
You have any illegals every single person in the world
deserves. Just for the record, as a
candidate, you're for illegal aliens getting Medicaid.
I think everyone in the world deserves.
That's a yes. That's a yes.
It's this idea that we think that the federal government is
supposed to do things that it's not.
It's like, OK, look, here's the deal.
Here's the problem with the difference between Democrats and
Republicans. They don't actually do this, by
the way, because I think Republicans and Democrats are
very similar. But imagine if they actually
made the conservative argument which said the federal
government does more things than it's supposed to.
There is no reason for it to do the things that it does, and
therefore we are not interested in starting it and we're
actually going to make cuts. We're not going to do a clean
CR. What if they actually came back
and said we're going to just start funding, turning on the
switches one at a time? They're all turned off.
Allegedly, even though everyone's showing up to work,
they're all turned off. So we are going to fund things
one bit at a time. And how do we know that they
were super interested in doing things the government's not
supposed to do like funding non citizens that have no right to
be here. People who broke our immigration
laws on are here because they keep telling you.
Here's Gavin Newsom. This is a side by side of him in
2022-2023 and 2025. The message has not changed
except when it makes them look bad.
Suddenly they start running from their own words and they all
seem to forget that we have the Internet.
Apparently we also have robots that are sensors, like maybe
there's a Uber Eats robot that's running around recording Gavin
Newsom. I'm OK with that.
One campaign on universal healthcare.
We're delivering that. We are implementing our ideals.
We are manifesting this principle, this fundamental
notion that so many of us have been preaching for years and
years and years, universal health care for all, regardless
of pre-existing condition, regardless of the ability to
pay, and regardless of your immigration status.
If you care not just about values and principles of
morality, but if your only values and principles are
advanced through economics, then that alone should be an argument
in favor of universal healthcare.
A pathway and a framework for 1.1 million undocumented
residents in the state of California to veil themselves to
high quality comprehensive medical care, long term, short
term preventative, as well as in home support service care and
coverage. Now Newsom says California is
tracing a $12 billion deficit. Governor is proposing freezing
enrollment in state funded healthcare for undocumented
immigrants. You know what?
No, we're not really for undocumented aliens.
We don't want illegal aliens and criminals to be able to get
access to it, but we totally do. How do we know?
Because the last person you ran, the reason why no one regrets
their Donald Trump vote, even if he's not doing the best job, is
because this was the alternative.
The bill also says, quote, every individual who is a resident of
the United States is entitled to benefits for healthcare services
under this act. Not every individual who's a
citizen, but every individual who's a resident.
So you support giving universal healthcare, Medicare for all, to
people who are in this country illegally?
Let me just. Be very clear about this.
I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any
human being from access to public safety, public education
or public health, period. Public safety, public health,
huh? All right, well, let's find out
what's been affected by government shutdowns.
NPR comes to the rescue here with this update, letting us
know that the federal government is shut down after lawmakers in
Congress failed to reach an agreement on how to extend the
funding. And the lawmakers will continue
to go back and forth. The impact of the shutdown is
beginning to be felt across the country.
Please put it in the comments below.
What are the things that you are experiencing that have caused
you to know that the government is shut down at the national
level? Again, own it.
It'd be great if you're flying. Soon you'll find out that in
fact, there is no change. Air traffic controllers and most
of the TSA are considered essential workers and they have
to stay on the job even if it means working without pay while
the rest of the federal government shuts down.
Guess what? That's part of it.
Told right up front that if they don't fund it, that you still
have to show up to work if you want to maintain that job
because you're in a national security position and it's
required. That was part of the conditions
of employment. You signed up for that
voluntarily. You don't have to.
You can always walk away. You can quit at any time, it
turns out, if you so choose. Federal air traffic controllers
helped end the last government shutdown and could end this one
as well. They're encouraging with a thing
that is illegal that they're not allowed to do, but they could do
a slight increase in a sick leave, AKA a sick out because
they can't do strikes. This drags on.
Travelers could see more sick outs of key personnel as workers
show their anger over missing paychecks, which, by the way,
have not happened yet. Yeah, turns out.
And lastly, if you're traveling internationally in the new year,
you might need to build more of a time frame in for passport
renewals because passport agencies will remain open, but
they might take longer. Shocking.
The federal government is going to go slow on documents and
paperwork. Nobody will believe it.
You're still going to get your mail because the US Postal
Service keeps going on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
benefits are not impacted. Social Security, the VA and
other benefits will continue. There could be some delay in
services such as processing applications, but it will
continue. But the real problem is a thing
that the government is really, really supposed to do.
Our federal government may have problem delivering SNAP and WIC.
It may have a hard time providing nutrition for millions
of new parents who are at risk. So that should tell you exactly
what the Republicans ought to stand on.
When the federal government, the single biggest, most powerful,
largest hammer that we have in this entire nation, is
responsible for the individual feeding of families that exist
in your community. Can we not just talk about like
a serious, serious problem? Are we not using the absolute
wrong tool to do something? And all of this has to do with
people falling apart in their communities and wanting to
outsource it. They say, hey, I don't want to
do the work here locally. I don't want to have my own
church, my own community, my own friend group, my neighborhood,
whatever. Watch.
We don't want to handle that. We can outsource that to the
city. The city says, well, we can't do
this either. We can't look after our own
people here. We're going to look it out to
the state. The state's got more money.
And the state says, well, what if we could get federal funding?
So suddenly you have the worst possible tool.
The argument I always make, government is the worst solution
to every problem, including when it's the only solution.
And we can also add a little sort of caveat to that or a sort
of a clarification on top of it, which is to say the government
that is further from you is even worse of a problem than the
government that is closer to you.
At the end of the day, this shouldn't even be a government
problem at all. Like private charity should be
able to handle that. Guess what, when you talk about
what SNAP and WIC is, we give a bunch of money out of all of our
paychecks that go into these things.
Now where do they go? They go into a government agency
that pays the the same government that thinks it's
reasonable to have 2000 people working to tell us how many
people don't work in America. Is that not completely asinine
and illogical when your job is to determine how many people
work in this country? There's 2000 of them.
I can't fathom that. I have no idea how many work for
SNAP. We should do some research on
this SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
I would love to know how many people work in that agency to
administrate giving out our money and charity when churches
do it for free. Every church I've ever been to
has a Saint Vincent de Paul Society.
They'll have a food for the hump, like the food pantry for
people that are having a rough time.
And now what we're going to find out is that government employees
are living paycheck to paycheck. By the way, that's part of the
story that was in here, too. The only big change you're going
to see, according to government shutdowns, if you listen to NPR,
is that they will be missed paychecks and lost jobs by
federal workers. That's it.
The Congressional Budget Office roughly estimates that 750,000
federal employees will be furloughed each day of the
shutdown. There are 750,000 American
workers for this government that are not essential to operations
of our government. That is crazy.
And that should be why Republicans own it.
They're like all we're doing is pointing out that there are
750,000 people that get a government paycheck that
actually don't provide a service that's essential to the American
experience. Super easy to get behind that
one. In addition, these people may
also force mass layoffs, known as a reduction in force or a
riff, because when the government shut down, that means
that the agency's not funded, which means that there's
actually no job there and they can just eliminate the position.
So there's nothing to fund afterwards.
I'm 100% behind that too. Yeah, you'd flood a bunch of
people in, but wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have the
federal government stepping into places it didn't go?
They quote a woman here. I don't know how they found this
woman, so I'm not trying to pick on her specifically, but I did
find this lady's name in the story.
Her name is Elizabeth Riley. She's AUSDA employee who went to
Capitol Hill to show her support for Democrats holding firm on a
budget showdown. Remember Democrats who are
trying to add illegal aliens in for health care?
And you just heard it multiple times from the former
presidential candidate, from the governor of California, which
does it the most, from a lady who's running for office in the
state level on CNN. They're happy to say it, she
says. We've been under attack for nine
months as federal workers, and it's just another day at work.
Even though we are not working. A lot of my colleagues are going
to struggle missing a paycheck, but a lot of us feel that they
need to hold the line. Why the hell are you out talking
politics? And why are you struggling if
you get a government paycheck that pays you every freaking two
weeks without fail, except when they don't fund it?
How many of you all have lived in jobs where your paycheck
varies on the number of hours you worked and what happens?
And like, sometimes your company doesn't have money to pay you
because you work in a small group.
That's real. That happens in this place.
Our income fluctuates month to month.
That's just how it goes. That's what that's the world
when you live on your own. Here's this lady, Elizabeth
Riley. This is her.
I looked her up. She her, she has a LinkedIn,
which is also interesting. She's an international trade
specialist at USDA. She seems verily accomplished.
She's been working there for over 10 years.
Before that she was in the Peace Corps.
She was a an overseas staff training coordinator and she was
a volunteer for two years in the Peace Corps.
So thanks for your service there.
She was a grad student and a teaching assistant at Virginia
Tech. Just scrolling down here.
Here's the thing that I think is most interesting because this
actually is real. She's the co-owner and Co
manager of Bel Air Farms, which she's been doing for almost 15
years. It's a diversified family farm
of over 40 head of high quality sheep, goats with ballast
rations and good breeding decisions mitigated by a variety
of health concerns. That sounds super cool.
That sounds like a real useful thing.
I hope she goes back to doing that and she's got a master's
degree in animal and poultry science.
I didn't know that was a thing, but it doesn't sound like she
should be working for our government.
It sounds like she should be running the food program out of
a farm. She'd probably be happier too
and she wouldn't have to live in DC if she's got a farm that
she's part co-owner and Co manager of in Hop.
What is it? Hopkinsville, KY?
I don't know where that is but it sounds nice.
That sounds amazing. That sounds way better than
being a what is this she her international trade specialist
at the USDA? I'm just saying this woman's got
opportunities. Not a lot of government
employees actually have family farms that they could go out and
work on too instead. So that's why they're crying
about it and she's out there protesting.
Sounds like a real privileged position to be in.
Good for her. I wouldn't be right if we didn't
scold you a little bit. It's going to the weekend with a
scolding and then we'll get on. We'll get out.
On a better note, here's Elizabeth Warren letting you
know she's going to scold you. Don't lie and say what this is
about. Even this is what it's about.
Angry 70 something year old white lady who is representing
Massachusetts which is not America Mad.
If you try to say a lie, she will correct you on national
television. You know, Republicans say what
you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for, as they
put it, illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true,
but there is a provision. Excuse me, Not strictly.
It's not true directly, but. Lie.
It is a flat out lie. The way that they frame it.
In Medicaid, there is nothing in Medicare that permits 1
undocumented immigrant to get $1.00 of assistance.
Senator, no, I haven't heard anybody in my party saying that
illegal immigrants should get access to the health insurance
marketplace. I'm so glad you said said that.
Actually, I have some tape of of your Democratic Party members
saying this on the debate stage. So they've all said and let's
play the clip. A lot of you have been talking
tonight about these government healthcare plans that you
proposed in one form or another. This is a show of hands question
and and hold them up for a moment so people can see.
Raise your hand if if your government plan would provide
coverage for undocumented immigrants.
OK. Senator, that that's, that's
literally every member of your party, from moderate to more
progressive that have said that in the past.
Oops, let's just go what they really mean to say.
If we don't fund the government then people will die.
People need kidneys. It's sad but decreed.
Yet the senators hoarding one more than she needs.
Ioffer this bill and I hope you'll vote aye.
Unless of course you just want people to die.
Traffic deaths have many crying with fear.
Over 30,000 people are dying each year.
This modest change I propose must be applied.
Unless, of course, you just want people to die.
Alcohol deaths are exceeding comparisons.
Black people, white people, Native Americans.
We need to ban alcohol. It can't be denied.
Unless, of course, you just want people to die.
Crossing the street is incredibly tough.
People look left and right but rarely look up, my bill would
mandate. The right just saying.
And then the last thing that I saw that was kind of fun today
was that the Department of Education found out in a pretty
partisan move that in addition to covering the websites, which
we talked about it the other day, if you go to any of the
major department websites, they all have some sort of partisan
banner that says Democrats shut down the government.
And so therefore, we're not here.
Apparently, they've actually added it to the e-mail
signatures for people out of office.
And they're like, you know, talking about whether or not
it's a Hatch Act violation. I think at this point we can
realize that our government is partisan, that the people who
work in the government overwhelmingly are partisan,
that the monies that they give in donations are very much
partisan. And they're allowed to be
partisan. They're just not supposed to
bring it to work with them. But since they do and does feel
like kind of a tit for tat, it's not the America I want to live
in, but it is the America we do live in.
So for all the people that are cheering it on, I think it's a
short lived fun. I think that I think you should
do some critical thinking and just make it a decision on a
case by case basis. Don't let someone else do your
thinking for you. There are things that are funny.
Like I said, I don't know why I think this is so funny, but I do
think it's funny that putting up a gay fried got you fired.
That seems like it's about time. How many of us would have gotten
kicked? I mean, I, I, they actually
cited the fact that I had a picture of Donald Trump riding
on a tank with a golden bazooka. That was something that was
cited in my OPR investigation. The fact that I had Ronald
Reagan riding on a damn velociraptor, which were both
historical figures at the time and they were cartoons.
So if that was good enough to mention in my suspension
forever, I think it's fine that a gay pride flag shows up.
It's just also just not the America that we should be living
in. Found this guy to be really
interesting. I'm going to kind of end with
some thoughts here and then I'm going to give you something
uplifting because that's the way we do it here.
But first, I catch these videos every once in a while on my
feed. People who are just saying
snarky, true statements that make us wonder.
One of the things that really caught me in this particular
video is he says, how is it that Congress can't balance a budget?
But they always seem to come out millionaires.
That kind of hit me extra. It's funny how Congress, who
doesn't know how to balance a budget, knows how to make
themselves millionaires. Do you really think handing over
your gun ends gun violence? That's like chopping off your
own Dick to stop rape. NFL stadiums have walls and fans
that haven't paid for a ticket aren't allowed in, period.
Doesn't matter if you've travelled thousands of miles or
if you have a little kid with you, or if you cry outside the
gate, they still won't let you in.
Fascinating concept. Why is it when a liberal
expresses their opinion it's freedom of speech, but when a
conservative expresses their opinion it's intolerant hate
speech? It is intolerant.
Ask not why the children shouldn't see drag Queens.
Ask why drag Queens crave an audience of children.
So there's more of that, and you guys have probably seen these as
well. But there's some real good
questions. And a lot of these questions are
exactly the reason why the 2024 election went the way that it
did and why kids are looking at it going, yeah, this is not
perfect and our job markets not amazing and we've got some real
problems. But would you want Kamala Harris
running anything? Would you want Joe Biden hanging
out there? I don't think so.
I think there will be a backswing.
I was talking to my buddy Sean Whitman, who we're going to have
on the program at some point in the near future.
And I'm. I mentioned to him I was like, I
don't think this is experiment goes on for all that much
longer. But I don't think that America,
when it evolves into whatever the next thing is, is going to
be totally catastrophic. I just can't because I look out
in my neighborhood, I see that our quote UN quote, federal
government is shut down. And what I notice is the street
lights come on and the trash gets picked up.
And my neighbors continue to mow their lawns and they edge them.
And sometimes times they even edge my part of the lawn.
And they park their cars where they're supposed to when they
fill up their gas tanks and they pay their taxes and they clean
their windows and they make sure that the packages are delivered.
And all the things that are normally happening that have
nothing to do with the federal government continue on.
And I think they would continue on.
We are in a unique scenario right now where if all the
federal trappings like fell away, unlike what happened in
the 1790s and this, you know, the early 1800s where America
was like on the edge of being invaded again by the country
that we broke away from, right? We had a War of 1812 where
England come came in and tried to take us back.
Nobody's going to come mess with America right now.
Nobody's going to come screw with us.
We can go fly jets off the the coast of Venezuela and nothing's
going to happen. We have 1400 aircraft.
We got 1800 fighter jets and 1000 attack helicopters and 900
attack aircraft, Nonspecific, whatever the hell that is.
We have thousands upon thousands upon thousands more of just air
power. So no one's going to come do the
things that they could have done.
And if we were to break that thing up into 10 or 12 different
regional powers where the United States was just factionalized
like an article as of Confederation kind of America,
it still wouldn't matter. We'd still have more than most
other militaries that are out there, and certainly people in
our hemisphere. Wouldn't it be nice if we had
our states actually run things again?
I don't know. I just like to see a devolution
of power back to where it belongs.
And that means that I can't be a mega guy, and it means that I
can't follow anybody as my digital rabbi.
I'm not going to be a disciple of any politician that's out
there. I don't like politicians to
begin with. I don't like politics.
Even I, I had a conversation with my attorneys that are going
to be dealing with this, this nonsensical lawsuit.
And he was like, I just can't wait for politics to get back to
normal. It's not happening.
The only, the only thing that's going to happen is we're going
to get a new normal. That's my take on it.
And when it is a new normal, I hope that I don't have to talk
about politics as much. We can talk about a lot more fun
things. So let me talk about things that
I think are really important because this morning the most
important things that happened to me was I had a 2 year old who
was absolutely shockingly brilliant for a 2 year old.
She's 25 months old. She's saying things like, may I
be excused? She's giving me all kinds of
little treatises on her thoughts.
She comes up and she tells everyone that she loves them.
And one day she'll be the same as her older sisters, who are
incredibly thoughtful and, and really, really insightful little
people because I talk to them like grown-ups.
And so I saw this video the other day, I showed it to my
wife and it made her feel better.
And maybe this is what's going on in your families.
This might be this might be the answer to it all.
Don't try to compare with the others.
Don't try to figure out whether they're getting Uber Eats or how
fast it was delivered or whether or not you got a robot or a
person delivering your food. Maybe just get your own food.
But I think this guy, he's got it right.
There are there are levels of optimization for your family and
the highest levels of optimization are what are we
doing? Where do we want to go and how
are we going to get their big concepts?
Motivation, mentorship, teaching kids to think critically and ask
questions and not blindly follow anything instead of keeping up
with what your neighbors are doing and trying to like, I
don't know, fight for little scraps and crumbs.
Number one thing I'm seeing in successful families is the way
that they talk in private. The worst families are just
comparing all the time. Their conversations have to do
with what the other parents are saying, what the other kids are
doing, where their kids match up.
This family looks this way. This family's going on that
trip. This family's buying this camp.
This family's doing that extracurricular.
Thing. Oh well, they have that.
Tutor. We should get this one.
Now. Could you believe what that
those parents did with their both?
They're just gossiping to each other.
Gossip is like the lowest form of a successful marriage.
The greatest families I see, they actually are talking about
ideas. The middle families, they're
talking schedule all the time. We gotta get this.
We gotta get that. How do we become efficient where
we can go? They're talking about the
grocery list. They're talking about the
chores. But the greatest families I see
are focusing intently on the vision of where their families
headed and the right next moves to help their children and
teenagers grow the fastest. They're talking about ideas.
They're talking about coaching. They're talking about mentors.
They're talking about proactive things in their home to help
their. Children develop the best.
Way they're not comparing to other people, they're not trying
to keep up with the Joneses, they're not trying to get all
the grocery lists and chores done.
They're focusing on the future vision, where their kids are
headed and where their family looks in 10 years.
That's it. Maybe you can do some more of
that this weekend. I know I'm going to go do it.
I'm going to be taking my little kiddos in a second hand bike
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God bless all of you. I hope you have a fantastic
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little hour here or two. I'm going to remix some stories
of people that have stood up and done the right thing because I
want to retouch the story of Amy Nelson.
So you guys who are new to the channel have never heard it.
You're going to get a repackaged version of an interview we did
because I want to tell the back story before I bring her on very
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