June 11, 2025 • 50 mins
📍 What happens when a SEAL decides to take on the swamp? Devout Christian, former SEAL, and Senate candidate from Alabama - Jared Hudson joins the show to discuss why he’s stepping into the political arena. Jared reveals the spiritual, personal, and patriotic convictions that led him to run for office, what he sees as the moral collapse of Washington, and why now is the time for warriors to rise up. From his powerful faith to his no-nonsense views on taxes, corruption, and the Trump administration, this conversation will challenge everything you think about politics, patriotism, and purpose.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Welcome Jared Hudson
02:34 - How Jared Decided To Run For Senate
13:25 - Protecting Family While Running for Office
20:03 - What Jared Wants To Accomplish In DC
26:57 - Which Issues Matter Most To Everyday People?
32:59 - Bringing A Warrior Ethos To DC
41:25 - Trump’s Battles In Washington
43:47 - How Will Jared Fight Against Becoming Corrupted?
48:22 - How To Support Jared’s Mission
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you tired for the swamp never getting cleared out?
Or nobody Roger en up to go in there? Will
stand by because today I'm going to introduce you to
a true warrior and a true Christian who's going to
go to Washington and kick some ass.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the David Rutherford Chill. There have been a
few times in.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
My life where I have had the opportunity to meet
somebody who transforms me. And I'm a part of a
culture of transformative men. And all my times and the teams,
my times at working for the agency, my times working
with elite athletes, I've come across a few, but only
(00:45):
one that has been able to when he speaks, he
hits me in my soul, and he hits me in
my soul because I always feel as if I can
never be redeemed and that my sin is something that
I can has always going to be an insurmountable option.
But when I met this man for the first time
out of charity event in Florida, he transformed the way
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I thought about my faith and I thought about myself.
So when I found out that this individual was going
to run for the US Senate, you can imagine what
my heart felt, and I felt that sense that, oh,
my God, you are answering my prayers, which is to
get somebody that is a deep, firm believer not only
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in this country and in the values that I believe in,
but more importantly believe in what the country represents. And
that man is Jared Hudson. And I am beyond honored
and privileged to have Jared on the show right now
to introduce all of you to who he is, and
the hopes that just one of you out there will
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hear what he has to say and you will connect
with him and you will get behind this man in
his to go into that swamp, that infestation of DC
in order to bring back not only the faith that
we have in the Lord, but the faith that we
should have in this country. So, Jared Hudson, man, it's
a privilege to have you on.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Dave. What's up? Brother? Thank you. It's an honor being
here with you. And I feel the same about you, Dave.
I mean, I'm just be honest with you, and every
time I read something you write or here's something you say,
you know, don't want to turn this into a back
and forth compliment Sandwich, you know, but You're a good dude,
and I appreciate all that you do and all that
you put out.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
All right, So, you know, before we hopped on, obviously
we were chatting a little bit about that the overwhelming
difficult decision it is to cross that threshold because of
what's at stake. Right, somebody approaches you say, hey, you
should run for office, you should do this. We need
people like you, and you know that strokes our ego
(02:55):
all the time. That's awesome, But there's this reality to
what if you're you know, even remotely have any kind
of common sense to know that this game is the
most vicious game in the world, and you know, and
and so what I just would like for you to
share is how that process worked for you and your
(03:16):
family and and kind of what was the catalyst inside
you that you knew that this is the right decision.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, so we'll do a long story, short sort of thing.
This was not in mine of my wife's radar. This
wasn't you know. Again, we talked about it before before
the show, but everybody says stuff in jokes. You know,
I ran for sheriff. You're in a Democrat stronghold in
Jefferson County, Alabama, one of the few blue counties in
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the state of Alabama because it's like seventy or eighty
percent read all across the state. But Jefferson County is
a blue county. And I ran against the incumbent sheriff,
who is an incumbent Democrat, and almost beat him. You know,
got within about seven thousand votes of him. This is
larger than in the congressional district in this county. And
so with that being said, that kind of got me
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tied into politics. And everybody's always said, hey, if you
want to run, you run for a state office, you
want to run for maybe a congressional seat if one
of those opens up. I mean, everybody always said said
things like this, and so it's always been something that
that is there, that's mentioned. But in all honesty, it
was never an option or an opportunity or something that
made since I guess if if you're tracking with what
(04:29):
I'm saying, it just never was was there. The Lord
didn't have it. And a couple of months ago it
got fired across my desk by some supporters of our organization,
coven At Rescue Group, and they're also supporters of our
Senator Tommy Tuberwell, who's now running for governor of the
state of Alabama. They said, hey, if Coach runs for governor,
would you consider running for his Senate seat. It'll be
(04:51):
an open Senate seat. And I said, well, you know,
I'll consider it. Yeah, just because of who's asking me,
you're asking me, I'm more than willing consider. But it's
going to take some prayerful consideration. I've taught with my wife.
This is not a political ambition for me. This is
not the next step in my career. As a matter
of fact, it could negatively impact my career. I mean,
(05:12):
that's what we're looking at at just face value, and
it's going to cost a lot of money and take
a lot of time. So let me talk with my wife,
and we're going to pray about it. And so my
wife and I talk about it. We pray about it,
and I could not get a clear answer from the Lord. Now,
something you brought at the beginning is my faith in
your faith. I know we're Christian brothers. We share the
(05:33):
same faith. And so everybody out there who hears can
understand what I mean, whether you believe what I'm saying
or not. What I know to be true. Is what
John chapter one says in the beginning was the word.
The word was God. The world was with God, always
made through him and by him, And everything we see
that was made wasn't made without him. He's the light
and life of the men, and light shone in the darkness,
and the darkness couldn't overcome it. That's the first five
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verses of John. Verse fourteen. The word became flesh and
dwealth among men. Jesus is that flesh. He came to
this world world, lived a perfect life, died on the cross,
rose again on the third day for my sins and yours,
and it's through him we're set free. You mentioned the
mountain or the massiveness of sin that we cannot recover from.
You're exactly right. Jared Hudson can't recover from his sin.
(06:14):
Dave Rutherford can't recover from his sin. Only Jesus can
recover us from our sin. And he did that on
the cross. And when he rose and left the tomb right,
the empty tomb shows us that he defeated sin and death,
and as a dread warriors, Jeremiah says, he holds the
head of sin and death up before his father and
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says he says, hey, Dad, here it is I conquered
sin and death, and when we're in Him, we are
able to conquer the sin that is in our life.
That's the most important thing about me. So everything I
do is based on who the person of Christ is
eternally in my life, because that's what guides me, and
that is how I That's how I make decisions, right.
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I pray through those decisions and seek the wisdom of
God because he is the only one who is truly wise.
So in those prayer times, that's what I mean by
when I say I'm a Christian and I'm seeking the
Lord's face. We're believers and we are praying and seeing Lord.
Should we do this? And Man, to be honest with you,
(07:18):
I could not get a word from the Lord. He said, Jared,
run for Sennate. And that's unusual for me. Normally I'll say, hey,
God told me to do this, or he told me
not to do this. Reading his word right, reading the scripture,
praying through it. He's going to speak to you through
his word. I could not get any specific word, but
the word I was getting over and over read the
story of Abigail and her husband and Baul, who is
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an evil man, and David. You can read that story
anybody wants to look it up. And the wisdom of Abigail.
Read another story about the wisdom of the woman who
threw out the head, and I forgot who it was
was running from Joe. Ab throws out the head over
the wall, kills the man that ran in, and throws
it out, and it says that the whole city was
delivered because of the wisdom of this woman. And I'm
(08:02):
reading these stories right, and I'm like, I know there's
no way this right, God, I can't you know. I'm
not gonna ask Lauren. I know she's gonna say no anyway,
because she says no to everything that isn't a beach vacation.
Like we talked about, right, Hey, Lauren, do you know
pray about going to the beach? And she said, oh no,
we don't need to pray about it. That's exactly what
we want to do, right, you know. So this is
(08:24):
one of those things where it's like, Okay, this is
it's an honor to even be asked or considered to
do this. That is Jared Hudson, right, and coming out
He's like Wow, this is an honor to be asked
to do this. But God kept saying, ask your wife
and do what she says. And my fear was she
would say, don't even know, we don't even need to
look at it. No, absolutely not, That's what I thought
she would say. And after three days of not talking
(08:47):
about it, just praying separately, we came together and said, Hey, Lauren,
what do you think the word I keep getting is
taught with you? And she said, I'm apprehensive to say
this because I believe I know what it's going to
cost us, but it's going to cost us our life here,
which we still live here in Alabama, but I'm gonna
have to go to d C I if you know,
we win this thing and it all goes through. She
(09:09):
knew it was gonna cost us. On the campaign, she said,
I think this is what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And that kind of surprised me. And that's when I
really started saying, Okay, Lord, what do you think one
thing I didn't tell you? As I started walking through
doors that were opened up and going through the green lights.
Green lights don't always mean it's God telling you to
do something, and red lights don't always mean, it's God
telling you to stop, right, So you have to be
(09:35):
discerning in that process. And so I've got green lights,
but I'm still like, you know, I'm just not sure
my wife is okay with this. This is already weird.
Who is this woman I'm married to? Sort of thing? Right,
So as we're walking through it, about four weeks into
this process, maybe six weeks into it, I call my
granddaddy and asked him. And I talked to my dad.
He said, you know who you could ask who's gonna
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definitely tell you what the Holy spirit's saying. Your granddaddy.
My granddaddy a very solid christ falling man. He's eighty
five years old. He says, yeah, I don't have enough
enough energy to do a big garden like I always do,
do like seven acres of garden every year. And this
year then he said, I don't have enough energy to
do a big garden like I do. So he did
three acres of garden this year. There may be even
(10:19):
closer to four acres, right, So he's got so anyway,
I say all that to say he he's a wise man.
He told me, he said, I'm just waiting for the
Lord to take me home, and I hope and pray
he lets me work his garden in heaven. That is
who this man is. He spends a lot of time
in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Sewer is a sewer.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah. So anyway, I called him and I said, Granddaddy,
this is what I've been asked to do. He hates politicians,
by the way, he does not like him, he does
not respect him, and he prays for our leaders in
this nation.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But he is not a politician kind of guy. So
I kind of thought I knew what he would say.
I said, Granddaddy, I've been, you know, thinking about and
I've been asked what I run for the open a
Senate seat if coach Tommy Tuberbile runs for governor. And
he said, well, I like I like coach. You know,
I'm glad that he got in there. You know, he's
he's not a politician. And he said, but son, it
(11:12):
would be an honor to even be able to say
your grandson ran for a Senate see, whether you a
senator or not, it's an honor to even say, which
was unusual for him to say. That was the first
thing that stood out to me. He wouldn't normally say
something like that. He would say, it's an honor to
say your grandson was a seal. But he would say,
why in the world do you want to be a politician?
All they are crooks and and and sycophants, right, and
(11:35):
they're there are four, you know, one side or the other.
They're not. He doesn't view them highly. And he said,
but I want to encourage you said just something I'm
thinking about son. Why don't you ask you wife and
do it? She says. And that really floored me because
that's the exact word that I got from the Lord
six weeks earlier. Why don't you ask your wife and
do it? She says. So he told me that, and
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we walked through the doors, kept getting green lights, went
all the way to d C, met with a bunch
of people, and finally met with UH, the political UH
team or coordinator director I guess would be a style
at the at the White House. And said, look, I'm
just looking for red lights because I was asked to
do this. And I said, I'm looking for a red
(12:19):
light because if coach announces I won't I want to
I won't do this if I get a red light
from any of y'all because y'all are the y'all are
the deciding factors. Uh didn't talk talk to local politicians
here or anything like that. And I went straight to
the straight to the source, and the Lord opened the
doors for that to happen. And he said, you're not
going to get a red light from us, son, And
I said, okay. And that was, uh, that was where
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it was left at, you know. And so I bring
that back to to my wife and we decide to
uh send this thing out out there after coach Tuverville
announced and uh, now it's just in full fundraising mode.
All were doing is turned into real politicians begging people
for money to support the supports campaign.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Let me let me ask you this that that first off,
thank you for being so honest with the intimacy of
that process. And that's that's one of the things that
I think I most admire about our friendship and who
you are as a man, is that you're so comfortable
with who you are and how you make your decisions
through the word and through the love of your family
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and and and the people that you really care deeply
for in your life. But you know, obviously it's going
to have a profound impact on them. How are you
preparing for that impact? What are you going to do
to protect your children?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And let's just say, and I'm not even talking about
getting into office. We'll talk about that in a second.
You know, what are you going to do to protect
your family and all of this this crazy endeavor that
you're you're going down, this this new op in your life.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Right, yeah, And that's what uh And Eli Crane said that,
he said, hey man, this this thing. He said, whether
you you said you win it, it'd be great. And
he said, but even campaign and he said, it's like
a deployment where you don't get shoot anybody in the face,
which you know for us team guys, you know that's
no fun. We want to shoot bad guys in the face.
Now you're just out here talking. You know, I'm a
freaking keyboard warrior over here behind the desk like an
attorney or something. So you know, with that being said,
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prayer Man, thank.
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Speaker 2 (15:33):
Who got it?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Starts with prayer, praying I've been spinning. I will tell
you this. The termol that this has created just announcing,
which isn't you know, it's not like anything bad's happened,
but it's just a stressful thing running a business, run
a nonprofit. I'm not coming from a point in the
government because I'm not a career politician where they collect
a paycheck being in the government and they get to
go out and campaign while they collect that paycheck and
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don't have to do their job. I'm still having to
do my job. I'm still having to run both coming
at Rescue Group and the shooting Institute as we're working
through this. So it's a lot of time away and
so it requires a lot of prayer. My wife is
a super strong lady. She's unbelievably rooted in the Lord
and what she does with what she does with our kids,
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she does an amazing job. I just was just leaving
at that and so having her as my partner, as
my helper, as Genesis talks about that, I think is
the next key piece for us, one of the biggest things.
We've been married since we were young. I mean she was,
I mean I think she was nineteen when we got married,
and we're eighteen we started dating. I was like twenty one.
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So we've never there's no infidelity issues. We don't have
any you know, baggage, not that people that have that
that there's not restoration and there's not hope. And I'm
not saying that. I'm just saying for us, we don't
have any of those things that are going to be
really litigated in our in our lives. We're just a
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regular you know, Alabama Christian couple who was in the military.
I was in the seal teams, did deployments, lost buddies
and you know, and and then got out of the
military after a short time comparatively to most people. I
was only on an eight year contract, right like six
six and a half years active and then you know,
your two years or your year and a half hour
r as I went through a medical process. So I
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mean we've we did that part of our life and
now we've run a small business. I'm a law enforcement officer.
So we're just regular folks. We're not the political elite.
We're not people who have a lot of scandals. One
of the questions I got to ask when we're in
DC is like, hey, you know, I mean, you know,
you had a guy sit over here and he had
laundered like hundreds of millions of dollars from his nonprofit.
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I busted out laughing, and I said, bro, me and
my wife are way too poor to ever be accused
of theft, you know, I mean, like, what are these
people do?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You know?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
The worst thing we've ever done, you know, is like, hey, hey,
we gotta you know, we gotta go get some get
some snacks on the on the company credit card or
something like.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I mean, I mean, we're talking.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
About folks that have that that that have laundered money
from the tax payer and have have taken money to
pay for campaigns from things they shouldn't. I mean, And
I'm just saying stuff that I just read. I'm I'm
not talking about anybody even specifically in Alabama. I'm just
talking about it in general. That's what we hear. We
hear about all of these all of these people doing
these nefares things, and we we just have never done
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any of those things. So I will say there is
some uh, the Bible says the wicked flea when no
man pursues, and that's one thing we always hear. Oh,
they're gonna they're gonna bring out all your skeletons or whatever.
We're like, I mean, we don't want them bringing out
everything a life, but we ain't got no skeletons. I
don't know what skeletons they're gonna bring out. They'll have
to make it up again because the wicked flea even
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though no one pursues, and so that is I mean,
that's how we've prepared ourselves, and we're preparing the family
for this. Our girls are too young. I've been told
at least, hey, your kids are too young to be touched.
So if you're going to do this, doing it now
is easier than when they're in high school or even
early years of college, because then it's free game. So
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they said, starting this out, if this is a career
path that you're going to take to try to change
things as a politician, started out for them now will
be easier on them down the road. The last thing,
the time, you have to be very intentional with your
time because you're getting pulled in a bunch of different directions.
And we've already noticed that two weeks into this thing.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Wow wow, all right, well thank you for explaining that,
because I think the biggest thing that everybody usually says.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Why would you ever want to do that?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Why would you other want to subject your family to
this whole thing? And I think you know, and that's
why you explain really detailed that explanation of that evaluation process.
But there is something deeper because once somebody asks you,
and now you're like, yeah, I want to do this, what.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Is it that you want to do?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Like, because it's one thing a lot of people, and
I've got a list right here. You've got Chuck Grassley
nineteen eighty one, he's been in with his you know,
people are supporting him as the Dish Network, DCI Group,
Cottingham and Butler. I've got Mitch McConnell nineteen eighty five, right,
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nor Pac the Citadel, Blackstone. I've got Patty Murray nineteen
ninety three, Microsoft, Amazon, Ron Wyden ninety six, Dick Durbin
ninety seven, right, and I have all of these super
packs and all of these you know, Blackstone, Lockheed Martin
a pack. Even the states that these people represent are
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their biggest donors. Why do you want to go and
participate in that world?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Jared?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
If you are a man of faith, why not keep
doing keep saving people and rescuing people, and these I
mean for the audience that listen, if you want to
go and hear who this man is, and I highly
recommend you go listen to his interview with Sean Ryan.
It's one of my favorite interviews Sean ever did, by far,
(21:24):
because you really speak to the man that you are
and what your service is. So you know, as I
read out all these things and I listen to the
interview that you had with Sean, these seem to be
kind of diametrically opposite intentions of what it is you're
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going to do, because you're going to go and you're
going to get around these people that are beholden to
something that's not what I hear and what I've come
to know as my friend.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You know, what's your mission then for going up there?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Well, I would say the first thing, and I know
you'll understand this, and so the listeners can hear. But
the position in this case of us, Senator, let's use that,
you know, since that's what I'm running for. It's a
force multiplier, and it's not the position itself is neither
good nor bad. It's neutral. Right. God stands up and
(22:24):
tears down governments, and those governments are good and bad.
That position of US senator is good, good or bad.
It takes on the face of the person that holds
that seat. So it can either be a force multiplier
for good or it can be a force multiplier for bad.
One of the two. The force multiplier that this is
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can be for good or bad. But the important thing
for us to are standing by force multiplier. What I
mean is it's a machine gun machine gun, and the
seal teams is a force multiplier. You can give one
seal of machine gun and he's now like four seals
with an M four right now. It doesn't mean we
don't want those four seals within fours. It just means
this guy can get a little more done in a
(23:10):
good way for our small unit. If you give a
bad guy a machine gun, one bad guy with a
machine gun can negatively impact an entire unit of Navy seals.
And we've seen it seq be in a hallway, right
And so do you want a good guy with a
machine gun or do you want a bad guy with
a machine gun. We want a good guy with a
(23:31):
machine gun. The position of US senator is a machine gun.
It is a force multiplier, and you want a good
guy to have us. That's the first reason, because when
I look at it, these career politicians, as you just mentioned,
in my opinion, they're bad guys, even if they don't
have nefarious intent, because of who they're bought by, because
of what they've sought throughout their entire career. Everything they
(23:53):
do is political ambition. See s Lewis talks about how
self ambition ambition the catalyst for sin in your life.
It's not that striving or desiring to do a good
thing or to do something that elevates others in you
as bad. But when it becomes ambition that's in your
own heart, that's where it can become bad. And I
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think for most of these individuals that you name, that's
where they're at. That's why they're up there till they're
in their eighties or nineties. And for me, just at
the surface level, this is not ambition. It's truly service.
I mean, you know me. I mean we've worked together enough,
you see what we do. It is really a heart
of service. I don't want to go to Washington, d C.
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Every day, but what I do want to do is
be a representative for the people, in this case of
the state of Alabama because the preamble of the Constitution
says we the people, and as a US Senator, I'm
supposed to go to DC on behalf of the people,
so that I can bring the issues of Alabamians, the
issues of Americans to the Capitol at Washington, d C.
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And make sure that those issues are effectively dealt with.
Is best we can, right because it's never going to
be perfect and everybody's not always going to be happy.
But we deal with the issues of we the people
at the capital to hopefully get some restitution and restoration
to any problems that exists and continue to elevate this
country and in my case, the state of Alabama. And
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we do that at the Capitol, and we don't bring
all of that stupidity at the capital back to we
the people or the citizens of the state of Alabama.
And too many times we see it the other way around.
So that would be the first thing is I'm not
going to be here forever. And if I don't do
something now, who are we going to have in there
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that's going to be there being there till they're Mitch
McConnell's age, that are going to continue to bring all
of the stupidity to DC back here to Alabama, bring
it back to my daughters, their future husbands, my future grandkids,
and it just it's a never ending cycle. We might
not even make it that long, right, I mean, we're Trump.
I will say the Trump administration has done a great
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job in their first presidency of trying to turn the
ship around that that was cruising for you know, not
even cruising. It was a sinking ship. Right, we're going underwater.
They did the best they could. Then the Biden administration, man,
they put it on steroids. Let's sink this ship as
fast as we can. The ship in the United States
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of America. And I believe the Trump administration is doing
the best they can to build water and get this
thing floating again. And for me, I would be a
fool if I didn't at least have the opportunity. If
I had the opportunity, I didn't at least step in
and try to help, I might not Ever, I might
not be able to forgive myself depending on what we
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see twenty years down the road. Well, there's a long answer.
I'm sorry, but that's that's that's why.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
No, it's the context, man.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
People need to understand why you're doing this, and I
think the hardest thing as you continue to drill down
on the nuance of what those issues are. Can you
articulate what the issues are for people.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
From Alabama right now? What are they concern what you're
pulling saying?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
What are the people that you are Because I know, man,
if I know you, you are on the phone, you are
talking to those people and asking them what they believe.
So what are those issues that you want to tackle
when you get up to DC.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Man, that's a I appreciate you asking that question. I
was on a forty minute phone call today with a
guy named Jim Weaver. Great dude, super smart dude. He's
a partner in one of the largest businesses in Alabama.
I believe they're if they're not multi billion dollar yet,
they're like, you know, hundreds of millions, like nine hundred million,
they're close to a billion. He's part of a massive
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business and a partner in it. And one of the
things that he was talking to me about is, you know,
the economics of the big beautiful bill right and his
concerns with that. On the other side of that. Now,
he is he has worked hard to get where he is,
but he's in the thing of, hey, we can't print
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any more money, because it doesn't matter if you have
willbarrow fools of money. It doesn't matter what kind of
tax breaks you get. But that's where he's at on
the other side of the issue because of who I am.
I'm just a regular guy, you know, makes you know,
one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year, just that
regular dude that you know, we make a good living man,
I can't complain. But my wife doesn't work. She stays
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at home with the kids. And that's honestly about what
it requires to live in our world nowadays, you know,
not even to one hundred and thirty k year for
a family like ours, and it's either two people in
the household working or one person in the household working.
And praise God that I'm able to work so that
my wife can take care of a kids. We're regular folks.
And when I look at it, I say, well, I
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understand that. But I do know if these tax cuts
expire and it goes up five percent from what we're
already paying, that's going to negatively impact us right now
in the moment. So we're in a conundrum honestly, I mean,
we're You're exactly right. Five ten years down the road,
if the dollar continues to be devalue because were printing money,
that's a problem. Next year, if these Trump tax cuts expire,
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they might not go up sixty five or seventy percent
or whatever the stuff I've been hearing, you know, people saying,
or they might not go up like that, but it's
going to go at five percent, and it's already hard
enough as it is. That's right, you know. And so
those are the issues that regular everyday people are talking about.
Whether you're in the wealthy class, or whether you're in
the middle class you know where I sit, or whether
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you're in a class even lower than the middle class.
I have plenty of friends that go to church with
us that would be considered poverty level. Sheriff's deputies here
are starting out making I mean sheriff's office where I
volunteer at and I've sworn at. They're starting out guys
at eighteen to twenty dollars an hour there. These guys
are taking care of families, serving warrants at eighteen or
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twenty dollars an hour. Brother, that's poverty class. That's getting
that's getting close to poverty level wages. These guys are
impacted not by the dollar bing dvat valued because we're
printing more. These guys are getting impacted simply by their
taxes going up. And so that's and now this is
just a big, beautiful bill, and this is just one
part of it. So asking Alabamians and asking people across
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a wide spectrum of voter here, man, it's a conundrum.
It's kind of like, hell, we're danged if we do,
damed if we don't sort of thing, and trying to
figure out what is the best fit for that, because
you can either no more government spend it. I think
we got to decrease the size of government period. I
love what Dog has done. I love the cutting out
of the bureaucracy. At the same time, we got to
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make sure that for the regular, everyday person, most people
who don't have a nest egg, who don't have a
savings that they can lean on, are still not being
burdened by tax you know, in tax hypes or tax increases,
because inflation's going to hurt them. But what's going to
hurt them in this moment is having to pay taxes
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on the tips that I make right. So what's the
best of both worlds? I don't know. I would say
the biggest thing that I found out in all this
everything we hear about this bill that's going through is
it's all opinion. It's all hearsay. I can't find the
bill to actually read the entire bill. I can't find
it anywhere. I don't know if it maybe somebody could
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tell us where we could access this. I haven't been
able to get anybody to find it for me. I
found pieces of it that people have talked about. But
that is one of the biggest issues that I see
is that you have a fifteen hundred page or a
thirteen hundred page bill. There ain't a single one of
them senators or congressmen that are up there, and I've
got a lot of them that I'm friends with. There
ain't a single one of them that have read it all.
You can't read it all. That number one is a
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problem because everybody is Proverbs nineteen two zell without knowledge
calls you to miss the mark. A lot of people
are zealous over one specific point, but they don't actually
know all of the other points that are in it.
So I would say that's probably one of the biggest
things I've been talking about that I would like to change. Hey,
how can we have legislation that the actual legislator can read,
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can write, can read, and vote on.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, last year, Loan Man, they several congressmen put forth
bills to say, all right, we're no more giant bills.
We're going to vote on individual issues one at a time.
But they won't even bring this stuff to votes in
the House, much less it going to the Senate. And
I saw a response last week on X that essentially
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people were saying that even if they tried to codify
all the the Doge cuts, the majority.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of Senate won't even touch it. They won't even bring
it to a vote.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And so you're going to go into this quagmire where
they're just entrenched and they know they can outweight Trump,
they know they can outweait whoever, especially if they're in
these districts where states where it's not even a second
thought Mitch McConnell, right, Nope, nobody's going to have the
campaign to run against them or as the courage or whatever.
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So they just sit in these places and just wait
till that senior leadership. What is your approach, I'm sorry,
last little piece, What is your approach when you go
up there? Because one, you got to work with these people,
but two you've got to calm out and you've got
to be able to bring these things, you know, if not,
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you know, and we always joke in our world, right
we're we're we're not the infantry, we're not the you know,
we're not.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
The Marine Corps.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But what we are is we're gonna punch you in
the face and get that thing bleeding and set you
up for the downfall. And so what are you gonna
do to go up there and bring that warrior mindset
to d C specifically?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, well I would say that the first thing, and
you you kind of mentioned it, right, Hey, they're not
going to bring in any They're not gonna cindify any
of this, any of this stuff, any of these doge cuts.
Right now, I am a firm believer. I'm not gonna
go along to get along kind of guy. But we
were team guys. We do have to figure out how
to work to complete the mission, right and so what
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is the mission? Well, right now, the mission is you know,
the House and the Senate working together with the executive
branch to hopefully get something done that positively impacts the
American people, but also doesn't just positively impact them in
this moment that doesn't terribly negatively impact us down the road.
Guess what because of a lot of the guys you mentioned,
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and because of thirty maybe even forty years I don't know,
maybe as it could be as long as I've been alive,
or maybe longer than that. For that matter of bad
policies and bad choices there. It's like when the water boil,
your chickens are coming home to Roos, Bobby Bouchet, Our
chickens are coming home to Roos, brother. So we're in
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a bad situation no matter what we do. And it
might be that you get up. There might be that
get up out and say, hey, why don't we want
to codify these things?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Okay, once again apologize for the interruption with the incredible
interview with Jared Hudson. But what I want to do
is I just want to promote where you can go
to support his campaign. So the first place is Hudson
for Alabama dot com. That's their website where you can
see all different types of information there and you can
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Speaker 2 (35:41):
All right, And you.
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It's illegal to have super PACs connected to you, but
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So check out Alabama Conservatives again.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Please. Uh you know, I have never tried.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
To support a raise support for any political affiliate openly
or publicly before. But this is how much I truly
believe in Jared Hudson and the impact that he's gonna
make in the Senate and the US Senate once he
becomes Senator for the great state of Alabama.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So we're in a bad situation no matter what we do,
and it might be that you get up. There might
be that get up and say, hey, why don't we
want to codify these things? And there might be a
really good reason behind why we can't codify these things,
and being able just to present that to the voter,
to the people and saying, guys, this is why this
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can't happen. Because again I used Proverbs nineteen two earlier,
zeal without knowledge CAUs you to miss the mark. I
can be super pumped and super excited about the answer
that I think we should get, but if I have
zero knowledge about what's really going on, guess what, I'm
gonna miss the thing entirely. And that might be what's
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going on right now. People get fired up when they
feel the negative impact of decisions that a lot of
them are not making. So for me, I would say
being able to go in as a as a true
man of the people because that's what I am. I'm
not a career politician as somebody who's not bought and
paid for by lobbyist and a lot of these other
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individuals that are career politicians are bought and paid for
by a lot of the different lobbying firms and corporations.
You talked about getting up there and saying, hey, we
the people want to know, but also not being that
one guy who is up there screaming and pitching a fit.
That's a bunch of symbolism without substance. And it's like
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all this dude ever does is scream and cry and say,
you know, collusion, collusion, collusion, dirty dossier, all of the
crap we've heard over all the years from all these
media talking hiss and some politicians. That doesn't get anything
done either. You're just a cry baby, is all you are.
You know, understanding how can we effectively work to actually
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get something done that's going to positively impact my kids,
your kids, our community in our case, the state of
Alabama and ultimately the United States of America, and when
in the United States of America is doing well the
world for that matter. The one thing I would say,
I don't have all the answers to everything or what
I would do in a certain situation, because I'm not
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in that situation. I've never been in the same fist
fight or the same gun fight twice. But I do
understand the basics of fist fight and a gunfight, and
I can apply those basics to wherever I'm at. It's
the same thing with getting into the position of a
US senator. It's going to be different each and every time.
What I do know is this the Trump administration when
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he came in, when he won the twenty sixteen election,
excuse me, and we had four years of Trump. One
thing I do know, my company was doing a whole
lot better then than it is now. Life was a
whole lot easier then than it is now. Not because
you know, not because money solves all problems. But everybody
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say the Bible says that the money is the root
of all evil and all It says that money is
the root of all kinds of evil number one, but
number two in Ecclesiastes, it also says that money solves
a multitude of problems. And I can tell you we
had better cash flow as a business. This it's just me,
my family. When Trump was in than we do now
after four years of Biden, and I can tell you
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this much, I'm going to take a hard look at
what Donald Trump is saying and doing because guess what,
He's already proven once that he can fix the problems
that were created by a bunch of politicians. And if
he's saying again, hey, I really think this is how
we fix these problems, I'm going to give a hard
look at what he's saying. Say you know what, I
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kind of trust what he's saying a little bit more
than anybody else because he's been the only one that's
been able to fix it so far, or at least
set the course straight where it hasn't impacted me and
the people around me. That's just my front end take.
And that's not being a Trump sick a fan either.
That's just being somebody who's looked at it and said
this dude said he would go up here and fight
for us, and he didn't take any money to do it.
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He didn't gain anything. Yeah, I mean he's truly being
a patriot. He didn't gain anything in going and doing this.
And now he's saying again this is what we need
to do. I'm going to lean on his wisdom in
those things. Because he's proven to be right already, I
believe he'll probably prove himself to be right again.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well that's for me, that was everything.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I mean, I'm friends with people you know, that were
participated in his original campaign, that are good friends with him,
that were business partners with him for a long time.
And the one thing they always say is a guy
that has a twenty five million dollar legal bill every
single month and has had every single thing thrown at
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him from every type of indictment, every type of this
tried an assassination time twice. To me, that's the guy
that they don't want up there right exactly.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
I mean, you're hitting the nail on the head. And
it's like the tariff stuff. Got a lot of buddies.
It hurt our business, got a lot of buddies that say, yeah, man,
we're feeling it. A lot of buddies that are farmers
that said, we're filling the tariff's issues. But they said,
we understand and why it's got to happen. It's kind
of like doing squats when you work out, right, when
you do squats, they're absolutely terrible. Doing squats is no fun.
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But guess what if I do squats for three weeks,
I'm gonna build my legs on and get better. That
friction creates a level of strength, right, and that's what
we're trying to do. The friction creating a level of
strength in US economically, I think, is what we see
taking place right now. It's not always going to be easy,
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and that's what everybody wants. Everybody wants to push the
button in it be an easy fix. We live in
a microwave society. That's not going to work, y'all. I'm
not gonna be able to go to DC and push
a button and all of a sudden microwave something as
a US senator and say, oh, yeah, it's all fixed
where it's better. But what we can do is one
make it to where we can breathe a little bit now.
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And I believe the Trump administration is trying to do that,
and I believe that that is their aim, their heart,
their goal, and I believe that they'll be successful in
it because they've already been successful in it once before.
The other thing is is the not just what the
Trump administration is doing, but in what we do as
the people of the United States of America have to
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understand that right now, we're planting trees knowing that we
will never sit in the shade. These trees that we're
planting are not for us. Me going to Washington, d C.
Will not be for me. It will be for my
kids and my grandkids. These career politicians, they want whatever
they can have now. They plant the tree now, and
they pillage it as soon as they can, and they
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leave nothing for our future, for our kids. And I
don't want that. That's you know, So I don't know,
I don't know if that makes any sense, but that's
my heart.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Turnmat all right, last question, because I know you're busy, man,
How are you gonna select the people that you have
on your team? And how are you gonna how are
you gonna guarantee that the people of Alabama that you
are not going to be corrupted, that you're not going
to get up there and have these these packs, these
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lobby firms come at you with insane amount of temptation.
You know, how are you going to select that team?
How are you gonna and then how are you going
to fight that that temptation? Oh?
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Absolutely, well, you know the biggest thing would be fighting
that temptation right now. What we see, at least with
the people that are in the in the race with
me right now, that's what they have behind them, their
career politicians, that's who's funding them, that's who's doing them
and doing their They're they're you know, pushing them forward
right elevating those people.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
For me, I don't have that. I have the people.
I mean, we are strictly trying to do a grassroots
fund raising effort to get there. I was told they
two million dollars will go further for you than then
ten million will go for some of these other people
that have talked about running or that are running. I
would prefer to get two million one dollar donations than
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one to million dollar check. They spend the same way,
but they're two completely different things. As a representative of
the people, I am beholden to the people. That's the
that's the first thing. You're beholden to the people that
you're that you've been elected to represent, not to those
who write you a paycheck on the side. And that's
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oftentimes what we see. Now here's the deal for me.
Everybody says, well, how do we know It's easy to
say that, but how do you know you won't do it? Well,
you can look at what I've done in my life, right,
and I've at least proven it with what we've done
with Covenant Rescue Group. I've been offered a lot of
money to do a lot of things that we that
somebody shouldn't do. Does that make sense? You haven't taken
it yet. That's all I can say. The other thing
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is I answer to God when I die. I'm not
going to stand before God. And he said, why should
I let you into my heaven? Well, Dave Rutherford told
me this, that's not gonna be good enough. Right, Well,
this guy wrote me a paycheck for this, that's not
good enough. The Bible tells us a bribe perverts all justice.
And I know that you probably have listeners out there like, hey,
I don't want some Bible thumping guy up there. Well
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I appreciate that, but understand that when you believe what
I believe, you believe that you are answering to something
greater than yourself. And the thing that I'm answering to
greater than myself is God. God will only put me
in a place or remove me from a place, depending
on if I follow his commandments, and what are his commandments?
Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, mind,
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and strength. Elevate something over you. And love your neighbor
as yourself, meaning I love the person that I'm elected
to represent at least equally with me. I don't have
to elevate somebody else over the other person. I just
have to love you the same as I love myself.
And if you do those two things, all of the law,
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everything that we see hinges on, all of that. That's
what Jesus tells us. Not I believe it's true. Now.
I believe Jesus of the savior of the world. And
the reason he said that is because God comes first
and then man. However, let's say you don't believe that.
I think you can agree with those principles. There's something
more important than Jared Hudson, and at a minimum, I
can put you on the same plan field as me.
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Most of these people that are political elites, they think
that they're the kings and queens of this country. They
are not. You are the king and the queen of
this country. You are the king and queen. In my
case of the state of Alabama, you the voter, we
the people are the kings and queens, and we cast
our a vote to elect a representative, an official who's
going to carry out our will, the will of the people.
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And what is the will of the people will? It
should be that everybody has their constitutional rights upheld and
protected that are not given to us by government, but
are that are given to us by God, and that
are codified in the US Constitution, in particular the Bill
of Rights, the first ten Amendments of the US Constitution.
So that's what I intend to go do. That's what
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I seek to do. And I think if you hold
of that, hold to God, hold of the Constitution, hold
upholding the will of the people, right, not the whims
of the people, those are two different things, but the
will of the people, then I believe that we I
believe that we can have a positive impact. And that's
how you keep from being bribed into wickedness and you
uphold truth and justice.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Amen, all right, Jared? Where can people follow you? Where
can they donate to you? How how can they volunteer
to create the army that are in our.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Case right the Navy to support you.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
And your quest to get up there and do what
you just said You're going to do for the people.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Yeah. Man, So if they go to Hudson for Alabama
dot com, you can follow us there or follow what
we're doing on social media. You can click on the
donate link and donate if you're financial financially able to donate.
We need all of the financial support we can get
because I don't want to be one of those people
who a lobbyist firm comes to and says, hey, we
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want to put ten million dollars in the super pac
to support in you. Right, you don't want that, right,
don't want to be bought out? Well, how do you
do that? A grassroots movement? It's got to be a
movement of the people. If you want to volunteer, if
you have the ability to volunteer. Right now, we're in
strict fundraising mode. But as we get on into this
campaign and get closer to the the May primary in
the state of Alabama, the May twenty twenty six primary,
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we will make sure that we reach back out. If
you send us a message and say hey, I can
volunteer to knock doors, pick up phones, call people, put
out signs, whatever it is, We'll make sure that you're
contacted when that time comes. Because Right now, it's fundraising,
it's getting ready for the fight, and then the next
step of the fight will be full on campaign mode.
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It's going to be a battle. It's going to be
a battle against the political elite, against those who have
political ambitions, those career politicians, and truly a movement of
we the people. And that's why it takes a warrior.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
And you're you're a fellow warrior, right and and so
make sure that people know that that that's exactly what
I am. I am a warrior, I am a fighter,
and I intend to fight on behalf of the people
sign up and find alongside us.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Amen, Jared Hudson.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Brother, it's just such an honor, and again it's an
inspiration not only for my faith in that America has
hope and that my children and their children are going
to have some shade to appreciate the beauty of what
our God given rights are, but more importantly that someone
who has the faith that you do and the Lord
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is going to go up there and represent us in
that capacity.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
So God bless you, brother, behind you.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Thank you, Dave. I appreciate it. Brother,
Are you tired for the swamp never getting cleared out?
Or nobody Roger en up to go in there? Will
stand by because today I'm going to introduce you to
a true warrior and a true Christian who's going to
go to Washington and kick some ass.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the David Rutherford Chill. There have been a
few times in.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
My life where I have had the opportunity to meet
somebody who transforms me. And I'm a part of a
culture of transformative men. And all my times and the teams,
my times at working for the agency, my times working
with elite athletes, I've come across a few, but only
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one that has been able to when he speaks, he
hits me in my soul, and he hits me in
my soul because I always feel as if I can
never be redeemed and that my sin is something that
I can has always going to be an insurmountable option.
But when I met this man for the first time
out of charity event in Florida, he transformed the way
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I thought about my faith and I thought about myself.
So when I found out that this individual was going
to run for the US Senate, you can imagine what
my heart felt, and I felt that sense that, oh,
my God, you are answering my prayers, which is to
get somebody that is a deep, firm believer not only
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in this country and in the values that I believe in,
but more importantly believe in what the country represents. And
that man is Jared Hudson. And I am beyond honored
and privileged to have Jared on the show right now
to introduce all of you to who he is, and
the hopes that just one of you out there will
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hear what he has to say and you will connect
with him and you will get behind this man in
his to go into that swamp, that infestation of DC
in order to bring back not only the faith that
we have in the Lord, but the faith that we
should have in this country. So, Jared Hudson, man, it's
a privilege to have you on.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Dave. What's up? Brother? Thank you. It's an honor being
here with you. And I feel the same about you, Dave.
I mean, I'm just be honest with you, and every
time I read something you write or here's something you say,
you know, don't want to turn this into a back
and forth compliment Sandwich, you know, but You're a good dude,
and I appreciate all that you do and all that
you put out.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
All right, So, you know, before we hopped on, obviously
we were chatting a little bit about that the overwhelming
difficult decision it is to cross that threshold because of
what's at stake. Right, somebody approaches you say, hey, you
should run for office, you should do this. We need
people like you, and you know that strokes our ego
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all the time. That's awesome, But there's this reality to
what if you're you know, even remotely have any kind
of common sense to know that this game is the
most vicious game in the world, and you know, and
and so what I just would like for you to
share is how that process worked for you and your
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family and and kind of what was the catalyst inside
you that you knew that this is the right decision.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, so we'll do a long story, short sort of thing.
This was not in mine of my wife's radar. This
wasn't you know. Again, we talked about it before before
the show, but everybody says stuff in jokes. You know,
I ran for sheriff. You're in a Democrat stronghold in
Jefferson County, Alabama, one of the few blue counties in
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the state of Alabama because it's like seventy or eighty
percent read all across the state. But Jefferson County is
a blue county. And I ran against the incumbent sheriff,
who is an incumbent Democrat, and almost beat him. You know,
got within about seven thousand votes of him. This is
larger than in the congressional district in this county. And
so with that being said, that kind of got me
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tied into politics. And everybody's always said, hey, if you
want to run, you run for a state office, you
want to run for maybe a congressional seat if one
of those opens up. I mean, everybody always said said
things like this, and so it's always been something that
that is there, that's mentioned. But in all honesty, it
was never an option or an opportunity or something that
made since I guess if if you're tracking with what
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I'm saying, it just never was was there. The Lord
didn't have it. And a couple of months ago it
got fired across my desk by some supporters of our organization,
coven At Rescue Group, and they're also supporters of our
Senator Tommy Tuberwell, who's now running for governor of the
state of Alabama. They said, hey, if Coach runs for governor,
would you consider running for his Senate seat. It'll be
(04:51):
an open Senate seat. And I said, well, you know,
I'll consider it. Yeah, just because of who's asking me,
you're asking me, I'm more than willing consider. But it's
going to take some prayerful consideration. I've taught with my wife.
This is not a political ambition for me. This is
not the next step in my career. As a matter
of fact, it could negatively impact my career. I mean,
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that's what we're looking at at just face value, and
it's going to cost a lot of money and take
a lot of time. So let me talk with my wife,
and we're going to pray about it. And so my
wife and I talk about it. We pray about it,
and I could not get a clear answer from the Lord. Now,
something you brought at the beginning is my faith in
your faith. I know we're Christian brothers. We share the
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same faith. And so everybody out there who hears can
understand what I mean, whether you believe what I'm saying
or not. What I know to be true. Is what
John chapter one says in the beginning was the word.
The word was God. The world was with God, always
made through him and by him, And everything we see
that was made wasn't made without him. He's the light
and life of the men, and light shone in the darkness,
and the darkness couldn't overcome it. That's the first five
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verses of John. Verse fourteen. The word became flesh and
dwealth among men. Jesus is that flesh. He came to
this world world, lived a perfect life, died on the cross,
rose again on the third day for my sins and yours,
and it's through him we're set free. You mentioned the
mountain or the massiveness of sin that we cannot recover from.
You're exactly right. Jared Hudson can't recover from his sin.
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Dave Rutherford can't recover from his sin. Only Jesus can
recover us from our sin. And he did that on
the cross. And when he rose and left the tomb right,
the empty tomb shows us that he defeated sin and death,
and as a dread warriors, Jeremiah says, he holds the
head of sin and death up before his father and
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says he says, hey, Dad, here it is I conquered
sin and death, and when we're in Him, we are
able to conquer the sin that is in our life.
That's the most important thing about me. So everything I
do is based on who the person of Christ is
eternally in my life, because that's what guides me, and
that is how I That's how I make decisions, right.
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I pray through those decisions and seek the wisdom of
God because he is the only one who is truly wise.
So in those prayer times, that's what I mean by
when I say I'm a Christian and I'm seeking the
Lord's face. We're believers and we are praying and seeing Lord.
Should we do this? And Man, to be honest with you,
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I could not get a word from the Lord. He said, Jared,
run for Sennate. And that's unusual for me. Normally I'll say, hey,
God told me to do this, or he told me
not to do this. Reading his word right, reading the scripture,
praying through it. He's going to speak to you through
his word. I could not get any specific word, but
the word I was getting over and over read the
story of Abigail and her husband and Baul, who is
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an evil man, and David. You can read that story
anybody wants to look it up. And the wisdom of Abigail.
Read another story about the wisdom of the woman who
threw out the head, and I forgot who it was
was running from Joe. Ab throws out the head over
the wall, kills the man that ran in, and throws
it out, and it says that the whole city was
delivered because of the wisdom of this woman. And I'm
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reading these stories right, and I'm like, I know there's
no way this right, God, I can't you know. I'm
not gonna ask Lauren. I know she's gonna say no anyway,
because she says no to everything that isn't a beach vacation.
Like we talked about, right, Hey, Lauren, do you know
pray about going to the beach? And she said, oh no,
we don't need to pray about it. That's exactly what
we want to do, right, you know. So this is
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one of those things where it's like, Okay, this is
it's an honor to even be asked or considered to
do this. That is Jared Hudson, right, and coming out
He's like Wow, this is an honor to be asked
to do this. But God kept saying, ask your wife
and do what she says. And my fear was she
would say, don't even know, we don't even need to
look at it. No, absolutely not, That's what I thought
she would say. And after three days of not talking
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about it, just praying separately, we came together and said, Hey, Lauren,
what do you think the word I keep getting is
taught with you? And she said, I'm apprehensive to say
this because I believe I know what it's going to
cost us, but it's going to cost us our life here,
which we still live here in Alabama, but I'm gonna
have to go to d C I if you know,
we win this thing and it all goes through. She
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knew it was gonna cost us. On the campaign, she said,
I think this is what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And that kind of surprised me. And that's when I
really started saying, Okay, Lord, what do you think one
thing I didn't tell you? As I started walking through
doors that were opened up and going through the green lights.
Green lights don't always mean it's God telling you to
do something, and red lights don't always mean, it's God
telling you to stop, right, So you have to be
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discerning in that process. And so I've got green lights,
but I'm still like, you know, I'm just not sure
my wife is okay with this. This is already weird.
Who is this woman I'm married to? Sort of thing? Right,
So as we're walking through it, about four weeks into
this process, maybe six weeks into it, I call my
granddaddy and asked him. And I talked to my dad.
He said, you know who you could ask who's gonna
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definitely tell you what the Holy spirit's saying. Your granddaddy.
My granddaddy a very solid christ falling man. He's eighty
five years old. He says, yeah, I don't have enough
enough energy to do a big garden like I always do,
do like seven acres of garden every year. And this
year then he said, I don't have enough energy to
do a big garden like I do. So he did
three acres of garden this year. There may be even
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closer to four acres, right, So he's got so anyway,
I say all that to say he he's a wise man.
He told me, he said, I'm just waiting for the
Lord to take me home, and I hope and pray
he lets me work his garden in heaven. That is
who this man is. He spends a lot of time
in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Sewer is a sewer.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah. So anyway, I called him and I said, Granddaddy,
this is what I've been asked to do. He hates politicians,
by the way, he does not like him, he does
not respect him, and he prays for our leaders in
this nation.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But he is not a politician kind of guy. So
I kind of thought I knew what he would say.
I said, Granddaddy, I've been, you know, thinking about and
I've been asked what I run for the open a
Senate seat if coach Tommy Tuberbile runs for governor. And
he said, well, I like I like coach. You know,
I'm glad that he got in there. You know, he's
he's not a politician. And he said, but son, it
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would be an honor to even be able to say
your grandson ran for a Senate see, whether you a
senator or not, it's an honor to even say, which
was unusual for him to say. That was the first
thing that stood out to me. He wouldn't normally say
something like that. He would say, it's an honor to
say your grandson was a seal. But he would say,
why in the world do you want to be a politician?
All they are crooks and and and sycophants, right, and
(11:35):
they're there are four, you know, one side or the other.
They're not. He doesn't view them highly. And he said,
but I want to encourage you said just something I'm
thinking about son. Why don't you ask you wife and
do it? She says. And that really floored me because
that's the exact word that I got from the Lord
six weeks earlier. Why don't you ask your wife and
do it? She says. So he told me that, and
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we walked through the doors, kept getting green lights, went
all the way to d C, met with a bunch
of people, and finally met with UH, the political UH
team or coordinator director I guess would be a style
at the at the White House. And said, look, I'm
just looking for red lights because I was asked to
do this. And I said, I'm looking for a red
(12:19):
light because if coach announces I won't I want to
I won't do this if I get a red light
from any of y'all because y'all are the y'all are
the deciding factors. Uh didn't talk talk to local politicians
here or anything like that. And I went straight to
the straight to the source, and the Lord opened the
doors for that to happen. And he said, you're not
going to get a red light from us, son, And
I said, okay. And that was, uh, that was where
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it was left at, you know. And so I bring
that back to to my wife and we decide to
uh send this thing out out there after coach Tuverville
announced and uh, now it's just in full fundraising mode.
All were doing is turned into real politicians begging people
for money to support the supports campaign.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Let me let me ask you this that that first off,
thank you for being so honest with the intimacy of
that process. And that's that's one of the things that
I think I most admire about our friendship and who
you are as a man, is that you're so comfortable
with who you are and how you make your decisions
through the word and through the love of your family
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and and and the people that you really care deeply
for in your life. But you know, obviously it's going
to have a profound impact on them. How are you
preparing for that impact? What are you going to do
to protect your children?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And let's just say, and I'm not even talking about
getting into office. We'll talk about that in a second.
You know, what are you going to do to protect
your family and all of this this crazy endeavor that
you're you're going down, this this new op in your life.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Right, yeah, And that's what uh And Eli Crane said that,
he said, hey man, this this thing. He said, whether
you you said you win it, it'd be great. And
he said, but even campaign and he said, it's like
a deployment where you don't get shoot anybody in the face,
which you know for us team guys, you know that's
no fun. We want to shoot bad guys in the face.
Now you're just out here talking. You know, I'm a
freaking keyboard warrior over here behind the desk like an
attorney or something. So you know, with that being said,
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prayer Man, thank.
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Speaker 2 (15:33):
Who got it?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Starts with prayer, praying I've been spinning. I will tell
you this. The termol that this has created just announcing,
which isn't you know, it's not like anything bad's happened,
but it's just a stressful thing running a business, run
a nonprofit. I'm not coming from a point in the
government because I'm not a career politician where they collect
a paycheck being in the government and they get to
go out and campaign while they collect that paycheck and
(15:58):
don't have to do their job. I'm still having to
do my job. I'm still having to run both coming
at Rescue Group and the shooting Institute as we're working
through this. So it's a lot of time away and
so it requires a lot of prayer. My wife is
a super strong lady. She's unbelievably rooted in the Lord
and what she does with what she does with our kids,
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she does an amazing job. I just was just leaving
at that and so having her as my partner, as
my helper, as Genesis talks about that, I think is
the next key piece for us, one of the biggest things.
We've been married since we were young. I mean she was,
I mean I think she was nineteen when we got married,
and we're eighteen we started dating. I was like twenty one.
(16:42):
So we've never there's no infidelity issues. We don't have
any you know, baggage, not that people that have that
that there's not restoration and there's not hope. And I'm
not saying that. I'm just saying for us, we don't
have any of those things that are going to be
really litigated in our in our lives. We're just a
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regular you know, Alabama Christian couple who was in the military.
I was in the seal teams, did deployments, lost buddies
and you know, and and then got out of the
military after a short time comparatively to most people. I
was only on an eight year contract, right like six
six and a half years active and then you know,
your two years or your year and a half hour
r as I went through a medical process. So I
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mean we've we did that part of our life and
now we've run a small business. I'm a law enforcement officer.
So we're just regular folks. We're not the political elite.
We're not people who have a lot of scandals. One
of the questions I got to ask when we're in
DC is like, hey, you know, I mean, you know,
you had a guy sit over here and he had
laundered like hundreds of millions of dollars from his nonprofit.
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I busted out laughing, and I said, bro, me and
my wife are way too poor to ever be accused
of theft, you know, I mean, like, what are these
people do?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You know?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
The worst thing we've ever done, you know, is like, hey, hey,
we gotta you know, we gotta go get some get
some snacks on the on the company credit card or
something like.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I mean, I mean, we're talking.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
About folks that have that that that have laundered money
from the tax payer and have have taken money to
pay for campaigns from things they shouldn't. I mean, And
I'm just saying stuff that I just read. I'm I'm
not talking about anybody even specifically in Alabama. I'm just
talking about it in general. That's what we hear. We
hear about all of these all of these people doing
these nefares things, and we we just have never done
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any of those things. So I will say there is
some uh, the Bible says the wicked flea when no
man pursues, and that's one thing we always hear. Oh,
they're gonna they're gonna bring out all your skeletons or whatever.
We're like, I mean, we don't want them bringing out
everything a life, but we ain't got no skeletons. I
don't know what skeletons they're gonna bring out. They'll have
to make it up again because the wicked flea even
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though no one pursues, and so that is I mean,
that's how we've prepared ourselves, and we're preparing the family
for this. Our girls are too young. I've been told
at least, hey, your kids are too young to be touched.
So if you're going to do this, doing it now
is easier than when they're in high school or even
early years of college, because then it's free game. So
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they said, starting this out, if this is a career
path that you're going to take to try to change
things as a politician, started out for them now will
be easier on them down the road. The last thing,
the time, you have to be very intentional with your
time because you're getting pulled in a bunch of different directions.
And we've already noticed that two weeks into this thing.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Wow wow, all right, well thank you for explaining that,
because I think the biggest thing that everybody usually says.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Why would you ever want to do that?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Why would you other want to subject your family to
this whole thing? And I think you know, and that's
why you explain really detailed that explanation of that evaluation process.
But there is something deeper because once somebody asks you,
and now you're like, yeah, I want to do this, what.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Is it that you want to do?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Like, because it's one thing a lot of people, and
I've got a list right here. You've got Chuck Grassley
nineteen eighty one, he's been in with his you know,
people are supporting him as the Dish Network, DCI Group,
Cottingham and Butler. I've got Mitch McConnell nineteen eighty five, right,
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nor Pac the Citadel, Blackstone. I've got Patty Murray nineteen
ninety three, Microsoft, Amazon, Ron Wyden ninety six, Dick Durbin
ninety seven, right, and I have all of these super
packs and all of these you know, Blackstone, Lockheed Martin
a pack. Even the states that these people represent are
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their biggest donors. Why do you want to go and
participate in that world?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Jared?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
If you are a man of faith, why not keep
doing keep saving people and rescuing people, and these I
mean for the audience that listen, if you want to
go and hear who this man is, and I highly
recommend you go listen to his interview with Sean Ryan.
It's one of my favorite interviews Sean ever did, by far,
(21:24):
because you really speak to the man that you are
and what your service is. So you know, as I
read out all these things and I listen to the
interview that you had with Sean, these seem to be
kind of diametrically opposite intentions of what it is you're
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going to do, because you're going to go and you're
going to get around these people that are beholden to
something that's not what I hear and what I've come
to know as my friend.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You know, what's your mission then for going up there?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Well, I would say the first thing, and I know
you'll understand this, and so the listeners can hear. But
the position in this case of us, Senator, let's use that,
you know, since that's what I'm running for. It's a
force multiplier, and it's not the position itself is neither
good nor bad. It's neutral. Right. God stands up and
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tears down governments, and those governments are good and bad.
That position of US senator is good, good or bad.
It takes on the face of the person that holds
that seat. So it can either be a force multiplier
for good or it can be a force multiplier for bad.
One of the two. The force multiplier that this is
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can be for good or bad. But the important thing
for us to are standing by force multiplier. What I
mean is it's a machine gun machine gun, and the
seal teams is a force multiplier. You can give one
seal of machine gun and he's now like four seals
with an M four right now. It doesn't mean we
don't want those four seals within fours. It just means
this guy can get a little more done in a
(23:10):
good way for our small unit. If you give a
bad guy a machine gun, one bad guy with a
machine gun can negatively impact an entire unit of Navy seals.
And we've seen it seq be in a hallway, right
And so do you want a good guy with a
machine gun or do you want a bad guy with
a machine gun. We want a good guy with a
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machine gun. The position of US senator is a machine gun.
It is a force multiplier, and you want a good
guy to have us. That's the first reason, because when
I look at it, these career politicians, as you just mentioned,
in my opinion, they're bad guys, even if they don't
have nefarious intent, because of who they're bought by, because
of what they've sought throughout their entire career. Everything they
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do is political ambition. See s Lewis talks about how
self ambition ambition the catalyst for sin in your life.
It's not that striving or desiring to do a good
thing or to do something that elevates others in you
as bad. But when it becomes ambition that's in your
own heart, that's where it can become bad. And I
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think for most of these individuals that you name, that's
where they're at. That's why they're up there till they're
in their eighties or nineties. And for me, just at
the surface level, this is not ambition. It's truly service.
I mean, you know me. I mean we've worked together enough,
you see what we do. It is really a heart
of service. I don't want to go to Washington, d C.
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Every day, but what I do want to do is
be a representative for the people, in this case of
the state of Alabama because the preamble of the Constitution
says we the people, and as a US Senator, I'm
supposed to go to DC on behalf of the people,
so that I can bring the issues of Alabamians, the
issues of Americans to the Capitol at Washington, d C.
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And make sure that those issues are effectively dealt with.
Is best we can, right because it's never going to
be perfect and everybody's not always going to be happy.
But we deal with the issues of we the people
at the capital to hopefully get some restitution and restoration
to any problems that exists and continue to elevate this
country and in my case, the state of Alabama. And
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we do that at the Capitol, and we don't bring
all of that stupidity at the capital back to we
the people or the citizens of the state of Alabama.
And too many times we see it the other way around.
So that would be the first thing is I'm not
going to be here forever. And if I don't do
something now, who are we going to have in there
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that's going to be there being there till they're Mitch
McConnell's age, that are going to continue to bring all
of the stupidity to DC back here to Alabama, bring
it back to my daughters, their future husbands, my future grandkids,
and it just it's a never ending cycle. We might
not even make it that long, right, I mean, we're Trump.
I will say the Trump administration has done a great
(26:00):
job in their first presidency of trying to turn the
ship around that that was cruising for you know, not
even cruising. It was a sinking ship. Right, we're going underwater.
They did the best they could. Then the Biden administration, man,
they put it on steroids. Let's sink this ship as
fast as we can. The ship in the United States
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of America. And I believe the Trump administration is doing
the best they can to build water and get this
thing floating again. And for me, I would be a
fool if I didn't at least have the opportunity. If
I had the opportunity, I didn't at least step in
and try to help, I might not Ever, I might
not be able to forgive myself depending on what we
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see twenty years down the road. Well, there's a long answer.
I'm sorry, but that's that's that's why.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
No, it's the context, man.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
People need to understand why you're doing this, and I
think the hardest thing as you continue to drill down
on the nuance of what those issues are. Can you
articulate what the issues are for people.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
From Alabama right now? What are they concern what you're
pulling saying?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
What are the people that you are Because I know, man,
if I know you, you are on the phone, you are
talking to those people and asking them what they believe.
So what are those issues that you want to tackle
when you get up to DC.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Man, that's a I appreciate you asking that question. I
was on a forty minute phone call today with a
guy named Jim Weaver. Great dude, super smart dude. He's
a partner in one of the largest businesses in Alabama.
I believe they're if they're not multi billion dollar yet,
they're like, you know, hundreds of millions, like nine hundred million,
they're close to a billion. He's part of a massive
(27:37):
business and a partner in it. And one of the
things that he was talking to me about is, you know,
the economics of the big beautiful bill right and his
concerns with that. On the other side of that. Now,
he is he has worked hard to get where he is,
but he's in the thing of, hey, we can't print
(27:57):
any more money, because it doesn't matter if you have
willbarrow fools of money. It doesn't matter what kind of
tax breaks you get. But that's where he's at on
the other side of the issue because of who I am.
I'm just a regular guy, you know, makes you know,
one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year, just that
regular dude that you know, we make a good living man,
I can't complain. But my wife doesn't work. She stays
(28:20):
at home with the kids. And that's honestly about what
it requires to live in our world nowadays, you know,
not even to one hundred and thirty k year for
a family like ours, and it's either two people in
the household working or one person in the household working.
And praise God that I'm able to work so that
my wife can take care of a kids. We're regular folks.
And when I look at it, I say, well, I
(28:41):
understand that. But I do know if these tax cuts
expire and it goes up five percent from what we're
already paying, that's going to negatively impact us right now
in the moment. So we're in a conundrum honestly, I mean,
we're You're exactly right. Five ten years down the road,
if the dollar continues to be devalue because were printing money,
that's a problem. Next year, if these Trump tax cuts expire,
(29:05):
they might not go up sixty five or seventy percent
or whatever the stuff I've been hearing, you know, people saying,
or they might not go up like that, but it's
going to go at five percent, and it's already hard
enough as it is. That's right, you know. And so
those are the issues that regular everyday people are talking about.
Whether you're in the wealthy class, or whether you're in
the middle class you know where I sit, or whether
(29:28):
you're in a class even lower than the middle class.
I have plenty of friends that go to church with
us that would be considered poverty level. Sheriff's deputies here
are starting out making I mean sheriff's office where I
volunteer at and I've sworn at. They're starting out guys
at eighteen to twenty dollars an hour there. These guys
are taking care of families, serving warrants at eighteen or
(29:49):
twenty dollars an hour. Brother, that's poverty class. That's getting
that's getting close to poverty level wages. These guys are
impacted not by the dollar bing dvat valued because we're
printing more. These guys are getting impacted simply by their
taxes going up. And so that's and now this is
just a big, beautiful bill, and this is just one
part of it. So asking Alabamians and asking people across
(30:12):
a wide spectrum of voter here, man, it's a conundrum.
It's kind of like, hell, we're danged if we do,
damed if we don't sort of thing, and trying to
figure out what is the best fit for that, because
you can either no more government spend it. I think
we got to decrease the size of government period. I
love what Dog has done. I love the cutting out
of the bureaucracy. At the same time, we got to
(30:34):
make sure that for the regular, everyday person, most people
who don't have a nest egg, who don't have a
savings that they can lean on, are still not being
burdened by tax you know, in tax hypes or tax increases,
because inflation's going to hurt them. But what's going to
hurt them in this moment is having to pay taxes
(30:55):
on the tips that I make right. So what's the
best of both worlds? I don't know. I would say
the biggest thing that I found out in all this
everything we hear about this bill that's going through is
it's all opinion. It's all hearsay. I can't find the
bill to actually read the entire bill. I can't find
it anywhere. I don't know if it maybe somebody could
(31:16):
tell us where we could access this. I haven't been
able to get anybody to find it for me. I
found pieces of it that people have talked about. But
that is one of the biggest issues that I see
is that you have a fifteen hundred page or a
thirteen hundred page bill. There ain't a single one of
them senators or congressmen that are up there, and I've
got a lot of them that I'm friends with. There
ain't a single one of them that have read it all.
You can't read it all. That number one is a
(31:40):
problem because everybody is Proverbs nineteen two zell without knowledge
calls you to miss the mark. A lot of people
are zealous over one specific point, but they don't actually
know all of the other points that are in it.
So I would say that's probably one of the biggest
things I've been talking about that I would like to change. Hey,
how can we have legislation that the actual legislator can read,
(32:03):
can write, can read, and vote on.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, last year, Loan Man, they several congressmen put forth
bills to say, all right, we're no more giant bills.
We're going to vote on individual issues one at a time.
But they won't even bring this stuff to votes in
the House, much less it going to the Senate. And
I saw a response last week on X that essentially
(32:29):
people were saying that even if they tried to codify
all the the Doge cuts, the majority.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of Senate won't even touch it. They won't even bring
it to a vote.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And so you're going to go into this quagmire where
they're just entrenched and they know they can outweight Trump,
they know they can outweait whoever, especially if they're in
these districts where states where it's not even a second
thought Mitch McConnell, right, Nope, nobody's going to have the
campaign to run against them or as the courage or whatever.
(32:59):
So they just sit in these places and just wait
till that senior leadership. What is your approach, I'm sorry,
last little piece, What is your approach when you go
up there? Because one, you got to work with these people,
but two you've got to calm out and you've got
to be able to bring these things, you know, if not,
(33:21):
you know, and we always joke in our world, right
we're we're we're not the infantry, we're not the you know,
we're not.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
The Marine Corps.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But what we are is we're gonna punch you in
the face and get that thing bleeding and set you
up for the downfall. And so what are you gonna
do to go up there and bring that warrior mindset
to d C specifically?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, well I would say that the first thing, and
you you kind of mentioned it, right, Hey, they're not
going to bring in any They're not gonna cindify any
of this, any of this stuff, any of these doge cuts.
Right now, I am a firm believer. I'm not gonna
go along to get along kind of guy. But we
were team guys. We do have to figure out how
to work to complete the mission, right and so what
(34:04):
is the mission? Well, right now, the mission is you know,
the House and the Senate working together with the executive
branch to hopefully get something done that positively impacts the
American people, but also doesn't just positively impact them in
this moment that doesn't terribly negatively impact us down the road.
Guess what because of a lot of the guys you mentioned,
(34:27):
and because of thirty maybe even forty years I don't know,
maybe as it could be as long as I've been alive,
or maybe longer than that. For that matter of bad
policies and bad choices there. It's like when the water boil,
your chickens are coming home to Roos, Bobby Bouchet, Our
chickens are coming home to Roos, brother. So we're in
(34:47):
a bad situation no matter what we do. And it
might be that you get up. There might be that
get up out and say, hey, why don't we want
to codify these things?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Okay, once again apologize for the interruption with the incredible
interview with Jared Hudson. But what I want to do
is I just want to promote where you can go
to support his campaign. So the first place is Hudson
for Alabama dot com. That's their website where you can
see all different types of information there and you can
(35:20):
donate specifically right, and you can donate in three capacities. Right, First,
you can give one person can give thirty five hundred
dollars first primary election. You can give thirty five hundred
dollars for the general election. And then you can give
another thirty five hundred dollars if you have to spend
a runoff.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
All right, And you.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Can either donate online at that Hudson for Alabama dot
com or you can make checks out too Hudson for
Alabama and that's pobox one hundred, Gardendale, Alabama, three five
zero seven one. That's Hudson for Alabama po Box one hundred, Gardendale, Alabama,
(36:05):
three five zero seven one. And those are checks and
make them, make them payable to Hudson for Alabama. The
other one you can reach out to is Alabama. That's
his super pac, which is Alabama Conservatives. It's not his
super pac, but it's a super pac that supports him.
It's illegal to have super PACs connected to you, but
(36:27):
they support and want to support Jared in this capacity.
So check out Alabama Conservatives again.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Please. Uh you know, I have never tried.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
To support a raise support for any political affiliate openly
or publicly before. But this is how much I truly
believe in Jared Hudson and the impact that he's gonna
make in the Senate and the US Senate once he
becomes Senator for the great state of Alabama.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So we're in a bad situation no matter what we do,
and it might be that you get up. There might
be that get up and say, hey, why don't we
want to codify these things? And there might be a
really good reason behind why we can't codify these things,
and being able just to present that to the voter,
to the people and saying, guys, this is why this
(37:19):
can't happen. Because again I used Proverbs nineteen two earlier,
zeal without knowledge CAUs you to miss the mark. I
can be super pumped and super excited about the answer
that I think we should get, but if I have
zero knowledge about what's really going on, guess what, I'm
gonna miss the thing entirely. And that might be what's
(37:39):
going on right now. People get fired up when they
feel the negative impact of decisions that a lot of
them are not making. So for me, I would say
being able to go in as a as a true
man of the people because that's what I am. I'm
not a career politician as somebody who's not bought and
paid for by lobbyist and a lot of these other
(38:00):
individuals that are career politicians are bought and paid for
by a lot of the different lobbying firms and corporations.
You talked about getting up there and saying, hey, we
the people want to know, but also not being that
one guy who is up there screaming and pitching a fit.
That's a bunch of symbolism without substance. And it's like
(38:20):
all this dude ever does is scream and cry and say,
you know, collusion, collusion, collusion, dirty dossier, all of the
crap we've heard over all the years from all these
media talking hiss and some politicians. That doesn't get anything
done either. You're just a cry baby, is all you are.
You know, understanding how can we effectively work to actually
(38:40):
get something done that's going to positively impact my kids,
your kids, our community in our case, the state of
Alabama and ultimately the United States of America, and when
in the United States of America is doing well the
world for that matter. The one thing I would say,
I don't have all the answers to everything or what
I would do in a certain situation, because I'm not
(39:01):
in that situation. I've never been in the same fist
fight or the same gun fight twice. But I do
understand the basics of fist fight and a gunfight, and
I can apply those basics to wherever I'm at. It's
the same thing with getting into the position of a
US senator. It's going to be different each and every time.
What I do know is this the Trump administration when
(39:24):
he came in, when he won the twenty sixteen election,
excuse me, and we had four years of Trump. One
thing I do know, my company was doing a whole
lot better then than it is now. Life was a
whole lot easier then than it is now. Not because
you know, not because money solves all problems. But everybody
(39:45):
say the Bible says that the money is the root
of all evil and all It says that money is
the root of all kinds of evil number one, but
number two in Ecclesiastes, it also says that money solves
a multitude of problems. And I can tell you we
had better cash flow as a business. This it's just me,
my family. When Trump was in than we do now
after four years of Biden, and I can tell you
(40:07):
this much, I'm going to take a hard look at
what Donald Trump is saying and doing because guess what,
He's already proven once that he can fix the problems
that were created by a bunch of politicians. And if
he's saying again, hey, I really think this is how
we fix these problems, I'm going to give a hard
look at what he's saying. Say you know what, I
(40:27):
kind of trust what he's saying a little bit more
than anybody else because he's been the only one that's
been able to fix it so far, or at least
set the course straight where it hasn't impacted me and
the people around me. That's just my front end take.
And that's not being a Trump sick a fan either.
That's just being somebody who's looked at it and said
this dude said he would go up here and fight
for us, and he didn't take any money to do it.
(40:49):
He didn't gain anything. Yeah, I mean he's truly being
a patriot. He didn't gain anything in going and doing this.
And now he's saying again this is what we need
to do. I'm going to lean on his wisdom in
those things. Because he's proven to be right already, I
believe he'll probably prove himself to be right again.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well that's for me, that was everything.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I mean, I'm friends with people you know, that were
participated in his original campaign, that are good friends with him,
that were business partners with him for a long time.
And the one thing they always say is a guy
that has a twenty five million dollar legal bill every
single month and has had every single thing thrown at
(41:32):
him from every type of indictment, every type of this
tried an assassination time twice. To me, that's the guy
that they don't want up there right exactly.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
I mean, you're hitting the nail on the head. And
it's like the tariff stuff. Got a lot of buddies.
It hurt our business, got a lot of buddies that say, yeah, man,
we're feeling it. A lot of buddies that are farmers
that said, we're filling the tariff's issues. But they said,
we understand and why it's got to happen. It's kind
of like doing squats when you work out, right, when
you do squats, they're absolutely terrible. Doing squats is no fun.
(42:10):
But guess what if I do squats for three weeks,
I'm gonna build my legs on and get better. That
friction creates a level of strength, right, and that's what
we're trying to do. The friction creating a level of
strength in US economically, I think, is what we see
taking place right now. It's not always going to be easy,
(42:30):
and that's what everybody wants. Everybody wants to push the
button in it be an easy fix. We live in
a microwave society. That's not going to work, y'all. I'm
not gonna be able to go to DC and push
a button and all of a sudden microwave something as
a US senator and say, oh, yeah, it's all fixed
where it's better. But what we can do is one
make it to where we can breathe a little bit now.
(42:51):
And I believe the Trump administration is trying to do that,
and I believe that that is their aim, their heart,
their goal, and I believe that they'll be successful in
it because they've already been successful in it once before.
The other thing is is the not just what the
Trump administration is doing, but in what we do as
the people of the United States of America have to
(43:13):
understand that right now, we're planting trees knowing that we
will never sit in the shade. These trees that we're
planting are not for us. Me going to Washington, d C.
Will not be for me. It will be for my
kids and my grandkids. These career politicians, they want whatever
they can have now. They plant the tree now, and
they pillage it as soon as they can, and they
(43:35):
leave nothing for our future, for our kids. And I
don't want that. That's you know, So I don't know,
I don't know if that makes any sense, but that's
my heart.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Turnmat all right, last question, because I know you're busy, man,
How are you gonna select the people that you have
on your team? And how are you gonna how are
you gonna guarantee that the people of Alabama that you
are not going to be corrupted, that you're not going
to get up there and have these these packs, these
(44:07):
lobby firms come at you with insane amount of temptation.
You know, how are you going to select that team?
How are you gonna and then how are you going
to fight that that temptation? Oh?
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Absolutely, well, you know the biggest thing would be fighting
that temptation right now. What we see, at least with
the people that are in the in the race with
me right now, that's what they have behind them, their
career politicians, that's who's funding them, that's who's doing them
and doing their They're they're you know, pushing them forward
right elevating those people.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
For me, I don't have that. I have the people.
I mean, we are strictly trying to do a grassroots
fund raising effort to get there. I was told they
two million dollars will go further for you than then
ten million will go for some of these other people
that have talked about running or that are running. I
would prefer to get two million one dollar donations than
(45:01):
one to million dollar check. They spend the same way,
but they're two completely different things. As a representative of
the people, I am beholden to the people. That's the
that's the first thing. You're beholden to the people that
you're that you've been elected to represent, not to those
who write you a paycheck on the side. And that's
(45:25):
oftentimes what we see. Now here's the deal for me.
Everybody says, well, how do we know It's easy to
say that, but how do you know you won't do it? Well,
you can look at what I've done in my life, right,
and I've at least proven it with what we've done
with Covenant Rescue Group. I've been offered a lot of
money to do a lot of things that we that
somebody shouldn't do. Does that make sense? You haven't taken
it yet. That's all I can say. The other thing
(45:49):
is I answer to God when I die. I'm not
going to stand before God. And he said, why should
I let you into my heaven? Well, Dave Rutherford told
me this, that's not gonna be good enough. Right, Well,
this guy wrote me a paycheck for this, that's not
good enough. The Bible tells us a bribe perverts all justice.
And I know that you probably have listeners out there like, hey,
I don't want some Bible thumping guy up there. Well
(46:12):
I appreciate that, but understand that when you believe what
I believe, you believe that you are answering to something
greater than yourself. And the thing that I'm answering to
greater than myself is God. God will only put me
in a place or remove me from a place, depending
on if I follow his commandments, and what are his commandments?
Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, mind,
(46:33):
and strength. Elevate something over you. And love your neighbor
as yourself, meaning I love the person that I'm elected
to represent at least equally with me. I don't have
to elevate somebody else over the other person. I just
have to love you the same as I love myself.
And if you do those two things, all of the law,
(46:54):
everything that we see hinges on, all of that. That's
what Jesus tells us. Not I believe it's true. Now.
I believe Jesus of the savior of the world. And
the reason he said that is because God comes first
and then man. However, let's say you don't believe that.
I think you can agree with those principles. There's something
more important than Jared Hudson, and at a minimum, I
can put you on the same plan field as me.
(47:16):
Most of these people that are political elites, they think
that they're the kings and queens of this country. They
are not. You are the king and the queen of
this country. You are the king and queen. In my
case of the state of Alabama, you the voter, we
the people are the kings and queens, and we cast
our a vote to elect a representative, an official who's
going to carry out our will, the will of the people.
(47:40):
And what is the will of the people will? It
should be that everybody has their constitutional rights upheld and
protected that are not given to us by government, but
are that are given to us by God, and that
are codified in the US Constitution, in particular the Bill
of Rights, the first ten Amendments of the US Constitution.
So that's what I intend to go do. That's what
(48:00):
I seek to do. And I think if you hold
of that, hold to God, hold of the Constitution, hold
upholding the will of the people, right, not the whims
of the people, those are two different things, but the
will of the people, then I believe that we I
believe that we can have a positive impact. And that's
how you keep from being bribed into wickedness and you
uphold truth and justice.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Amen, all right, Jared? Where can people follow you? Where
can they donate to you? How how can they volunteer
to create the army that are in our.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Case right the Navy to support you.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
And your quest to get up there and do what
you just said You're going to do for the people.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Yeah. Man, So if they go to Hudson for Alabama
dot com, you can follow us there or follow what
we're doing on social media. You can click on the
donate link and donate if you're financial financially able to donate.
We need all of the financial support we can get
because I don't want to be one of those people
who a lobbyist firm comes to and says, hey, we
(49:08):
want to put ten million dollars in the super pac
to support in you. Right, you don't want that, right,
don't want to be bought out? Well, how do you
do that? A grassroots movement? It's got to be a
movement of the people. If you want to volunteer, if
you have the ability to volunteer. Right now, we're in
strict fundraising mode. But as we get on into this
campaign and get closer to the the May primary in
the state of Alabama, the May twenty twenty six primary,
(49:31):
we will make sure that we reach back out. If
you send us a message and say hey, I can
volunteer to knock doors, pick up phones, call people, put
out signs, whatever it is, We'll make sure that you're
contacted when that time comes. Because Right now, it's fundraising,
it's getting ready for the fight, and then the next
step of the fight will be full on campaign mode.
(49:51):
It's going to be a battle. It's going to be
a battle against the political elite, against those who have
political ambitions, those career politicians, and truly a movement of
we the people. And that's why it takes a warrior.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
And you're you're a fellow warrior, right and and so
make sure that people know that that that's exactly what
I am. I am a warrior, I am a fighter,
and I intend to fight on behalf of the people
sign up and find alongside us.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Amen, Jared Hudson.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Brother, it's just such an honor, and again it's an
inspiration not only for my faith in that America has
hope and that my children and their children are going
to have some shade to appreciate the beauty of what
our God given rights are, but more importantly that someone
who has the faith that you do and the Lord
(50:41):
is going to go up there and represent us in
that capacity.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
So God bless you, brother, behind you.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Thank you, Dave. I appreciate it. Brother,
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