When Navy SEALs Run for Office and Nail Salons Disappear Overnight

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A late-night town hall for Alabama Senate candidate Jared Hudson sparked reflection on the complexities of modern politics. Hudson, a Navy SEAL who founded an organization rescuing trafficked children, left me with mixed emotions about his candidacy. While his service background is impressive, his answers during Q&A revealed the familiar political dance of "yes, but..." particularly on immigration enforcement—supporting deportation in principle while suggesting leniency for established immigrant families.

This political examination sits alongside a personal mystery: the sudden, overnight disappearance of a nail salon I'd frequented for six years. The owners—a married couple with young children—sent a quick text about rent increases and vanished completely by the next day. Their hasty departure raises questions about potential immigration concerns that mirror our national conversation about enforcement and human impact.

Breaking news from New York City further complicated the evening, as details emerged about a tragic shooting at a Park Avenue skyscraper. The shooter left writings blaming the NFL for neurological issues, requesting posthumous brain examination. What caught my attention, however, was Mayor Eric Adams' specific identification of the fallen officer as "an immigrant from Bangladesh"—language that prompts questions about how we define American identity and citizenship, especially against the backdrop of nationwide police staffing challenges.

These seemingly disconnected events—a Senate campaign, a vanished business, and a tragic shooting—weave together the complex tapestry of American life in 2023. They remind us that politics is never just abstract policy but involves real people with families, livelihoods, and lives at stake. What TV theme song best captures the complicated emotions of these times? Perhaps that's a question worth pondering as we navigate our increasingly complex world.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh y'all, I stayed out late last night.
I went to an Alabama town hallfor a young man named Jared
Hudson who is running for USSenate to go to DC and represent
Alabama.
Because Tommy Tuberville is notgoing to run again.

(00:21):
He's going to run for governorof Alabama because Mama K Ivy is
not getting any younger, she'sgetting up there in age and I
think she's going to step downand retire.
So Tommy's going to run forgovernor, which, oh, I have
mixed emotions about that.
We really need him up there,but we also need a good governor
.
So I'm kind of happy moreleaning towards happy about him

(00:43):
running for governor here ofAlabama.
So this young man, jared Hudson,is running.
He's a Navy SEAL.
He founded a group calledCovenant Rescue Group which is
an organization that goes aroundand helps track down sex
traffickers, human traffickersof children.

(01:04):
Mainly he rescues children fromthese sex traffickers, human
traffickers of children mainlyhe rescues children from these
sex traffickers.
And so I went to listen to him.
It was a very small crowd andit was 40 minutes away from
where I live and you know me,y'all know I go to bed super
early.
I didn't get home to like eighto'clock and then, you know, by

(01:26):
then I was wound up a little bitand then then I saw all the
news happening.
I had to stay and watch thenews about this shooter in New
York City, my goodness gracious.
But anyway, back to Jared.
Real quick, there were, you know, they had a Q&A with them and
stuff, and there were a coupleof questions that I was iffy
with his answers.
I don't know Two of them.

(01:48):
One of them, one of thequestions, was how did he
support, did he support, massdeportation?
And of course he answered itlike a politician, even though
this guy is young I think theonly thing he ever ran for
before was for sheriff and helost by like a half a point at
one and a half point, somethinglike that and, um, so he's not

(02:09):
run for office before.
He's very young, he's, he seemsyoung and and ambitious, which
is nothing wrong with that.
Um, so his answer to this yes,he said he does support mass
deportation.
However, there was, there wasalways a but with it.
Isn't there always a but with apolitician?
Even though he says, he claimshe doesn't want to do this, he

(02:31):
claims that he doesn't want torun, he does not want to run, he
does not want to be apolitician, does not want to run
for Senate, but here he isrunning for Senate.
He said the reason he wants todo it is because there's just
the thought of serving, thethought of service, which, okay,
I get.
He spent time in the military,I get it, I get, I get the

(02:52):
desire to want to serve thepeople, I get it.
So the his answer to the massdeportation he said yes, he does
support it.
However, but he says maybelet's not focus right now on the
people that have been here foryears and years and years
already, who have born childrenhere.

(03:12):
He said let's go after thecriminals that recently came
over, you know, during the Bidenadministration.
Let's go find them and roundthem up first.
And I'm like, okay, I could getwith that.
But he seemed to have a littlebleeding heart for the migrant,
the illegals that are here, thathave been here forever and ever
and ever, um, that havechildren here.

(03:34):
So he's cause he may mention.
He said how many times have youhad people work on your house
or how many times you knowpeople clean your house?
I'm like that's kind ofcondescending, but okay, he said
you know.
So he said the, the people thatare here that are not bothering
anybody.
They're not.
They're providing a living fortheir family.

(03:55):
They're not partaking incriminal activity.
He said let's not go after themright now.
So yeah, but you still, theystill need to go through a legal
process, which reminds me ofyou know, I used to go get my
nails done at this place calledRevive Nails, and it was here in
, obviously, where I live.

(04:17):
But I started going there.
Gosh, it's been a good five,six years I've been going to
them and I've been going theresince I've started work, since
I've been working here and I'vebeen working here for five years
, so at least six years I'vebeen going to them.
And it was a married couple whoowned this nail salon.
She was Asian and he washispanic.

(04:40):
They had children.
We, we saw we, they havechildren.
We got to see their childrengrow up a little bit when I went
to them.
We started going to them, theyonly had uh, do they have?
Yeah, they didn't have any kidsat the time, so or they had the
twins, they had twins, and thenthen she got pregnant again.
So we got, then they, she hadanother baby, so we've got to

(05:01):
see their kids.
So the last time we went was acouple of months ago and you
know, we, we would go every twoweeks, like clockwork, to get
our my nails done and pedicuresevery two weeks.
So we got to know them throughthe years.
Well, I thought we did anyway.
So one day we go, we get our, Iget my nails done, we get our

(05:22):
pedicures, and then we leave andthen, like later that night,
lily is her name, well, her fakename, we know what their real
names are, I just can'tpronounce them, but they go by
Lewis and Lily.
Um, so she texts me and shetexts a lot of people, I guess,
but she.
I get the text said you know,we've enjoyed your business, but

(05:45):
our landlord's rent has gone upunexpectedly and we just can't
afford that.
We need to.
So we're just going to close.
We're not going to, we're goingto close our business and move
on.
I thought, oh and so the nextday the gent and I were out and
about doing things and we wentover to look at their store and

(06:06):
it was cleaned out the next daygone, everything gone.
I was shocked.
I was shocked and I got tothinking about that.
I thought I wonder if they hemay have been here illegally.
I don't know, I don't know.
And then but they all have hehad his whole family here.

(06:28):
His mom and dad were here.
They lived in Albertville, Ithink it was, and I don't know.
What do you?
I don't know what happened.
You know if they're going tomove somewhere else.
You think they would have toldus that.
I think they were.
I think maybe something.
You know what I'm saying.

(06:48):
Maybe they were.
He was here illegally, I don'tknow.
But if he was married to her, Idon't think she was here
illegally for some reason.
I don't know, I don't know.
Maybe they weren't hereillegally at all.
I'm not, I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe they weren't hereillegally at all.
I'm not, I don't know.
I have no idea.
But it's just kind of strangethat they just picked up and
left overnight.
Is that not weird?
That's pretty weird.
All right, we need to move on.

(07:09):
Let's see.
Oh the shooter, oh my gosh.
So either hold on a minute, ohwait.
Real quick.
Though, back to jared hudson.
Before there was anotherquestion that somebody asked him
about are you concerned aboutthe muslim population and what
they're doing here in america?
And there was more to thequestion.
I forget and the way heanswered it.

(07:30):
I really didn't like it either.
I did not like his answer tothat either.
He he paused for a long timebefore he started answering it
and then all he said was he saidlook at Michigan.
And I wanted to say look atsome other areas too, look at
Texas.
But he kind of pushed it backon the local government to do

(07:52):
something, which is true, whichis true.
I guess the Us federalgovernment really can't do
anything about what's happening.
It has to be the local thing.
But then he started talkingabout just all you have to do is
just show him jesus.
I'm like no, sir, that is not.
I mean, you could do that, butthat's not what they want.
You need to educate yourself.

(08:13):
What's happening here inamerica, with what's happening
here in America, with what'spopping up all over the place
with Sharia law.
Look at Canada and look at,look at Europe, my God.
And then it's coming here.
It's coming here.
We need to.
All right, moving on to theshooter, because in the New York
Post there is this story about.

(08:35):
Let's see NYC gunman ShaneTamura, found with note hinting
at possible motive for ParkAvenue skyscraper shooting.
I have to admit the pressconference I watched yesterday.
They have kept us very informedabout everything that was going
on, I think, anyway.
And now the New York Post isreporting this, the gunman who

(08:55):
killed an NYPD officer which Ihave questions about, by the way
, we'll get to that in a minute,maybe, if I have time and three
other people in a Midtownoffice came.
We know that he was 27 yearsold.
He cited the NFL in thewritings which were found after
he turned the gun on himself onthe 33rd floor of Park Avenue, a

(09:16):
swanky skyscraper, and theyhave pictures, y'all.
They have pictures of this.
The course is blurred out Inthe note, which was several
pages long.
Tamara blamed football for hisapparent struggle with the
neurodegenerative diseasechronic, traumatic, and so I
can't pronounce the name.
Law enforcement sources saidNow I know a lot of people out

(09:38):
there are probably conspiracytheorists, they probably don't
believe any of this stuff.
Which, okay, I get uh tomorrow.
Who fatally shot himself in thechest also asked that his brain
be studied in the note,according to the sources.
So you can go find that out andall that stuff.
So this, but the officer thatwas shot and killed, bless I.

(10:00):
I hate it.
I'm sorry that it happened, butwhy did mayor eric adams have
to say he's an immigrant frombangladesh?
What does that mean exactly?
Was he here illegally and hewas hired as a cop.
Do you remember a few years ago, when all this started
happening, with the wokenonsense and the defund, the

(10:23):
police, a lot of officers, quitand retired and they said they
were not going to put up withthis.
So therefore, the policedepartment had to hire other
people, and that's happening allacross the country where their
police departments are hiringillegals.
There's one up in Maine thatjust got tagged for trying to
buy a gun.
Who's a cop in Maine?

(10:44):
Who's illegally?
And so I'm like, why?
So if he?
Here's the thing, if he was animmigrant and came here legally
and became an American citizen,then he's an American citizen.
Why not just call him anAmerican citizen, so that I'm,
you know and I?
But I know he's a victim, Iknow he's no longer with us.

(11:05):
He was shot and killed by thiscrazy person and I'm sorry for
that, but I just don't know whyEric Adams had to say that.
So and the guy, poor guy, oh mygosh, he has two children and
his wife is pregnant.
Bless the guy who was shot,killed, who died, the officer.
Oh, that's awful and terrible.

(11:26):
All right, I'm sorry, we need togo on to the question of the
day.
All right, here's a.
Here's a question for you,totally off topic.
What is the best theme song ofa sitcom or TV show out there
that you growing up listening to?
I know the MASH theme song ispretty good.
Cheers is pretty good.
Wkrp in Cincinnati, I think, ismy favorite.

(11:48):
What are some of the best themesongs out there?
All right, got to go.
Thanks for listening.
Bye.