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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Personal Stories
02:37 Political Aspirations and Community Leadership
05:32 Civic Duty and the Importance of Local Governance
08:24 Inspiring the Next Generation
10:54 The Texas First Movement and Community Resilience
13:52 Addressing Key Issues in Texas
23:26 Border Security and the Texas State Guard
26:42 Texas Economy and Hollywood's Influence
28:51 Listening to the People of Texas
30:52 Preparing for Political Challenges
33:30 The American Dream and Homeownership
37:14 Common Sense Governance
39:47 A Call to Action for Texans
47:14 The Future of Texas and Election Integrity
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
play running joke yeah, get the fucking comms up
so that's all you have to do isone thing, and you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's so true oh man , those poor dudes.
We don't, we don't give themenough credit for everything one
.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, my son's uh lining up for uh, uh, for his
x-ray program, whatever with theguard.
He waited until Trump was in.
He's going to go to 19th group.
And he said what do you think Ishould be?
I said what do you want to do?
He said, well, I don't want tobe a medical because you do that
.
He said I hate that stuff.
I'm like okay, not the 18 Delta, that's good, all right.
(00:41):
Well, is you have a collegedegree in aerospace engineering?
They're going to push youtowards that, yeah, yeah.
So you probably want to do like, if you want to be a Bravo,
just go in there and really dobad on the ASVAB.
He's already taken it and hesmoked it.
So I'm like, well, you're justgoing to have to deal with it.
But in the guard, the goodthing in the guard is they let
them pick their mls no shit,yeah, yeah, that's fucking
(01:06):
outstanding man.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, it's always fun .
There's so many of us are likeI want to be a medic, I want to
be a doc, I want to earn thattitle.
They go through selection, getselected, sit down in front of
that, that cadre in that, outbrief, and they're like, yeah,
um, you're gonna be an 18.
Bravo, it's like all right fairenough, it's okay, hey.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, you know, if I had to do it all over again,
well, that's what I wanted to doback in.
What was it?
1985?
And I broke my leg and theysaid you're never going to jump
again.
I'm like you mean, I can't goto the Q4?
No, because I had pins andscrews and plates.
They wouldn't let you jump.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah ago.
But you know the rest of thatstuff when there's will, there's
way, man.
That's the absolute truth ofthe story.
I've seen individuals that haveovercome insane things and,
whether you agree with it or not, I've had so many teammates
that lied, cheated, skirted thesystem, dude.
I've had colorblind teammates.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I probably I may or may not know a guy that helped
them get you know, maintaintheir statuses for their
physicals.
I'm like, yeah, you're still anasset to the team.
Just don't.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Don't be number one.
Hey, you wait for that jumpmaster to slap you in the ass.
That's right.
I think the craziest one is anEastern European guy that was
blind in one eye.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, oh, wow, hey.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That AT-4 was way off .
Which eye are you aiming with?
The bad one, why, doc PeteChambers?
Welcome to Security Out Podcastbrother.
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm happy to be alive .
It's good to see you again.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Good to see you, man.
You've been an awesome, awesomemember of our warrior tribe and
you're always on the leadingedge of some of the most
important topics that are goingon in our country, whether it
was, you know, the COVID fightand then the migrant crisis, you
found your way to continueleading and serving not only our
veteran community but thelarger community not only our
(03:04):
veteran community, but thelarger community and we just
recently talked and you're onceagain throwing your hat into the
ring to help support the greatpeople of Texas.
Man, you know, going into thisadministration, I was very
excited and I was like hell yeah.
And now in the last few months,I'm like what the fuck is going
on?
We need more veterans in thisspace.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We do, and Texas particularly, is in a bind.
The leadership is stagnant.
It's been there 12 years.
It's a 30-year politician I'mnot going to throw blood on
anybody, cast dispersions, butit's time for New Guard and the
community.
The world that we're in, as youand I both know.
We know what color revolutionslook like.
We know what disenfranchisedpopulations look like.
(03:49):
We know what happens wheneveryou can use those things to your
advantage politically.
I can see down the road a littleways and if we're going to be
honest here, it's a naturalprogression.
This is something I wrote theother day, a while back.
But the natural progression ofan honest, honorable man of God
is the natural progression tosee something that is wrong
(04:11):
Tyranny, oppression, justsomething that's wrong and to
stand in the gap.
It's like if you see somebodygetting carjacked, you don't get
your camera out and starttaking pictures of it.
You go out there and close thegap and take care of the
situation.
I've had to do that on Highway35 in Denton.
I mean, it's what we do, and soI didn't ask for this right.
(04:32):
And what we're talking about isrunning for the governor of
Texas.
I didn't look for this.
We were running a counter humantrafficking organization on the
border where we do the fine andfix portion and we give it to
law enforcement, they finish.
But what we found was what Ifound was people coming to me
saying what's going on with theleadership.
I'm not responsible for them,but we are right and so, um, if
you feel like you have thewherewithal to make a difference
(04:54):
, then you do.
Now I put my money where mymouth is now, because I got
approached by a bunch of folks,uh, about two months ago, said
doc, we want you to run forgovernor of Texas.
I'm like, yeah, you know whatyou're talking about, right,
this is this kind of hill battlestraight up.
And they said, yeah, weunderstand that, but we've got
(05:14):
some people that really want tosupport you.
Grassroots style.
We're looking at a hundredmillion dollar war chest that
we're going up against.
I've never looked at anything,as you know.
I mean, take a bunch of GreenBerets, put them in a district
center in the Tagal Valley andtell them there's 300 Taliban
inbound and they're going to goyeah, target rich environment,
right.
I mean that's the mentality,and so I wasn't looking for this
(05:36):
, but I did a feasibility studyover the last two months to see
could we throw our hat in thering.
And when I got called back bysome serious actors in the
country and I'm talking aboutpeople that everybody knows, of
which I have to keep off therecord for now when they're
telling me you actually have achance to win this if you can
get this, this and this done,and now we'll talk about those
things, but that that's why Isaid okay, I prayed about it and
(05:57):
jumped in there, you know, andI told everybody this is my, you
all appreciate this.
I'm in a C-130.
I've got my chute on.
We're in the chute shed.
I'm walking out, got a lot ofequipment Waddling out on the
Alpha, so I wait, everybody getson.
I get by the door, turn around,sit down, wait, we're flying to
(06:18):
the drop zone and it'snighttime.
You've got 115 pounds of kit on, you know whatever.
And I go.
Well, the light's still red,it's still red, it's still red.
Now, you know, and I knowsomebody makes a wind call on
the DZ and says, hey, too muchwind.
Never happens with the GreenBerets.
They still jump anyway, butstill, that's why my job exists.
(06:39):
I take care of the guys when Iget down first and hopefully
don't break something on myself.
You can still turn the thingaround.
It's the last minute.
Once you're out the door,unless you're a toe jumper,
you're going all the way to theX.
That requires picking up thattick now putting your shoe at
the rally point and then going.
we're going to say 100 meter.
(06:59):
I mean, I'm sorry, 100kilometer, 100 click ruck.
At this point is what I'mlooking at.
But we've been so blessed Somepeople call it lucky we have
fallen into things where thingshave just happened.
It's moving us up in the fightNow.
Last night I did an X-Space 700people got on.
(07:21):
We had one-hour notice.
I wasn't planning on doing it.
I just come out of the floodzone in Central Texas but I was
tired.
But two hours later, at the endof it, I knew we're going to
win.
We have a very good chance towin.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it can seem daunting at first.
When we look at the federalgovernment outside of local
community, outside of state,things look very dreadful.
But I always tell guys look atyour state, look at your local
government, focus on makingchange there.
That's where the fight needs tohappen.
(07:56):
We understand that becausewe're Green Berets, we've
studied this stuff.
Everybody's hyper-focused onthe president, the cabinet.
It's like look Like everybody'shyper focused on the president,
the cabinet.
It's like look, start at thestate level.
You need to get veterans, weneed to get qualified
individuals at the state level,at the representative level.
That's where the fight's at Ifwe want to change anything,
that's where it's going to be.
But I want to go back.
(08:18):
I want to really focus on yourjourney coming into this space
and really, like I know you're aman of God, you're a man of
faith, but man, I gotta, I gottaimagine like it was.
Probably you probably needed alittle bit of time and clarity
to make sure, like, okay, am Ireally ready for this fight?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Correct?
Yeah, absolutely, you know.
It's like I said, a couple ofweeks of just feasibility.
You know, an assessment of aphase zero, if you will.
If you're talkingunconventional warfare, we've
got to make sure that all of ourlines of effort are matching up
with things that will end stateresult with something that is
net gain, not net loss.
I don't want to waste people'stime and I don't want to waste
(08:56):
people's money.
Yes, I could run for sheriff.
I've been asked to do it.
It didn't happen that go around, I didn't run.
But you know, yes, I've beenasked to run for a congressman
in Texas and in Oklahoma when Iused to live there.
Yeah, but, but.
But a legislator is somebodythat debates Right.
In this case I'm only suitedfor because of my career path
and the way I did things forexecutive position, and it's not
(09:18):
, it's not an ego thing, it'sjust that I take big problem
sets and turn them around reallyquick and say, okay, this is
what we've got to do, and then Ihave the smartest people in the
room.
It would be my A-team, if youwill.
Eleven of those people that arecompletely untouchable, that
are not sold to some sort ofcorporate autocracy, whatever.
These are the untouchables, andI've got them around me now and
(09:41):
that's who's really making itall happen.
So you and I both know an 18could do, I believe, the
equivalent of a battalion'sworth of work.
When you go down range, you'reexpected to be able to stand up
a battalion 600 plus cats, andso that's kind of at the
microcosm description for what'shappening at one of the top
three most important electionsin the country.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, it truly is.
You know, we have to study thetrends right and everybody's
leaving California and a vastmajority of those people are
resettling into Texas and whatwe know, and we've seen it, is
people flee the things theyvoted for.
They flee the areas and thehazards and the catastrophe that
(10:24):
they actually voted for.
They move to these red statesthat are idyllic, that are doing
better, that are flourishing,and then they continue to vote
for the same policies thatthey've fleed.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I have to segue into this because this is important.
What you just said is and I'mpulling it up now just to make
sure that I'm in line with mycampaign team, but I came up
with this one this is number sixon my.
They call it a push card.
Basically, it's what you talkto people about and it's DCOT.
Don't California, aren't Texas?
(10:58):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, and that's something that, when we look at
Texas, the leadership, thepeople that are going to be in
charge, that is something theyabsolutely have to stand by and
understand.
Like we've seen it, I don'twant Texas to become the next
Colorado, and I grew up like inColorado, in a very small town
(11:20):
community, the, the idyllicplace where you could imagine,
like you know, raising a familyback then.
A lot of blue collar, a lot ofgreat things, and what Colorado
has turned to now is a casestudy of when policy and corrupt
individuals take control.
Like it is absolutely horrid.
(11:43):
Like people call it progression, I call it just a
bastardization of the Americandream.
People can't afford to livethere, people can't afford to
raise a family.
People are fleeing and thepeople that are flowing in are
coming from California, they'recoming from blue states and
they're voting for the samepolicies and ideas and it makes
no sense.
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I was going to say I would add.
Add to that, because when Imeet people from California here
in the central Texas, where I'mbased out of there's a lot,
right, it's hill country, itreminds me of California and
it's the same kind of climate.
It is literally.
You meet them and I'll say,where are you from California?
I'll say, ok, now, californiaor Texas, right, but it's a joke
(12:26):
.
But, honestly, I get a sentimentanalysis instantly as to why
they fled, and this was waybefore I thought about politics.
I'm not thinking about politics, I'm thinking about leadership.
I'm running for the seniorpublic servant, if you will.
But the point is is that theyfled for that reason?
But I believe that's due tocomplacency, that a lot of
(12:46):
people that don't even voteallow these things to happen.
And so there is a certain sensewhich has taught me something,
yeah, which is civic duty.
I was terrible about civic duty.
A lot of people that get out ofthe military.
We don't want to touch anything, government anymore, right, we
don't want to vote, we don'twant, we don't care about
primaries.
If you don't care aboutprimaries in Texas right now
which is what I'm up against,leviathan then consider yourself
(13:11):
status quo once again for thenext four years and who knows
how long.
We've got to change it and so,like you said, start locally.
You have a global impact.
I get it.
Those are just words.
People actually have to actionthat, even if it is civic duty
committee, you know, accountingcommission, or going out to your
polls and being a watcher,whatever those are civic duty
(13:33):
things we should teach back inschool.
You know civics classes that wedon't have anymore.
We've got to teach those thingsto the next generation and,
like you said, this generationcoming up.
Well, I was actually justtalking to Sam Shoemake just a
little bit of a bit of those.
We're talking about civic dutyfor kids, the next generation,
right to bring them up, and it'san interesting dynamic that you
(13:53):
know the hard times and hardmen and weak times, weak men
that's where we're at.
So we're on the back side ofthat weak men side because
they're out there and we've gotto get these kids now are
looking for that leader, they'relooking to me, they want to get
.
I'm seeing it.
Texas especially, kids are justlooking for something that's
like okay, is there anything tobelieve in anymore?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Right.
Yeah, that's a great point andthat's something that is it's
trending right now.
So we tend to think of the nextgeneration as being, you know,
not as active, not as rough andtough and going after it.
But that couldn't be furtherfrom the truth it's.
We're seeing a return to youknow, wanting to achieve and
(14:36):
aspire for something great.
The young people in thiscountry are starting to really
understand that man tuning out,laying about being, you know,
lackadaisical and not caringabout anything, really didn't
benefit the people in front ofus.
Like, if we want to changethings, we have to actually get
involved.
How do we speak and channel ourmessaging to the individual
(15:00):
that is jaded, is distraught,that doesn't want to look at,
wanting to pick up and like dowork.
Like, how do we get everybodyto rally around, doc?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
that's it.
Yeah, that that's it.
So you know you.
You you touch on something thatwe already know, right, we
learned it, the q course.
We learned it before that as ayoung infantry private.
I learned it.
You, you espoused to be thatperson that you admired, right,
I had the general sergeant, myguys were all vietnamese and and
those guys I aspired to be,that and everything that they
said I still remember to thisday, right, because they're just
(15:31):
so impressionable at that timeas an 18 year old.
And so when we go out now webecome professional flight
professionals or warriordiplomat brain berets that are
out there doing stuff out inbsos or whatever we're doing,
you know that you inspire thosepeople that you're training
because they're watching you,they're seeing that work ethic,
they're seeing that ability tomultitask, they're seeing those
(15:52):
things.
They're like you inspire them.
Now, we can't inspire them all,we know that, but there are
certain ones, as you know, whenyou're dealing with a Kandak in
Afghanistan, a battalion, andyou're training them, you watch
them and you can pick out whogets it.
You pick out who gets it right,you pick out who gets it and
then those are your go-to guysand those are the guys that you
lift up and then they becomereally the the nine the battle
(16:13):
makes right.
There's this uh, 480 bc.
This guy, the spark guy, wrotethis thing about warriors.
He said out of 100 soldiers, 10shouldn't even be here.
Throw them out.
80 are nothing but targets.
We know this, we've seen it allright, nothing but targets.
But nine know this, we've seenit Nothing but targets.
But nine, nine, they the battlemake it.
We're lucky to have them, andthe one is a leader and he'll
bring the others back.
So he said that and throughoutmy career I saw that, no matter
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what, now there's you get to theQ course and you get to places
where you've got those nine andthey're all going to be the one.
You're getting that a differentflavor of work ethic.
It really boils down to that tocare to own your job right and
other people's jobs.
You tend to overwork.
We do that.
That's why we look older thanwe actually are, but that is
(16:58):
exactly the thing that thisgeneration is looking for.
So we've got to inspire them.
So you know, part of my base isthe people that are of floating
age that are looking for that,and you know, part of my base is
the people that are of votingage that are looking for that
and it is trending right, it is.
I'm talking to kids.
Now I'm kind of pushed into,you know, just sitting down at
lunch and meeting kids and goingoh yeah, what are you doing?
(17:19):
Well, yeah, I'm a cowboy, butI'm running for governor.
Oh, sure you are.
I'm like no, seriously, here'smy information.
Yeah, I need you to vote.
You know I'm an old school guy.
I like to do, you know, justtalk to people.
And then last night I did aspace and there was, uh, 700
people popped in.
It was literally not even myspace on x, but somebody said,
hey, doc, would you get on herebecause we saw what you're doing
on the river?
(17:39):
Uh, with regard to the floodingin texas, on guadalupe, would
you talk about it?
Yeah, then it went two and ahalf hours, two hours, and
people are fed up.
And these are people thattrusted the establishment.
They trusted it, but they'renot seeing the action.
They're seeing increased risein taxes, decreased rise in
(17:59):
security.
You know, security is a keyissue in this election.
We're talking about the stateof Texas, but also the nation,
and Trump has put tourniquets onthat right as far as the border
.
He's put tourniquets on it.
I'll speak medically but we'vestill got a thousand tiny cuts.
So we've got to address thoseother things.
Now that the bleeding hasstopped, that we could meet a
transfusion at some point.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Absolutely, and I want to pivot and I want to talk
about the things that we needto address in Texas.
To pivot and I want to talkabout the things that we need to
address in Texas.
It's a state that's near anddear to my heart, simply because
every time I've been there,every single person's made me
feel at home.
I've never had a bad situationin Texas, only great memories
and I've always like.
One thing that's very concreteis, if you go to Texas, you've
(18:44):
got a thousand friends themoment you freaking step off
that airplane, out of theairport whether it's an Uber
drive sitting out for dinner,like it is one of the greatest
states in our union, 100 percent, full stop.
Like one of the greatest states.
And every time there is acrisis, the outpour of support
is great.
But the reaction from people,the people of Texas, is one of
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the like with the Texas Hillcountry.
With the recent flooding,without a shadow of a doubt, I
knew like, ok, there's going tobe thousands of nonprofits that
flood in there, but I am notworried about the state, because
Texas is going to show up forTexas.
It always has other states,like North Carolina.
When they went through theirrecent disaster, like, like.
(19:29):
Instantly I knew like, ok,we're going to need tons of
support, we're going to havetons of nonprofits there, flood,
but it's different.
Texas is always take care, hasalways shown up and taken care
of their own.
How have you developed yourstrategy?
What are the things that you'rerunning on to?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
address those strong Texan values and the people so
they can rally around you.
So the very first thing on thatis, the Texas first movement
would be the MAGA of Texas.
Right, make Texas great again.
But it is truly.
It's already been, it's beengreat and it's maintained that
there is a certain essentialAmerican character that exists.
And Texans have their owncharacter too to add to that
right.
And so the Texas Americancharacter is there.
(20:12):
You and I both know that.
We've lived it.
But the Texas character is alittle bit different because it
is specific to Texas.
Don't mess with Texas.
Texas is strong.
You hear all these thingsTexans helping Texans on the
border here or on the sorry theflood.
That is very true.
There were 17,000, 17,000Texans that showed up at this
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thing by day three.
These are not Texas Departmentof Emergency Management.
They were there but weoutweighed them heavily, heavily
outweighed them because theywent to work.
It takes a while for anyinfrastructure to catch up and
then FEMA comes in.
You know, a couple weeks later,you know neither here nor there
about that.
It's not made for.
You know, initial response.
But during the rescue andrecovery phases listen, I was an
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hour and a half away from thezone where it really hit.
And so I was in the truck withmy team heading down literally
in two hours and then got downthere and we just did what we do
right Develop a situation onthe ground, create a stronghold,
a strong point, went to rescue.
We were doing rescues.
Me and my dog got washed downthe river a little ways.
We're trying to pull somepeople out.
We're on the edge, not in alarge, but it was a 30-foot
(21:18):
crest, it was a tree top leveland we got wrapped around a tree
.
I was tethered to him and wegot wrapped around a tree and,
you know, luckily, you know ableto slow down, broke, you know,
cut the line, got out of thewater.
But, uh, that's just what we do, right, we go, we get after it.
Then I started talking to allthe people that I knew from
north carolina right, because Iwas out, we were out that that
situation too.
(21:38):
And then talking to literally,uh, dive team guys from bragg
taking leave, coming out here,marsauk guys, guys out out of
Coronado, you know, seals.
Then I called my buddies fromthe hardhat diving community
down on the Beaumont Fort Arthurarea that dive rigs and do
welding, brought those guys outa few days later, and so we were
able to go down and, once wegot into recovery phase, give
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some closure to some familieswho were looking for their loved
ones, and we took up the bulkof that on that key part of the
river that is between Mystic andCamp Mystic, which people talk
about as hot Texas, all the waydown to Comfort.
So that right, there is TexasFirst right.
So, yeah, we're on the ground,yeah, other people come in, but
those were all people that wereoriginally from Texas, that were
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on all these units around thecountry, said I'm going home,
and they showed up.
So that's a great, greatpicture of that Texas first
movement.
That's number one.
Of course, taxes in the stateof Texas, property taxes are
extremely high, especially sincewe've lured in a lot of
corporations, a lot oftechnology, which is good for
Texas.
We're number eight.
Number eight in the worldeconomy If Texas was country,
(22:44):
the Republic of Texas numbereight.
Yet we're number 27 ineducation.
So we've got to bounce thatback, otherwise we're talking
about the future, right, wecan't fulfill those jobs to
maintain those level ofoperational capacity in those
particular industries.
So what does that mean?
Well, that means they're goingto have to bring it in from
outside.
We don't want to do that right.
(23:04):
We want to continue to improveour education.
We can.
That's one of the main thingsthat I talk about.
As far as human traffickinggoes, look, I hate to admit it,
but the city of Houston, austin,san Antonio, those are some of
the top cities in the countryfor human trafficking, because
there were so many unaccompaniedminors.
550,000 unaccompanied minorsare missing.
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Yeah, yeah.
So when we talk about that,we've got to do a better job,
right?
We can't.
When I was looking, at theborder right in my face.
There's a green suitor downthere in Operation Lone Star.
I saw it, I reported it, but wedidn't have the capacity
because the numbers were sotremendous.
Coming across the border, meand 40 other guys met 17,000
Haitians in Del Rio one nightover 48 hours, and they told me
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to hold the line hold the line.
Look, you know these are notpeople that you know are armed,
but but many of them havenefarious mindsets.
Here we're talking about fromhaiti, from uh, venezuela, trend
de aragua guys that are fromthe uh gang that's in northern
aragua region of venezuela,hezbollah, hamas guys that are
that are that are docked withdocumentation from venezuela
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coming in.
You know, they look dark, theycan pass through as a person
seeking asylum, and so thosekind of things are the security
side of the house that areprimary for me, and I've got an
awesome plan for that.
That's to revamp the TexasState Guard, not the National
Guard.
It's not under Title 10 orTitle 13,.
But the State Guard, florida'salready doing it.
I'm talking to them right now.
We're preparing.
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I talked to three guys from atier one unit at BRAG who are
going to leave their units afterthey get done retiring.
Come out here and help us buildour own special mission unit so
we can do the same thing thatFlorida's doing.
I hate to follow Florida, butwe've talked about this for a
long time with the currentadministration in Texas saying
these are our recommendations.
My company went down a NationalGuard company, green Berets,
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and conducted a TVA ThreatVulnerability Assessment of what
the recommendations were in theforeign internal defense, but
in this case it's domesticinternal defense world and these
were the recommendations.
To plus that up, texas StateGuard right now functions,
functions as a humanitarianeffort, so they give out
sandwiches of hurricanes.
I'm not belittling them.
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I'm saying they don't have thecapacity to have a armed unit
like florida does, which is leo,uh, leo.
Credential people that can comedown, former cops, former
military, get them in, buildthat up.
We could have the largestfighting force in the country
that is not assigned to a title,a uS Code, title 10 or 32.
Yeah, and it's already mandatedby the state under Texas
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Military Department.
We just got to fix it.
We got to fix that problem set.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, ron DeSantis did a great thing developing
that state guard.
It makes fucking clear sense.
We have seventh group rightthere.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I mean we've got more retired.
You can't throw a dead catwithout hitting an operator in
Texas that's retired.
Look, these guys are lookingfor purpose and the State Guard
is a great place to do that andit's a heritage thing.
The Alamo had two majorcommanders in the Alamo.
One was the Volunteer Force,which was Davy, crockett and
(26:23):
Bowie.
Those guys did that and thenWilliam Baron Travis led the
Washington and the Brazos unit,which is now a Texas National
Guard unit.
The battle streamer set up theAlamo on it.
I was in that unit on theborder.
So we have those two lineagehistorical lineage that need to
be brought back up to theirproper place.
Lineage historical lineage thatneed to be brought back up to
their proper place and with thecapacity to defend the citizens
from those that have come acrossin the tens of thousands that
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do have nefarious principles andintent.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, you know I want to go back and touch on
something you brought up, whichis the economy of Texas.
I mean it is, texas is becomingrapidly becoming the next place
for big Hollywood productions.
There's a big mass exodus ofproduction companies and there's
a lot of attention due to theTexas stars that you know
(27:08):
Matthew McConaughey, forgetWoody Harrelson A lot of people
are starting to move bigindustry, big projects, into
Texas.
But at the same time, with allthat attention flowing into
Texas, how do we mitigate itfrom becoming the next
California?
We have it all like that.
We've already talked about it alittle bit, but what are some
things that you foresee and someways that we can mitigate in
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order to make sure that Texasstays Texas?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Right, and that is something that a lot of Texans
are not happy with.
At one One point somethingbillion dollars was given to the
Hollywood industry to move toTexas taxpayer money.
They're not happy with that.
That would be something I wouldhave to moratorium, essentially
put a halt on.
It's not that I don't want tobring that industry in, but
that's not our focus right now.
That's like a line of effortright now.
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That's not even in the500-meter target range for me,
but it has to be addressed.
I mean there's a lot of thingsin that category because we've
got to put our focus and ourmoney.
If I'm going to be the guythat's responsible for
everything that happens or failsto happen, then I've got to be
mad at my word.
The people that I'm talking toare saying we're not happy with
that.
It's more than just a cutestatement of don't california or
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texas.
It has to do with thepriorities that are set by the
state, as to what you reallyfeel about your citizens,
because right now our citizensfeel disenfranchised in many
ways, even people that arestaunch republicans and and see
what's going on at the federallevel, they're not happy with
the rhinos.
All that same thing ishappening in a microcosm in
Austin at the state capitol.
(28:41):
With regard to our rhinos inthe state legislatures and the
leftward leaning Californiathinking dudes, we've got to
balance things out a little bit.
If you're going to be runningas a Republican in Texas, then
you need to act like one.
There are some great people upthere.
There's a guy named BrianHarrison.
I've got a meeting coming upwith him.
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He's a state legislator whodoes think the same way and does
have listens to the people.
Right, that's what I did duringthis thing.
I went to the session thespecial session the other day to
listen to the families thatwere not allowed to come into
the session to say what is itthat you want us to know?
Now, I'm not the governor yet,but what is it that you would
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want us to know?
So I spent hours that day andthen yesterday went out to Sandy
Creek, which was not eventouched by the state with regard
to the 100 homes that weredestroyed and the four bodies
that are still missing.
We've got to listen to thosethings because that's the
reality world.
Right, we don't live in a worldof optics.
We do, but we people like usdon't.
We don't live because we knowthat optics doesn't provide
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security.
Right, it's the reality.
People that do that.
It's the do tanks, not thethink tanks.
We need to think tanks.
They got to think, but they gotto advise us, not tell me that
the scouts on the ground arewrong, because I'm scout on the
ground, I'm not wrong.
I know what the sentiment is.
Yeah, this is for a lot ofworse things in five, ten years
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for this state.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, no, it's absolutely true.
You know, one of the thingsthat I worry, you know, seeing
you step into this arena is, um,that the old it's.
We're not built and we don'twork around people that have
that two-faced mentality.
But what I've seen as I'vegotten older and have had small
(30:30):
glimpses into the world ofpolitics there's a lot of people
that will shake your hand andsmile and say great things about
you up front, but on thebackside they will slander, they
will be a complete turncoat andthey will impede your progress.
And how are you and your teampreparing you for this endeavor,
(30:53):
knowing that, more often thannot, you're not going to be
meeting some of the best honestbrokers in this space?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Right, that's a great question and we're doing a team
internal threat vulnerabilityassessment with regard to what
the people are saying, what'srequired to do, what are now our
end states, what we're goingfor, our mission statement We've
got to protect that more thananything else, and that mission
statement is pretty easy.
It's the Constitution of thestate of Texas, right?
So that's, we've got to protectthat more than anything else,
and that mission statement ispretty easy.
It's the constitution of thestate of Texas, right.
(31:22):
So that's all I got to look atand I've got to navigate that,
and I understand that thing.
I took an oath as a NationalGuardsman in Texas to protect
that constitution as well.
So you've got that dualcitizen-soldier mentality.
But in order to do that, you'vegot to understand who the
(31:43):
players are there, right.
So that's a an informationpreparation of the battlefield,
so to speak.
You've got to understand the uh, the good guys and the bad guys
, who's on the playing field anduh.
So I'm deep diving into that.
I have a great team that'sdoing that for me.
Uh, these are all volunteers, bythe the way, nobody's taking a
paycheck in this thing.
We are straight up grassroots.
We have to pay for certainthings, and we do, and we're
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being blessed that way by folksthat are from Texas, from all
over the country People are.
They want to see this thingsucceed because status quo isn't
working Once again.
30-year politician, you know,12 years to fix things and our
taxes went up in this lastadministration.
12 years of this currentgovernor They've gone up 26%
from where they were on propertytaxes.
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You can't survive.
People can't buy homes.
You're paying a lien to thegovernment.
There should be no.
Based upon what I read in theTexas Constitution, there should
be no Texas taxes upon thecitizens for their domicile.
The way it's written originallywas only upon industry, the
things that require the usuryfees to develop.
(32:47):
We don't want to steer away frompeople like that, but we want
to make it fair.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
You bring up a great point that not enough people are
talking about In this effect.
This is policy that needs to beunderstood and people need to
research it in every singlestate.
We're fortunate we served ournation, and certain states honor
that they give us the abilityto not have to pay taxes on
certain things.
But homeownership that's one ofthe American dreams owning your
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own home and now more than ever, in a vast majority of the
states in this country that isbecoming a dream that is not
attainable by most young adults.
That is criminal.
To be consistently raising theprices and having them become,
you know, lifelong renters, likethat's to me, is insane.
Like how do we fight?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
You know, I've heard that said before and it came
like this.
It said you'll own nothing andyou'll be happy.
Right, and there are certainagendas that are out there and
everybody has an agenda.
Right, it's not conspiracy,it's fact.
I mean, there's just fact.
The world agenda is differentthan what the american agenda is
and that texas specificallytexas is an independent thinking
state.
(33:56):
It's a frontier-minded statefor the most part.
We've got to bring that back.
We've got to understand thatyou have to give them the
ability to still achieve thatAmerican dream.
My dad came to this country fromanother place legally, came
through, became a citizen,became a successful citizen, had
what would be called theAmerican dream, which afforded
me the opportunity to do exactlywhat he wanted for his family,
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which was I was the oldest son.
When you're 18, you'll servethis country and get back what
we've got from this nation.
It's some of the people thatcame in like that that have the
strongest patriotic values.
So you marry that up with thecurrent American character and
that is what we're going to do.
But we have to protect that.
And when I go in and I've gotthis team of untouchables around
(34:39):
me, yes, they will protect theoffice, but what we've got to do
is that mid-level, if you think, strategic, operational,
tactical that operational levelwhere people can drag their feet
, where they can play thosegames, where they did exactly do
exactly what they're doing toPresident Trump, which is he's
got to wash those out, but ittakes a while.
(34:59):
So we've got to hold the lineuntil we can get that culled out
, if you will.
And here's the thing, mostpeople in that level, the
operational level, that are kindof in the bureaucratic world,
the CSs that are out there inthe military, senior executive
staff people, the red tape folksthat belong to bureaucracy many
of them, when challenged bysomething that's real and they
see somebody coming in real,they're going to do all they can
(35:22):
to keep me from coming in.
I get it.
I understand that they're goingto throw mud, they're going to
paint me in to be some kind ofnut job, whatever right wing
this or that.
Look, I'm a bell curve person.
I'm in the middle when it comesto most things.
I don't sit on a fence becauseyou can't Texas, they're all
barbed wire.
But I will, but I will.
I mean, I will do this.
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I will hold the line on certainkey principles that are
constitutional Right.
I believe that everybody in thebell curve has a say Right, I'm
not talking about the far right, the far left, I'm talking
about the normal people thathave common sense.
If you create the party calledthe common sense party, that's
really how you could describe it.
We've got to have dialogue,right, not dialectics, because
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words have meaning.
A dialectic is something thatcan be shaped to create a
narrative, and a narrative notnecessarily is true or good for
everyone.
So we've got to have thediscussion right.
The debate, honest debatewithout emotions, right, we
weren't issued emotions, wedon't care about that stuff.
Debate you.
You can convince me as an 18alpha, you as an 18 bravo, or an
(36:26):
18 charlie, or 18 fox, all thepeople on the green break team
you can convince me that youridea, because you've experienced
a lot more time on the team youcan convince me that, boss,
this is a better idea and I'llgo.
Okay, it's not about ego, aboutego.
You've got to survive, I've gotto survive.
So now take that, supplant thatto where we are now.
You can convince me that that'sa good idea if it makes sense
(36:47):
and it's got a common senselitmus test activity.
That's how this works.
It's not about giving up yourparty's platform, because that's
party platform stuff.
I'm talking about common sensethat works for people.
So how do we phase out taxes?
Well, you can't do it overnightbecause it ends up messing with
the economy.
But Oklahoma is doing it rightnow.
(37:08):
They're going to phasewithdrawal, if you will, for
taxes.
So we bring up the phasing andwe say, okay, the first year
we're going to have a 25% down,so we're going to get rid of 12
years of increased taxes.
In the second year we're goingto bring it down 50%.
All right, there we go.
Now we've got that last littlebit.
But we base that upon facts.
(37:29):
We base that upon gooddecision-making processes.
That will lead us then to theend state, which is what the
people want no taxes.
That's just one example.
There's numerous things thatwe've got to look at.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
In Texas I'm drinking from a fire hose right now, but
it's not that hard because I'velived here.
You just described the optimallearning environment for every
Green Beret.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Right, that's what we do, but that's why those teams
are so effective.
It can be done here, and thereare some extremely intelligent,
good people in the state ofTexas legislature.
So we've got to have thosepeople, those people right there
that are willing to have thediscourse, the discussion, in
fair debate.
(38:12):
That's the whole purpose ofhaving the House and Senate.
They debate things and theycome up with a solution.
It's not about just what doesyour party want, right, it's
about what do the people want,what do they really want?
Because if they don't get thatvoice just the other day, just
two days ago in Texas Capitol,if they don't get that voice,
they're out in the hallway andthen security has to come and
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get them, because they'regetting passionate because they
lost their grandma, one lady,her mother, her daughter and her
brother in the same storm andshe doesn't have a voice, she
can't go in that room becausethey don't want them in there.
They'll disrupt.
You got to listen to thosefolks and say how do I create an
environment where you are notdisenfranchised?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, and I honestly I can't thank you enough for
stepping into this.
I'm not even a Texan.
I see trends and one of thethings that I want to see more
of are more Green Berets, moreveterans stepping into this role
.
And what helps this happen andcreate this effect of slowly
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rolling the ball down the hilland creating momentum is seeing
great Green Berets such asyourself stepping up.
We've got Jake Hollins, we'vegot a couple other Green Berets
out there, knicks out there.
Individuals are willing to leadfrom the front and we need more
.
And before we close out, I wantto give you a chance to speak
directly to the people of Texas,because as soon as this airs,
(39:35):
I'm going to throw my money intorunning this as an ad out in
Texas.
So speak directly to the peopleof Texas right now, for however
long 5, 10, 15 minutes andspeak directly to them as to why
they need to vote for you andrally around you and support you
, doc.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I think it's appropriate, but I appreciate
the time.
Understand this.
Texas we are in probably themost important election of our
at least the time that I've beenaround in texas paying
attention to politics.
Paying attention because thisis a time when you need people
that can see things before theyhappen.
(40:14):
Call it left of bang theory inthe military world.
Before the bang, the bomb inthe road.
Right, you want to avoid thosethings.
I'm not painting a picture ofthe sky is falling.
What I'm painting is truth, andthe truth is is that the way
we're going now is not leadingto status quo, is not leading to
anything that is going to bebeneficial for your children,
(40:34):
your grandchildren, for mygrandchild.
Right, I have to admit that andI'm proud of it.
But Texans are kicking off.
Truly, this is kicking offalready on this campaign,
kicking off the real Texas FirstMovement.
Right, there have been peopleout there doing it and they are
coming on board and listening.
I mean I met 700 of you lastnight on an X-Space and by the
end of it it was supposed to be.
(40:55):
I told him I can give you 20minutes, I'm tired, I've been on
the river.
It was two hours and it wasjust listening and hearing and
then responding with some reallyhard questions.
Some of those minefields?
I'm not afraid of minefields.
As I said, Texas fences arebarbed wire.
I don't sit on these.
So we won't do that.
I don't know, I'll tell you Idon't know, but I've got the
smartest people in the roomright now, and more to come, as
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more and more volunteers arecoming on board.
But that's kicking off.
We will truly secure our border, Truly Right, Not an optic.
I've worked on that borderno-transcript, Me on my knee,
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taking a knee in front of thecommander in chief, and me
sitting in front of him andsaying you got one, sir.
And he looked at the generalstanding next to me and said we
only have one on the border andshe was, I don't know.
Yeah, I guess.
Okay, he said, well, get mesome more.
And so we brought a companydown and we brought a company of
Green Berets to the border.
What happened?
They didn't do Green Beretstuff.
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They trained National Guardsmenin how to do observation right,
which is great stuff.
It's what we do.
But we weren't there for a JSEC, a joint combined exchange
training program with anothercountry.
We were there to do Green Beretstuff, to stop the flow of to
conduct counterterrorism.
Right, that's what we weredoing, what we should have been
(42:21):
doing.
Got it.
We won't talk about the thingsthat happened, that were wrong,
but there is a place.
You have that asset in yourstate.
Most people don't know that.
Right, they exist, they're here, we have the ability to do it
ourselves.
We have the I would sayprobably the 12th largest army
in the world.
If you looked at Texas as acountry, we have divisions,
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We've got a brigade of airborne.
I mean this is important tounderstand that as a
commander-in-chief, you have theauthority, the authority, Title
32 authority to use thoseforces to defend your state in
anything.
It may not be kinetic, theremay not be a shooting war
although there was shooting thattook place but it is one of
those things that if you're notprepared to take care of at that
point, then I've got to come toyou as a governor and say, well
(43:04):
, we didn't do our job and,sorry, we just lost Laredo.
I mean that's not theconversation we want to have, so
we've got to be left to bang.
We can't be reactionary.
We have to be proactive so thatyour security is of the utmost
To me.
It's in the Texas Constitution.
It is authorized.
I don't need to ask forauthorities from anybody else
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then to develop it on our teamand give you the end state and
meet with you every week, justlike this, and go all right,
Texas, this is what we got goingon and give you the honest
truth and then and have townhall meetings with you every day
if I have to, or however, wegot to do it, so that you know
what we're doing is truth,transparency and action.
We don't have time for for, uh,certain things, certain things,
(43:48):
exigent circumstance.
We don't have time for, um, ourwith regard to health, right,
decentralizing medicine in thestate of Texas and in the
Paragon To take it out of thehands of the people that operate
in the bureaucratic level andto give it to a task force.
What else I'll provide?
A task force of the smartestphysicians in the state of Texas
(44:09):
, right, Healthcare workers thatwill sit down most sides of the
aisle talk about their issues.
Give me an honest bottom lineup front and a so what?
Why are you bringing this to me?
And here's the solution, sirRoger that go out and make good
things happen and then keep atab on that and have decision
points and all those thingsalong the line, to make sure
we're meeting our mark, which isyour mark abolishing property
(44:31):
taxes, phased withdrawal ofproperty taxes.
We can't fall behind otherstates.
Oklahoma, I love Oklahoma todeath and I know the governor of
Oklahoma, Stitt.
Okay, he's a good man and he isdoing that for them.
So we've got to phase that outright.
We've got to do exactly whatthey're doing.
We don't want to follow anymore, we want to lead.
Florida has done some greatthings with their state guard,
as I mentioned before.
(44:51):
We've got to lead.
We've got to lead.
That mentioned before.
We've got to lead.
We've got to lead.
That we can't.
We can build our state guardback up to the days of William
Barrett Travis on 24th ofFebruary in the Alamo, when he
said fellow citizens andcompatriots, we're besieged on
all sides.
And he went on to say and wecall on you, everything that is
dear to the American character,to come to our aid with all
dispatch.
I'm talking to Texans and allAmericans in the world.
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That's what I'm talking to.
The same thing that he did tobring back that same honor,
prestige and esprit de corps ofthe Republic of Texas to modern
day, so that we are completelyself-sufficient that we can run
this state as we should, withour own power grid, with our own
gold, not gold-backed currency,but our own gold deposit with
our own.
The only state in the countrythat has its patent office for
its land in its state is Texas.
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Everything else is up in the DCarea, so we will bring that
back.
It's already here.
We will operate in thesovereignty that is given to the
state by the federal and stateconstitution to operate that for
you, so that you can truly sayI live in Texas, the freest
state in the country.
Other things election integrity.
That's a huge piece.
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Texas has a history ofnefarious things happening in
elections.
I got it.
It's happened in all states,Just sometimes you don't see it.
We cannot just put our head inthe sand and say, well, civic
duty, I don't really have to doit, yeah, you do, you got to
vote right and along those lines, and I'll wrap it up with this
you know, yes, don't Californiaor Texas.
It's cute and all that stuff,but it's real.
We don't want that politicalmindset in Texas.
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We want the people right.
We've got a lot of you here.
I appreciate you, we want youhere, but we've got to have that
mindset to stay over there onthe West Coast, on the left
coast, if you will.
We got to have that.
And then the final thing look,Texans are taking Texas back.
We are doing it now.
We saw it on the flood, I sawit on the border.
Texans stand up and do what'sright.
Right, it's not things that aredone without authorities.
It's done because their heartis in the right place and the
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people that came in, thank youfor coming in on this flood.
Same thing we did for the folksin North Carolina.
I ran into two people fromNorth Carolina that drove out
here to help and they stopped meand said we came out here
because you came out to NorthCarolina.
I appreciate it.
That's my second home, FortBragg, right, the Piedmont, the
western North Carolina,specifically, where we jumped
into Robin Sage and rescued thepeople of Pineland right.
(47:11):
So that's what we do.
No-transcript.
And that primary folks isprimary, Because without it we
don't go to November.
Heck, yeah, Doc, I can't.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Pete.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Chambers, and I endorse this Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Doc, I am absolutely thrilled and proud.
You've been the same devoted,hardworking, real leader since
the moment I met you goingthrough the Q course.
You've been a source ofconfidence and you've always
been a North Star for everybodythat.
You've been mentored andsupported throughout their
careers, and I am grateful foryou for stepping into this arena
(47:56):
, because we need more men likeyourself that are willing to
lead from the front.
It's not an easy call to action.
It's not something that I say,and I understand the gravity of
it.
If you're able to serve in thiscapacity, please step up to the
plate.
If you've got experience inthis realm, if you want to
devote your time and volunteerand be part of this capacity,
please step up to the plate.
(48:16):
If you've got experience inthis realm, if you want to
devote your time and volunteerand be part of this effort,
please step up to the plate.
Our country used to have agreat representation of veterans
in our government and sadly,it's not the same.
Individuals are stepping up,they're coming in and little by
little, we'll see some change,but right now, if you're a
veteran and you have the abilityto lead in this space, please
(48:42):
step forward.
We need you.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
And if you're a veteran in Texas of the 1.8
veterans that are in Texas onthe 3rd of March, I need you to
pick up a fire team, a platoon,a company, get on a bus whatever
you need to do and get downthere and vote.
We don't typically do that Ididn't do that before, I'm going
to be honest, but we've got todo that at this point.
I need you on this election.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Thank you Again, doc.
Where can they go to find outsome more information about your
campaign?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
The campaign is at docpetechambersorg.
It's the campaign website andit has a little more detail in
there, but I gave you the heartof it and that's that's really
the most important part.
There's a, there's a greatplace to link up and become a
volunteer, just like the threeoperators out of the mission
unit over there at Bragg.
Here's the funny part.
(49:28):
They called them and they werelike oh, we know, doc, we were a
third group.
Yeah, well, we'll come outthere.
Awesome, come on, we need you.
Yeah, we'll come out there.
Awesome, come on, we need you.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Hell yeah, it's a small community, it's a small
world and, like I said, we areproud to know you, support you
and be there for you.
Brother, if you guys do me afavor, pause right now.
Go to the episode description,click those links, get involved,
help spread this message.
It doesn't matter if you're notfrom Texas.
I do believe Evergreen Beretshould have an honorary
(49:57):
residency in Texas just right,along with everything that we
believe in, and it's one of thegreatest states and it
definitely needs our help.
So you go there.
Pause, go to those links,support Doc, share this episode
with your friends that live downin Texas.
Help bring some awareness tothis campaign, as Doc's the man
for the job.
(50:17):
Thank you all for tuning in Doc.
Thank you so much for beinghere and we'll see you all next
time.
Until then, take care.
play running joke yeah, get the fucking comms up
so that's all you have to do isone thing, and you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's so true oh man , those poor dudes.
We don't, we don't give themenough credit for everything one
.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, my son's uh lining up for uh, uh, for his
x-ray program, whatever with theguard.
He waited until Trump was in.
He's going to go to 19th group.
And he said what do you think Ishould be?
I said what do you want to do?
He said, well, I don't want tobe a medical because you do that
.
He said I hate that stuff.
I'm like okay, not the 18 Delta, that's good, all right.
(00:41):
Well, is you have a collegedegree in aerospace engineering?
They're going to push youtowards that, yeah, yeah.
So you probably want to do like, if you want to be a Bravo,
just go in there and really dobad on the ASVAB.
He's already taken it and hesmoked it.
So I'm like, well, you're justgoing to have to deal with it.
But in the guard, the goodthing in the guard is they let
them pick their mls no shit,yeah, yeah, that's fucking
(01:06):
outstanding man.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, it's always fun .
There's so many of us are likeI want to be a medic, I want to
be a doc, I want to earn thattitle.
They go through selection, getselected, sit down in front of
that, that cadre in that, outbrief, and they're like, yeah,
um, you're gonna be an 18.
Bravo, it's like all right fairenough, it's okay, hey.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, you know, if I had to do it all over again,
well, that's what I wanted to doback in.
What was it?
1985?
And I broke my leg and theysaid you're never going to jump
again.
I'm like you mean, I can't goto the Q4?
No, because I had pins andscrews and plates.
They wouldn't let you jump.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah ago.
But you know the rest of thatstuff when there's will, there's
way, man.
That's the absolute truth ofthe story.
I've seen individuals that haveovercome insane things and,
whether you agree with it or not, I've had so many teammates
that lied, cheated, skirted thesystem, dude.
I've had colorblind teammates.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I probably I may or may not know a guy that helped
them get you know, maintaintheir statuses for their
physicals.
I'm like, yeah, you're still anasset to the team.
Just don't.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Don't be number one.
Hey, you wait for that jumpmaster to slap you in the ass.
That's right.
I think the craziest one is anEastern European guy that was
blind in one eye.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, oh, wow, hey.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That AT-4 was way off .
Which eye are you aiming with?
The bad one, why, doc PeteChambers?
Welcome to Security Out Podcastbrother.
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm happy to be alive .
It's good to see you again.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Good to see you, man.
You've been an awesome, awesomemember of our warrior tribe and
you're always on the leadingedge of some of the most
important topics that are goingon in our country, whether it
was, you know, the COVID fightand then the migrant crisis, you
found your way to continueleading and serving not only our
veteran community but thelarger community not only our
(03:04):
veteran community, but thelarger community and we just
recently talked and you're onceagain throwing your hat into the
ring to help support the greatpeople of Texas.
Man, you know, going into thisadministration, I was very
excited and I was like hell yeah.
And now in the last few months,I'm like what the fuck is going
on?
We need more veterans in thisspace.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We do, and Texas particularly, is in a bind.
The leadership is stagnant.
It's been there 12 years.
It's a 30-year politician I'mnot going to throw blood on
anybody, cast dispersions, butit's time for New Guard and the
community.
The world that we're in, as youand I both know.
We know what color revolutionslook like.
We know what disenfranchisedpopulations look like.
(03:49):
We know what happens wheneveryou can use those things to your
advantage politically.
I can see down the road a littleways and if we're going to be
honest here, it's a naturalprogression.
This is something I wrote theother day, a while back.
But the natural progression ofan honest, honorable man of God
is the natural progression tosee something that is wrong
(04:11):
Tyranny, oppression, justsomething that's wrong and to
stand in the gap.
It's like if you see somebodygetting carjacked, you don't get
your camera out and starttaking pictures of it.
You go out there and close thegap and take care of the
situation.
I've had to do that on Highway35 in Denton.
I mean, it's what we do, and soI didn't ask for this right.
(04:32):
And what we're talking about isrunning for the governor of
Texas.
I didn't look for this.
We were running a counter humantrafficking organization on the
border where we do the fine andfix portion and we give it to
law enforcement, they finish.
But what we found was what Ifound was people coming to me
saying what's going on with theleadership.
I'm not responsible for them,but we are right and so, um, if
you feel like you have thewherewithal to make a difference
(04:54):
, then you do.
Now I put my money where mymouth is now, because I got
approached by a bunch of folks,uh, about two months ago, said
doc, we want you to run forgovernor of Texas.
I'm like, yeah, you know whatyou're talking about, right,
this is this kind of hill battlestraight up.
And they said, yeah, weunderstand that, but we've got
(05:14):
some people that really want tosupport you.
Grassroots style.
We're looking at a hundredmillion dollar war chest that
we're going up against.
I've never looked at anything,as you know.
I mean, take a bunch of GreenBerets, put them in a district
center in the Tagal Valley andtell them there's 300 Taliban
inbound and they're going to goyeah, target rich environment,
right.
I mean that's the mentality,and so I wasn't looking for this
(05:36):
, but I did a feasibility studyover the last two months to see
could we throw our hat in thering.
And when I got called back bysome serious actors in the
country and I'm talking aboutpeople that everybody knows, of
which I have to keep off therecord for now when they're
telling me you actually have achance to win this if you can
get this, this and this done,and now we'll talk about those
things, but that that's why Isaid okay, I prayed about it and
(05:57):
jumped in there, you know, andI told everybody this is my, you
all appreciate this.
I'm in a C-130.
I've got my chute on.
We're in the chute shed.
I'm walking out, got a lot ofequipment Waddling out on the
Alpha, so I wait, everybody getson.
I get by the door, turn around,sit down, wait, we're flying to
(06:18):
the drop zone and it'snighttime.
You've got 115 pounds of kit on, you know whatever.
And I go.
Well, the light's still red,it's still red, it's still red.
Now, you know, and I knowsomebody makes a wind call on
the DZ and says, hey, too muchwind.
Never happens with the GreenBerets.
They still jump anyway, butstill, that's why my job exists.
(06:39):
I take care of the guys when Iget down first and hopefully
don't break something on myself.
You can still turn the thingaround.
It's the last minute.
Once you're out the door,unless you're a toe jumper,
you're going all the way to theX.
That requires picking up thattick now putting your shoe at
the rally point and then going.
we're going to say 100 meter.
(06:59):
I mean, I'm sorry, 100kilometer, 100 click ruck.
At this point is what I'mlooking at.
But we've been so blessed Somepeople call it lucky we have
fallen into things where thingshave just happened.
It's moving us up in the fightNow.
Last night I did an X-Space 700people got on.
(07:21):
We had one-hour notice.
I wasn't planning on doing it.
I just come out of the floodzone in Central Texas but I was
tired.
But two hours later, at the endof it, I knew we're going to
win.
We have a very good chance towin.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it can seem daunting at first.
When we look at the federalgovernment outside of local
community, outside of state,things look very dreadful.
But I always tell guys look atyour state, look at your local
government, focus on makingchange there.
That's where the fight needs tohappen.
(07:56):
We understand that becausewe're Green Berets, we've
studied this stuff.
Everybody's hyper-focused onthe president, the cabinet.
It's like look Like everybody'shyper focused on the president,
the cabinet.
It's like look, start at thestate level.
You need to get veterans, weneed to get qualified
individuals at the state level,at the representative level.
That's where the fight's at Ifwe want to change anything,
that's where it's going to be.
But I want to go back.
(08:18):
I want to really focus on yourjourney coming into this space
and really, like I know you're aman of God, you're a man of
faith, but man, I gotta, I gottaimagine like it was.
Probably you probably needed alittle bit of time and clarity
to make sure, like, okay, am Ireally ready for this fight?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Correct?
Yeah, absolutely, you know.
It's like I said, a couple ofweeks of just feasibility.
You know, an assessment of aphase zero, if you will.
If you're talkingunconventional warfare, we've
got to make sure that all of ourlines of effort are matching up
with things that will end stateresult with something that is
net gain, not net loss.
I don't want to waste people'stime and I don't want to waste
(08:56):
people's money.
Yes, I could run for sheriff.
I've been asked to do it.
It didn't happen that go around, I didn't run.
But you know, yes, I've beenasked to run for a congressman
in Texas and in Oklahoma when Iused to live there.
Yeah, but, but.
But a legislator is somebodythat debates Right.
In this case I'm only suitedfor because of my career path
and the way I did things forexecutive position, and it's not
(09:18):
, it's not an ego thing, it'sjust that I take big problem
sets and turn them around reallyquick and say, okay, this is
what we've got to do, and then Ihave the smartest people in the
room.
It would be my A-team, if youwill.
Eleven of those people that arecompletely untouchable, that
are not sold to some sort ofcorporate autocracy, whatever.
These are the untouchables, andI've got them around me now and
(09:41):
that's who's really making itall happen.
So you and I both know an 18could do, I believe, the
equivalent of a battalion'sworth of work.
When you go down range, you'reexpected to be able to stand up
a battalion 600 plus cats, andso that's kind of at the
microcosm description for what'shappening at one of the top
three most important electionsin the country.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, it truly is.
You know, we have to study thetrends right and everybody's
leaving California and a vastmajority of those people are
resettling into Texas and whatwe know, and we've seen it, is
people flee the things theyvoted for.
They flee the areas and thehazards and the catastrophe that
(10:24):
they actually voted for.
They move to these red statesthat are idyllic, that are doing
better, that are flourishing,and then they continue to vote
for the same policies thatthey've fleed.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I have to segue into this because this is important.
What you just said is and I'mpulling it up now just to make
sure that I'm in line with mycampaign team, but I came up
with this one this is number sixon my.
They call it a push card.
Basically, it's what you talkto people about and it's DCOT.
Don't California, aren't Texas?
(10:58):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, and that's something that, when we look at
Texas, the leadership, thepeople that are going to be in
charge, that is something theyabsolutely have to stand by and
understand.
Like we've seen it, I don'twant Texas to become the next
Colorado, and I grew up like inColorado, in a very small town
(11:20):
community, the, the idyllicplace where you could imagine,
like you know, raising a familyback then.
A lot of blue collar, a lot ofgreat things, and what Colorado
has turned to now is a casestudy of when policy and corrupt
individuals take control.
Like it is absolutely horrid.
(11:43):
Like people call it progression, I call it just a
bastardization of the Americandream.
People can't afford to livethere, people can't afford to
raise a family.
People are fleeing and thepeople that are flowing in are
coming from California, they'recoming from blue states and
they're voting for the samepolicies and ideas and it makes
no sense.
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I was going to say I would add.
Add to that, because when Imeet people from California here
in the central Texas, where I'mbased out of there's a lot,
right, it's hill country, itreminds me of California and
it's the same kind of climate.
It is literally.
You meet them and I'll say,where are you from California?
I'll say, ok, now, californiaor Texas, right, but it's a joke
(12:26):
.
But, honestly, I get a sentimentanalysis instantly as to why
they fled, and this was waybefore I thought about politics.
I'm not thinking about politics, I'm thinking about leadership.
I'm running for the seniorpublic servant, if you will.
But the point is is that theyfled for that reason?
But I believe that's due tocomplacency, that a lot of
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people that don't even voteallow these things to happen.
And so there is a certain sensewhich has taught me something,
yeah, which is civic duty.
I was terrible about civic duty.
A lot of people that get out ofthe military.
We don't want to touch anything, government anymore, right, we
don't want to vote, we don'twant, we don't care about
primaries.
If you don't care aboutprimaries in Texas right now
which is what I'm up against,leviathan then consider yourself
(13:11):
status quo once again for thenext four years and who knows
how long.
We've got to change it and so,like you said, start locally.
You have a global impact.
I get it.
Those are just words.
People actually have to actionthat, even if it is civic duty
committee, you know, accountingcommission, or going out to your
polls and being a watcher,whatever those are civic duty
(13:33):
things we should teach back inschool.
You know civics classes that wedon't have anymore.
We've got to teach those thingsto the next generation and,
like you said, this generationcoming up.
Well, I was actually justtalking to Sam Shoemake just a
little bit of a bit of those.
We're talking about civic dutyfor kids, the next generation,
right to bring them up, and it'san interesting dynamic that you
(13:53):
know the hard times and hardmen and weak times, weak men
that's where we're at.
So we're on the back side ofthat weak men side because
they're out there and we've gotto get these kids now are
looking for that leader, they'relooking to me, they want to get
.
I'm seeing it.
Texas especially, kids are justlooking for something that's
like okay, is there anything tobelieve in anymore?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Right.
Yeah, that's a great point andthat's something that is it's
trending right now.
So we tend to think of the nextgeneration as being, you know,
not as active, not as rough andtough and going after it.
But that couldn't be furtherfrom the truth it's.
We're seeing a return to youknow, wanting to achieve and
(14:36):
aspire for something great.
The young people in thiscountry are starting to really
understand that man tuning out,laying about being, you know,
lackadaisical and not caringabout anything, really didn't
benefit the people in front ofus.
Like, if we want to changethings, we have to actually get
involved.
How do we speak and channel ourmessaging to the individual
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that is jaded, is distraught,that doesn't want to look at,
wanting to pick up and like dowork.
Like, how do we get everybodyto rally around, doc?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
that's it.
Yeah, that that's it.
So you know you.
You you touch on something thatwe already know, right, we
learned it, the q course.
We learned it before that as ayoung infantry private.
I learned it.
You, you espoused to be thatperson that you admired, right,
I had the general sergeant, myguys were all vietnamese and and
those guys I aspired to be,that and everything that they
said I still remember to thisday, right, because they're just
(15:31):
so impressionable at that timeas an 18 year old.
And so when we go out now webecome professional flight
professionals or warriordiplomat brain berets that are
out there doing stuff out inbsos or whatever we're doing,
you know that you inspire thosepeople that you're training
because they're watching you,they're seeing that work ethic,
they're seeing that ability tomultitask, they're seeing those
(15:52):
things.
They're like you inspire them.
Now, we can't inspire them all,we know that, but there are
certain ones, as you know, whenyou're dealing with a Kandak in
Afghanistan, a battalion, andyou're training them, you watch
them and you can pick out whogets it.
You pick out who gets it right,you pick out who gets it and
then those are your go-to guysand those are the guys that you
lift up and then they becomereally the the nine the battle
(16:13):
makes right.
There's this uh, 480 bc.
This guy, the spark guy, wrotethis thing about warriors.
He said out of 100 soldiers, 10shouldn't even be here.
Throw them out.
80 are nothing but targets.
We know this, we've seen it allright, nothing but targets.
But nine know this, we've seenit Nothing but targets.
But nine, nine, they the battlemake it.
We're lucky to have them, andthe one is a leader and he'll
bring the others back.
So he said that and throughoutmy career I saw that, no matter
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what, now there's you get to theQ course and you get to places
where you've got those nine andthey're all going to be the one.
You're getting that a differentflavor of work ethic.
It really boils down to that tocare to own your job right and
other people's jobs.
You tend to overwork.
We do that.
That's why we look older thanwe actually are, but that is
(16:58):
exactly the thing that thisgeneration is looking for.
So we've got to inspire them.
So you know, part of my base isthe people that are of floating
age that are looking for that,and you know, part of my base is
the people that are of votingage that are looking for that
and it is trending right, it is.
I'm talking to kids.
Now I'm kind of pushed into,you know, just sitting down at
lunch and meeting kids and goingoh yeah, what are you doing?
(17:19):
Well, yeah, I'm a cowboy, butI'm running for governor.
Oh, sure you are.
I'm like no, seriously, here'smy information.
Yeah, I need you to vote.
You know I'm an old school guy.
I like to do, you know, justtalk to people.
And then last night I did aspace and there was, uh, 700
people popped in.
It was literally not even myspace on x, but somebody said,
hey, doc, would you get on herebecause we saw what you're doing
on the river?
(17:39):
Uh, with regard to the floodingin texas, on guadalupe, would
you talk about it?
Yeah, then it went two and ahalf hours, two hours, and
people are fed up.
And these are people thattrusted the establishment.
They trusted it, but they'renot seeing the action.
They're seeing increased risein taxes, decreased rise in
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security.
You know, security is a keyissue in this election.
We're talking about the stateof Texas, but also the nation,
and Trump has put tourniquets onthat right as far as the border
.
He's put tourniquets on it.
I'll speak medically but we'vestill got a thousand tiny cuts.
So we've got to address thoseother things.
Now that the bleeding hasstopped, that we could meet a
transfusion at some point.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Absolutely, and I want to pivot and I want to talk
about the things that we needto address in Texas.
To pivot and I want to talkabout the things that we need to
address in Texas.
It's a state that's near anddear to my heart, simply because
every time I've been there,every single person's made me
feel at home.
I've never had a bad situationin Texas, only great memories
and I've always like.
One thing that's very concreteis, if you go to Texas, you've
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got a thousand friends themoment you freaking step off
that airplane, out of theairport whether it's an Uber
drive sitting out for dinner,like it is one of the greatest
states in our union, 100 percent, full stop.
Like one of the greatest states.
And every time there is acrisis, the outpour of support
is great.
But the reaction from people,the people of Texas, is one of
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the like with the Texas Hillcountry.
With the recent flooding,without a shadow of a doubt, I
knew like, ok, there's going tobe thousands of nonprofits that
flood in there, but I am notworried about the state, because
Texas is going to show up forTexas.
It always has other states,like North Carolina.
When they went through theirrecent disaster, like, like.
(19:29):
Instantly I knew like, ok,we're going to need tons of
support, we're going to havetons of nonprofits there, flood,
but it's different.
Texas is always take care, hasalways shown up and taken care
of their own.
How have you developed yourstrategy?
What are the things that you'rerunning on to?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
address those strong Texan values and the people so
they can rally around you.
So the very first thing on thatis, the Texas first movement
would be the MAGA of Texas.
Right, make Texas great again.
But it is truly.
It's already been, it's beengreat and it's maintained that
there is a certain essentialAmerican character that exists.
And Texans have their owncharacter too to add to that
right.
And so the Texas Americancharacter is there.
(20:12):
You and I both know that.
We've lived it.
But the Texas character is alittle bit different because it
is specific to Texas.
Don't mess with Texas.
Texas is strong.
You hear all these thingsTexans helping Texans on the
border here or on the sorry theflood.
That is very true.
There were 17,000, 17,000Texans that showed up at this
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thing by day three.
These are not Texas Departmentof Emergency Management.
They were there but weoutweighed them heavily, heavily
outweighed them because theywent to work.
It takes a while for anyinfrastructure to catch up and
then FEMA comes in.
You know, a couple weeks later,you know neither here nor there
about that.
It's not made for.
You know, initial response.
But during the rescue andrecovery phases listen, I was an
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hour and a half away from thezone where it really hit.
And so I was in the truck withmy team heading down literally
in two hours and then got downthere and we just did what we do
right Develop a situation onthe ground, create a stronghold,
a strong point, went to rescue.
We were doing rescues.
Me and my dog got washed downthe river a little ways.
We're trying to pull somepeople out.
We're on the edge, not in alarge, but it was a 30-foot
(21:18):
crest, it was a tree top leveland we got wrapped around a tree
.
I was tethered to him and wegot wrapped around a tree and,
you know, luckily, you know ableto slow down, broke, you know,
cut the line, got out of thewater.
But, uh, that's just what we do, right, we go, we get after it.
Then I started talking to allthe people that I knew from
north carolina right, because Iwas out, we were out that that
situation too.
(21:38):
And then talking to literally,uh, dive team guys from bragg
taking leave, coming out here,marsauk guys, guys out out of
Coronado, you know, seals.
Then I called my buddies fromthe hardhat diving community
down on the Beaumont Fort Arthurarea that dive rigs and do
welding, brought those guys outa few days later, and so we were
able to go down and, once wegot into recovery phase, give
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some closure to some familieswho were looking for their loved
ones, and we took up the bulkof that on that key part of the
river that is between Mystic andCamp Mystic, which people talk
about as hot Texas, all the waydown to Comfort.
So that right, there is TexasFirst right.
So, yeah, we're on the ground,yeah, other people come in, but
those were all people that wereoriginally from Texas, that were
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on all these units around thecountry, said I'm going home,
and they showed up.
So that's a great, greatpicture of that Texas first
movement.
That's number one.
Of course, taxes in the stateof Texas, property taxes are
extremely high, especially sincewe've lured in a lot of
corporations, a lot oftechnology, which is good for
Texas.
We're number eight.
Number eight in the worldeconomy If Texas was country,
(22:44):
the Republic of Texas numbereight.
Yet we're number 27 ineducation.
So we've got to bounce thatback, otherwise we're talking
about the future, right, wecan't fulfill those jobs to
maintain those level ofoperational capacity in those
particular industries.
So what does that mean?
Well, that means they're goingto have to bring it in from
outside.
We don't want to do that right.
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We want to continue to improveour education.
We can.
That's one of the main thingsthat I talk about.
As far as human traffickinggoes, look, I hate to admit it,
but the city of Houston, austin,san Antonio, those are some of
the top cities in the countryfor human trafficking, because
there were so many unaccompaniedminors.
550,000 unaccompanied minorsare missing.
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Yeah, yeah.
So when we talk about that,we've got to do a better job,
right?
We can't.
When I was looking, at theborder right in my face.
There's a green suitor downthere in Operation Lone Star.
I saw it, I reported it, but wedidn't have the capacity
because the numbers were sotremendous.
Coming across the border, meand 40 other guys met 17,000
Haitians in Del Rio one nightover 48 hours, and they told me
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to hold the line hold the line.
Look, you know these are notpeople that you know are armed,
but but many of them havenefarious mindsets.
Here we're talking about fromhaiti, from uh, venezuela, trend
de aragua guys that are fromthe uh gang that's in northern
aragua region of venezuela,hezbollah, hamas guys that are
that are that are docked withdocumentation from venezuela
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coming in.
You know, they look dark, theycan pass through as a person
seeking asylum, and so thosekind of things are the security
side of the house that areprimary for me, and I've got an
awesome plan for that.
That's to revamp the TexasState Guard, not the National
Guard.
It's not under Title 10 orTitle 13,.
But the State Guard, florida'salready doing it.
I'm talking to them right now.
We're preparing.
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I talked to three guys from atier one unit at BRAG who are
going to leave their units afterthey get done retiring.
Come out here and help us buildour own special mission unit so
we can do the same thing thatFlorida's doing.
I hate to follow Florida, butwe've talked about this for a
long time with the currentadministration in Texas saying
these are our recommendations.
My company went down a NationalGuard company, green Berets,
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and conducted a TVA ThreatVulnerability Assessment of what
the recommendations were in theforeign internal defense, but
in this case it's domesticinternal defense world and these
were the recommendations.
To plus that up, texas StateGuard right now functions,
functions as a humanitarianeffort, so they give out
sandwiches of hurricanes.
I'm not belittling them.
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I'm saying they don't have thecapacity to have a armed unit
like florida does, which is leo,uh, leo.
Credential people that can comedown, former cops, former
military, get them in, buildthat up.
We could have the largestfighting force in the country
that is not assigned to a title,a uS Code, title 10 or 32.
Yeah, and it's already mandatedby the state under Texas
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Military Department.
We just got to fix it.
We got to fix that problem set.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, ron DeSantis did a great thing developing
that state guard.
It makes fucking clear sense.
We have seventh group rightthere.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I mean we've got more retired.
You can't throw a dead catwithout hitting an operator in
Texas that's retired.
Look, these guys are lookingfor purpose and the State Guard
is a great place to do that andit's a heritage thing.
The Alamo had two majorcommanders in the Alamo.
One was the Volunteer Force,which was Davy, crockett and
(26:23):
Bowie.
Those guys did that and thenWilliam Baron Travis led the
Washington and the Brazos unit,which is now a Texas National
Guard unit.
The battle streamer set up theAlamo on it.
I was in that unit on theborder.
So we have those two lineagehistorical lineage that need to
be brought back up to theirproper place.
Lineage historical lineage thatneed to be brought back up to
their proper place and with thecapacity to defend the citizens
from those that have come acrossin the tens of thousands that
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do have nefarious principles andintent.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, you know I want to go back and touch on
something you brought up, whichis the economy of Texas.
I mean it is, texas is becomingrapidly becoming the next place
for big Hollywood productions.
There's a big mass exodus ofproduction companies and there's
a lot of attention due to theTexas stars that you know
(27:08):
Matthew McConaughey, forgetWoody Harrelson A lot of people
are starting to move bigindustry, big projects, into
Texas.
But at the same time, with allthat attention flowing into
Texas, how do we mitigate itfrom becoming the next
California?
We have it all like that.
We've already talked about it alittle bit, but what are some
things that you foresee and someways that we can mitigate in
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order to make sure that Texasstays Texas?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Right, and that is something that a lot of Texans
are not happy with.
At one One point somethingbillion dollars was given to the
Hollywood industry to move toTexas taxpayer money.
They're not happy with that.
That would be something I wouldhave to moratorium, essentially
put a halt on.
It's not that I don't want tobring that industry in, but
that's not our focus right now.
That's like a line of effortright now.
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That's not even in the500-meter target range for me,
but it has to be addressed.
I mean there's a lot of thingsin that category because we've
got to put our focus and ourmoney.
If I'm going to be the guythat's responsible for
everything that happens or failsto happen, then I've got to be
mad at my word.
The people that I'm talking toare saying we're not happy with
that.
It's more than just a cutestatement of don't california or
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texas.
It has to do with thepriorities that are set by the
state, as to what you reallyfeel about your citizens,
because right now our citizensfeel disenfranchised in many
ways, even people that arestaunch republicans and and see
what's going on at the federallevel, they're not happy with
the rhinos.
All that same thing ishappening in a microcosm in
Austin at the state capitol.
(28:41):
With regard to our rhinos inthe state legislatures and the
leftward leaning Californiathinking dudes, we've got to
balance things out a little bit.
If you're going to be runningas a Republican in Texas, then
you need to act like one.
There are some great people upthere.
There's a guy named BrianHarrison.
I've got a meeting coming upwith him.
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He's a state legislator whodoes think the same way and does
have listens to the people.
Right, that's what I did duringthis thing.
I went to the session thespecial session the other day to
listen to the families thatwere not allowed to come into
the session to say what is itthat you want us to know?
Now, I'm not the governor yet,but what is it that you would
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want us to know?
So I spent hours that day andthen yesterday went out to Sandy
Creek, which was not eventouched by the state with regard
to the 100 homes that weredestroyed and the four bodies
that are still missing.
We've got to listen to thosethings because that's the
reality world.
Right, we don't live in a worldof optics.
We do, but we people like usdon't.
We don't live because we knowthat optics doesn't provide
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security.
Right, it's the reality.
People that do that.
It's the do tanks, not thethink tanks.
We need to think tanks.
They got to think, but they gotto advise us, not tell me that
the scouts on the ground arewrong, because I'm scout on the
ground, I'm not wrong.
I know what the sentiment is.
Yeah, this is for a lot ofworse things in five, ten years
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for this state.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, no, it's absolutely true.
You know, one of the thingsthat I worry, you know, seeing
you step into this arena is, um,that the old it's.
We're not built and we don'twork around people that have
that two-faced mentality.
But what I've seen as I'vegotten older and have had small
(30:30):
glimpses into the world ofpolitics there's a lot of people
that will shake your hand andsmile and say great things about
you up front, but on thebackside they will slander, they
will be a complete turncoat andthey will impede your progress.
And how are you and your teampreparing you for this endeavor,
(30:53):
knowing that, more often thannot, you're not going to be
meeting some of the best honestbrokers in this space?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Right, that's a great question and we're doing a team
internal threat vulnerabilityassessment with regard to what
the people are saying, what'srequired to do, what are now our
end states, what we're goingfor, our mission statement We've
got to protect that more thananything else, and that mission
statement is pretty easy.
It's the Constitution of thestate of Texas, right?
So that's, we've got to protectthat more than anything else,
and that mission statement ispretty easy.
It's the constitution of thestate of Texas, right.
(31:22):
So that's all I got to look atand I've got to navigate that,
and I understand that thing.
I took an oath as a NationalGuardsman in Texas to protect
that constitution as well.
So you've got that dualcitizen-soldier mentality.
But in order to do that, you'vegot to understand who the
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players are there, right.
So that's a an informationpreparation of the battlefield,
so to speak.
You've got to understand the uh, the good guys and the bad guys
, who's on the playing field anduh.
So I'm deep diving into that.
I have a great team that'sdoing that for me.
Uh, these are all volunteers, bythe the way, nobody's taking a
paycheck in this thing.
We are straight up grassroots.
We have to pay for certainthings, and we do, and we're
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being blessed that way by folksthat are from Texas, from all
over the country People are.
They want to see this thingsucceed because status quo isn't
working Once again.
30-year politician, you know,12 years to fix things and our
taxes went up in this lastadministration.
12 years of this currentgovernor They've gone up 26%
from where they were on propertytaxes.
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You can't survive.
People can't buy homes.
You're paying a lien to thegovernment.
There should be no.
Based upon what I read in theTexas Constitution, there should
be no Texas taxes upon thecitizens for their domicile.
The way it's written originallywas only upon industry, the
things that require the usuryfees to develop.
(32:47):
We don't want to steer away frompeople like that, but we want
to make it fair.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
You bring up a great point that not enough people are
talking about In this effect.
This is policy that needs to beunderstood and people need to
research it in every singlestate.
We're fortunate we served ournation, and certain states honor
that they give us the abilityto not have to pay taxes on
certain things.
But homeownership that's one ofthe American dreams owning your
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own home and now more than ever, in a vast majority of the
states in this country that isbecoming a dream that is not
attainable by most young adults.
That is criminal.
To be consistently raising theprices and having them become,
you know, lifelong renters, likethat's to me, is insane.
Like how do we fight?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
You know, I've heard that said before and it came
like this.
It said you'll own nothing andyou'll be happy.
Right, and there are certainagendas that are out there and
everybody has an agenda.
Right, it's not conspiracy,it's fact.
I mean, there's just fact.
The world agenda is differentthan what the american agenda is
and that texas specificallytexas is an independent thinking
state.
(33:56):
It's a frontier-minded statefor the most part.
We've got to bring that back.
We've got to understand thatyou have to give them the
ability to still achieve thatAmerican dream.
My dad came to this country fromanother place legally, came
through, became a citizen,became a successful citizen, had
what would be called theAmerican dream, which afforded
me the opportunity to do exactlywhat he wanted for his family,
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which was I was the oldest son.
When you're 18, you'll servethis country and get back what
we've got from this nation.
It's some of the people thatcame in like that that have the
strongest patriotic values.
So you marry that up with thecurrent American character and
that is what we're going to do.
But we have to protect that.
And when I go in and I've gotthis team of untouchables around
(34:39):
me, yes, they will protect theoffice, but what we've got to do
is that mid-level, if you think, strategic, operational,
tactical that operational levelwhere people can drag their feet
, where they can play thosegames, where they did exactly do
exactly what they're doing toPresident Trump, which is he's
got to wash those out, but ittakes a while.
(34:59):
So we've got to hold the lineuntil we can get that culled out
, if you will.
And here's the thing, mostpeople in that level, the
operational level, that are kindof in the bureaucratic world,
the CSs that are out there inthe military, senior executive
staff people, the red tape folksthat belong to bureaucracy many
of them, when challenged bysomething that's real and they
see somebody coming in real,they're going to do all they can
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to keep me from coming in.
I get it.
I understand that they're goingto throw mud, they're going to
paint me in to be some kind ofnut job, whatever right wing
this or that.
Look, I'm a bell curve person.
I'm in the middle when it comesto most things.
I don't sit on a fence becauseyou can't Texas, they're all
barbed wire.
But I will, but I will.
I mean, I will do this.
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I will hold the line on certainkey principles that are
constitutional Right.
I believe that everybody in thebell curve has a say Right, I'm
not talking about the far right, the far left, I'm talking
about the normal people thathave common sense.
If you create the party calledthe common sense party, that's
really how you could describe it.
We've got to have dialogue,right, not dialectics, because
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words have meaning.
A dialectic is something thatcan be shaped to create a
narrative, and a narrative notnecessarily is true or good for
everyone.
So we've got to have thediscussion right.
The debate, honest debatewithout emotions, right, we
weren't issued emotions, wedon't care about that stuff.
Debate you.
You can convince me as an 18alpha, you as an 18 bravo, or an
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18 charlie, or 18 fox, all thepeople on the green break team
you can convince me that youridea, because you've experienced
a lot more time on the team youcan convince me that, boss,
this is a better idea and I'llgo.
Okay, it's not about ego, aboutego.
You've got to survive, I've gotto survive.
So now take that, supplant thatto where we are now.
You can convince me that that'sa good idea if it makes sense
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and it's got a common senselitmus test activity.
That's how this works.
It's not about giving up yourparty's platform, because that's
party platform stuff.
I'm talking about common sensethat works for people.
So how do we phase out taxes?
Well, you can't do it overnightbecause it ends up messing with
the economy.
But Oklahoma is doing it rightnow.
(37:08):
They're going to phasewithdrawal, if you will, for
taxes.
So we bring up the phasing andwe say, okay, the first year
we're going to have a 25% down,so we're going to get rid of 12
years of increased taxes.
In the second year we're goingto bring it down 50%.
All right, there we go.
Now we've got that last littlebit.
But we base that upon facts.
(37:29):
We base that upon gooddecision-making processes.
That will lead us then to theend state, which is what the
people want no taxes.
That's just one example.
There's numerous things thatwe've got to look at.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
In Texas I'm drinking from a fire hose right now, but
it's not that hard because I'velived here.
You just described the optimallearning environment for every
Green Beret.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Right, that's what we do, but that's why those teams
are so effective.
It can be done here, and thereare some extremely intelligent,
good people in the state ofTexas legislature.
So we've got to have thosepeople, those people right there
that are willing to have thediscourse, the discussion, in
fair debate.
(38:12):
That's the whole purpose ofhaving the House and Senate.
They debate things and theycome up with a solution.
It's not about just what doesyour party want, right, it's
about what do the people want,what do they really want?
Because if they don't get thatvoice just the other day, just
two days ago in Texas Capitol,if they don't get that voice,
they're out in the hallway andthen security has to come and
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get them, because they'regetting passionate because they
lost their grandma, one lady,her mother, her daughter and her
brother in the same storm andshe doesn't have a voice, she
can't go in that room becausethey don't want them in there.
They'll disrupt.
You got to listen to thosefolks and say how do I create an
environment where you are notdisenfranchised?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, and I honestly I can't thank you enough for
stepping into this.
I'm not even a Texan.
I see trends and one of thethings that I want to see more
of are more Green Berets, moreveterans stepping into this role
.
And what helps this happen andcreate this effect of slowly
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rolling the ball down the hilland creating momentum is seeing
great Green Berets such asyourself stepping up.
We've got Jake Hollins, we'vegot a couple other Green Berets
out there, knicks out there.
Individuals are willing to leadfrom the front and we need more
.
And before we close out, I wantto give you a chance to speak
directly to the people of Texas,because as soon as this airs,
(39:35):
I'm going to throw my money intorunning this as an ad out in
Texas.
So speak directly to the peopleof Texas right now, for however
long 5, 10, 15 minutes andspeak directly to them as to why
they need to vote for you andrally around you and support you
, doc.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I think it's appropriate, but I appreciate
the time.
Understand this.
Texas we are in probably themost important election of our
at least the time that I've beenaround in texas paying
attention to politics.
Paying attention because thisis a time when you need people
that can see things before theyhappen.
(40:14):
Call it left of bang theory inthe military world.
Before the bang, the bomb inthe road.
Right, you want to avoid thosethings.
I'm not painting a picture ofthe sky is falling.
What I'm painting is truth, andthe truth is is that the way
we're going now is not leadingto status quo, is not leading to
anything that is going to bebeneficial for your children,
(40:34):
your grandchildren, for mygrandchild.
Right, I have to admit that andI'm proud of it.
But Texans are kicking off.
Truly, this is kicking offalready on this campaign,
kicking off the real Texas FirstMovement.
Right, there have been peopleout there doing it and they are
coming on board and listening.
I mean I met 700 of you lastnight on an X-Space and by the
end of it it was supposed to be.
(40:55):
I told him I can give you 20minutes, I'm tired, I've been on
the river.
It was two hours and it wasjust listening and hearing and
then responding with some reallyhard questions.
Some of those minefields?
I'm not afraid of minefields.
As I said, Texas fences arebarbed wire.
I don't sit on these.
So we won't do that.
I don't know, I'll tell you Idon't know, but I've got the
smartest people in the roomright now, and more to come, as
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more and more volunteers arecoming on board.
But that's kicking off.
We will truly secure our border, Truly Right, Not an optic.
I've worked on that borderno-transcript, Me on my knee,
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taking a knee in front of thecommander in chief, and me
sitting in front of him andsaying you got one, sir.
And he looked at the generalstanding next to me and said we
only have one on the border andshe was, I don't know.
Yeah, I guess.
Okay, he said, well, get mesome more.
And so we brought a companydown and we brought a company of
Green Berets to the border.
What happened?
They didn't do Green Beretstuff.
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They trained National Guardsmenin how to do observation right,
which is great stuff.
It's what we do.
But we weren't there for a JSEC, a joint combined exchange
training program with anothercountry.
We were there to do Green Beretstuff, to stop the flow of to
conduct counterterrorism.
Right, that's what we weredoing, what we should have been
(42:21):
doing.
Got it.
We won't talk about the thingsthat happened, that were wrong,
but there is a place.
You have that asset in yourstate.
Most people don't know that.
Right, they exist, they're here, we have the ability to do it
ourselves.
We have the I would sayprobably the 12th largest army
in the world.
If you looked at Texas as acountry, we have divisions,
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We've got a brigade of airborne.
I mean this is important tounderstand that as a
commander-in-chief, you have theauthority, the authority, Title
32 authority to use thoseforces to defend your state in
anything.
It may not be kinetic, theremay not be a shooting war
although there was shooting thattook place but it is one of
those things that if you're notprepared to take care of at that
point, then I've got to come toyou as a governor and say, well
(43:04):
, we didn't do our job and,sorry, we just lost Laredo.
I mean that's not theconversation we want to have, so
we've got to be left to bang.
We can't be reactionary.
We have to be proactive so thatyour security is of the utmost
To me.
It's in the Texas Constitution.
It is authorized.
I don't need to ask forauthorities from anybody else
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then to develop it on our teamand give you the end state and
meet with you every week, justlike this, and go all right,
Texas, this is what we got goingon and give you the honest
truth and then and have townhall meetings with you every day
if I have to, or however, wegot to do it, so that you know
what we're doing is truth,transparency and action.
We don't have time for for, uh,certain things, certain things,
(43:48):
exigent circumstance.
We don't have time for, um, ourwith regard to health, right,
decentralizing medicine in thestate of Texas and in the
Paragon To take it out of thehands of the people that operate
in the bureaucratic level andto give it to a task force.
What else I'll provide?
A task force of the smartestphysicians in the state of Texas
(44:09):
, right, Healthcare workers thatwill sit down most sides of the
aisle talk about their issues.
Give me an honest bottom lineup front and a so what?
Why are you bringing this to me?
And here's the solution, sirRoger that go out and make good
things happen and then keep atab on that and have decision
points and all those thingsalong the line, to make sure
we're meeting our mark, which isyour mark abolishing property
(44:31):
taxes, phased withdrawal ofproperty taxes.
We can't fall behind otherstates.
Oklahoma, I love Oklahoma todeath and I know the governor of
Oklahoma, Stitt.
Okay, he's a good man and he isdoing that for them.
So we've got to phase that outright.
We've got to do exactly whatthey're doing.
We don't want to follow anymore, we want to lead.
Florida has done some greatthings with their state guard,
as I mentioned before.
(44:51):
We've got to lead.
We've got to lead.
That mentioned before.
We've got to lead.
We've got to lead.
That we can't.
We can build our state guardback up to the days of William
Barrett Travis on 24th ofFebruary in the Alamo, when he
said fellow citizens andcompatriots, we're besieged on
all sides.
And he went on to say and wecall on you, everything that is
dear to the American character,to come to our aid with all
dispatch.
I'm talking to Texans and allAmericans in the world.
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That's what I'm talking to.
The same thing that he did tobring back that same honor,
prestige and esprit de corps ofthe Republic of Texas to modern
day, so that we are completelyself-sufficient that we can run
this state as we should, withour own power grid, with our own
gold, not gold-backed currency,but our own gold deposit with
our own.
The only state in the countrythat has its patent office for
its land in its state is Texas.
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Everything else is up in the DCarea, so we will bring that
back.
It's already here.
We will operate in thesovereignty that is given to the
state by the federal and stateconstitution to operate that for
you, so that you can truly sayI live in Texas, the freest
state in the country.
Other things election integrity.
That's a huge piece.
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Texas has a history ofnefarious things happening in
elections.
I got it.
It's happened in all states,Just sometimes you don't see it.
We cannot just put our head inthe sand and say, well, civic
duty, I don't really have to doit, yeah, you do, you got to
vote right and along those lines, and I'll wrap it up with this
you know, yes, don't Californiaor Texas.
It's cute and all that stuff,but it's real.
We don't want that politicalmindset in Texas.
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We want the people right.
We've got a lot of you here.
I appreciate you, we want youhere, but we've got to have that
mindset to stay over there onthe West Coast, on the left
coast, if you will.
We got to have that.
And then the final thing look,Texans are taking Texas back.
We are doing it now.
We saw it on the flood, I sawit on the border.
Texans stand up and do what'sright.
Right, it's not things that aredone without authorities.
It's done because their heartis in the right place and the
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people that came in, thank youfor coming in on this flood.
Same thing we did for the folksin North Carolina.
I ran into two people fromNorth Carolina that drove out
here to help and they stopped meand said we came out here
because you came out to NorthCarolina.
I appreciate it.
That's my second home, FortBragg, right, the Piedmont, the
western North Carolina,specifically, where we jumped
into Robin Sage and rescued thepeople of Pineland right.
(47:11):
So that's what we do.
No-transcript.
And that primary folks isprimary, Because without it we
don't go to November.
Heck, yeah, Doc, I can't.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Pete.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Chambers, and I endorse this Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Doc, I am absolutely thrilled and proud.
You've been the same devoted,hardworking, real leader since
the moment I met you goingthrough the Q course.
You've been a source ofconfidence and you've always
been a North Star for everybodythat.
You've been mentored andsupported throughout their
careers, and I am grateful foryou for stepping into this arena
(47:56):
, because we need more men likeyourself that are willing to
lead from the front.
It's not an easy call to action.
It's not something that I say,and I understand the gravity of
it.
If you're able to serve in thiscapacity, please step up to the
plate.
If you've got experience inthis realm, if you want to
devote your time and volunteerand be part of this capacity,
please step up to the plate.
(48:16):
If you've got experience inthis realm, if you want to
devote your time and volunteerand be part of this effort,
please step up to the plate.
Our country used to have agreat representation of veterans
in our government and sadly,it's not the same.
Individuals are stepping up,they're coming in and little by
little, we'll see some change,but right now, if you're a
veteran and you have the abilityto lead in this space, please
(48:42):
step forward.
We need you.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
And if you're a veteran in Texas of the 1.8
veterans that are in Texas onthe 3rd of March, I need you to
pick up a fire team, a platoon,a company, get on a bus whatever
you need to do and get downthere and vote.
We don't typically do that Ididn't do that before, I'm going
to be honest, but we've got todo that at this point.
I need you on this election.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Thank you Again, doc.
Where can they go to find outsome more information about your
campaign?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
The campaign is at docpetechambersorg.
It's the campaign website andit has a little more detail in
there, but I gave you the heartof it and that's that's really
the most important part.
There's a, there's a greatplace to link up and become a
volunteer, just like the threeoperators out of the mission
unit over there at Bragg.
Here's the funny part.
(49:28):
They called them and they werelike oh, we know, doc, we were a
third group.
Yeah, well, we'll come outthere.
Awesome, come on, we need you.
Yeah, we'll come out there.
Awesome, come on, we need you.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Hell yeah, it's a small community, it's a small
world and, like I said, we areproud to know you, support you
and be there for you.
Brother, if you guys do me afavor, pause right now.
Go to the episode description,click those links, get involved,
help spread this message.
It doesn't matter if you're notfrom Texas.
I do believe Evergreen Beretshould have an honorary
(49:57):
residency in Texas just right,along with everything that we
believe in, and it's one of thegreatest states and it
definitely needs our help.
So you go there.
Pause, go to those links,support Doc, share this episode
with your friends that live downin Texas.
Help bring some awareness tothis campaign, as Doc's the man
for the job.
(50:17):
Thank you all for tuning in Doc.
Thank you so much for beinghere and we'll see you all next
time.
Until then, take care.
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