February 6, 2025 • 59 mins
In this episode, we delve into the complexities of the current political landscape under President Trump's administration, touching on tariffs, military strategies, and significant societal shifts in education. The discussion also welcomes author Chad Stewart, who shares insights on his educational adventure series, "Britfield and the Lost Crown," reflecting on the importance of creativity in learning.
• Examining the effectiveness of recent tariffs and their implications
• The mastery of negotiation in international relations
• The importance of compassion in the wake of disasters
• The rise of the homeschool movement as a response to educational failings
• Insights from Chad Stewart on his engaging children's book series
• The cultural shift towards valuing diverse storytelling in education
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It's a busy week, busy week.
So Wednesday, wednesday, 4 pm,eastern time, that's what time
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What's up, what's up.
So yeah, like we said, we got abunch of topics for you right
off the bat.
(02:22):
Let's talk about these tariffs.
This is sending everybody intoa bit of a tizzy, huh.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, so really, what they have been is exactly what
President Trump knew they weregoing to be, which is a
bargaining chip.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
He's whipped them out four times.
The first one was with Columbia.
We talked about this last weekBetween the fourth and the
eighth hole on President Trump'sSunday round of golf.
It was fixed.
He did the same thing withMexico within hours.
Their president, she wastalking a lot of trash.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
She was talking tough there, she was trying to girl
boss and kind of realize theimpact.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, back down sent 10,000 troops to the border on
their side, Justin Trudeau,everybody's least favorite
Canadian, tried to do the samething the only time in his life
he ever tried to alpha mail everand failed miserably.
Agreed to all kinds of thingsand it's all conditional on a
(03:19):
month pause on the tariffs andit's working.
The only one that it hasn'tworked on is China thus far, but
that's a little bit of adifferent ball game, based on
who they are and their economicpower.
It still works, but it'sworking everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, it's working, just like we said it would and
you said it wouldn't.
I wonder who's right?
Oh, we are.
Listen, I'm not petty.
I'm not petty, I just soundlike I am, that's all.
But you know, yeah, everybody.
So everybody was freaking outover, probably like the past,
but I don't know, 24 hours or so, that they weren't going to get
(04:01):
their Timu or Shine or Sheen Inever know how to say that
Deliveries from China.
But that is also reversed.
Right now, right At the moment,that's been reversed.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Usps is back online delivering that stuff.
But President Trump, when itcomes to economics and doing
business deals, listen folks.
He's the master and everybody'slike, oh, he bankrupt this and
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah.
He knows what he's doing andthis has worked.
It's proven multiple timesalready that it's worked, so
(04:34):
just let him do his thing.
Your cost of maple syrup's notgoing to go up, it's okay.
Oh, by the way, before you openyour mouth, do a little
research on what the percentageof the tariffs are going out
versus coming in.
By the way, canada charges aton of money that we pay for
(04:58):
that.
They pay us almost nothing inreturn, but as it stands right
now, mexico is very much thesame way.
So do your research before youget all worked up.
The reality is the percentageof imports from Canada and
Mexico are very, very small.
Most households don't even buythings from those two nations,
with the exception of a lot ofautomakers having plants in
(05:20):
Canada.
Okay, fine, but other than that, very little impact on people's
lives, contrary to popularbelief.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Right, yeah, yeah, it's going to affect them way
more than does us.
I saw a funny, funny, shortlittle video of some Canadian, I
think it was like a packagestore owner, and he was taking,
taking off the shelves all ofthe American products that that
he already bought, that healready paid for.
Like who are you hurting here?
Not us, you know.
(05:47):
So I think you said itperfectly clear.
Everybody needs to calm down.
Calm down, let it play out.
The guy knows what he's doing.
I mean, we're what are we?
16 days?
16 days 16 days in office andthere's you know what I think we
were saying before.
We even said at the beginningso much happening in such short
(06:08):
order, things that you know he'spromised that he was going to
do.
He said he was going to do andhe's doing them.
And we talked about and we mayeven mentioned it last week that
, um, we thought I rememberspecifically me thinking that
it's not going to all get donein one term.
It's like there's no way.
It's just too much, right Likeit's impossible.
(06:29):
There's too many channels,right Like?
We all thought that, asoptimistic and hopeful, um, and
high expectations that we have,they were very tempered
expectations based on what we'veseen more or less our whole
lives, right.
So this is uncharted territory.
(06:50):
This is something we have never, ever seen the likes of, and
the transparency is what is sogratifying and awe-inspiring,
like they're so open.
Everything that they're doing.
It's incredible.
And we're like I thinkeverybody's like shell-shocked.
Even the people who wereexpecting it or wanting it, you
(07:11):
know, are like is this reallyhappening?
This is crazy.
I never knew.
Yeah, we have a government thatdid this.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I wrote a blog today about, you know, the chaos
that's being.
You know chaos is ensuing everytime one of these decisions.
But it's progress?
Yeah, because it is.
You know, he's flipping overevery rock, he's turning
everything over.
He's looking underneath.
We're finding all kinds ofstuff.
People are worked up.
I love how they're using that.
Well, Elon wasn't elected, yeah, well, neither was Dr Jill,
(07:39):
neither is George Soros.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I was going to say, yeah, neither was this guy here,
right, alex Soros.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh, by the way, kamala didn't win any primaries.
They put her in, so stop withthat.
Okay, you know the USAIDdiscussion, which is the big one
right now.
You know, because he went inthere and shut it down.
Oh, by the way, found someridiculous spending.
Both.
You know, on the shady side ofwhat's.
You know, truthfully, nationdeveloping money, like we didn't
need a transgender child's playin El Salvador or whatever that
(08:16):
was.
You know those kinds of things.
We didn't need that.
There was funding going into.
You know a health corporationthat ended up funding the Wuhan
lab.
They're finding all kinds ofthings right now and there are
people protesting that becauseit's being done by somebody that
wasn't elected or appointed.
(08:37):
But what they fail to realizeis that Marco Rubio, who was
unanimously you went through thenumbers last week, yes,
unanimously confirmed as thesecretary of state, usaid works
for him.
That's right.
He took over as the director ofUSAID right In the interim,
until they get somebody else inthere.
He's the one who let Elon in thefront door.
He is the one who saideverybody go home.
(08:58):
He's the one who allowed, likeyou know, Elon's been given
access to these things, and Iknow a lot of people are
complaining, you know.
Oh, he's accessing, classifiedthis and classified that.
Yeah, well, if you've beengiven an interim clearance,
which he has yeah, I guaranteehe has, and the people that work
for him have been given aninterim clearance and have been
given access at the stroke of apen from the president, they
(09:19):
have access.
Yeah, period, you can not likeit.
You can not like it, that's OK,but what you can't say is this
is illegal, this is this.
Listen, I can promise you thatthis all stands up in court a
lot.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
There's no question about it.
There is no I that hasn't beendotted, no T that hasn't been
crossed here.
No, you know legality that hasnot been looked into before
they've done anything, becausethey know this is not the first
rodeo for Trump and the peoplethat he's he's brought in.
You know they're they're notplaying, they're not playing and
(09:54):
it is glorious to watch, andyou know, and also, obviously,
it's always ironic and, just youknow, a head scratcher to watch
people foaming at the mouth andgetting angry that Elon Musk
and Doge are saving us money,are eliminating wasteful
(10:15):
spending that we do not benefitfrom Our tax dollars, are going
to funding a play in Serbia, andyou know all of the things that
you mentioned.
So to be angry about that justsays you just want to be angry,
you just want to be mad, that'sall.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It's TDS.
That's what it is.
It's mental arrangementsyndrome.
For sure, you know, people arefinding reasons to be upset
about this.
And, fine, 60% of Americadecided this is what we wanted
to do for the next at least twoyears, if not four years.
And this is what we wanted todo for the next at least two
years, if not four years, andthis is what we're going to do.
So buckle up, yeah, becauseit's not stopping.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yep, nope, nope.
It is going to keep on rollingand it's just going to get
better and better, and I love it.
I love it so much.
Here's something I don't lovethe plane crashes.
Oh those, those.
Did you watch those videos?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So I, I have and and I will, um, uh, this is another.
Another topic that I wroterecently is that, um, there's a
lot of people out there,especially when it comes to the
DC uh crash Blackhawk helicopterand the airliner.
There's a lot of armchairquarterbacking going on out
there.
Yes, and I will tell you solelyas an informed passenger and
(11:29):
I've spent a lot of hours in theback of a Blackhawk or a bunch
of military helicopters, but alot of Blackhawk time as a
passenger with night vision,goggles on with the headset on,
listening to the air crew, youknow, talk and converse and all
that.
And let me tell you somethingunless you have flown a
helicopter at night in a majormetropolitan urban area, with
(11:51):
all the ambient light that comeswith that, under night vision,
near one of the busiest airportsin the world, please keep your
opinions to yourself.
If you, or you know, if youhaven't been an air traffic
controller at a majormetropolitan airport, again
please shut up.
Ask questions you want.
You have no authority, you haveno expertise, you have no room
(12:12):
to pass judgment on anyone andplease, please, until we know
what happened, keep the DEI crapout of the conversation, Please
.
We're passing judgment on stuff.
We don't know what happened yet.
There is an ongoing fullinvestigation and they will get
to the bottom of this.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, and I think with this current administration
, we're going to find outeverything that they know.
Yep, you know, I haven't thefaintest idea how.
You know.
I think everybody is trying towrap their brains around how
that could have even happened.
And you know to your point wecouldn't possibly understand
(12:54):
because that's not our world.
So you know, obviously all ofthe speculation has been going
on, and you know, and of coursethe conspiracy theories start
pretty much instantaneously.
You know, looking at thepassenger logs and who's on
there and everything.
And you know, I always cringe.
I cringe when that starts up soimmediately because it's like,
(13:17):
hey, hang on, Take a breath here, because there were children on
this plane, there were families.
These are human beings and nowthere's all of these families,
including the Blackhawk familymembers, who are trying to
process this incredible lossright now.
(13:37):
And people are throwing all ofthis doubt, especially on the
pilots for the Blackhawk, Ithink, because they wouldn't
disclose the female's nameinitially, and so that, right
away, why won't they disclose it?
Well, she just got a medal, shewas just here.
Conspiracy, conspiracy.
And I'm not saying any of thatstuff is impossible, anything is
(14:00):
possible.
We just don't know right now.
And I think of the families.
I just think of those families.
Like it is breathtaking whenyou think about the loss and the
suddenness of it.
So, remember our humanity for aminute.
Guys, Come on.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, and it's, you know it's heartbreaking because
that you know those families.
That was a training exercise, atraining flight for that
Blackhawk crew.
You know you expect obviouslyany time you fly at night in an
aircraft you know there's dangerinvolved with that, but that's
not, I don't expect that out of.
You know, a training exercise,training flight, and you know
(14:36):
I've had to deliver bad newslike that to families before.
It's the most awful thing thatyou have to do.
So the lack of respect isheartbreaking.
It says a lot about ourhumanity, or lack of humanity,
right now and again to have thatbleed over into the
Philadelphia crash.
That was an air ambulance,which is Aero Ambulance, I think
(15:12):
that's the name of it, but it'san international corporation.
They do ambulatory flights.
You know there was a pilot, acopilot, a physician, a
physician's assistant, themother and a child patient on
that aircraft.
They were, it was Mexican, itwas a Mexican based aircraft out
of Tijuana, which is where theywere flying back to.
They were leaving Philadelphia,flying to Kansas City for a
refuel and then on to Tijuana totake that little girl home, and
something tragic happened,unfortunately also someone in a
car on the ground.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yes, yes, one person in a vehicle Injuring 22 people
yeah, a lot of injuries, that'sa very crowded neighborhood in
Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It's on the, you know , north Philly.
It was a shopping mall area,very urban.
You know location, but it's,you know, because it fell on the
heels of the DC crash,everybody started, you know,
lumping them together and it's,you know, they brought the DI
crap into that too, and it'sjust, it's awful.
You know again, please, youknow, remember your humanity in
(16:00):
all of this.
People die in tragic loss.
In both of those instances it'sterrible.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And neither one of us are saying not to investigate
it.
I mean, like that's literallythe point Let the investigation
happen.
We are, we are living in atransparent government right now
, or I'll be reasonable and saywhat appears to be more Like,
let's let's, you know, let'sgive it a chance, give it a
chance to play out, give them achance to do the investigation
(16:33):
and all of those things.
But I agree with you, you knowthere's there's plenty to say
about DI hiring and all of thatstuff, and it's just not the
moment for it, right, I mean notto me at least.
I mean you know everybody can dowhatever the hell they want,
but personally speaking, I wouldsay, you know, give it, give it
a pause and uh and see, andjust, you know, for the moment,
(16:55):
consider those families that aredealing with the most horrific,
you know kind of loss.
It's so out of the box, youknow plane crashes, and it's so
out of the box of what is likenormal in in lives, you know.
So this is just Very tragic.
Seeing all those I was lookingat, you know, just researching
(17:16):
the topic, looking at thepictures of all of these young
people and families, you know,families that lost either their
mother or father.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It was a competing team, it was a bunch of guys who
were hunting together, likethere's a whole bunch of groups
and people together on that.
You know relatively smallairplane.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Right, what was it?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
64 people on board that one 64, I think passengers
and crew, and then the three onthe Blackhawk Right.
So you know, listen, you knowthe veteran community is guilty
of this.
We're our own worst critics,but we also speculate on things
that you know even we don't knowabout.
Again, I've ridden in the backof them.
I've spent a lot of hours inthem.
I am telling you that is not ajob that I would have enjoyed, I
(17:58):
don't think, but it's a toughjob.
And unless you've done it andeven if you have done it and I
would tell you, the pilots thatI know have been the ones who've
been the most calm in thisentire thing, because they know,
but you know, unless you're oneof those people who've done
that literally been there, donethat please do not speak with
authority on any of this stuff.
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, absolutely, and you see it, you know I mean
again one of the dark sides ofsocial media.
You know, and everybody is aninstant expert.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, absolutely Well .
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I saw a meme so that means I know yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I flew a flight simulator once yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I play Call of Duty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I've never in my entire life played that.
I hear it's highly addictive toplay, but that's why I'll stay
away from it.
But yeah, so obviously you knowwe'll keep watching.
Everybody is watching, you know, and just wanting to understand
.
I think there's a naturalinclination, of course, to want
answers, you know, to understandhow something horrific like
(19:01):
that can happen and certainlyyou know, to state the obvious,
obviously hope that there wasnothing nefarious, nothing you
know, untowards going on.
Most likely tell me if youthink the same or not.
It most likely tell me if youthink the same or not.
Most likely it was simply atragic accident or two very
tragic accidents.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You know Occam's razor.
It's the most likely, you knowthe most likely.
You know explanation for theincident was just a horrible
accident, that that is mostlikely what happened.
So that's kind of where my headgoes.
But you know we'll have to waitfor the investigation and and
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So yeah, that's kind of where my head goes but you
know we'll have to wait for theinvestigation and and uh see
what happens, yeah yeah, yeah,meantime we got.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
We got military aircraft flying all over the
world right now yeah, yeah, wedo.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Where are they going clay?
What are they doing?
What's happening right?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
so we got them.
We talked a little bit uh, wetalked a little bit about the
actual deportation last week,although that that's ramped up
with the inclusion now ofsending folks to Gitmo.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Which is an interesting twist and the
president of El Salvadorvolunteering to say hey, we'll
take all of your violentcriminals to include Americans
if you want, and we'll take themoff your hands, which you know
will never happen.
But you know the gitmo thing israising some eyebrows, to
include from the leadership incuba, yes, but what it's
(20:21):
generating, obviously, isnationwide.
You've got protests everywhere,and the idiocracy of this is my
favorite, which is especiallyI've seen it the most in los
angeles oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
We can talk over this .
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's the you know there it is Right, there it is.
What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
We're in America.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
We're burning an American flag, the nation that
has, you know, allowed you tostay here.
Right, we are waving loyalty toMexico with Mexican flags and
yet refusing to return to Mexico, where we came from.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, yeah, how about that for logic?
How great is that?
I just I just did a video theother day because, again, same
exact thing, you know, headexploding, mind going with the
insanity of it.
So everything that you justsaid, you know.
My dilemma, my mental dilemmahere, was, like I can't decide
(21:17):
what is worse that you know thatyou have these illegals waving
the flags of the country theydon't want to go back to and
burning the flag of the countrythey want to stay in.
There's that or is the idiotson the left who are crying for
them on social media?
(21:37):
So you know, and everybodywho's you know, all of these
politicians who are, you know,wanting to harbor them and keep
them safe.
Like I can't decide what'sworse.
I think they're probably prettymuch equally awful and if I,
you know, if I could have it myway, I would deport them along
with, along with.
(21:58):
Like listen, you're sosympathetic, that's so sweet of
you.
You know, your, your heart isso big, why don't you go with
them?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Well, and then you've got the New Jersey.
It's not the governor, is itthe governor?
I think it might be thegovernor, governor who's housing
an illegal in his home.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, holman's like okay.
Well, might be the governor,governor who's housing an
illegal in his home.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
yeah, homans like okay well, that was his response
.
Yeah, deal with that too, right, so no problem.
And and then you've got.
You know, pam bondy got uhconfirmed today.
Recording all right, anotherconfirmation, you know?
Uh, into the trump team, right?
She's already stated day one,yeah, all of the state's
attorneys, that they willcooperate.
(22:38):
They will cooperate withprosecution, they will cooperate
with the administration, theywill cooperate with ice and the
federal law enforcement agencies, or they will be disciplined
and or find themselves a new job.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, not an option, not an option.
I love it.
I love, and this is everythingthat I, we, collectively, us
asked for.
Like, just just state how it is, don't apologize, don't dance
around it, don't make excuses.
This is how it is.
(23:10):
You want to cry?
Go cry, keep crying, cry more,for all we care.
We're following the letter ofthe law.
We're doing everything that wesaid that we're going to do.
Again, my word of the day fulltransparency.
We said we were going to dothis.
We're doing it.
Don't know why you thinkotherwise.
Well, we know why because we'veheard empty promises, you know,
(23:31):
from all, all leaders.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know from all, all leaders.
Well, it's, it's.
It goes back to what we talkedabout.
You know, top of the show, andthat's the.
The rapid nature of all of thisis what's putting people off.
Um, truthfully, you know, yousaid it, you were, you didn't
think so.
I didn't think so.
I mean, I was standing.
I got a text from a friend ofmine right after the
inauguration speech.
I was in Las Vegas for the shotshow and a friend texted me and
(23:55):
said, you know, what did youthink?
And I was like too aggressive,um, you know, four years, um,
he'll get a lot done, but Ithink he's overstepping, he's
over committing.
And then, literally justyesterday or maybe the day
before, same guy texted me backand said, okay, so what?
You know, give me a lettergrade, how's he doing so far?
And I was like absolutely blownaway, totally, you know,
(24:18):
underestimated what he's doing.
He is, you know, he may getdone everything in the first
year or two.
And then, you know, I actuallyheard a great theory last night.
I think it was on Gutfeld, andI'm not an often Gutfeld watcher
.
The humor is not as good, Ithink, as some people believe,
believe it to be, but you know,I think it was Tyrus.
His guy on there was sayingthat you know, trump, he's
(24:40):
President Trump's running likethis at a million miles an hour
so that he can get everythingdone in the first two years that
he wants to, and then he'sliterally just going to hand it
off to JD Vance.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And he's going to go play golf.
They're the keys to the castle.
My friend, yeah, my friend yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Set them up.
Set them up for success, for,you know, the follow on
administration, which you knowis an interesting plan.
It's actually probably not toofar from true, but the speed of
this and the lack of reactiontime is, I think, what's really
got people upset.
Right, is they, you know?
But before they can get madabout something, he's moved on
(25:13):
to something else.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't, they
don't.
They don't know what to getoutraged about first like I'm so
angry that you're doing this.
Wait, you're doing that.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
No, I'm angry about that, like yeah I mean yesterday
, hey, we're gonna, we're gonnaown gaza, like what, what, what?
Listen, I again alltransparency.
Yeah, I don't know what hemeant by that, I don't know how
earnest that statement was, butI will say, on the face of it,
the guy who promised to keep usout of wars or not, commit us
(25:44):
bit more on what, what heenvisions doing, and it was much
more reasonable, you know, thanthan that initial statement
sounded like I.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
If I find it, I'll throw it in here.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
But yeah, I think you gotta be aware of the sound
bite, though that's.
The hard part is that everybodyclips it.
You know he should go betterbecause that's all they've been
doing him for the last eightyears yeah, and he's gotten, I I
think, tell me if you agree ornot.
I think he's gottenexceptionally better about he
has, yeah, he still says stuffthat you're like oh, oh, oh okay
(26:26):
well his reaction yesterday themost genuine reaction I've seen
, probably since he took office,was when they told him that
president biden had with CAA,the massive talent agency in
Hollywood, and he stopped andturned his head.
He goes are you kidding me?
Like it was just the most likedown to earth you know moment
from president Trump.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I've seen it a while.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
And it was like it was this shock, like absolute,
could not believe what he hadjust heard.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
I'll have to look for that one.
Yeah, I, you know, there's noquestion about it.
You know, stay, let's state theobvious.
He is shaking it all up,they're all, and I just saw it
resurvey.
I think it was like kind ofquiet for a little bit, but they
just um, somebody just broughtit up again that he's, you know,
he's moving forward onabolishing, uh, the department
(27:13):
of education wild and in a verygood way, and that actually.
So we'll talk about that somemore.
But that actually ties in,really, with our guests, believe
it or not?
Again, guys, his name, I'mgoing to bring him on in just a
second.
His name is Chad Stewart and hehas written the first in a
series is called Britfield andthe Lost Crown.
(27:35):
This sounds so good.
So when they talked about, whenI was reading about the you
know about the book, like what,you know how they always tell
you, like what to compare it toor what it reminds you of, Um, I
saw the magic, magic name forme, which was CS Lewis.
Who my heart?
I love CS Lewis beyond words.
So as soon as I saw that, I waslike, oh, okay, well he's, we
(27:57):
have to have him on Um, but yeah, it sounds like an amazing book
.
I want him to tell us a littlebit about it and we're going to
bring him on right now.
And here is Chad Stewart Hi, sonice to meet you.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Nice to meet you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You are welcome, so we're thrilled to have you on
here.
I can't wait to hear about yourbook and I also.
I don't know if you heard it,but we were talking about
abolishing the Department ofEducation.
But we were talking aboutabolishing the Department of
Education and I know you have avery big education lean here, so
I know you have some greatinsights on that.
So, clay, you have somequestions.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, chad.
So you know three authorssitting here.
Actually Elsa's an author, I'man author.
We all are very differentgenres.
So you know I write adultaction fiction, elsa writes
Hallmark movie novels andobviously yours is labeled as
(28:52):
kids books.
But every author has his or herown process and motivation.
You know, when I wrote KeepMoving, keep Shooting, it was my
transition, you know,retirement from the army into
the civilian world and it was away to keep my brain engaged.
So what was your impetus oryour motivation to write?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Yeah, great, great question.
And yeah, it's not necessarilya kid's book series.
It's very similar to the HarryPotter series, but the complete
opposite of Harry Potter, ifthat makes sense, meaning where
Harry Potter was designed tointroduce black magic,
witchcraft, to the hearts andminds of children.
Redfield is the completeopposite of that.
It's anchored in current time.
We don't use any heightenedfantasy, demigod, superheroes,
(29:34):
none of it.
They're very, very authenticbooks and the main characters
that start in book one at 12,.
By the end of the series, bookseven will be 18.
And real quick.
Our youngest reader is seven,our oldest reader is 93, and 55%
of our global audience areadults.
So it really is a fast-paced,high-octane.
But what the quote you werementioning was, it was great.
I think it was from the EpochTimes and it said it's a
(29:57):
combination of CS Lewis and DanBrown.
I thought that's pretty cool.
We've been compared to like alot of others, which is cool.
And there was a wonderfulcomment we got from a woman, an
older woman in Canada, and shesaid, because I love the
Britfield series, she goes, itreminds me a lot of James Bond,
but with a bigger cast and agreater purpose.
And I thought, wow, she nailedit.
But yeah, it's funny, I'moriginally Beach, california.
You might be familiar with thearea and I was back East
(30:18):
Wellesley, massachusetts, for 16years where I did my
undergraduate in Britishliterature and European history.
And it was about 12 years agowhen I had the idea for
Britfield and Lost Crown.
I was actually into investmentbanking and worked for three
Fortune 100 companies and itreally obviously was just not a
good fit for me.
I don't think it's a good fitfor most people and I was dying
to do something creative, getback into the game and the
creativity and we're all borncreative, whether people feel it
(30:40):
or not, but we sort of getdiverted away from really our
talents and our creativity.
And so I sat down and spentfour years, 2,500 hours, writing
britfield lost ground, book oneand when I started it I really
just did start to do somethingfun.
I didn't.
I didn't see it as this massiveseries.
I didn't see it as a, as a12-year undertaking.
This is the next um 25 years ofmy life, if you will, and it's
(31:01):
seven.
It'll be seven books, it'll beseven major motion pictures.
Here's a finished you'llappreciate this a finished movie
script, seventh draft, and thattook about over 18 months,
about $354,000, which is kind oftypical for that range.
I mean high level expertise inwriting it.
We're in pre-production of thefirst movie.
Hopefully we'll be filming inspring of next year in England
(31:22):
for the first of seven majormotion pictures.
So it's this fast-pacedadventure series.
Book one is in England.
Book two then moves to Franceand the main characters of Tom
and Sarah are 13 years old now,and then that's 474 pages.
Book three is Italy.
The main characters are 14years old, that's 575 pages, and
we just launched, as you cansee behind me, britfield and the
Eastern Empire starts in Vienna, ends in Moscow, russia.
(31:44):
We include 11 countries.
It's 437 pages, and the maincharacters are 15 years old now.
But we have this whole diversecast of Detective Gowerstone,
who's in his 40s, inspectorFontaine, who used to work for
Interpol, who we were introducedinto book two until she finds
out how corrupt Interpol is, andnow is helping out this whole
sort of Britfield series andstuff.
We have Oliver, who Tom andSarah, the main characters, meet
(32:06):
in Oxford university in bookone, who's a sophomore, he kind
of gets, and again too, it's fun.
You guys can appreciate this.
When you're writing or you'rewriting series you don't really
know.
You're introducing certaincharacters because you want them
to, because you need them to,because you need them to be
there, or they're sort of movingthe story along, but you really
like them and I'm like, so Ibring back Oliver and he's in
all the series now, and so youhave that sort of 20 something.
And then Kate, this computertech who's kind of a podcaster
(32:30):
blogger and she's getting theword out on the truth, and so
it's very, very succinct totoday's exactly what's happening
right now.
And I remember when book twocame out, a lot of people were
saying what are you prophetic?
And that was five years ago.
And so I do bring in a lot ofthe things that you're talking
about and I pull the curtain.
We talk about quantum computers, d-wave computers, social
(32:50):
credit scoring, the dangers ofAI, manipulation of the stock
market and just so on, andnonprofit organizations that
funnel and launder billions ofdollars.
All this stuff are in theseries, lightly threaded
throughout the background, andI'll stop there.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I love that.
So my book nerd brain wants toask you so many book nerd, book
author nerd questions.
I'm not going to do thatbecause I really want to stay
focused on it, but just knowthat I'm dying to ask all of
those questions that we authorslove talking about.
One thing that I especiallylove about this I call it I'm
(33:29):
making up another word.
I like to do that tooEducatement.
It's like you're educating andentertaining at the same time,
and I think that is so powerful.
And another thing that Iespecially love I'm a Christian,
so I love that this does nothave the magic element in it,
that it's very real and justthese very authentic, relatable.
(33:53):
It sounds like characters thatare driving these stories, so I
think that's just anotherfabulous thing.
I'm so excited to see where allof this goes.
For you, it's amazing, realquick.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
We call it stealth education because, as children
are reading it or as adults arereading it, they're learning
about geography, art,architecture, culture and
history.
It's based on family,friendship, loyalty, courage and
hope, and we incorporate thefour C's in every book
creativity, critical thinking,communication and collaboration.
Tell me another series thatdoes that so.
But it's funny with the wordsI'm writing and then I'll, I'll,
I'll, like I'll write a word,and then I'll look it up and I'm
like that's not a word, reallyit feels like a word right.
(34:28):
It's gotta be a word.
Yeah, like I like that word.
Now, that's funny yeahabsolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
So you've got a lot of things going on with this
book.
You mentioned a whole bunch ofit, so we're going to be able to
actually see is this going tobe?
Are they going to be movies?
Are they going?
Speaker 5 (34:43):
to live action movies .
Yeah, it's just, it'sinteresting.
I mean, it's it's hard tocompare it because there's so
very little like it, even in thehistory of cinema.
I'm, you know, I've beeninvolved in that industry for a
long time and and just as a, asa researcher behind and you know
, on the theater, behind thescenes, all of it, and so it's
kind of like you got a littlebit of that Raiders of the Lost
Ark, but it's current time.
It's a little bit like NationalTreasure, but it's bigger than
(35:08):
that.
And it's a lot like Star Wars,but it's not the sci-fi thing.
And I keep saying that really,britfield and the Lost Crown
series is the relaunch of StarWars, but without any of the
sci-fi stuff, because because ithas that, that essence that
star wars has.
If you were gripped, as I was asa, as a child, you know, like
1977, I saw the first movie 13times and it's like I don't like
sci-fi, nothing against it, Ijust don't like it.
(35:29):
But it's such a great story andit's so much fun and it's so
exciting and it's got all thesedifferent elements originality,
great cast of characters.
It's an adventure, it's gothumor, it's a david and goliath
story.
It's triumph over tragedy.
Um, the ragtag, you know,rebellion against the mighty
empire.
It's got all those elements andthat's what britfield has in it
, the essence.
But we don't, if you will,compromise it with those other
(35:51):
elements such as witchcraft orpost-apocalyptic or deadly gods
or all that stuff, and to methat's sort of um, well, it's
easier, easier, it's easywriting.
So you know, my book, like Idon't get to wave a wand to
solve a problem, or if they're,if they're, if they're trapped
in a corner, it's like what'sthat magical spell?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
or hold on, let's put on that magical cloak and we
can walk through this wall.
It's like no, I got to figure.
Children, my grandchildren, aregoing to be homeschooled.
That's the plan that they'vedecided on, which I am ecstatic
(36:27):
about.
After witnessing over the past,you know at least minimum four
years of what the educationsystem has turned into.
What are you seeing that hasaffected your writing in these
books and how you're marketingthem?
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Yeah, it's interesting, we're already in
thousands of schools.
There's 120,000 elementary andmiddle schools in the United
States.
Our goal is to be in at least80% to 90% of them in the next
eight to 10 years, and so we'realready in thousands of schools.
Actually, when we kicked bookone Britfield, lost Crown when
we kicked it off in August 2019,I drove 9,000 miles.
I visited 23 states, presentedover 200 schools in front of 40
to 50,000 students.
(37:06):
So I was boots on the ground,you know, sleeves rolled up.
You know, presenting tosometimes an auditorium of three
to 400 fourth through eighthgraders, you know, and it's like
the fourth graders are justlike in the front and great
right, the fifth graders theyalways have the best questions.
In fact, some of the zingersI've got were from fourth
graders.
I'm like, wow, where'd thatcome from?
But it is, it's really cool andit was across the board too.
You know, private ChristianCatholic homeschool.
(37:28):
You know, you name it.
You know I was there presentingto it.
And just to come back fullcircle to what you're saying
about education, I've beensaying that for about two years
We've seen an explosion in thehomeschool movement.
I like to call it thehomeschool revolution and that's
happening.
We've gone from 5 million towhat I would estimate almost 12
to 15 million in the last fourto five years.
(37:48):
And it's extraordinary, it'spowerful, and what you'll see
with the traditional schoolsystem, the public system, is
it'll kick around and fightright now because it's got
billions of dollars, it gets tolaunder and they've killed
creativity and they've reallykilled the human spirit of
learning.
But, like I said, they're atthe beginning of the end of that
(38:08):
.
But your question was what haveI seen?
And I would say that I'm a bigproponent.
I myself was not homeschooled,but I'm a big proponent of it
and the best educated kids Ihave seen are homeschooled.
Then when I meet someone orparents and they're like, oh, my
kids are homeschooled, I getexcited because I'm like oh,
we're going to have some goodconversations.
You know what I mean.
Or they read my book and it'sjust like they're giving me
these really articulatequestions or specifics.
They're grounded, they listenwell, they're well-read, they're
(38:31):
usually one to two grades aheadof all the other students,
which is not really a hard sell.
It's just the whole educationalsystem is so debunked.
You know what I mean.
It's based on a 19th centuryindustrial model that's never
been changed and it was designedto fail, and I think those that
are behind it and responsiblefor it I told you, I said this,
I've been saying this for yearsthere's a reckoning coming and
you're starting to see it rightnow.
(38:52):
None of this stuff surprises me.
This is the tip of the icebergof what's coming.
So you know, you have thecackling hyenas.
You know paid actors.
You know what I meanPoliticians, paid actors.
I mean it's just like it'snothing.
They're done, they're finished.
I've said this for, I think, 12months, oh, no, two years.
Democratic Party's finished,it's over.
Yeah, I mean, it literally isover.
What you're seeing right now isa carnival, it's a show, it's a
(39:14):
joke, you know.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Yeah, clay and I were just talking about how they
have not learned a thing, right?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Clay Learned a thing, but so Chad I am.
So I've got a couple ofrelatives.
Both my sisters are ineducation.
One is a elementary leveladministrator and then I have a
sister who's a readingspecialist.
I was a full time substituteteacher for about 18 months at a
charter school outside ofPhiladelphia.
There's a lot of education, youeducation.
(39:41):
Elsa and I are both parents.
Mine are a little younger thanhers, but my youngest is in
college now.
So I've been through all therecent maturations and a lot of
personal touches in currenteducation.
There's a lot of things thatyou said that I agree with.
However, that the currenteducational model to go to
(40:02):
something different is going totake a cultural shift in the
sense of you know, it's nicethat homeschooling is produces a
great product and I understandthat there's a lot of.
I have a friend who's aprincipal of a you know, in
Pennsylvania, of a homeschoolsystem that allows and provides
curriculum for parents tohomeschool their kids and those
kinds of things.
(40:23):
But, you know, for a collapseof the current you know
educational model, I don't thinkis realistic, however, with
President.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Trump I did real quick.
I did.
I mean, I said it's thebeginning of the end and I said
it'll kick around for years, butit's the beginning of the end.
It'll take time, it's very wellentrenched.
But this is the thing too, andI didn't mean to cut you off,
but I remember hearing a commentfrom like a retired general or
something they're talking aboutthe military and it's just like,
oh my gosh, you know, likewhat's happened and the
destruction and all the seedsthat have been planted, and he's
like that stuff can be turnedaround in two to three weeks.
(40:58):
You know, change real quick.
You're looking at a populationtoo in the United States that I
would estimate anywhere from 85%plus that are number one that
voted for Trump.
So the statistics that you sawin that and hopefully all those
elections, california has beenred.
I'm in San Diego, california.
It's been red for decades andit went red in this last
election.
Even Vermont went red and Ibelieve that all 50 states did.
(41:25):
But there's always this backand forth and divided people.
You know in like 40% of thepopulation are Democrats.
No, they're not.
So what I'm saying is,especially since night, since
2020, you have, you have one ofthe you have.
We're in the most awakened timein history.
You know, some are, some areall the way there, some are,
some are just waking up, but youhave millions and millions of
people that are standing up,that are questioning things, and
so we are prepared and preppedfor a massive shift and again,
it's going to take time, butthat shift is already happening,
(41:47):
do you realize?
I think it's like I rememberthis too.
So in 2020, I was on my nationaltour and I was in Memphis,
tennessee, and I was finally inthe heart of America.
I went all the way up throughOregon and Washington yeah, that
was fun and then across thenation and down through Oklahoma
.
I was in Texas for like a monthand I was finally in Tennessee,
in the heart of America, and itwas March 2020, just did four
(42:13):
schools back to back and I hadto turn around and drive back
and I said to myself and to myfriends I said it'll be very
interesting when this wholequote unquote pandemic is over,
how many parents will be sendingtheir kids back to traditional
school?
And I was saying you know whatis it like?
You know, 5%, 10%.
I was seeing estimates ofanywhere from 20 to 30% that
were coming out 12 to 18 monthslater.
Do you know what a radicalshift just that is?
You don't know what happenswhen you lose, you know, 10% of
(42:34):
the kids at a school, or 15%.
So I'm saying all of this tosay in the last four years, this
massive shift is already takingplace.
We have over a thousand charterschools, you know, just in
California, and in fact some ofthe largest ones are interested
in the Britfield series andteaching it in the classrooms.
But I'm just saying lots ofthings are happening.
So, yeah, I mean like next yearor two years from now, but it's
(42:56):
already happening.
And parents are yanking notpulling, but yanking their kids
out of these institutions andfinding ways.
And homeschooling, too, is ahybrid model.
It's like you can drop yourkids off at a homeschool school
or a cross-collaboration of acharter school.
It's not like the lone parentthat has to stay home teaching
their one kid.
You know reading andmathematics.
That's not it at all.
(43:17):
You know, I don't know, maybe20 years ago, so, but I'll stop
there.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah, my, my, my point was, with the moves that
President Trump is making withschool choice, Right Is being a
huge part of it.
And then this discussion aboutyou know dissolving the
Department of Education.
Where do you see the impact ofthat in?
In its immediacy, Like wherewhat you know in the days
immediately following the youknow dissolving the Department
(43:42):
of Education?
What's the immediate impact?
Speaker 5 (43:45):
Yeah, and that's a good question and yeah, it's
kind of an intense question.
I kind of see what's going tohappen is that it'll be the way
that it should be, in the sensethat it's no longer a government
mandate but it's a state bystate mandate, and it will come
(44:06):
from there and it will start todivide and shift and some of the
public systems will still sortof tug along with their, if you
will, corruption and agendas,but they won't stick anymore and
the money won't be there tofund it anymore.
And now, with Trump in office, Ijust think you're going to see
it's already happening, thissort of aggressiveness, for all
of us too, as a nation.
I mean, it's really been byGod's grace that these, most of
these people are still walkingthe streets, because it was, in
my opinion, it was God's grace,it was holding people like
myself and millions of othersback from these hyenas and these
(44:28):
parasites that have beenhindering our children, to say
the very least, if that makessense.
And so it's not going to govery well for them over the next
six to 12 months to 18 months.
The stuff that they've beendoing teaching, pushing their
days are numbered, I mean, I'msaying this their days are
numbered and they're not goingto be hiding behind any group or
(44:51):
organization.
You'll be physically yanked outof there, trust me, and that's
coming, that is coming.
So that's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Yeah, I love it.
I'm so thrilled to witness thisshift and it's such a relief
again with the grandkids andwatching them grow up and seeing
them, you know, now coming intoa more reasonable world here,
where the balance has beenrestored right, where common
sense has come back and there'sboys and there's girls.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Right, exactly, okay, okay, so let's stop this
nonsense, this satanic nonsense,dear goodness yeah yeah,
absolutely, chad.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
it has been such a joy to have you on and I'm so
excited to read these books andand even if and I just want you
to know even if you said they'rereally only geared towards, I'd
still read, read them.
So, and I'm in, you know, and Ithink that's important for
everyone to hear, that'swatching and listening Um, not
just for kids and, and we allknow, you know, adults are
(45:49):
obsessed with the Harry Potterbooks.
You know what I mean.
So it's, you know, it's, itdoesn't even matter.
So I'm really excited for it.
I'm excited for all of thethings that you have coming up
for, the for the series as well.
Could you do us all a favor?
Tell everyone where they canfind you, where they can find
your books, if you're going tobe doing any more appearances
anywhere, give them, give themthe whole deal.
That would be wonderful.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
I appreciate that.
It's funny too, because theNarnia series was actually
written for adults.
That became one of the bestserving.
I mean, that's what Lewiswanted to do.
He was so fascinated with thatsort of fiction.
And he goes I want to write itfor adults.
And I remember too, I was inEngland and I think it was 2001,
2002, when the Harry Potterseries was really taking heat
and it was crazy.
(46:29):
I was like dating this womanthere and it's like all of her
friends were reading it likelate 20s, early 30s.
I'm like, oh my gosh, what isthis thing?
But yeah, you could check outour website, britfieldcom
B-R-I-T-F-I-E-L-D.
It's an award winning website.
It's very dynamic, it's great.
It really compliments,especially book one.
It's got over 400 pictures ofEngland, interactive maps.
We've got an 83 page studyguide based on academic
(46:50):
standards.
The books are meant anddesigned to be taught in the
classroom or homeschool groups.
And if you do order through theBritfield website, I'm still
signing books and that's notgoing to that'll probably that's
not going to happen much longer, because I'm just getting very,
very busy and I'm transitioningand shifting.
I mean we we actually launchedthe series in Britain of all
things, in June of last yearthrough a major distributor,
which is exciting.
(47:10):
I'll be there for the Londonbook fair doing a three week
tour throughout England.
We've got an 18 month globaltour that we're kicking off in
March to not only promote theseries, all four books, but the
movie, and so I'll be in Britain.
I'll be in Europe, easternEurope, asia, south America so
it's gonna be an exciting twoyears ahead of us.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
So yeah, it is.
That is absolutely fantastic.
Congratulations, that is justhuge.
It's so cool to see all of thethings that are happening with
that.
And again, we thank you so muchfor coming on and chatting with
us, and we'd love to have youback again and tell us when the
next big step is going on.
We'll keep everybody updatedand informed and, of course,
(47:48):
we'll put the links in the shownotes for everybody.
So, chad, thank you so much.
Who are you?
What's your name?
Clay Clay.
How?
Speaker 3 (47:57):
soon did I forget what the heck is going on?
Speaker 5 (48:00):
I've been replaced already All of a sudden, you
just like go sleep.
You're off.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Thanks for coming Chad.
We appreciate it and, again,it's.
It's always great to talk toanother author and get a
perspective on things, and youknow.
Congratulations on all yoursuccess now and continued
success in the future.
Thanks for being on the show.
Speaker 5 (48:16):
All right, godspeed.
Thank you for the honor.
Bye-bye, you're welcome.
Take care, godspeed.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Thank you for the honor.
You're welcome.
Take care, thanks.
Oh my goodness, poor Clay, poorClay.
You get someone new on here andI forget your name.
And you know my husband alwayssays I'm mean.
I guess that just proved it toeverybody.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
Oh my goodness, we talked about it, we touched on
it with Chad and that is, youknow, kind of the last thing
that we're going to hit in thisshow is the DNC, just does not.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
it's so absurd to me and and I'm thrilled I am
thrilled and we talked aboutthis before we went on air I am
thrilled that they don't learn,because that means after the
four years we're going to getanother four years.
So you know, I say keep actingup, keep doing.
You know stupid things likethis guy, this clown, funny,
(49:09):
funny gesture he's making there.
I I feel like somebody elsejust got criticized for for
doing that.
But it's different, right, it'sdifferent yeah, he, so the
entire thing.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
So they had their elections this past week, uh, in
c and so that the new presidentI totally lost his name, so he
is, you know he went afterPresident Trump to get him
impeached.
Right, you know he's, he's,he's one of those.
And then so in, you know, youjust showed David Hogue who is
(49:41):
what 24.
I'm pretty sure he nevergraduated from high school,
because I don't think so Superactive after his school shooting
incident.
Um right, that truthfully hasbeen revealed.
He had no part in, no part of,wasn't near him, didn't see
anything, he just was right.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
I think I heard I think somebody said even I don't
know if it's true or not, sodon't you know, bank on it, but
I could swear something.
I've heard that he wasn't evenin school that day, like
entirely possible, yeah, butlypossible.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
But he's manufactured .
He has been.
Some of it is self.
He was the kid that got grabbedfairly early and he's been
promoted and propped up becausehe's a loud mouth and he's not
afraid to talk in front ofpeople.
He really is an idiot, he'sbasically boy AOC.
He's emblematic oh, by the way,she stuck her foot in her mouth
this week too, um, big time.
(50:31):
But he is emblematic.
He is the you know, thepersonification of the dnc
leadership and and again they're.
You know, as they went throughelections this week when they
were electing you know people,they had so many rules that
revolved around demographics.
Know literally the guy standingup there and reading the
(50:51):
election rules.
It was a 10 minute and I'm notkidding when I say this.
It was a 10 minute read, all ofthe rules.
A lady got up and went to thebathroom and came back and he
was still going through theinstructions based on who could
and could not be elected.
You know, if we're electingthree spots, it has to be, it
can't be three.
You know white men, whitestraight men, you know it can't
(51:15):
be this, it can't be that.
And if there is, then we'regoing to have to vote again.
And you know, and we're goingto read the first one, and if
there's this set of demographics, then it only allows for these
demographics and the next twoand all this crazy stuff.
They have not learned thatmeritocracy is where we're at
right now.
We just want people who arecapable and competent, and when
(51:38):
you do that, you get the bestmix.
When you don't rely ondemographics to make your
decisions for you, you get greatdemographics.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Right, and, by the way, the the fastest, easiest
proof of that is Donald JTrump's cabinet.
You have an Indian American sonof immigrants, right, kash
Patel.
You have Marco Rubio, son ofimmigrant parents.
(52:09):
You have, I think, two you knowoff the top of my head two
openly gay treasury.
I think it's the treasury.
And who's the guy Grinnell thatjust brought back the envoy of,
or just brought back like sixAmericans from I forget where?
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Yes, yeah, and you've got.
You know Tulsi gabbard, who isislander, right, it's, it's all
of that.
His cabinet is what it is.
It's, it is diverse.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
And not because he looked for diversity, he looked
for the best, and the best justhappened to be these other
things.
All of that was completelyirrelevant.
It was what are yourqualifications, what are your
abilities, what are your skills?
Speaker 3 (52:59):
The HHS is a woman, justice department's a woman,
it's all there.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Right, yeah, you got Christie gnome.
You've got Pam Bondi.
You've got what's her name?
Susie Wiles, first female chiefof staff.
Got Kristi Noem, you've got PamBondi.
You've got what's her name?
Susie Wiles, right, firstfemale chief of staff.
So they can take all of theirnon-stents and shove it Yep.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
So and again and then .
So then you have the reverseright.
So you have AOC.
This week you brought her upand I said she stuck her foot in
her mouth and, whether peoplesaw it or not, you know.
She declared that Elon Musk wasone of the most unintelligent
billionaires that she's ever met.
Now, I don't know how manybillionaires she's ever met.
I do know a couple of things.
(53:37):
One the guy is a genius.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
Genius yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:41):
Brilliant.
I also know and he has saidthis outwardly this isn't Clay
making a statement, this iscoming from Elon Musk.
He is on the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Yeah, I caught that as well in her statement that it
was kind of like isn't claymaking a statement?
This is coming from elon musk.
He is on the spectrum.
Yeah, yeah, you know I caughtthat as well in her statement,
that it was kind of like whoa.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
So she basically violated every eo rule and law
and norm that they've beenmandating over the last four
years, plus that you have to besensitive and you can't talk
down to people, and you got todo that and take in all this
stuff into consideration and shebasically called a guy who's
autistic, dumb yeah, right, yeah, and, and and she's.
(54:16):
So.
She is truthfully so stupidthat she doesn't even realize
she did it and she doesn't evenrealize the hypocrisy she
stepped in.
Um oh, by the way, did you knowshe has an economics degree?
Speaker 2 (54:30):
yeah, I think I did read that somewhere.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
Yeah, that is whoever gave her that.
Like she, she should turn thesheepskin back in.
Yeah, we fund her money.
If I I think she went tonortheastern, I would be so
embarrassed if I was atuniversity that she has an
economics degree because she'sso unbelievably uninformed about
everything relating toeconomics.
(54:53):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
And she still talks like a teenager.
Speaker 3 (54:57):
She talks like a bartender.
Yeah, you're right 22-year-oldbartender.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Yeah, yeah, she still talks in that 22-year-old
vernacular where every otherword is like.
And you know, even in thatstatement it was like he's like
and like and like and he's like.
So don't like replay this foryourself later, kid, because
it's not good, it's embarrassing.
Yeah, but again I will say onemore time keep, keep it up, guys
(55:25):
.
You keep doing the same things,just please.
Make it easier, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
Oh my goodness, it's going to help in two years.
Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, it is, it is.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
Yeah, it's going to help in two years.
Yeah, so listen that, hey,first interview, first interview
on the show, yeah, so we toldyou all, we told so, we told you
all, we told you all it wascoming and we've got more coming
and you know it's busy and it'snot slowing down.
Right, 16 days in will be, willbe you know, three weeks or so,
(56:00):
a little over three weeks, bythe time we record again.
Yeah, and we'll listen.
We thought we were a littleworried, I think, you and I, you
know, after the election, thatthings were going to, we're
going to slow down.
Yeah, boy, we even remotelycouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (56:17):
Yeah, it's like.
It's not like.
Oh my gosh, what are we goingto talk about?
It's how many things can we fitin?
How many things can we cram inhere to talk about?
Because there's so much.
And of course, you know, as asyou all well know, there are
things that we haven't eventalked about because there's so
much we're waiting.
I think we're going to find outthis week, maybe even by the
(56:37):
time this airs tomorrow, aboutRFK Jr, Right or no?
Speaker 3 (56:43):
It should, so he came out of committee.
Speaker 2 (56:45):
Yes, him.
He came out and Tulsi also.
Speaker 3 (56:48):
Tulsi came out of committee.
Kash Patel has not yet made itout of committee, so him, he
came out of committee and Tulsialso.
Tulsi came out of committee.
Kash Patel has not yet made itout of committee.
But yeah, I would assume, bymaybe the time this airs on
Thursday night or by the end ofthe week, I would assume know
where they sit and I'm going toguess at least one of those
three and it may end up beingall three that Vice President
Vance is going to have to getinvolved again.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
Yeah, he better hurry up.
But what happened last time?
He had to hurry up and throw asuit on and basically literally
run down there and get there.
Just keep the suit on and beready, just be ready, get your
butt down there and do what yougot to do to make it.
Speaker 3 (57:22):
He knows how to do that Stay in uniform.
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, he's awesome, he's awesome, he's
awesome.
That's another thing.
I wish we had more time.
I would love to talk about himfor a few minutes, but yeah, oh,
my goodness, just they're alldoing a great job.
Yeah, no missteps, and I'mloving it.
Speaker 3 (57:36):
Nope, it's been great so far.
Hey folks, we appreciate it.
Hopefully you like a little bitof new format with with our
interview and, and as always youknow, tune in.
We appreciate all of you.
You make this, you're thereason why we do this, and from
me, as always keep moving, keepshooting.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
Take care, guys, we'll see you next week.
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So yeah, like we said, we got abunch of topics for you right
off the bat.
(02:22):
Let's talk about these tariffs.
This is sending everybody intoa bit of a tizzy, huh.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, so really, what they have been is exactly what
President Trump knew they weregoing to be, which is a
bargaining chip.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
He's whipped them out four times.
The first one was with Columbia.
We talked about this last weekBetween the fourth and the
eighth hole on President Trump'sSunday round of golf.
It was fixed.
He did the same thing withMexico within hours.
Their president, she wastalking a lot of trash.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
She was talking tough there, she was trying to girl
boss and kind of realize theimpact.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, back down sent 10,000 troops to the border on
their side, Justin Trudeau,everybody's least favorite
Canadian, tried to do the samething the only time in his life
he ever tried to alpha mail everand failed miserably.
Agreed to all kinds of thingsand it's all conditional on a
(03:19):
month pause on the tariffs andit's working.
The only one that it hasn'tworked on is China thus far, but
that's a little bit of adifferent ball game, based on
who they are and their economicpower.
It still works, but it'sworking everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, it's working, just like we said it would and
you said it wouldn't.
I wonder who's right?
Oh, we are.
Listen, I'm not petty.
I'm not petty, I just soundlike I am, that's all.
But you know, yeah, everybody.
So everybody was freaking outover, probably like the past,
but I don't know, 24 hours or so, that they weren't going to get
(04:01):
their Timu or Shine or Sheen Inever know how to say that
Deliveries from China.
But that is also reversed.
Right now, right At the moment,that's been reversed.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Usps is back online delivering that stuff.
But President Trump, when itcomes to economics and doing
business deals, listen folks.
He's the master and everybody'slike, oh, he bankrupt this and
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah.
He knows what he's doing andthis has worked.
It's proven multiple timesalready that it's worked, so
(04:34):
just let him do his thing.
Your cost of maple syrup's notgoing to go up, it's okay.
Oh, by the way, before you openyour mouth, do a little
research on what the percentageof the tariffs are going out
versus coming in.
By the way, canada charges aton of money that we pay for
(04:58):
that.
They pay us almost nothing inreturn, but as it stands right
now, mexico is very much thesame way.
So do your research before youget all worked up.
The reality is the percentageof imports from Canada and
Mexico are very, very small.
Most households don't even buythings from those two nations,
with the exception of a lot ofautomakers having plants in
(05:20):
Canada.
Okay, fine, but other than that, very little impact on people's
lives, contrary to popularbelief.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Right, yeah, yeah, it's going to affect them way
more than does us.
I saw a funny, funny, shortlittle video of some Canadian, I
think it was like a packagestore owner, and he was taking,
taking off the shelves all ofthe American products that that
he already bought, that healready paid for.
Like who are you hurting here?
Not us, you know.
(05:47):
So I think you said itperfectly clear.
Everybody needs to calm down.
Calm down, let it play out.
The guy knows what he's doing.
I mean, we're what are we?
16 days?
16 days 16 days in office andthere's you know what I think we
were saying before.
We even said at the beginningso much happening in such short
(06:08):
order, things that you know he'spromised that he was going to
do.
He said he was going to do andhe's doing them.
And we talked about and we mayeven mentioned it last week that
, um, we thought I rememberspecifically me thinking that
it's not going to all get donein one term.
It's like there's no way.
It's just too much, right Likeit's impossible.
(06:29):
There's too many channels,right Like?
We all thought that, asoptimistic and hopeful, um, and
high expectations that we have,they were very tempered
expectations based on what we'veseen more or less our whole
lives, right.
So this is uncharted territory.
(06:50):
This is something we have never, ever seen the likes of, and
the transparency is what is sogratifying and awe-inspiring,
like they're so open.
Everything that they're doing.
It's incredible.
And we're like I thinkeverybody's like shell-shocked.
Even the people who wereexpecting it or wanting it, you
(07:11):
know, are like is this reallyhappening?
This is crazy.
I never knew.
Yeah, we have a government thatdid this.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I wrote a blog today about, you know, the chaos
that's being.
You know chaos is ensuing everytime one of these decisions.
But it's progress?
Yeah, because it is.
You know, he's flipping overevery rock, he's turning
everything over.
He's looking underneath.
We're finding all kinds ofstuff.
People are worked up.
I love how they're using that.
Well, Elon wasn't elected, yeah, well, neither was Dr Jill,
(07:39):
neither is George Soros.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I was going to say, yeah, neither was this guy here,
right, alex Soros.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh, by the way, kamala didn't win any primaries.
They put her in, so stop withthat.
Okay, you know the USAIDdiscussion, which is the big one
right now.
You know, because he went inthere and shut it down.
Oh, by the way, found someridiculous spending.
Both.
You know, on the shady side ofwhat's.
You know, truthfully, nationdeveloping money, like we didn't
need a transgender child's playin El Salvador or whatever that
(08:16):
was.
You know those kinds of things.
We didn't need that.
There was funding going into.
You know a health corporationthat ended up funding the Wuhan
lab.
They're finding all kinds ofthings right now and there are
people protesting that becauseit's being done by somebody that
wasn't elected or appointed.
(08:37):
But what they fail to realizeis that Marco Rubio, who was
unanimously you went through thenumbers last week, yes,
unanimously confirmed as thesecretary of state, usaid works
for him.
That's right.
He took over as the director ofUSAID right In the interim,
until they get somebody else inthere.
He's the one who let Elon in thefront door.
He is the one who saideverybody go home.
(08:58):
He's the one who allowed, likeyou know, Elon's been given
access to these things, and Iknow a lot of people are
complaining, you know.
Oh, he's accessing, classifiedthis and classified that.
Yeah, well, if you've beengiven an interim clearance,
which he has yeah, I guaranteehe has, and the people that work
for him have been given aninterim clearance and have been
given access at the stroke of apen from the president, they
(09:19):
have access.
Yeah, period, you can not likeit.
You can not like it, that's OK,but what you can't say is this
is illegal, this is this.
Listen, I can promise you thatthis all stands up in court a
lot.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
There's no question about it.
There is no I that hasn't beendotted, no T that hasn't been
crossed here.
No, you know legality that hasnot been looked into before
they've done anything, becausethey know this is not the first
rodeo for Trump and the peoplethat he's he's brought in.
You know they're they're notplaying, they're not playing and
(09:54):
it is glorious to watch, andyou know, and also, obviously,
it's always ironic and, just youknow, a head scratcher to watch
people foaming at the mouth andgetting angry that Elon Musk
and Doge are saving us money,are eliminating wasteful
(10:15):
spending that we do not benefitfrom Our tax dollars, are going
to funding a play in Serbia, andyou know all of the things that
you mentioned.
So to be angry about that justsays you just want to be angry,
you just want to be mad, that'sall.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It's TDS.
That's what it is.
It's mental arrangementsyndrome.
For sure, you know, people arefinding reasons to be upset
about this.
And, fine, 60% of Americadecided this is what we wanted
to do for the next at least twoyears, if not four years.
And this is what we wanted todo for the next at least two
years, if not four years, andthis is what we're going to do.
So buckle up, yeah, becauseit's not stopping.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yep, nope, nope.
It is going to keep on rollingand it's just going to get
better and better, and I love it.
I love it so much.
Here's something I don't lovethe plane crashes.
Oh those, those.
Did you watch those videos?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So I, I have and and I will, um, uh, this is another.
Another topic that I wroterecently is that, um, there's a
lot of people out there,especially when it comes to the
DC uh crash Blackhawk helicopterand the airliner.
There's a lot of armchairquarterbacking going on out
there.
Yes, and I will tell you solelyas an informed passenger and
(11:29):
I've spent a lot of hours in theback of a Blackhawk or a bunch
of military helicopters, but alot of Blackhawk time as a
passenger with night vision,goggles on with the headset on,
listening to the air crew, youknow, talk and converse and all
that.
And let me tell you somethingunless you have flown a
helicopter at night in a majormetropolitan urban area, with
(11:51):
all the ambient light that comeswith that, under night vision,
near one of the busiest airportsin the world, please keep your
opinions to yourself.
If you, or you know, if youhaven't been an air traffic
controller at a majormetropolitan airport, again
please shut up.
Ask questions you want.
You have no authority, you haveno expertise, you have no room
(12:12):
to pass judgment on anyone andplease, please, until we know
what happened, keep the DEI crapout of the conversation, Please
.
We're passing judgment on stuff.
We don't know what happened yet.
There is an ongoing fullinvestigation and they will get
to the bottom of this.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, and I think with this current administration
, we're going to find outeverything that they know.
Yep, you know, I haven't thefaintest idea how.
You know.
I think everybody is trying towrap their brains around how
that could have even happened.
And you know to your point wecouldn't possibly understand
(12:54):
because that's not our world.
So you know, obviously all ofthe speculation has been going
on, and you know, and of coursethe conspiracy theories start
pretty much instantaneously.
You know, looking at thepassenger logs and who's on
there and everything.
And you know, I always cringe.
I cringe when that starts up soimmediately because it's like,
(13:17):
hey, hang on, Take a breath here, because there were children on
this plane, there were families.
These are human beings and nowthere's all of these families,
including the Blackhawk familymembers, who are trying to
process this incredible lossright now.
(13:37):
And people are throwing all ofthis doubt, especially on the
pilots for the Blackhawk, Ithink, because they wouldn't
disclose the female's nameinitially, and so that, right
away, why won't they disclose it?
Well, she just got a medal, shewas just here.
Conspiracy, conspiracy.
And I'm not saying any of thatstuff is impossible, anything is
(14:00):
possible.
We just don't know right now.
And I think of the families.
I just think of those families.
Like it is breathtaking whenyou think about the loss and the
suddenness of it.
So, remember our humanity for aminute.
Guys, Come on.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, and it's, you know it's heartbreaking because
that you know those families.
That was a training exercise, atraining flight for that
Blackhawk crew.
You know you expect obviouslyany time you fly at night in an
aircraft you know there's dangerinvolved with that, but that's
not, I don't expect that out of.
You know, a training exercise,training flight, and you know
(14:36):
I've had to deliver bad newslike that to families before.
It's the most awful thing thatyou have to do.
So the lack of respect isheartbreaking.
It says a lot about ourhumanity, or lack of humanity,
right now and again to have thatbleed over into the
Philadelphia crash.
That was an air ambulance,which is Aero Ambulance, I think
(15:12):
that's the name of it, but it'san international corporation.
They do ambulatory flights.
You know there was a pilot, acopilot, a physician, a
physician's assistant, themother and a child patient on
that aircraft.
They were, it was Mexican, itwas a Mexican based aircraft out
of Tijuana, which is where theywere flying back to.
They were leaving Philadelphia,flying to Kansas City for a
refuel and then on to Tijuana totake that little girl home, and
something tragic happened,unfortunately also someone in a
car on the ground.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yes, yes, one person in a vehicle Injuring 22 people
yeah, a lot of injuries, that'sa very crowded neighborhood in
Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It's on the, you know , north Philly.
It was a shopping mall area,very urban.
You know location, but it's,you know, because it fell on the
heels of the DC crash,everybody started, you know,
lumping them together and it's,you know, they brought the DI
crap into that too, and it'sjust, it's awful.
You know again, please, youknow, remember your humanity in
(16:00):
all of this.
People die in tragic loss.
In both of those instances it'sterrible.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And neither one of us are saying not to investigate
it.
I mean, like that's literallythe point Let the investigation
happen.
We are, we are living in atransparent government right now
, or I'll be reasonable and saywhat appears to be more Like,
let's let's, you know, let'sgive it a chance, give it a
chance to play out, give them achance to do the investigation
(16:33):
and all of those things.
But I agree with you, you knowthere's there's plenty to say
about DI hiring and all of thatstuff, and it's just not the
moment for it, right, I mean notto me at least.
I mean you know everybody can dowhatever the hell they want,
but personally speaking, I wouldsay, you know, give it, give it
a pause and uh and see, andjust, you know, for the moment,
(16:55):
consider those families that aredealing with the most horrific,
you know kind of loss.
It's so out of the box, youknow plane crashes, and it's so
out of the box of what is likenormal in in lives, you know.
So this is just Very tragic.
Seeing all those I was lookingat, you know, just researching
(17:16):
the topic, looking at thepictures of all of these young
people and families, you know,families that lost either their
mother or father.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It was a competing team, it was a bunch of guys who
were hunting together, likethere's a whole bunch of groups
and people together on that.
You know relatively smallairplane.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Right, what was it?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
64 people on board that one 64, I think passengers
and crew, and then the three onthe Blackhawk Right.
So you know, listen, you knowthe veteran community is guilty
of this.
We're our own worst critics,but we also speculate on things
that you know even we don't knowabout.
Again, I've ridden in the backof them.
I've spent a lot of hours inthem.
I am telling you that is not ajob that I would have enjoyed, I
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don't think, but it's a toughjob.
And unless you've done it andeven if you have done it and I
would tell you, the pilots thatI know have been the ones who've
been the most calm in thisentire thing, because they know,
but you know, unless you're oneof those people who've done
that literally been there, donethat please do not speak with
authority on any of this stuff.
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, absolutely, and you see it, you know I mean
again one of the dark sides ofsocial media.
You know, and everybody is aninstant expert.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, absolutely Well .
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I saw a meme so that means I know yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I flew a flight simulator once yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I play Call of Duty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I've never in my entire life played that.
I hear it's highly addictive toplay, but that's why I'll stay
away from it.
But yeah, so obviously you knowwe'll keep watching.
Everybody is watching, you know, and just wanting to understand
.
I think there's a naturalinclination, of course, to want
answers, you know, to understandhow something horrific like
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that can happen and certainlyyou know, to state the obvious,
obviously hope that there wasnothing nefarious, nothing you
know, untowards going on.
Most likely tell me if youthink the same or not.
It most likely tell me if youthink the same or not.
Most likely it was simply atragic accident or two very
tragic accidents.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You know Occam's razor.
It's the most likely, you knowthe most likely.
You know explanation for theincident was just a horrible
accident, that that is mostlikely what happened.
So that's kind of where my headgoes.
But you know we'll have to waitfor the investigation and and
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So yeah, that's kind of where my head goes but you
know we'll have to wait for theinvestigation and and uh see
what happens, yeah yeah, yeah,meantime we got.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
We got military aircraft flying all over the
world right now yeah, yeah, wedo.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Where are they going clay?
What are they doing?
What's happening right?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
so we got them.
We talked a little bit uh, wetalked a little bit about the
actual deportation last week,although that that's ramped up
with the inclusion now ofsending folks to Gitmo.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Which is an interesting twist and the
president of El Salvadorvolunteering to say hey, we'll
take all of your violentcriminals to include Americans
if you want, and we'll take themoff your hands, which you know
will never happen.
But you know the gitmo thing israising some eyebrows, to
include from the leadership incuba, yes, but what it's
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generating, obviously, isnationwide.
You've got protests everywhere,and the idiocracy of this is my
favorite, which is especiallyI've seen it the most in los
angeles oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
We can talk over this .
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's the you know there it is Right, there it is.
What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
We're in America.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
We're burning an American flag, the nation that
has, you know, allowed you tostay here.
Right, we are waving loyalty toMexico with Mexican flags and
yet refusing to return to Mexico, where we came from.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, yeah, how about that for logic?
How great is that?
I just I just did a video theother day because, again, same
exact thing, you know, headexploding, mind going with the
insanity of it.
So everything that you justsaid, you know.
My dilemma, my mental dilemmahere, was, like I can't decide
(21:17):
what is worse that you know thatyou have these illegals waving
the flags of the country theydon't want to go back to and
burning the flag of the countrythey want to stay in.
There's that or is the idiotson the left who are crying for
them on social media?
(21:37):
So you know, and everybodywho's you know, all of these
politicians who are, you know,wanting to harbor them and keep
them safe.
Like I can't decide what'sworse.
I think they're probably prettymuch equally awful and if I,
you know, if I could have it myway, I would deport them along
with, along with.
(21:58):
Like listen, you're sosympathetic, that's so sweet of
you.
You know, your, your heart isso big, why don't you go with
them?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Well, and then you've got the New Jersey.
It's not the governor, is itthe governor?
I think it might be thegovernor, governor who's housing
an illegal in his home.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, holman's like okay.
Well, might be the governor,governor who's housing an
illegal in his home.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
yeah, homans like okay well, that was his response
.
Yeah, deal with that too, right, so no problem.
And and then you've got.
You know, pam bondy got uhconfirmed today.
Recording all right, anotherconfirmation, you know?
Uh, into the trump team, right?
She's already stated day one,yeah, all of the state's
attorneys, that they willcooperate.
(22:38):
They will cooperate withprosecution, they will cooperate
with the administration, theywill cooperate with ice and the
federal law enforcement agencies, or they will be disciplined
and or find themselves a new job.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, not an option, not an option.
I love it.
I love, and this is everythingthat I, we, collectively, us
asked for.
Like, just just state how it is, don't apologize, don't dance
around it, don't make excuses.
This is how it is.
(23:10):
You want to cry?
Go cry, keep crying, cry more,for all we care.
We're following the letter ofthe law.
We're doing everything that wesaid that we're going to do.
Again, my word of the day fulltransparency.
We said we were going to dothis.
We're doing it.
Don't know why you thinkotherwise.
Well, we know why because we'veheard empty promises, you know,
(23:31):
from all, all leaders.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know from all, all leaders.
Well, it's, it's.
It goes back to what we talkedabout.
You know, top of the show, andthat's the.
The rapid nature of all of thisis what's putting people off.
Um, truthfully, you know, yousaid it, you were, you didn't
think so.
I didn't think so.
I mean, I was standing.
I got a text from a friend ofmine right after the
inauguration speech.
I was in Las Vegas for the shotshow and a friend texted me and
(23:55):
said, you know, what did youthink?
And I was like too aggressive,um, you know, four years, um,
he'll get a lot done, but Ithink he's overstepping, he's
over committing.
And then, literally justyesterday or maybe the day
before, same guy texted me backand said, okay, so what?
You know, give me a lettergrade, how's he doing so far?
And I was like absolutely blownaway, totally, you know,
(24:18):
underestimated what he's doing.
He is, you know, he may getdone everything in the first
year or two.
And then, you know, I actuallyheard a great theory last night.
I think it was on Gutfeld, andI'm not an often Gutfeld watcher
.
The humor is not as good, Ithink, as some people believe,
believe it to be, but you know,I think it was Tyrus.
His guy on there was sayingthat you know, trump, he's
(24:40):
President Trump's running likethis at a million miles an hour
so that he can get everythingdone in the first two years that
he wants to, and then he'sliterally just going to hand it
off to JD Vance.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And he's going to go play golf.
They're the keys to the castle.
My friend, yeah, my friend yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Set them up.
Set them up for success, for,you know, the follow on
administration, which you knowis an interesting plan.
It's actually probably not toofar from true, but the speed of
this and the lack of reactiontime is, I think, what's really
got people upset.
Right, is they, you know?
But before they can get madabout something, he's moved on
(25:13):
to something else.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't, they
don't.
They don't know what to getoutraged about first like I'm so
angry that you're doing this.
Wait, you're doing that.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
No, I'm angry about that, like yeah I mean yesterday
, hey, we're gonna, we're gonnaown gaza, like what, what, what?
Listen, I again alltransparency.
Yeah, I don't know what hemeant by that, I don't know how
earnest that statement was, butI will say, on the face of it,
the guy who promised to keep usout of wars or not, commit us
(25:44):
bit more on what, what heenvisions doing, and it was much
more reasonable, you know, thanthan that initial statement
sounded like I.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
If I find it, I'll throw it in here.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
But yeah, I think you gotta be aware of the sound
bite, though that's.
The hard part is that everybodyclips it.
You know he should go betterbecause that's all they've been
doing him for the last eightyears yeah, and he's gotten, I I
think, tell me if you agree ornot.
I think he's gottenexceptionally better about he
has, yeah, he still says stuffthat you're like oh, oh, oh okay
(26:26):
well his reaction yesterday themost genuine reaction I've seen
, probably since he took office,was when they told him that
president biden had with CAA,the massive talent agency in
Hollywood, and he stopped andturned his head.
He goes are you kidding me?
Like it was just the most likedown to earth you know moment
from president Trump.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I've seen it a while.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
And it was like it was this shock, like absolute,
could not believe what he hadjust heard.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
I'll have to look for that one.
Yeah, I, you know, there's noquestion about it.
You know, stay, let's state theobvious.
He is shaking it all up,they're all, and I just saw it
resurvey.
I think it was like kind ofquiet for a little bit, but they
just um, somebody just broughtit up again that he's, you know,
he's moving forward onabolishing, uh, the department
(27:13):
of education wild and in a verygood way, and that actually.
So we'll talk about that somemore.
But that actually ties in,really, with our guests, believe
it or not?
Again, guys, his name, I'mgoing to bring him on in just a
second.
His name is Chad Stewart and hehas written the first in a
series is called Britfield andthe Lost Crown.
(27:35):
This sounds so good.
So when they talked about, whenI was reading about the you
know about the book, like what,you know how they always tell
you, like what to compare it toor what it reminds you of, Um, I
saw the magic, magic name forme, which was CS Lewis.
Who my heart?
I love CS Lewis beyond words.
So as soon as I saw that, I waslike, oh, okay, well he's, we
(27:57):
have to have him on Um, but yeah, it sounds like an amazing book
.
I want him to tell us a littlebit about it and we're going to
bring him on right now.
And here is Chad Stewart Hi, sonice to meet you.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Nice to meet you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You are welcome, so we're thrilled to have you on
here.
I can't wait to hear about yourbook and I also.
I don't know if you heard it,but we were talking about
abolishing the Department ofEducation.
But we were talking aboutabolishing the Department of
Education and I know you have avery big education lean here, so
I know you have some greatinsights on that.
So, clay, you have somequestions.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, chad.
So you know three authorssitting here.
Actually Elsa's an author, I'man author.
We all are very differentgenres.
So you know I write adultaction fiction, elsa writes
Hallmark movie novels andobviously yours is labeled as
(28:52):
kids books.
But every author has his or herown process and motivation.
You know, when I wrote KeepMoving, keep Shooting, it was my
transition, you know,retirement from the army into
the civilian world and it was away to keep my brain engaged.
So what was your impetus oryour motivation to write?
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Yeah, great, great question.
And yeah, it's not necessarilya kid's book series.
It's very similar to the HarryPotter series, but the complete
opposite of Harry Potter, ifthat makes sense, meaning where
Harry Potter was designed tointroduce black magic,
witchcraft, to the hearts andminds of children.
Redfield is the completeopposite of that.
It's anchored in current time.
We don't use any heightenedfantasy, demigod, superheroes,
(29:34):
none of it.
They're very, very authenticbooks and the main characters
that start in book one at 12,.
By the end of the series, bookseven will be 18.
And real quick.
Our youngest reader is seven,our oldest reader is 93, and 55%
of our global audience areadults.
So it really is a fast-paced,high-octane.
But what the quote you werementioning was, it was great.
I think it was from the EpochTimes and it said it's a
(29:57):
combination of CS Lewis and DanBrown.
I thought that's pretty cool.
We've been compared to like alot of others, which is cool.
And there was a wonderfulcomment we got from a woman, an
older woman in Canada, and shesaid, because I love the
Britfield series, she goes, itreminds me a lot of James Bond,
but with a bigger cast and agreater purpose.
And I thought, wow, she nailedit.
But yeah, it's funny, I'moriginally Beach, california.
You might be familiar with thearea and I was back East
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Wellesley, massachusetts, for 16years where I did my
undergraduate in Britishliterature and European history.
And it was about 12 years agowhen I had the idea for
Britfield and Lost Crown.
I was actually into investmentbanking and worked for three
Fortune 100 companies and itreally obviously was just not a
good fit for me.
I don't think it's a good fitfor most people and I was dying
to do something creative, getback into the game and the
creativity and we're all borncreative, whether people feel it
(30:40):
or not, but we sort of getdiverted away from really our
talents and our creativity.
And so I sat down and spentfour years, 2,500 hours, writing
britfield lost ground, book oneand when I started it I really
just did start to do somethingfun.
I didn't.
I didn't see it as this massiveseries.
I didn't see it as a, as a12-year undertaking.
This is the next um 25 years ofmy life, if you will, and it's
(31:01):
seven.
It'll be seven books, it'll beseven major motion pictures.
Here's a finished you'llappreciate this a finished movie
script, seventh draft, and thattook about over 18 months,
about $354,000, which is kind oftypical for that range.
I mean high level expertise inwriting it.
We're in pre-production of thefirst movie.
Hopefully we'll be filming inspring of next year in England
(31:22):
for the first of seven majormotion pictures.
So it's this fast-pacedadventure series.
Book one is in England.
Book two then moves to Franceand the main characters of Tom
and Sarah are 13 years old now,and then that's 474 pages.
Book three is Italy.
The main characters are 14years old, that's 575 pages, and
we just launched, as you cansee behind me, britfield and the
Eastern Empire starts in Vienna, ends in Moscow, russia.
(31:44):
We include 11 countries.
It's 437 pages, and the maincharacters are 15 years old now.
But we have this whole diversecast of Detective Gowerstone,
who's in his 40s, inspectorFontaine, who used to work for
Interpol, who we were introducedinto book two until she finds
out how corrupt Interpol is, andnow is helping out this whole
sort of Britfield series andstuff.
We have Oliver, who Tom andSarah, the main characters, meet
(32:06):
in Oxford university in bookone, who's a sophomore, he kind
of gets, and again too, it's fun.
You guys can appreciate this.
When you're writing or you'rewriting series you don't really
know.
You're introducing certaincharacters because you want them
to, because you need them to,because you need them to be
there, or they're sort of movingthe story along, but you really
like them and I'm like, so Ibring back Oliver and he's in
all the series now, and so youhave that sort of 20 something.
And then Kate, this computertech who's kind of a podcaster
(32:30):
blogger and she's getting theword out on the truth, and so
it's very, very succinct totoday's exactly what's happening
right now.
And I remember when book twocame out, a lot of people were
saying what are you prophetic?
And that was five years ago.
And so I do bring in a lot ofthe things that you're talking
about and I pull the curtain.
We talk about quantum computers, d-wave computers, social
(32:50):
credit scoring, the dangers ofAI, manipulation of the stock
market and just so on, andnonprofit organizations that
funnel and launder billions ofdollars.
All this stuff are in theseries, lightly threaded
throughout the background, andI'll stop there.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I love that.
So my book nerd brain wants toask you so many book nerd, book
author nerd questions.
I'm not going to do thatbecause I really want to stay
focused on it, but just knowthat I'm dying to ask all of
those questions that we authorslove talking about.
One thing that I especiallylove about this I call it I'm
(33:29):
making up another word.
I like to do that tooEducatement.
It's like you're educating andentertaining at the same time,
and I think that is so powerful.
And another thing that Iespecially love I'm a Christian,
so I love that this does nothave the magic element in it,
that it's very real and justthese very authentic, relatable.
(33:53):
It sounds like characters thatare driving these stories, so I
think that's just anotherfabulous thing.
I'm so excited to see where allof this goes.
For you, it's amazing, realquick.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
We call it stealth education because, as children
are reading it or as adults arereading it, they're learning
about geography, art,architecture, culture and
history.
It's based on family,friendship, loyalty, courage and
hope, and we incorporate thefour C's in every book
creativity, critical thinking,communication and collaboration.
Tell me another series thatdoes that so.
But it's funny with the wordsI'm writing and then I'll, I'll,
I'll, like I'll write a word,and then I'll look it up and I'm
like that's not a word, reallyit feels like a word right.
(34:28):
It's gotta be a word.
Yeah, like I like that word.
Now, that's funny yeahabsolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
So you've got a lot of things going on with this
book.
You mentioned a whole bunch ofit, so we're going to be able to
actually see is this going tobe?
Are they going to be movies?
Are they going?
Speaker 5 (34:43):
to live action movies .
Yeah, it's just, it'sinteresting.
I mean, it's it's hard tocompare it because there's so
very little like it, even in thehistory of cinema.
I'm, you know, I've beeninvolved in that industry for a
long time and and just as a, asa researcher behind and you know
, on the theater, behind thescenes, all of it, and so it's
kind of like you got a littlebit of that Raiders of the Lost
Ark, but it's current time.
It's a little bit like NationalTreasure, but it's bigger than
(35:08):
that.
And it's a lot like Star Wars,but it's not the sci-fi thing.
And I keep saying that really,britfield and the Lost Crown
series is the relaunch of StarWars, but without any of the
sci-fi stuff, because because ithas that, that essence that
star wars has.
If you were gripped, as I was asa, as a child, you know, like
1977, I saw the first movie 13times and it's like I don't like
sci-fi, nothing against it, Ijust don't like it.
(35:29):
But it's such a great story andit's so much fun and it's so
exciting and it's got all thesedifferent elements originality,
great cast of characters.
It's an adventure, it's gothumor, it's a david and goliath
story.
It's triumph over tragedy.
Um, the ragtag, you know,rebellion against the mighty
empire.
It's got all those elements andthat's what britfield has in it
, the essence.
But we don't, if you will,compromise it with those other
(35:51):
elements such as witchcraft orpost-apocalyptic or deadly gods
or all that stuff, and to methat's sort of um, well, it's
easier, easier, it's easywriting.
So you know, my book, like Idon't get to wave a wand to
solve a problem, or if they're,if they're, if they're trapped
in a corner, it's like what'sthat magical spell?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
or hold on, let's put on that magical cloak and we
can walk through this wall.
It's like no, I got to figure.
Children, my grandchildren, aregoing to be homeschooled.
That's the plan that they'vedecided on, which I am ecstatic
(36:27):
about.
After witnessing over the past,you know at least minimum four
years of what the educationsystem has turned into.
What are you seeing that hasaffected your writing in these
books and how you're marketingthem?
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Yeah, it's interesting, we're already in
thousands of schools.
There's 120,000 elementary andmiddle schools in the United
States.
Our goal is to be in at least80% to 90% of them in the next
eight to 10 years, and so we'realready in thousands of schools.
Actually, when we kicked bookone Britfield, lost Crown when
we kicked it off in August 2019,I drove 9,000 miles.
I visited 23 states, presentedover 200 schools in front of 40
to 50,000 students.
(37:06):
So I was boots on the ground,you know, sleeves rolled up.
You know, presenting tosometimes an auditorium of three
to 400 fourth through eighthgraders, you know, and it's like
the fourth graders are justlike in the front and great
right, the fifth graders theyalways have the best questions.
In fact, some of the zingersI've got were from fourth
graders.
I'm like, wow, where'd thatcome from?
But it is, it's really cool andit was across the board too.
You know, private ChristianCatholic homeschool.
(37:28):
You know, you name it.
You know I was there presentingto it.
And just to come back fullcircle to what you're saying
about education, I've beensaying that for about two years
We've seen an explosion in thehomeschool movement.
I like to call it thehomeschool revolution and that's
happening.
We've gone from 5 million towhat I would estimate almost 12
to 15 million in the last fourto five years.
(37:48):
And it's extraordinary, it'spowerful, and what you'll see
with the traditional schoolsystem, the public system, is
it'll kick around and fightright now because it's got
billions of dollars, it gets tolaunder and they've killed
creativity and they've reallykilled the human spirit of
learning.
But, like I said, they're atthe beginning of the end of that
(38:08):
.
But your question was what haveI seen?
And I would say that I'm a bigproponent.
I myself was not homeschooled,but I'm a big proponent of it
and the best educated kids Ihave seen are homeschooled.
Then when I meet someone orparents and they're like, oh, my
kids are homeschooled, I getexcited because I'm like oh,
we're going to have some goodconversations.
You know what I mean.
Or they read my book and it'sjust like they're giving me
these really articulatequestions or specifics.
They're grounded, they listenwell, they're well-read, they're
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usually one to two grades aheadof all the other students,
which is not really a hard sell.
It's just the whole educationalsystem is so debunked.
You know what I mean.
It's based on a 19th centuryindustrial model that's never
been changed and it was designedto fail, and I think those that
are behind it and responsiblefor it I told you, I said this,
I've been saying this for yearsthere's a reckoning coming and
you're starting to see it rightnow.
(38:52):
None of this stuff surprises me.
This is the tip of the icebergof what's coming.
So you know, you have thecackling hyenas.
You know paid actors.
You know what I meanPoliticians, paid actors.
I mean it's just like it'snothing.
They're done, they're finished.
I've said this for, I think, 12months, oh, no, two years.
Democratic Party's finished,it's over.
Yeah, I mean, it literally isover.
What you're seeing right now isa carnival, it's a show, it's a
(39:14):
joke, you know.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Yeah, clay and I were just talking about how they
have not learned a thing, right?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Clay Learned a thing, but so Chad I am.
So I've got a couple ofrelatives.
Both my sisters are ineducation.
One is a elementary leveladministrator and then I have a
sister who's a readingspecialist.
I was a full time substituteteacher for about 18 months at a
charter school outside ofPhiladelphia.
There's a lot of education, youeducation.
(39:41):
Elsa and I are both parents.
Mine are a little younger thanhers, but my youngest is in
college now.
So I've been through all therecent maturations and a lot of
personal touches in currenteducation.
There's a lot of things thatyou said that I agree with.
However, that the currenteducational model to go to
(40:02):
something different is going totake a cultural shift in the
sense of you know, it's nicethat homeschooling is produces a
great product and I understandthat there's a lot of.
I have a friend who's aprincipal of a you know, in
Pennsylvania, of a homeschoolsystem that allows and provides
curriculum for parents tohomeschool their kids and those
kinds of things.
(40:23):
But, you know, for a collapseof the current you know
educational model, I don't thinkis realistic, however, with
President.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Trump I did real quick.
I did.
I mean, I said it's thebeginning of the end and I said
it'll kick around for years, butit's the beginning of the end.
It'll take time, it's very wellentrenched.
But this is the thing too, andI didn't mean to cut you off,
but I remember hearing a commentfrom like a retired general or
something they're talking aboutthe military and it's just like,
oh my gosh, you know, likewhat's happened and the
destruction and all the seedsthat have been planted, and he's
like that stuff can be turnedaround in two to three weeks.
(40:58):
You know, change real quick.
You're looking at a populationtoo in the United States that I
would estimate anywhere from 85%plus that are number one that
voted for Trump.
So the statistics that you sawin that and hopefully all those
elections, california has beenred.
I'm in San Diego, california.
It's been red for decades andit went red in this last
election.
Even Vermont went red and Ibelieve that all 50 states did.
(41:25):
But there's always this backand forth and divided people.
You know in like 40% of thepopulation are Democrats.
No, they're not.
So what I'm saying is,especially since night, since
2020, you have, you have one ofthe you have.
We're in the most awakened timein history.
You know, some are, some areall the way there, some are,
some are just waking up, but youhave millions and millions of
people that are standing up,that are questioning things, and
so we are prepared and preppedfor a massive shift and again,
it's going to take time, butthat shift is already happening,
(41:47):
do you realize?
I think it's like I rememberthis too.
So in 2020, I was on my nationaltour and I was in Memphis,
tennessee, and I was finally inthe heart of America.
I went all the way up throughOregon and Washington yeah, that
was fun and then across thenation and down through Oklahoma
.
I was in Texas for like a monthand I was finally in Tennessee,
in the heart of America, and itwas March 2020, just did four
(42:13):
schools back to back and I hadto turn around and drive back
and I said to myself and to myfriends I said it'll be very
interesting when this wholequote unquote pandemic is over,
how many parents will be sendingtheir kids back to traditional
school?
And I was saying you know whatis it like?
You know, 5%, 10%.
I was seeing estimates ofanywhere from 20 to 30% that
were coming out 12 to 18 monthslater.
Do you know what a radicalshift just that is?
You don't know what happenswhen you lose, you know, 10% of
(42:34):
the kids at a school, or 15%.
So I'm saying all of this tosay in the last four years, this
massive shift is already takingplace.
We have over a thousand charterschools, you know, just in
California, and in fact some ofthe largest ones are interested
in the Britfield series andteaching it in the classrooms.
But I'm just saying lots ofthings are happening.
So, yeah, I mean like next yearor two years from now, but it's
(42:56):
already happening.
And parents are yanking notpulling, but yanking their kids
out of these institutions andfinding ways.
And homeschooling, too, is ahybrid model.
It's like you can drop yourkids off at a homeschool school
or a cross-collaboration of acharter school.
It's not like the lone parentthat has to stay home teaching
their one kid.
You know reading andmathematics.
That's not it at all.
(43:17):
You know, I don't know, maybe20 years ago, so, but I'll stop
there.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah, my, my, my point was, with the moves that
President Trump is making withschool choice, Right Is being a
huge part of it.
And then this discussion aboutyou know dissolving the
Department of Education.
Where do you see the impact ofthat in?
In its immediacy, Like wherewhat you know in the days
immediately following the youknow dissolving the Department
(43:42):
of Education?
What's the immediate impact?
Speaker 5 (43:45):
Yeah, and that's a good question and yeah, it's
kind of an intense question.
I kind of see what's going tohappen is that it'll be the way
that it should be, in the sensethat it's no longer a government
mandate but it's a state bystate mandate, and it will come
(44:06):
from there and it will start todivide and shift and some of the
public systems will still sortof tug along with their, if you
will, corruption and agendas,but they won't stick anymore and
the money won't be there tofund it anymore.
And now, with Trump in office, Ijust think you're going to see
it's already happening, thissort of aggressiveness, for all
of us too, as a nation.
I mean, it's really been byGod's grace that these, most of
these people are still walkingthe streets, because it was, in
my opinion, it was God's grace,it was holding people like
myself and millions of othersback from these hyenas and these
(44:28):
parasites that have beenhindering our children, to say
the very least, if that makessense.
And so it's not going to govery well for them over the next
six to 12 months to 18 months.
The stuff that they've beendoing teaching, pushing their
days are numbered, I mean, I'msaying this their days are
numbered and they're not goingto be hiding behind any group or
(44:51):
organization.
You'll be physically yanked outof there, trust me, and that's
coming, that is coming.
So that's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Yeah, I love it.
I'm so thrilled to witness thisshift and it's such a relief
again with the grandkids andwatching them grow up and seeing
them, you know, now coming intoa more reasonable world here,
where the balance has beenrestored right, where common
sense has come back and there'sboys and there's girls.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Right, exactly, okay, okay, so let's stop this
nonsense, this satanic nonsense,dear goodness yeah yeah,
absolutely, chad.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
it has been such a joy to have you on and I'm so
excited to read these books andand even if and I just want you
to know even if you said they'rereally only geared towards, I'd
still read, read them.
So, and I'm in, you know, and Ithink that's important for
everyone to hear, that'swatching and listening Um, not
just for kids and, and we allknow, you know, adults are
(45:49):
obsessed with the Harry Potterbooks.
You know what I mean.
So it's, you know, it's, itdoesn't even matter.
So I'm really excited for it.
I'm excited for all of thethings that you have coming up
for, the for the series as well.
Could you do us all a favor?
Tell everyone where they canfind you, where they can find
your books, if you're going tobe doing any more appearances
anywhere, give them, give themthe whole deal.
That would be wonderful.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
I appreciate that.
It's funny too, because theNarnia series was actually
written for adults.
That became one of the bestserving.
I mean, that's what Lewiswanted to do.
He was so fascinated with thatsort of fiction.
And he goes I want to write itfor adults.
And I remember too, I was inEngland and I think it was 2001,
2002, when the Harry Potterseries was really taking heat
and it was crazy.
(46:29):
I was like dating this womanthere and it's like all of her
friends were reading it likelate 20s, early 30s.
I'm like, oh my gosh, what isthis thing?
But yeah, you could check outour website, britfieldcom
B-R-I-T-F-I-E-L-D.
It's an award winning website.
It's very dynamic, it's great.
It really compliments,especially book one.
It's got over 400 pictures ofEngland, interactive maps.
We've got an 83 page studyguide based on academic
(46:50):
standards.
The books are meant anddesigned to be taught in the
classroom or homeschool groups.
And if you do order through theBritfield website, I'm still
signing books and that's notgoing to that'll probably that's
not going to happen much longer, because I'm just getting very,
very busy and I'm transitioningand shifting.
I mean we we actually launchedthe series in Britain of all
things, in June of last yearthrough a major distributor,
which is exciting.
(47:10):
I'll be there for the Londonbook fair doing a three week
tour throughout England.
We've got an 18 month globaltour that we're kicking off in
March to not only promote theseries, all four books, but the
movie, and so I'll be in Britain.
I'll be in Europe, easternEurope, asia, south America so
it's gonna be an exciting twoyears ahead of us.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
So yeah, it is.
That is absolutely fantastic.
Congratulations, that is justhuge.
It's so cool to see all of thethings that are happening with
that.
And again, we thank you so muchfor coming on and chatting with
us, and we'd love to have youback again and tell us when the
next big step is going on.
We'll keep everybody updatedand informed and, of course,
(47:48):
we'll put the links in the shownotes for everybody.
So, chad, thank you so much.
Who are you?
What's your name?
Clay Clay.
How?
Speaker 3 (47:57):
soon did I forget what the heck is going on?
Speaker 5 (48:00):
I've been replaced already All of a sudden, you
just like go sleep.
You're off.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Thanks for coming Chad.
We appreciate it and, again,it's.
It's always great to talk toanother author and get a
perspective on things, and youknow.
Congratulations on all yoursuccess now and continued
success in the future.
Thanks for being on the show.
Speaker 5 (48:16):
All right, godspeed.
Thank you for the honor.
Bye-bye, you're welcome.
Take care, godspeed.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Thank you for the honor.
You're welcome.
Take care, thanks.
Oh my goodness, poor Clay, poorClay.
You get someone new on here andI forget your name.
And you know my husband alwayssays I'm mean.
I guess that just proved it toeverybody.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
Oh my goodness, we talked about it, we touched on
it with Chad and that is, youknow, kind of the last thing
that we're going to hit in thisshow is the DNC, just does not.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
it's so absurd to me and and I'm thrilled I am
thrilled and we talked aboutthis before we went on air I am
thrilled that they don't learn,because that means after the
four years we're going to getanother four years.
So you know, I say keep actingup, keep doing.
You know stupid things likethis guy, this clown, funny,
(49:09):
funny gesture he's making there.
I I feel like somebody elsejust got criticized for for
doing that.
But it's different, right, it'sdifferent yeah, he, so the
entire thing.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
So they had their elections this past week, uh, in
c and so that the new presidentI totally lost his name, so he
is, you know he went afterPresident Trump to get him
impeached.
Right, you know he's, he's,he's one of those.
And then so in, you know, youjust showed David Hogue who is
(49:41):
what 24.
I'm pretty sure he nevergraduated from high school,
because I don't think so Superactive after his school shooting
incident.
Um right, that truthfully hasbeen revealed.
He had no part in, no part of,wasn't near him, didn't see
anything, he just was right.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
I think I heard I think somebody said even I don't
know if it's true or not, sodon't you know, bank on it, but
I could swear something.
I've heard that he wasn't evenin school that day, like
entirely possible, yeah, butlypossible.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
But he's manufactured .
He has been.
Some of it is self.
He was the kid that got grabbedfairly early and he's been
promoted and propped up becausehe's a loud mouth and he's not
afraid to talk in front ofpeople.
He really is an idiot, he'sbasically boy AOC.
He's emblematic oh, by the way,she stuck her foot in her mouth
this week too, um, big time.
(50:31):
But he is emblematic.
He is the you know, thepersonification of the dnc
leadership and and again they're.
You know, as they went throughelections this week when they
were electing you know people,they had so many rules that
revolved around demographics.
Know literally the guy standingup there and reading the
(50:51):
election rules.
It was a 10 minute and I'm notkidding when I say this.
It was a 10 minute read, all ofthe rules.
A lady got up and went to thebathroom and came back and he
was still going through theinstructions based on who could
and could not be elected.
You know, if we're electingthree spots, it has to be, it
can't be three.
You know white men, whitestraight men, you know it can't
(51:15):
be this, it can't be that.
And if there is, then we'regoing to have to vote again.
And you know, and we're goingto read the first one, and if
there's this set of demographics, then it only allows for these
demographics and the next twoand all this crazy stuff.
They have not learned thatmeritocracy is where we're at
right now.
We just want people who arecapable and competent, and when
(51:38):
you do that, you get the bestmix.
When you don't rely ondemographics to make your
decisions for you, you get greatdemographics.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Right, and, by the way, the the fastest, easiest
proof of that is Donald JTrump's cabinet.
You have an Indian American sonof immigrants, right, kash
Patel.
You have Marco Rubio, son ofimmigrant parents.
(52:09):
You have, I think, two you knowoff the top of my head two
openly gay treasury.
I think it's the treasury.
And who's the guy Grinnell thatjust brought back the envoy of,
or just brought back like sixAmericans from I forget where?
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Yes, yeah, and you've got.
You know Tulsi gabbard, who isislander, right, it's, it's all
of that.
His cabinet is what it is.
It's, it is diverse.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
And not because he looked for diversity, he looked
for the best, and the best justhappened to be these other
things.
All of that was completelyirrelevant.
It was what are yourqualifications, what are your
abilities, what are your skills?
Speaker 3 (52:59):
The HHS is a woman, justice department's a woman,
it's all there.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Right, yeah, you got Christie gnome.
You've got Pam Bondi.
You've got what's her name?
Susie Wiles, first female chiefof staff.
Got Kristi Noem, you've got PamBondi.
You've got what's her name?
Susie Wiles, right, firstfemale chief of staff.
So they can take all of theirnon-stents and shove it Yep.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
So and again and then .
So then you have the reverseright.
So you have AOC.
This week you brought her upand I said she stuck her foot in
her mouth and, whether peoplesaw it or not, you know.
She declared that Elon Musk wasone of the most unintelligent
billionaires that she's ever met.
Now, I don't know how manybillionaires she's ever met.
I do know a couple of things.
(53:37):
One the guy is a genius.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
Genius yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:41):
Brilliant.
I also know and he has saidthis outwardly this isn't Clay
making a statement, this iscoming from Elon Musk.
He is on the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Yeah, I caught that as well in her statement that it
was kind of like isn't claymaking a statement?
This is coming from elon musk.
He is on the spectrum.
Yeah, yeah, you know I caughtthat as well in her statement,
that it was kind of like whoa.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
So she basically violated every eo rule and law
and norm that they've beenmandating over the last four
years, plus that you have to besensitive and you can't talk
down to people, and you got todo that and take in all this
stuff into consideration and shebasically called a guy who's
autistic, dumb yeah, right, yeah, and, and and she's.
(54:16):
So.
She is truthfully so stupidthat she doesn't even realize
she did it and she doesn't evenrealize the hypocrisy she
stepped in.
Um oh, by the way, did you knowshe has an economics degree?
Speaker 2 (54:30):
yeah, I think I did read that somewhere.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
Yeah, that is whoever gave her that.
Like she, she should turn thesheepskin back in.
Yeah, we fund her money.
If I I think she went tonortheastern, I would be so
embarrassed if I was atuniversity that she has an
economics degree because she'sso unbelievably uninformed about
everything relating toeconomics.
(54:53):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
And she still talks like a teenager.
Speaker 3 (54:57):
She talks like a bartender.
Yeah, you're right 22-year-oldbartender.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Yeah, yeah, she still talks in that 22-year-old
vernacular where every otherword is like.
And you know, even in thatstatement it was like he's like
and like and like and he's like.
So don't like replay this foryourself later, kid, because
it's not good, it's embarrassing.
Yeah, but again I will say onemore time keep, keep it up, guys
(55:25):
.
You keep doing the same things,just please.
Make it easier, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
Oh my goodness, it's going to help in two years.
Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, it is, it is.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
Yeah, it's going to help in two years.
Yeah, so listen that, hey,first interview, first interview
on the show, yeah, so we toldyou all, we told so, we told you
all, we told you all it wascoming and we've got more coming
and you know it's busy and it'snot slowing down.
Right, 16 days in will be, willbe you know, three weeks or so,
(56:00):
a little over three weeks, bythe time we record again.
Yeah, and we'll listen.
We thought we were a littleworried, I think, you and I, you
know, after the election, thatthings were going to, we're
going to slow down.
Yeah, boy, we even remotelycouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (56:17):
Yeah, it's like.
It's not like.
Oh my gosh, what are we goingto talk about?
It's how many things can we fitin?
How many things can we cram inhere to talk about?
Because there's so much.
And of course, you know, as asyou all well know, there are
things that we haven't eventalked about because there's so
much we're waiting.
I think we're going to find outthis week, maybe even by the
(56:37):
time this airs tomorrow, aboutRFK Jr, Right or no?
Speaker 3 (56:43):
It should, so he came out of committee.
Speaker 2 (56:45):
Yes, him.
He came out and Tulsi also.
Speaker 3 (56:48):
Tulsi came out of committee.
Kash Patel has not yet made itout of committee, so him, he
came out of committee and Tulsialso.
Tulsi came out of committee.
Kash Patel has not yet made itout of committee.
But yeah, I would assume, bymaybe the time this airs on
Thursday night or by the end ofthe week, I would assume know
where they sit and I'm going toguess at least one of those
three and it may end up beingall three that Vice President
Vance is going to have to getinvolved again.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
Yeah, he better hurry up.
But what happened last time?
He had to hurry up and throw asuit on and basically literally
run down there and get there.
Just keep the suit on and beready, just be ready, get your
butt down there and do what yougot to do to make it.
Speaker 3 (57:22):
He knows how to do that Stay in uniform.
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, he's awesome, he's awesome, he's
awesome.
That's another thing.
I wish we had more time.
I would love to talk about himfor a few minutes, but yeah, oh,
my goodness, just they're alldoing a great job.
Yeah, no missteps, and I'mloving it.
Speaker 3 (57:36):
Nope, it's been great so far.
Hey folks, we appreciate it.
Hopefully you like a little bitof new format with with our
interview and, and as always youknow, tune in.
We appreciate all of you.
You make this, you're thereason why we do this, and from
me, as always keep moving, keepshooting.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
Take care, guys, we'll see you next week.
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