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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Touring the four year anniversary of Russia's passing, which was
the seventeenth, which would have been what a Monday, we
went through some of our favorite Rush Limball audio and
we only played a small bit of it, but I thought,
just as a treat so it doesn't go to waste,
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I'd like to share a few that I really enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
One was Rush at his best, and that is being.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Funny but also revealing something that many people probably didn't know,
which is how Kamala Harris came up in politics, and
that is as the side piece of the very powerful
mayor at the time of San Francisco who would go
on to be the Speaker of the House in California.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And while he was.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Married, she was his mistress and she gave him, well
we know what he did for her. We don't know
exactly what she did for him. But Rush kind of
made it clear. I have two stories about Kamala Harris.
One's from the Spectator and one is it's a one
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of the one of the oddball sports websites.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
The NBA has fired a freelance photographer because he insulted
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
His name is Bill Baptiste.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
He's an independent contractor had the deal terminated by the elite.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Bill Baptiste, by the way, is a Houstonian. He's also
a listener to our show. When that happened, he reached
out to me and we talked every day for a while.
This poor guy was incredibly well regarded in professional sports
and had decades of experience, and they destroyed this man's career,
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destroyed his career, And people don't seem to care when
somebody who's not a public figure is destroyed in this
way that they now have to figure out they can't
pay their rent, They have to live with the shame,
the frustration, the hurt, the anguish. Everything you've poured your
life into is taken away from you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I mean, this was devastating to him.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Rewind that a few say from I want people to
hear this story because I know this guy personally and
to watch what it did to him, and you know
everyone else has moved on to the next next big.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Thing in the news, but not him.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
The NBA has fired a freelance photographer because he insulted
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
His name is Bill Baptiste.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
He's an independent contractor had the deal terminated by the
league after he posted a sexist Facebook post referencing Kamala Harris.
He posted an image that read Joe and the hoe.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hoe. Now, what do you think that's about Joe and
the hoe? Well, that takes me to the second story
they got rid of him.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
By the way, it's no secret but public knowledge that
Kamala Harris slapped her up into California political life by
being a very public escort and mattress for California Democrat
Kingmaker Willie Brown. Now, some people read this story mattress.
Didn't he mean mistress? No, I think they meant mattress here.
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I think a Dove Fisher is the author of the story.
So we have two different stories here that are trading
off the known.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Fact that she was Willie Brown's mattress.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Since we're celebrating Rush Limbaugh and I enjoy hearing his voice,
I hope you do too. Another clip from him that
I referenced earlier in the week, and it's about the
fact that Democrats never tell voters what they're going to
do once they're elected, because if they did, voters would
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vote against them. It'd be like news of Hunter Biden's laptops.
So they talk in terms of rainbows and butterflies, but
that's not what they deliver.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
But if you're really stop to think about it, mob behavior, bullying,
the appearance of insane rage and anger is all they
have left. They don't have any issues, their policies to
run on for the same old reason they can't be honest.
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Oh they've got plenty of policies. Oh they got plenty issues.
Oh they have plenty of ideas. They just don't dare
tell anybody what they are not at the run up
to election time.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
That's the sort of thing that you expect to hear
me or whoever else you listen to talk about.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But when Rush was describing.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
These things, in many cases, he was the only one
described them, and to the audience to which he spoke,
he was often the only political commentary they were getting
that was real. The average worker was not listening to
Bill Buckley or George will or Bill Crystal.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Or any of the others.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Rush was bringing the university to the masses, and that's
how you build a movement. He also said something else,
and I love the spot native is the sense of
urgency he's talking about. When he said that the only
thing that is certain is right now.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Someone told me I think. I think this is good advice,
maybe helpful. The only thing that any of us are
certain of is right now today. That's why I thank
God every morning when I wake up, I thank God
that I did. I try to make it the best
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day I can no matter what. Don't look too far ahead.
I certainly don't look too far back. I try to
remain as committed to the idea what's supposed to happen
will happen when it's meant to. I mentioned at the
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outset of this the first day I told you that
I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is
of the immense value strength, confidence, and that's why I'm
able to remain fully committed to the idea that what
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is supposed to happen will happen when it's meant to.
There's some comfort in knowing that some things are not
in our hands.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It's a lot of.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Fear associated with that too, but there is some comfort.
It's helpful, God, It's helpful to be able to trust them,
to believe in a in a higher plane.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What a maroon Michael Berry show, what an oranom?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
I think it is that the geeks shall inherit the earth,
not the meek.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
This is a glorious time.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You know, the old uh kind of jab learned to
code that the left would throw at people when they
would lose their jobs as a coal miner, Well, learn
to code. My late brother's son, Braden is a computer programmer,
and I don't know where that came from, because we
are a family full of cops and plant workers, with
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one talk show host, nobody in our family. We can
barely turn a computer on, much less code and program.
But he does and I love it. Well, this is
such a glorious time. The mindset of America is accountability
and transparency. We know that there is behind the curtain
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this wizard, and we don't know what that wizard is.
And we know we're pouring all our money in and
nuns coming back. But how on earth do we solve
this problem? It's intransigent, it's too complex to ever solve.
We've heard that, right, And yet here comes along Elon,
who's somewhere on the autism scale, pure genius in a
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way that I can hardly comprehend, his reasoning skills, his
ability to process things on a multiplanetary level, and he
brings within these young, really smart guys and they start
tearing apart the details and going here's your way, and
here's your waste, and here's your waist. Well, one of
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the names that has come to my attention because of
Elon is on Twitter and the handle is data Republican
and she says Republican with a small R, as in
a person who believes in the republic. This styllar government,
representative government. And so I started reading everything that was said.
I noticed how many people were quoting this very influential woman,
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and so I reached out by direct message to her
and she said, I'd be glad to do it, but
I need you to talk to my guy, and that's
Sean Hendricks, because I need a translator when we do
the interview. So Sean came on and I said, well,
can we talk to you first, and why do we
need a translator.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Does she not speak?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
And he said, oh, she's deaf and mute, and I thought, wow,
it's you know, you hear these stories Ramone people that
don't have sight, so they have extra you know, they
can hear better. It's like you have a heightened sense.
But anyway, I think it's an inspirational story in addition
to everything else. Sean Hendricks is our guest, and I
appreciate you making yourself available to us.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Good sir, No, absolutely, thanks for having us on.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It's always great to get outside the X space and
talk about this on a broader platform so people are aware.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Well, I told you before we started.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I don't normally prep guests, but I did Sean because
I knew he probably didn't know much about us.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Is that a lot of.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
National talk shows do their show as if everybody is
on Twitter all day long and knows what the top
story is. I do our show so that the guy
that gets out of the plant on his drive home
and understand what we're talking about. So if there's an acronym,
I explain it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And I want to.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
First talk about who Data Republican is, and then we're
going to get to you and what data Republican is
doing that came to the attention of Elon that's been
so important to these numbers we're bandying about about government corruption.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, she's she was just what She was one of
my early followers when I was doing western North Carolina
disaster relief, and that's how we connected, and she was basically,
you could learn to code, it goes beyond that, you
have to learn to build, Like there's a you know,
AI can code, but it's like really knowing what you're
building is what matters.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And that's what she did. She's a tool builder, and
so she's.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
An old colonel database engineer, but she's taken to building
tools that parse all this data and present it in
a way that the regular person can look and see
how the money flows. And I guess, you know, we
just didn't realize how much we needed and wanted that,
And now that it's out there, people are just blown
away and how much money is moving into these mysterious
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areas that no one has representation of or transparency through.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
So let's talk about those tools and explain those tools
to those of us who are not computer programmers and
not real tech savvy.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Why are those tools important?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Well, She's taken one point eight terabytes of publicly available
data and put it into the front end. It's on
a website called data Republican dot com. So you can
go in and tie in an officer search. You got
some guy who's ranting and raving about Trump shutting down USAID. Well,
funny enough, you type his name into the search and
you see the seven charities that are receiving money from
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USAID that he's a part of. Well, now you can
filter his bias through where he's getting money from and
help understand why.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
This guy's so upset.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
They used to hide in the shadows of this stuff,
you know, now we can go and look, so, well,
he's actually tied to these charities. Where are those charities
getting their money from? So you put their charity number
into the system and it shows all the grants coming in,
and you can basically do your research to find out
these powerful people where their money's coming from. And then
you start to understand their reasons they make the decisions
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they're making, the reasons they're fighting so hard to keep
this stuff quiet. Because this has been a huge flush
fund there. And it's not Republican and Democrats, it's both right,
it's not one side or the other. Everyone's had their
hand in this cookie jar. And that's what we're looking
to do is get people transparency through data through facts.
And that's something that we've had pulled over our eyes
for many many years. And with AI and you know
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amazing tool builders like data, we can see this stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I'm going to ask some dumb questions because I'm not
afraid to ask dumb questions. The only way I learned anything.
How do you get access to this data? Is this
data now being made available because somebody has to hand
the data set to you to make sense of it.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well, right, So a lot of this because of how
charities work is transparent. Form nine nineties are kind of
like where you come out in detail, you know what
your charity's doing. I mean, you get a tax exemption,
so there is some transparency that comes along with that.
I can't just set up a nonprofit until the government like, hey,
you can't look inside, right, So there's a lot of
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there's a lot more regulation over a five to one
C three and then we have like there's donor advised
fun I mean, there's just so many layers to this charity.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Even before this data republican thing broke, when I was
up in western North Carolina, I saw so much fraud
with the whole charity system. I used to tell people
the only thing I trust less than the government is charities.
And then all of a sudden two three months later,
That's why I think I connected so much with her,
as she was showing me why I felt that way.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I could feel it. I just didn't have the data
to prove it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
But yeah, this data, these these the IRS website has
a lot of these data sets available. But unless you
can cross connect all the data, it doesn't really mean anything.
If I look at the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Incorporated
and I see that it received eighty two million or
eighty two billion, sorry, eighty two billion dollars, right, what
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does that mean?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Then you go through w and we.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Parse it out and see that actually only eleven million
of that was taxpayer funds. But it was eleven million
of taxpayer funds? Why did taxpayer money go there?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So you can start to dig in and and again,
data does not mean a conviction, right, doesn't mean that
eleven millions to bad? Right? It could have been a
very good reason.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
We sent that money there, and we've had people use
this and say, look at Kyser, they're stealing money from
the taxpayer.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
No, no, no, you had a dig deeper than that.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
But Sean, what we were doing before you, guys, is
we were sitting back and going, wait a second, how
do they drive a rolls Royce when they're a nonprofit
And he says, he only makes anything. We had no tools.
You talk about a tool. We had not tools to
do these things with.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Hold with me.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
His name if you're on Twitter is Sean at Sean
Hendricks and that's dri I X Sean. She is Data
Republican and you can find them at data Republican dot com.
You can sign up to subscribe for three bucks a
month and you get all their stuff. I did Data
Republican dot com. He's Sean Hendricks. More with him.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
He just shows me what it's like to be, you know,
a real man.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I have never met someone so wonderful. I call him Rich.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Michael, Barry, Elon and many others have been very complementary
of the work these folks are doing at data Republican
dot com. These are number cruncher, computer genius kind of people.
Genius for me, they they may not like that title,
but for me, it is sean when you talk about
this data from which you're pulling all the you know,
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you're making sense of it and analyzing it for us.
Was that data available before or has something happened with
Trump that this was now the doors were open and
they go come in here and take a look.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You know, I'm not quite sure how long Form nine
nineties have been public. You know, I just know that
at the taxes, the organization, your Form nine ninety is
public disclosure and it's available. I mean, as far as
I know, it's always been that way. And so yeah,
the data is there, just there was no tool, right,
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No one had sat down.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
And built this tool.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
And you know what I think what happens is like,
until there's a problem, you don't need you don't know,
you don't know that you need a tool, right, And
so we see there's a problem. We see that there's
mass spending with no direction and no transparency, and so
she's like, well, we need a tool for this. And
when she started building it, it just you know, if
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we invent something, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
There's there's two ways it can go.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Nobody wants that invention or everybody wants it, it seems like
right and just people wanted to know where their money's going.
And I think we're all so tired of paying a
premium on groceries, a premium on fuel, property taxes, income taxes,
you know, death tap.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I mean, it just goes on and on and on.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
All our money goes out and we don't get much
for it, it feel like. And so now there's a tool
to go see where is our money going, especially in
this nine to ninety world. And I think the biggest
thing was that if the charity system hadn't been used
to move so much cash around, there had been no
need for a tool. But that's the fact that it
has been us age. We're talking just an unimaginable amount
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of cash that's being moved around and there's no way
to sort it out with some kind of very very
elegant tool. And that's what she what she created. That's
why she's become so popular.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Well, because you know, if you can't if you've got
this amazing uranium but you can't refine it, or you've
got oil reserves but you can't pull it out of
the earth, it's worth nothing to anyone. But Now it's
worth things because we can write stories about it, I
can do shows about it. But I could have never
We couldn't make sense of any of this. We wouldn't
have even really known that it existed. Sean Hendricks is
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our guest. Datarepublican dot com Sewan. You use the term
that these supposed nonprofits, these NGOs are moving cash around
so much that makes it harder to understand.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Do you get the sense that the.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Moving of cash in this way is an attempt to
launder or obscure or what?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Do you think the reasoning for that is, to the
extent you can tell, I want.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
To be I want to be careful to allege. Right,
what I can say is how they do it is
the outcome of obscuring and confusing the data. Right, This
stuff goes overseas and we lose track of it. It
goes from company to company and it's harder to tract. Now,
I can't speak to intentions. I don't have you know,
I can't prove somebody's intention, But I can say, is
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there actions one one hundred percent make it very hard
to track where the money goes. Now, whether that's intentional
or not, I can't speak to that, and that will
come in time. We will start to find out the
intentionality behind it as we start finding people, and it's
real easy for us.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
They make it very easy.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Those who are screaming the loudest, we just go look
into them and it's like almost every time, you know,
you know, the senators are screaming the loudest.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I went and looked.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Every one of them had voted from the OMNIUMUS Spending
Bill twenty twenty four that funded this US eight. Right,
So when you find the person's squeaking, they had a
piece of it going.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Now again, it's kind of funny because we always said
in the country the hit dogs squeels first. It's kind
of funny because they're drawing attention to themselves by the
fact that they're screaming about it.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh yeah, every time they get into a beef with
Elon or jd. Vance.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
As soon as I see it, I'm like straight into
the engine. I start pumping names in. We start doing
research and lo and behold, you're tied to six or
seven different things, and no wonder you're screaming because you're
you're gravy trained about to get cut off, you know,
and so yeah, I mean it's it's almost too much
to process. And just give me an idea. In the
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charity funding tab we have one hundred and fifty six
thousand different funds totaling seven hundred and twenty three billion dollars,
with three hundred and fourteen billion being government grants. Right,
so we're talking three hundred and twenty two billion dollars
of total taxpayer money that's.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Being moved around. It's wild.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I mean, this is an amount of money that exceeds
This is more than double what was sent to Ukraine.
You could fight an entire world, an entire war with
a major military superpower for the kind of money we're
talking about here.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Oh yeah, I mean this is this is unimaginable amount
of dollars. And we wonder why everything's so expensive. I
mean gold right now surging to three thousand dollars an ounce.
You know, we're printing money and just pumping it into
the globe. Of course, everything's expensive. What do you expect
when you do that stuff? But this is just a
small piece of it, you know. I think the next
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four years, I think we're going to be awestruck and
what we find, what our budget really looks like and
I hear people say all the time, Oh well, I mean,
even if you took the stuff that we have to
pay for, it wouldn't put us in a deficit. And
it's like somehow that that's good enough reason just to
stay in debt forever. Imagine when I told my wife, well,
I can't make enough money to pay out the credit cards,
so please keep spending as much as you want on.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
The credit cards. That they don't live in the real
world like we do.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
And now we can use this data to hold our
politicians accountable. We shouldn't fire our politicians for not balancing
our budget.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's it's staggering.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know what's amazing is we're a month into the
Trump presidency and we've already discovered all of these amazing things.
And you guys are just getting better by the day.
You're just now getting your feet wet to figure out
how to dive into these data sets, and you're going
to notice the things that they're coding. You know, I
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saw the other day that Elon was talking about the
fact that they had the Social Security Administration had some
some millions of people who had as their death date
false so they can never die. So you've got millions
of people who could, who are supposedly one hundred and
fifty years old, getting a Social Security check and of
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course that doesn't exist. That means it's a check going
to some conspiracy ring, some fraud ring. Once these things
become clear, we're going to understand that we shouldn't even
be running.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
A deficit as a country.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
It is absurd that we would even be running a
deficit as a country when you consider the work you
guys are doing and all the dollars that are exposed.
In just a moment, we will continue with Sean Hendrix.
The website is data Republican dot com. It's three bucks
a month to subscribe. I encourage you to do it
only because I did, and I like to support the
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work of folks like this. Sean Hendricks is not the
Data Republican. That is a woman with whom we will
also be speaking in the near future through a translator.
Sean Hendrix is part of her group and was willing
to speak to us today. And I am so excited
about what they're doing because I think this is how
you bring real change. I think this is how you
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make things in a bite sized manner in a way
that it's accessible to the general republic, to people that
don't turn on computers. Oh that's where all my money's going. Okay,
now I can be enraged. This is how you message
a campaign strategically to win, and that I find to
be very excited. And when I don't mean elections, I
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mean fixing our dad dumb country.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I have kids. Sean Henders is our guest data Republican
dot com.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
More coming up, we're going to be.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
The Gulf of Michael Berry, which has a beautiful room.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
En John Hendrix is our guest Data Republican dot com.
This this is a small group that Elon Musk has
been talking a lot about the great work that they're
doing and exposing the governmental fraud and waste. Sean, I
don't know if you have a list in front of
you or if there are a few that come to mind,
But when you look at the waste and fraud allegedly
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that you guys have exposed, were there some things that
jumped out at you that really seemed more egregious than
the rest?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You know, I'm going to turn the Social Security thing
on its head a little bit. And also real quick,
the data Republican site is free you can. We're subscription
paid for, so if you donate, that's great. We don't
want to pay all this data. We want everyone to
have access to it, but we are donation driven, So
I do appreciate you putting that out there. The thing
of the social security side, the thing that struck me
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this morning when I was looking through it is, yeah,
we talk about the money, but social security numbers vote right?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
What if?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
And this is I'm just theorizing here, but like, that's
a lot of people still on a voter record. If
they're alive in the social security system, are they still
alive in the voter roles? I mean that's managed state
by state, And so I want to dig deeper and
go buy the voter registration information from a state and
then go compare it to whatever we can find on
this this you know, death false flag on the social
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Security numbers.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Maybe it's bigger than just money.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You know, we always you know, the old joke is
my dad, my granddad voted Republican up until the day
he died, and he voted a Democratic ever since.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know, so, but.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I want to dig into that, because like sometimes we're
focused on the money, and it's like, well, what is
the bigger what's the bigger purpose behind the money?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
What are they doing with the money? And that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
We really find out that it has a lot to
do with the uniparty and this idea of democracy, right,
these people on both sides, this uniparty, but leaves without
them sitting in the ivory tower guiding our lives and
making our decisions. That the Western world would collapse without
the genius of these these government workers, right. I mean,
they've put themselves in a ruling class of truly a
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ruling elite, and that money is to prop up that ideology.
And so it's yeah, sure it's a waste of money,
but even worse, it's paying for bad ideologies across the globe.
And you know, now we're seeing the damage of it.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
We are, and and you know, I think part of
why these things are allowed to happen is because this
information is obfuscated, This information is withheld, It stays behind
the curtain. The public doesn't know, and so what we
don't see in front of us we can't concentrate on.
So we tend to focus instead on congressional sex scandals,
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on you know who said a nasty thing to the other,
and it keeps us spatting with each other when what
really matters is the dollars and cents that we're wasting
in the problems that aren't being solved. Sean, when you
look at where Data Republican is going in this very
brief period of time, this burst of popularity and celebrity
to some extent on Twitter, for sure, what do you
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see as being the future for her and you and
all of this because there is a lot to a
lot of work to be done here. Do you see
yourself joining doose? Do you see yourself becoming an official organization?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Or have you even thought about that?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Well, we did talk about that, and I think stand
Independent makes the most sense. There's a lot of politics
with those and you know it's ran by people who
are in the Trump administration, and you know, for us,
we want to look at this holistically. I want to
be able to look and not have to worry about
if there's a D and R next to the person
that we're finding data on. And so we definitely, we
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definitely had that conversation about stand Independent. Now are we
here to help absolutely, But the independent part I think
gives this more flexibility to focus.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I mean I literally messaged her two days ago.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
I was like, hey, look I need a tool where
I can do a bulk in go officer search.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And like the next morning, she's like, it's done.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
You know, there's no approvals, there's no board of directors.
It's like, we find it valuable, we jump on it,
and we get it done amazingly, just amazing speed. And
so I love that flexibility and I love not being
tied to a certain political party or another. The goal
is for all Americans to have access to where their
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money is going, and we'll just keep building tools as
problems arise. That's the future and that's the goal, is
just to keep serving the American people by giving them
transparency through data.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
What kind of feedback have you received?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
I mean, obviously I sent a nice message to Data
Republican herself that this is fantastic, and Elon has said
you're great, and Charlie Kirkis said you're great, and a
lot of Twitter fhows. What kind of feedback are you
getting in terms of hate or pushback or criticism and
what is that criticism?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well, The biggest criticism is that we're causing people to
lose jobs. Right, you know, a lot of these a
lot of this money was propping up, you know, these
businesses that you know, even like popping up media companies,
you know, political was taking.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That's going to get blowsed my mind.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
And most how much money political not political, but media
companies were getting like political, like why are they getting
these huge subscription numbers? And so one of the one
of the criticisms, oh, you're costing jobs. Well I'm sorry,
but when the government decided to shut the country down
for COVID, I lost my job, you know what I mean,
Like nobody cried about it. Then it's just part of
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how it works. If it's if it's not an effective
part of government, it's got to go. And I know
that sucks for the family, and I know that sucks
for the person that's that's there and working. But this
isn't a charity. Our government is not a charity, and
we got to get away from that mindset. It needs
to be efficient, and it needs to serve the people,
and it needs to steward our money well or will
stop trusting him with it. You know that the government
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needs to fear the people again, and they don't. They
just they just pillage and pillage and pillage with.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
No end in fight. And you know, I hope we
can keep moving that ball forward. Sean.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I'm so impressed with you, guys. There's so much talent
in this country. There's so much incredible talent on the
sidelines in this country that we if we call it
to bear. You know, you see these nations that rise
up and fight off an imperialist country or fight off
their enemy, and everyone pitches in, you know, the World
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War Two, Rosie the Riveter. I see this mindset of
people like you. You know, you get your background, mister
beast wo would have guessed. I mean, and I don't
know data Republicans background, but obviously she's brilliant. I see
these people, everybody kind of pitching in in a sort
of altruistic way that says, hey, let's fix our country, guys.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
And I got it. I mean it's a.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Little corny and a little hokey maybe that I feel
this way, but it really inspires me.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It does. And by that I mean to say thank
you for the great work you're doing.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Absolutely, I I think, like a lot of people I
just wanted to be left alone. And we realized after
the Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Storm that we had to step back in. The people
who want to be left loon have to enter the chat.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
And you know, even I knew that being political is
a risk, and I even told my family, Look, I'd
rather lose my job than lose my country. And so
you know, about four months ago I became political in
the sense of getting active and making sure that our
government's doing what it's supposed to be doing. And that
shouldn't be that shouldn't be controversial. We should all be active.
We should be going to our local city council meeting.
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See what these people are doing, hold them accountable. And
that's the big thing with Data Republican is we're giving
people a tool to see that. But you need to
go on your local level, hold your local politicians accountable,
hold your state accountable. They're all wasting your money without
a doubt, you know, go look at the things or spending.
Go to the budget meeting, ask for company the budget
and throw it into AI, take it, cut, paste it into.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Gross and have it break down what they're spending your.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
City bargeed on and make sure it makes sense, and
if it doesn't make it known, it takes everyone being involved.
The reason we got too we're at it because we've
all turned our head and just focused on us and said,
I'm sure they've got it, and then we turned around
a decade later, I'm like, oh my god, they.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
They don't got it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
They've been self feeling. John Hendrick, you are awesome. Will
be in touch. Keep up the great work, my man.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Thank you so much, helps much, thank you, and good
night
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Touring the four year anniversary of Russia's passing, which was
the seventeenth, which would have been what a Monday, we
went through some of our favorite Rush Limball audio and
we only played a small bit of it, but I thought,
just as a treat so it doesn't go to waste,
(00:53):
I'd like to share a few that I really enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
One was Rush at his best, and that is being.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Funny but also revealing something that many people probably didn't know,
which is how Kamala Harris came up in politics, and
that is as the side piece of the very powerful
mayor at the time of San Francisco who would go
on to be the Speaker of the House in California.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And while he was.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Married, she was his mistress and she gave him, well
we know what he did for her. We don't know
exactly what she did for him. But Rush kind of
made it clear. I have two stories about Kamala Harris.
One's from the Spectator and one is it's a one
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of the one of the oddball sports websites.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
The NBA has fired a freelance photographer because he insulted
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
His name is Bill Baptiste.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
He's an independent contractor had the deal terminated by the elite.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Bill Baptiste, by the way, is a Houstonian. He's also
a listener to our show. When that happened, he reached
out to me and we talked every day for a while.
This poor guy was incredibly well regarded in professional sports
and had decades of experience, and they destroyed this man's career,
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destroyed his career, And people don't seem to care when
somebody who's not a public figure is destroyed in this
way that they now have to figure out they can't
pay their rent, They have to live with the shame,
the frustration, the hurt, the anguish. Everything you've poured your
life into is taken away from you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I mean, this was devastating to him.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Rewind that a few say from I want people to
hear this story because I know this guy personally and
to watch what it did to him, and you know
everyone else has moved on to the next next big.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Thing in the news, but not him.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
The NBA has fired a freelance photographer because he insulted
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
His name is Bill Baptiste.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
He's an independent contractor had the deal terminated by the
league after he posted a sexist Facebook post referencing Kamala Harris.
He posted an image that read Joe and the hoe.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hoe. Now, what do you think that's about Joe and
the hoe? Well, that takes me to the second story
they got rid of him.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
By the way, it's no secret but public knowledge that
Kamala Harris slapped her up into California political life by
being a very public escort and mattress for California Democrat
Kingmaker Willie Brown. Now, some people read this story mattress.
Didn't he mean mistress? No, I think they meant mattress here.
(04:18):
I think a Dove Fisher is the author of the story.
So we have two different stories here that are trading
off the known.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Fact that she was Willie Brown's mattress.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Since we're celebrating Rush Limbaugh and I enjoy hearing his voice,
I hope you do too. Another clip from him that
I referenced earlier in the week, and it's about the
fact that Democrats never tell voters what they're going to
do once they're elected, because if they did, voters would
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vote against them. It'd be like news of Hunter Biden's laptops.
So they talk in terms of rainbows and butterflies, but
that's not what they deliver.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
But if you're really stop to think about it, mob behavior, bullying,
the appearance of insane rage and anger is all they
have left. They don't have any issues, their policies to
run on for the same old reason they can't be honest.
(05:29):
Oh they've got plenty of policies. Oh they got plenty issues.
Oh they have plenty of ideas. They just don't dare
tell anybody what they are not at the run up
to election time.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
That's the sort of thing that you expect to hear
me or whoever else you listen to talk about.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But when Rush was describing.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
These things, in many cases, he was the only one
described them, and to the audience to which he spoke,
he was often the only political commentary they were getting
that was real. The average worker was not listening to
Bill Buckley or George will or Bill Crystal.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Or any of the others.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Rush was bringing the university to the masses, and that's
how you build a movement. He also said something else,
and I love the spot native is the sense of
urgency he's talking about. When he said that the only
thing that is certain is right now.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Someone told me I think. I think this is good advice,
maybe helpful. The only thing that any of us are
certain of is right now today. That's why I thank
God every morning when I wake up, I thank God
that I did. I try to make it the best
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day I can no matter what. Don't look too far ahead.
I certainly don't look too far back. I try to
remain as committed to the idea what's supposed to happen
will happen when it's meant to. I mentioned at the
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outset of this the first day I told you that
I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is
of the immense value strength, confidence, and that's why I'm
able to remain fully committed to the idea that what
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is supposed to happen will happen when it's meant to.
There's some comfort in knowing that some things are not
in our hands.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It's a lot of.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Fear associated with that too, but there is some comfort.
It's helpful, God, It's helpful to be able to trust them,
to believe in a in a higher plane.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What a maroon Michael Berry show, what an oranom?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
I think it is that the geeks shall inherit the earth,
not the meek.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
This is a glorious time.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You know, the old uh kind of jab learned to
code that the left would throw at people when they
would lose their jobs as a coal miner, Well, learn
to code. My late brother's son, Braden is a computer programmer,
and I don't know where that came from, because we
are a family full of cops and plant workers, with
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one talk show host, nobody in our family. We can
barely turn a computer on, much less code and program.
But he does and I love it. Well, this is
such a glorious time. The mindset of America is accountability
and transparency. We know that there is behind the curtain
(09:19):
this wizard, and we don't know what that wizard is.
And we know we're pouring all our money in and
nuns coming back. But how on earth do we solve
this problem? It's intransigent, it's too complex to ever solve.
We've heard that, right, And yet here comes along Elon,
who's somewhere on the autism scale, pure genius in a
(09:41):
way that I can hardly comprehend, his reasoning skills, his
ability to process things on a multiplanetary level, and he
brings within these young, really smart guys and they start
tearing apart the details and going here's your way, and
here's your waste, and here's your waist. Well, one of
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the names that has come to my attention because of
Elon is on Twitter and the handle is data Republican
and she says Republican with a small R, as in
a person who believes in the republic. This styllar government,
representative government. And so I started reading everything that was said.
I noticed how many people were quoting this very influential woman,
(10:25):
and so I reached out by direct message to her
and she said, I'd be glad to do it, but
I need you to talk to my guy, and that's
Sean Hendricks, because I need a translator when we do
the interview. So Sean came on and I said, well,
can we talk to you first, and why do we
need a translator.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Does she not speak?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
And he said, oh, she's deaf and mute, and I thought, wow,
it's you know, you hear these stories Ramone people that
don't have sight, so they have extra you know, they
can hear better. It's like you have a heightened sense.
But anyway, I think it's an inspirational story in addition
to everything else. Sean Hendricks is our guest, and I
appreciate you making yourself available to us.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Good sir, No, absolutely, thanks for having us on.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It's always great to get outside the X space and
talk about this on a broader platform so people are aware.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Well, I told you before we started.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I don't normally prep guests, but I did Sean because
I knew he probably didn't know much about us.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Is that a lot of.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
National talk shows do their show as if everybody is
on Twitter all day long and knows what the top
story is. I do our show so that the guy
that gets out of the plant on his drive home
and understand what we're talking about. So if there's an acronym,
I explain it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And I want to.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
First talk about who Data Republican is, and then we're
going to get to you and what data Republican is
doing that came to the attention of Elon that's been
so important to these numbers we're bandying about about government corruption.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, she's she was just what She was one of
my early followers when I was doing western North Carolina
disaster relief, and that's how we connected, and she was basically,
you could learn to code, it goes beyond that, you
have to learn to build, Like there's a you know,
AI can code, but it's like really knowing what you're
building is what matters.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And that's what she did. She's a tool builder, and
so she's.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
An old colonel database engineer, but she's taken to building
tools that parse all this data and present it in
a way that the regular person can look and see
how the money flows. And I guess, you know, we
just didn't realize how much we needed and wanted that,
And now that it's out there, people are just blown
away and how much money is moving into these mysterious
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areas that no one has representation of or transparency through.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
So let's talk about those tools and explain those tools
to those of us who are not computer programmers and
not real tech savvy.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Why are those tools important?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Well, She's taken one point eight terabytes of publicly available
data and put it into the front end. It's on
a website called data Republican dot com. So you can
go in and tie in an officer search. You got
some guy who's ranting and raving about Trump shutting down USAID. Well,
funny enough, you type his name into the search and
you see the seven charities that are receiving money from
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USAID that he's a part of. Well, now you can
filter his bias through where he's getting money from and
help understand why.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
This guy's so upset.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
They used to hide in the shadows of this stuff,
you know, now we can go and look, so, well,
he's actually tied to these charities. Where are those charities
getting their money from? So you put their charity number
into the system and it shows all the grants coming in,
and you can basically do your research to find out
these powerful people where their money's coming from. And then
you start to understand their reasons they make the decisions
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they're making, the reasons they're fighting so hard to keep
this stuff quiet. Because this has been a huge flush
fund there. And it's not Republican and Democrats, it's both right,
it's not one side or the other. Everyone's had their
hand in this cookie jar. And that's what we're looking
to do is get people transparency through data through facts.
And that's something that we've had pulled over our eyes
for many many years. And with AI and you know
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amazing tool builders like data, we can see this stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I'm going to ask some dumb questions because I'm not
afraid to ask dumb questions. The only way I learned anything.
How do you get access to this data? Is this
data now being made available because somebody has to hand
the data set to you to make sense of it.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well, right, So a lot of this because of how
charities work is transparent. Form nine nineties are kind of
like where you come out in detail, you know what
your charity's doing. I mean, you get a tax exemption,
so there is some transparency that comes along with that.
I can't just set up a nonprofit until the government like, hey,
you can't look inside, right, So there's a lot of
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there's a lot more regulation over a five to one
C three and then we have like there's donor advised
fun I mean, there's just so many layers to this charity.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Even before this data republican thing broke, when I was
up in western North Carolina, I saw so much fraud
with the whole charity system. I used to tell people
the only thing I trust less than the government is charities.
And then all of a sudden two three months later,
That's why I think I connected so much with her,
as she was showing me why I felt that way.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I could feel it. I just didn't have the data
to prove it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
But yeah, this data, these these the IRS website has
a lot of these data sets available. But unless you
can cross connect all the data, it doesn't really mean anything.
If I look at the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Incorporated
and I see that it received eighty two million or
eighty two billion, sorry, eighty two billion dollars, right, what
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does that mean?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Then you go through w and we.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Parse it out and see that actually only eleven million
of that was taxpayer funds. But it was eleven million
of taxpayer funds? Why did taxpayer money go there?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So you can start to dig in and and again,
data does not mean a conviction, right, doesn't mean that
eleven millions to bad? Right? It could have been a
very good reason.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
We sent that money there, and we've had people use
this and say, look at Kyser, they're stealing money from
the taxpayer.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
No, no, no, you had a dig deeper than that.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
But Sean, what we were doing before you, guys, is
we were sitting back and going, wait a second, how
do they drive a rolls Royce when they're a nonprofit
And he says, he only makes anything. We had no tools.
You talk about a tool. We had not tools to
do these things with.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Hold with me.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
His name if you're on Twitter is Sean at Sean
Hendricks and that's dri I X Sean. She is Data
Republican and you can find them at data Republican dot com.
You can sign up to subscribe for three bucks a
month and you get all their stuff. I did Data
Republican dot com. He's Sean Hendricks. More with him.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
He just shows me what it's like to be, you know,
a real man.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I have never met someone so wonderful. I call him Rich.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Michael, Barry, Elon and many others have been very complementary
of the work these folks are doing at data Republican
dot com. These are number cruncher, computer genius kind of people.
Genius for me, they they may not like that title,
but for me, it is sean when you talk about
this data from which you're pulling all the you know,
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you're making sense of it and analyzing it for us.
Was that data available before or has something happened with
Trump that this was now the doors were open and
they go come in here and take a look.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You know, I'm not quite sure how long Form nine
nineties have been public. You know, I just know that
at the taxes, the organization, your Form nine ninety is
public disclosure and it's available. I mean, as far as
I know, it's always been that way. And so yeah,
the data is there, just there was no tool, right,
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No one had sat down.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
And built this tool.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
And you know what I think what happens is like,
until there's a problem, you don't need you don't know,
you don't know that you need a tool, right, And
so we see there's a problem. We see that there's
mass spending with no direction and no transparency, and so
she's like, well, we need a tool for this. And
when she started building it, it just you know, if
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we invent something, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
There's there's two ways it can go.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Nobody wants that invention or everybody wants it, it seems like
right and just people wanted to know where their money's going.
And I think we're all so tired of paying a
premium on groceries, a premium on fuel, property taxes, income taxes,
you know, death tap.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I mean, it just goes on and on and on.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
All our money goes out and we don't get much
for it, it feel like. And so now there's a tool
to go see where is our money going, especially in
this nine to ninety world. And I think the biggest
thing was that if the charity system hadn't been used
to move so much cash around, there had been no
need for a tool. But that's the fact that it
has been us age. We're talking just an unimaginable amount
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of cash that's being moved around and there's no way
to sort it out with some kind of very very
elegant tool. And that's what she what she created. That's
why she's become so popular.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Well, because you know, if you can't if you've got
this amazing uranium but you can't refine it, or you've
got oil reserves but you can't pull it out of
the earth, it's worth nothing to anyone. But Now it's
worth things because we can write stories about it, I
can do shows about it. But I could have never
We couldn't make sense of any of this. We wouldn't
have even really known that it existed. Sean Hendricks is
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our guest. Datarepublican dot com Sewan. You use the term
that these supposed nonprofits, these NGOs are moving cash around
so much that makes it harder to understand.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Do you get the sense that the.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Moving of cash in this way is an attempt to
launder or obscure or what?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Do you think the reasoning for that is, to the
extent you can tell, I want.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
To be I want to be careful to allege. Right,
what I can say is how they do it is
the outcome of obscuring and confusing the data. Right, This
stuff goes overseas and we lose track of it. It
goes from company to company and it's harder to tract. Now,
I can't speak to intentions. I don't have you know,
I can't prove somebody's intention, But I can say, is
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there actions one one hundred percent make it very hard
to track where the money goes. Now, whether that's intentional
or not, I can't speak to that, and that will
come in time. We will start to find out the
intentionality behind it as we start finding people, and it's
real easy for us.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
They make it very easy.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Those who are screaming the loudest, we just go look
into them and it's like almost every time, you know,
you know, the senators are screaming the loudest.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I went and looked.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Every one of them had voted from the OMNIUMUS Spending
Bill twenty twenty four that funded this US eight. Right,
So when you find the person's squeaking, they had a
piece of it going.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Now again, it's kind of funny because we always said
in the country the hit dogs squeels first. It's kind
of funny because they're drawing attention to themselves by the
fact that they're screaming about it.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh yeah, every time they get into a beef with
Elon or jd. Vance.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
As soon as I see it, I'm like straight into
the engine. I start pumping names in. We start doing
research and lo and behold, you're tied to six or
seven different things, and no wonder you're screaming because you're
you're gravy trained about to get cut off, you know,
and so yeah, I mean it's it's almost too much
to process. And just give me an idea. In the
(21:13):
charity funding tab we have one hundred and fifty six
thousand different funds totaling seven hundred and twenty three billion dollars,
with three hundred and fourteen billion being government grants. Right,
so we're talking three hundred and twenty two billion dollars
of total taxpayer money that's.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Being moved around. It's wild.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I mean, this is an amount of money that exceeds
This is more than double what was sent to Ukraine.
You could fight an entire world, an entire war with
a major military superpower for the kind of money we're
talking about here.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Oh yeah, I mean this is this is unimaginable amount
of dollars. And we wonder why everything's so expensive. I
mean gold right now surging to three thousand dollars an ounce.
You know, we're printing money and just pumping it into
the globe. Of course, everything's expensive. What do you expect
when you do that stuff? But this is just a
small piece of it, you know. I think the next
(22:13):
four years, I think we're going to be awestruck and
what we find, what our budget really looks like and
I hear people say all the time, Oh well, I mean,
even if you took the stuff that we have to
pay for, it wouldn't put us in a deficit. And
it's like somehow that that's good enough reason just to
stay in debt forever. Imagine when I told my wife, well,
I can't make enough money to pay out the credit cards,
so please keep spending as much as you want on.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
The credit cards. That they don't live in the real
world like we do.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
And now we can use this data to hold our
politicians accountable. We shouldn't fire our politicians for not balancing
our budget.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's it's staggering.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know what's amazing is we're a month into the
Trump presidency and we've already discovered all of these amazing things.
And you guys are just getting better by the day.
You're just now getting your feet wet to figure out
how to dive into these data sets, and you're going
to notice the things that they're coding. You know, I
(23:13):
saw the other day that Elon was talking about the
fact that they had the Social Security Administration had some
some millions of people who had as their death date
false so they can never die. So you've got millions
of people who could, who are supposedly one hundred and
fifty years old, getting a Social Security check and of
(23:33):
course that doesn't exist. That means it's a check going
to some conspiracy ring, some fraud ring. Once these things
become clear, we're going to understand that we shouldn't even
be running.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
A deficit as a country.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
It is absurd that we would even be running a
deficit as a country when you consider the work you
guys are doing and all the dollars that are exposed.
In just a moment, we will continue with Sean Hendrix.
The website is data Republican dot com. It's three bucks
a month to subscribe. I encourage you to do it
only because I did, and I like to support the
(24:07):
work of folks like this. Sean Hendricks is not the
Data Republican. That is a woman with whom we will
also be speaking in the near future through a translator.
Sean Hendrix is part of her group and was willing
to speak to us today. And I am so excited
about what they're doing because I think this is how
you bring real change. I think this is how you
(24:28):
make things in a bite sized manner in a way
that it's accessible to the general republic, to people that
don't turn on computers. Oh that's where all my money's going. Okay,
now I can be enraged. This is how you message
a campaign strategically to win, and that I find to
be very excited. And when I don't mean elections, I
(24:50):
mean fixing our dad dumb country.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I have kids. Sean Henders is our guest data Republican
dot com.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
More coming up, we're going to be.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
The Gulf of Michael Berry, which has a beautiful room.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
En John Hendrix is our guest Data Republican dot com.
This this is a small group that Elon Musk has
been talking a lot about the great work that they're
doing and exposing the governmental fraud and waste. Sean, I
don't know if you have a list in front of
you or if there are a few that come to mind,
But when you look at the waste and fraud allegedly
(25:28):
that you guys have exposed, were there some things that
jumped out at you that really seemed more egregious than
the rest?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You know, I'm going to turn the Social Security thing
on its head a little bit. And also real quick,
the data Republican site is free you can. We're subscription
paid for, so if you donate, that's great. We don't
want to pay all this data. We want everyone to
have access to it, but we are donation driven, So
I do appreciate you putting that out there. The thing
of the social security side, the thing that struck me
(25:57):
this morning when I was looking through it is, yeah,
we talk about the money, but social security numbers vote right?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
What if?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
And this is I'm just theorizing here, but like, that's
a lot of people still on a voter record. If
they're alive in the social security system, are they still
alive in the voter roles? I mean that's managed state
by state, And so I want to dig deeper and
go buy the voter registration information from a state and
then go compare it to whatever we can find on
this this you know, death false flag on the social
(26:29):
Security numbers.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Maybe it's bigger than just money.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You know, we always you know, the old joke is
my dad, my granddad voted Republican up until the day
he died, and he voted a Democratic ever since.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know, so, but.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I want to dig into that, because like sometimes we're
focused on the money, and it's like, well, what is
the bigger what's the bigger purpose behind the money?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
What are they doing with the money? And that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
We really find out that it has a lot to
do with the uniparty and this idea of democracy, right,
these people on both sides, this uniparty, but leaves without
them sitting in the ivory tower guiding our lives and
making our decisions. That the Western world would collapse without
the genius of these these government workers, right. I mean,
they've put themselves in a ruling class of truly a
(27:13):
ruling elite, and that money is to prop up that ideology.
And so it's yeah, sure it's a waste of money,
but even worse, it's paying for bad ideologies across the globe.
And you know, now we're seeing the damage of it.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
We are, and and you know, I think part of
why these things are allowed to happen is because this
information is obfuscated, This information is withheld, It stays behind
the curtain. The public doesn't know, and so what we
don't see in front of us we can't concentrate on.
So we tend to focus instead on congressional sex scandals,
(27:52):
on you know who said a nasty thing to the other,
and it keeps us spatting with each other when what
really matters is the dollars and cents that we're wasting
in the problems that aren't being solved. Sean, when you
look at where Data Republican is going in this very
brief period of time, this burst of popularity and celebrity
to some extent on Twitter, for sure, what do you
(28:13):
see as being the future for her and you and
all of this because there is a lot to a
lot of work to be done here. Do you see
yourself joining doose? Do you see yourself becoming an official organization?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Or have you even thought about that?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Well, we did talk about that, and I think stand
Independent makes the most sense. There's a lot of politics
with those and you know it's ran by people who
are in the Trump administration, and you know, for us,
we want to look at this holistically. I want to
be able to look and not have to worry about
if there's a D and R next to the person
that we're finding data on. And so we definitely, we
(28:51):
definitely had that conversation about stand Independent. Now are we
here to help absolutely, But the independent part I think
gives this more flexibility to focus.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I mean I literally messaged her two days ago.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
I was like, hey, look I need a tool where
I can do a bulk in go officer search.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And like the next morning, she's like, it's done.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
You know, there's no approvals, there's no board of directors.
It's like, we find it valuable, we jump on it,
and we get it done amazingly, just amazing speed. And
so I love that flexibility and I love not being
tied to a certain political party or another. The goal
is for all Americans to have access to where their
(29:29):
money is going, and we'll just keep building tools as
problems arise. That's the future and that's the goal, is
just to keep serving the American people by giving them
transparency through data.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
What kind of feedback have you received?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
I mean, obviously I sent a nice message to Data
Republican herself that this is fantastic, and Elon has said
you're great, and Charlie Kirkis said you're great, and a
lot of Twitter fhows. What kind of feedback are you
getting in terms of hate or pushback or criticism and
what is that criticism?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well, The biggest criticism is that we're causing people to
lose jobs. Right, you know, a lot of these a
lot of this money was propping up, you know, these
businesses that you know, even like popping up media companies,
you know, political was taking.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That's going to get blowsed my mind.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
And most how much money political not political, but media
companies were getting like political, like why are they getting
these huge subscription numbers? And so one of the one
of the criticisms, oh, you're costing jobs. Well I'm sorry,
but when the government decided to shut the country down
for COVID, I lost my job, you know what I mean,
Like nobody cried about it. Then it's just part of
(30:36):
how it works. If it's if it's not an effective
part of government, it's got to go. And I know
that sucks for the family, and I know that sucks
for the person that's that's there and working. But this
isn't a charity. Our government is not a charity, and
we got to get away from that mindset. It needs
to be efficient, and it needs to serve the people,
and it needs to steward our money well or will
stop trusting him with it. You know that the government
(30:58):
needs to fear the people again, and they don't. They
just they just pillage and pillage and pillage with.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
No end in fight. And you know, I hope we
can keep moving that ball forward. Sean.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I'm so impressed with you, guys. There's so much talent
in this country. There's so much incredible talent on the
sidelines in this country that we if we call it
to bear. You know, you see these nations that rise
up and fight off an imperialist country or fight off
their enemy, and everyone pitches in, you know, the World
(31:32):
War Two, Rosie the Riveter. I see this mindset of
people like you. You know, you get your background, mister
beast wo would have guessed. I mean, and I don't
know data Republicans background, but obviously she's brilliant. I see
these people, everybody kind of pitching in in a sort
of altruistic way that says, hey, let's fix our country, guys.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
And I got it. I mean it's a.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Little corny and a little hokey maybe that I feel
this way, but it really inspires me.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It does. And by that I mean to say thank
you for the great work you're doing.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Absolutely, I I think, like a lot of people I
just wanted to be left alone. And we realized after
the Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Storm that we had to step back in. The people
who want to be left loon have to enter the chat.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
And you know, even I knew that being political is
a risk, and I even told my family, Look, I'd
rather lose my job than lose my country. And so
you know, about four months ago I became political in
the sense of getting active and making sure that our
government's doing what it's supposed to be doing. And that
shouldn't be that shouldn't be controversial. We should all be active.
We should be going to our local city council meeting.
(32:37):
See what these people are doing, hold them accountable. And
that's the big thing with Data Republican is we're giving
people a tool to see that. But you need to
go on your local level, hold your local politicians accountable,
hold your state accountable. They're all wasting your money without
a doubt, you know, go look at the things or spending.
Go to the budget meeting, ask for company the budget
and throw it into AI, take it, cut, paste it into.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Gross and have it break down what they're spending your.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
City bargeed on and make sure it makes sense, and
if it doesn't make it known, it takes everyone being involved.
The reason we got too we're at it because we've
all turned our head and just focused on us and said,
I'm sure they've got it, and then we turned around
a decade later, I'm like, oh my god, they.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
They don't got it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
They've been self feeling. John Hendrick, you are awesome. Will
be in touch. Keep up the great work, my man.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Thank you so much, helps much, thank you, and good
night
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