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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Every Patriot has an obligation to question authority. Those who
are honest are not concerned with your watchful vigilance, and
those with integrity are not concerned with your discernment. Every
American is obligated to voice their concerns and stand up
for their freedoms and liberties.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
One Nati on your God Invisible with liberty and justice
for all.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We are the men in the arena. We are the
Patriot Confederation.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We will liver back down from by.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
We're unfeed Americans. All right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to
Patriot Confederation for what is the twenty ninth of July
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twenty twenty five. I'm your host, Bad Billy out of
Twin Falls, Idaho, joined as always by John Grovenor out
of Nashawa in New Hampshire, New England. How's it going
up there? Up in the Northeast.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
It's going, Billy, you know, same old, same o. Here
in the Northeast. We just love our liberties, love our freedoms.
Here New Hampshire. A little concerned about a governor though,
I think she's trying to mess up New Hampshire. And
she said she wasn't gonna do that, but you know,
we'll we'll see it through, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yes, of course, joining us this week, we have a
native Idahoan here joining us. Of course, he's from a
different part of the state than where I'm from. He's
all the way from north of Moscow, Idaho. On what
Welcome Andrew Crapshoots to the show. Andrew, thank you very
much for joining us today.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Thank you for having me. Yes, we're up in the
North Idaho area where the uh kind of a liberal
because we were a university town here, so we're kind
of the blue dot in the red state. So uh happy, yeah, yeah, happy.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, Actually, last I checked, Uh I, I know there's
a lot of liberalism, you know, especially in Boise, Pocatello
and Lewiston. Uh, but still it's it's still primarily red.
It's Sun Valley, Sun Valley, That's that's the blue dot
in the Red state.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
That's true. That's where the crazies are.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah. Well, all the Hollywood elites have bought up that
that line. You know, it's so beautiful around there. You
see the Sawtooth Mountains and you're heading towards Stanley and
all that but uh, yeah, the Hollywood elites have bought
Sun Valley and catch them and yeah, it's it's nuts,
it's nuts, yes, yes, So uh let's get things started.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Though.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Of course you have a company, uh that's just called
Red Balloon. Would explain that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, I guess a little bit of background on that.
So I actually grew up in the San Francisco Bay area.
I did the dot com thing down there. Twenty five
years ago. I realized that California was going the wrong direction,
and so I wanted to get you know what at
a dodge, and so I moved up to Idaho. And
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I'd had a great career. I'd really enjoyed the work
that I did down in the Bay area, but I
actually worked remote for a year, So I was kind
of an early adopter of a leaving California and be
working remote. Dot com bubble bursts a little bit after
two thousand and all of a sudden, I found myself unemployed,
and so I thought, well, here I am in Moscow, Idaho.
I don't have a job, and there aren't any actually
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really good jobs in town. You had to work for
the university or the hospital or Walmart, and so what
am I going to do? So I thought, well, I
should start making businesses. So I kind of put on
my serial entrepreneur hat and I founded a lot of
different businesses here in town, mostly technology businesses around three
D printing and software development. Had a ton of success anyway.
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So I was the CEO of one of those businesses
here in Moscow in twenty twenty. I was about a
fifty million dollar business base here in town. We had
a beautiful headquarters and then but I'd sold the business
and I didn't have any ownership left. And my board
came to me and said, look, you're a conservative Christian,
and we don't think that that is tenable in today's market.
You know, it's twenty twenty. The world's going crazy and
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you're not going crazy with them. So we're going to
need to find a new CEO. So I'm like, okay, great,
so and it's a little more complicated than that, and
there were severance packages and everything else. But ended up
leaving that business in twenty twenty one, and I was
going to take a year off and play golf and
hang out with my five kids. And I've got some
real estate investment stuff that I'm doing in land development.
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I'll just work on those things. But I realized I
just had to make a choice between my job and
my values. And I know as an employer that I
talked to lot of great employees, and I wanted to
hire people like me who actually wanted to stick with
their guns, stick with their values, even if it costs
them their jobs. Those are the best kind of employees,
who actually care about merit, who actually care about freedom,
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who think America is a good thing and the Constitution
is a good thing. I want to hire those kind
of people. And so I thought, Okay, well, you know what,
I'm going to go ahead and build a job board
that's just going to focus on merit based hiring, on
what made America great in the first place, Freedom, meritocracy,
all the things. Right, cool, no big deal, make a
job board. I'm a tech guy. So I knocked it
out honestly in a weekend with my brother and then
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we were done, and I thought, well, we've now done
our thing, and this is right before the vaccine mandate hit.
Then the vaccine mandate hits, and my stance at that
time and still is, is like you're an adult, if
you want to get a vaccine. That's your decision. I'm
a libertarian, but you should have that conversation with your doctor,
not your HR department, about what you put in your body.
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I agree, So anyway, and that was Red Balloon stance.
So if you're an employer, you can't have a vaccine mandate.
And and so I just kind of put that stance
out there is this is what I believe, no big deal.
And so Fox and Friends calls me up and said, hey,
you're the largest pro freedom job board in the country.
Would you like to come on Fox and Friends and
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talk about it? Now, you need to understand I don't
find the news actually that interesting at all. And so
I didn't even know what Fox and Friends was. I'm like, oh,
are you like a good show? Like, hey, mister Weazel,
what do we like? It's like Fox and Friends. It
sounds like a kid show. Anyway, So so I went
ahead and went on Fox and Friends. And it turns
out they have a massive audience, particularly around this kind
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of panic around the vaccine mandates. So Red Balloon blows
up and all of a sudden, like shoot, I just
started another business and I didn't mean to. So Red
Balloon is the nation's leader in culture. First hiring, we
now have over five thousand businesses and over two million
job seekers. We do recruiting services, We have hiring automation software.
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And basically, if you're a business or a job seeker
and you think that working hard is a good thing
and that freedom is a good thing in the workplace
and being able to live your values out loud and
being an American, than red ballue. Dot work is the
place to go. And it is dot work. It's not
dot com because dot com sounded too much like communism
to me, and we don't communism.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
We want to.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Uh, first off, I got to tell you, you know,
I I was born and raised in Idaho, and uh,
but through throughout my life, uh, you know, UH, different
times in my life I have been wanting I wandered
out to other different places. Of course as an adult.
As a kid, though I was you know, living with
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my aunt and uncle, and uh, of course I went
from Oregon to California, and uh I lived in the
central part of California, Stockton Modesto area. But this is
when California was a different place, mind you. I the
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more I look back on it, though I'd realized that
it was starting to go into that proverbial abyss. I've
told this story a few times. I love telling it.
You know, the last election I could not vote in
was nineteen eighty eight, when you know, George H. W.
Bush against Michael Ducaccus. And even though I didn't understand
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anything about politics back then, I was fourteen years old,
but I'll still never forget that debate where Michael Ducaccus
was asked if his wife was raped and murdered, would
he seek the death penalty? And he said no. And
the next day I'm going to school and kids are
making fun of him. Kids younger than me were making
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fun of him for saying that. Yeah. I mean, we
didn't know anything about politics, but we knew right from wrong, yes, sir.
And so you know, those were the last days of
California's conservatism. Well I can't say that for the whole state,
because there are still some pretty red areas in California,
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and you know, especially you go up to the Reading
Guayrika area and all that, and a good portion of
Orange County on the map that Orange County is blue,
but it's actually very purple maybe and leaning more red
every day. So you know. I mean, well, they can
thank Gavin Newsom for that because of what he's done
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for the state. But what else I want to get
at too, is, you know, during the time of COVID
and this nonsense and masks and all that, your area
though is is known. I mean, the first arrests COVID
related arrest unfortunately happened here in the state of Idaho,
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and one of them was right there in your town
in Moscow, where some people went got arrested just for
going to church.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yep. And in fact I was I was involved in
that church and there was when the people were arrested,
I was standing right there. It was we the city
had just said that, you know, you have to social
distance while you're outside, uh, And so our church decided,
you know what we're gonna do is we're gonna have
a psalm sing. We're gonna sing amazing Grace, We're gonna
sing some great songs, and we're gonna do it on
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the parking lot at city hall, which is our right
and it actually wasn't against the law. And we were
gonna do it without masks, because masking while you're singing
is ridiculous. And we all knew that they were a
complete joke and it the video from that I remember is,
you know, they arrested three people for not social distancing
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and singing outside and there the video of them being
handcuffed and put into a cop car while a bunch
of people are singing amazing grace. It was just like,
oh my word, where do we live right? Uh? And
but it was cool because you know, my kids were
all at that psalm sing as well, and they loved it.
They're just like, you know what, you have to stand up,
you have to believe. And in fact, two of my
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boys were playing football at the time and the football
team ended their practice early so that they could be
there to sing, which is kind of a funny connection. Uh,
in front of city hall. And he got to see
the whole thing firsthand. So it was it was an
exciting time and really interesting.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I'm kind of curious that they put them on the
same car or separate cars.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Separate cars. And it was a it was a husband
and a wife, and then and then it was a
Christian who was running for county commissioner. They picked him
out of the crowd and arrested him, which felt a
little bit like targeting and then he and then they
grabbed a husband and wife as well.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I don't know what the world's coming to. It's kind
of like Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where uh preachers are being
arrested for feeding homeless people. I mean, how does this
happen in the United States of America? How can you
not be kind to your fellow man?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Right exactly exactly? So anyway, yeah, it was an exciting times.
I was there. It was fun, but you know, praise
the Lord. It all worked out fine. And in fact,
the because it was a breaking of the city law
to arrest them, because they had not done anything wrong,
the police actually violated the law and so we lawyered
up those folks and they won the lawsuit and got
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a settlement from the city because it was against the
law to do what they were doing. And it also
just kind of put the city on notice. You're not
little dictators. You can't just do whatever you want. There
is a large you know, there's a law of the land.
We still are in America. We're not North Korea, so
you're not allowed to just do whatever you feel like.
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I got to tell you about this before we hit
our first break. But John, one of our guests that
we've had in a recent pass on our show, got
a hold of me. Now, I've been asked to kind
of keep this under my hat, so I'm not going
to mention his name or what where he's at. But uh,
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the story goes. I guess you know, he's got horses
and something spooked the horses. So his wife went out
to go see what was going on and found somebody
on their property, and of course he scared her pretty bad,
so she pulled She pulled her gun and told him
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get off their property. He came, he came back with
law enforcement, and they arrested her and said that he
had every right to be there. So yes, so you know,
they're working on a lawsuit against the against the cops
that arrested them, telling them that somebody else has a
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right to be on their property. Plus, uh, mysteriously rattlesnakes
are showing up on their property.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
So it's her property. She gets arrested because she used
the weapon to scare him off protecting her horses, which
is her property. Yes, you know, in the old days,
they would hang people doing what he was doing.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Oh geez, Yeah, So I guess I'm not going to
reveal that person's name, but this is somebody we have
talked to in the past, and so we're going to
keep it kind of kind of quiet for the for
the most part, but you get the gist of it
what they're going through, and it's happening right here in Idaho.
If this is If this is happening in a red state,
who knows what's happening in blue states. So anyway, we're
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gonna go ahead and take our first break in we'll
be back in about a minute and a half. All right,
ladies and gentlemen, we are back when we were joined
by Andrew crapshoots out of North Idaho and talking about
his business and some other endeavors that he's got going on.
(14:56):
Before I go any further, though, I've i just have
to ask you, and I hope I'm not putting you
on the spot there, but you know, I've over over
the past of almost eight years, I've watched Governor Little
He he's done a couple of good things, but overall
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since COVID, I've I've seen I've seen a lot of
the stuff that that he shouldn't have done. Like I
think his biggest mistake, of course, his two biggest mistakes
was when Trump President Trump offered uh money to states
that declared the state of emergency during COVID. You know, yeah,
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he offered I don't know how many millions of dollars,
but we had we only had one unconfirmed case in
the whole state. And he shuts the state down and
then declares the state of emergency. I mean, you can't
tell me that wasn't lining up his own pockets. And
then very recently he vetoes a bill you know that
that passes every branch government in the House, but he
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vetos our medical freedom. So you know, something's got something's
wrong there, something's wrong, and I think Governor Little needs
to go.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, I will, I will agree with you. I remember
I've met Governor Little and a number of times on
various businesses that was running, and he'd always like, Andrew,
so so excited, you're in Idaho, really excited. What can
we do to help? And my answer, as a you know,
conservative libertarian, is like, well, make governments smaller. I want
government small enough that I can drownd it into a
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bathtub and get out of my way and let me
just build. Because I know how to build things, and
when you tax me to death, and when you throw
roadblocks in my way all over the place so that
you look like the hero, it's actually bad for the
state's bad for the citizens. Well he didn't like that
answer that much, so we haven't actually been real close
friends through most of this. But yeah, I mean, I
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would say Governor Little if you get into sheep farming,
and you know, he's got very strong opinions on that.
Just that's where his heart is, and I think lobbyists
get to him and he's been susceptible to that. So
I guess my encouragement is, like, we need someone who
is actually a conservative all the way down, not just
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a conservative and word only, but in principle, because look,
we do not need half the government we probably have
in Idaho. There's a number of things about the state
that actually feel pretty liberal. I remember when I sold
a company and I wrote a very large check to
the state of Idaho. I'm like, why, if I was
even in Washington State, I would not be writing this check.
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If I was in Florida, I definitely would not be
writing this check. And I'm not convinced that they're using
the money. Well, so I'd love to see Idaho actually
become conservative. And I do have a sympathy for people
who are in politics. It's very difficult to get into
that position of power, that position of authority, whether it's
in your head or not, where you're the most important person.
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You know, it's hard to stay humble and to think
clearly about things. But we need we need men and
women who are willing to do that. I remember when
he shut down the state. There was a little brewery
about thirty minutes from our house. And came to the
brewery and and had a meal there, and I had
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my I was trying to keep the brewery in business.
So we illegally had a birthday party for me and
all my friends at the brewery because I'm like, we
got to keep these people in business. They're going to
go out of business. And the governor has shut down
the state, Like do you know what that does these businesses?
It's just incredible. So so that's that's when I really
checked out on governor a little, when when all the
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COVID stuff hit. So, I guess I'll agree with you, Yes,
it's time for a new governor.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well, most definitely, you know, I mean, you know, he's
no different than what butcher O or was. And I
don't like him either. But you know, at least here
in Twin Falls, in this area where I know Cootney
County has done done a lot. They're probably the most
conservative county in the whole in the whole country, mind you,
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but here in Twin Falls County and Jerome and and
the Magic Valley down here. I mean, last May, we
we really made a statement in the primaries when we
voted out to the rhinos that were running the establishment.
And you know, we got Glenita Zeiderfeld, and we got
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Josh Cole and David Levitt and Clint Hostetler, you know,
who are doing a lot of good. If you check
their scores on the Freedom Foundation or the John Birch Society,
you can see their scores are way up there. But
of course, when you're making the constituents happy, you're making
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the governor really unhappy. And of course, anytime any of
these people propose any type of bill, it gets thrown
in the trash.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So but yeah, unfortunately, unfortunately that is uh, you know,
and there's just a number of things, and you know,
here in Moscow, Idaho, it's interesting. So we have a
population of about twenty five thousand people, and I'll, you know,
get back to Governor Little, but we have population twenty
five thousand people and we have a city budget of
one hundred and thirty two million dollars a year for
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that many people, whereas court Laine, which is up in
Cootney County. Court Alane is three times the population and
roughly the same budget. Because they're just a better run
city and they realize they don't have to do all
the things they need to think like business people when
it comes to running a city, and man, just the
burden of government on the American people, whether it's a local,
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state or federal is overwhelming. And I think Governor Little
doesn't see that. Uh, And we need people who actually
want government to be smaller and not just keep getting
bigger and bigger every single year.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yes, yes, of course, what this state has done to
Amin Bundy is is just a crime in itself right there,
and what they continue to do to him. I don't
know if you've heard of what recently happened. Oh yeah,
so you know Saint Luke's. Of course, he led the
charge against Saint Luke's when they were basically kidnapping baby Cyrus,
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and now they hit him with a fifty plus million
dollar lawsuit and his son, who's not involved at all
in any of the protests, Well, they drained his bank
account and took all his money.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, it does feel like a totalitarian communists. Right.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
He got his money back, but of course that was
with those of us with the People's Rights Network called
called the bank and had something to say about that,
you know, and they gave him back his money. Yeah.
They just follow orders without question, especially Holland and Hart,
that law firm. So it needs to be burnt to
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the ground because all they do is just destroy people's lives. Yeah,
but enough on that. Yeah, I want to get to
the project you got going. We got about we got
about six minutes before we go to our bottom of
the hour break. But you want to empower and employ
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first responders, especially police officers, after the city of Minneapolis
basically has torn down and then when they defunded the police,
they defunded the police, and so there's something you want
to do about that and just talk about that.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, there's a couple of things that we're trying to
do right now because obviously red blond Work has gotten
to the scale where we're able to help businesses all
over the country be able to find culture aligned people
who are want to work hard and are going to
bring a skill set that's going to make that business
a lot of money. But we also just have a
heart for first responders and for military vets. We feel
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like these are people who fight so hard for our freedom,
whether you're a policeman or a fireman, whether you're someone
who's served in the military for our country. How can
we come alongside and help those people at scale? So
we've done a couple of different things, so actually at
the beginning of this month, so this is fresh off
the press, and actually we haven't even done the announcement yet.
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So first here, red Buluon just acquired military hire dot Com,
which allowed us to take some of the technology and
tools that we've built to help job seekers find great
work to hundreds of thousands of vets and be in
a position to kind of come alongside them with technology.
And I'll be honest that VET community has not had
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good technology and human based hiring strategies to be able
to transition very well. And it's actually a very difficult
transition to transition from military service to the private sector.
And we've also built a partnership with law enforcement today,
and they also have Blue Lives Matter, and they have
millions of law enforcement professionals who are tired of working
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so hard to protect the freedom of their citizenry, of
their city council and then kind of having their freedom
curb stomped when it came to vaccine mandate. So you
saw what happened with Chaz in Seattle or what happened
in Minneapolis, and so we built a partnership with that
organization to help officers find new work, and we've been
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able to place folks, sometimes in private security companies, sometimes
in just police stations or police departments around the country
that actually value freedom. There are places in Arizona and
Texas and Florida where we can take some of those
police officers and have from the Minneapolis's and the Oregon
and the and the Portland Organs and the Seattles of
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the world and put them in a place where they're
actually going to be respected and honored as a very
important part of the community. And so that's been a
really rich and rewarding experience to be able to help vets,
help first responders be able to get jobs, and often
those people make some of the best employees, whether you're
in manufacturing or construction. These are the hardest working, disciplined,
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systematic people that are going to take your organization the
next level. Which is kind of fun to be able
to help place those people in great, freedom loving businesses.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I'd actually like to see more of those officers run
as sheriffs. Yeah, I mean, and I've you know, and
I've stated it before too, you know, the I mean
the difference. I mean, you can go in and apply
to the police force, you know, fill out an application.
You know, you've got a military background, you got police academy,
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you got a job, you know. I mean, both the
sheriff and the police basically have the you know, the
same job qualifications, except one tiny difference is you know,
people hire police officers, but the people elect the sheriff.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And if you've got a liberal
mayor or a liberal city council, which is the case
in Moscow, then they are going to hire a police
chief who is aligned with their worldview and is willing
to enforce the masks and enforce the things that the
citizens actually just don't want whereas You're absolutely right. So
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the sheriff, and we have a great sheriff in Leetau County,
and I know a lot of the sheriff deputies, kind
of his right hand people are actually solid, you know, obviously,
you know, I always want people to be better and
more conservative and more libertarian, but they're actually really solid
and that is a great protection for people. And they
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don't realize how important the sheriff is to keep the
city government in check because city officials can sometimes feel
like they run the world and that sheriff is a
great counterbalance to that, you know, heady power that a
lot of people in city have. So yes, I would
love to see more of them run for sheriff or
just be a deputy in the sheriff's department when they're
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actually a conservative and a clear thinking person. So that
is also something we're going to be focusing on.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Oh absolutely absolutely, I mean they and the I think
there's a lot of sheriffs too that obviously there are
those that abuse their power as we know them. There
are too many out there that don't realize the power
that they actually have. You know, like if the FBI
comes into your town. You know, they just even they Yeah,
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they're federal agents, but they don't have the authority to
just go in and start arresting people with whatever. You know,
the sheriff can stop the FBI, and the sheriff has
the power to do it.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah, yeah, yep, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
So we are at the bottom of the hour and
we're going to take our bottom of the hour break
and we will continue this discussion when we come back
in about three and a half minutes. All right, ladies
and gentlemen, we are back. We are joined by entrepreneur
and Andrew Crapshoots out of Moscow, Idaho, and just continuing
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the conversation, I want to go back to where you
were talking about when you brought basically brought red balloon
to Idaho, and I have to ask have you or
your company received any any backlash from the woke left
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basically saying your your company's racist or whatever they of course,
whatever they've got to say because you don't follow their ideology.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, absolutely so. It was probably worse during the COVID
lockdowns and the vaccine mandates. I was getting at least
a death threat a month from people because you know,
standing for freedom. You know, that's very, very dangerous the
way they say freedom is a far right construct. And
how how you know, how do I have the right
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to try and help people find freedom at work? Because honestly,
a job is a really important thing. Right. If you're
a conservative or a Christian, and you're basically given the
choice between a job or doing what you know, doing
what they said and keeping your job, or sticking with
your values and losing your job, then you're at least
going to be tempted to compromise on something you hold dearly,
because you're kind of looking at this like, well, I
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want to be a productive citizen. I want to pay
my mortgage, I want to feed my kids, I want
to you know, we know you you know, he who
does not work does not eat. Therefore I need to
be a hard working American. And a lot of Americans
kind of were in that quandary in twenty one and
twenty two, and that's really where Red Balloon kind of
(30:11):
came alongside and said, look, we want to be a
blessing to these people. And as a consequence, people realized
that that was a very powerful lever that the left
was using on American citizens of threatening them with their job,
because a job, again is just a very important part
of who that person is, and so yes, I would
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get death threats. I had one newspaper in South Carolina
ran a big article about how everyone who uses red
balloon should wear a yellow armband and should be ostracized
from society because they're danger to society. We had a
Wired magazine did an article about how I've got a
stupid little job board. And you know the other thing
(30:55):
that's funny, and I'll pick on this a little bit.
You see my last name, it's you know, it's it's
got a whole variety of things that you can do
to it. In fact, I worked for the University of
Idaho briefly when I you know, twenty five years ago,
and you know, email was fairly new thing, and so
they had this hard and fast rule that your email
address had to be the first letter of your first
name and then the first five of your last name.
(31:17):
So I'll let you do the math on that. But
it was a crap you at u of I dot edu,
and I I really enjoyed that they were a little
offended by it. But anyway, so that's the other thing
that I have found very amusing through this whole thing.
I think I think that there's massive groups of thousands
of people on Reddit who think they're the first person
(31:38):
to realize that my name starts with crap, and so
they're like, oh, look at his last name, you know,
which I find very amusing. And I have three boys
and two girls, and my boys also think they won
the lottery with our last name, and the girls probably are,
you know, gonna get married someday and get a new one.
So anyway, so yes, we've definitely had people attack us.
(32:00):
I've been canceled from every major social media platform that
you can imagine, and we went ahead and you know,
fought back and said, no, we aren't doing anything wrong.
We're not breaking your terms of service, even though if
you don't like what we're doing. And every single major
media social media platform I've gotten back on. So I
think that is also just kind of an important lesson
(32:21):
for a lot of conservatives is people on the left
are happy to punch first and cancel you or till
you're stupid or whatever, but they'd actually don't want an
extended fight. And I think there is an example. You know,
we were talking about the arrest that happened because we
were singing on the city Hall parking lot, and you know,
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they were happy to arrest and intimidate, but then when
we lawyered up and sued them, it was like, Oh,
they're actually gonna stand up for what they believe. And
I think a lot of conservatives are like, look, I
don't want to fight. I don't want to lawyer up
because I don't believe in lawsuits, whatever it is. And
I think it's really important rust actually push back and
stand up. And when you do that, you actually get
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a lot of respect from a lot of people, even
if they don't totally agree with you, because courage is
contagious and people want someone who's willing to stand up
at work, or stand up in their community, or stand up.
And you don't have to do it in a shrill
way the way the left has done it. You don't
have to be a Karen that's, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Trying to.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Route, but you shuld just be a rock that's not
easily pushed off what you believe. And when you do that,
you are an asset to everybody in your community because
they know that you're the person who's not going to
get easily shaken, easily moved, and then it gives them courage,
because courage is contagious. So anyway, sorry, that was a
(33:43):
long answer to the short question. But I had plenty
of death threats and plenty of mocking and I don't
really care. When you grow up with the last name
of Crappy, shets like, you can't really go anywhere from that, Like,
what are you gonna do to me? Make fun of
my last name? That's been done.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Yeah, there's you know that one story out of Portland
that's very, very disturbing, of course, of a family of
free and they were known Trump Trump supporters, and this
is after everything started to cool off during the George
Floyd riots, or so we thought they were starting to
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cool off. A family of three, a man, his wife,
and their six month old baby, of course, bush whacked
by Antifa members. I mean really just did a number
on both of them, beat the hell out of them,
and then took picked up the baby six months old
(34:43):
and punched the baby in the face. And their answer,
A Nazi is a Nazi, and you punch a Nazi
in the face. It's like, wow, that's what Nazis do.
That's exactly what Nazis do the brown Shirts? I mean,
come on, yeah, that's yeah. You tell me who's acting
(35:03):
like Nazis in this case, right, I know there's but
I know out of uh it's either Portland or Seattle.
I think it's Portland. There's this Samoan guy they call
Big Tiny, who was anti Trump at first, but then
you know, actually he was the one who had an
open mind, sat down with conservatives and and listened and
(35:24):
uh and had the conversation and he became a Trump supporter.
And there's Antifa calling him out. We're looking for Big Tiny,
and when he stands up and says, here I am,
they go running. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah, But I think that's just the lesson is like
it is, the left is gonna take a punch first,
but they don't actually want to fight, and conservatives, unfortunately,
we back down way too quickly, and it's time to
be like no, I'm yeah, like here, I am, Like
what do you want to do? You want to talk?
You know, uh, And I think we need to do
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more of that. That and you know that story is
of the family is horrible, and I mean that's part
of the reason I'm in Idaho and I'm not in
California anymore, and I was grateful that I'm here. You know, Idaho,
I know the butcher really well. I know farmers when
you think about food security, when you think about taking
care of your family, and then you know. I think
the other encouragement I give to conservatives is like, there's
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a lot of bad things happening in the world, and
if you try and take in all of them, and
you need to be aware of them, and you know,
shows like this are important to be aware of them.
But at the end of the day, go do something.
Go try and solve a problem for other people. Because
if all the Christians and all the Conservatives in America
were like, you know, this is enough, We're done. And
I started Red Balloon because I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna
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start a business because I want to be a blessing
to all these people. I think we need to see
more Americans who are willing to do that, strap in
and do the hard thing of starting a business, blessing someone,
defending your neighbors. And the more of us that do that,
you know, it's kind of like bugs life. The more
that the grasshoppers won't be able to try and intimidate
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the answer, so, yeah, it's a crazy world, will In,
but don't just stress about it, go do something about it.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Well, you know, this very show that we're doing right
now was originally John's idea to begin with, and you know,
he reaches out to me, was late twenty twenty two
and says, by the beginning of the new year, I
think we should we should do something, start a new show.
And I'm like, okay, I'm down for that, you know,
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and he's his reasoning being is for the very reasons
that you just mentioned.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yep, Nope, it's really important. And you see that. You know,
I was just looking at your advertisers and those are
all businesses that are you know, they're standing up for something.
You know, Mo Squared as an example, they're actually a
good red blue customer. We've filed them with they're hiring,
you know, and so we've had a chance to bless
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those businesses. But I would encourage our listeners like go
and support those businesses because it's also a safety issue.
Right If you support businesses in the freedom economy so
they can grow to the size that they're actually a
viable business, profitable whatever it is, right, then you will
have a business that's willing to serve you when bad
(38:23):
things happen based on you know, government decisions, whether it's
COVID lockdowns or whatever the next crazy thing they come
up with. And so when you support those businesses, when
you hire through Red Balloon, when you go to Mammoth Nation,
when you go to Public Square, we go to Ammo Square,
all these different organizations, when you go and support them,
you're making sure that they are around if bad things happen,
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because they're not going to be like the grocery stores
that make you wear masks. They're not going to push
that agenda down your throat in the same way that
a lot of the big tech companies did. And so,
you know, I've just been very encouraged by the kind
of blossoming of this parallel freedom economy where you have
more optionality, and I would encourage people, like, one of
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the things you can do is not everybody has to
start a business, not everybody has to start a podcast,
but you do need to change some of your habits,
whether it's spending habits, whether it's hiring habits, whether it's
you know, how you look for a job, because it
does have an impact. And I know because when we
have placed people in jobs. We placed this gal in
a construction company in Denver, and she called me like
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three months in and she's like, it has literally been
like detox. I had no idea how much the DEI
and ESG and microaggression training that I was going through
constantly at the big woke business that I was working
in had a huge impact on every other relationship in
my life and on my worldview. And now that I've
been at just a normal American business that values people
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based on the quality of their work, not the color
of their skin, then she's like, I love this work, right,
and she's like, it really is detox. I didn't realize
how much it was affecting me and so and I
think for everyone who's listening, like whether it's your job,
whether it's you're spending habits, whether it's what you're listening to,
those things affect you. And you need to make one
(40:11):
incremental change today, one incremental change tomorrow and actually change
the And that's how we change the nation, all of
us just doing little things, but actually doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
You know, all we got to do is look to
Los Angeles and we can see where what you're talking about,
you know, hiring people based on merit and not on
sexual preference. Or again because Los Angeles, well we know
Los Angeles has been a mess for a long time.
(40:43):
But those fires, even though those fires were not natural,
and that's another conversation for another time, but those fires
could have been contained a lot sooner if they had
firefighters that knew how to do the job instead of
people based on their sexual preference. And a mayor based
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on both the color of her skin and her sexual preference.
I mean, she's a complete joke. Her and LORI lightfoot. Wow,
just two fees of pod right there.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
What we can talk about usuers in the Dunning Krueger effect, Right,
these people take these positions that they don't realize they're
underqualified for, and then when something disasters happens, it creates
disaster results because they're totally unprepared.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Yes, anyway, we are at the final quarter, so we're
gonna take our final break. We'll be back in one
minute to wrap things up.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Welcome to Shop with America. Where the emphasis is on America.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Our movement is to switch away from your shopping with
the big box stores and the mega corporations back to
supporting family owned made in America. We've been giving these
big box stores our money every day for years, but
what's happened is they forced many small businesses to shut down.
We call this the illusion of choice. We see all
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these products in these stores, but in reality, it's only
a few companies that control it all. There are thousands
of lawsuits for health damage because they put profit over
our people. But there is another choice.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
We found a better way.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
There's a family owned American factory with product integrity and
have always done things the right way for the right reasons.
And this company outperforms the big box stores. That's due
to their month to month shopping club. They make everyday
consumer products that we all use and buy again and again,
like toothpaste, shampoo, coffee, and organic beef.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Go to shopwith America dot US today.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
And I'm beginning to wonder if Shop with America is
something Red Balloon is aligned with.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Yeah, very much so. I mean, I'm trying to solve
the employment issue, but there's great companies like Shop with
America who are just helping us change our habits, and
I just think that's important be able to support the businesses.
It's a safety measure, it's a right thing to do,
and it's just going to make us a stronger nation
when you don't have a very few large, you know,
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very few mega corporations controlling all this. And and then
what Red Balloon does is we come alongside these businesses
and we help them find patriots. You know, we help
people like Tucker Carlson with hiring because you know, somebody
like that, you have to make sure that the people
you're putting on your staff are not going to be
a trader. We were helping Louder with crowd or with hiring,
(43:36):
and he was saying there were people who he had
hired before Red Balloon who literally were actively trying to
sabotage his business because he was standing up, you know,
and he's a little bit of a goofball, but he
was standing up for conservative values. And so there are
people like unlocking the doors on weekends, unplugging servers, leaking
(43:58):
financial information, like actively trying to destroy his business. So
we've heard this from others. We've heard this from conservative
cell phone companies and others, where there's people who will
graffeiti their buildings. The left it is a it is
an ideology, it is a a religion for them to
not have the conservative businesses thrive. And so the way
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you push back is you, as a consumer, make one
different buying decision today. You know, encourage your friends to
go to Red Balloon, Encourage your friends to watch this
show and support people who share your worldview and aren't
trying to d jam a liberal, woke leftist ideology down
your throat. And if all of us do that, you
take away their power. Pretty straightforward.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
So, since you said that there's no real vetting process
with what balloon is there that anybody can apply.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
So we do a vetting process for our employers. We
make sure that they're actually care more about merit than
DEI or some of the other leftist ideaology and make
sure that they're making sense. And every employer signs a pledge,
and so we do vetting plus a pledge, and the
pledge is just you're gonna hire people based on hard
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work and merit, not based on some leftist ideology. And
then for job seekers it's the same thing. We ask
for a pledge, we say, and it's not a complicated pledge.
We say, are you willing to show up and work
hard and not be a whiner? And if they're willing
to say I'm gonna show up, work hard, and not
be a whiner. They're probably gonna be a good employee.
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And it is funny because you think, well, anybody could
you know, check the box for that pledge, And that's true,
but it is amazing when we added that pledge in
for job seekers to join the Red Blue Network, and
everything's free for job seekers. You can fill out a profile,
you can get lots of great resources that you can
use in your current job or your future job searches.
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But we had this pledge and we just had a
waving American flag in the background. And when we added
the pledge in the American flag LA, we saw the
bounce rate of job seekers increase significantly. People were like, no,
I don't want to be involved in that. Well that's great,
no problem, because our employers are looking for hard working Americans,
not people who you're they're gonna have to walk on
eggshells around. And so is it a heavy vetting. We
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don't individually vet people, but we have noticed that we
are a great filtering mechanism if you actually just want
to hire hard working Americans.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
You know, it's kind of funny too, is somebody else
asked me, what's so wrong with communism? Under communism, you
don't have to work? Somebody else, somebody else said, only
under communism can we achieve true equality, and I'm like, yeah,
(46:46):
all equally poor. Yeah, I mentioned that last week and
somebody else saying, oh, you don't have to work under communism, Like,
maybe you don't, but but do you want to running
your life?
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (47:00):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
And let's say under communism nobody works and guess what,
no food has made and then you all start to death.
That's true, you didn't have to work.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Good or they do. They do have food, but it's controlled.
And maybe nope, you're you're only allowed two bites today.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
That's right, Yeah, you get three p's that you're allowed.
And the thing is what I wish Americans would do,
what I wish everyone would do, is just be a
student of history. Look at the the success and the
prosperity achieved under each of the various economic and political
systems out there, whether it's communism or socialism or all
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the other systems that have been used. Which one is
producing the most prosperity for their citizens and the most
freedom for their citizens? And obviously the American capitalist system,
all its faults and all its flaws, has saved more
lives than any other system. You're like, save more lives, Yes,
(47:59):
because capitalism has produced more food production, more energy production,
more quality of life than any other system out there.
And quality of life allows you to do interesting innovations
around saving lives in other areas. So I will defend
capitalism to you know, even with all its faults, because
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it is really important that we understand communism does not
work unless you want to be poor and miserable.
Speaker 4 (48:29):
Yeah, well, you know that.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
Reminds me of we all grew up at a time
when we knew Russia had breadlines. People stood for two hours,
three hours of bread like, just to get the bread alone,
the meat or anything else that they might be available
to them. They had dowdy clothes, everything was drab, everything
was gray or dark. And these are depressive things, you know.
And this is one of the things I've noticed about say,
(48:52):
I shouldn't probably be calling any particular organization, but I've
noticed some of these fast food changed a particular one
with the yellow golden arches and paint.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
In their buildings gray.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
Why they were always known to be bright colors red,
white and yellow, right. Yeah, it's like, what's going on
unless they're trying to with the d I and the
BS and the nonsense, with the liberal luf, they're trying
to create that depressive state to bring people down.
Speaker 4 (49:19):
Well, I think it was basically basically, uh, when Boris
Yeltsen got got red pilled when he was here in
the United States and walked into a grocery store and realized,
oh wow, we've been doing it all wrong. And then
you know, the Soviet Union falls apart, and they and
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they turned to capitalism, you know. Of course they have
individual countries from Russia to Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, whatever, you know,
and and they did much better. They started to do
much better, of course. Uh uh. You know, I have
my own opinions good and bad about Vladimir Putin. But
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you know, in the end, we look at the former
Soviet Union and people wanted to leave. I know because
I've I talked to somebody who who migrated from the
former Soviet Union long ago, who couldn't wait to get
out of there. So you know, it's putting putting God
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back into society too. And this is the way we fight.
God fights with construction while Satan fights with destruction.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (50:42):
I got to ask you a question, Andrew. I'm looking
at this list of job job availabilities. Right, You've got media, journalism, management, insurance, banking, construction, design, engineering, facilities, education, executive, franchise, go,
you got a slew a job. It's all covered, right.
So I'm kind of curious. Maybe you don't have the
analytics on this, but since you have a Patriot platform,
(51:04):
but job availability, what do you think patriots gravitated to
gravitate to most?
Speaker 4 (51:09):
What? What?
Speaker 5 (51:09):
What jobs do patriots seek the most?
Speaker 3 (51:12):
Yeah, it's a good question, honestly, construction and manufacturing people,
I think patriots are tired. And obviously we've got a
lot of tech jobs. We've got management jobs, and you know,
social media managers and marketing managers and all those things.
But at the end of the day, there's a surprising moment,
I mean, it's not surprising number of people who say,
you know what, I'd actually like to work with my
hands again. I want to get back to what work
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used to feel like, where you go home at the
end of the day completely exhausted physically, and so we
we end up filling a lot of construction and manufacturing jobs,
and I think that's part of it. It's this mindset
of I want to do real work where I feel
the you know, the the strain on my body, and
it's teaching me life skills that are going to be useful.
(51:58):
Even if you know there isn't a job in tech,
you there's always work to do. There's not always jobs,
but there's always work to do. And so those are
probably two of our top field sol though again we've
got jobs all over the.
Speaker 5 (52:09):
Map, right, Yeah, I get that because I can't think
the number of times I fixed something, whether it was
fixing the car, fixing the big truck, doing something in
the hot and when you're done, you know, you just
got to step back and kind.
Speaker 4 (52:19):
Of admire it first.
Speaker 5 (52:20):
I can't realize it I did that, I accomplished.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Ever satisfying, Yeah, totally, it is.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
It is. Well, unfortunately we are almost out a show. Andrew.
It's been a real pleasure talking to you, and we'll
have to do this again. I want to keep your
contact info because i'd love to have you back on,
you know, especially as this project progresses, that you have
going for first responders. Of course, we see it in
(52:48):
the ticker. But if say somebody is blind or visually impaired,
they can't see the ticker, they can't read or whatever,
somebody wants to follow up with you, where do they go.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
Yeah, So Red Balloon dot Work is where you're gonna
find a ton of resources both for businesses and job seekers.
Right We're helping connect those to demographics of people and
also encourage you to go follow me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn
has canceled me a couple of times, but I'm still
going strong and I try and put out a meaningful
piece of content every day about how to build businesses,
how to build culture, how to find a job. And
(53:25):
you can direct message me there on LinkedIn. It's just
a crappy shets. There's not a lot of Andrew crappy
shots out there, so just look me up on LinkedIn.
That's where I'm probably most active. And we would love
to be a blessing to you, whether a job seeker
or an employer. We are helping people hire and find
meaningful jobs at scale, which is super fun and we'd
(53:47):
love being part of that story for lots and lots
of people. So Red Balloon dot Work and then Andrew
crabshets on LinkedIn.
Speaker 4 (53:54):
Well, when I think of your name, I actually think
of a casino.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
So yeah, there you go, Yeah, yep, craps.
Speaker 4 (54:02):
Yes, yes, indeed, so on tap for next week, we're
gonna be speaking with Michael d Ibari. Of course he's
He's the badass Uncle Sam that you'll find on a
Patriot soapbox, and I've asked him to join us, so
we have him scheduled next week. Andrew, God bless you
(54:23):
and best of luck to you in these future endeavors
as well.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
Thank you so much for joining us, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (54:30):
Absolutely, and ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for
tuning in to Patriot Confederation. God save the Republic of
the United States of America. Feed Amica.
Every Patriot has an obligation to question authority. Those who
are honest are not concerned with your watchful vigilance, and
those with integrity are not concerned with your discernment. Every
American is obligated to voice their concerns and stand up
for their freedoms and liberties.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
One Nati on your God Invisible with liberty and justice
for all.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We are the men in the arena. We are the
Patriot Confederation.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We will liver back down from by.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
We're unfeed Americans. All right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to
Patriot Confederation for what is the twenty ninth of July
(01:04):
twenty twenty five. I'm your host, Bad Billy out of
Twin Falls, Idaho, joined as always by John Grovenor out
of Nashawa in New Hampshire, New England. How's it going
up there? Up in the Northeast.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
It's going, Billy, you know, same old, same o. Here
in the Northeast. We just love our liberties, love our freedoms.
Here New Hampshire. A little concerned about a governor though,
I think she's trying to mess up New Hampshire. And
she said she wasn't gonna do that, but you know,
we'll we'll see it through, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yes, of course, joining us this week, we have a
native Idahoan here joining us. Of course, he's from a
different part of the state than where I'm from. He's
all the way from north of Moscow, Idaho. On what
Welcome Andrew Crapshoots to the show. Andrew, thank you very
much for joining us today.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Thank you for having me. Yes, we're up in the
North Idaho area where the uh kind of a liberal
because we were a university town here, so we're kind
of the blue dot in the red state. So uh happy, yeah, yeah, happy.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, Actually, last I checked, Uh I, I know there's
a lot of liberalism, you know, especially in Boise, Pocatello
and Lewiston. Uh, but still it's it's still primarily red.
It's Sun Valley, Sun Valley, That's that's the blue dot
in the Red state.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
That's true. That's where the crazies are.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah. Well, all the Hollywood elites have bought up that
that line. You know, it's so beautiful around there. You
see the Sawtooth Mountains and you're heading towards Stanley and
all that but uh, yeah, the Hollywood elites have bought
Sun Valley and catch them and yeah, it's it's nuts,
it's nuts, yes, yes, So uh let's get things started.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Though.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Of course you have a company, uh that's just called
Red Balloon. Would explain that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, I guess a little bit of background on that.
So I actually grew up in the San Francisco Bay area.
I did the dot com thing down there. Twenty five
years ago. I realized that California was going the wrong direction,
and so I wanted to get you know what at
a dodge, and so I moved up to Idaho. And
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I'd had a great career. I'd really enjoyed the work
that I did down in the Bay area, but I
actually worked remote for a year, So I was kind
of an early adopter of a leaving California and be
working remote. Dot com bubble bursts a little bit after
two thousand and all of a sudden, I found myself unemployed,
and so I thought, well, here I am in Moscow, Idaho.
I don't have a job, and there aren't any actually
(03:44):
really good jobs in town. You had to work for
the university or the hospital or Walmart, and so what
am I going to do? So I thought, well, I
should start making businesses. So I kind of put on
my serial entrepreneur hat and I founded a lot of
different businesses here in town, mostly technology businesses around three
D printing and software development. Had a ton of success anyway.
(04:06):
So I was the CEO of one of those businesses
here in Moscow in twenty twenty. I was about a
fifty million dollar business base here in town. We had
a beautiful headquarters and then but I'd sold the business
and I didn't have any ownership left. And my board
came to me and said, look, you're a conservative Christian,
and we don't think that that is tenable in today's market.
You know, it's twenty twenty. The world's going crazy and
(04:29):
you're not going crazy with them. So we're going to
need to find a new CEO. So I'm like, okay, great,
so and it's a little more complicated than that, and
there were severance packages and everything else. But ended up
leaving that business in twenty twenty one, and I was
going to take a year off and play golf and
hang out with my five kids. And I've got some
real estate investment stuff that I'm doing in land development.
(04:51):
I'll just work on those things. But I realized I
just had to make a choice between my job and
my values. And I know as an employer that I
talked to lot of great employees, and I wanted to
hire people like me who actually wanted to stick with
their guns, stick with their values, even if it costs
them their jobs. Those are the best kind of employees,
who actually care about merit, who actually care about freedom,
(05:13):
who think America is a good thing and the Constitution
is a good thing. I want to hire those kind
of people. And so I thought, Okay, well, you know what,
I'm going to go ahead and build a job board
that's just going to focus on merit based hiring, on
what made America great in the first place, Freedom, meritocracy,
all the things. Right, cool, no big deal, make a
job board. I'm a tech guy. So I knocked it
out honestly in a weekend with my brother and then
(05:34):
we were done, and I thought, well, we've now done
our thing, and this is right before the vaccine mandate hit.
Then the vaccine mandate hits, and my stance at that
time and still is, is like you're an adult, if
you want to get a vaccine. That's your decision. I'm
a libertarian, but you should have that conversation with your doctor,
not your HR department, about what you put in your body.
(05:55):
I agree, So anyway, and that was Red Balloon stance.
So if you're an employer, you can't have a vaccine mandate.
And and so I just kind of put that stance
out there is this is what I believe, no big deal.
And so Fox and Friends calls me up and said, hey,
you're the largest pro freedom job board in the country.
Would you like to come on Fox and Friends and
(06:15):
talk about it? Now, you need to understand I don't
find the news actually that interesting at all. And so
I didn't even know what Fox and Friends was. I'm like, oh,
are you like a good show? Like, hey, mister Weazel,
what do we like? It's like Fox and Friends. It
sounds like a kid show. Anyway, So so I went
ahead and went on Fox and Friends. And it turns
out they have a massive audience, particularly around this kind
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of panic around the vaccine mandates. So Red Balloon blows
up and all of a sudden, like shoot, I just
started another business and I didn't mean to. So Red
Balloon is the nation's leader in culture. First hiring, we
now have over five thousand businesses and over two million
job seekers. We do recruiting services, We have hiring automation software.
(06:58):
And basically, if you're a business or a job seeker
and you think that working hard is a good thing
and that freedom is a good thing in the workplace
and being able to live your values out loud and
being an American, than red ballue. Dot work is the
place to go. And it is dot work. It's not
dot com because dot com sounded too much like communism
to me, and we don't communism.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
We want to.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Uh, first off, I got to tell you, you know,
I I was born and raised in Idaho, and uh,
but through throughout my life, uh, you know, UH, different
times in my life I have been wanting I wandered
out to other different places. Of course as an adult.
As a kid, though I was you know, living with
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my aunt and uncle, and uh, of course I went
from Oregon to California, and uh I lived in the
central part of California, Stockton Modesto area. But this is
when California was a different place, mind you. I the
(08:11):
more I look back on it, though I'd realized that
it was starting to go into that proverbial abyss. I've
told this story a few times. I love telling it.
You know, the last election I could not vote in
was nineteen eighty eight, when you know, George H. W.
Bush against Michael Ducaccus. And even though I didn't understand
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anything about politics back then, I was fourteen years old,
but I'll still never forget that debate where Michael Ducaccus
was asked if his wife was raped and murdered, would
he seek the death penalty? And he said no. And
the next day I'm going to school and kids are
making fun of him. Kids younger than me were making
(08:57):
fun of him for saying that. Yeah. I mean, we
didn't know anything about politics, but we knew right from wrong, yes, sir.
And so you know, those were the last days of
California's conservatism. Well I can't say that for the whole state,
because there are still some pretty red areas in California,
(09:19):
and you know, especially you go up to the Reading
Guayrika area and all that, and a good portion of
Orange County on the map that Orange County is blue,
but it's actually very purple maybe and leaning more red
every day. So you know. I mean, well, they can
thank Gavin Newsom for that because of what he's done
(09:40):
for the state. But what else I want to get
at too, is, you know, during the time of COVID
and this nonsense and masks and all that, your area
though is is known. I mean, the first arrests COVID
related arrest unfortunately happened here in the state of Idaho,
(10:03):
and one of them was right there in your town
in Moscow, where some people went got arrested just for
going to church.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yep. And in fact I was I was involved in
that church and there was when the people were arrested,
I was standing right there. It was we the city
had just said that, you know, you have to social
distance while you're outside, uh, And so our church decided,
you know what we're gonna do is we're gonna have
a psalm sing. We're gonna sing amazing Grace, We're gonna
sing some great songs, and we're gonna do it on
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the parking lot at city hall, which is our right
and it actually wasn't against the law. And we were
gonna do it without masks, because masking while you're singing
is ridiculous. And we all knew that they were a
complete joke and it the video from that I remember is,
you know, they arrested three people for not social distancing
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and singing outside and there the video of them being
handcuffed and put into a cop car while a bunch
of people are singing amazing grace. It was just like,
oh my word, where do we live right? Uh? And
but it was cool because you know, my kids were
all at that psalm sing as well, and they loved it.
They're just like, you know what, you have to stand up,
you have to believe. And in fact, two of my
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boys were playing football at the time and the football
team ended their practice early so that they could be
there to sing, which is kind of a funny connection. Uh,
in front of city hall. And he got to see
the whole thing firsthand. So it was it was an
exciting time and really interesting.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I'm kind of curious that they put them on the
same car or separate cars.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Separate cars. And it was a it was a husband
and a wife, and then and then it was a
Christian who was running for county commissioner. They picked him
out of the crowd and arrested him, which felt a
little bit like targeting and then he and then they
grabbed a husband and wife as well.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I don't know what the world's coming to. It's kind
of like Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where uh preachers are being
arrested for feeding homeless people. I mean, how does this
happen in the United States of America? How can you
not be kind to your fellow man?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Right exactly exactly? So anyway, yeah, it was an exciting times.
I was there. It was fun, but you know, praise
the Lord. It all worked out fine. And in fact,
the because it was a breaking of the city law
to arrest them, because they had not done anything wrong,
the police actually violated the law and so we lawyered
up those folks and they won the lawsuit and got
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a settlement from the city because it was against the
law to do what they were doing. And it also
just kind of put the city on notice. You're not
little dictators. You can't just do whatever you want. There
is a large you know, there's a law of the land.
We still are in America. We're not North Korea, so
you're not allowed to just do whatever you feel like.
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I got to tell you about this before we hit
our first break. But John, one of our guests that
we've had in a recent pass on our show, got
a hold of me. Now, I've been asked to kind
of keep this under my hat, so I'm not going
to mention his name or what where he's at. But uh,
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the story goes. I guess you know, he's got horses
and something spooked the horses. So his wife went out
to go see what was going on and found somebody
on their property, and of course he scared her pretty bad,
so she pulled She pulled her gun and told him
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get off their property. He came, he came back with
law enforcement, and they arrested her and said that he
had every right to be there. So yes, so you know,
they're working on a lawsuit against the against the cops
that arrested them, telling them that somebody else has a
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right to be on their property. Plus, uh, mysteriously rattlesnakes
are showing up on their property.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
So it's her property. She gets arrested because she used
the weapon to scare him off protecting her horses, which
is her property. Yes, you know, in the old days,
they would hang people doing what he was doing.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Oh geez, Yeah, So I guess I'm not going to
reveal that person's name, but this is somebody we have
talked to in the past, and so we're going to
keep it kind of kind of quiet for the for
the most part, but you get the gist of it
what they're going through, and it's happening right here in Idaho.
If this is If this is happening in a red state,
who knows what's happening in blue states. So anyway, we're
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gonna go ahead and take our first break in we'll
be back in about a minute and a half. All right,
ladies and gentlemen, we are back when we were joined
by Andrew crapshoots out of North Idaho and talking about
his business and some other endeavors that he's got going on.
(14:56):
Before I go any further, though, I've i just have
to ask you, and I hope I'm not putting you
on the spot there, but you know, I've over over
the past of almost eight years, I've watched Governor Little
He he's done a couple of good things, but overall
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since COVID, I've I've seen I've seen a lot of
the stuff that that he shouldn't have done. Like I
think his biggest mistake, of course, his two biggest mistakes
was when Trump President Trump offered uh money to states
that declared the state of emergency during COVID. You know, yeah,
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he offered I don't know how many millions of dollars,
but we had we only had one unconfirmed case in
the whole state. And he shuts the state down and
then declares the state of emergency. I mean, you can't
tell me that wasn't lining up his own pockets. And
then very recently he vetoes a bill you know that
that passes every branch government in the House, but he
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vetos our medical freedom. So you know, something's got something's
wrong there, something's wrong, and I think Governor Little needs
to go.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, I will, I will agree with you. I remember
I've met Governor Little and a number of times on
various businesses that was running, and he'd always like, Andrew,
so so excited, you're in Idaho, really excited. What can
we do to help? And my answer, as a you know,
conservative libertarian, is like, well, make governments smaller. I want
government small enough that I can drownd it into a
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bathtub and get out of my way and let me
just build. Because I know how to build things, and
when you tax me to death, and when you throw
roadblocks in my way all over the place so that
you look like the hero, it's actually bad for the
state's bad for the citizens. Well he didn't like that
answer that much, so we haven't actually been real close
friends through most of this. But yeah, I mean, I
(16:59):
would say Governor Little if you get into sheep farming,
and you know, he's got very strong opinions on that.
Just that's where his heart is, and I think lobbyists
get to him and he's been susceptible to that. So
I guess my encouragement is, like, we need someone who
is actually a conservative all the way down, not just
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a conservative and word only, but in principle, because look,
we do not need half the government we probably have
in Idaho. There's a number of things about the state
that actually feel pretty liberal. I remember when I sold
a company and I wrote a very large check to
the state of Idaho. I'm like, why, if I was
even in Washington State, I would not be writing this check.
(17:43):
If I was in Florida, I definitely would not be
writing this check. And I'm not convinced that they're using
the money. Well, so I'd love to see Idaho actually
become conservative. And I do have a sympathy for people
who are in politics. It's very difficult to get into
that position of power, that position of authority, whether it's
in your head or not, where you're the most important person.
(18:04):
You know, it's hard to stay humble and to think
clearly about things. But we need we need men and
women who are willing to do that. I remember when
he shut down the state. There was a little brewery
about thirty minutes from our house. And came to the
brewery and and had a meal there, and I had
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my I was trying to keep the brewery in business.
So we illegally had a birthday party for me and
all my friends at the brewery because I'm like, we
got to keep these people in business. They're going to
go out of business. And the governor has shut down
the state, Like do you know what that does these businesses?
It's just incredible. So so that's that's when I really
checked out on governor a little, when when all the
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COVID stuff hit. So, I guess I'll agree with you, Yes,
it's time for a new governor.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Well, most definitely, you know, I mean, you know, he's
no different than what butcher O or was. And I
don't like him either. But you know, at least here
in Twin Falls, in this area where I know Cootney
County has done done a lot. They're probably the most
conservative county in the whole in the whole country, mind you,
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but here in Twin Falls County and Jerome and and
the Magic Valley down here. I mean, last May, we
we really made a statement in the primaries when we
voted out to the rhinos that were running the establishment.
And you know, we got Glenita Zeiderfeld, and we got
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Josh Cole and David Levitt and Clint Hostetler, you know,
who are doing a lot of good. If you check
their scores on the Freedom Foundation or the John Birch Society,
you can see their scores are way up there. But
of course, when you're making the constituents happy, you're making
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the governor really unhappy. And of course, anytime any of
these people propose any type of bill, it gets thrown
in the trash.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So but yeah, unfortunately, unfortunately that is uh, you know,
and there's just a number of things, and you know,
here in Moscow, Idaho, it's interesting. So we have a
population of about twenty five thousand people, and I'll, you know,
get back to Governor Little, but we have population twenty
five thousand people and we have a city budget of
one hundred and thirty two million dollars a year for
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that many people, whereas court Laine, which is up in
Cootney County. Court Alane is three times the population and
roughly the same budget. Because they're just a better run
city and they realize they don't have to do all
the things they need to think like business people when
it comes to running a city, and man, just the
burden of government on the American people, whether it's a local,
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state or federal is overwhelming. And I think Governor Little
doesn't see that. Uh, And we need people who actually
want government to be smaller and not just keep getting
bigger and bigger every single year.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yes, yes, of course, what this state has done to
Amin Bundy is is just a crime in itself right there,
and what they continue to do to him. I don't
know if you've heard of what recently happened. Oh yeah,
so you know Saint Luke's. Of course, he led the
charge against Saint Luke's when they were basically kidnapping baby Cyrus,
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and now they hit him with a fifty plus million
dollar lawsuit and his son, who's not involved at all
in any of the protests, Well, they drained his bank
account and took all his money.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, it does feel like a totalitarian communists. Right.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
He got his money back, but of course that was
with those of us with the People's Rights Network called
called the bank and had something to say about that,
you know, and they gave him back his money. Yeah.
They just follow orders without question, especially Holland and Hart,
that law firm. So it needs to be burnt to
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the ground because all they do is just destroy people's lives. Yeah,
but enough on that. Yeah, I want to get to
the project you got going. We got about we got
about six minutes before we go to our bottom of
the hour break. But you want to empower and employ
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first responders, especially police officers, after the city of Minneapolis
basically has torn down and then when they defunded the police,
they defunded the police, and so there's something you want
to do about that and just talk about that.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, there's a couple of things that we're trying to
do right now because obviously red blond Work has gotten
to the scale where we're able to help businesses all
over the country be able to find culture aligned people
who are want to work hard and are going to
bring a skill set that's going to make that business
a lot of money. But we also just have a
heart for first responders and for military vets. We feel
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like these are people who fight so hard for our freedom,
whether you're a policeman or a fireman, whether you're someone
who's served in the military for our country. How can
we come alongside and help those people at scale? So
we've done a couple of different things, so actually at
the beginning of this month, so this is fresh off
the press, and actually we haven't even done the announcement yet.
(23:37):
So first here, red Buluon just acquired military hire dot Com,
which allowed us to take some of the technology and
tools that we've built to help job seekers find great
work to hundreds of thousands of vets and be in
a position to kind of come alongside them with technology.
And I'll be honest that VET community has not had
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good technology and human based hiring strategies to be able
to transition very well. And it's actually a very difficult
transition to transition from military service to the private sector.
And we've also built a partnership with law enforcement today,
and they also have Blue Lives Matter, and they have
millions of law enforcement professionals who are tired of working
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so hard to protect the freedom of their citizenry, of
their city council and then kind of having their freedom
curb stomped when it came to vaccine mandate. So you
saw what happened with Chaz in Seattle or what happened
in Minneapolis, and so we built a partnership with that
organization to help officers find new work, and we've been
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able to place folks, sometimes in private security companies, sometimes
in just police stations or police departments around the country
that actually value freedom. There are places in Arizona and
Texas and Florida where we can take some of those
police officers and have from the Minneapolis's and the Oregon
and the and the Portland Organs and the Seattles of
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the world and put them in a place where they're
actually going to be respected and honored as a very
important part of the community. And so that's been a
really rich and rewarding experience to be able to help vets,
help first responders be able to get jobs, and often
those people make some of the best employees, whether you're
in manufacturing or construction. These are the hardest working, disciplined,
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systematic people that are going to take your organization the
next level. Which is kind of fun to be able
to help place those people in great, freedom loving businesses.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I'd actually like to see more of those officers run
as sheriffs. Yeah, I mean, and I've you know, and
I've stated it before too, you know, the I mean
the difference. I mean, you can go in and apply
to the police force, you know, fill out an application.
You know, you've got a military background, you got police academy,
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you got a job, you know. I mean, both the
sheriff and the police basically have the you know, the
same job qualifications, except one tiny difference is you know,
people hire police officers, but the people elect the sheriff.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And if you've got a liberal
mayor or a liberal city council, which is the case
in Moscow, then they are going to hire a police
chief who is aligned with their worldview and is willing
to enforce the masks and enforce the things that the
citizens actually just don't want whereas You're absolutely right. So
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the sheriff, and we have a great sheriff in Leetau County,
and I know a lot of the sheriff deputies, kind
of his right hand people are actually solid, you know, obviously,
you know, I always want people to be better and
more conservative and more libertarian, but they're actually really solid
and that is a great protection for people. And they
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don't realize how important the sheriff is to keep the
city government in check because city officials can sometimes feel
like they run the world and that sheriff is a
great counterbalance to that, you know, heady power that a
lot of people in city have. So yes, I would
love to see more of them run for sheriff or
just be a deputy in the sheriff's department when they're
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actually a conservative and a clear thinking person. So that
is also something we're going to be focusing on.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Oh absolutely absolutely, I mean they and the I think
there's a lot of sheriffs too that obviously there are
those that abuse their power as we know them. There
are too many out there that don't realize the power
that they actually have. You know, like if the FBI
comes into your town. You know, they just even they Yeah,
(27:53):
they're federal agents, but they don't have the authority to
just go in and start arresting people with whatever. You know,
the sheriff can stop the FBI, and the sheriff has
the power to do it.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah, yeah, yep, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
So we are at the bottom of the hour and
we're going to take our bottom of the hour break
and we will continue this discussion when we come back
in about three and a half minutes. All right, ladies
and gentlemen, we are back. We are joined by entrepreneur
and Andrew Crapshoots out of Moscow, Idaho, and just continuing
(28:32):
the conversation, I want to go back to where you
were talking about when you brought basically brought red balloon
to Idaho, and I have to ask have you or
your company received any any backlash from the woke left
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basically saying your your company's racist or whatever they of course,
whatever they've got to say because you don't follow their ideology.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, absolutely so. It was probably worse during the COVID
lockdowns and the vaccine mandates. I was getting at least
a death threat a month from people because you know,
standing for freedom. You know, that's very, very dangerous the
way they say freedom is a far right construct. And
how how you know, how do I have the right
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to try and help people find freedom at work? Because honestly,
a job is a really important thing. Right. If you're
a conservative or a Christian, and you're basically given the
choice between a job or doing what you know, doing
what they said and keeping your job, or sticking with
your values and losing your job, then you're at least
going to be tempted to compromise on something you hold dearly,
because you're kind of looking at this like, well, I
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want to be a productive citizen. I want to pay
my mortgage, I want to feed my kids, I want
to you know, we know you you know, he who
does not work does not eat. Therefore I need to
be a hard working American. And a lot of Americans
kind of were in that quandary in twenty one and
twenty two, and that's really where Red Balloon kind of
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came alongside and said, look, we want to be a
blessing to these people. And as a consequence, people realized
that that was a very powerful lever that the left
was using on American citizens of threatening them with their job,
because a job, again is just a very important part
of who that person is, and so yes, I would
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get death threats. I had one newspaper in South Carolina
ran a big article about how everyone who uses red
balloon should wear a yellow armband and should be ostracized
from society because they're danger to society. We had a
Wired magazine did an article about how I've got a
stupid little job board. And you know the other thing
(30:55):
that's funny, and I'll pick on this a little bit.
You see my last name, it's you know, it's it's
got a whole variety of things that you can do
to it. In fact, I worked for the University of
Idaho briefly when I you know, twenty five years ago,
and you know, email was fairly new thing, and so
they had this hard and fast rule that your email
address had to be the first letter of your first
name and then the first five of your last name.
(31:17):
So I'll let you do the math on that. But
it was a crap you at u of I dot edu,
and I I really enjoyed that they were a little
offended by it. But anyway, so that's the other thing
that I have found very amusing through this whole thing.
I think I think that there's massive groups of thousands
of people on Reddit who think they're the first person
(31:38):
to realize that my name starts with crap, and so
they're like, oh, look at his last name, you know,
which I find very amusing. And I have three boys
and two girls, and my boys also think they won
the lottery with our last name, and the girls probably are,
you know, gonna get married someday and get a new one.
So anyway, so yes, we've definitely had people attack us.
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I've been canceled from every major social media platform that
you can imagine, and we went ahead and you know,
fought back and said, no, we aren't doing anything wrong.
We're not breaking your terms of service, even though if
you don't like what we're doing. And every single major
media social media platform I've gotten back on. So I
think that is also just kind of an important lesson
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for a lot of conservatives is people on the left
are happy to punch first and cancel you or till
you're stupid or whatever, but they'd actually don't want an
extended fight. And I think there is an example. You know,
we were talking about the arrest that happened because we
were singing on the city Hall parking lot, and you know,
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they were happy to arrest and intimidate, but then when
we lawyered up and sued them, it was like, Oh,
they're actually gonna stand up for what they believe. And
I think a lot of conservatives are like, look, I
don't want to fight. I don't want to lawyer up
because I don't believe in lawsuits, whatever it is. And
I think it's really important rust actually push back and
stand up. And when you do that, you actually get
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a lot of respect from a lot of people, even
if they don't totally agree with you, because courage is
contagious and people want someone who's willing to stand up
at work, or stand up in their community, or stand up.
And you don't have to do it in a shrill
way the way the left has done it. You don't
have to be a Karen that's, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Trying to.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Route, but you shuld just be a rock that's not
easily pushed off what you believe. And when you do that,
you are an asset to everybody in your community because
they know that you're the person who's not going to
get easily shaken, easily moved, and then it gives them courage,
because courage is contagious. So anyway, sorry, that was a
(33:43):
long answer to the short question. But I had plenty
of death threats and plenty of mocking and I don't
really care. When you grow up with the last name
of Crappy, shets like, you can't really go anywhere from that, Like,
what are you gonna do to me? Make fun of
my last name? That's been done.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Yeah, there's you know that one story out of Portland
that's very, very disturbing, of course, of a family of
free and they were known Trump Trump supporters, and this
is after everything started to cool off during the George
Floyd riots, or so we thought they were starting to
(34:20):
cool off. A family of three, a man, his wife,
and their six month old baby, of course, bush whacked
by Antifa members. I mean really just did a number
on both of them, beat the hell out of them,
and then took picked up the baby six months old
(34:43):
and punched the baby in the face. And their answer,
A Nazi is a Nazi, and you punch a Nazi
in the face. It's like, wow, that's what Nazis do.
That's exactly what Nazis do the brown Shirts? I mean,
come on, yeah, that's yeah. You tell me who's acting
(35:03):
like Nazis in this case, right, I know there's but
I know out of uh it's either Portland or Seattle.
I think it's Portland. There's this Samoan guy they call
Big Tiny, who was anti Trump at first, but then
you know, actually he was the one who had an
open mind, sat down with conservatives and and listened and
(35:24):
uh and had the conversation and he became a Trump supporter.
And there's Antifa calling him out. We're looking for Big Tiny,
and when he stands up and says, here I am,
they go running. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah, But I think that's just the lesson is like
it is, the left is gonna take a punch first,
but they don't actually want to fight, and conservatives, unfortunately,
we back down way too quickly, and it's time to
be like no, I'm yeah, like here, I am, Like
what do you want to do? You want to talk?
You know, uh, And I think we need to do
(35:58):
more of that. That and you know that story is
of the family is horrible, and I mean that's part
of the reason I'm in Idaho and I'm not in
California anymore, and I was grateful that I'm here. You know, Idaho,
I know the butcher really well. I know farmers when
you think about food security, when you think about taking
care of your family, and then you know. I think
the other encouragement I give to conservatives is like, there's
(36:20):
a lot of bad things happening in the world, and
if you try and take in all of them, and
you need to be aware of them, and you know,
shows like this are important to be aware of them.
But at the end of the day, go do something.
Go try and solve a problem for other people. Because
if all the Christians and all the Conservatives in America
were like, you know, this is enough, We're done. And
I started Red Balloon because I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna
(36:42):
start a business because I want to be a blessing
to all these people. I think we need to see
more Americans who are willing to do that, strap in
and do the hard thing of starting a business, blessing someone,
defending your neighbors. And the more of us that do that,
you know, it's kind of like bugs life. The more
that the grasshoppers won't be able to try and intimidate
(37:03):
the answer, so, yeah, it's a crazy world, will In,
but don't just stress about it, go do something about it.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Well, you know, this very show that we're doing right
now was originally John's idea to begin with, and you know,
he reaches out to me, was late twenty twenty two
and says, by the beginning of the new year, I
think we should we should do something, start a new show.
And I'm like, okay, I'm down for that, you know,
(37:31):
and he's his reasoning being is for the very reasons
that you just mentioned.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yep, Nope, it's really important. And you see that. You know,
I was just looking at your advertisers and those are
all businesses that are you know, they're standing up for something.
You know, Mo Squared as an example, they're actually a
good red blue customer. We've filed them with they're hiring,
you know, and so we've had a chance to bless
(38:02):
those businesses. But I would encourage our listeners like go
and support those businesses because it's also a safety issue.
Right If you support businesses in the freedom economy so
they can grow to the size that they're actually a
viable business, profitable whatever it is, right, then you will
have a business that's willing to serve you when bad
(38:23):
things happen based on you know, government decisions, whether it's
COVID lockdowns or whatever the next crazy thing they come
up with. And so when you support those businesses, when
you hire through Red Balloon, when you go to Mammoth Nation,
when you go to Public Square, we go to Ammo Square,
all these different organizations, when you go and support them,
you're making sure that they are around if bad things happen,
(38:44):
because they're not going to be like the grocery stores
that make you wear masks. They're not going to push
that agenda down your throat in the same way that
a lot of the big tech companies did. And so,
you know, I've just been very encouraged by the kind
of blossoming of this parallel freedom economy where you have
more optionality, and I would encourage people, like, one of
(39:05):
the things you can do is not everybody has to
start a business, not everybody has to start a podcast,
but you do need to change some of your habits,
whether it's spending habits, whether it's hiring habits, whether it's
you know, how you look for a job, because it
does have an impact. And I know because when we
have placed people in jobs. We placed this gal in
a construction company in Denver, and she called me like
(39:27):
three months in and she's like, it has literally been
like detox. I had no idea how much the DEI
and ESG and microaggression training that I was going through
constantly at the big woke business that I was working
in had a huge impact on every other relationship in
my life and on my worldview. And now that I've
been at just a normal American business that values people
(39:51):
based on the quality of their work, not the color
of their skin, then she's like, I love this work, right,
and she's like, it really is detox. I didn't realize
how much it was affecting me and so and I
think for everyone who's listening, like whether it's your job,
whether it's you're spending habits, whether it's what you're listening to,
those things affect you. And you need to make one
(40:11):
incremental change today, one incremental change tomorrow and actually change
the And that's how we change the nation, all of
us just doing little things, but actually doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
You know, all we got to do is look to
Los Angeles and we can see where what you're talking about,
you know, hiring people based on merit and not on
sexual preference. Or again because Los Angeles, well we know
Los Angeles has been a mess for a long time.
(40:43):
But those fires, even though those fires were not natural,
and that's another conversation for another time, but those fires
could have been contained a lot sooner if they had
firefighters that knew how to do the job instead of
people based on their sexual preference. And a mayor based
(41:05):
on both the color of her skin and her sexual preference.
I mean, she's a complete joke. Her and LORI lightfoot. Wow,
just two fees of pod right there.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
What we can talk about usuers in the Dunning Krueger effect, Right,
these people take these positions that they don't realize they're
underqualified for, and then when something disasters happens, it creates
disaster results because they're totally unprepared.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Yes, anyway, we are at the final quarter, so we're
gonna take our final break. We'll be back in one
minute to wrap things up.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Welcome to Shop with America. Where the emphasis is on America.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Our movement is to switch away from your shopping with
the big box stores and the mega corporations back to
supporting family owned made in America. We've been giving these
big box stores our money every day for years, but
what's happened is they forced many small businesses to shut down.
We call this the illusion of choice. We see all
(42:03):
these products in these stores, but in reality, it's only
a few companies that control it all. There are thousands
of lawsuits for health damage because they put profit over
our people. But there is another choice.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
We found a better way.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
There's a family owned American factory with product integrity and
have always done things the right way for the right reasons.
And this company outperforms the big box stores. That's due
to their month to month shopping club. They make everyday
consumer products that we all use and buy again and again,
like toothpaste, shampoo, coffee, and organic beef.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Go to shopwith America dot US today.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
And I'm beginning to wonder if Shop with America is
something Red Balloon is aligned with.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Yeah, very much so. I mean, I'm trying to solve
the employment issue, but there's great companies like Shop with
America who are just helping us change our habits, and
I just think that's important be able to support the businesses.
It's a safety measure, it's a right thing to do,
and it's just going to make us a stronger nation
when you don't have a very few large, you know,
(43:14):
very few mega corporations controlling all this. And and then
what Red Balloon does is we come alongside these businesses
and we help them find patriots. You know, we help
people like Tucker Carlson with hiring because you know, somebody
like that, you have to make sure that the people
you're putting on your staff are not going to be
a trader. We were helping Louder with crowd or with hiring,
(43:36):
and he was saying there were people who he had
hired before Red Balloon who literally were actively trying to
sabotage his business because he was standing up, you know,
and he's a little bit of a goofball, but he
was standing up for conservative values. And so there are
people like unlocking the doors on weekends, unplugging servers, leaking
(43:58):
financial information, like actively trying to destroy his business. So
we've heard this from others. We've heard this from conservative
cell phone companies and others, where there's people who will
graffeiti their buildings. The left it is a it is
an ideology, it is a a religion for them to
not have the conservative businesses thrive. And so the way
(44:21):
you push back is you, as a consumer, make one
different buying decision today. You know, encourage your friends to
go to Red Balloon, Encourage your friends to watch this
show and support people who share your worldview and aren't
trying to d jam a liberal, woke leftist ideology down
your throat. And if all of us do that, you
take away their power. Pretty straightforward.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
So, since you said that there's no real vetting process
with what balloon is there that anybody can apply.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
So we do a vetting process for our employers. We
make sure that they're actually care more about merit than
DEI or some of the other leftist ideaology and make
sure that they're making sense. And every employer signs a pledge,
and so we do vetting plus a pledge, and the
pledge is just you're gonna hire people based on hard
(45:10):
work and merit, not based on some leftist ideology. And
then for job seekers it's the same thing. We ask
for a pledge, we say, and it's not a complicated pledge.
We say, are you willing to show up and work
hard and not be a whiner? And if they're willing
to say I'm gonna show up, work hard, and not
be a whiner. They're probably gonna be a good employee.
(45:30):
And it is funny because you think, well, anybody could
you know, check the box for that pledge, And that's true,
but it is amazing when we added that pledge in
for job seekers to join the Red Blue Network, and
everything's free for job seekers. You can fill out a profile,
you can get lots of great resources that you can
use in your current job or your future job searches.
(45:54):
But we had this pledge and we just had a
waving American flag in the background. And when we added
the pledge in the American flag LA, we saw the
bounce rate of job seekers increase significantly. People were like, no,
I don't want to be involved in that. Well that's great,
no problem, because our employers are looking for hard working Americans,
not people who you're they're gonna have to walk on
eggshells around. And so is it a heavy vetting. We
(46:17):
don't individually vet people, but we have noticed that we
are a great filtering mechanism if you actually just want
to hire hard working Americans.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
You know, it's kind of funny too, is somebody else
asked me, what's so wrong with communism? Under communism, you
don't have to work? Somebody else, somebody else said, only
under communism can we achieve true equality, and I'm like, yeah,
(46:46):
all equally poor. Yeah, I mentioned that last week and
somebody else saying, oh, you don't have to work under communism, Like,
maybe you don't, but but do you want to running
your life?
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (47:00):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
And let's say under communism nobody works and guess what,
no food has made and then you all start to death.
That's true, you didn't have to work.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Good or they do. They do have food, but it's controlled.
And maybe nope, you're you're only allowed two bites today.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
That's right, Yeah, you get three p's that you're allowed.
And the thing is what I wish Americans would do,
what I wish everyone would do, is just be a
student of history. Look at the the success and the
prosperity achieved under each of the various economic and political
systems out there, whether it's communism or socialism or all
(47:38):
the other systems that have been used. Which one is
producing the most prosperity for their citizens and the most
freedom for their citizens? And obviously the American capitalist system,
all its faults and all its flaws, has saved more
lives than any other system. You're like, save more lives, Yes,
(47:59):
because capitalism has produced more food production, more energy production,
more quality of life than any other system out there.
And quality of life allows you to do interesting innovations
around saving lives in other areas. So I will defend
capitalism to you know, even with all its faults, because
(48:22):
it is really important that we understand communism does not
work unless you want to be poor and miserable.
Speaker 4 (48:29):
Yeah, well, you know that.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
Reminds me of we all grew up at a time
when we knew Russia had breadlines. People stood for two hours,
three hours of bread like, just to get the bread alone,
the meat or anything else that they might be available
to them. They had dowdy clothes, everything was drab, everything
was gray or dark. And these are depressive things, you know.
And this is one of the things I've noticed about say,
(48:52):
I shouldn't probably be calling any particular organization, but I've
noticed some of these fast food changed a particular one
with the yellow golden arches and paint.
Speaker 4 (49:00):
In their buildings gray.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
Why they were always known to be bright colors red,
white and yellow, right. Yeah, it's like, what's going on
unless they're trying to with the d I and the
BS and the nonsense, with the liberal luf, they're trying
to create that depressive state to bring people down.
Speaker 4 (49:19):
Well, I think it was basically basically, uh, when Boris
Yeltsen got got red pilled when he was here in
the United States and walked into a grocery store and realized,
oh wow, we've been doing it all wrong. And then
you know, the Soviet Union falls apart, and they and
(49:44):
they turned to capitalism, you know. Of course they have
individual countries from Russia to Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, whatever, you know,
and and they did much better. They started to do
much better, of course. Uh uh. You know, I have
my own opinions good and bad about Vladimir Putin. But
(50:07):
you know, in the end, we look at the former
Soviet Union and people wanted to leave. I know because
I've I talked to somebody who who migrated from the
former Soviet Union long ago, who couldn't wait to get
out of there. So you know, it's putting putting God
(50:30):
back into society too. And this is the way we fight.
God fights with construction while Satan fights with destruction.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (50:42):
I got to ask you a question, Andrew. I'm looking
at this list of job job availabilities. Right, You've got media, journalism, management, insurance, banking, construction, design, engineering, facilities, education, executive, franchise, go,
you got a slew a job. It's all covered, right.
So I'm kind of curious. Maybe you don't have the
analytics on this, but since you have a Patriot platform,
(51:04):
but job availability, what do you think patriots gravitated to
gravitate to most?
Speaker 4 (51:09):
What? What?
Speaker 5 (51:09):
What jobs do patriots seek the most?
Speaker 3 (51:12):
Yeah, it's a good question, honestly, construction and manufacturing people,
I think patriots are tired. And obviously we've got a
lot of tech jobs. We've got management jobs, and you know,
social media managers and marketing managers and all those things.
But at the end of the day, there's a surprising moment,
I mean, it's not surprising number of people who say,
you know what, I'd actually like to work with my
hands again. I want to get back to what work
(51:35):
used to feel like, where you go home at the
end of the day completely exhausted physically, and so we
we end up filling a lot of construction and manufacturing jobs,
and I think that's part of it. It's this mindset
of I want to do real work where I feel
the you know, the the strain on my body, and
it's teaching me life skills that are going to be useful.
(51:58):
Even if you know there isn't a job in tech,
you there's always work to do. There's not always jobs,
but there's always work to do. And so those are
probably two of our top field sol though again we've
got jobs all over the.
Speaker 5 (52:09):
Map, right, Yeah, I get that because I can't think
the number of times I fixed something, whether it was
fixing the car, fixing the big truck, doing something in
the hot and when you're done, you know, you just
got to step back and kind.
Speaker 4 (52:19):
Of admire it first.
Speaker 5 (52:20):
I can't realize it I did that, I accomplished.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Ever satisfying, Yeah, totally, it is.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
It is. Well, unfortunately we are almost out a show. Andrew.
It's been a real pleasure talking to you, and we'll
have to do this again. I want to keep your
contact info because i'd love to have you back on,
you know, especially as this project progresses, that you have
going for first responders. Of course, we see it in
(52:48):
the ticker. But if say somebody is blind or visually impaired,
they can't see the ticker, they can't read or whatever,
somebody wants to follow up with you, where do they go.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
Yeah, So Red Balloon dot Work is where you're gonna
find a ton of resources both for businesses and job seekers.
Right We're helping connect those to demographics of people and
also encourage you to go follow me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn
has canceled me a couple of times, but I'm still
going strong and I try and put out a meaningful
piece of content every day about how to build businesses,
how to build culture, how to find a job. And
(53:25):
you can direct message me there on LinkedIn. It's just
a crappy shets. There's not a lot of Andrew crappy
shots out there, so just look me up on LinkedIn.
That's where I'm probably most active. And we would love
to be a blessing to you, whether a job seeker
or an employer. We are helping people hire and find
meaningful jobs at scale, which is super fun and we'd
(53:47):
love being part of that story for lots and lots
of people. So Red Balloon dot Work and then Andrew
crabshets on LinkedIn.
Speaker 4 (53:54):
Well, when I think of your name, I actually think
of a casino.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
So yeah, there you go, Yeah, yep, craps.
Speaker 4 (54:02):
Yes, yes, indeed, so on tap for next week, we're
gonna be speaking with Michael d Ibari. Of course he's
He's the badass Uncle Sam that you'll find on a
Patriot soapbox, and I've asked him to join us, so
we have him scheduled next week. Andrew, God bless you
(54:23):
and best of luck to you in these future endeavors
as well.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
Thank you so much for joining us, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (54:30):
Absolutely, and ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for
tuning in to Patriot Confederation. God save the Republic of
the United States of America. Feed Amica.
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