Patriot Confederation with Glenn Baker

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
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 (00:22):
One nation, un your God invisible, with liberty and justice
for all. Ladies and gentlemen. We are the men in
the arena.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
We are the Patriot Confederation.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
We live back down from Bye. We're un freed Americans.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
All right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Patriot Confederation for
the fourteenth of October twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
I'm your host bad Billy out of Twin Falls.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Idaho, joined as always by John Grovenor out of Nashville
and New Hampshire, New England. How's it going up there, brother?

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Going good?

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Billy, going good? And join these new peace talks they're
coming out of Israel and Palestine, and those hostage swaps
and stuff are looking good.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
That should last us for at least two weeks, right, and.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
The liberal meltdown.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
They've got to find something else to cry about now,
because oh yeah, they're all about Palestine for for how long?
And finally peace talks are in the works, and the
liberals are still not happy.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
But what'd you expect them.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
I saw a good meme about that, you know, somebody
said something about here, here we go, a president that's
a convicted felon living in government housing, gets government paycheck,
and the left is still unhappy with them. What's going
on with that? Indeed, we we love our Trump, by
the way, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yes we do.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
There's I'm still gonna say, though, there's things going on
in the establishment that I'm not happy with. Especially I'm
I'm really not happy about the since I'm I'm an
Idaho and they got the UH Air Force Base for
guitar here.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
And I'm so that's yeah, you're right, it's kind of weird.
So it's not really gonna be an Air Force base
independently on their own. It's gonna be they're going to
get a facility within the base that already exists a
night I hope from my understanding. So, but I don't
think it's ever been done before. So it's kind of
I'm like you, I'm kind of like feel uncomfortable about

(02:55):
how it is while their guitars and ally, it still
feels kind of weird to have military planes and military
armaments in the United States.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yes, yeah, something something about the whole thing just doesn't
feel right. Whereas I, you know, I agree with everything
thus far that Pete Hegseeth has done, you know, as
far as he's straightening out the military. I really don't
get why beards aren't allowed in the military. I think
that that's something they need to let slide. But to

(03:28):
getting rid of the trainnies, thank you.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Are their beards and dresses don't mix, do they exactly?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I mean, I understand keeping a neatly trimmed beard at
you know where it doesn't get as long as mine.
But you know, I don't have to worry about that
right now. You know, you keep a neatly trimmed beard
that that should be excusable. But I don't know why
the military has this no facial hair policy. It just
doesn't make sense to me. But anyway, joining us this week,

(04:02):
I want to welcome back Glenn Baker. He joined us
back in uh January. It's actually our second show of
the year, and I think he was our first show
of the year. And here and here he is again
joining us. Uh, then, how you been?

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Man?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I thought you were just having me on here for
eye candy. I was enjoying the PA.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
I starve to feel neglectful aboubout having this conversation here.
You weren't you weren't I put.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
My man makeup on while we well, you guys were
doing your intro so I could look good for you.
But I can't see nothing. So now I'm gonna have
to put my other eyes on.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Oh well, I got mine on. All three of us
matched there the.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Loss of hats, glasses, and beards all the way.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Baby, I'm going to give you a response to the
beard thing. And I am. I am for our service
de storm god out thirty five years ago, man, and
I I don't agree with you, billy. And here's why, well, yeah,
here's why. The shaving, the haircut, the polishing the boots,

(05:10):
all that stuff did was bring discipline to people that
had no discipline, instead of letting them do what they
wanted to do. They were soldiers, they were GI's, They
were signing over that part of their rights, and I
really miss that part. You know, they don't even shine
their own boots anymore. I found that out a couple

(05:31):
of years ago. When I was about a year ago,
when I was getting ready to shoot the music video
for Finish This Fight, I found my former drill sergeant.
He and I became friends, and he told me, man,
they don't even shine boots anymore. I'm like, what you know,
they don't shine boots anymore. They got cell phones now,
they can use them during a certain time, even during

(05:52):
basic tramla. You've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Gone, no, no, no, I mean I can respect your
I just I just you know, the beard thing.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
You know what when I started it, uh you know,
when I started working out of high school and restaurants
and everything was so strict. You can only have mustache,
but no beards, which it never made sense to me.
I mean, neatly trimmed and close. I get, you know,
if you're gonna have facial hair, I get that.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
So it's if you keep it neat there shouldn't be
a problem. But that's just my opinion, and I can
respect your opinion as well, and there are.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
People that have the same opinion. Building In fact, when
I shot the music video for finishes Fight, I used
guys that had beards because a lot of special office
people are allowed that. You know, there's certain warfighters that
are allowed to have that. And General Flynn had filmed
a cameo for me for that music video, and when
he saw it with the boys had beards and their

(06:52):
hair was a little long, he said, no, I'm out.
If you're going to do that, I can't. I can't
be part of it. Now.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think, uh, gotta have neat gotta have neatly trimmed haircuts,
just like neatly trimmed beards. I mean, that's the way
I would run my unit, whether it be you know,
if I was in charge of a restaurant crew or
or I'm in charge of a platoon. You know, there
there'd have to be some uh some mandatory statutes there
to neatness.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes, sir, I get it.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
What's happening, boys, what's happening in your world? What we're
gonna talk about.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well, what's been happening with you and and the things
you've been doing? You know ever ever since last time
we had you on, we talked about your your unconstitution
unconstitutional lock up there when they arrested you, but for
pretty much what seemed like to be no reason. Just

(07:50):
go back to the archives and uh and listen to
that story. You know, we heard that you know your
music career, but you said a little bit something about
now a soldier you know, who doesn't have legs, and
you're working on a project with an exoskeleton and two

(08:13):
so he can have legs again. And I want to
talk more about that, the things you've been doing for him.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, that's actually I've been working on this project for
about four years. I just had no idea that i'd
be the one responsible for putting it all together. I
thought I was going to write a song and support
another organization that was doing it already, and that kind
of thing, And so that's where the song Finish this
Fight came from. I actually did a show with General
Flann close to four years ago now, and we were

(08:43):
raising money for an organization that was putting an extra
skeleton on a paralyzed marine. He'd been paralyzed seven years
at that point from Afghanistan. And when I saw this
man stand up out of his wheelchair and walk around,
telling the whole crowd, man, I get to walk my
daughter down the aisle. Someday I can reach the top
shelf for my wife. I feel like a man again,

(09:05):
and I'm in the corner just tears dripping out of
my beard. Billy just cried like a baby. Something inside
of me broke and I'll never recover from it, and
I don't really ever want to. But I tried to
figure how I could help, and I knew I could
write a song, and so we did that. It just
took a long time for me to get it right.
It's very emotional, very emotional song tells a story. But

(09:29):
we finally got it right. And then last summer a
year ago, in July, we went to shoot the music
video in North Georgia and found out that the organization
that I'd written a song for was no longer really
helping veterans much. And I'm like, well, crap, man, what
do I do now? And that's when God just kind
of got giggled at me. He leaned in. He said, boy,

(09:50):
this was the plan the whole time, and you're going
to do it. And I said, what he says, stop
mouthing off to me. You heard what I said, and
I'm just like, yes, sir. So that's when we the movie,
and that's when we started looking at starting my own podcast.
I've got a podcast here on Patriot Prayer Network as well. Yes, yes,
And that's when we started our foundation to finish this

(10:12):
fight foundation. So about May of this year, I've been
the actual skeleton world's really weird, Billy. The technology has
been in place in the US for at least a
decade or over. We've got in the neighborhood of ten
thousand men, and I'm sure there's some women that I

(10:36):
don't know about, but ten thousand veterans, let's say, in
the VA world that physically could use one of these
to help them walk. The old technology, you had to
have the upper body strength and the hand strength to
be able to manipulate canes for balance, but it would
stand you up out of a wheelchair and walk for you.
So ten thousand men are women that qualify. In the

(10:58):
last decade, there's been less one hundred that's been supplied.
That's not acceptable to me.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you I find the
actions of the VA itself very unacceptable. And that all
started there with a gentleman named Russell Irwin. I'll i'll
forward you the video after we're done with this show here,

(11:26):
but there. Yeah, I've got it on my personal YouTube account,
not the one you're probably watching this on, but my
other account Russell Irwin. He's laying there, he looks he
looks like he's deteriorating. And basically there was one morning
he felt really sick, didn't know what was going on.

(11:48):
He felt better later in the day, next day, feeling
sick again, but feeling better as the day went on,
and it started to repeat, and he started he was
throwing up every morning, started losing weight up to fifty pounds.
He called the VA to ask what was wrong with him.
They'd always schedule the appointments in the morning when he

(12:10):
wasn't feeling good. They would never schedule him afternoon appointments.
Then he just simply asked if he could go to
his local hospital where it'd be a lot easier for him,
but they wouldn't do that. And by the time he
was actually tested and got a little bit of care,

(12:32):
he had stage four cancer throughout his body. Wow, and
the VA just basically killed him. That this happened in Ohio,
And of course Shared Brown was the Senator, and what
a surprise. He did absolutely nothing except put him on
the Choice program. But that didn't that did nothing to

(12:54):
help his situation. The VA let him die, which just
you know, it's so disgusting what they did to him.
And I'm wondering how many veterans who have who have
served this great nation of ours, are being treated by
the VA and the rest of our government like this.

(13:15):
I mean, you have Joe Biden the day of his inauguration.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
He puts.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Soldiers in a parking garage and it was told at
least Trump said, well I got I got my hotel,
or you guys can sleep in a nice warm bed
for the night.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
So when is there It seems like.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Over the past few years, when we'll get to this
how you answered this after our upcoming commercial break, But
it seems like it's no surprise.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Our government's gonna hate me, gonna hate.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
John, but people like you who actually worked for him
and served him, they can't even show respect for that.
And uh, I would like to get your your take
on that when we come back from our break here
in just a little under two minutes. Be right back,
all right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back once again,

(14:15):
joined by Glenn Baker and Glynn. I hope you remembered
everything I said before the break there. But if you
need me to remind you anything, just let me know.
But yeah, i'd like to get your take on everything
I had said before the break.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, you might remind me. But while we were on
a break that gone spammers man, I got a call
from the United States Capitol in Washington, d C. I
didn't answer it. So you you were asking me about
how the veterans treated us, and how they treat me
in particular. I did an interview on o AN a

(14:48):
few weeks back, and the reporter asked me that pretty
much what inspires me to do what I do. And
here's the thing, Billy. Whenever these these young men and
women sign up on the botted line, raise their hand
taken oath to the Constitution of the United States, they
don't just sign over their life. They actually pledge the

(15:13):
very best of who they are. They pledge their youth,
they pledge their their talents, they pledge their intellect, they
pledge their health, and pledge possibly their lives. In a
lot of ways, they give the best of who they are,
and when they return, we end up giving them the
bare minimum. And that pisses me off. It's not acceptable

(15:35):
to me. There's so many things that could be done
differently instead of just enticing people to come in for
a small paycheck. Let's call it what it is. You
come in as an E one E two, you're barely
making a living. You get up to E four e
five with six years at the service, Okay, you're making

(15:55):
a little bit more. The people ain't signing up to
get rich. Maybe they're signing up for several other reasons,
but it ain't to get rich. But then when it's
time for them to ets and discharge, we're just like, well,
thank you very much, here's your paperwork. Hit the streets man.
There's some things that need to change about that, in

(16:15):
my personal opinion. There's a basic training in the Army.
Marines call it boot camp. Navy I think calls it
basic as well. I don't know, but there's a period
of eight weeks to thirteen weeks where these young people
come in and they're reprogrammed to become soldiers or sailors

(16:38):
or marines or whatever. Their old self is taught how
to become disciplined, like we were talking about with the
boots and the haircut and all that stuff, how to
follow orders, how to work on a team, how to
do what you're told to do to know you're going
to be successful. A lot of these people have come
in they don't have any structure at home. Now they're

(17:00):
given a structure and they work in a scrupture and
they do that for four years, six years, twenty years,
and then they're released. And a lot of these people
don't know how to adapt, they don't know how to
do where there is no structure. All of a sudden,
every decision is on them, and there doesn't seem to
be any help. I think we need to have not

(17:21):
only a basic training or a boot camp, we need
to have a basic retraining on their way out. There
needs to be a period of time set up for
each and everyone that's enlisted to go through a DTOX,
a d train and taught how to survive and not
only survive, but how to thrive in the world that

(17:42):
they haven't been a part of for many years.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Well, you know, Glenn, you got a friend that we've
had here on the show. His name's Philip Blackman. He's
also one of the members of the Bearded Patriots too,
even though he's kind of quit podcasting whatever. But he
talked to me about the transition from soldier to civilian,
which was one of the toughest things he had to

(18:05):
go through. What he didn't tell me about, of course,
that I heard in another interview is that he had
attempted suicide. But I'd say God intervened by the way
I heard that story, because you know, he he stuck
a pistol in his mouth, pulled the trigger and nothing happened.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
That was God intervening.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
And of course now he's onto other things helping other
veterans just like you. As a matter of fact, maybe
I should get you in touch with him, as well
as somebody else you might want to have on your
show that John and I both know, and that's retired
First Sergeant Todd McKinley. You and him would have a

(18:47):
great conversation. What do you think, John, Oh, yeah, probably.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Todd's spent quite a bit of time in the military
and then come out, but he transitioned to working for
the White House and things like that to use his
military experience to his advantage that way. A lot of
folks don't get those opportunities, as you know.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Or even you know, retired Colonel Chris Wyatt who's somebody
else we've had on this show too. I actually, just
a couple of weeks ago, I met the Colonel in person.
I haven't spoke of this on any the other podcast
that I've been on. Oh yeah, the Colonel plotting to

(19:27):
take over the world, exposing the corruption in South Africa
and everywhere else. Colonel's good at that.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
Yeah, he's really he's into it. Uh, Glynn, I was
looking here online and according to this AI overview I'm
looking at so you might want to take it with
somewhat of a gain of salt, but it says the
VIA pace for ex skeletis for qual qualifying veterans, primarily
those with spinal injury cords and stuff like that. I
think you've already looked into this, and.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Well the word is qualify. There that's a trigger word
for me. Is qualifying what?

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, Well, as best as I've been able to determine
with the research that I've done with the exoskeleton companies
as well as public information, in the last decade, the
VA has supplied less than thirty five of these units.
The other sixty issue have come either from personal checks,

(20:27):
donors or foundations, So in all there's been less than
one hundred that have gone to veterans in the last decade.
Actually it's over a decade now, ten and a half years.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
How expensive are these I'm seeing some listings according to
AI over who between forty and one hundred thousand dollars
a unit. But I'm seeing like upper body with one
company was less than two thousand dollars, but that was
upper body. Obviously most people need legs.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Well, there's all kinds of exoskeletons. There is upper body
if they get got some needed strength of rehab for
arms and hands and things like that. There are some
In fact, there actually has been a new one that's
just been FDA approved in the last year that is
for paraplegic helicopter pilots. And they can actually pilot a

(21:15):
helicopter with an exoskeleton now, So there are those. The
ones that I'm the most interested in is getting these
boys up and out of their wheelchair. Retail costs depending
on the model, are somewhere between eighty to one hundred
and twenty thousand, but you're going to figure with transportation,
with physical therapy, with everything that goes with the cost

(21:37):
is somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars total.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yeah, that's pretty big price take it is.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
But here's let's say. Let's say now with the new
technology which was oh, by the way, Billy I did
in May of this year, ran into a company that's
coming in out of France that's got new technology that's
way beyond anything in the United States. So the other
ones I was telling you about, these people have to
have the upper body strength to manipulate their balance with canes.

(22:09):
This new technology balances for them. It's a self balanced
AI analyzed exoskeleton, and so now they have the opportunity
they don't have to have that upper body strength, they
don't have to have the hand strength. Their arms will
be free. It's operated with a little joystick with one hand.
They do have to be able to operate the joysticks.

(22:30):
They have to still be not quadriplegic only parents. But
that frees up from ten thousand to somewhere in the
neighborhood of twenty five to thirty thousand men and women
that now would qualify for this product. And it's coming
in out of France. It's going to be going through
FDA approval here in the next month or two. And
I happen to have a friend in the Lighthouse that's

(22:51):
going to be pushing that through for me with the
FDA trying to get it pushed through it in months
instead of years.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
So what do these things have, like generals cup balancing
they do?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, they're they're gonna have they have. Man, I just
went brain did gyroscopes in each of the joints that
are then AI analyzed for micro movements to balance for
these guys. And I spoke my first veteran in July,
young man named Joshua Home. I don't know if y'all
have had Joshua on the on the on the show

(23:23):
or not.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Hi, I'm sorry to say I've never even heard of him,
but I'd love to talk to him.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Joshua is a good man. He is. He was wounded
to No. Three in Iraq, wounded, he was hit. He
was wounded three times in just a few months. The
first time shot directly in the chest with shotgun slugs
and hit his armor. But it just you know, it

(23:50):
messed him up. Hitting bright in the chest, they said
three or four more pounds of pressure would have broke
his Sternam and killed him. So that was his first one.
The second one was a mortar that he fell and
a mortar landed right in front of him blast. It
didn't go off, but the shrapnel from just the impact
tore him up pretty good. And the third one was
a side blast from a big mortar that ended up

(24:13):
putting in, putting him in a spider hole, hit his
head on the way down and knocked him out, landed
on his legs, broke his legs, broke his pelvis, TBI,
the whole thing. So he's been battling for twenty two
years those injuries. In twenty twenty two, yeah, twenty twenty

(24:38):
two December. He was able to walk for a lot
of years with the help of steel braces like Forrest
Gump Run Forrest Run, That's what he wore for many years.
But he was working in his closet he just turned
his head to the left, something snapped and so for
three years now he's been chessed down paralyzed. But we

(25:01):
had a chance to take him to New York in
July and get him into a clinical trial with this
company that's coming in out of France, and we filmed it.
This young man took his first steps in almost three years.
Within fifteen minutes of being in the clinic. Boys, he
stood up and was walking around, and I was crying
again like a baby. I was blown away.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
That is amazing. I mean, bringing about the quality of
life to folks like that. And I don't know what
it does for exercise as far as getting their blood
pumping and your metabolism and stuff like that moving, but
I can imagine you're not using the muscles in your legs,
I realized. But still the movement and stuff's got to
be good for you.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
John, your start brother, you catch on to that. A
lot of people don't think about it. It's not just
about standing up and walking. Now, standing up and walking
is a big big deal. If it was all that was,
it'd be worth it, you know. To see him, dude, Man,
the joy on this young man's face, fra the first

(26:04):
steps he took. The smile was breaking open his face, man,
And I was just like wow. And then watch him
walk over and stand next to his wife and be
able to hug her from a standing position. Just those
things were worth it. But yeah, the the movement, the

(26:25):
the function of your body, the the the no longer
after feeing the muscles from lack of movement, the circulation improvement,
you know, getting them up out of these these seated
positions where sores take place if they're not moving constantly.
It's it's not only freedom, it is therapy.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
M Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Well, Uh, we're at the bottom of the hour, so
that means we're gonna go ahead and take our bottom
of the hour break and we will continue the discussions.
I've got more questions, I got some more stuff that
I want to I want to share with you as
well and get your feedback on Glenn. So with that said,
we'll be back in about three minutes. All right, ladies

(27:17):
and gentlemen, we are back once again, joined by Glenn Baker. Now, Glenn,
something else I want to tell you about too. I
think it was back two thousand and eight, two thousand
and nine. Somewhere in that time frame, the UFC was
holding an event on I believe it was a US
air base. I can't it was a military base, that's

(27:39):
all I remember. And they had some good fights that
night too. I mean a couple of really brutal knockouts,
you know, just the action that I love. But they
were they were having a telethon for soldiers with TBI,

(28:00):
and I was I was happy to call in and
make my own pledge, but a little spark of anger
inside of me. It's like, why are they holding a
telethon for something the government should already be providing for
them after they've served something wrong?

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Here?

Speaker 4 (28:22):
What say you, man?

Speaker 2 (28:25):
You're one hundred percent right and and there's no reason
why I should be spending my money, time and energy
doing what I'm doing. Here's the here's the real, raw truth, Billy.
I've invested over one hundred and thirty thousand dollars out
of my pocket in the last sixteen months on this

(28:45):
foundation and the marketing and you know, the movie and
getting the getting the word out and taking this young
man to New York and those kind of things shouldn't
be necessary, but it is necessary right now. And so
here's our choices. I mean, we can sit around on
the counch, get up and get on X or get
on Twitter or whatever and complain and gripe about it.

(29:08):
You know why we shouldn't be sending money to Trisbecca
stan or wherever the heck we're talking about at the moment. Yeah,
we got homeless veterans, you know, all over the country.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
But what exactly can we do about at the moment.
There's not a whole lot we could do about that
in particular thing. At the moment. What we can do
is control ourselves. We can control our own actions, we
can control our own money, and we can come together
and be united to make a difference. And I think
we can actually do it in a way that is

(29:46):
big enough, grassroots, big enough that we can embarrass the
government enough that they'll pick up the slack. Let's call
spade a spade. President Donald Trump. I was not a
big fan before he started running back in twenty fifteen.
I thought he was a boisterous, egotistical dude, you know.

(30:07):
But when he walked down the escalator, when he came
down the escalator and I saw the whole world that
loved him turn on him, I knew there was something
going on. And he's got cahnis that are this big
around and I love the guy. He makes me laugh.
But if you really want to get him to do something,
do something that's liable to embarrass him, Well, if we

(30:30):
put enough exoskeletons on paralyzed veterans, and make it a
public enough display, and those questions are asked by people
besides me. All of a sudden it gets directly into
the White House and that well, he's like, yeah, why
aren't we doing that? And then we can make a difference.
So I agree with you. I'm just choosing to take

(30:52):
a different route about it.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
And I also agree too that back in twenty fifteen,
And I say that like it was recent when it
was actually ten years ago. But yet I remember when
he was running in My first reaction was, this is
a joke, This is just another celebrity hoax.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
You know, all kinds of things came to my mind.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Plus my mother called me and told me, you know how,
because what was it a few years before that she
was enjoying him on the Apprentice and now she hates
his guts, you know, but my mother, Yeah, my mother
and I opinion, that's another story. Yeah, she told me

(31:41):
some things that at first made me utterly dislike him
until I did the research and found out, you know,
she was just being fed to bs from the mainstream media, right, Yeah,
but yeah, you know, I mean I said, you know,

(32:01):
when it came twenty sixteen, I still was skeptical, and
I marked him down because I'll vote for him before
Hillary does, definitely, but I'm going to give him a
chance skeptical. And then of course he did his thing
and he actually impressed me.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
So he hinted at that a couple of years prior
to actually running, and I remember thinking that when he
hinted it, I goes, there's no way I'm voting for
that guy, because I thought he was just an egotistical nut,
you know, just like television and attention, and that's what
I was just think. I'm like, I'm not voting for
that guy. There's no way I'm voting for that guy.
Then when I heard him speaking, I go, oh, you

(32:41):
know what, I like the sounds of this guy.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
And then if you go back even farther and look
at the decades before, he was saying the exact same
things that he's saying now as his actual policies that
haven't changed. His political party changed, But you know what
our political parties have changed. Yeah, Democrats saying what they
used to be baby and Republicans saying what they used
to be.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
The Democrats right now are fracturing, is what they're doing.
They're losing it. Because the little factions of progressivism and
different forms of Democrats are just I think they're they're
they're kind of losing it because they shut themselves in
the foot so much they really don't know where to
go anymore.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Well, there there was a There was once a British musician,
definitely a pot smoking LSD drop and hippie, who once
said the United States should try electing a businessman for president.
And today that man's widow highly disapproves. I don't know

(33:43):
how he'd feel if he was still alive. But do
you know who I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, the one that caught a few bullets? Yeap?

Speaker 4 (33:53):
John Lennon, Yeah, yep. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
Ross Perro is my pick back in the day, man,
what was it ninety two? Yeah, ninety two, they were running, right.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
I voted for him both in ninety two and ninety six,
when yeah, not very many people can say that they
voted for him in ninety six, but I did, and
even though I knew he really didn't have a snowballs
chance in hell of winning at the time, but well
he did the first time.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
But the challenge is, if you know the inside story
that he was threatened him and his family were threatened.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
And he backed off and harassed. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Oh yeah, well that doesn't surprise me. I didn't know
about that, but I'm not at least a bit surprised. Yeah,
the government has been a big mess for a long time,
and honestly since the days of Reagan, I can't think
of any time that they actually treated veterans with real decency.
And I got to tell you, Glenn that, you know,

(34:52):
the time I lived in Vegas, I lived in Las
Vegas for five years. The whole five years I worked
for security companies and one post that I had was
a women's homeless shelter, just strictly for women and children.
But you know, that's still the majority of homeless people
hung out in that particular area, and the men's was

(35:14):
like five blocks up the road, and the majority that
would hang out there were veterans of the men right.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Well, And it goes back to what we were talking
about earlier, is there's no transition period that it just
a lot of people that come into the military are
pretty well balanced. You know, they're ready, they're easily trained,
they're easily conditioned to be part of the military, and
they're easily conditioned to ets and come out. I was

(35:46):
one of those. Man. The military was easy for me.
And when I came out, I just went back to work.
I mean, I've been working since I was eight years old.
I had a wife, you know, by the time I
got out, I had a kid and another one, well,
I had two kids actually by the time I got
out night. So it was an easy transition for me,
but a lot and if I noticed going back through
Basic on the I t there was a lot of

(36:07):
street guys, street kids that were that were in Basic
training that man, they didn't have anything else except hey,
I'm going to join the army. You know, at least
maybe I'll have a future. But they didn't have any structure.
They were never taught structure. They were never try how
to how to how to survive and thrive on their own.
So all they knew was following orders and having disciplined

(36:31):
that the army gave them. And when they got out,
all of a sudden, that's gone, and it's like, what
do I do now? So I believe that's why believe
that's why we have such problem in the veteran world
with homelessness, which then turns into drug addictions and things
that will numb the pain, you know.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
And of course that's why I think I need to
get you in touch with Todd McKinley because he just
released a book about the veterans suicide, and the conversation
you and him can have can probably you know there.
I think there's a lot you too can cover us
all make sure to get you the information to get

(37:14):
ahold of him.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, I can tell you honestly, brother, politics is new
for me. I didn't pay a lot of attention until
what happened to me happened to me, and then I
realized this is not the country that I fought for.
And God opened my eyes up and he put me
in the deep end of the pool trying to find
out what's really going on. And unfortunately, politics is where

(37:35):
the war is, that's where the battle is, and so
that's where he's put me. And I've learned a lot
and made a lot of friends. I've learned things that
breaks my heart. I've learned things that pissed me off
and make my ears smoke. So yeah, I mean, those
kinds of things are stuff that needs to be divulged.
You guys have been doing a great job at this
for much longer than I have. Like I said, I'm

(37:57):
kind of a newbie in this world. But he God's.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
I am too.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I mean I start prior to this, I was covering
entertainment and sports and all that you know. But then
I mentioned earlier are a good friend, Colonel Chris Wyatt.
He actually I forgot, uh state legislature whatever the seat
was he ran for, but yeah, it was a year ago.
He ran for a seat in his district. And I

(38:28):
basically said, Chris, the reason why you're doing this is
because all you've known your whole life is duty. Because
he he spent he spent the majority of his life
in the army. Before he I think he would they
told him it's time to retire. Wow, yeah, over thirty years,

(38:49):
and uh, I see, all you know is your duty
in serving this country, and this is the next step
for you. Sadly, though, he lost under stupid circumstance dances
like somebody blaming him for for stuff that Obama did.
And even though I know a colonel is a very

(39:10):
high rank, Uh, that doesn't mean he has all this.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
They associated his service during the Obama Obama administration as
taking part in what Obama did, so they're making wrongful
accusations towards of me. It was incredible.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yes, politics is brutal and it's ugly. In fact, on
the last commercial break, I couldn't stand it. Uh that
US Capital number left me a message. So I listened
to it and it's Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is my rippers. Well,
throw we'll throw everything under the bus about the about
the shut down, the government shut down. I'm like, you,

(39:47):
old hag, lose my number.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
So they they just whether they got an eight or
something calling and uh, basically.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
A robo dial, but it's showing her her office number
up in one, Washington, and it's her. It's her voice.
You know. If you want to know more about the
government shutdown, we're having a town hall medium. I don't
want to say what I want to say because I
don't want you to be flagged on YouTube. But I
live in the capital at the Communist capital of Florida,

(40:18):
and Debbie Wasserman Schultz is my representative.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
She did the DNC for Hillary over Sanders to give
her the nomination. Yep, yeah, that's kind of character.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
She asked.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
So here we are.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
We're at the final quarter, so that means we're going
to take our final break and we'll be back to
close things.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
Out in just about a minute and a half.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back once again,
joined by Glenn Baker and just about to wrap things up.
So prior to us getting started and everything, and I
just don't have the time to show it. But you
said you have the trailer. You actually have a you
have a short documentary about your buddy there with the

(41:08):
exoskeleton and all that.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
How can people see that?

Speaker 2 (41:13):
They can go to I can go to my YouTube channel,
Glenn at Glenn Baker Band on YouTube. It's there. I'm
getting ready to release the nineteen minute version. So I
took my producer from the movie to New York with us,
and we documented our trip from beginning to end and
getting a chance to see this man and his wife

(41:35):
and the difference that the mobility offered him and what
had done not just for this is a confident young man.
This guy's a warrior, no matter what I mean. He's
working on a ranch that helps other veterans have a
place coming and heal, and he's doing it from a wheelchair.
This guy's a warrior. But just the difference in being

(41:55):
able to stand up and walk over Huggy's wife, be
able to move around and not have have to have
help for everything, you know, he said, I've been sitting
there at the house and seeing her trying to reach
for something on the shelf, and no one. If I
could stand up, I could get it for and I
can't do it. Just little things that we take for granted.
And I'm five foot four on a good day. I
couldn't reach the top shelf for his wife either, but

(42:17):
at least I could step on a step to step stool.
You know, he's stuck in a dad damn wheelchair. So
we documented that and we have a we have a
foundation in place now. We've raised about twelve thousand dollars
in order to get to New York. I had to
fund some of that out of my pocket. But we
are on a mission now to raise fifteen million dollars

(42:38):
in the next eighteen months. Our first goal, though, is
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Joshua to not
just walk for three days or three three hours in
three days, but to be able to walk from now
on and when this this Sextra skeleton becomes FBA approve
to be able to write a check for that and
get this young man on his feet. He's gonna be

(43:00):
the spokesman for us. His nickname is the Man of
Steel Guys. He owns Wwwfaman of Steel dot com. Uh,
that's how funny God is he put him in place
to do that. DC Comics offered him a million bucks
for it and turned it down. This guy's he's I'm
gonna introduce you. You need to have him on.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
Oh, I'll be happy to have him on for sure.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
Yes, Well we'll have to talk after after everything and
get some information exchange for sure. Now, Uh, there's there's this,
I believe, you know, there's the fundraisers for it, and
I definitely wish that, uh, you know, our tax dollars
would go to fun things like this instead of sending

(43:47):
I don't know how many billions to Ukraine or how
many billions to Israel, you know, or you know, I
mean whatever, getting involved in things that I really feel
that America doesn't really have any purpose in.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
I mean, people can disagree, but.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Yeah, that's you're not feeling too thrilled about them Tomahawk
missiles getting ready to go to Ukraine.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
They don't why are we still on that this?

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Like, let them unless they're using nukes back and forth,
then we got business to intervene other than that, let
them find it.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
But I'm getting is Trump is getting a little disappointed
with Putin's unwillingness to participate in peace talk, so he's
leaning towards uh Zelenski now and maybe actually promising Tomahawk
missiles to put an end to this thing. I'm not
sure yet. It's kind of like you know, rumored.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
I think that's dangling the carrots. What is Trump's Probably
Trump's not a complete idiot. I don't think he'd send him.
Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think
he'd send a cruise mission. Look can launch out fifteen
hundred miles.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
See if Trump. Trump may be pulling a Ronald Reagan
stunt here like he did with Star Wars and stuff
and kind of let Putin know say, well, you know what,
you really haven't been forthcoming. So we're starting to back Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Now.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
That might be pretty scary to Puttin going. No, Biden
was a pushover, but Trump, yeah, you know, I'm willing
to talk now.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Yeah, just something else to just one other thing.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
I wanted to get your take on Gwynn's Earlier in
the show, I was talking about Russell Irwin and the
ungodly treatment he got when they found out he had cancer,
and I really feel that, you know, even though he's
passed away.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
I think restitutions are owed. He had a he had
a daughter.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
She's a single mother, you know, with I think I
don't know how many kids, but I think restitutions are
owed and should be paid to her.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
What do you? What say you on that?

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Man? It makes sense to me, But there's so many
one on one cases that had to be reviewed over
the course of twenty decades for that to take place.
Can it be done? I mean it could be, but
then you've got how many thousands are beyond that saying
well what about me? Well? What about me? What about me?

(46:24):
And we've created We've created a heck of a deal there.
Not trying to be a jerk. Yeah, I probably think
they probably do deserve restitution. There's probably a lot of
others that do as well. How to handle that, I
don't know that answer there. I don't know that. I
wouldn't know that answer. Billy. If you if you gave

(46:44):
me a week to think about it. I probably couldn't
come up with the right one.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Yeah, I just think the bottom line is it's very simple.
We need to treat our veterans a lot better than
what we do.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
We do.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
I mean, you know, when the best they can hope
for a lot of them is that somebody's going to
give them a dollar bill, a five dollar bill, a
twenty dollars bill while they're sitting in a wheelchair, you know.
I mean, I'm so tired of seeing that.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
I think the issue is the red tape, don't you agree.
It's these guys are coming out of the military, some
of them are injured, and they really need advocates to
navigate the VA. They need advocates to navigate their benefits
and stuff like that. I think a lot of them
don't have a strong understanding about their benefits or how
to acquire them.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
I was fifty six years old before I ever filed
for money, just a year and a half ago. How
about that. I was raised to think, well, I could
still work, I can do what I need to do.
I don't need welfare. Well, y'all, I need welfare. It's
something they fought for, They learned and you're right. In fact,
I just sent a letter right before this show. I

(48:01):
sent a letter to an advocacy group about doing a
joint venture with me. Help me get mine, and I'll
help you get a bunch of other people to be
able to help. Again, it's grassroots, man, It's got to
go back to the house. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
No, I've heard Colonel Chris Wyatt say in the past
that if a veteran is homeless and that issue is
addressed with the Veterans Administration, that they will find him
a place to live. They won't leave him in the streets. Yeah,
we got so many homeless veterans, and so you know,
simple deduction is these guys just aren't getting the advocates
or the help they need in order to notify the

(48:37):
Veterans Administration to get them placed where they need to
be placed.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
And I don't know whether that statement's true or not.
I don't know. I'd like to think it is. But
why are there so many? I mean, here again, we're
sitting on our couchs on social media complaining and gripping
about it. Surely there's more than one or two getting
up trying to do something than themselves and running into roadblocks.

(49:02):
I have found with the decision that I made roadblock roadblock,
it's not an easy It's not an easy mission, and
I can't imagine it's an easy mission to get a
homeless better an off the street. Maybe I'm wrong, now.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
You might very well be right. I wouldn't know because
I haven't advocated in that regard, but things I have
advocated in the past. Folks really want others to fix
the problems for them so they don't have to be bothered.
They don't really want to be removed from their comfort zone,
and they don't realize the importance it is to stand
up and advocate, whether it's in politics, against what the

(49:40):
government is doing. And things that are coming down the
pike are incredible. Things that there proposing for bills and
laws are just sinking the American people right now. You know,
Congress is voting in favor of corporations over the individual.
They don't even represent their constituents anymore. The only time
you hear from these guys in DC is when it's
time to vote, and you'll be hearing plenty from them

(50:00):
next year. But they don't want your input. They just
want to have the opportunity to put a bug in
your ear and maybe get a donation.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Yeah, yep, you're not wrong, You're not wrong.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yes, So yeah, we're at the last few minutes here.
Of course we got the website going into ticker there.
But of course people want to check out the documentary
about Glenn Baker here. Of course go to finish this
fight to use the promo code outlaw, and you'd be
helping me out of course, anywhere else you can direct them.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Everything now is on that website Billy Finished this Fight,
not us Ford Slash Outlaw. You're gonna be able to
find out about the exoskeleton. You're gonna be able to
see the trainer for the nineteen minute documentary that's coming up.
You're gonna be able to see Joshua and be able
to donate to his cause. We've got to give send

(50:56):
Go give sendo dot com Ford Slatch Finish this Fight,
or you can donate directly on the website www dot
Finished This Fight dot com Forward Slash out Law, and
every dollar helps. You know, you can say, well, I
can't afford about a bunch, so neither can I. But
if we all come together and give five or ten bucks,

(51:18):
then we've we've solved the problem.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
A million people donated a buck. You got a million
dollars to work with, right exactly.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Well, I'll tell you guys something real sad right now too.
That's happening and I can't I just i'm, i'm my
mind is blown. But there's a couple of girls in Bentonville,
Arkansas who are who they destroyed a Charlie Kirk memorial.
By the way, Happy Birthday, Happy heavenly Birthday, Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
So they they destroyed the memorial and all that, and
they're being brought up on misdemeanor charges. But they lost
their jobs and they lost and their landlord of.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
It to them and tell me, they've got to give
sim go with a million dollars on it.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
They've got to go fund me with over almost thirty
thousand dollars. And here's the kicker is that some people
are donating five ten bucks just to insult them in
the comments. Really yeah, yeah so that yeah, I mean
they have enough to survive for the next year now,

(52:25):
to get themselves re established.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Well. And I guarantee if we were leftists and we
had a leftist mission, everything would be funded. Oh one
of my drives about us conservatives. We're too complacent, we're
too comfortable, and we hold onto our pocketbooks too tightly
as a majority. Now, there's some out there that don't,
and I'm sure you guys are that. I know what's

(52:49):
come out of my pocket last year and a half,
but we need to step up and support. If you're
sitting on the couch right now and you're watching this
and you want to say, well, what can I do,
here's the thing. I don't know what you can do,
but God knows what you can do. I thought a
year and a half ago, all I was doing was
writing song, and look where he's put me now. So
here's what you gotta do. Find Jesus, find God, get

(53:11):
to know him first, and then ask him what has
he got for you? And I guarantee he's got something.
Then get up off the dagdam couch and do something.
And if you don't know what to do, find somebody
that's doing something and get involved with them. Makes it easy,
boys and.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Girls, Absolutely absolutely well on tap for next week. Let's see,
I gotta gotta remember what we got on tap for
next week. Oh yes, we're gonna We're gonna be welcoming
back Sheriff Richard.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
Mack so awesome.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Yes, yes, we're gonna be talking to him again. Plus
I got some questions about some things happening and would
love to get his h his take on it. But Glenn, hey,
God bless you, and thank you. First off, thank you
for the the service you've already put in, and thank
you for what you're doing now for other veterans as well.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Brother, I appreciate that you're worth it. And this blind
in one eye can't see out of the other, five
foot four, two hundred and fifteen pounds out of shape
old man is going to keep fighting until I ain't
got nothing left again, there you go.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
And hey, hey, I'm I'm about forty five pounds heavier
than you and so I'm out of shape to and
I'm not done. So all right, Well, ladies and gentlemen,
thank you very much for tuning into Patriot Confederation. God
save the Republic of the United States of America.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
We will live back down from banking for the America