SATN Episode 374 with Stew and Rob "The Unpaid" producer

Stew and Rob talk Adam Schiff, Redistricting, Troops in DC, Brandon Herrera for Congress and more

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Strip.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Hey everyone, how you doing? Welcome to another episode of
Stewing the Nun, episode three seventy four. Here on August fourteenth.
We are midway through the month and you've got me
and Rob tonight. Hey, Rob, how you doing, Buddy?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm doing great, Troy and yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Good good. Congrats on a very good Leama Charlie episode
this week. I've got about half of it.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
But nine and your careers, Uh, you know, it's kind
of hard to condense that into into an hour. Yeah,
but we were able to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
So in our first on Lima Charlie. So just not
getting politics, but you know, not a lot of females
we've had from the military on here, much less one
at that rank. Yeah, of course, and we're accomplished quite
a bit. So yeah, good good interview if people haven't
watched it.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
But yeah, Sandy and I have been friends for probably
thirty years. So she she credits me to talking to
her into joining the Air Force rather than the Army.
I don't know if you caught that at the beginning,
but she she was hanging around a bunch of US
Army guys and she's like, I'm thinking about joining the military,
and I told her, I said, don't join the army.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
So she decided to go to the Air Force.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Steered her away. So yeah, the uh no, that's uh,
that's that's good. A good, good episode. But yeah, good
to see you, good to see everyone here on a
Thursday night. She's talking the chat so far, and we
had some guests lined up, a couple things fell through.
We got some others that are possibly going to get
jobs in the government, can't come on. Got all kind

(03:09):
of stuff going on. So you got Robin a night.
But you know, rob like normal, no shortage of things
to talk.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
About, never never.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
One of one of the hottest topics right now, of course,
is troops on the streets in DC.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
And you know, it's funny how a lot.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Of the same people that wanted Constantina wire and fences
and everything around the capitol to protect it, you know,
just a few years ago, now all of a sudden
they're saying that the crime is not that bad and
things are not that vulnerable yet. D C ranks seventh
in the nation for violent crime. And you might someone

(03:51):
might say, well, seventh, that's not too bad. But that's
our nation's capital, Our nation's capital shouldn't be that high
on the list and should be protected.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, the people should feel safe.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
It's a tourist place, it's a place that our government runs,
and it should be a place that's safe for the people.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, you know, it is the capital. I saw a
comparison to like another eight or nine capitals and across
the world, and I think, you know, per capita, I
think murders are fifteen point four percent or something like
that for DC. The next closest was Bogata, Colombia, and
like three or four percent, and it went down from there.

(04:33):
Spain was like point zero four that kind of stuff.
So from a capital standpoint, yeah, this is your nation's
this is the seat of government, I mean, and you
know that drives the largest country and the biggest superpower
in the world. President Trump said it great. Yesterday he
was in one of his you know whatever, he was

(04:54):
doing something. I forget what it was, and of course
he turns it into an impromptu press conference right there. Uh,
and he said, you know, he referred to his dad,
and I watched him do this thing and he goes,
you know, and my dad, and my dad always told me,
he goes, you know, when you go to a restaurant.
If you walk up and the front door is dirty,
and the front door isn't clean, and the front entrance

(05:15):
way is dirty, then the kitchen's going to be filthy.
And he's like, you're not gonna you don't want to
go in there. If they can't have the respect and
and everything to have the front the first thing you
see in that restaurant be clean and tidy and all
that stuff, then you know the rest of it's trashed.
And he's like, that's our country. When foreign dignitaries come here,

(05:36):
when leaders come here, when people go to the seat
of the government and they see you know, homeless people,
tent encampments, all this other stuff, Like how bad is
the rest of the country right if we don't if
we can't take the pride to keep that clean and
policed up. You know, you remember from back in the
army days when I would go do Bearrack's inspection. If

(05:57):
I walked in those troops door, you know, the door
in their barracks room right up front, and the first
thing I see is you know, the trash overflowing and
spit cans on the desk and all that kind of stuff.
I know, I'm about to flip some things. Right. If
you can't get that set up and clean, then you
obviously haven't put any time, effort or interest in any

(06:17):
other part of the room. And I know I'm gonna
find everything well, And.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
It shouldn't be like Gavin Newsom does. Only when the
head of China comes over, do you clean up the streets?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
It should be that way all the time.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
And and in in the the vacuum and lack of
leadership because Bowser is nowhere to be found. She's she's
in Martha's vineyard. She's not even in her own city
when it's riddled with crime, so.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
And being and being right now secured by federal forces. Yeah,
one of the one of the few places that actually
the only place that can really happen in because it's
the District of Columbia. And and definitely the first time
I think probably in the fifty years, uh that that
the d See Areas had a representative government, has it happened? Yeah,

(07:03):
And she's not. I mean it's like when the hurricane
comes in, you know, you get back to if you're
not in your state, or get to whoever you know,
unlike Mayor Bass, right, you know the fires are breaking out,
you stay over in Uganda, you know that kind of stuff.
You get back to your people so you can be
you know, kept aware of the situation and be there
on the ground and you know, give give, you know,

(07:26):
lead by example and and talk to people, not not
run off definitely after it's happening, right, you know, it'd
be different. How many times has this cruise been in
you know, the ice storm hit, the crews haden to
be in Mexico. Boy, the left one jumped all over him, right,
and then they had the floods down in Kerrville and
Kerr County and he was had already went overseas, was

(07:47):
somewhere else, and he came right back. But boy, the left,
the left, especially those in Austin, love to jump all
over that. Look, look he's gone out of the state again.
Nobody could have predicted that flood, like, yeah, he was
on breaking recess, he was somewhere else. He can right back. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
But it's just I mean, the hypocrisy you know by
the left, and of course the media, the media jumps
right on it.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Right.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
I mean, we know, we all we know far too well,
just how far left the majority of the media is
and they just play right into it, right, you know,
they just continue to push you know, whatever narratives, and
you know, I think, you know, organizations like Paramount are
finally hopefully learning a lesson with a cancelation of of
of a couple of shows. You know, maybe maybe they're

(08:32):
finally getting it. Maybe they can't continue to throw good
money after bad money, and maybe we're seeing a shift.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I mean, we saw, you know.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
The Sweeney ads, right, I mean, how long did we
go with you know, overweight or you know, other narratives
being pushed upon us through marketing, and now we're back
to you know, just regular common sense things that people
want to see.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, look at the bud Light contravert, look at the
Dagwire commercial. They've had to shut down dealerships and all
that kind of stuff, right, and American Eagle has like
went through the roof, and they've doubled down on her
support for it. I saw a rumor, it could have
been a new Internet rumor, but story that bud Light
was possibly considering bringing Sidney Sweeney in to do something,

(09:19):
be their spokesperson to help recover because when I understand,
they are still suffering from the Maulvaney fiasco.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
And their sales would skyrocket overnight.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yes, you know her and some Jeene shorts and a
little Gene half shirt. She could do American Eagle and
Bud Bud light all together.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
We need to get her brother. I've seen a whole
bunch of things that her brother's in the Air Force.
We need to get him on the show. I feel
sorry for the guy.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
I do too, you know, like I do. Soldiers will
be soldiers and air probably airman. But you know, you
probably remember, I know I do. Way back in the
day when I went to basic and at and you
had parents Day or whatever, and somebody had a you know,
a cute little sit or even the hot mom right
show up. That poor dude caught hell once all the

(10:06):
families left. I mean there was. It was as brutal
as anyone can imagine if you've never been in a situation,
the comments and everything like that. Yeah, the last thing
you wanted was, you know, your your late teen or
early twenty sister in a short skirt and all that
kind of stuff. Come hey watch you march? Uh yeah,

(10:27):
as uh as they say in hockey, who brought the rocket?

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Uh yeah, that poor kid that poor kid. Yeah, yeah,
what else is going on?

Speaker 2 (10:39):
We've got well, I want to go back to the
Guard thing real quick. So something I thought about we
hadn't mentioned was the last time the Guard were in
DC or anything around that. The Dems were complaining because
they weren't there for January sixth, and they tried to
pin it on Trump to block it, right, remember that
they were like then of course we found out that
he tried. He offered up ten thousand plus to Pelosi

(11:00):
and all that kind of stuff. But that was the
last time the National Guard and DC had something to
do with each other was January sixth. And then the
left was, you know, you stopped them from coming in.
You wanted these these riots to happen. You wanted that stuff.
So now he brings them in and you know, totally
under under home rule and allowed to do it. And

(11:21):
you know, the left, the shumers that everyone else are under,
you know, ranting and raving. But now today we have
evidence come out that George Soros's organization, because the Sun
runs it now, is directly linked to over in the
last four days spending over investing over twenty million to

(11:42):
get these riots spun up. Right in last three days
four days has seppened. He has put twenty million through
his super pack or however he's doing it for the
Soros organization into this. But when they go out man
on the street interviews and talk to local DC people
looks like, I mean, there's it's mixed results up. Some
like it, some don't. But I can tell you what

(12:03):
I have seen is almost one hundred percent of those
that have lost someone to the violence in DC are
totally supportive.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well, I mean just just a couple of years ago,
I mean New York put put soldiers in the subways, right,
I mean, when you've got spikes and crime, you got
to be able to counter that.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
He don't have the police. They're still there?

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Are they still there?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Okay? I mean if you don't nine eleven since nine
to eleven Guard soldiers are milking that they are still
in the subways National Guards.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
But you did just have a ramp up of that,
you know, I mean it was in the news like
two years ago, right, So they had a big problem.
So I mean, but you don't see anybody because it
was a democratic governor, you know, in charge and put
those But you know, one of one of the things
that the Trump is pretty good at is finding all
of those little things that are within his abilities, right,

(12:53):
you know. And Congress will bitch and complain and moan
and whatever, but they can't do anything to stop it
because they've done nothing to restrict the powers and they
won't because they want those powers to stay in place
so that when they have their guy in office, they
can exercise those if they want and then make it
out like, oh, yeah, they're supposed to do this, but
you know, I mean we've talked about it before. Their

(13:14):
motto is never let a crisis go to waste. And man,
they milk it. What did they milk it?

Speaker 2 (13:20):
And President Trump knows how to egg them on. I mean,
he's already said maybe he'll go longer than thirty days,
and he thinks he can do it through executive order.
And I've seen a lot of folks said that is possible.
They say he should get Congress, but he could go
longer than thirty And you know, Schumer and the rest
of them are flipping the lid and blowing a gasket
because they're like, there's no ways it's going to be allowed.

(13:42):
But again, you know, the crime they can they can
report the media can spin the narrative that the crime
is down, but they're ignoring juvenile crime, which is the
main crime that's happening in d C, or those below
the age of eighteen. So when the media says crime
is down, they are talking eighteen and over. So like anything,

(14:02):
like any kind of survey or anything else or stats,
you can make those stats read however you wanted to read.
And uh, they didn't.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Didn't.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
They're one of their chief of police, get get in
trouble for that, just altering crime data.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
They they sure did, and not the one that not
retaining command is a different one. Yes, yeah, but no
it is it is. You know, look, the place is
our nation's capital. It was never intended by the founding
fathers to have home rule. It was intended for the
federal gunman to run d C. That's why it was
carved out the states to be its own separate district.

(14:41):
And uh, you know so, but you can't have it
like that. You got you got journalists, you got congressional staffers,
you got people you know, going to museums getting murdered,
you got people getting shot, carjack rob It's a very
small DC is acres wise, Yeah, I mean, it makes
Rhode Island look big. It's small. A lot of people
jammed in there, which is why the per capital murder

(15:02):
rates thirteen point five percent, because there's not a lot
of people in there, but you know, a staff or
somebody walking from their car or walking from the office
from the Rayburn Building or Heart building to the parking lot.
They're getting mugged and carjacked.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
I don't know if it's possible, but it would be
funny if Trump found a way to strip all the
Democrats of their taxpayer funded security.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
If you can just oh, you say, it's.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Not not a dangerous place, Well, you don't need this
private security that the taxpayers are paying for. Let's let's
pull all of this back. You don't get this limo,
this you know, up armored limo. You don't get that
personal protection that you have. Senator Schumer or Pelosi or whatever.
Go walk the streets, prove to the American people, you know,
put your money where your mouth is, and if you

(15:51):
do need protection, you can pay for yourself.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
I mean, he's pulled it from Fauci, he's pulled it
from Millie, He's pulled security players is left and right.
I don't think there's any he's not if he can
do it, he's not willing to do you know, they
can pull it from him later. He'll be fine. He
can replace it with his own. But uh, and I
always has But no, I mean that's that's a good point. Oh,
if it's that good, then yeah, grab the grab the

(16:16):
Metro when you get back home to Virginia and just
take the Metro and see how that works out, right,
you know. It's uh yeah, like Doug says, let him
live like regular citizens. Let him. Let him go down
there and get get the car to the parking garage
and the basement level and see how nervous they are
when they're walking down for that. You know. Yeah, absolutely, yeah,

(16:36):
it's uh, it is long overdue. And uh, I mean
I don't know. I saw a guy this morning at
the gym and he just looked at me and said,
you're tired of winning yet, buddy, might like, nope, winning.
We say that to each other all the time. Nice.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Nice, you know. Yeah, d C is d C is
a mess.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
You know, the homeless problem has been that way forever,
and it's just amazing, you know, like I, like I
said a little bit ago, this.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Is our capital.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
We should we should have more pride in it. It
should be a safer, cleaner place.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
It used to Doug used to live in that area.
I used to see Doug all time when he lived
in Northern Virginia. And I remember back then, it used
to be the rats were huge because they had these
big steam grades and you know, homeless people and stuff.
But DC was known for the rats. I mean they
were in that. Now it's just they did the crime
and the homeless situation everything. Yeah, it's a capital. It's

(17:27):
I mean, how many schools and trips and honor flights
and stuff all go to d C because of the memorials,
because of the statues, you know, the history. You can
go to the Smithsony and spend two days per Smithsonian Museum.
I mean I've I've spent I practically lived there one
time at a corporate apartment and uh and it has
spent all kind of time there. But it wasn't until

(17:48):
last year that I went out to the extension of
the air museum that's out a Dulles Airport. It is
my first time going out there to that one, and
I've never even seen that one before. And I've been
to every Smithsonian more time than I can count. But
there's interesting. I could go back in any of them
right now and just reread everything all over again.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
DC still has a rat problem. They just wear suits
and skirts and yeah yeah, and they shake your hand
and try to tell you nice things.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
So security and police they got there, yet they still
so much crime, right, and there's more peep. I mean
you can't I don't know. You probably can't spend five
minutes on any street in d C and not here siren.
I mean, there's always something right there. Someone's going somewhere,
like say the politicians, uh, leaders of both parties, different

(18:36):
part houses, that the Supreme Court, there's always a siren
or multiple black vehicles flying by one way or another.
You know, there's a lot of security, yet there's still
you don't have to go far to get to the
other side of the tracks. You don't have, you don't have.
You don't have to step too far out of that
that there's like a there's a diamond inside the diamond,
I always say, And there's that diamond kind of goes

(18:57):
from New York down the Constitution and you know, goes
over to DuPont Circle, comes down you staying at You're
okay once you get outside of that. Man, it gets
when we're there for the inauguration, We're going down at
four in the morning, three four in the morning to
get lined up for the things. That's the only time
I've ever felt safe being down there because it was January.
It was three o'clock in the morning, and there was

(19:19):
hundreds of other people trying to get in line. That's
the only time I ever felt safe in downtown d C.
In the dark. I'll tell you that.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, I mean the few times I've been there because
I try to avoid large cities. But you know, the
home most problem that you know, just the trash, even
even around the mall right, I mean it's just it's
it's sad that that's our nation's capital and they allow
that to continue.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
So you know, you expect to see that maybe New
York or Vegas or other places or any other major city,
but not in the city of or government where if
you're like, say, if you're gonna clean inning, you're gonna
have the front door of your place clean, you know. Yeah,
so what else we got so.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Close to you and and the governor's race, uh, you know,
the the Communist City of New York City as soon
to be Communist City of New York.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
I mean, I guess it's always communists.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Right, So you know one of the plans by that
that that candidate.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Mamdani, I mean, he sounds like a bad villain character
in a Zelda game.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
But anyways, so one of one of his plans is to,
you know, create government run grocery stores. Well what just
happens to pop up? And I don't know, you know,
you always have to wonder if things were planned. But
the city of Kansas City just had to close their

(20:42):
one or I think they may have had more than one.
But after seventeen million dollars in taxpayer funds, this the
government run grocery store had to close. They could no
longer to afford to keep it open. They renovated the
buildings they you know, were put put in every I
think they could seventeen million dollars. So is that gonna

(21:03):
wake up the people of New York City. Probably not.
They'll probably still vote for him. But I was watching
something recently, and I forget the gentleman's name, but he said,
every now and then, you need something like that as
an experiment to pop up so that people can see
just how truly it's going to fail.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, I mean government run anything, right, we can you
know government run healthcare people. Oh, they're doing Canada, the
UK all that stuff. When we do it here it's
called the VA. And there's a number of us that
qualify to go to the VA, Yet I don't. For
for example, I have my own insurance that I'm pay
into and I'll go there. I'm in the VA in
a long time. But there's others that have no choice

(21:45):
or that works out well for them, then that's great,
But I've i it is rare in an exception to
have someone go. Man. I love the VA. They do
a great job. I mean, there'll be people that are
good that care. But as an institution, it definitely in
the news enough. It does not work well. And it's
well known that people that are in socialized medicine areas

(22:07):
like UK and Canada and stuff, if they have really
bad ailments or diseases or whatever, they come to the
US and pay out a pocket. Yeah. You know, so
when you have a government run anything, was it President
Reagan that said, you know, one of the greatest lives
of all time. I'm from the government. I'm here to help.
It's not gonna work, and that that that grocery store

(22:29):
showed it and reminded people. The problem is, do the
American people, as are the people that voters in New
York City gonna pay attention or care what happens in
Kansas City. You talk about a self absorbed place. It
like the belt Way. It's all about the Five Boroughs.
I mean they think it's they think they think the
whole world revolves around New York City. They think anyone

(22:50):
else in Upstate, which is anything anyone pretty much north
of Poughkeepsie or yeah, Poughkeepsie is like rednecks, And they
don't know. They think it's a entire of difference state, right,
They think it's all about them. Are they gonna care?
Are they just looking at that d and he's young
and cool and you know that promises? Yeah, I mean
there's no one good against him. I mean, you got Como,

(23:13):
who everyone hates, the guy you know, got booted out
and then lost against Madonka. And when now he's trying
to come back after killing tons of old people during COVID,
you know, and you know the end of the day,
did a commercial in New York and he's like, you know,
I'm Andrew Cromo, son of you know, Mario Cmo grandson. Yeah,
these twenty something year old New Yorkers don't give a
damn that you're a NEPO baby. You know, they don't.

(23:36):
They don't. You know, they haven't forgotten and they missed
their grandparents who you killed her in COVID, right, And
you know you got Adams who was supposed to be
this great savior because you know he was a New
York City policeman, and it hasn't. He hasn't done a
lot for the security situation. In fact, turned into a
big woke sanctuary city. I mean, there's no one stacked

(23:58):
against this guy.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
You know, they need Chick fil A to come in
and run it, because nothing runs better than a Chick
fil A.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
True true New Yorker's protest in chick when they came
into Times Square, they also once they got out of
the protest line, got in line that was long to
get some Chick fil A. But they all protested because
that was the cool, woke thing to do. Sure, Chick
fil A until you're ready for some waffle fries and
a peach chick, but in a spice.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
The problem is, and you have to go through these generations,
in these cycles, because when when a group thinks they
can vote somebody in in order to get free shit,
they're going to vote somebody in to get free shit.
Right Now, as you get older, you realize, well, they're
just a bunch of liars, right, that's it. They're they're lying,
They're not telling us the truth. What's really behind the curtain.

(24:48):
And you know, some of mum Donnie's stuff has come
up on you know, like he won't even speak out
about his own country where they toss gay people off
of buildings and kill them for being gay. He won't
even and you know, talk about that or you know,
you know, say it's bad.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
But he's done of anti Semitism. And in New York
and it's crazy to think that the twenty fifth anniversary
of nine to eleven is they could have a as a
socialist Muslim mayor of that largest city who was a
failed rapper. I mean, but this is the same city
that put AOC in office, right, so you know, and

(25:28):
and uh, you know, they they put you know, Spitzer
as the as the governor because look, New York. Whoever
New York City votes for us, who wins doesn't matter. Honestly,
the rest of the state doesn't matter. I've done, I've
looked at a lot of those numbers being here and stuff.
They put him and got booted out for womanizing and
sexual harassment. Put in Patterson, who was blind, also booted
out as a governor for sexual harassment. That dude's blind.

(25:50):
Then you got Cuomo. I mean, they finally went to
they finally went to Horsehead there hoceal and uh and
and people thought there's no one worse than Cuomo. And
now but then you know, she fell into the position
and somehow they re elected her. Zelden almost got it.
But there's too many people that just care about the
d on that name they vote for is they.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Don't Marion Barry what he was the mayor of New
York City right then.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
But New York City was Washington, d C. Mayor. He
was Cocaine Marion Cocaine.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean, and and he got re elected, didn't
he even after some of the cocaine stuff.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Oh it's sad.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
You know, you brought up aoc uh one of one
of our favorite people. I say, tongue in cheek may
end up losing her spot as Texas redistricts. So and
and the person I'm talking about is the the wanna
be ghetto Barbie.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Uh Crocket Crazy Rocket Crocket.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yeah, but it cracks me up that the Democrats left
Texas because they redistricting to the most corrupt state in
the Union.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
That Jerry Mander's worse than anybody.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Some of their yeah, some of their districts look like
puzzle pieces that you know, this don't.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Even make sense. Yeah, and it just cracks me up.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
And and they don't even see the irony in it,
which is what really cracks me.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, remember they did this before in Texas and they
ran if I remember, right to d C. And but
they couldn't support themselves that long, got too they broke,
they got broken and all the stuff, and they had
to come back. Well now they're coming back again. For
don't understand, right they they finally have caved and they're
coming back. I don't know what the Texas law allows.
I know that the governor, their abbot is has got

(27:40):
to rest warrants out. I don't know what he's going
to be allowed to do, But I mean it'd be
different if them leaving. You know, they they were trying
to rush something through or whatever, and they were like,
we need to buy some more time. But everyone knows
what's gonna happen. The Texas State Senate has already passed it.
It's gonna happen. You're you know, you don't get the
you don't get to go in your job one day.

(28:01):
You know, you get to walk in the front door
and realize, oh, the boss from the other headquarters is here.
I'm leaving. I'm out right, the boss is there, the
top person's there. They're here to see you. And you're like,
I don't like that guy or that girl. I'm just
gonna go home. I'm just gonna sit there and not
work until I know they've they've flown out on Friday.
You be fired. You don't get to do that. Sure,

(28:23):
and this this whole thing of you know, it's it's
cry baby bullshit tantrum. When they're like we're gonna run
out and ride this out until the special special session expires,
or was like cool, we'll just do another one. We're
just gonna You're not gonna win. You know, It's like
you can you can hold up inside the house. You're

(28:44):
eventually gonna come out there. You're you know, you can
stay outside all day.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Well, there's rumors that betto I can't find that Francis
Francis O'Rourke was funneling money illegally to them while they
were out of state. Yeah, ever really dug into that
too much.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Paxton is trying to get the authority to arrest him, yeah,
or breaking the Texas state law of funneling money to them. Yeah,
good good.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
Hopefully hopefully it happens. That'll be his second arrest. Of course,
nothing came out of his first one.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Right, But he's got these Dems. They they somehow they
want that martyrrism. Right, he probably wants it because who's
talked about that dude in the last several years. Nobody, Right,
he wants to And now he's the look I'm fighting
back against the man. Right, It's like what Newsom's doing. Right, Uh,
he's gonna he's gonna push and try to get California
redistrict to counter everything that's happening in Texas. No one's

(29:38):
talking about Newsom. Right, this is this, this is the
this is the rocket Man playbook, right, this is Kim Jong. Oh,
no one's talking about me. There's wars everyhel. I'm gonna
start shooting rockets to make sure when pays to me,
it's like, hey, hey, look at me. No one's talked
about Francis. Now all of a sudden, he's all in
the news and he's getting his morning show circuits on,
and you know, he's like, he wants to be arrested. Yeah,

(30:01):
he'll probably have his own camera guy there to pick
it up and so he can show that he fought
the man. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Well, Newsome.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
I mean, he's getting term limited out right, because they
have a term limit for their their Yeah and so,
but for the last two years, and anybody who pays
attention to it, which unfortunately is not enough, people should
realize for the last two years, he's been looking over
the fence. You know, while they're doing this, you've got

(30:31):
major problems in your state. You have an app for
people to walk around and identify feces on the ground.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
That is a problem in the city he used to
be mayor of.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Yeah, and the city used to be mayor of in uh.
Your cities that the former vice president used to be
the top cop in are are even worse, and you're
looking over the fence worried about what Texas is doing,
what you know, all these other states, when he should
be looking at your own back yard and concerned about
your own things. But of course he's got aspirations and

(31:05):
and I almost guarantee he will be on the next
ticket for the for the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Oh, he's definitely trying. That's why he went on the
Sean Ryan Show, and you know, and try and dropping
f bombs every because that's that's a new thing, right,
the new thing is to be a victim. That's why
they try to store ice attention centers or they they
want to get arrested. They what they want to show
that they're that they're you know, part of the man
on the street and that kind of stuff. Same reason
why they drop F bombs every other word. Right, it's

(31:32):
what he they are. They are seriously pandering in the world,
just like when when when politicians, I'll say politicians general,
not just lives. Republicans do it too, but a lot
of Democrats do where they pander about, Oh we care
so much about the soldier and about the veteran. All
of a sudden, we you know, it's complete bs because
their actions speak louder than words, and their actions the
way they vote and what they do and and that

(31:55):
kind of stuff says a lot more than just what
they say in front of a camera. Right. They did
the same thing when you know, coming onto a podcast
and drop a f that dude, if I'm gonna do this.
They're pandering to just the everyday American people. Somehow they
think that makes them relatable. It's kind of like you know,
Pocahontas they're cracking open a beer, right or Schumer putting

(32:15):
cheese on a raw hamburger like that. They they are
truly that full of themselves. They look at the American peoples.
That's stupid that, you know, and they're like if I
cuss a little bit and have a beer, you know, building.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yeah, what was it? Was?

Speaker 4 (32:32):
It?

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Hillary Clinton and the hot saucer purse?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Right, the hot Remember everyone went everywhere she went, her
dialect change, right, and the thing they went down south,
they got very southern, right they went, they went, you know,
their their dialect always changed based on who they were
pandering to. And uh, you know it's the American people
see through that, because guess who doesn't relate to the America.

(32:55):
Guess who whose lifestyle of America does not relate to
pretty much any American and that's Donald Trump. Born into money,
multi millionaire, real estate developer, New York City, got towers
everywhere with his name on it. He doesn't have a
there's no correlation or relation to everyday Middle America or
the American people to him. He's not trying to, you know,

(33:16):
put on the dude. You know, short of wearing his hat,
he's in a suit all the time, his long ties,
that kind of stuff. You know, unless he's going to
a disaster area, he's always dressed to the nines, all
that kind of stuff. He's not out there trying to
put on cowboy boots and talk shit and act like
and have a beat and all this stuff. You know.
He But guess what the American people relate to him,

(33:37):
because they're not relating to the identity politics of this
image that you give. They're relating to that you're gonna
they're not even related. They feel you've got the best
common sense and that you're gonna do what's right because
actions speak louder than words, and actions that are done
to pander are just like words. All they do is talking,
whether it's an accent or hot sauce or you know,

(34:00):
and their sleeves up or cussing people.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
See that is just well, what you constantly hear out
of the left is how much they hate this country.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Right. You know, we we have this.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Horrible history, we've you know, we've always come from this
very bad place and we're still racist. Yet they refuse
to leave, right, and the American people want to you know,
want somebody who loves the country. And because the majority
of the Americans do love this country.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
You know, we have three hundred and twenty one million
people in America roughly something like that, right, four hundred
and thirty five elected representatives in Congress. And we have
one that she loves the country Guatemala, her ancestry from
then this own the country that has put her in office.
We have another one from Somaya who you know, married

(34:48):
a brother to get here and you know, talks more
about you know, talks more about that. We have one
from you know, has Palestinian here to talk more about.
It's like you're four hundred and thirty five out of
three hundred in twelve million. Don't even know how many
Zeros are in front of that after that period of percentage,
and you're representing this. You're in a job and in

(35:09):
a position of power and influence that pretty much no
one else can do right, no one else has ever experienced,
you know, that kind of stuff, and yet you bad
mouth this country that gives you these opportunities. I don't
know anyone that has went through the naturalized citizenship process.
Our good friend Clayton Merwin, who did our artwork for
the show and everything we've had Clayton so many times.

(35:30):
His wife just went through this and got her from
the chief from the UK and took her test and
passed it. And I've known number of people have and
I wrote and said, she now knows more than most
people ever born here about our country's history. I've never
heard anyone come through that bad mouth our country, not one.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
A country is so bad that people will risk you know,
life and limb on a raft to get out of
Cuba to get here.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
People will walk through the.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
You know, the the Dairien Gap in Central and South
America to get here. The country is so horrible that
the people who hate it refuse to leave, you know.
It's and and so that's that's what why Trump resonates
with him because you know, he loves this country. You know,
he talks, he talks nothing but favorably about the country.
He doesn't bad mouth that. He you know, loves the flag,

(36:16):
loves our you know, our our soldiers. So it just
blows me away. But I'll tell you who I don't.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
No one is trying to escape here, right, Those those
that can't are the Rosie o'donald's the world. Then they
go over there and just you know, get online and
just get on social media and just try to keep
themselves again relevant, kind of like Francis because no one's
talking about her, right, or no one's talking about Ellen.
But no one is trying to swim across the Rio
grand the other way, right, No one is trying to

(36:46):
sneak across the camp, not unless they're trying to get
out of this country because they're a criminal. That's the
only reason. But every day me, people aren't going, Wow,
I bet Guatemala, Nicaragua, anywhere else down the south is
probably better than here. I got better opportunity. I'm head
in that way.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
You noticed that the only fleet to uh predominantly white
places like Rosie and even Jimmy Kimmel. But I think
those individuals who who have taken citizenship up in other
countries and have fled should be marked and not allowed
back in. They should be prohibited from ever coming back
and from ever regaining US citizenship. It should be removed

(37:23):
from them. I mean, one of the things that that
Americans have always done, and not other countries do this.
And you, being a veteran, you've seen this. Very few
countries will stay and fight for their country. You know,
the United States usually goes in and helps these people.
But how many refugees leave these worn torn places instead
of staying in fight for their own country? You know,

(37:46):
it rarely happens.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Ukraine is an example. Right, is Lensky good batter in
different about how I feel. He's had good days and
bad days. I have no doubt had he had he
not stayed, I mean, had he had he left, and
had he not stayed, that country would have fallen in
a couple of weeks, right, because people like, well if
he's I mean, there have been no motivation because they
were people refugees were getting out of there, right, But

(38:10):
a lot of people stayed. And because he stayed, right,
we saw the president of the leader or they call
them of Afghanistan. When that dude rolled up and PAX's
helicopter full of money and rolled, I mean, the cop felt.
I mean, you look at your leaders. The reason why
in the revolutionary war days and that's you know, they
they looked at that leader, that commander on horseback, sword

(38:33):
in the air. You know, they followed him. If that
guy turned around, they're like, he ain't staying I'm not
staying right. I mean, yeah, it's a lot of those countries.
They're running for the hills, they're running for the borders.
Usually what we're jumping in from the skies.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Yeah, you know, we we kind of talked about pandering.
And someone who who I'm excited about. I almost wish
I was back in Texas to vote for him, is
Brandon Herrera has announced that he is going to run again.
He ran against a Republican a I would not call
him a Republican. I would call him a rhino like
anything else, Tony Gonzalez, and he represents, you know, all

(39:11):
the way out towards Big Ben and Elpaso and stuff
like that. And Tony Gonzalez has consistently voted against things
like the Second Amendment, you know, voted for more restrictions
than things like that. And for those who don't know
Brandon Herrera, he's the He's the AK forty seven guy,
very very staunch to a supporter, and I'm super excited

(39:32):
that he is going to run again.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Doesn't he go by Donut Operator?

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Isn't it nim No, that's another guy that they hang
out with. Okay, but Brandon said he you know, he
got Tony Gonzalez to a runoff, which hopefully scared Tony Gonzalez.
They spent I think twenty million dollars Tony Gonzalez did
to Brandon Herrera's one million dollars, and Brandon was able

(39:56):
to get him to a runoff, which in Texas the
way it works is everybody goes in and then if
the lead candidate doesn't get at least fifty percent of
the votes, they take the top two and they put
them up again. Brandon Herrera are lost by three percent.
I think it was like four hundred votes or something.
So we need to in in our push to get

(40:20):
rid of, you know, democrats like the ghetto, the want
to be ghetto Barbie. We also need to get rid
of these these rhinos out of there, like the Tony
Gonzalezes and get people like Brandon Herrera in the.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Office represent those border uh districts that flipped red. So
that could very well change in it because it could be
enough to especially if Trump endorses Brandon Herrera, then it's
it's game over. Sure that he is the king maker still.
I mean, that's that's all he has to do. He
puts his name on it. It's I mean, people drop
out of races when as soon as he endorses the

(40:53):
other one, like I'm done, right, we see it, members
of Congress, right as soon as he says, oh, you know,
we saw it Wyoming, we saw it with Cheeny. Right
when he goes, Nope, I'm going for this one, they
just drop out there and even tried because they their
people come to them and say the numbers aren't You're
you're wasting your time and effort and money. You know. Yep,
they they drop out. He can, that's all he has

(41:14):
to do. But yeah, that's good.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
I've seen him a lot of the unsubscribed podcasts and
all that kind of stuff, and I didn't know he
had run before. But you know, I'm not too.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Yeah, Tony took Tony to the mat, and uh, hopefully
he can take him out in this time. No, So
so that's that's a good thing. So so next up
we we Trump and Russia. You know, they one of
the biggest sticking points that the Democrats have talked about
is you know, Trump said he was going to end

(41:43):
the Ukraine War, uh day one, right, and I mean,
you know, you're a combat veteran. War doesn't just end,
I mean, typically doesn't end it just one day. I
mean even doesn't Storm lasted a couple of days, right, Uh,
even though they were way over power. But so Trump
is gonna meet with Putin in Alaska, which I don't

(42:05):
know when was the last time a Russian president has
stepped foot in Alaska?

Speaker 2 (42:10):
That I don't know, because I think Putin last time
he's here he met with Bush and Texas or Kenny Bunkport.
So yeah, I don't remember. And what I mean, I
think Trump picked the spot, which is you know, he's
got he's got the cards in the swagger because you know,
and then he made a comment, isn't it you know,
appropriate since we you know, bought Alaska from them and
all that kind of stuff. But you know, No, I don't.

(42:31):
It's interesting they picked you know, they're gonna be an
Almandorf Air Force Base right in ever Reb state, my
Doug and Iron Post station. But no, I don't. It's
interesting they picked there because you know, I guess maybe
it's kind of midway between both have to fly. But uh,
why they picked Anchorage to to go to. It's not
a you know, it's it's kind of up there last frontier, right,

(42:53):
it was just there's got to be a reasoning behind it.
But uh yeah, it's it's uh, it'll see how it's
a big deal tomorrow, right, It's sure no one you know,
one thing President Trump has proven this time around, even
the first campaign, but the first time, his first term,
but even this one. I mean he's had world leaders
in that room in front of that fireplace and like

(43:16):
Zelensky and his and others and dogged them out. Others
he talked, well, he doesn't hold punch, he doesn't pull
any punches. You see it raw, unedited. I mean, it's
better than any reality show ever. And you know he
could he's been talking a little bit beforehand. Putin's been
saying a few things. But he he said if it's short,

(43:37):
it won't last long. So I think people be watching
if it's not a long if it's a long meeting,
there'll be people will be kind of like maybe something's
going to happen if he's out and fit. I mean,
he could turn on a walk on thirty minutes like no,
we're done.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
You know, well, people forget that.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
I mean, so Ukraine and Russia, That's not the only
thing going on that Russia's involved in, right, I mean,
so those talks aren't just about Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Iran comes in to play in that.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
You know, everything that goes on in the Middle East
where well in North Korea, that's all on the table.
So it's not just simply about Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
And their cooperation with China. What they're doing with China.
They're their meeting and having diplomatic relations, war games, all
that stuff. There's the energy stuff with the North Stream two. Uh,
you know all that the oil and and yeah, I
mean he Trump was threatening what thirty five tariffs I
think on on India because they were buying Russian oil.
I mean, you know he is, uh that there's the

(44:34):
reason why he wrote the Art of the Deal. It's
going to be interesting to see tomorrow. The markets are
going to be watching. I think the whole world's going
to hold his breath tomorrow to see what comes of
these meetings.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Yeah, you know doubt very seriously that that he's going
into that without already having conversations behind.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
You know, well, he set things up.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
They do a lot. I mean they're they're diplomats, their
their secretaries of state. I mean, all that stuff is prepped, right.
But I think one thing, and I've known that personally,
I know that for sure. You know, it's happened many
world leave. They know that the the the script, the outline,
everything they're going to talk about, it's all been rehearsed,
it's all been planned. You know, Hey, he's gonna he's

(45:14):
gonna bring up this and this and this where this
we've already talked, will compromise all. But I would imagine
I don't know firsthand, but I would imagine that his uh,
his forward team and his uh folks that do all
that stuff probably are like, we're not really sure what
the old man is gonna say. I mean I got
to imagine that they're like, he's he's the man, He'll

(45:35):
make the decision. I mean, he's there, he's making decisions
on how the White House is being This dude is
got his hands and everything, and they may have a topic,
they may have an agenda to talk about, but I
could see that he takes it whatever direction he wants
to take it.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
Well, I mean, and he he learned a lot of
that in his first presidency because of so many leagues, right,
and it did and you know presidents have had leaks before,
so it's not just him having it, but uh, you know,
that's I think that's one of one of the biggest
things he learned, is to not not give out so
much information, even to his inner circle, because there's some

(46:13):
there's some bad actors in there.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
And look at the Irin strike. I mean, that was
I mean, that's It's been a long time since, if ever,
that d C has had something so large and so
big happening that literally did not get leaked out to
Times Reporter, Washington Post something well, and.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Why why was that?

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Because he didn't let Democrats know what was happening, Right,
Democrats like Adam Schiff, who is now accused of leaking
classified information during the first Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
From longtime Democrat voting intelligence community members that were on
the inside of the House Intelligence Select Committee and all
that stuff that have come forward as whistleblowers came forward.
Is there he is twenty seventeen and have come forward,
and yeah, he's got a couple shifts, got a couple
of things going on. I mean, we all remember back

(47:10):
during the Russia collusion stuff, Shiff sitting there as the
chairman of that committee saying he personally saw evidence that
he personally saw things and wait to the American people
see it, and then the reports came out and there
was nothing and it's all been blown out and realized
that it was all a big nothing burger. No one
has come back and asked those hard questions that hey,

(47:32):
what happened? I thought you saw evidence? Like everyone's just
conveniently forgot that. This guy is on record and on
video saying I've seen it way to the American people
see it, and so everyone took like, wow, it must
be real with this guy. Is he that's a pretty
big proclamation. What did he see? He was either lying,
which he was, or they had there's somehow that whole investigation,

(47:54):
the Dunham the Durham report, they didn't find it. Something
as Shift had, you know, it's it's it's.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Uh, I I lost your audio?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
You did lost your audio?

Speaker 3 (48:06):
Can you still hear me?

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Yep? Yeah. I don't know if anyone else at all,
uh Doug or anybody.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
But yeah, Shift, I mean we've all we've all been around.
You know, I was in in uh communications, so you know,
I've been around and held classified information and held multiple
security clearances as I'm sure you have to and others.
I mean, we all get briefed. We know the rules.
We know we're not supposed to be leaking classified information.
We know you know there's huge penalties for that. I mean,

(48:38):
even when you you know, don't intentionally leak something like
the the Navy guy a couple of years ago where
he took some pictures on a sub that he didn't
realize was was classified. I mean they sent him to
jail for that, right My If if Shift doesn't go
to jail, then we've got a problem. Yeah, but we've

(48:58):
got two tiers.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Of justice, not been counting for the mortgage fraud stuff
that he's under investigation for, but for this, yes, that
uh that he told I mean, look look at uh
you know what, Well, they didn't put Comy in jail
and Comy admitted, can you hear me, Rob? Can you
hear me? No? We can't, Okay, so I'll just talk

(49:21):
and Rob won't hear Uh. But Comy admitted that he leaked.
He would come out of meetings with Trump and call
his Washington Post buddy or Washington Times buddy and would
leak info to them.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
And from his notes and his diary, So Comy did that.
Nothing has happened. I agree with Rob that that he
should definitely see some jail time. But look, Hillary had
classified in foreigner server. She didn't do. Nothing happened to her.
She can you hear me now, Rob? I can, Yeah,

(49:55):
he bleached it, she hammered drives. Nothing's happened. I mean. So,
I mean, there's deaf only two two years of justice
because Trump freaking pees the wrong way to win and
they're doing it, you know, multiple investigations and they're all
the talk shows. These other folks are outright doing things
far and above and beyond what other people go to
jail for. And it's just kind of written off and

(50:16):
it's like get given a free pass.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Well, I mean, his his mortgage thing him and what's
the other The woman out of New York and the
whole mortgage thing. I mean, that was that's exactly what
they were prosecuting Trump for. So they should both go
to jail and have thirty four felonies based on what
just happened in New York.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Yeah. Latitia James, who's the attorney general who campaigned on
going after him, Yes, is now being accused of the
same thing. And you watch the talking heads on some
of the left shows, and they're all like, we can't
believe that Trump is weaponizing the Department, Like what am
I in an alternate universe? Like that's what happened for

(50:58):
the last four years. It was weaponized. Yeah, I mean,
and now we're finding out no, practically prior to twenty
sixteen because Obama was weaponizing it.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
But it's still sad that.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
I mean, just how much the left wields power and
control over a good portion of the population that still believe, well, no,
that never happened.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
I mean, how many people still today.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Don't believe that the Russia hoax was a hoax. They
still think, you know, Trump is a Russian asset.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Well, again, you control the narrative, you control everything. To
people today should not be surprised. How Hitler came to power,
wielded power because he controlled the narrative. You know, we've
talked about in this show, and I've talked about it
many circles. Right, people wonder why, you know, when we're
there to help the Afghans or Iraqis or whatever, why
do they turn against us? Well, because someone else controlled

(51:54):
the blue loudspeaker above the mosque and they said whatever
they said, and those people just not their head up
and down said oh, that's what the Americans are gonna
do to us, Well, we'll kill them too. When we
were the ones building schools, digging wells, making sure little
girls would go to school. But the guy who supposedly
knows how to read the Quran is telling them that
we rate murder, pillage and all that kind of stuff,

(52:15):
and they go, wow, we don't want that happening. So
you just control the narrative. And that same thing is
what's happened in this country over the last number of years.
From twenty twenty we'll start with COVID as well before COVID,
but just take from that point on. You control the narrative,
You control the George Floyd narrative, You control the Ferguson
Missouri narrative. You you know, the Chaz Zone, all that

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kind of stuff, and you say it enough and on
enough different venues, and people go, it must be true, right, Oh,
it got to be. You know, you hear Russia hoax, Russia, Russia, Russia.
That's why Trump always says that three times because it
never stopped. And you have all the media outlets, you
give them all their marching. You've seen these montages where
they all use the same term or phrase, Like they

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can show every media outlet, five different guests on there
and a few politicians, and they literally use the same
three to five word phrase about something, right, whatever it
may be. It's like they're all given them. They all
got the email, and they go out and start doing it.
So you say it enough, you beat it people. Oh shit,
I guess that's well.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
In say Afghanistan, where the literacy rate is like super low, right,
the majority of the country can't read. I can understand there.
But in this country, where we walk around with this
and we have the entire world's knowledge right here at
our fingertips, you can show people exactly. You can show

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them video clips that you know you obviously are not
AI that are real. You can show them the research
and they still won't believe it because I don't know
if it's the tribalism. I don't know if it's you know,
they don't want to admit they're wrong or what. But
I mean, I still run into people on a regular basis.
They're like, now Trump's Trump's a Russian asset.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Now they have this device, they have this device, which
really is a jail, and they don't realize that home
in front of their head and they have all us
on information, but they're not accessing all information because they're
too busy scrolling left and right looking at videos and
this and that whatever, and they look for you know
how many young people I've talked to over the past
couple of years who literally would tell me, I don't

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watch the normal news. I just watch Colbert and John
Stewart from my news. And I feel like you're joking, right,
like you're messing. They're like, no, I watch That's where
I get my news from. And I'm like, I'm like,
how do you procreate much less vote? I'm like, God,
just insane. And so they have all this, but they
don't access this device. They get some all the information

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they want in the world for any of that stuff.
They just they get onto what the things they want
to do and ignore the rest of it, and they go.
They hear they see it in a few things, their
friends tell them about it. John Stewart and Colbert talk
about it, and they must be true, right, And they
don't do their own investigation, don't. They don't spend even
a moment of time to look in to see how

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valid it is.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Well, then TikTok Chinese propaganda comes in and they believe
everything that goes on TikTok.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Oh. Absolutely, it's It's as classic as it. You control
the narrative, you control the message, You control the people.
Right now that Dollin talked about it, I mean every
world dictator and leaders has talked about it. They've all
done it. Saiddam did it, Kadafi did it. You control
the message, you will control the people. You don't you
squash alternative voices or things people that are speaking against you.

(55:35):
You know, dictator's rule, They wipe those people out. They
rule through fear, and everyone just goes along with it
and said, well, this is the new normal.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
I was listening to a podcast a couple of years ago,
and it was a Vietnam veteran pilot who had been
shot down and was held in pow.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Well years later, he goes.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
Back to Vietnam to visit and he was right outside
where the pow camp was that he was held in,
and he was talking to a woman that was approximately
his age, and he was telling her, do you know
what went on in there? And she says, oh, yeah,
the American prisoners were treated so good. They had great
meals and they had volleyball and they had and he's like, no,

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I was tortured. I was tortured in there. And she's like, no,
we were told y'all were treated great. And that's you know,
this is you know, late sixties, early seventies. But I
mean it's with the tools like this that the propaganda
is even worse.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
In the South Pacific and World War two, and the
Marines were island hopping. Japanese civilians were jumping off of
cliffs and throwing their babies off cliffs because they were
told that the Americans were going to you know, gut
their children and rape them and cut their heads off
and got you better to die with honor. And there's
Marines that would tell stories. I was talking about this recently,
may have been here on the show in the last
few weeks, I remember, And they were coming up and

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watching these Savilians run out of their huts and houses
to cliffs and just throw their kids. Was screaming, crying
for them not to and these Marines are trying to
get there and try to explain to them, and they
were throwing their kids off of cliffs hundreds of feet
into the water and rocks, and then jumping themselves because
the Emperor and Supreme Leader said, if you let the
Americans get you, they're going to do all these horrible things.

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You're better to die with honor and go at your
own terms. And once they captured some Japanese and they
realized when they were able to capture them that they
that they actually got treated well, got medical first aid
and all that stuff. They also are like, oh, this
is not and they would tell the Americans in interrogator,
like we were told all this stuff that we didn't
We did not think you would do this for us.
We didn't think you would treat us as soon as

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you shot us. You were on the battlefield treating us
and trying to save us. They were just told that
they believed it.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
And the propaganda machine. So the only the only bright
light coming is it is now college football season. It
is upon us. So you know, I have to root
for two teams. I have to root for my Horns,
my my long Horns, and I have to root for

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my Razorbacks.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
Unfortunately the conference.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yeah, you better roots.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
So do you do you follow college football at all?

Speaker 2 (58:18):
I do, Yes, I would much rather on a Saturday,
I will watch any college football game if I'm cruising
by the TV versus pro I there's I only watch
a few select teams. The teams have been don't I
won't just sit down and watch any pro game. But college.
I've always loved college because you just I mean, they're
they're trying to prove themselves. You know, pro that dude's

(58:39):
got a five to ten year contract college. They don't
know who what scouts are in the stands, and they're
they're doing the dynamo moves and the crazy things that
they can do to try to That's why I love
college ball. And it's always changing because those you know,
the athletes are changing out and you get new capabilities
and and you know, the dude that's six foot six
and he's a running back or you know, wide receiver

(59:00):
that you know, and now that you get to watch
him for a couple of years and then you know
you got someone new coming in. Yeah. I love car
Yeah guess big guess fan, I gotta admit. But also, uh,
you know, love my Wyoming because it's where boy Josh
Allen came from. So I do watch a couple of
West Coast things. But yeah, you know, I used to
live in Arkansas, so I'm a razorback fan. But uh,

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you know, also like watching the Gators, so also a
big one there.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
So yeah, well the Horns, it'll be the start of
the next manning at the helm, right, so they've got
the newest manning and what we'll see, We'll see what
he can do, see if he continues that that legacy
the Peyton and the was Peyton's dad's name, I forget
Archie Archie Manning and uh and.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
Hopefully, you know, he doesn't have some sort of sophomore
slump or anything, and hopefully the Horns can come out
and you know, I'm I'm very happy that we get
to see Texas and Texas A and M again, you
know that that rivalry back back on the you know,
because I grew up watching that, that was that's always
the biggest one. I liked that one even more so

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than Texas and Oklahoma was pretty big.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Yeah, But even if if A and M had had
the worst team in college football, they always gave the
best effort and Texas as well, they always gave the
best effort in that game because that was for you know,
who gets to wear the crown of Texas and that
that that game is always way more interesting to me
than Plus, I've got a lot of friends that you know,

(01:00:39):
are Aggie's, so I like to root against them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
You have like some kind of like football package like
on Saturdays or your Saturday shot for the next several months, No.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
I don't because I live so far out, you know,
and and I all my services are streaming, so uh,
my Saturdays are actually pretty full going forward right now,
so I'll just be following it on my phone. I
do have some some fishing trips coming up as well
during that season, so I try to walk out unto
the into the dunes and see what kind of service
I can get to get an update on a game. Unfortunately,

(01:01:10):
when I when I do the big fishing trip every
year is when Texas plays Oklahoma, and so I always
want to know what the outcome of that is. So
uh no, I I I don't have that, but I
do follow it as closely as possible.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
My wife has pared down my football over the last
few years because she hated being a football widow because
I would go right from you know, i'd watch high
school football at one point if you put it on TV,
especially when when my son was playing, and yeah, so
I and then I would you know, you go right
from from the high school to the college into the

(01:01:47):
pros and then that didn't end until Monday. And then
I was always running multiple fantasy leagues and you know,
at least four or five at a time, and so
I was always into the stats and stuff like that.
But uh, yeah, I'm definitely excited about college football season starting.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Well, my wife knows in about a month, we're about
a month out from her turning into a hunting window.
And so I got my hat on. So our first
season starts mid September, and uh I uh, then we
have a couple of days they get you know, they're
scattered out so we're about to get into that timeframe
and and it's gonna be there. We're I'm probably gonna
miss a few shows, definitely in November because when when

(01:02:24):
that comes on full season, it's it's gonna be focused
on that. But yeah, I'm with you, but get my
football in there too. But yeah, it's it's definitely we're
getting back into where I'm about to be in a
stand and uh, I have to.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
I mean, I'm still a Cowboys fan.

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
I mean, I'll always be like a lifetime Cowboys fan,
but it is, you know, you have to set the
expectations going into the season. I'm not expecting them to
do anything for the damn what are you going to
say to your Bills?

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Yeah, uh, well, you know, they just signed James Cook finally.
He was he was a holdout and uh probably one
of the best, probably one of the best running backs
in the NFL. Honestly, you know, they just signed him
to a four year, forty eight million dollar deal. So
you know, we've got Josh for another four or five years.
It's a I mean, last year was supposed to be
a Bill year and look what they did. It was

(01:03:15):
they lost a lot of folks Uh, there's a lot
of excitement. I mean, they've had one preseason they lost
that against the Jets or Giants. No one's worried about
that because they're trying out all the second third strings.
But it's it's looking solid. This is a big year.
It's a last year in the Highmark Stadium. They've been
building this new stadium. I've got tickets already thanks to
one of my sons, to for one game this year.

(01:03:37):
But I'll beat the Kansas City game, which would be
huge because we used to hate the Patriots. We hate
everything about Kansas City now, as as does most of
the country. So that'll be a big game. But no,
it's we're expecting big things this year from the Bills,
for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Does a new stadium have a roof?

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
No, And we all wonder why we're spending billions on
a stadium in Buffalo without a retractable roof. It has
a big overhang, and apparently they've designed some kind of
engineering feet of no wind gets inside the stadium at all.
But there are many many people who questioned why so
many tax dollars and other things are going into a

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stadium that in the past number of years they have
had to offer free food and twenty bucks an hour
to fans to come shovel seats out. In fact, a
couple years ago they had to move a game between
US and Pittsburgh down to Cleveland because both places were
sopped full of snow and we had to move the game.
So everyone thought for sure they would give us a
retractable roof, have something like Dallas, so you could, you know,

(01:04:42):
and people were but people were like, well, we'll lose
the ambiance and beat it. Look, hey, if it's cold,
you know, and we're paying a warm weather team like
Miami or something, yeah, open the roof. Make it miserable
for him. Sure, but if we're playing Minnesota, how about
close the roof. We both know how to play in
the cold, and let's just have a nice game, right,
Maybe even open us a built buffalo up for to

(01:05:04):
host a super Bowl. They've hosted it in in for
giants and that kind of stuff. Sure, no one's gonna
come to super Bowl and freaking be at five degrees right,
yeah kind of money. So no, our new stadium, multi
billion dollar stadium, does not have a roof.

Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
Well, as far as the Chiefs go, my you know,
mahomes went to Texas Tech and my youngest daughter went
to Texas Tech, so she's she's a big Kansas City fan.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
So I don't care.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
If it's a high school team playing Kansas City, I'm
going to root against them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
So, uh, does she likes she liked the Muppets? Does
she like Kermit the Frog?

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Because I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Yeah, that's uh, yeah, I can't say it. But anyways, Well,
we've been going for over an hour, sir, and uh
good when we covered football. Wow, I'm not sure we've
really talked about We've probably talked some bills stuff before
championship stuff, but yeah, we covered it all. A lot
of things happened in the news. Thank you Rob for
joining me tonight and uh and coming on camera versus

(01:06:01):
behind the camera, like mostly most of the time. I
think we've got some guests. I think next week, right.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
We do, we do, We've We've got the next couple
of weeks lined up. I've got some people in the
pipeline for a Tuesday show as well, so uh, finally
gonna we just had our first female and uh, I'm
gonna get a Signal guy on soon so the Signal
core can be represented.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
So oh so we're representing all the all the minorities
in the in the army. Yes, yeah, uh, those non
infantry types. But uh, that's all right, that's good. No,
these these stories have been great and we've had I've
had very good feedback from friends and and people personally
about are these shows, both from my church and people

(01:06:44):
I know around town, people I know in the military
that just really like that that we're doing the Sleepers right.
And it all goes to you. You're the one that
came up with the idea for it. So for those
watching and listening, if you have someone that has deployed
any branch of service that has to de Floyd AND's
got that, we'd love to have them on, be sure
and reach out. We like, you know, all these we've

(01:07:05):
had weathermen, we've had grunts, we've had special Forces, I mean,
we've had it all.

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
And and like for your dad, you know, we need
to capture you know, more of that stuff before it's lost.
You know, you guys did a great job with the
I'm Brunner and you know capturing those.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
Stories from World War Two. But we've got.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
Korea and Vietnam era that that we're getting ready to lose, right,
so they're getting up there in ages and we start
capturing those stories as well.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, and that you know, we started
this out we were going to do just g WAT
and then we expanded. We're like, no, we need to
grab anyone we can.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Yeah. As a living member from the US's Arizona just
passed away last week. There are no more now. We
had Lauren on I've got the picture I'm looking at
it right now that had twenty one signatures on it.
Those were the last twenty one and uh there's none
now that that generation that that is gone. Yes, but yeah,

(01:08:05):
all right, well, thank you so much, Rob, Thank you
everyone for joining us here on a Thursday night, episode
three seventy four. Be sure and tune in watch us
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