40 - SPECIAL GUEST, KEVIN DALTON

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You are listening to a Fonds Media Network production. Welcome

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to episode forty World of Blaze with George Fonts. On

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today's show, I have Kevin Dalton. Kevin Dalton has a

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large social media presence, especially as account on X. Kevin

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offers news and opinions based on politics and is especially

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critical of California and Governor Gavin Newsome. Kevin previously ran

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for mayor of Los Angeles as well as the County

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Board of Supervisors. Kevin and I had a great conversation

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about California, Gavin Newsom, gun control, and the presidential election.

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I think you'll enjoy this insightful conversation filled with both

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facts and opinion. Okay, World Blaze listener, welcome, and today

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I have with me Kevin Dalton. And came across Kevin

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Dalton off of X saw his posts and I saw

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how he was super critical of California and Gavin Newsom,

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and I did a little more of a deep dive

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and found out you have actual experience with both of

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those issues, or both of those topics in general. So

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gave you a follow and at some point I started realizing, Hey,

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I would like to talk to you, you know, so

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I reached out and asked for you're available, and you were.

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We went back and forth a bit, but we finally

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made this happen, which is which is great, and I'm

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glad you're here now. I do want to go over

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a few things just to get started, because obviously my

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listeners may not be aware of you, and I have

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a lot to learn as well. But I do know

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that you lived in California for I think over forty years,

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is that correct?

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Yeah? Yeah, right up, let's just say forty five years.

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So I'm it's funny. I'm on x in critical of

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California quite a bit and my my location says egle, Idaho.

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So everyone is instantly like, all right, mister potato, what

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do you have to talk about? What do you know

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about California? I was there for quite a bit of time,

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and I have, you know, almost fifty years of friends,

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family and community still there that I care very much about.

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So I still have a lot to say about the place.

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Yeah, I'm sure, and I'm sure you're concerned for your

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friends and family who are here dealing with, you know,

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the shenanigans that is California. I want to ask you,

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though you ran for La County Board of Supervisor. Is

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that correct?

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Correct?

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Okay with that? How did that come to be?

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Well, you know, it was not a plan. I was

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sitting at home like most everyone when COVID hit, and

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then all of a sudden, these pretty crazy rules were

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being handed down by this group of people I had

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never heard of before. This board of supervisors in Los

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Angeles County were closing down beaches and we're shutting down

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businesses and or just across the board one night said

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you your shoot what was the word that they used? Essential?

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Oh man, Yes, your job is essentials. Yours is. Your

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livelihood is not essential. You'll sit at home. And this

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was the board of supervisors. This was my first experience

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with them. And then all of a sudden realizing that yeah,

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mayor is important, governor is important. But these five people

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have all the say, over ten million people in Los

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Angeles County and they were just they're out of their mind,

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and you could go back and start looking at decisions

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they've made, and not only through COVID, but before COVID,

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after COVID, the power that they wheeled was was scary,

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and the decisions they were making were even scarier. So

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I had I had been making, you know, some noise

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online always, you know, bitching about Eric Garcetti and everything

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that he was doing in Los Angeles. I'd even started

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on Twitter at the time a handled next La Mayor

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and I was going to run for mayor and that

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was that was going to be my thing. But with

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COVID ended up moving out of the city of Los Angeles,

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so that that kind of fell apart. So I'm sitting

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at home back to that when COVID hit. Then all

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of a sudden, I get a call from someone who says, hey,

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we need someone to run for District one for Board

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of Supervisor and I'm like, I know who these people

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are now, and yes, something needs to be done about that.

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So I threw my hat into the ring against Tilda Solis,

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who was the incumbent. She's been there for a while.

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She was also a cabinet member on the Obama administration,

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so she's she's a heavy hitter, but she's one of

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the the four absolutely batss crazy women who were on

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the Board of Supervisors. There's there's one competent, quasi common

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sense member, but she just gets outvoted every single time.

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It doesn't matter what the issue. Is. So I went

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up against Hilda Solies with with zero experience at all,

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and man, that was a crazy learning experience in itself,

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even just going down to file. So to go down

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and file, I needed to give them twenty five hundred

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dollars just to get a gigantic packet of paper to

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go fill out and then go out and get a

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bunch of signatures. And if all of that wasn't filled

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out perfect, my twenty five hundred dollars just disappeared and

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went away.

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So I started no guarantees, no guarantees would even be

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able to run.

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None whatsoever I could. I could give them the money,

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I could go out and for whatever reason, you know,

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I can't remember, I needed fifty signatures or whatever it was,

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and I ended up getting you know it, did I

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get anyway? I got way more than that because they

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can be disqualified, and you know that's what happens quite

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a bit that people will fill out all the paperwork

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and they're like, ah, sorry, you know, you got forty

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eight out of fifty and have a nice day. So

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fortunately I was able to fundraise the money to do

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this and got my packet, got all my signatures, got

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it filled out and got it turned in and qualified.

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So I went out and started campaigning and beaten feet

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and going door to door and you know, just trying

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to talk to people. And the thing that I found out,

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especially for those who don't know, Los Angeles County's gigantic,

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ten million people, District one is essentially everything down the

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ten freeways. So starterup Pomona and you go west down

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the ten Freeway to you hit downtown. That's that's what

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District one is. It's it's big. But what's also crazy

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is the wild diversity of the district because you go

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down the ten Freeway and you know, you've you've got uh,

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you know, every every walk of life you can imagine

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going down the freeway if you're going down to Covina

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and then Monterey Park and then Quente Hills and then

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to downtown. The the the diversity is is wild. But

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what I found out what talking to everyone, is they

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all wanted the same thing. They wanted to be able

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to afford a house. They wanted to be able to

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send their kids to a good school. They wanted to

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not get stabbed by a homeless guy when they walked

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with their kids down the sidewalk it didn't matter what

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language you came from, or what language you spoke, or

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where you came from. If you were born here or

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you were a Layotan and you've immigrated here, you want

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to buy a house, You want your kids to be safe,

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you want them to get a good education. And that's

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what I ran on. I ended up raising five thousand

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dollars all together. Twenty five hundred of that, of course,

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went right to the filing fee, and I did not win.

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Hilda Solblis raised just over nine hundred thousand dollars, and

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I don't think she spent any of it. She doesn't

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need to. You know, she had the whole entire machine

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behind her. She ended up I think, you know, seventy

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five percent of the vote. It's it's tough, especially when

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you know you go out to events and it's kind

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of crazy because she's out, she's not campaigning, but she

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is also hitting all the community centers with a big

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giant check with her name on it, and she's like, here,

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I'm giving the rec center fifty thousand dollars under an

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easy up with her name on it. And I'm like,

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I know she's not campaigning at these events, but man,

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she's literally handing out cash to people right now with

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her name on it. No, it's tough to compete, but

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I learned so much along the way, stuff that I

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would do different. And you know, I may try it

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again as soon as I get more of the California

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stink off of me and Idaho maybe.

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Well, I was actually ask you if you're going to

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try that, try for a position to get in politics.

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You know, maybe I'll start smaller with the PTO and

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my son's school. But I always I have an opinion

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on almost anything. But you know, I just for the

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most part, I just want stuff to work better. You know,

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I'm I'm kind of like like an efficiency freak. I

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walk into a situation and I'm like, Okay, see what

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you're doing, but we can make this work just a

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little bit better. Everyone will work a little you know,

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it'll be a little easier. And but that's that's what

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I do when I kind of walk into any situation.

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You know, whether whether it's a simple process, or it's

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homelessness or it's traffic, you know, there is a there

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is a more efficient way to pull this off, and

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we can do it on a small scale, or we

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can do it on a scale of ten million people.

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But why are we doing the same exact bureaucratic nonsense,

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you know, when we don't have to be tied to

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that anymore. You know, we've got this amazing power of

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communication and you know, being able to be you know,

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communicating to so many people on x and Instagram and

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Facebook and everything that's out there. It's I thought it

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would level the playing field faster, but I think it's

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getting there. I really think it's getting to a point

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where you know, like I said, these things that I learned,

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I would leverage not that I didn't leverage it before,

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but I would certainly try to leverage it a little

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smarter than I did, stuff that I learned along the way.

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And I think, whether you raise nine hundred thousand dollars

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or you raise five thousand dollars, if you can talk

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to the people and you can connect with them and

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actually get that message to them, I think that's a

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much more doable thing now. And it's it's going to

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be a bigger ranch in this this system, you know, this,

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these these big giant machines that have been politically built

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over the decades, the centuries.

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Right, I would I agree and I would hope that

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you're right, you know, with with the tools we have

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now to reach an audience, I would hope that it

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wouldn't be it wouldn't come down just to how much

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money you have. You know, it shouldn't be about how

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much money you could spend to reach, you know, people

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or get their ear to hear what you have to say.

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And I would hope that just based on your policies

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and whatever it is that you believe in, what is

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enough for people to decide that you're the right person

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for the job, which is what it should be. So

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I totally agree with that, And I was gonna I

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was gonna ask you about something though, because I was

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on your expos You got kind of like a model

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or slogan there where he says, you tried fixing the

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system by working with the system, and now you're doing

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it your way. So to ask you, what what do

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you mean by that? What is doing your way your

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way these days? And what is that involved?

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Well, that's that's a lot of this. So, you know,

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trying to work within the system was was running for

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you know, board of supervisors and jumping through all the

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hoops and doing all the stuff that they asked, and

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you know, it didn't end up exactly where I would

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have liked and where I think would have would have

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been a bigger benefit to everyone. So now I'm doing

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it my way, which is making sure that everyone sees

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the repercussions of these policies. You know, uh, you can

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listen to Gavin Newsom or or Karen Bass or anyone

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on the Board of Supervisors, and they can tell you

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that the crime is down, crime is down, And I'm

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going to show you another side of that. You know,

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it called me a propaganda say, I'm just showing I'm

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cherry picking. Well, i may be cherry picking, but these

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videos seem to land in my lap, not on a

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not on a weekly basis, but on a daily basis.

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So you know, I if these street takeovers are happening

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all over the place. JJ Smith up up in San Francisco. Man,

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he is one of the the scariest and best follows

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you can have on x If you want to know

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what's really happening on the streets of San Francisco, this

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guy walks down the streets and literally just saves people's

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lives on a daily basis. I'm not I'm not using hyperbole.

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I'm not saying this guy is a hero. No, this

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guy is a hero. He sees people o ding, he's

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he's reviving them, bringing them back to life. As the

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the harm reduction specialist stands over them, you know, he's like, oh,

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when you give them back, when you bring them back,

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here's a bag full of crack pipes so he can

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overdose again. This is this stuff, is what's really happening

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out there. If it's not reported, it's not a crime,

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it's not an overdose, you know. But there is scary

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stuff happening out there, and I don't want it to

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go any further. Gavin Newsom, I want him in twenty

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twenty six. When he's done, he goes back to plump

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Jack Winery and he can't get a job in politics again.

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Agreed.

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If he wants to go on a speaking tour, that's great,

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But you don't go any further. Man. You don't get

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to bring everything that you've done here to Washington. You

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don't get to be a senator, you don't get to

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be a you don't get to go anywhere because anywhere

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you go, it's going to follow with the stink of

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me showing everyone what you've done for twenty years. So

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that's doing it my way. Am I going to be

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able to be governor and go and fight Gavin Newsom

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head to head? No? But can I be a gigantic

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thorn in his side and make stupid videos and that

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people share and spread all around so when he wants

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to try to come back in twenty twenty eight, I

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got a treasure trove of stuff that's gonna make sure

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your ass is sitting in plump jack and there's nothing

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you can do about it. That's doing it my way.

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There's nothing wrong with holding our elected officials accountable. I mean,

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especially Gavin Newsom. I mean there, I'm with you. I

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think more people should be critical of him, and I'd

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hate to see him as a presidential candidate, to be

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quite honest. I mean, living in California, you did. We

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don't need that across the country. We really don't. And

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I was gonna ask you about the Gavin Newsom thing

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here because I know you're critical of him. I'm just

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wondering is any of that based on any first hand

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you know, interactions with him that that that you had,

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or is it just through your experiences you just you

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could just see all the bullshit basically, and you know

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exactly where it's coming from.

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Yeah, it's it's a it's a common denominator situation. I've

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I've never had any any first hand experience with him, though,

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ironically enough, I think the I don't know, fourth or

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fifth month we were here in Idaho, I was with

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my son on a preschool field trip to the capitol

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where we met the governor. I shook his hand, my

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son shook his hand. Nice, really guy, personable, you know,

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literally out meeting with the people and meeting with the kids.

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So so maybe I'm maybe I'm a bit biased, but

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but no, No, no firsthand interactions, uh with the governor.

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When I was really starting to be critical of Eric Garcetti,

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you know, I started kind of following, following up the ladder,

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and you know, Garcetti led to you know, to the

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from the city level to the county level to the

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state level, and then you know, you see what Newsom

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is doing now. But then you start following back where

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he's been, and you know a lot of people say,

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why you blame Newsom so much, He's only been doing

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this for six years. No, No, Newsom's been doing this

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for a very very long time, going all the way

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back to before he was mayor of San Francisco, and

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the guy has just left a wake of homelessness and

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terrible policies behind him wherever he's gone. The crazier thing is,

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you know, speaking of Board of Supervisors, one of his

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original gigs in San Francisco was not elected. He was

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nominated to the position. And there's a few other positions

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where he was never even elected to. He was handed this,

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So you know, it's he has been groomed from the

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beginning to take the White House. At some point I

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would have sworn up and down that it was going

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to be this year. I'm still still not one hundred

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percent sure they're not going to try to slide him

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in at the end.

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Yeah, the way it's been going, I can I can

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see that happening. I would hope not, but I do.

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Not know what's going to happen after the debate. You

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know it, maybe maybe Harris is fine, but I can

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really imagine it just not going well. And we're going

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to do an exact repeat of of the Biden situation,

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where going into the first debate, everyone was like Biden's

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sharp as attack he is going to mop the floor

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with Trump. Trump is gonna cry like a little bit,

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and there's gonna be a gigantic blue wave in November.

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And then the debate came around, Biden crapped the bed

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in ways that no one could possibly imagine. Then they

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were scrambling to fix it. They brought Kamala in. They

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are prepping her like crazy, just like they did with Joe.

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She is going to mop the floor with Trump. And

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I can absolutely see her just completely falling apart when

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she has to not have a pre recorded two on

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one interview with CNN. No, this is going to be

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a debate with Trump. Who's going to be coming at you?

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And I know all her debate work is all zingers

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and you know, gotcha moments, But those are gonna run out,

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and as soon as she does, she's gonna back into

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one of her unburdening of what shouldn't be burdened or

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whatever she says. And I don't know what's gonna happen

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past Tuesday. So who knows anymore. That's been a crazy

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two months.

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Yeah, I mean, and again, you know, here's a classic

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example of someone who's nominated into being a presidential nominee right,

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like Gavin Newsom has been nominated in too certain positions.

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Seems to be kind of a theme on that side

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of the that started the political isle here. But you know,

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as far as Newsom goes, go back. I do want

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to get back to Kamlin and Trump though, But as

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far as Newsom goes, I mean, I think what you're

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doing is great because a lot of people are you know,

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they think they just think surfing, sunshine and everything. But

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you know, because of social media, all of the bad policies,

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as you said, and everything that people are going through

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is starting to get out. And I know, I know

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Newsom's feeling the heat about it. Probably why he just

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that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars you know, loan

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towards a home.

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For legal immigrants to buy out.

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Yeah, that could be why. The other reason, I'm sure

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is because you know, hey, we went from one hundred

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billion dollars surplus to a seventy billion dollar deficit, and

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then you know the never ending high speed rail. Who

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knows where all the money on that went with all

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the freaking revisions, And you know, I know somebody who's

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high up, So I do get some info on that.

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I'm not gonna say who he is, but I'll just say,

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how many more consultants do you need to hire? You know?

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Well that's that ever everyone's getting rich. They've they've built

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one bridge and they were patting themselves on the back

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and it was just adjacent to another bridge where the

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line already is this whole time, the whole entire thing,

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you know, at some point, and someone should just say stop, stop,

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we're pulling the plug on this, you know. And that's

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that's part of the problem with government is there's there's

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no admission of mistake, you know, it's just well, we

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just have to keep plugging down this road and you know,

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hopefully by the time it completely falls apart, I've been

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elected to some other office and it's someone else's problem

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down the road to the next person.

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Yeah, just kicked a hand down the road. Yeah yeah,

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I mean, that's.

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That's the that's the idea. Just get elected. Just get elected.

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And in the case of Newsom, I mean the biggest

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red flag is him blocking the audits, Like you can't

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even audit where the money's coming or going. So yeah, anyway,

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I know we both where we where we stand with Newsom,

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But I did want to get your thoughts on that.

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I do want to ask you. I'm just gonna go

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down the line here based on some of the stuff

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I sent you earlier, just so the kind of you know,

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stay on task here. And it's related to the to

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the to the election, so there's a little method to

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the questioning here. And question I had because it's recent,

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I just actually did another episode on it was the

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Rover Colorado situation. I wanted to know what you thought

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about that, with the Venezuelan gangs taking over the apartment

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complexes and whatnot. And to me, it's it's really a

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classic example of government officials not taking not whole, not

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not being responsible, you know, not being accountable for their

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actions at all. And all they're doing is just pointing

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fingers at everyone else for the situation. They're even pointing

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fingers at the you know, the complex owners, like it's

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their fault that this happened. Yeah, they're pointing fingers at

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Trump supporters and you know, right wing media for making

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it a bigger thing than it is. But then in

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all of the reports and even even their own police

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don't deny it's happening. But at the same time, you know,

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they're coming up with tasks forced to go in and

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take care of the situation that supposedly doesn't exist according

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to them. So I just wonder what you kind of

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thought about that whole thing.

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Well, I think you hit the nail on the head

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where it's the you know, it supposedly exists, supposedly doesn't exist,

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and that's why you don't get the National Guard sent

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in when they logically should have been, because the National

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Guard isn't just the National Guard, it's the National Guard,

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and an admission of guilt that there there is a

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problem here, that it's gotten so bad that we need

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the National Guard. And I don't think that would fly

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under the radar. Somebody. Somebody would be out there going,

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why is the National Guard here? So, you know, I

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think that's that's why it wasn't done. And I mean,

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who knows. I can I can put on my conspiracy

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corner tin tinfoil hat and maybe the governor of Colorado

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did make some phone calls and someone was like, stop,

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put a lid on it. You know, this this will

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go away, you know, as far as is you know,

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is it being overblown? Because that was one of the things.

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I had put out a video from TMZ and it

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was one of the city council women who had initially

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put out the first video that had the gunman walking around,

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and you know, they're saying that she, you know, she

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doesn't know what she's talking about. This, this was a

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dispute between one apartment and now you're exploiting it, and

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you know, I'm, I'm it's so convoluted now because there's

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so much there's there's so much opportunity for misinformation. So

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I'm now I'm like, well, let me double check on

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my end. And then the mayor comes out and he's like, yeah,

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this is kind of a thing that's happening. So, you know,

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so it gets more and more corroborated, you know, by

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these officials within the city. But then you get protesters

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down there, who are you know, literally just there to

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protest the idea that these Venezuelan gangs are are taking

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over this place. You know, it's not even it's it's

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the weirdest uh, it's the weirdest hill to die on.

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You know that no one saw this coming. I'm like,

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where are you going to protest today? Green Peace? You

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saving the whales? They doing the straw and the and

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the turtle's nose again. You're like, Nope, going to protest

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and make sure that people don't know Venis whaling gangs

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didn't take over an apartment building. And Aurora, I'm like, wait,

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what that's That's gonna be a tough chant. So it's

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there's so much effort from both sides. It's tough to

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you know, it's tough to fully grasp what the truth

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is that being said, there are armed men from Vee

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Israela that I have seen on video absolutely, you know.

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So you know, so even if it's not one thousand

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percent that these guys, you know, they're that they've taken

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over all of these these apartments, maybe it's ninety nine

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point nine percent of the truth of that. There's a

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lot of it that's truth. And they are heavily armed

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and they're in our country. And Bill Majulien basically came

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out when they arrested four of them, and this came

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out yesterday and they're like, oh, yeah, these guys were

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picked up at the border in twenty twenty two. This

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guy's a major shot caller in the gang, and they

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just let them go and they went right to Aurora

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and ended up there two years later. So they they've

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arrested these guys. They know when they came in the country,

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they know that they are bad ombres. So you know,

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there there's stuff that can be you know, not confirmed,

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but there is a lot that has been right.

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Well from what I can say about the protests, and

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this is this is pretty much I'm going to say

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fact because it's the only reason they would be doing

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that is because the local people that are in fear

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of the gang retaliating against them. I mean, let's not

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let's not be naive about that, right, So that'd be

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the only reason I can see that happen. Also, it

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went from one apartment building to two, and now you

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know there's newer reports that came out that confirmed there's

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a third building.

477
00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:53.400
Multiple Yeah.

478
00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:55.880
Yeah, so they definitely had a problem that they tried

479
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.079
to hide, and you know, citizens, they were ignored by

480
00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:02.160
their government. They took action, which is crazy, and at

481
00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:04.119
what point is it okay for the government to abandon

482
00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:06.359
their own citizens, because I think at that point you

483
00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:09.680
pretty much lost a country, especially when there's the idea

484
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:13.680
of them accepting and cheering on another criminal organization to

485
00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:15.759
come save them. With the rumors of the Hell's Angel

486
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:18.279
supposed to going down there, I know that's a rumor.

487
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:20.759
They're not going down there to do that, but still

488
00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.480
people were happy about that. And so if they're in

489
00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:28.319
that place, in that mindset, then that speaks volumes about

490
00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:32.759
what's really going on there and that the government of Colorado,

491
00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:35.599
ror Colorado and the governor need to be held accountable

492
00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:37.440
for it, you know. And I think that that's the

493
00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:40.000
situation that a lot of people in America live in

494
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:43.359
at this point, especially with the open border policy. I

495
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:45.799
know that's a whole nother show, probably in a longer conversation,

496
00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:50.039
but still, you know, when people get to that point,

497
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:51.839
then yes, there is a problem. It's not even a

498
00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:56.480
matter of pointing fingers. It's like, who cares if you're Republican, independent,

499
00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:59.039
or democratic. Just fix the situation for everybody.

500
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:04.759
Just just imagine if the Hell's Angels had really gone there.

501
00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:09.759
Did you imagine the absolute blood bath that would have

502
00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:16.240
taken place? These You've heavily armed Venezuelan gang members in

503
00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:22.279
you know, a seventeen story building with potential, you know,

504
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:27.640
hundreds of hostages with with with surrounded by a motorcycle gang,

505
00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:31.519
presumably heavily armed because they know the Venezuelans are heavily armed.

506
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:35.839
I mean this, This could have been an absolute massacre

507
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:40.400
while everyone stood by and, like you said, allowed it

508
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.279
to happen. I mean this, There there had to have

509
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:48.200
been someone who called nine to one one two months ago,

510
00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:50.640
you know, the first time someone showed up in the

511
00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:53.319
hallway of my apartment building and I'm like, looking through51200:28:53.359 --> 00:28:57.920



my people, I'm like, oh, there there are there are51300:28:58.000 --> 00:29:00.960



dudes with guns. I'm gonna make a phone. Would not51400:29:01.079 --> 00:29:01.720



have been one.51500:29:02.279 --> 00:29:06.559



There was nine one one calls made in one lady51600:29:07.039 --> 00:29:09.440



forgot her name, but she did report, and this was51700:29:09.480 --> 00:29:11.680



confirmed by CBS. They sent some reporters out there to51800:29:11.720 --> 00:29:13.359



try to see, hey, is this really happening. They wrote51900:29:13.359 --> 00:29:15.960



a whole article on it, and she was told by52000:29:16.000 --> 00:29:18.039



the police that well, to respond to that, we would52100:29:18.039 --> 00:29:20.200



need three to four people together to do that, and52200:29:21.319 --> 00:29:23.319



we're not going to do that because would pull resources52300:29:23.359 --> 00:29:26.359



away from you know, the other parts of the city. Yeah,52400:29:26.480 --> 00:29:28.519



so it wasn't a priority to them. And I'm not52500:29:28.599 --> 00:29:30.559



trying to beat them up. I'm just saying, you know,52600:29:32.279 --> 00:29:34.559



instead of trying to look good politically, just admit, hey,52700:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.559



there's an issue and help out your citizens. You know,52800:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.519



there's innocent people, they're just trying to live, which is crazy.52900:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.759



It's the same, you know, on a quasi different level.53000:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.240



But with all the street takeovers in California, you know,53100:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.319



there are citizens who were constantly put in a danger53200:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.519



and it's a problem. But it's a resource issue. You53300:29:56.680 --> 00:30:00.440



can't send one police officer over there. They try that,53400:30:00.839 --> 00:30:02.799



and the cop goes into the middle of it, and53500:30:02.880 --> 00:30:05.000



they mob his car and they smash out the window.53600:30:05.440 --> 00:30:09.079



And now this cop has to desperately carefully get away53700:30:09.160 --> 00:30:11.920



without running into and over while he stays live. So53800:30:12.640 --> 00:30:16.039



you know, unless you can get twenty or thirty officers together,53900:30:16.519 --> 00:30:19.279



you know, at this one intersection at this time, this54000:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.839



stuff is it's it's tough to police on a one54100:30:22.920 --> 00:30:23.440



off it is.54200:30:23.519 --> 00:30:26.119



And that that what you just said is almost a54300:30:26.200 --> 00:30:27.319



daily occurrence in Oakland.54400:30:28.160 --> 00:30:32.720



Oh yeah, Oakland, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego's picking up54500:30:32.720 --> 00:30:36.799



a little bit. But Los Angeles, I mean it's especially La.54600:30:36.880 --> 00:30:39.240



That just came out about one one isn't just happened54700:30:39.240 --> 00:30:39.559



in La.54800:30:39.680 --> 00:30:43.160



Oh They're I mean, the they are everywhere nightly to54900:30:43.240 --> 00:30:46.559



say the least, uh, you know, and it's it's not55000:30:47.279 --> 00:30:50.559



just okay, these guys are doing donuts and then they55100:30:50.960 --> 00:30:54.319



they leave and everyone everyone goes home. These guys are55200:30:54.359 --> 00:30:57.880



doing donuts, and then half the spectators going and loot55300:30:57.960 --> 00:31:01.319



the a MPM that's at the adjacent station, and then55400:31:01.440 --> 00:31:04.160



one of the cars is left in the intersection and55500:31:04.279 --> 00:31:08.759



they like the damn thing on fire. So look, I'm55600:31:08.839 --> 00:31:11.960



a guy who I will fully admit I'm fairly sure55700:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.039



I'm out of the statute of limitations from God thirty55800:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.079



years ago now. But I used to street race. I55900:31:18.160 --> 00:31:21.160



would go out to the city of Ontario and we56000:31:21.240 --> 00:31:25.279



would go to Mission in Milliken and we would race56100:31:25.559 --> 00:31:29.920



for hours and hours on end. But here's what we56200:31:30.240 --> 00:31:36.279



didn't do. We didn't block streets, we didn't loot ampms,56300:31:36.440 --> 00:31:40.559



we didn't like cars on fire. We just went out, raced,56400:31:40.839 --> 00:31:43.799



had a great time, and then went home. You want56500:31:43.839 --> 00:31:46.240



to know how many times we shot at each other. None,56600:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.359



It's it was just a it was a different time.56700:31:49.599 --> 00:31:52.039



So you know, I I'll post a video of a56800:31:52.079 --> 00:31:55.480



street takeover, and someone will post a video of like56900:31:55.720 --> 00:31:59.200



greasers racing their their fifty seven bel airs and the57000:31:59.319 --> 00:32:03.839



aqueduct of Los Angeles and like, same thing, just different decade.57100:32:03.839 --> 00:32:06.759



And it's like, no, this is not the same thing.57200:32:07.200 --> 00:32:12.039



You've got drones firing fireworks at guys as they're doing57300:32:12.240 --> 00:32:16.240



donuts in these street takeovers. This, this is not the57400:32:16.359 --> 00:32:16.920



same thing.57500:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.319



It's gone crazy. And the only reason I laugh is57600:32:19.359 --> 00:32:21.359



because of the absurdity of it all. You know how57700:32:21.440 --> 00:32:22.240



crazy it's gone.57800:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.559



Yes, well it's it is. It is like movie parody. Now,57900:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.640



if you were making a movie on how bad it58000:32:30.880 --> 00:32:34.720



was in Los Angeles and you produced a street takeover58100:32:34.880 --> 00:32:38.319



that happens every single night on the streets, they would58200:32:38.359 --> 00:32:41.359



they be like, bro, stop this, this is this is nonsense.58300:32:41.480 --> 00:32:43.519



This you pulled this out of a Mad Max movie.58400:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.319



We're trying to be realistic. It's is, it's it is.58500:32:47.960 --> 00:32:49.240



It's gone into parody now.58600:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.400



I sometimes think we are living in a movie, to58700:32:52.519 --> 00:32:53.720



be quite honest.58800:32:53.960 --> 00:32:58.559



And I'm I I I agree, we're we're somewhere. I'm like,58900:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.839



we're in either idiotcracy. I don't know, I don't know,59000:33:03.039 --> 00:33:06.640



but see, I think we're also like falling down. Also,59100:33:07.519 --> 00:33:10.400



Michael Douglas from like the nineties, I don't know, I59200:33:10.440 --> 00:33:12.559



don't know if we've been to falling down or if59300:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.680



we're going to falling down, we're in the middle. I59400:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.279



think we're about to fall down. We're tripping right now.59500:33:18.880 --> 00:33:22.160



And then and then I don't know how it ends.59600:33:22.240 --> 00:33:25.319



It's either going to be Planet of the Apes or Terminator.59700:33:25.519 --> 00:33:29.079



I don't know which one, but either the apes are59800:33:29.119 --> 00:33:30.920



going to rise up or the machines are going to59900:33:31.000 --> 00:33:33.640



rise up. I don't think they'll team up against us,60000:33:33.799 --> 00:33:35.759



but that that's not's the only way it ends. We60100:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.599



we are one thousand percent living in a movie.60200:33:38.720 --> 00:33:42.160



Well, let's let's hope Elon Musk's inventions don't become software60300:33:42.240 --> 00:33:43.160



entre into sky net.60400:33:43.359 --> 00:33:50.319



So it's you know, you never can tell everything seems60500:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.119



like a good idea until it's not. It does.60600:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.839



Right, Let's let's move on to some and the reason60700:33:55.839 --> 00:33:57.599



I'm going to ask you about this, And I know60800:33:57.680 --> 00:33:59.759



it's a sensitive thing, but the school shootings A just60900:33:59.799 --> 00:34:04.039



have and and it's good to tie into, you know,61000:34:04.440 --> 00:34:09.719



our conversation next on the election, obviously tying to Kamala.61100:34:10.800 --> 00:34:12.280



I think you might see where I'm going with all61200:34:12.320 --> 00:34:14.440



of this, but I do want to get your opinion61300:34:14.559 --> 00:34:17.559



on school shootings in general. I mean, nobody agrees that61400:34:17.559 --> 00:34:20.400



they're good or they should happen. I don't think anyone61500:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.039



should agree that that's a good thing. That's crazy.61600:34:23.440 --> 00:34:24.880



But what do you?61700:34:24.960 --> 00:34:27.719



What are your thoughts on that? And how? And this61800:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.159



is why I'm asking us because I hate that when61900:34:30.239 --> 00:34:33.480



these tragic, these tragic events happen, it gets so politicized62000:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.519



and it's all about my side versure side, instead of62100:34:36.679 --> 00:34:39.840



just really come together and you know, caring about America62200:34:39.920 --> 00:34:40.639



for America.62300:34:40.960 --> 00:34:44.400



Right. Oh, yeah, there's ten people that are dead. What62400:34:44.559 --> 00:34:45.960



color is the shooter? It just kills me.62500:34:46.079 --> 00:34:48.000



It just kills me that they politicize this and use62600:34:48.039 --> 00:34:52.480



this as an opportunity to gain votes, and it's ridiculous.62700:34:52.679 --> 00:34:53.760



What do you what's your thoughts on this?62800:34:54.599 --> 00:34:59.960



Well, it's it's to your point. I mean, I don't62900:35:00.239 --> 00:35:04.800



what could be more terrible? Which is the point when63000:35:05.559 --> 00:35:10.920



when these just absolute cowards go out and do this,63100:35:11.639 --> 00:35:14.760



they the the thought process is what could be the63200:35:14.840 --> 00:35:16.880



worst thing I could do? And I don't. I don't63300:35:16.920 --> 00:35:19.039



know where else you could go after that would have63400:35:19.239 --> 00:35:26.719



the impacts as a school shooting. It's instantly politicized. You're right,63500:35:26.880 --> 00:35:31.840



And I think it's politicized because it's it has the63600:35:31.960 --> 00:35:35.639



sensitive subject of guns, but it's not about guns, but63700:35:35.760 --> 00:35:39.880



we can make it about guns. The day after it63800:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.920



happened over in Boise, the school of the school district63900:35:45.079 --> 00:35:49.920



had active shooter drills and it wasn't in my son's district,64000:35:50.000 --> 00:35:52.079



which I was happy about because I never really thought64100:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.119



about it until now. My wife was telling me that64200:35:55.199 --> 00:35:57.639



the mom's group she's in. She was like, yeah, well,64300:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.119



you know so, and so she's in kind she did64400:36:01.199 --> 00:36:03.159



really well. She just you know, she hugged on the64500:36:03.239 --> 00:36:07.400



teacher the whole entire time. And I'm like, why why64600:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.440



are we Why are we traumatizing these kids? Why why64700:36:10.480 --> 00:36:15.119



are we putting them through this this thing that, as64800:36:15.960 --> 00:36:20.920



unbelievably terrible as it is, is, the odds of it64900:36:21.079 --> 00:36:25.679



happen are statistically insignificant. Yes, but we are freaking these65000:36:25.800 --> 00:36:28.360



kids out. And now not only are we freaking these65100:36:28.480 --> 00:36:31.639



kids out, we're freaking out the parents because the parents65200:36:31.679 --> 00:36:34.039



are freaked out because the kids are freaked out, and65300:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.400



it becomes an issue not about school shooters, but the65400:36:37.519 --> 00:36:40.599



guns that are causing their kids to be freaked out.65500:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.519



You know, It's it all comes back back to a65600:36:45.679 --> 00:36:48.760



gun issue. And I don't think For me, it's not65700:36:48.840 --> 00:36:52.519



an issue about guns. It's an issue of schools just65800:36:52.760 --> 00:36:59.239



being the softest, greatest target to these cowards. Like I'm saying,65900:36:59.360 --> 00:37:03.880



it's it's an open invitation for them to express their66000:37:04.519 --> 00:37:09.079



inner garbage, noess, and we give them the opportunity because66100:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.320



we can't fortify them, we can't make them safe, because66200:37:12.400 --> 00:37:14.840



the way we make them safe is with guns. And66300:37:14.920 --> 00:37:16.719



we go back to, well, these are the same things66400:37:16.719 --> 00:37:19.000



that people are coming in and shooting with, so they're66500:37:19.119 --> 00:37:25.159



obviously bad. It's it's it's not about the guns. I66600:37:25.679 --> 00:37:29.360



have this crazy idea that I think can actually not66700:37:29.559 --> 00:37:33.440



only really help school shootings, but solve another problem that66800:37:33.599 --> 00:37:39.360



our country has, which is unemployed veterans. We have more66900:37:39.440 --> 00:37:43.360



than four hundred thousand unemployed veterans in this country. Crazy.67000:37:43.719 --> 00:37:48.760



It's absolutely wild that people who signed their name, that67100:37:48.960 --> 00:37:51.440



made a pledge to put their hand on their heart,67200:37:51.519 --> 00:37:54.400



to lay down their life for this country they come67300:37:54.480 --> 00:37:56.920



back and we just give them the finger. We're all whatever, bro.67400:37:57.519 --> 00:37:59.679



Yes, And I know veterans, and I've had veterans in67500:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.239



my family, and you know they don't they don't all67600:38:02.320 --> 00:38:05.239



come out the other side in a good way.67700:38:05.840 --> 00:38:09.400



No, they don't or supported. And a lot of that67800:38:09.639 --> 00:38:13.360



is because of lack of support. It it's lack of67900:38:14.119 --> 00:38:17.440



a duty that you used to have and now you68000:38:17.559 --> 00:38:19.920



were just left. My buddy was in for twenty four68100:38:20.079 --> 00:38:23.079



years and they handed him a pamphlet. They're like, do68200:38:23.159 --> 00:38:25.079



you want to start your own business? Do you want68300:38:25.119 --> 00:38:28.719



to work for someone else? Have a great day? And68400:38:29.400 --> 00:38:32.400



he was not prepared for the real world. I'm by68500:38:32.480 --> 00:38:35.760



no means am I saying that the military is like prison,68600:38:36.400 --> 00:38:38.440



but it's the same thing. You can't just have someone68700:38:38.480 --> 00:38:42.079



who's been incarcerated, who's been in this system, this you know,68800:38:42.320 --> 00:38:44.280



has been in this thing that works the same exact68900:38:44.320 --> 00:38:46.559



way for twenty years and go freedom. There you go.69000:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.480



You know, it's a shock, it's a shocked you individual.69100:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.800



You need purpose, you need you need this thing. So69200:38:53.559 --> 00:38:56.519



back to the school shootings, we also have two hundred69300:38:56.800 --> 00:39:02.920



thousand or so schools that that need protection. So we69400:39:03.559 --> 00:39:06.960



find these veterans, we obviously go through a vetting process69500:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.039



and make sure that you know that they're good, and69600:39:10.639 --> 00:39:13.480



we give them purpose, We give them a school. And69700:39:13.760 --> 00:39:16.199



this isn't a person walking around in fatigues with an69800:39:16.280 --> 00:39:20.800



M sixteen on their shoulder. This is Colonel Sally, who69900:39:21.079 --> 00:39:23.280



served her country and now she's here just to keep70000:39:23.280 --> 00:39:26.360



an eye on the place. She's you know, this is70100:39:26.599 --> 00:39:30.599



this is her school, and anyone who decides to do70200:39:30.840 --> 00:39:35.000



this now knows that Sally's there. There's a Sally at70300:39:35.039 --> 00:39:39.360



every school. There is a vet who pledged to lay70400:39:39.440 --> 00:39:42.039



down their life, and they will do that for this school. Also,70500:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.519



I think you solved multiple problems at the same time.70600:39:45.960 --> 00:39:48.719



We need the schools just can't be soft targets. You70700:39:48.880 --> 00:39:51.079



know that if you come here, you are going to70800:39:51.400 --> 00:39:56.440



face You're going to face instant, instant pushback. This isn't70900:39:56.480 --> 00:39:58.760



going to be a thing where we wait for twenty71000:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.079



minutes and we hope a resource officer shows up or71100:40:02.159 --> 00:40:05.440



the police, and the police are more concerned with holding71200:40:05.480 --> 00:40:08.000



back parents for running inside. We're not doing that. We've71300:40:08.039 --> 00:40:12.199



got someone on the inside. And normally these people are71400:40:12.360 --> 00:40:16.320



going to their school so they know they know this71500:40:16.519 --> 00:40:20.360



person is here. You know, I think it does it71600:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.400



not solve the problem of this person who wants to71700:40:23.440 --> 00:40:26.239



go shoot a place up. Now, it doesn't really solve71800:40:26.280 --> 00:40:29.480



that problem, but it saves the schools. And if you71900:40:29.559 --> 00:40:31.920



walk into any bank in the country, there's a reason72000:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.719



why stuff is behind bars and it's safe and odds72100:40:36.039 --> 00:40:39.119



there's a security guard there. It's because we know that72200:40:39.320 --> 00:40:42.199



we want to protect our money because people want to72300:40:42.320 --> 00:40:46.400



come and take it, so we fortify that place. We72400:40:46.480 --> 00:40:48.559



should do the same to schools. I'm not saying make72500:40:48.639 --> 00:40:51.159



it look like a prison. I'm just saying, let the72600:40:51.239 --> 00:40:53.960



bad guys know this isn't going to be as easy72700:40:54.000 --> 00:40:54.679



as you want it to be.72800:40:54.840 --> 00:40:56.920



Well, I mean, you make a point because you have72900:40:57.119 --> 00:40:58.719



guards at retail stores.73000:41:00.079 --> 00:41:00.239



Where.73100:41:00.440 --> 00:41:02.360



Okay, so, and I don't I don't know how it73200:41:02.440 --> 00:41:03.840



is an Idaho, and I don't know if they were73300:41:03.880 --> 00:41:07.559



doing this when you left California. But now schools, at73400:41:07.639 --> 00:41:10.480



least I'm in the Central Valley, so out here I73500:41:10.519 --> 00:41:12.119



can see it, and I think it's all a California.73600:41:12.199 --> 00:41:15.000



They're all fenced off. Now, they're all fenced off, locked up.73700:41:15.039 --> 00:41:15.920



You can't just walk in.73800:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.679



You can't see even here. They they had closed campuses everywhere. Where.73900:41:20.760 --> 00:41:23.800



If you know, once once school is going, you have74000:41:23.960 --> 00:41:26.880



to in theory, you know, go go through the office.74100:41:26.920 --> 00:41:29.239



I mean, these are five foot chain link fences. If74200:41:29.239 --> 00:41:31.079



someone wants to get over them, someone is going to74300:41:31.119 --> 00:41:34.480



get over them. But but you know, I mean, no74400:41:34.599 --> 00:41:38.159



one messes around anymore, you know, even even out here74500:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.480



where the you know, you'd think the odds of something74600:41:41.559 --> 00:41:46.119



like that happening, like I said, are are incredibly unbelievably small.74700:41:46.599 --> 00:41:50.880



But you know, you you have to take just basic precautions.74800:41:51.559 --> 00:41:54.800



Why why wouldn't you. We haven't gotten to the point74900:41:54.840 --> 00:41:58.119



where you walk out of the Albertsons and you know75000:41:58.239 --> 00:42:02.760



there's there's a security guard there. But but there is75100:42:02.800 --> 00:42:06.360



a reason why the Brinks truck is driving around town75200:42:06.679 --> 00:42:09.320



and it's got dudes with guns on their hips, because75300:42:09.400 --> 00:42:11.440



they want to make sure that the money truck stay,75400:42:11.679 --> 00:42:14.239



that the money stays in the truck. That's that's you know,75500:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.960



go back to the old West, go back to the75600:42:18.400 --> 00:42:22.000



early the earliest days of man. We've been protecting the75700:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.039



important stuff. We should probably continue.75800:42:24.119 --> 00:42:26.840



The school school should absolutely be protected. I mean, they75900:42:26.880 --> 00:42:29.760



should have a police officer at every single school. And76000:42:30.199 --> 00:42:32.639



you know, I know they have them out here and76100:42:32.800 --> 00:42:36.280



they're all armed. They're they're sworn in police officers, so76200:42:36.440 --> 00:42:39.039



they're on site. They parked their vehicles very prominently, so76300:42:39.199 --> 00:42:44.119



you know there's someone there. But how someone could just76400:42:44.119 --> 00:42:47.440



sneak a gun in it's crazy. I mean, someone's not76500:42:47.519 --> 00:42:50.639



paying attention from the get go. Sure, and these things76600:42:51.000 --> 00:42:55.679



don't just happen, okay, there's usually signs that this is coming.76700:42:56.079 --> 00:42:58.920



And I think another issue we have with what's going76800:42:58.960 --> 00:43:01.760



on is our youth. Our children are being ignored. They're76900:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.000



not being paid attention to enough. You know, most most77000:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.639



children will reach out for help in their way, and77100:43:07.880 --> 00:43:09.599



if you're not looking for that, which I believe is77200:43:09.679 --> 00:43:15.199



the job of most educators, then you're probably just adding77300:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.559



to a bad situation. I mean, you should be able77400:43:17.599 --> 00:43:20.639



to recognize when someone needs help and help that individual77500:43:20.679 --> 00:43:22.440



and shouldn't get to the point it does where they77600:43:22.519 --> 00:43:25.360



think that grabbing a gun and killing people is the77700:43:25.480 --> 00:43:26.800



right solution for their lives.77800:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.760



So well, I believe the FBI paid a visit to77900:43:29.840 --> 00:43:33.079



this guy's house absolutely in twenty twenty three last year,78000:43:33.280 --> 00:43:36.360



So you know, not not only is it the kids78100:43:36.440 --> 00:43:39.199



don't have a you know, they aren't being listened to.78200:43:39.840 --> 00:43:44.400



Even when somebody calls the literal Federal Bureau of Investigation78300:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.960



send them to the house, they stop paying attention. You know.78400:43:48.519 --> 00:43:52.239



Somehow the FBI comes there, the dad still thinks it's78500:43:52.239 --> 00:43:55.159



a good idea to go buy his son a rifle78600:43:55.400 --> 00:43:59.679



and you know, the dad's facing you know, for a78700:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.920



or not attempted murder or second degree murder whatever.78800:44:02.960 --> 00:44:05.039



Second degree murder, which I can agree with because why78900:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.159



would you why would you arm your kid with a79000:44:07.239 --> 00:44:10.559



weapon when you know they have issues. In fact, in79100:44:10.639 --> 00:44:14.280



twenty three, as you said, the FBI caught onto this79200:44:14.400 --> 00:44:17.679



individual through rumors and whatever was going on, and they79300:44:17.719 --> 00:44:19.440



looked into this person. I already knew theredy, knew that79400:44:19.519 --> 00:44:22.400



there was gonna be an issue. It was already reported.79500:44:22.719 --> 00:44:25.360



So I mean maybe we, like you said earlier, we79600:44:25.400 --> 00:44:27.559



put our tinfoil hat on and go, hmm, you know79700:44:27.599 --> 00:44:30.639



what's really going on? But yeah, I think I think79800:44:30.679 --> 00:44:32.280



we need to pay attention to the kids more. Definitely,79900:44:32.920 --> 00:44:35.079



I'm not sure how you feel about more gun control.80000:44:36.119 --> 00:44:37.960



You know, in the end, you could take guns away.80100:44:38.000 --> 00:44:39.800



It's not going to stop criminals from being criminals. It's80200:44:39.840 --> 00:44:41.239



not going to stop someone from buying something on the80300:44:41.239 --> 00:44:43.119



black market. There's always a way to get it, you know,80400:44:43.119 --> 00:44:44.719



if you're determined, you're going to make it happen.80500:44:45.280 --> 00:44:50.000



Yeah, without question, any any gun control is just taking80600:44:50.119 --> 00:44:53.880



guns away from from law abiding citizens. And I don't80700:44:53.920 --> 00:44:57.320



think that that benefits the law abiding citizens at all.80800:44:57.440 --> 00:45:01.599



Criminals are going to criminal and you know it's uh,80900:45:02.159 --> 00:45:04.480



you know, and whenever I say things like that, you're like, well,81000:45:04.639 --> 00:45:07.039



no speed limit, then just let everyone do what they want.81100:45:07.199 --> 00:45:11.159



Why is there? Why is murdered illegal? And it's like quite,81200:45:11.480 --> 00:45:14.239



you know, why why can we? Why can we? Why81300:45:14.280 --> 00:45:17.079



do we have to have this disingenuous leaping off point?81400:45:17.199 --> 00:45:17.400



You know.81500:45:19.199 --> 00:45:23.320



It's there. There are bad people who are going to81600:45:23.400 --> 00:45:26.679



do bad things. And I would I would love it81700:45:26.920 --> 00:45:29.280



if iron a bank, or if I were in a81800:45:29.480 --> 00:45:34.079



school in some some criminal came in with a gun.81900:45:34.559 --> 00:45:37.239



I would love it more than anything to have a82000:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.760



good guy with a gun right next to me. And82100:45:39.920 --> 00:45:42.719



I think you can. You can talk to David Hogg82200:45:43.199 --> 00:45:46.039



and he won't say that on X but if he's82300:45:46.079 --> 00:45:50.199



in the bank and someone's a, hey, hold on, I82400:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.880



got your pack, he's going to be pretty happy about that.82500:45:54.440 --> 00:45:59.840



You know. It's it's more more gun control, is is82600:46:00.079 --> 00:46:03.079



exactly that. It's just it's it's not going to it's82700:46:03.119 --> 00:46:05.000



not going to help out the people who need it.82800:46:05.239 --> 00:46:09.440



So no, you're right, and you know I and I82900:46:09.519 --> 00:46:11.639



guess I agree. I wonder if you do but you know,83000:46:11.880 --> 00:46:16.880



maybe these parents that you know willingly provide these weapons83100:46:16.960 --> 00:46:20.039



should be held accountable. Yes, you know, especially if you83200:46:20.119 --> 00:46:23.360



see signs that your child should not be having any83300:46:23.480 --> 00:46:24.559



access to a weapon.83400:46:25.360 --> 00:46:28.679



Sure, I was shooting. I was shooting with my family83500:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.840



when I was five six years old. You know. I83600:46:33.519 --> 00:46:36.760



my twenty two rifle that I still have. I've been83700:46:36.840 --> 00:46:40.760



shooting that thing for for over forty years. And I83800:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.119



was top gun safety. I mean, I you know, there83900:46:44.599 --> 00:46:48.519



there are are basic rules to this thing that you84000:46:48.719 --> 00:46:52.719



impart to kids, and kids are incredibly safe. I see84100:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.360



videos online where you know, where very young kids are84200:46:57.960 --> 00:47:00.679



firing weapons and people are freaked out about it. I'm like, no, no, no,84300:47:01.039 --> 00:47:03.239



that kid's not going to be the school shooter. You know.84400:47:03.360 --> 00:47:06.519



That's that's you don't You don't necessarily have to worry about.84500:47:06.960 --> 00:47:10.400



You know, these kids who understand, you know, gun safety84600:47:10.400 --> 00:47:14.920



and their parents are listening and working with them, and uh,84700:47:15.559 --> 00:47:16.719



you know, I agree.84800:47:16.760 --> 00:47:18.599



And there's there's there's high schools that have you know,84900:47:18.880 --> 00:47:20.360



school shooting teams that go compete.85000:47:21.079 --> 00:47:24.760



Yes, yes, again, I think those are those are the kids.85100:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.400



You you you it's a self selecting group, you know,85200:47:28.519 --> 00:47:30.639



you you don't have to write it, you know, and this.85300:47:30.760 --> 00:47:33.440



Is this was a sensitive topic obviously, and it's hard85400:47:33.440 --> 00:47:36.719



to it's hard to give a straightforward solution because everyone's85500:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.000



going to have a different view on it depending on85600:47:39.039 --> 00:47:42.639



their experience. But you know, it's a conversation to have,85700:47:43.239 --> 00:47:46.199



you know, and it's definitely worth bouncing ideas back and forth.85800:47:46.239 --> 00:47:48.599



I mean, I'll be straight up, I'm not against guns.85900:47:48.679 --> 00:47:51.239



I don't believe in abolishing or second moment right whatsoever.86000:47:52.119 --> 00:47:54.159



But you know, it is tragic when these things happen,86100:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.079



and it does make you question, like, well, what can86200:47:56.159 --> 00:47:58.599



we do to help alleviate the situation? What do we86300:47:58.679 --> 00:48:03.119



do to stop that? And and it's hard because I86400:48:03.159 --> 00:48:05.800



don't know what the solution is, and nobody ever wants86500:48:05.840 --> 00:48:08.679



to really, you know, come up with one that actually86600:48:08.719 --> 00:48:11.239



makes sense outside of, hey, take guns away from everybody.86700:48:11.599 --> 00:48:13.960



So you know that's not where we need to be either.86800:48:14.719 --> 00:48:18.159



Even but even if you don't, hypothetically you could snap86900:48:18.239 --> 00:48:21.880



your finger and and remove all all of the guns87000:48:21.920 --> 00:48:25.239



at once, then we instantly have a knife problem, well87100:48:25.800 --> 00:48:29.599



because because then you're you know, you've got a switchblade,87200:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.760



this guy's got a Samurai sword, and you know, I87300:48:32.920 --> 00:48:34.079



mean it's it's.87400:48:34.719 --> 00:48:37.039



Okay, sorry to cut you off, but I literally, I87500:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.119



literally did one an episode on this gun uh gun issue. Okay,87600:48:40.280 --> 00:48:43.159



And look, we take the UK, we take Australia for example,87700:48:43.159 --> 00:48:45.039



where there's no guns, and I've already had people come87800:48:45.079 --> 00:48:48.719



at me. But the stats are stats, regardless of taking87900:48:48.760 --> 00:48:54.199



guns away, their murder rate, homicide rate in Australia, the UK,88000:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.360



and in America. Now the numbers of people are different88100:48:57.400 --> 00:48:59.280



because we have three hundred and thirty million people versus88200:48:59.360 --> 00:49:01.360



let's say lesson one hundred million or six years, but88300:49:02.719 --> 00:49:08.480



one percent all three countries under one percent mass shootings88400:49:09.480 --> 00:49:11.760



in the USA, and you can get this information from88500:49:12.039 --> 00:49:16.079



Brady dot org, who is an anti gun violence organization.88600:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.719



Mass shootings account for less than one percent of gun deaths.88700:49:21.719 --> 00:49:26.760



Sixty percent of gun deests are actual suicides. So I'm88800:49:26.840 --> 00:49:30.800



not giving people that data to downplay, you know, school shootings.88900:49:30.880 --> 00:49:33.920



I mean, that's bad regardless, but if we're going to89000:49:34.000 --> 00:49:35.760



make decisions, we got to have all the data in89100:49:35.800 --> 00:49:39.119



front of us and be realistic about it. Oh.89200:49:39.159 --> 00:49:41.320



I think I think it's really important. I mean, whenever89300:49:41.400 --> 00:49:44.159



we talk about mass shootings, the only guns, you know,89400:49:44.199 --> 00:49:47.800



they're like assault rifles, assault rifles and mass shootings. It's like, okay,89500:49:47.880 --> 00:49:52.519



hold on a second, because school shootings are you want89600:49:52.559 --> 00:49:56.199



to talk about another tiny percentile. School shootings are one89700:49:56.320 --> 00:50:01.119



or two percent of mass shootings. The vast, overwhelmed majority89800:50:01.239 --> 00:50:04.079



of mass shootings happen all in the streets of Chicago89900:50:04.719 --> 00:50:09.519



and Washington, d C. And Oakland every single night with90000:50:09.679 --> 00:50:13.440



illegally obtained handguns that have nothing to do with any90100:50:13.599 --> 00:50:17.559



sort of stupid made up term assault rifle that doesn't90200:50:17.559 --> 00:50:21.159



even mean anything anyway. It's uh, No one wants to90300:50:21.239 --> 00:50:25.480



talk about the real mass shootings that are happening nightly.90400:50:26.199 --> 00:50:29.840



They only want to glom onto the school shootings because90500:50:30.119 --> 00:50:33.199



it serves a much greater purpose for you know, for90600:50:33.360 --> 00:50:36.599



this narrative going back to it's not about the school shootings,90700:50:36.639 --> 00:50:37.440



that's about the guns.90800:50:38.000 --> 00:50:40.239



And I'm agreeing with you. It's just it's just unfortunate90900:50:40.320 --> 00:50:41.960



kids do have to go through this, that it does91000:50:42.039 --> 00:50:44.360



come up, and when it does, I mean, of course91100:50:44.400 --> 00:50:47.320



you're gonna be scared, you know. Yeah, I don't think91200:50:47.400 --> 00:50:49.079



we had to go through that when we're going through school,91300:50:49.639 --> 00:50:52.519



you know, I don't I don't recall that happening. It91400:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.280



might have been like a distant you know, a distant91500:50:55.360 --> 00:50:57.719



event that we learned about. But it wasn't you know,91600:50:57.760 --> 00:51:00.199



I didn't have we didn't have shooting drills, you know.91700:51:00.440 --> 00:51:03.760



But i'd also i'd also let's, you know, let's let's91800:51:03.800 --> 00:51:07.280



look at some numbers. Though I'd love to see the number.91900:51:07.320 --> 00:51:09.079



I'd love to That's not the way I meant that92000:51:09.840 --> 00:51:12.039



it would be interesting to look at. I know, it92100:51:12.199 --> 00:51:12.760



just sounds bad.92200:51:13.119 --> 00:51:14.719



It doesn't understand kids.92300:51:16.480 --> 00:51:18.559



It would be really interesting to look at the number92400:51:18.840 --> 00:51:23.039



of kids that die in school shootings each year versus92500:51:23.119 --> 00:51:26.239



the number of kids that drown in a pool, versus92600:51:26.320 --> 00:51:29.559



the number of kids that overdose, versus the number of92700:51:29.760 --> 00:51:35.360



kids that that fall off a ladder and and you know,92800:51:35.519 --> 00:51:39.719



suffer a brain injury. I'm willing to bet these these92900:51:39.920 --> 00:51:44.039



common accidents that happen on a daily basis, happen in93000:51:44.119 --> 00:51:48.840



a much much greater magnitude than these school shootings that93100:51:49.280 --> 00:51:52.320



we're now freaking out the kids about at school, instead93200:51:52.360 --> 00:51:55.639



of going hey, when you're around a pool, you know,93300:51:55.960 --> 00:51:59.920



or saying saying, you know, freaking car accident, yes, yeah, yeah,93400:52:00.360 --> 00:52:02.760



so you know, are are we are? We trying to93500:52:02.800 --> 00:52:05.199



save lives or are we trying to freak kids out93600:52:05.719 --> 00:52:09.800



because we're not saving lives, but we are freaking kids out.93700:52:10.199 --> 00:52:13.320



So you know, what, what is it that we're trying93800:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.400



to accomplish. I'm I'm kind of running through my math93900:52:16.559 --> 00:52:18.679



and it doesn't seem like it's the thing you're saying.94000:52:21.199 --> 00:52:27.159



So you know, of course, it's terrible any anytime a kid,94100:52:27.519 --> 00:52:30.119



you know, a kid loses their life, it's it's terrible.94200:52:30.159 --> 00:52:35.039



I just there there are several several other ways that94300:52:35.159 --> 00:52:38.039



it happens on a much greater level that we spend94400:52:38.199 --> 00:52:40.760



zero time talking about the amount of the amount of94500:52:40.840 --> 00:52:45.280



kids just let's talk obesity alone. The amount of kids94600:52:45.320 --> 00:52:48.480



whose b m I is in the seventies now who94700:52:48.920 --> 00:52:52.039



this this will impact and follow them for the rest94800:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.119



of their lives. We're not going to talk about that,94900:52:55.480 --> 00:52:57.360



but we're going to talk We're going to talk about95000:52:57.360 --> 00:53:03.199



the school shootings because it's it's it hits that emotional button.95100:53:03.760 --> 00:53:06.840



It is there's no other place there's you know, like95200:53:06.920 --> 00:53:10.039



I said earlier, there's there's really no other spot that95300:53:10.119 --> 00:53:12.480



they can go after that's going to elicit this sort95400:53:12.519 --> 00:53:14.079



of emotional response.95500:53:13.880 --> 00:53:15.880



Right, So that's the reason that's exactly what it is,95600:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.079



and you know, most people don't want to remove themselves95700:53:19.800 --> 00:53:21.519



from the emotional side of it and just look at95800:53:21.519 --> 00:53:24.719



the data to make make decisions. But again it's it's95900:53:24.719 --> 00:53:28.519



a bad situation, we know it. But you know, again,96000:53:28.559 --> 00:53:31.400



these these conversations have to be had, but based on96100:53:31.679 --> 00:53:34.239



actual data and what's going on, and you know, just96200:53:34.320 --> 00:53:38.159



knee jerk reactions to enforced policies that will you know,96300:53:38.239 --> 00:53:40.679



affect the entire nation and in a real bad way,96400:53:40.760 --> 00:53:42.360



because it's never been proven that if you take the96500:53:42.400 --> 00:53:44.920



guns away from the citizens, that the government doesn't keep96600:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.960



trying to encroach on the rights. I mean, no matter96700:53:47.000 --> 00:53:48.480



where you go, it's happened. It's even happened in the96800:53:48.559 --> 00:53:51.719



UK within the last few years. Australia had happened during COVID.96900:53:52.920 --> 00:53:55.360



Canada is another situation, you know, another example. And then97000:53:55.400 --> 00:53:57.239



of course we have every country that turned communists. But97100:53:57.639 --> 00:54:00.840



you know, that's that's a whole nother conversation. Let's just97200:54:00.920 --> 00:54:02.719



go into the presidential election because I think, you know,97300:54:03.280 --> 00:54:04.280



I want to get you out of here. I know97400:54:04.360 --> 00:54:06.760



you have places to go here. What do you think97500:54:06.760 --> 00:54:07.719



about this year's election?97600:54:09.239 --> 00:54:15.559



Man, It's it's been unreal, Uh, you know, talk about97700:54:15.599 --> 00:54:19.800



living in a movie. I mean, we've had a a97800:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.440



sitting president drop out of the race unheard of. We've97900:54:23.480 --> 00:54:28.400



had a presidential candidate shot at an assassination attempt, unheard of.98000:54:28.639 --> 00:54:31.800



The VP is now taking the spot and is is98100:54:31.920 --> 00:54:38.079



completely dodging any sort of interviews and is so protected.98200:54:38.159 --> 00:54:43.039



You thought that Biden was protected before. Harris is is98300:54:43.280 --> 00:54:47.679



infinitely more protected. And she has just got the machine98400:54:47.920 --> 00:54:54.159



going full blast Kamala Palooza. It's I don't know what's98500:54:54.159 --> 00:54:57.239



gonna happen, Like we said, you know, I with the98600:54:57.360 --> 00:55:00.119



debate coming up, I don't need I'm still not one98700:55:01.199 --> 00:55:04.239



Harris Harris can be will still be the candidate, you know,98800:55:04.360 --> 00:55:07.280



And it's like, well that would be insane and unprecedented.98900:55:07.639 --> 00:55:11.519



What hasn't been insane or unprecedented over over the past99000:55:11.559 --> 00:55:16.360



two months. So there there is a uh uh uh99100:55:17.079 --> 00:55:18.480



you know, what do you what do you call it? There?99200:55:18.599 --> 00:55:22.199



They've done this before. There is there is proof of99300:55:22.559 --> 00:55:26.920



concept that they can dump their candidate pretty easily and99400:55:27.039 --> 00:55:30.480



within seven minutes fire up the campaign wagon for someone99500:55:30.719 --> 00:55:31.239



someone else.99600:55:31.800 --> 00:55:33.159



They definitely ran the stress test.99700:55:33.880 --> 00:55:37.360



Yes, So Kamala Harris is definitely under the gun. Because99800:55:37.679 --> 00:55:41.320



they'll they'll just drop her. They they had Biden for99900:55:41.960 --> 00:55:45.320



you know, forty some years. They they've been they've been100000:55:45.400 --> 00:55:48.760



supporting him, and they dropped him like nothing true. So Harris,100100:55:48.840 --> 00:55:51.719



they will have no problem doing it again because it's100200:55:51.960 --> 00:55:55.719



all about Orange Man bad. I mean, it's it's crazy100300:55:55.800 --> 00:55:56.800



because down to them, you.100400:55:56.800 --> 00:55:58.800



Know, as we said earlier, you know, we we have100500:55:58.960 --> 00:56:01.360



a we have a candidate that never went through a primary,100600:56:01.559 --> 00:56:05.639



was nominated not by any of the Democratic voters themselves.100700:56:06.639 --> 00:56:11.679



And beyond that, you know, I read something like Trump100800:56:11.960 --> 00:56:14.400



was Trump already did like let's say, thirty seven thirty100900:56:14.400 --> 00:56:17.480



eight interviews, all right, and then Kamala Harris just did101000:56:17.880 --> 00:56:20.039



one so far, and even that when she couldn't do101100:56:20.159 --> 00:56:21.800



on her own, she had to have Waltz there on101200:56:21.880 --> 00:56:24.159



her side to bail her out. And it was a101300:56:24.239 --> 00:56:25.400



softball interview.101400:56:25.519 --> 00:56:29.400



Free tape, softball interview. But the interviews that Trump's had101500:56:29.639 --> 00:56:32.440



there there. It really kicked off from me with the101600:56:32.519 --> 00:56:36.760



elon Musk And when Musk called it a conversation, I101700:56:36.880 --> 00:56:40.119



was like, ooh, that's good. And it was an important101800:56:40.199 --> 00:56:44.119



distinction because one, that's exactly what it was, and two101900:56:44.320 --> 00:56:47.719



I thought it was so humanizing for Trump. It was102000:56:48.320 --> 00:56:51.960



it was the least trumpy Trump had ever been, and102100:56:52.239 --> 00:56:54.679



it showed him like a human being. Agreed he was,102200:56:55.159 --> 00:56:59.239



he was tucking and that's that's what more people need102300:56:59.360 --> 00:57:03.199



to see. And it's it's hard to I mean, the102400:57:03.599 --> 00:57:05.519



never Trumps, the people who are out of their brain102500:57:05.639 --> 00:57:08.880



nothing you can do about them. But the people who102600:57:09.079 --> 00:57:12.679



are thinking about getting on board the Trump train for102700:57:12.840 --> 00:57:17.639



the first time, this is important to see him as102800:57:17.800 --> 00:57:21.400



someone who's not just this caricature because he is. He102900:57:21.559 --> 00:57:26.079



is a Donald Trump is a caricature of Donald Trump.103000:57:26.239 --> 00:57:31.800



You know. That's he's this big, bombastic guy, which which103100:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.079



is huge and helps him with a large percentage of103200:57:36.199 --> 00:57:40.679



the people, but there's also ten fifteen percent that that103300:57:40.800 --> 00:57:44.159



turns off. I think he can win them over because103400:57:44.239 --> 00:57:48.440



Harris is so bad, but it's those humanizing times and103500:57:48.559 --> 00:57:51.320



so those times where he goes, okay, I can identify103600:57:51.480 --> 00:57:52.800



with that guy, believe it or not.103700:57:53.079 --> 00:57:57.039



I think our problem, especially in this election, I mean,103800:57:57.119 --> 00:58:01.039



how can you It's not enough to have fifteen minutes103900:58:01.079 --> 00:58:04.559



to get your points across to the American public. You104000:58:04.800 --> 00:58:07.960



just can't fifteen minute interviews, even thirty minute interviews. Sometimes104100:58:07.960 --> 00:58:11.559



you're just not enough. And I like what Elon Musk104200:58:11.559 --> 00:58:13.760



did because it was the first time you had a104300:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.320



long form conversation with an actual presidential candidate. And I104400:58:17.360 --> 00:58:20.039



think that's what's needed, because the longer you talk, the104500:58:20.159 --> 00:58:23.360



more someone relaxes, and the more you're able to pull104600:58:23.440 --> 00:58:25.679



out their personality and what they really think about things.104700:58:26.480 --> 00:58:28.800



And I was in on that space. I got a104800:58:28.840 --> 00:58:30.440



seat on that, which was great because it was hard.104900:58:30.480 --> 00:58:31.679



There was a ton of people trying to get in,105000:58:32.360 --> 00:58:35.559



so I was lucky. I heard like, you were there too, right, So,105100:58:36.880 --> 00:58:39.280



but what was crazy is is listening to the entire105200:58:39.360 --> 00:58:42.880



conversation and then right after that people posting a bunch105300:58:42.920 --> 00:58:46.840



of nonsensical bullshit and added context stuff about what was said.105400:58:46.840 --> 00:58:49.719



And I'm like, I literally just listened to the whole conversation.105500:58:49.960 --> 00:58:52.880



That's not that's not what happened. And it's just another105600:58:53.079 --> 00:58:55.760



example of the big machine, right, just just being the105700:58:55.880 --> 00:58:58.159



machine working, you know, working the way it does to105800:58:58.280 --> 00:59:00.800



try to, you know, manipulate and steer people in the105900:59:00.840 --> 00:59:02.840



direction that they want them to go to win those votes.106000:59:03.199 --> 00:59:05.360



And it's unfortunate, and I think we need Kamala Harris106100:59:05.400 --> 00:59:07.239



to have a long form conversation. It doesn't have to106200:59:07.280 --> 00:59:08.920



be on us because she probably wouldn't do it, but106300:59:09.199 --> 00:59:11.960



someone needs to have her open up and get to106400:59:12.000 --> 00:59:12.880



know who she really is.106500:59:13.440 --> 00:59:17.320



With anyone do it with Don Lemon. Don Lemon is terrible,106600:59:17.719 --> 00:59:20.960



But over a two and a half hour period, you're106700:59:21.079 --> 00:59:25.000



going to run out of softball questions about her socks106800:59:25.320 --> 00:59:29.400



or you know, or anything else. You know, So maybe106900:59:29.440 --> 00:59:33.599



that was a Biden thing, but that's she inherited at all.107000:59:34.679 --> 00:59:37.480



So you know, it would it would be great. It's107100:59:37.840 --> 00:59:41.199



it's exposing and it's not. I don't I don't necessarily107200:59:41.280 --> 00:59:43.800



mean that in a bad way, exposing in a good way.107300:59:43.840 --> 00:59:46.079



And I think for Trump it absolutely was.107400:59:47.239 --> 00:59:48.400



We didn't know who we're dealing with.107500:59:48.599 --> 00:59:52.840



We really do, yes, But you know, all it's that107600:59:53.039 --> 00:59:55.039



ten or fifteen percent I talked about that are on107700:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.239



the fence with Trump. I I speak about them because107800:59:58.320 --> 01:00:01.320



I was that guy. I I was on the fence.107901:00:01.400 --> 01:00:03.800



I've I've talked about this. I never voted for Trump108001:00:04.400 --> 01:00:07.039



in twenty sixteen. I voted for Libertarian. In twenty twenty,108101:00:07.079 --> 01:00:10.920



I didn't vote for President. I thought that he was108201:00:11.039 --> 01:00:13.920



the better candidate, but I couldn't vote for Trump because108301:00:15.119 --> 01:00:17.199



he was he was just he was too he was108401:00:17.239 --> 01:00:21.239



too Trump for me. You know, I do I understand,108501:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.840



but you know, but now you know, there's there's no choice.108601:00:25.880 --> 01:00:28.079



This is you know, I've always hated when people say108701:00:28.119 --> 01:00:30.840



this because this is the most important election of our lifetime.108801:00:31.119 --> 01:00:33.559



This is actually the most important election of our lifetime108901:00:33.599 --> 01:00:34.480



for a lot of different reasons.109001:00:34.480 --> 01:00:36.320



It really feels that way this time though, right it109101:00:36.679 --> 01:00:38.039



really does so.109201:00:38.880 --> 01:00:42.840



But then when I see things like, uh, Trump made109301:00:42.840 --> 01:00:46.519



a post on truth social about the the AI crowd109401:00:46.599 --> 01:00:52.320



at Kamala Harris's at the airport hangar, and that kind109501:00:52.360 --> 01:00:56.599



of stuff just just does damage, you know, where it's like, look,109601:00:56.679 --> 01:00:58.840



that's that's not the case. And all of a sudden,109701:00:58.920 --> 01:01:04.199



I'm getting called a DNC shill because I'm I'm going109801:01:04.320 --> 01:01:07.800



against you know, going against what Trump said. And I'm like, no,109901:01:08.039 --> 01:01:10.920



you don't understand. This is this is an important election110001:01:11.039 --> 01:01:13.639



that I want to win. And if you're jumping on110101:01:13.800 --> 01:01:17.840



the wrong side of conspiracy theories, it's going to turn110201:01:17.960 --> 01:01:22.360



off that ten or fifteen percent. You know, I made110301:01:22.400 --> 01:01:24.920



a post a week or so ago where I had110401:01:25.719 --> 01:01:28.400



I was reregistering to vote in the state and instead110501:01:28.400 --> 01:01:35.360



of independent or no party preference. I selected Republican, first110601:01:35.400 --> 01:01:39.280



time i've i've in years. I posted and was like, oh,110701:01:39.440 --> 01:01:42.400



you know what, finally I can't remember exactly what the110801:01:42.679 --> 01:01:45.559



what the saying was, you know, but someone just left110901:01:45.559 --> 01:01:48.760



a shitty comment, you know, And I'm thinking, this is111001:01:48.840 --> 01:01:51.920



exactly what's keeping people away, right, you know, if I111101:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.920



were on the fence, and I'd be like, hey, man,111201:01:54.440 --> 01:01:57.679



I understand it's important. You know, I'm voting for Trump111301:01:57.760 --> 01:02:01.320



this time around. And half of that is like, oh, well,111401:02:01.360 --> 01:02:03.480



where have you been for eight years, you dick? And111501:02:03.559 --> 01:02:07.599



I'm like, well, oh, why are we doing this?111601:02:07.880 --> 01:02:09.800



If anyone's not the right response.111701:02:10.559 --> 01:02:12.960



Anyone coming to the party should be embraced. I don't hear.111801:02:12.960 --> 01:02:15.760



If you're Amber Rose, I don't care who you are.111901:02:16.440 --> 01:02:19.280



You're You're coming to the party, and you can either112001:02:19.320 --> 01:02:21.880



bring friends with you or you can tell your friends112101:02:21.920 --> 01:02:24.000



that I showed up to a MAGA party for the112201:02:24.079 --> 01:02:26.719



first time and they told me to go to go112301:02:26.880 --> 01:02:30.159



kick rocks. This is an important time where we could112401:02:30.199 --> 01:02:34.119



be We need to be embracing everyone coming to the party.112501:02:34.679 --> 01:02:37.960



And I'm not saying Trump shouldn't be Trump, but let's112601:02:38.039 --> 01:02:42.320



not let's not embrace all of the poison. You know112701:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.760



that that the left does. Kyle Rittenhouse had a different112801:02:45.800 --> 01:02:49.360



opinion for thirty seconds, and then the whole entire right112901:02:49.440 --> 01:02:52.320



side of the country turned on him. Uh. You know,113001:02:52.639 --> 01:02:55.800



it's don't don't be everything that we claim to hate.113101:02:56.440 --> 01:02:59.880



It's it will only serve to turn off the people113201:03:00.039 --> 01:03:01.679



who were thinking about voting for Trump.113301:03:01.760 --> 01:03:04.599



I think I think Trump he can't get out of113401:03:04.639 --> 01:03:07.840



his own way. He can't help himself, you know. And113501:03:08.039 --> 01:03:10.440



that's what people hated about him was, you know, remember113601:03:10.599 --> 01:03:13.079



mean tweets all that he puts his foot in his113701:03:13.159 --> 01:03:15.400



mouth a lot, he does. But I think I think113801:03:15.480 --> 01:03:17.880



principally he does care about the country and wants it113901:03:18.079 --> 01:03:20.159



to be you know, America, you know, as he says,114001:03:20.199 --> 01:03:22.760



make it, make America great again. I don't know how114101:03:22.880 --> 01:03:27.599



that that phrase ever became a negative, you know, but whatever.114201:03:28.760 --> 01:03:30.880



And just to your point, I mean, I was a114301:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.320



Democrat before. I was a Republican for years until one114401:03:34.400 --> 01:03:36.559



day the Democratic Party was no longer the Democratic Party.114501:03:36.719 --> 01:03:38.480



I one day I just loliped around. I was like this,114601:03:38.719 --> 01:03:42.800



I'm not sure what's happening anymore. And what's interesting about114701:03:42.800 --> 01:03:44.880



the selection is you have you know, like RFK Junior114801:03:44.960 --> 01:03:47.320



coming over and siding with Trump, still trying to figure114901:03:47.320 --> 01:03:49.320



out what's going there because he's not fully pulled out115001:03:49.440 --> 01:03:52.519



but just in swing states, okay, But at the same115101:03:52.599 --> 01:03:55.079



time he feels betrayed by his own party, which is115201:03:55.079 --> 01:03:56.920



the only reason he would do this. Same thing happened115301:03:56.920 --> 01:03:59.079



with Tulca Gabbard when she was running for president against115401:03:59.119 --> 01:04:02.880



Kamala Harris. She saw what they really were and decided, hey,115501:04:02.920 --> 01:04:06.280



I'm out as well. Yeah, so I can agree. I115601:04:06.320 --> 01:04:08.880



think yes, you know, based on all the signs and115701:04:08.920 --> 01:04:10.400



the stars out there in the sky and however, thing's115801:04:10.400 --> 01:04:13.199



aligning that this really could be the election of our115901:04:13.239 --> 01:04:15.960



time this year. It really does seem that way. And116001:04:16.079 --> 01:04:19.840



if you look at you know, the subversive comments and116101:04:19.880 --> 01:04:25.880



messaging from Kamlin Waltz, which are literally very borderline Marxist communists.116201:04:25.880 --> 01:04:27.280



To be quite honest, I mean, I'm not sure what116301:04:27.360 --> 01:04:32.559



an opportunity economy is. She's yet to explain that her stances,116401:04:32.800 --> 01:04:36.159



her stance on you know, gun policy, and she just116501:04:36.239 --> 01:04:37.880



put a there's just a vide that came out where116601:04:37.920 --> 01:04:40.199



she was literally standing if you're not policing your social116701:04:40.280 --> 01:04:44.840



media platforms and we're coming after you. I'm sorry that116801:04:45.119 --> 01:04:49.519



sounds like a pathway to maybe communism, maybe not, but116901:04:49.599 --> 01:04:50.719



definitely not what we are now.117001:04:52.880 --> 01:04:59.480



Yeah, it's I hope just because of the rate that117101:05:00.199 --> 01:05:02.719



all the stuff coming at this election, this one has117201:05:02.800 --> 01:05:05.159



to be the most important one ever, because I can't117301:05:05.239 --> 01:05:08.239



do this again in two years. It can't be more117401:05:08.280 --> 01:05:10.159



important than this one. In four years, it can't be117501:05:10.199 --> 01:05:14.039



more important than this one. I am hoping that people117601:05:15.159 --> 01:05:18.880



see through the veneer that is it is, that is117701:05:19.079 --> 01:05:23.159



Kamala Harris and the whole entire campaign. You know, jd117801:05:23.360 --> 01:05:26.519



Vance says, I'm gonna misquote it, but you know, he says,117901:05:26.559 --> 01:05:30.840



it's uh he he hates it that school shootings are118001:05:31.280 --> 01:05:35.280



you know, are happened in America. I can't remember what118101:05:35.360 --> 01:05:37.760



the quote was, but they totally just butchered his quote, and.118201:05:39.159 --> 01:05:40.400



I believe it was. I think you say it was118301:05:40.480 --> 01:05:45.360



it's unfortunate that this has become way alive. Yes, I118401:05:45.480 --> 01:05:47.719



hate that this has become a way of life, unfortunate.118501:05:47.920 --> 01:05:51.199



I hate yeah. Yeah, And they just said the first118601:05:51.239 --> 01:05:53.440



part of that sentence off and started yeah.118701:05:53.880 --> 01:05:58.639



Which which isn't isn't bad journalism, It's not being disingenuous.118801:05:58.719 --> 01:06:02.679



It's just a straight out line. There's nothing, there's nothing118901:06:02.760 --> 01:06:04.559



more to it than that. To the point that the119001:06:04.639 --> 01:06:07.239



AP took down their posts. They're like, oh, we're about119101:06:07.280 --> 01:06:10.559



to get community noted to death here and look like jerks.119201:06:11.239 --> 01:06:13.360



That post didn't last too long, No, but.119301:06:13.480 --> 01:06:16.039



It did with everyone else. Gavin Newsom's got it all119401:06:16.119 --> 01:06:20.480



of Kamala Harris's Harris wins and her campaign and they119501:06:20.639 --> 01:06:25.000



they've got it up. And the the even scarier beyond119601:06:25.159 --> 01:06:29.599



that is they post the video. True, they post the119701:06:29.800 --> 01:06:32.840



whole video when you watch it of jd Vance. They119801:06:33.800 --> 01:06:36.559



didn't put the context. They don't because they don't need to.119901:06:36.800 --> 01:06:39.480



That's what's scary. They just need to say what he120001:06:39.639 --> 01:06:42.320



said and their followers will beleeve it. They will run120101:06:42.400 --> 01:06:44.800



with it. It doesn't matter. They're not even if they120201:06:45.000 --> 01:06:48.159



watched the video, which they probably don't. They it's in120301:06:48.280 --> 01:06:50.360



their head that this is a way of life and120401:06:50.719 --> 01:06:51.480



and you run with it.120501:06:52.079 --> 01:06:54.880



Well, it's it's it's as it's you know, as they say.120601:06:56.360 --> 01:06:57.480



I mean, you get this from but I thought it120701:06:57.519 --> 01:07:00.360



was the Nazi Party. I'm not I'm not saying crutch120801:07:00.360 --> 01:07:03.000



the Nazis, by the way, but this saying does ring true? Now,120901:07:03.679 --> 01:07:07.679



if you tell a lie enough, it becomes a truth. Sure, ye,121001:07:07.960 --> 01:07:10.880



if you say then it does become the truth because121101:07:10.920 --> 01:07:12.519



people just learn to accept it.121201:07:12.760 --> 01:07:16.079



It just and and like the great George Castanza says,121301:07:16.159 --> 01:07:19.199



it's not a lie, you believe it. So it's yeah,121401:07:19.320 --> 01:07:22.519



they're they just they believe the lie. Tell it over121501:07:22.599 --> 01:07:25.079



and over and then people believe it. So it's uh,121601:07:25.559 --> 01:07:30.280



it's that that the George stands a Nazi. Uh connections121701:07:30.280 --> 01:07:31.639



away talking about it. I hope, like you said, we121801:07:31.679 --> 01:07:33.480



don't have to go through this again. And honestly, I121901:07:33.519 --> 01:07:36.840



want younger candidates. I'm I'm you know, and we need122001:07:36.920 --> 01:07:39.119



fresh blood. We need people who who actually have a122101:07:39.159 --> 01:07:44.119



pulse on what's going on. I think maybe Trump is122201:07:44.159 --> 01:07:44.719



the better option.122301:07:46.079 --> 01:07:49.360



Personally, I would like to have seen another Republican candidate,122401:07:49.440 --> 01:07:51.159



but I'm not going to fight what he stands for.122501:07:51.519 --> 01:07:51.679



You know.122601:07:51.960 --> 01:07:54.960



And listen, if if if he was, if he was122701:07:55.239 --> 01:07:58.079



not a good pick for the country, then I mean,122801:07:58.239 --> 01:08:01.199



why was he Why they try to assassinate them. I'm122901:08:01.239 --> 01:08:05.239



not saying who they are, but you know, oh, there.123001:08:05.280 --> 01:08:08.719



There is clearly a lot of people wildly concerned, and123101:08:08.920 --> 01:08:11.079



you know, I mean even the polls and the numbers.123201:08:13.039 --> 01:08:15.199



I'm I'm really excited for November.123301:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.239



You know, if he's going to reveal who killed JFK123401:08:18.439 --> 01:08:21.279



and reveal the Epstein list, which I don't know if123501:08:21.319 --> 01:08:22.920



he really will, but he's saying it.123601:08:23.560 --> 01:08:26.960



Yeah, I dumped the Epstein files. There was also another123701:08:27.239 --> 01:08:29.880



announce announcement. Oh, it was like the the Office of123801:08:30.920 --> 01:08:35.359



Government Accountability and Spending, you know, something to that effect,123901:08:35.520 --> 01:08:39.920



you know, put Elon in charge of government efficiency and124001:08:40.520 --> 01:08:44.640



I'm I'm all for it. I I will happily spend124101:08:44.680 --> 01:08:48.960



my taxes on teaching four million bureaucrats how to code124201:08:49.279 --> 01:08:53.760



or how to knit or some other some other business124301:08:53.880 --> 01:08:56.039



venture that they can make money off of. But it's124401:08:56.119 --> 01:08:58.960



not going to be sucking off the teat of taxpayers anymore.124501:08:59.079 --> 01:09:00.600



That would be wonderful.124601:09:00.760 --> 01:09:03.600



It's interesting. I hope people educate themselves before they actually vote.124701:09:03.640 --> 01:09:07.039



Stop voting with your feelings and actually vote with you know,124801:09:07.199 --> 01:09:09.159



the truth and the data that's out there to support,124901:09:10.279 --> 01:09:14.520



you know, the right way forward in America's got two125001:09:14.520 --> 01:09:17.319



cents on that. I think we got to get you125101:09:17.439 --> 01:09:22.119



out of here, Kevin. Yeah, yeah, we're at that time.125201:09:22.279 --> 01:09:25.319



So hey, listen, thank you this was This was a125301:09:25.479 --> 01:09:27.479



great conversation. I hope you had a good time yourself125401:09:27.560 --> 01:09:30.640



and absolutely stay in touch. Maybe we do this again.125501:09:31.199 --> 01:09:33.079



Yeah with that question, thanks so much for having me on.125601:09:33.199 --> 01:09:35.039



Awesome all right, Kevin, thank you, Let you go.125701:09:35.560 --> 01:09:36.560



You got to see next time.