Sept. 9, 2024

40 - SPECIAL GUEST, KEVIN DALTON

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I speak with our guest, Kevin Dalton. Kevin has a large social media presence, that he utilizes to share news and opinions on politics and current events. Kevin has previously run for Mayor of Los Angeles, and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Kevin's experience has made him critical of California's policies, as well as Governor Gavin Newsom. Kevin and I have a great discussion about California, Gavin Newsom, Aurora, Colorado, Gun Control, and the 2024 Presidential Election.

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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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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,

466
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but there is a lot that has been right.

467
00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:29.119
Well from what I can say about the protests, and

468
00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:31.720
this is this is pretty much I'm going to say

469
00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:33.599
fact because it's the only reason they would be doing

470
00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:36.599
that is because the local people that are in fear

471
00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:39.359
of the gang retaliating against them. I mean, let's not

472
00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:44.400
let's not be naive about that, right, So that'd be

473
00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:46.440
the only reason I can see that happen. Also, it

474
00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.079
went from one apartment building to two, and now you

475
00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:51.440
know there's newer reports that came out that confirmed there's

476
00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:52.039
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 through

512
00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:57.920
my people, I'm like, oh, there there are there are

513
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:00.960
dudes with guns. I'm gonna make a phone. Would not

514
00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:01.720
have been one.

515
00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:06.559
There was nine one one calls made in one lady

516
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:09.440
forgot her name, but she did report, and this was

517
00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:11.680
confirmed by CBS. They sent some reporters out there to

518
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:13.359
try to see, hey, is this really happening. They wrote

519
00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:15.960
a whole article on it, and she was told by

520
00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:18.039
the police that well, to respond to that, we would

521
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:20.200
need three to four people together to do that, and

522
00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:23.319
we're not going to do that because would pull resources

523
00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:26.359
away from you know, the other parts of the city. Yeah,

524
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:28.519
so it wasn't a priority to them. And I'm not

525
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:30.559
trying to beat them up. I'm just saying, you know,

526
00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:34.559
instead of trying to look good politically, just admit, hey,

527
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.559
there's an issue and help out your citizens. You know,

528
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.519
there's innocent people, they're just trying to live, which is crazy.

529
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.759
It's the same, you know, on a quasi different level.

530
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.240
But with all the street takeovers in California, you know,

531
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.319
there are citizens who were constantly put in a danger

532
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.519
and it's a problem. But it's a resource issue. You

533
00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:00.440
can't send one police officer over there. They try that,

534
00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:02.799
and the cop goes into the middle of it, and

535
00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:05.000
they mob his car and they smash out the window.

536
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:09.079
And now this cop has to desperately carefully get away

537
00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:11.920
without running into and over while he stays live. So

538
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:16.039
you know, unless you can get twenty or thirty officers together,

539
00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:19.279
you know, at this one intersection at this time, this

540
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.839
stuff is it's it's tough to police on a one

541
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:23.440
off it is.

542
00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:26.119
And that that what you just said is almost a

543
00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:27.319
daily occurrence in Oakland.

544
00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:32.720
Oh yeah, Oakland, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego's picking up

545
00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:36.799
a little bit. But Los Angeles, I mean it's especially La.

546
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:39.240
That just came out about one one isn't just happened

547
00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:39.559
in La.

548
00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:43.160
Oh They're I mean, the they are everywhere nightly to

549
00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:46.559
say the least, uh, you know, and it's it's not

550
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:50.559
just okay, these guys are doing donuts and then they

551
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:54.319
they leave and everyone everyone goes home. These guys are

552
00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:57.880
doing donuts, and then half the spectators going and loot

553
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:01.319
the a MPM that's at the adjacent station, and then

554
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:04.160
one of the cars is left in the intersection and

555
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:08.759
they like the damn thing on fire. So look, I'm

556
00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:11.960
a guy who I will fully admit I'm fairly sure

557
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.039
I'm out of the statute of limitations from God thirty

558
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.079
years ago now. But I used to street race. I

559
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:21.160
would go out to the city of Ontario and we

560
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:25.279
would go to Mission in Milliken and we would race

561
00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:29.920
for hours and hours on end. But here's what we

562
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:36.279
didn't do. We didn't block streets, we didn't loot ampms,

563
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:40.559
we didn't like cars on fire. We just went out, raced,

564
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:43.799
had a great time, and then went home. You want

565
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:46.240
to know how many times we shot at each other. None,

566
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.359
It's it was just a it was a different time.

567
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:52.039
So you know, I I'll post a video of a

568
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:55.480
street takeover, and someone will post a video of like

569
00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:59.200
greasers racing their their fifty seven bel airs and the

570
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:03.839
aqueduct of Los Angeles and like, same thing, just different decade.

571
00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:06.759
And it's like, no, this is not the same thing.

572
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:12.039
You've got drones firing fireworks at guys as they're doing

573
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:16.240
donuts in these street takeovers. This, this is not the

574
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:16.920
same thing.

575
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.319
It's gone crazy. And the only reason I laugh is

576
00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:21.359
because of the absurdity of it all. You know how

577
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:22.240
crazy it's gone.

578
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.559
Yes, well it's it is. It is like movie parody. Now,

579
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.640
if you were making a movie on how bad it

580
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:34.720
was in Los Angeles and you produced a street takeover

581
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:38.319
that happens every single night on the streets, they would

582
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:41.359
they be like, bro, stop this, this is this is nonsense.

583
00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:43.519
This you pulled this out of a Mad Max movie.

584
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.319
We're trying to be realistic. It's is, it's it is.

585
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:49.240
It's gone into parody now.

586
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.400
I sometimes think we are living in a movie, to

587
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:53.720
be quite honest.

588
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:58.559
And I'm I I I agree, we're we're somewhere. I'm like,

589
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.839
we're in either idiotcracy. I don't know, I don't know,

590
00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:06.640
but see, I think we're also like falling down. Also,

591
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:10.400
Michael Douglas from like the nineties, I don't know, I

592
00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:12.559
don't know if we've been to falling down or if

593
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.680
we're going to falling down, we're in the middle. I

594
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.279
think we're about to fall down. We're tripping right now.

595
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:22.160
And then and then I don't know how it ends.

596
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:25.319
It's either going to be Planet of the Apes or Terminator.

597
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:29.079
I don't know which one, but either the apes are

598
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:30.920
going to rise up or the machines are going to

599
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:33.640
rise up. I don't think they'll team up against us,

600
00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:35.759
but that that's not's the only way it ends. We

601
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.599
we are one thousand percent living in a movie.

602
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:42.160
Well, let's let's hope Elon Musk's inventions don't become software

603
00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:43.160
entre into sky net.

604
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:50.319
So it's you know, you never can tell everything seems

605
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.119
like a good idea until it's not. It does.

606
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.839
Right, Let's let's move on to some and the reason

607
00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:57.599
I'm going to ask you about this, And I know

608
00:33:57.680 --> 00:33:59.759
it's a sensitive thing, but the school shootings A just

609
00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:04.039
have and and it's good to tie into, you know,

610
00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:09.719
our conversation next on the election, obviously tying to Kamala.

611
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:12.280
I think you might see where I'm going with all

612
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:14.440
of this, but I do want to get your opinion

613
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:17.559
on school shootings in general. I mean, nobody agrees that

614
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:20.400
they're good or they should happen. I don't think anyone

615
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.039
should agree that that's a good thing. That's crazy.

616
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:24.880
But what do you?

617
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:27.719
What are your thoughts on that? And how? And this

618
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.159
is why I'm asking us because I hate that when

619
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:33.480
these tragic, these tragic events happen, it gets so politicized

620
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.519
and it's all about my side versure side, instead of

621
00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:39.840
just really come together and you know, caring about America

622
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:40.639
for America.

623
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:44.400
Right. Oh, yeah, there's ten people that are dead. What

624
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:45.960
color is the shooter? It just kills me.

625
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:48.000
It just kills me that they politicize this and use

626
00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:52.480
this as an opportunity to gain votes, and it's ridiculous.

627
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:53.760
What do you what's your thoughts on this?

628
00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:59.960
Well, it's it's to your point. I mean, I don't

629
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:04.800
what could be more terrible? Which is the point when

630
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:10.920
when these just absolute cowards go out and do this,

631
00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:14.760
they the the thought process is what could be the

632
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:16.880
worst thing I could do? And I don't. I don't

633
00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:19.039
know where else you could go after that would have

634
00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:26.719
the impacts as a school shooting. It's instantly politicized. You're right,

635
00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:31.840
And I think it's politicized because it's it has the

636
00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:35.639
sensitive subject of guns, but it's not about guns, but

637
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:39.880
we can make it about guns. The day after it

638
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.920
happened over in Boise, the school of the school district

639
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:49.920
had active shooter drills and it wasn't in my son's district,

640
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:52.079
which I was happy about because I never really thought

641
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.119
about it until now. My wife was telling me that

642
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:57.639
the mom's group she's in. She was like, yeah, well,

643
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.119
you know so, and so she's in kind she did

644
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:03.159
really well. She just you know, she hugged on the

645
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:07.400
teacher the whole entire time. And I'm like, why why

646
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.440
are we Why are we traumatizing these kids? Why why

647
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:15.119
are we putting them through this this thing that, as

648
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:20.920
unbelievably terrible as it is, is, the odds of it

649
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:25.679
happen are statistically insignificant. Yes, but we are freaking these

650
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:28.360
kids out. And now not only are we freaking these

651
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:31.639
kids out, we're freaking out the parents because the parents

652
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:34.039
are freaked out because the kids are freaked out, and

653
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.400
it becomes an issue not about school shooters, but the

654
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:40.599
guns that are causing their kids to be freaked out.

655
00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.519
You know, It's it all comes back back to a

656
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:48.760
gun issue. And I don't think For me, it's not

657
00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:52.519
an issue about guns. It's an issue of schools just

658
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:59.239
being the softest, greatest target to these cowards. Like I'm saying,

659
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:03.880
it's it's an open invitation for them to express their

660
00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:09.079
inner garbage, noess, and we give them the opportunity because

661
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.320
we can't fortify them, we can't make them safe, because

662
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:14.840
the way we make them safe is with guns. And

663
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:16.719
we go back to, well, these are the same things

664
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:19.000
that people are coming in and shooting with, so they're

665
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:25.159
obviously bad. It's it's it's not about the guns. I

666
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:29.360
have this crazy idea that I think can actually not

667
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:33.440
only really help school shootings, but solve another problem that

668
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:39.360
our country has, which is unemployed veterans. We have more

669
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:43.360
than four hundred thousand unemployed veterans in this country. Crazy.

670
00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:48.760
It's absolutely wild that people who signed their name, that

671
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:51.440
made a pledge to put their hand on their heart,

672
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:54.400
to lay down their life for this country they come

673
00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:56.920
back and we just give them the finger. We're all whatever, bro.

674
00:37:57.519 --> 00:37:59.679
Yes, And I know veterans, and I've had veterans in

675
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.239
my family, and you know they don't they don't all

676
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:05.239
come out the other side in a good way.

677
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:09.400
No, they don't or supported. And a lot of that

678
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:13.360
is because of lack of support. It it's lack of

679
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:17.440
a duty that you used to have and now you

680
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:19.920
were just left. My buddy was in for twenty four

681
00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:23.079
years and they handed him a pamphlet. They're like, do

682
00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:25.079
you want to start your own business? Do you want

683
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:28.719
to work for someone else? Have a great day? And

684
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:32.400
he was not prepared for the real world. I'm by

685
00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:35.760
no means am I saying that the military is like prison,

686
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:38.440
but it's the same thing. You can't just have someone

687
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:42.079
who's been incarcerated, who's been in this system, this you know,

688
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:44.280
has been in this thing that works the same exact

689
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:46.559
way for twenty years and go freedom. There you go.

690
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.480
You know, it's a shock, it's a shocked you individual.

691
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.800
You need purpose, you need you need this thing. So

692
00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:56.519
back to the school shootings, we also have two hundred

693
00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:02.920
thousand or so schools that that need protection. So we

694
00:39:03.559 --> 00:39:06.960
find these veterans, we obviously go through a vetting process

695
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.039
and make sure that you know that they're good, and

696
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:13.480
we give them purpose, We give them a school. And

697
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:16.199
this isn't a person walking around in fatigues with an

698
00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:20.800
M sixteen on their shoulder. This is Colonel Sally, who

699
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:23.280
served her country and now she's here just to keep

700
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:26.360
an eye on the place. She's you know, this is

701
00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:30.599
this is her school, and anyone who decides to do

702
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:35.000
this now knows that Sally's there. There's a Sally at

703
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:39.360
every school. There is a vet who pledged to lay

704
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:42.039
down their life, and they will do that for this school. Also,

705
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.519
I think you solved multiple problems at the same time.

706
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:48.719
We need the schools just can't be soft targets. You

707
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:51.079
know that if you come here, you are going to

708
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:56.440
face You're going to face instant, instant pushback. This isn't

709
00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:58.760
going to be a thing where we wait for twenty

710
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.079
minutes and we hope a resource officer shows up or

711
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:05.440
the police, and the police are more concerned with holding

712
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:08.000
back parents for running inside. We're not doing that. We've

713
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:12.199
got someone on the inside. And normally these people are

714
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:16.320
going to their school so they know they know this

715
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:20.360
person is here. You know, I think it does it

716
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.400
not solve the problem of this person who wants to

717
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:26.239
go shoot a place up. Now, it doesn't really solve

718
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:29.480
that problem, but it saves the schools. And if you

719
00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:31.920
walk into any bank in the country, there's a reason

720
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.719
why stuff is behind bars and it's safe and odds

721
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:39.119
there's a security guard there. It's because we know that

722
00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:42.199
we want to protect our money because people want to

723
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:46.400
come and take it, so we fortify that place. We

724
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:48.559
should do the same to schools. I'm not saying make

725
00:40:48.639 --> 00:40:51.159
it look like a prison. I'm just saying, let the

726
00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:53.960
bad guys know this isn't going to be as easy

727
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:54.679
as you want it to be.

728
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:56.920
Well, I mean, you make a point because you have

729
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:58.719
guards at retail stores.

730
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:00.239
Where.

731
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:02.360
Okay, so, and I don't I don't know how it

732
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:03.840
is an Idaho, and I don't know if they were

733
00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:07.559
doing this when you left California. But now schools, at

734
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:10.480
least I'm in the Central Valley, so out here I

735
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:12.119
can see it, and I think it's all a California.

736
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:15.000
They're all fenced off. Now, they're all fenced off, locked up.

737
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:15.920
You can't just walk in.

738
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.679
You can't see even here. They they had closed campuses everywhere. Where.

739
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:23.800
If you know, once once school is going, you have

740
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:26.880
to in theory, you know, go go through the office.

741
00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:29.239
I mean, these are five foot chain link fences. If

742
00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:31.079
someone wants to get over them, someone is going to

743
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:34.480
get over them. But but you know, I mean, no

744
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:38.159
one messes around anymore, you know, even even out here

745
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.480
where the you know, you'd think the odds of something

746
00:41:41.559 --> 00:41:46.119
like that happening, like I said, are are incredibly unbelievably small.

747
00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:50.880
But you know, you you have to take just basic precautions.

748
00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:54.800
Why why wouldn't you. We haven't gotten to the point

749
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:58.119
where you walk out of the Albertsons and you know

750
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:02.760
there's there's a security guard there. But but there is

751
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:06.360
a reason why the Brinks truck is driving around town

752
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:09.320
and it's got dudes with guns on their hips, because

753
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:11.440
they want to make sure that the money truck stay,

754
00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:14.239
that the money stays in the truck. That's that's you know,

755
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.960
go back to the old West, go back to the

756
00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:22.000
early the earliest days of man. We've been protecting the

757
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.039
important stuff. We should probably continue.

758
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:26.840
The school school should absolutely be protected. I mean, they

759
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:29.760
should have a police officer at every single school. And

760
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:32.639
you know, I know they have them out here and

761
00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:36.280
they're all armed. They're they're sworn in police officers, so

762
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:39.039
they're on site. They parked their vehicles very prominently, so

763
00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:44.119
you know there's someone there. But how someone could just

764
00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:47.440
sneak a gun in it's crazy. I mean, someone's not

765
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:50.639
paying attention from the get go. Sure, and these things

766
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:55.679
don't just happen, okay, there's usually signs that this is coming.

767
00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:58.920
And I think another issue we have with what's going

768
00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:01.760
on is our youth. Our children are being ignored. They're

769
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.000
not being paid attention to enough. You know, most most

770
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.639
children will reach out for help in their way, and

771
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:09.599
if you're not looking for that, which I believe is

772
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:15.199
the job of most educators, then you're probably just adding

773
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.559
to a bad situation. I mean, you should be able

774
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:20.639
to recognize when someone needs help and help that individual

775
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:22.440
and shouldn't get to the point it does where they

776
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:25.360
think that grabbing a gun and killing people is the

777
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:26.800
right solution for their lives.

778
00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.760
So well, I believe the FBI paid a visit to

779
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:33.079
this guy's house absolutely in twenty twenty three last year,

780
00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:36.360
So you know, not not only is it the kids

781
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:39.199
don't have a you know, they aren't being listened to.

782
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:44.400
Even when somebody calls the literal Federal Bureau of Investigation

783
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.960
send them to the house, they stop paying attention. You know.

784
00:43:48.519 --> 00:43:52.239
Somehow the FBI comes there, the dad still thinks it's

785
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:55.159
a good idea to go buy his son a rifle

786
00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:59.679
and you know, the dad's facing you know, for a

787
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.920
or not attempted murder or second degree murder whatever.

788
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:05.039
Second degree murder, which I can agree with because why

789
00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.159
would you why would you arm your kid with a

790
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:10.559
weapon when you know they have issues. In fact, in

791
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:14.280
twenty three, as you said, the FBI caught onto this

792
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:17.679
individual through rumors and whatever was going on, and they

793
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:19.440
looked into this person. I already knew theredy, knew that

794
00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:22.400
there was gonna be an issue. It was already reported.

795
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:25.360
So I mean maybe we, like you said earlier, we

796
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:27.559
put our tinfoil hat on and go, hmm, you know

797
00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:30.639
what's really going on? But yeah, I think I think

798
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:32.280
we need to pay attention to the kids more. Definitely,

799
00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:35.079
I'm not sure how you feel about more gun control.

800
00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:37.960
You know, in the end, you could take guns away.

801
00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:39.800
It's not going to stop criminals from being criminals. It's

802
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:41.239
not going to stop someone from buying something on the

803
00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:43.119
black market. There's always a way to get it, you know,

804
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:44.719
if you're determined, you're going to make it happen.

805
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:50.000
Yeah, without question, any any gun control is just taking

806
00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:53.880
guns away from from law abiding citizens. And I don't

807
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:57.320
think that that benefits the law abiding citizens at all.

808
00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:01.599
Criminals are going to criminal and you know it's uh,

809
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:04.480
you know, and whenever I say things like that, you're like, well,

810
00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:07.039
no speed limit, then just let everyone do what they want.

811
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:11.159
Why is there? Why is murdered illegal? And it's like quite,

812
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:14.239
you know, why why can we? Why can we? Why

813
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:17.079
do we have to have this disingenuous leaping off point?

814
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:17.400
You know.

815
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:23.320
It's there. There are bad people who are going to

816
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:26.679
do bad things. And I would I would love it

817
00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:29.280
if iron a bank, or if I were in a

818
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:34.079
school in some some criminal came in with a gun.

819
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:37.239
I would love it more than anything to have a

820
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.760
good guy with a gun right next to me. And

821
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:42.719
I think you can. You can talk to David Hogg

822
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:46.039
and he won't say that on X but if he's

823
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:50.199
in the bank and someone's a, hey, hold on, I

824
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.880
got your pack, he's going to be pretty happy about that.

825
00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:59.840
You know. It's it's more more gun control, is is

826
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:03.079
exactly that. It's just it's it's not going to it's

827
00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:05.000
not going to help out the people who need it.

828
00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:09.440
So no, you're right, and you know I and I

829
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:11.639
guess I agree. I wonder if you do but you know,

830
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:16.880
maybe these parents that you know willingly provide these weapons

831
00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:20.039
should be held accountable. Yes, you know, especially if you

832
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:23.360
see signs that your child should not be having any

833
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:24.559
access to a weapon.

834
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:28.679
Sure, I was shooting. I was shooting with my family

835
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.840
when I was five six years old. You know. I

836
00:46:33.519 --> 00:46:36.760
my twenty two rifle that I still have. I've been

837
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:40.760
shooting that thing for for over forty years. And I

838
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.119
was top gun safety. I mean, I you know, there

839
00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:48.519
there are are basic rules to this thing that you

840
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:52.719
impart to kids, and kids are incredibly safe. I see

841
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.360
videos online where you know, where very young kids are

842
00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:00.679
firing weapons and people are freaked out about it. I'm like, no, no, no,

843
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:03.239
that kid's not going to be the school shooter. You know.

844
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:06.519
That's that's you don't You don't necessarily have to worry about.

845
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:10.400
You know, these kids who understand, you know, gun safety

846
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:14.920
and their parents are listening and working with them, and uh,

847
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:16.719
you know, I agree.

848
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:18.599
And there's there's there's high schools that have you know,

849
00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:20.360
school shooting teams that go compete.

850
00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:24.760
Yes, yes, again, I think those are those are the kids.

851
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.400
You you you it's a self selecting group, you know,

852
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:30.639
you you don't have to write it, you know, and this.

853
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:33.440
Is this was a sensitive topic obviously, and it's hard

854
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:36.719
to it's hard to give a straightforward solution because everyone's

855
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.000
going to have a different view on it depending on

856
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:42.639
their experience. But you know, it's a conversation to have,

857
00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:46.199
you know, and it's definitely worth bouncing ideas back and forth.

858
00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:48.599
I mean, I'll be straight up, I'm not against guns.

859
00:47:48.679 --> 00:47:51.239
I don't believe in abolishing or second moment right whatsoever.

860
00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:54.159
But you know, it is tragic when these things happen,

861
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.079
and it does make you question, like, well, what can

862
00:47:56.159 --> 00:47:58.599
we do to help alleviate the situation? What do we

863
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:03.119
do to stop that? And and it's hard because I

864
00:48:03.159 --> 00:48:05.800
don't know what the solution is, and nobody ever wants

865
00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:08.679
to really, you know, come up with one that actually

866
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:11.239
makes sense outside of, hey, take guns away from everybody.

867
00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:13.960
So you know that's not where we need to be either.

868
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:18.159
Even but even if you don't, hypothetically you could snap

869
00:48:18.239 --> 00:48:21.880
your finger and and remove all all of the guns

870
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:25.239
at once, then we instantly have a knife problem, well

871
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:29.599
because because then you're you know, you've got a switchblade,

872
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.760
this guy's got a Samurai sword, and you know, I

873
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:34.079
mean it's it's.

874
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:37.039
Okay, sorry to cut you off, but I literally, I

875
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.119
literally did one an episode on this gun uh gun issue. Okay,

876
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:43.159
And look, we take the UK, we take Australia for example,

877
00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:45.039
where there's no guns, and I've already had people come

878
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:48.719
at me. But the stats are stats, regardless of taking

879
00:48:48.760 --> 00:48:54.199
guns away, their murder rate, homicide rate in Australia, the UK,

880
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.360
and in America. Now the numbers of people are different

881
00:48:57.400 --> 00:48:59.280
because we have three hundred and thirty million people versus

882
00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:01.360
let's say lesson one hundred million or six years, but

883
00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:08.480
one percent all three countries under one percent mass shootings

884
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:11.760
in the USA, and you can get this information from

885
00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:16.079
Brady dot org, who is an anti gun violence organization.

886
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.719
Mass shootings account for less than one percent of gun deaths.

887
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:26.760
Sixty percent of gun deests are actual suicides. So I'm

888
00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:30.800
not giving people that data to downplay, you know, school shootings.

889
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:33.920
I mean, that's bad regardless, but if we're going to

890
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:35.760
make decisions, we got to have all the data in

891
00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:39.119
front of us and be realistic about it. Oh.

892
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:41.320
I think I think it's really important. I mean, whenever

893
00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:44.159
we talk about mass shootings, the only guns, you know,

894
00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:47.800
they're like assault rifles, assault rifles and mass shootings. It's like, okay,

895
00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:52.519
hold on a second, because school shootings are you want

896
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:56.199
to talk about another tiny percentile. School shootings are one

897
00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:01.119
or two percent of mass shootings. The vast, overwhelmed majority

898
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:04.079
of mass shootings happen all in the streets of Chicago

899
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:09.519
and Washington, d C. And Oakland every single night with

900
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:13.440
illegally obtained handguns that have nothing to do with any

901
00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:17.559
sort of stupid made up term assault rifle that doesn't

902
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:21.159
even mean anything anyway. It's uh, No one wants to

903
00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:25.480
talk about the real mass shootings that are happening nightly.

904
00:50:26.199 --> 00:50:29.840
They only want to glom onto the school shootings because

905
00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:33.199
it serves a much greater purpose for you know, for

906
00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:36.599
this narrative going back to it's not about the school shootings,

907
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:37.440
that's about the guns.

908
00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:40.239
And I'm agreeing with you. It's just it's just unfortunate

909
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:41.960
kids do have to go through this, that it does

910
00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:44.360
come up, and when it does, I mean, of course

911
00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:47.320
you're gonna be scared, you know. Yeah, I don't think

912
00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:49.079
we had to go through that when we're going through school,

913
00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:52.519
you know, I don't I don't recall that happening. It

914
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.280
might have been like a distant you know, a distant

915
00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:57.719
event that we learned about. But it wasn't you know,

916
00:50:57.760 --> 00:51:00.199
I didn't have we didn't have shooting drills, you know.

917
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:03.760
But i'd also i'd also let's, you know, let's let's

918
00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:07.280
look at some numbers. Though I'd love to see the number.

919
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:09.079
I'd love to That's not the way I meant that

920
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:12.039
it would be interesting to look at. I know, it

921
00:51:12.199 --> 00:51:12.760
just sounds bad.

922
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:14.719
It doesn't understand kids.

923
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:18.559
It would be really interesting to look at the number

924
00:51:18.840 --> 00:51:23.039
of kids that die in school shootings each year versus

925
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:26.239
the number of kids that drown in a pool, versus

926
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:29.559
the number of kids that overdose, versus the number of

927
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:35.360
kids that that fall off a ladder and and you know,

928
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:39.719
suffer a brain injury. I'm willing to bet these these

929
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:44.039
common accidents that happen on a daily basis, happen in

930
00:51:44.119 --> 00:51:48.840
a much much greater magnitude than these school shootings that

931
00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:52.320
we're now freaking out the kids about at school, instead

932
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:55.639
of going hey, when you're around a pool, you know,

933
00:51:55.960 --> 00:51:59.920
or saying saying, you know, freaking car accident, yes, yeah, yeah,

934
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:02.760
so you know, are are we are? We trying to

935
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:05.199
save lives or are we trying to freak kids out

936
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:09.800
because we're not saving lives, but we are freaking kids out.

937
00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:13.320
So you know, what, what is it that we're trying

938
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.400
to accomplish. I'm I'm kind of running through my math

939
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:18.679
and it doesn't seem like it's the thing you're saying.

940
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:27.159
So you know, of course, it's terrible any anytime a kid,

941
00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:30.119
you know, a kid loses their life, it's it's terrible.

942
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:35.039
I just there there are several several other ways that

943
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:38.039
it happens on a much greater level that we spend

944
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:40.760
zero time talking about the amount of the amount of

945
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:45.280
kids just let's talk obesity alone. The amount of kids

946
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:48.480
whose b m I is in the seventies now who

947
00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:52.039
this this will impact and follow them for the rest

948
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.119
of their lives. We're not going to talk about that,

949
00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:57.360
but we're going to talk We're going to talk about

950
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:03.199
the school shootings because it's it's it hits that emotional button.

951
00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:06.840
It is there's no other place there's you know, like

952
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:10.039
I said earlier, there's there's really no other spot that

953
00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:12.480
they can go after that's going to elicit this sort

954
00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:14.079
of emotional response.

955
00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:15.880
Right, So that's the reason that's exactly what it is,

956
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.079
and you know, most people don't want to remove themselves

957
00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:21.519
from the emotional side of it and just look at

958
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:24.719
the data to make make decisions. But again it's it's

959
00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:28.519
a bad situation, we know it. But you know, again,

960
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:31.400
these these conversations have to be had, but based on

961
00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:34.239
actual data and what's going on, and you know, just

962
00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:38.159
knee jerk reactions to enforced policies that will you know,

963
00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:40.679
affect the entire nation and in a real bad way,

964
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:42.360
because it's never been proven that if you take the

965
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:44.920
guns away from the citizens, that the government doesn't keep

966
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.960
trying to encroach on the rights. I mean, no matter

967
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:48.480
where you go, it's happened. It's even happened in the

968
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:51.719
UK within the last few years. Australia had happened during COVID.

969
00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:55.360
Canada is another situation, you know, another example. And then

970
00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:57.239
of course we have every country that turned communists. But

971
00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:00.840
you know, that's that's a whole nother conversation. Let's just

972
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:02.719
go into the presidential election because I think, you know,

973
00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:04.280
I want to get you out of here. I know

974
00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:06.760
you have places to go here. What do you think

975
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:07.719
about this year's election?

976
00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:15.559
Man, It's it's been unreal, Uh, you know, talk about

977
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:19.800
living in a movie. I mean, we've had a a

978
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.440
sitting president drop out of the race unheard of. We've

979
00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:28.400
had a presidential candidate shot at an assassination attempt, unheard of.

980
00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:31.800
The VP is now taking the spot and is is

981
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:38.079
completely dodging any sort of interviews and is so protected.

982
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:43.039
You thought that Biden was protected before. Harris is is

983
00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:47.679
infinitely more protected. And she has just got the machine

984
00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:54.159
going full blast Kamala Palooza. It's I don't know what's

985
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:57.239
gonna happen, Like we said, you know, I with the

986
00:54:57.360 --> 00:55:00.119
debate coming up, I don't need I'm still not one

987
00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:04.239
Harris Harris can be will still be the candidate, you know,

988
00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:07.280
And it's like, well that would be insane and unprecedented.

989
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:11.519
What hasn't been insane or unprecedented over over the past

990
00:55:11.559 --> 00:55:16.360
two months. So there there is a uh uh uh

991
00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:18.480
you know, what do you what do you call it? There?

992
00:55:18.599 --> 00:55:22.199
They've done this before. There is there is proof of

993
00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:26.920
concept that they can dump their candidate pretty easily and

994
00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:30.480
within seven minutes fire up the campaign wagon for someone

995
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:31.239
someone else.

996
00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:33.159
They definitely ran the stress test.

997
00:55:33.880 --> 00:55:37.360
Yes, So Kamala Harris is definitely under the gun. Because

998
00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:41.320
they'll they'll just drop her. They they had Biden for

999
00:55:41.960 --> 00:55:45.320
you know, forty some years. They they've been they've been

1000
00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:48.760
supporting him, and they dropped him like nothing true. So Harris,

1001
00:55:48.840 --> 00:55:51.719
they will have no problem doing it again because it's

1002
00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:55.719
all about Orange Man bad. I mean, it's it's crazy

1003
00:55:55.800 --> 00:55:56.800
because down to them, you.

1004
00:55:56.800 --> 00:55:58.800
Know, as we said earlier, you know, we we have

1005
00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:01.360
a we have a candidate that never went through a primary,

1006
00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:05.639
was nominated not by any of the Democratic voters themselves.

1007
00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:11.679
And beyond that, you know, I read something like Trump

1008
00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:14.400
was Trump already did like let's say, thirty seven thirty

1009
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:17.480
eight interviews, all right, and then Kamala Harris just did

1010
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:20.039
one so far, and even that when she couldn't do

1011
00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:21.800
on her own, she had to have Waltz there on

1012
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:24.159
her side to bail her out. And it was a

1013
00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:25.400
softball interview.

1014
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:29.400
Free tape, softball interview. But the interviews that Trump's had

1015
00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:32.440
there there. It really kicked off from me with the

1016
00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:36.760
elon Musk And when Musk called it a conversation, I

1017
00:56:36.880 --> 00:56:40.119
was like, ooh, that's good. And it was an important

1018
00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:44.119
distinction because one, that's exactly what it was, and two

1019
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:47.719
I thought it was so humanizing for Trump. It was

1020
00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:51.960
it was the least trumpy Trump had ever been, and

1021
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:54.679
it showed him like a human being. Agreed he was,

1022
00:56:55.159 --> 00:56:59.239
he was tucking and that's that's what more people need

1023
00:56:59.360 --> 00:57:03.199
to see. And it's it's hard to I mean, the

1024
00:57:03.599 --> 00:57:05.519
never Trumps, the people who are out of their brain

1025
00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:08.880
nothing you can do about them. But the people who

1026
00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:12.679
are thinking about getting on board the Trump train for

1027
00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:17.639
the first time, this is important to see him as

1028
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:21.400
someone who's not just this caricature because he is. He

1029
00:57:21.559 --> 00:57:26.079
is a Donald Trump is a caricature of Donald Trump.

1030
00:57:26.239 --> 00:57:31.800
You know. That's he's this big, bombastic guy, which which

1031
00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.079
is huge and helps him with a large percentage of

1032
00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:40.679
the people, but there's also ten fifteen percent that that

1033
00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:44.159
turns off. I think he can win them over because

1034
00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:48.440
Harris is so bad, but it's those humanizing times and

1035
00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:51.320
so those times where he goes, okay, I can identify

1036
00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:52.800
with that guy, believe it or not.

1037
00:57:53.079 --> 00:57:57.039
I think our problem, especially in this election, I mean,

1038
00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:01.039
how can you It's not enough to have fifteen minutes

1039
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:04.559
to get your points across to the American public. You

1040
00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:07.960
just can't fifteen minute interviews, even thirty minute interviews. Sometimes

1041
00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:11.559
you're just not enough. And I like what Elon Musk

1042
00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:13.760
did because it was the first time you had a

1043
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.320
long form conversation with an actual presidential candidate. And I

1044
00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:20.039
think that's what's needed, because the longer you talk, the

1045
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:23.360
more someone relaxes, and the more you're able to pull

1046
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:25.679
out their personality and what they really think about things.

1047
00:58:26.480 --> 00:58:28.800
And I was in on that space. I got a

1048
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:30.440
seat on that, which was great because it was hard.

1049
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:31.679
There was a ton of people trying to get in,

1050
00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:35.559
so I was lucky. I heard like, you were there too, right, So,

1051
00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:39.280
but what was crazy is is listening to the entire

1052
00:58:39.360 --> 00:58:42.880
conversation and then right after that people posting a bunch

1053
00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:46.840
of nonsensical bullshit and added context stuff about what was said.

1054
00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:49.719
And I'm like, I literally just listened to the whole conversation.

1055
00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:52.880
That's not that's not what happened. And it's just another

1056
00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:55.760
example of the big machine, right, just just being the

1057
00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:58.159
machine working, you know, working the way it does to

1058
00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:00.800
try to, you know, manipulate and steer people in the

1059
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:02.840
direction that they want them to go to win those votes.

1060
00:59:03.199 --> 00:59:05.360
And it's unfortunate, and I think we need Kamala Harris

1061
00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:07.239
to have a long form conversation. It doesn't have to

1062
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:08.920
be on us because she probably wouldn't do it, but

1063
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:11.960
someone needs to have her open up and get to

1064
00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:12.880
know who she really is.

1065
00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:17.320
With anyone do it with Don Lemon. Don Lemon is terrible,

1066
00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:20.960
But over a two and a half hour period, you're

1067
00:59:21.079 --> 00:59:25.000
going to run out of softball questions about her socks

1068
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:29.400
or you know, or anything else. You know, So maybe

1069
00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:33.599
that was a Biden thing, but that's she inherited at all.

1070
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:37.480
So you know, it would it would be great. It's

1071
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:41.199
it's exposing and it's not. I don't I don't necessarily

1072
00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:43.800
mean that in a bad way, exposing in a good way.

1073
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:46.079
And I think for Trump it absolutely was.

1074
00:59:47.239 --> 00:59:48.400
We didn't know who we're dealing with.

1075
00:59:48.599 --> 00:59:52.840
We really do, yes, But you know, all it's that

1076
00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:55.039
ten or fifteen percent I talked about that are on

1077
00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.239
the fence with Trump. I I speak about them because

1078
00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:01.320
I was that guy. I I was on the fence.

1079
01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:03.800
I've I've talked about this. I never voted for Trump

1080
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:07.039
in twenty sixteen. I voted for Libertarian. In twenty twenty,

1081
01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:10.920
I didn't vote for President. I thought that he was

1082
01:00:11.039 --> 01:00:13.920
the better candidate, but I couldn't vote for Trump because

1083
01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:17.199
he was he was just he was too he was

1084
01:00:17.239 --> 01:00:21.239
too Trump for me. You know, I do I understand,

1085
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.840
but you know, but now you know, there's there's no choice.

1086
01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:28.079
This is you know, I've always hated when people say

1087
01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:30.840
this because this is the most important election of our lifetime.

1088
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:33.559
This is actually the most important election of our lifetime

1089
01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:34.480
for a lot of different reasons.

1090
01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:36.320
It really feels that way this time though, right it

1091
01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:38.039
really does so.

1092
01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:42.840
But then when I see things like, uh, Trump made

1093
01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:46.519
a post on truth social about the the AI crowd

1094
01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:52.320
at Kamala Harris's at the airport hangar, and that kind

1095
01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:56.599
of stuff just just does damage, you know, where it's like, look,

1096
01:00:56.679 --> 01:00:58.840
that's that's not the case. And all of a sudden,

1097
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:04.199
I'm getting called a DNC shill because I'm I'm going

1098
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:07.800
against you know, going against what Trump said. And I'm like, no,

1099
01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:10.920
you don't understand. This is this is an important election

1100
01:01:11.039 --> 01:01:13.639
that I want to win. And if you're jumping on

1101
01:01:13.800 --> 01:01:17.840
the wrong side of conspiracy theories, it's going to turn

1102
01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:22.360
off that ten or fifteen percent. You know, I made

1103
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:24.920
a post a week or so ago where I had

1104
01:01:25.719 --> 01:01:28.400
I was reregistering to vote in the state and instead

1105
01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:35.360
of independent or no party preference. I selected Republican, first

1106
01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:39.280
time i've i've in years. I posted and was like, oh,

1107
01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:42.400
you know what, finally I can't remember exactly what the

1108
01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:45.559
what the saying was, you know, but someone just left

1109
01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:48.760
a shitty comment, you know, And I'm thinking, this is

1110
01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:51.920
exactly what's keeping people away, right, you know, if I

1111
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.920
were on the fence, and I'd be like, hey, man,

1112
01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:57.679
I understand it's important. You know, I'm voting for Trump

1113
01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:01.320
this time around. And half of that is like, oh, well,

1114
01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:03.480
where have you been for eight years, you dick? And

1115
01:02:03.559 --> 01:02:07.599
I'm like, well, oh, why are we doing this?

1116
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:09.800
If anyone's not the right response.

1117
01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:12.960
Anyone coming to the party should be embraced. I don't hear.

1118
01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:15.760
If you're Amber Rose, I don't care who you are.

1119
01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:19.280
You're You're coming to the party, and you can either

1120
01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:21.880
bring friends with you or you can tell your friends

1121
01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:24.000
that I showed up to a MAGA party for the

1122
01:02:24.079 --> 01:02:26.719
first time and they told me to go to go

1123
01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:30.159
kick rocks. This is an important time where we could

1124
01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:34.119
be We need to be embracing everyone coming to the party.

1125
01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:37.960
And I'm not saying Trump shouldn't be Trump, but let's

1126
01:02:38.039 --> 01:02:42.320
not let's not embrace all of the poison. You know

1127
01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.760
that that the left does. Kyle Rittenhouse had a different

1128
01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:49.360
opinion for thirty seconds, and then the whole entire right

1129
01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:52.320
side of the country turned on him. Uh. You know,

1130
01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:55.800
it's don't don't be everything that we claim to hate.

1131
01:02:56.440 --> 01:02:59.880
It's it will only serve to turn off the people

1132
01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:01.679
who were thinking about voting for Trump.

1133
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:04.599
I think I think Trump he can't get out of

1134
01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:07.840
his own way. He can't help himself, you know. And

1135
01:03:08.039 --> 01:03:10.440
that's what people hated about him was, you know, remember

1136
01:03:10.599 --> 01:03:13.079
mean tweets all that he puts his foot in his

1137
01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:15.400
mouth a lot, he does. But I think I think

1138
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:17.880
principally he does care about the country and wants it

1139
01:03:18.079 --> 01:03:20.159
to be you know, America, you know, as he says,

1140
01:03:20.199 --> 01:03:22.760
make it, make America great again. I don't know how

1141
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:27.599
that that phrase ever became a negative, you know, but whatever.

1142
01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:30.880
And just to your point, I mean, I was a

1143
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.320
Democrat before. I was a Republican for years until one

1144
01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:36.559
day the Democratic Party was no longer the Democratic Party.

1145
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:38.480
I one day I just loliped around. I was like this,

1146
01:03:38.719 --> 01:03:42.800
I'm not sure what's happening anymore. And what's interesting about

1147
01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:44.880
the selection is you have you know, like RFK Junior

1148
01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:47.320
coming over and siding with Trump, still trying to figure

1149
01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:49.320
out what's going there because he's not fully pulled out

1150
01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:52.519
but just in swing states, okay, But at the same

1151
01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:55.079
time he feels betrayed by his own party, which is

1152
01:03:55.079 --> 01:03:56.920
the only reason he would do this. Same thing happened

1153
01:03:56.920 --> 01:03:59.079
with Tulca Gabbard when she was running for president against

1154
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:02.880
Kamala Harris. She saw what they really were and decided, hey,

1155
01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:06.280
I'm out as well. Yeah, so I can agree. I

1156
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:08.880
think yes, you know, based on all the signs and

1157
01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:10.400
the stars out there in the sky and however, thing's

1158
01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:13.199
aligning that this really could be the election of our

1159
01:04:13.239 --> 01:04:15.960
time this year. It really does seem that way. And

1160
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:19.840
if you look at you know, the subversive comments and

1161
01:04:19.880 --> 01:04:25.880
messaging from Kamlin Waltz, which are literally very borderline Marxist communists.

1162
01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:27.280
To be quite honest, I mean, I'm not sure what

1163
01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:32.559
an opportunity economy is. She's yet to explain that her stances,

1164
01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:36.159
her stance on you know, gun policy, and she just

1165
01:04:36.239 --> 01:04:37.880
put a there's just a vide that came out where

1166
01:04:37.920 --> 01:04:40.199
she was literally standing if you're not policing your social

1167
01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:44.840
media platforms and we're coming after you. I'm sorry that

1168
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:49.519
sounds like a pathway to maybe communism, maybe not, but

1169
01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:50.719
definitely not what we are now.

1170
01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:59.480
Yeah, it's I hope just because of the rate that

1171
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:02.719
all the stuff coming at this election, this one has

1172
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:05.159
to be the most important one ever, because I can't

1173
01:05:05.239 --> 01:05:08.239
do this again in two years. It can't be more

1174
01:05:08.280 --> 01:05:10.159
important than this one. In four years, it can't be

1175
01:05:10.199 --> 01:05:14.039
more important than this one. I am hoping that people

1176
01:05:15.159 --> 01:05:18.880
see through the veneer that is it is, that is

1177
01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:23.159
Kamala Harris and the whole entire campaign. You know, jd

1178
01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:26.519
Vance says, I'm gonna misquote it, but you know, he says,

1179
01:05:26.559 --> 01:05:30.840
it's uh he he hates it that school shootings are

1180
01:05:31.280 --> 01:05:35.280
you know, are happened in America. I can't remember what

1181
01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:37.760
the quote was, but they totally just butchered his quote, and.

1182
01:05:39.159 --> 01:05:40.400
I believe it was. I think you say it was

1183
01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:45.360
it's unfortunate that this has become way alive. Yes, I

1184
01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:47.719
hate that this has become a way of life, unfortunate.

1185
01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:51.199
I hate yeah. Yeah, And they just said the first

1186
01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:53.440
part of that sentence off and started yeah.

1187
01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:58.639
Which which isn't isn't bad journalism, It's not being disingenuous.

1188
01:05:58.719 --> 01:06:02.679
It's just a straight out line. There's nothing, there's nothing

1189
01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:04.559
more to it than that. To the point that the

1190
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:07.239
AP took down their posts. They're like, oh, we're about

1191
01:06:07.280 --> 01:06:10.559
to get community noted to death here and look like jerks.

1192
01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:13.360
That post didn't last too long, No, but.

1193
01:06:13.480 --> 01:06:16.039
It did with everyone else. Gavin Newsom's got it all

1194
01:06:16.119 --> 01:06:20.480
of Kamala Harris's Harris wins and her campaign and they

1195
01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:25.000
they've got it up. And the the even scarier beyond

1196
01:06:25.159 --> 01:06:29.599
that is they post the video. True, they post the

1197
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:32.840
whole video when you watch it of jd Vance. They

1198
01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:36.559
didn't put the context. They don't because they don't need to.

1199
01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:39.480
That's what's scary. They just need to say what he

1200
01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:42.320
said and their followers will beleeve it. They will run

1201
01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:44.800
with it. It doesn't matter. They're not even if they

1202
01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:48.159
watched the video, which they probably don't. They it's in

1203
01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:50.360
their head that this is a way of life and

1204
01:06:50.719 --> 01:06:51.480
and you run with it.

1205
01:06:52.079 --> 01:06:54.880
Well, it's it's it's as it's you know, as they say.

1206
01:06:56.360 --> 01:06:57.480
I mean, you get this from but I thought it

1207
01:06:57.519 --> 01:07:00.360
was the Nazi Party. I'm not I'm not saying crutch

1208
01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:03.000
the Nazis, by the way, but this saying does ring true? Now,

1209
01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:07.679
if you tell a lie enough, it becomes a truth. Sure, ye,

1210
01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:10.880
if you say then it does become the truth because

1211
01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:12.519
people just learn to accept it.

1212
01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:16.079
It just and and like the great George Castanza says,

1213
01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:19.199
it's not a lie, you believe it. So it's yeah,

1214
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:22.519
they're they just they believe the lie. Tell it over

1215
01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:25.079
and over and then people believe it. So it's uh,

1216
01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:30.280
it's that that the George stands a Nazi. Uh connections

1217
01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:31.639
away talking about it. I hope, like you said, we

1218
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:33.480
don't have to go through this again. And honestly, I

1219
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:36.840
want younger candidates. I'm I'm you know, and we need

1220
01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:39.119
fresh blood. We need people who who actually have a

1221
01:07:39.159 --> 01:07:44.119
pulse on what's going on. I think maybe Trump is

1222
01:07:44.159 --> 01:07:44.719
the better option.

1223
01:07:46.079 --> 01:07:49.360
Personally, I would like to have seen another Republican candidate,

1224
01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:51.159
but I'm not going to fight what he stands for.

1225
01:07:51.519 --> 01:07:51.679
You know.

1226
01:07:51.960 --> 01:07:54.960
And listen, if if if he was, if he was

1227
01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:58.079
not a good pick for the country, then I mean,

1228
01:07:58.239 --> 01:08:01.199
why was he Why they try to assassinate them. I'm

1229
01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:05.239
not saying who they are, but you know, oh, there.

1230
01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:08.719
There is clearly a lot of people wildly concerned, and

1231
01:08:08.920 --> 01:08:11.079
you know, I mean even the polls and the numbers.

1232
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:15.199
I'm I'm really excited for November.

1233
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.239
You know, if he's going to reveal who killed JFK

1234
01:08:18.439 --> 01:08:21.279
and reveal the Epstein list, which I don't know if

1235
01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:22.920
he really will, but he's saying it.

1236
01:08:23.560 --> 01:08:26.960
Yeah, I dumped the Epstein files. There was also another

1237
01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:29.880
announce announcement. Oh, it was like the the Office of

1238
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:35.359
Government Accountability and Spending, you know, something to that effect,

1239
01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:39.920
you know, put Elon in charge of government efficiency and

1240
01:08:40.520 --> 01:08:44.640
I'm I'm all for it. I I will happily spend

1241
01:08:44.680 --> 01:08:48.960
my taxes on teaching four million bureaucrats how to code

1242
01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:53.760
or how to knit or some other some other business

1243
01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:56.039
venture that they can make money off of. But it's

1244
01:08:56.119 --> 01:08:58.960
not going to be sucking off the teat of taxpayers anymore.

1245
01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:00.600
That would be wonderful.

1246
01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:03.600
It's interesting. I hope people educate themselves before they actually vote.

1247
01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:07.039
Stop voting with your feelings and actually vote with you know,

1248
01:09:07.199 --> 01:09:09.159
the truth and the data that's out there to support,

1249
01:09:10.279 --> 01:09:14.520
you know, the right way forward in America's got two

1250
01:09:14.520 --> 01:09:17.319
cents on that. I think we got to get you

1251
01:09:17.439 --> 01:09:22.119
out of here, Kevin. Yeah, yeah, we're at that time.

1252
01:09:22.279 --> 01:09:25.319
So hey, listen, thank you this was This was a

1253
01:09:25.479 --> 01:09:27.479
great conversation. I hope you had a good time yourself

1254
01:09:27.560 --> 01:09:30.640
and absolutely stay in touch. Maybe we do this again.

1255
01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:33.079
Yeah with that question, thanks so much for having me on.

1256
01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:35.039
Awesome all right, Kevin, thank you, Let you go.

1257
01:09:35.560 --> 01:09:36.560
You got to see next time.