The Rising Republic: Gun Laws and Crypto

[00:00:04] I don't want to set the world.

[00:00:10] I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country, maybe there will be.

[00:00:17] To chase, at least for a moment, Trump and the maggots off the stage.

[00:00:25] There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.

[00:00:32] Donald Trump, I think he needed to go back and punch him in the face.

[00:00:35] I thought he should have punched him in the face.

[00:00:37] I feel like punching him.

[00:00:38] I'd like to take him behind the gym if I were in high school.

[00:00:41] If you were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.

[00:00:44] I will go and take Trump out tonight.

[00:00:47] Take him out now.

[00:00:48] When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?

[00:00:52] They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.

[00:00:54] Show me where it said that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.

[00:00:59] And I will go anymore, anywhere.

[00:01:05] I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.

[00:01:10] Please get up in the face of some congresspeople.

[00:01:14] People will do what they do.

[00:01:16] I want to tell you, Gorduch.

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[00:01:20] You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.

[00:01:26] We're going to go in there winning.

[00:01:29] This is just a warning to you Trumpers.

[00:01:32] Be careful.

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[00:01:49] Stop listening to these preppers.

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[00:02:15] We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

[00:02:21] What is up, guys?

[00:02:22] It's your boys, L. Douglas Hogan and Ryan Buford.

[00:02:27] Welcome, everybody, to the show.

[00:02:29] Man, what a crazy week it's been.

[00:02:31] Tell me what you did this Thanksgiving, Ryan.

[00:02:33] Oh, man.

[00:02:34] So we had about 18 to 24 people around for Thanksgiving at my place, flying in from all over the country and friends, family, co-workers.

[00:02:45] It was a blast.

[00:02:47] A lot of dogs.

[00:02:47] I think we counted.

[00:02:48] At one point, we had eight dogs and all those people around my house.

[00:02:52] So it was kind of a little bit chaotic, two or three days worth of prep work just destroyed within about 40 minutes.

[00:03:01] 18 to 24 people?

[00:03:04] We were expecting 18 and 24 showed up.

[00:03:07] Wow.

[00:03:08] So did you have enough food to go around?

[00:03:10] Oh, yeah.

[00:03:10] We made sure to have extras on hand.

[00:03:13] And we actually had some leftovers, too.

[00:03:15] So I'm kind of still plowing through that.

[00:03:17] But it was a good time.

[00:03:18] Love it.

[00:03:19] And I mean, I was really kind of blown away.

[00:03:22] I mean, a lot of people think, oh, well, I'm just going to go to somebody's house, you know, if shit hits the fan or whatever.

[00:03:28] And more and more, I realized, no, that ain't happening.

[00:03:32] I mean, I'm not set up to feed an army, especially not on a daily basis.

[00:03:37] I mean, it took weeks of prep work just for one meal.

[00:03:42] So, I mean, I can't imagine having, you know, a heavy household full of people constantly.

[00:03:47] I mean, that would be that would be a chore for sure.

[00:03:52] Golly.

[00:03:53] Yeah.

[00:03:53] I probably would have ran out of food.

[00:03:55] But, yeah, I certainly wouldn't give your address out to nobody right now.

[00:03:58] See, now you've got a lot of food left over.

[00:04:00] Wow.

[00:04:01] Yeah.

[00:04:01] No.

[00:04:01] So, yeah, what we did, I guess we got a tradition here.

[00:04:05] Is we just, instead of cooking and cleaning and doing all this other stuff and, you know, going out and about and just,

[00:04:10] we just go out to Cracker Barrel, make a brunch of it.

[00:04:14] So, late breakfast, early lunch, and I have to have them cook for us.

[00:04:18] And then the kids part ways.

[00:04:21] They go to their other side of the family.

[00:04:24] Yep.

[00:04:24] And spend some turkey time with them.

[00:04:27] I mean, I think in the future we'll probably wind up doing that.

[00:04:30] We generally don't do a big event like this regularly.

[00:04:33] We'll, we'll, we can handle it once or twice a year maybe or something like this every other year or two or three years in a row.

[00:04:40] But this is the biggest by far.

[00:04:43] So, but we, yeah, we had, we had corned beef, chicken, or not chicken, turkey.

[00:04:49] We did a full turkey and salmon and all the, all the stuff.

[00:04:52] All the fixes.

[00:04:53] And you hosted.

[00:04:54] Oh, yeah.

[00:04:55] Yes.

[00:04:56] Hosted at my place.

[00:04:57] So, full house.

[00:04:59] It was definitely a full house.

[00:05:01] In the evening.

[00:05:01] So, yeah.

[00:05:02] So, I work second shift.

[00:05:04] My, my town where I police, they take care of their police officers.

[00:05:07] They pay us triple time.

[00:05:09] Cool.

[00:05:09] So, yeah.

[00:05:10] I, I, I, I pleased with, with a smile on my face.

[00:05:15] It was good to know that I was getting paid, you know, good money to triple time.

[00:05:21] Yeah.

[00:05:22] You know, to, to, to do that.

[00:05:23] And I can't complain about it.

[00:05:25] Why would I?

[00:05:25] Why would I want to complain?

[00:05:26] And then the day after Thanksgiving also was the same thing.

[00:05:28] We get triple pay for, for Thanksgiving, all holidays.

[00:05:32] Nice.

[00:05:32] So, it worked out very well.

[00:05:34] And I can't complain about that.

[00:05:35] I'm quite happy.

[00:05:35] Yes.

[00:05:37] Yeah.

[00:05:37] Uh, I, I did the opposite.

[00:05:40] I, uh, I actually took a nap at four o'clock and didn't wake up until next morning.

[00:05:45] So, after the event, I was done.

[00:05:48] So, first time I slept 14 hours like that before my life.

[00:05:53] So, you had like, what, like a, like a, like a food coma?

[00:05:56] I don't know what it was.

[00:05:57] I think I was just after all the, the ramping up to it and then hosting and doing all this

[00:06:02] stuff.

[00:06:03] And I just crashed hard.

[00:06:04] Wow.

[00:06:05] I just had an opportunity and took it.

[00:06:07] So.

[00:06:07] Sometimes you gotta sleep when you can.

[00:06:09] Yep.

[00:06:10] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:06:11] That's why I tell my wife, like, cause, uh, you know, I, it's, I can't, I can't plan a

[00:06:15] lunch break in the line of work that I do.

[00:06:17] I, cause the criminals don't care when you, you know what you're doing.

[00:06:21] Um, I'll get a call anytime.

[00:06:22] And it's, it's one of those jobs.

[00:06:23] You don't get you, there's no holidays off.

[00:06:25] You know, I get my weekends off, uh, that's scheduled and somebody else is covering for

[00:06:29] that time off.

[00:06:30] But like for during the day, there's no relief.

[00:06:32] So you eat when you can, if you catch a break, a lull in the time and just some downtime.

[00:06:37] And I never say the Q word, um, on duty.

[00:06:39] I'm not working right now.

[00:06:40] So I never sell to you.

[00:06:41] I don't say, I don't say quiet on duty.

[00:06:42] Cause it seems like everything just turns upside down and, uh, shaking together and thrown

[00:06:47] up.

[00:06:47] Uh, so I, we all try to avoid that probably stupid station, but it is what it is.

[00:06:52] And then we eat what we can.

[00:06:53] And, uh, I'm glad you found a time to take a nap.

[00:06:58] Yeah.

[00:06:59] Especially like that.

[00:07:01] Um, last week we talked, we went through, um, about a dozen or so of, of Trump's nominations

[00:07:07] and, uh, a video, an audio actually recently, um, surfaced, um, Pam Bondi.

[00:07:14] And we talked about her last week, I guess it's going to be Trump's attorney general, if I remember

[00:07:17] right.

[00:07:18] Yeah.

[00:07:19] Um, there's something I want to dig.

[00:07:22] Uh, I want, I want to ask you your thoughts on this.

[00:07:25] I don't know if you heard this or not.

[00:07:26] I didn't, I didn't send it to you in advance either.

[00:07:27] So kind of ab lib this and, uh, and kind of catch you off guard.

[00:07:31] Just kind of get your, it's about the second amendment.

[00:07:33] It's about gun rights and stuff like that.

[00:07:34] So something you should be familiar with anyway, be able to give me an ab lib answer, but listen

[00:07:38] to this real quick here and tell me what you think.

[00:07:40] Gun violence restraining order.

[00:07:42] So if someone is civilly committed for, and typically you can hold them for up to 72 hours,

[00:07:48] but people are getting out within 24 hours, the majority of them.

[00:07:51] So what we want to do is let law enforcement come in and take the guns.

[00:07:55] Good.

[00:07:56] They're a danger to themselves.

[00:07:57] Which you can't do right now.

[00:07:58] Well, they're because without being adjudicated.

[00:08:01] So because they're a danger to them.

[00:08:03] You want them to take the guns and not go through six months of legal trials and everything.

[00:08:09] Exactly.

[00:08:10] But we also have to give the, um, the mentally ill, the due process in which they deserve president.

[00:08:15] So what we're doing is they're going to be able to take the guns when they're taken into

[00:08:20] custody or into the hospital.

[00:08:22] And then when they're released within 24 hours or 72 hours later, typically it's 24 hours,

[00:08:27] but law enforcement will have 72 hours to determine whether they should give those guns back or

[00:08:33] they can go to a judge and say, your honor, please keep these guns.

[00:08:38] We feel this person is still a danger to himself or others.

[00:08:44] Okay.

[00:08:45] So your thoughts first.

[00:08:47] I want to hear what you think about that.

[00:08:48] And I'll tell you what my thoughts are.

[00:08:50] So it's reminiscent of the red flag laws that some states have.

[00:08:55] And I think I have a really hard time with that because people can go up and say, oh,

[00:09:00] this person did something to me.

[00:09:01] He's unstable.

[00:09:02] And then all of a sudden they lose all their second amendment rights in that county or state.

[00:09:08] And it's up to the police or law enforcement to hand over their property back.

[00:09:12] And it's messed up because I don't know if you remember the Liberty Safe fiasco a couple

[00:09:17] years back.

[00:09:17] I don't.

[00:09:19] Basically, Liberty Safe is a safe manufacturer.

[00:09:22] And there was a guy who was arrested while he was in prison, not prison, in a holding cell

[00:09:31] or something like that.

[00:09:32] The police contact Liberty Safe and got the back door access code to his gun safe and emptied

[00:09:41] his gun safe while he was incarcerated.

[00:09:43] And I think it was under one of these things.

[00:09:46] And there was a huge ordeal about Liberty Safe and their ability to even do that and that

[00:09:51] kind of stuff, because the concept to me is major infringement of rights.

[00:09:58] And I could see it in a specific example how that might be something useful.

[00:10:04] But I can also see how that could be flipped around and used in such a way that, you know,

[00:10:12] an ex-girlfriend or ex-fiance or ex-boyfriend, for that matter, decided to come around and

[00:10:18] say, oh, he did this to me or she did that to me.

[00:10:21] And she's mentally unstable.

[00:10:23] And next thing you know, your your ability to own or possess firearms is basically thrown

[00:10:29] out the window.

[00:10:29] And in some states, you cannot like you can't possess a firearm if you've ever been, how

[00:10:37] do you say, treated for depression or anxiety or any kind of mental illness.

[00:10:44] It it puts a hindrance on or a red flag on your your ability to purchase a firearm.

[00:10:50] Right.

[00:10:51] And concealed carry.

[00:10:53] That might be the hiccup, too.

[00:10:55] Yeah.

[00:10:55] Wow.

[00:10:56] And then also, I want to back up this audio just to the point where she starts talking

[00:11:00] about the mentally ill, because she's like, we want to also on the same hand, we want to

[00:11:03] give them due process.

[00:11:05] So in other words, we're just we just can't go in and blanket red flag law these guys and

[00:11:10] say, hey, this guy's mentally ill.

[00:11:12] Yeah.

[00:11:13] You know, is this is this the who is this woman?

[00:11:16] This is Pam Bondi.

[00:11:17] This is the woman.

[00:11:18] Yeah.

[00:11:18] This is the nomination we talked about last week that Trump.

[00:11:21] And it's funny because the first words out of her mouth is, is she's it's like she's

[00:11:25] telling Trump what he's going to do.

[00:11:26] She's like, you're going to do this.

[00:11:28] Listen to this first part and then I'll fast forward here to the back to the middle.

[00:11:33] And something called that you're going to bring in something called the gun violence.

[00:11:37] You're going to bring in something called the gun violence.

[00:11:39] Listen to that again.

[00:11:40] That is for the order.

[00:11:41] You're going to bring in something called the gun violence restraint.

[00:11:45] Yeah.

[00:11:45] You're going to bring in something called the gun violence restraining order.

[00:11:49] And then she goes on to say, we also want to give the mentally ill due process.

[00:11:53] Listen to this.

[00:11:54] So what we're doing is they're going to be able to take the guns when they're taken into

[00:11:58] custody or into the hospital.

[00:12:01] And then when they're released within 24 hours or 72 hours later, typically it's 24 hours.

[00:12:06] But law enforcement will have 72 hours to determine whether they should give those guns back or

[00:12:12] they can go to a judge and say, your honor, please keep these guns.

[00:12:17] We feel this person is still a danger to himself or others.

[00:12:22] The part I have, there's a lot of problems I have with this.

[00:12:25] First of all, it's a slippery slope.

[00:12:27] It's a very slippery slope.

[00:12:29] But to her arguments and the points that she's making, she said that law enforcement will

[00:12:33] have 20 or 72 hours to determine if there's still, you know, first of all, I'm not qualified

[00:12:39] to make that kind of decision.

[00:12:40] And for somebody to put that on my shoulders as a police officer and saying here, Officer

[00:12:45] Hogan, you have 72 hours to determine, you know, if he's or she is still mentally handicapped

[00:12:52] or mentally inept or, you know, intellectually disabled, whatever the allegation is against

[00:12:58] them, whatever they got committed for or civilly committed for, I'm not licensed professionally

[00:13:04] to make that decision.

[00:13:05] And so for anybody, a higher authority, like in this case, say the federal government or

[00:13:09] Illinois state police or anybody to say here, it's up to you to determine if they're still

[00:13:15] mentally ill or not.

[00:13:17] And what happens if I say, okay, he's, he's not, I, cause I'm not professionally trained.

[00:13:21] I'm not licensed to do that.

[00:13:22] Now, granted I, for 25 years, I'm probably a bad example.

[00:13:27] I'm not licensed to do that, but I have 25 years of working with the mentally ill.

[00:13:30] So maybe I am a bad example, but let's say an average police officer that's not got the

[00:13:34] training and experience in dealing with mentally ill, like I do, that they would say, okay,

[00:13:40] you know, I, I, you sound like you're good to go now.

[00:13:42] You know, you see, you, you know, you're not threatening to hurt yourself no more.

[00:13:46] You said you're not going to hurt yourself no more.

[00:13:47] Right.

[00:13:47] That's right.

[00:13:48] I'm not gonna hurt myself no more officer.

[00:13:49] Okay.

[00:13:50] Well, here's your guns back.

[00:13:51] And then he goes and he kills his family.

[00:13:54] Right.

[00:13:55] Yeah.

[00:13:55] That's on you as the officer.

[00:13:57] It's on me.

[00:13:58] The liability falls back on the law.

[00:14:00] I'd be indemnified because, because, but the, they always try to hang the lowest, the

[00:14:06] common, like the lowest common denominator in this case, you know, uh, being a police officer,

[00:14:11] I would be indemnified, uh, unless I'm doing something that's not legal.

[00:14:16] Okay.

[00:14:17] Then, then, then I would be, I could be sued civilly since I would be acting on the color

[00:14:20] of law, which in this case I would be, but it'd fall back on the department and the department

[00:14:25] within would try to hang me.

[00:14:27] Could they press charge against me civilly?

[00:14:29] No, because I'm acting under the color of law, but they could terminate me.

[00:14:32] You see what I'm saying?

[00:14:33] Because I made a bad decision.

[00:14:35] I broke policy or I'd made some kind of bad decision.

[00:14:37] My judgment's off something along those lines.

[00:14:39] I don't like the idea of it.

[00:14:40] Yeah.

[00:14:41] I don't either.

[00:14:41] I, I, the thing is, is personally my firearms and the firearms in my family, a lot of them

[00:14:48] are heirlooms and that's how we collect as a family.

[00:14:51] So things that I have are, are firearms that my grandparents had.

[00:14:59] And for someone to just comment and say, Oh, we don't think you're, especially when someone

[00:15:04] who understands the value of some of these firearms says, Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:15:08] You know, all of a sudden my mental ability to, to be a harm to myself or someone else becomes

[00:15:18] worth less than the value of my guns to someone who wants them in their possession.

[00:15:22] You know what I mean?

[00:15:23] Once it, once it becomes property to the state, it just is, I mean, who, who's to say it's going

[00:15:27] to stay intact?

[00:15:28] Right.

[00:15:29] You know, if it goes missing in an evidence room or something like that.

[00:15:31] Now that's, that's pretty shady police work potentially, but it does happen.

[00:15:36] It does happen.

[00:15:37] And, uh, I, I know I'm personally the police department in my region there.

[00:15:42] I, I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't expect that of them, but there, there is a potential

[00:15:47] that someone could come in and say, Oh, do you have the, like even from the feds, if they

[00:15:50] requested the, the firearms that were confiscated during a search and seizure on my property

[00:15:57] from a local police authority, you know, are they going to turn them down?

[00:16:01] Probably not.

[00:16:02] And then there's just going to go into the ether.

[00:16:05] So, you know, when I have firearms that are, to me, hold a significant value that someone

[00:16:11] who I don't know can just go and say, Oh, you can't have this back because someone called

[00:16:16] them because they called somebody a bad name or hurt their feeling on social media or something,

[00:16:20] you know, that's messed up.

[00:16:22] Right.

[00:16:23] And, and who's to say that, you know, you might have a mental breakdown.

[00:16:25] Let's say you have a 21 year old that's old enough that you could pass those weapons

[00:16:29] down to, but they're in your home.

[00:16:31] Right.

[00:16:31] And he's staying with you for whatever reason.

[00:16:32] And you just all of a sudden have a mental breakdown.

[00:16:35] Somebody pulls the carpet off from underneath you and accuses you of, you know, uh, being,

[00:16:39] uh, having a mental issue or you get silly committed and the police come in your guns

[00:16:43] because they're hand-me-downs are not registered.

[00:16:46] So, so, so basically these police officers could come in and nobody knows except you how

[00:16:52] many guns are in that house.

[00:16:53] Exactly.

[00:16:54] So you have 20 hand-me-downs from your father and your father's father, you know, your great,

[00:16:58] great grandpa and so on.

[00:17:00] Um, and, and so they could take as little or as many as they want to register or to log

[00:17:05] into their inventory.

[00:17:06] Cause everything we take or we seize as police officers gets inventoried and then you get

[00:17:10] a receipt to show what we've, we've taken, but who's to say that we might pocket one, you

[00:17:16] know, and slide one under the mat in the back of our vehicle and not record that one on

[00:17:21] the inventory receipt receipt, you can't find in your house.

[00:17:24] And I'm saying, sorry, I don't have it, you know?

[00:17:27] So it's just like you said, disappeared into the ether.

[00:17:31] And that's why I think, I mean, it's kind of, there's a double-edged sword there for,

[00:17:35] cause I always advise people, Hey, you know, go through your safe and take a video, especially

[00:17:41] around here, we got wildfires.

[00:17:42] So the best thing you can do is go through and video, take a video on your cell phone,

[00:17:47] you know, as that fire is approaching so that you can at least have some sort of information

[00:17:52] that you can give to the insurance company.

[00:17:56] But sometimes when it, in the case of firearms, that can be a double-edged sword, you know,

[00:18:01] having that kind of, I don't like to necessarily let people know how many firearms I have or

[00:18:05] what kind or where they're located.

[00:18:08] So, um, but if it's, if it come down to something like that, where I felt like there was a potential

[00:18:14] that someone could come and take them all, hell yeah, I'm taking video and I'm making

[00:18:17] sure that every single one of those comes back.

[00:18:20] If it doesn't come back to me, fine.

[00:18:22] But the thing is, is another thing, another little catch 22, I don't know how deep down

[00:18:26] this rabbit hole you want to go with, but, um, one of the things that my family is considering

[00:18:32] doing is putting our firearms in a trust.

[00:18:34] So nobody in the family actually owns the firearms.

[00:18:37] They're actually owned and managed by the trusts.

[00:18:40] Anybody in the family can have possession of any one of the firearms at any time.

[00:18:46] And we can transport them, you know, between state lines and all that kind of stuff.

[00:18:50] But if someone were to come and take firearms that were in my possession that were owned by

[00:18:55] the family trust, then that would be something that could not be confiscated basically.

[00:19:01] Um, unless there was a reason for the trust.

[00:19:04] What that also means is anybody in the family could go and retrieve those from the police.

[00:19:10] So that's a good idea.

[00:19:11] You can do that with more.

[00:19:12] Yeah.

[00:19:12] There's kind of a, a good avenue for folks who might be concerned of the potential of

[00:19:16] that.

[00:19:16] Yeah.

[00:19:17] That's actually a brilliant idea.

[00:19:18] I would recommend that, uh, there's something for people to look into maybe later is just,

[00:19:22] you know, crack it open, whatever the laws are in your state and see what they're, what,

[00:19:25] what you can do to start a trust and get, you know, the competent people in your family

[00:19:28] that you trust involved in that.

[00:19:30] Cause you can do that with money too.

[00:19:31] Um, and you know, any kind of assets that you have, uh, physical, uh, monetary assets,

[00:19:36] you can create a trust so they can't take it from you personally because they would have

[00:19:40] to take it from the entire family.

[00:19:41] And, uh, that makes it things a lot more difficult.

[00:19:44] Yep.

[00:19:45] And like I said, if, if the state all of a sudden had possession of something that was

[00:19:52] not rightfully, you know, it wasn't just cause they had, just cause a person had possession

[00:19:57] of it wasn't necessarily theirs.

[00:19:58] It was owned by the trust.

[00:20:00] Then the state couldn't touch it.

[00:20:03] I mean, I, as far as, you know, the, I guess the way that this person is thinking is

[00:20:10] that if someone possesses a firearm, that they own the firearm.

[00:20:13] That's not necessarily true.

[00:20:15] In a lot of households, that's not the case, especially if you have a firearm and your

[00:20:18] wife has a firearm, which ones do they take?

[00:20:21] Then just go and take them all.

[00:20:22] You could generally tell the competent, I mean, the knowledge base of a person, as far

[00:20:26] as a second amendment or a firearm knowledge base by the laws and the legislation that they

[00:20:30] introduce and they try to pass.

[00:20:32] Yeah.

[00:20:32] You can, you know, generally I'm surprised to hear Pam Bondi being a Trump appointee talking

[00:20:37] like this, because it's, to me, it sounds like something that somebody on Chuck Schumer

[00:20:41] side of things or Nancy Pelosi might come up with.

[00:20:43] Um, you know, with the shadow guns and, and shooting 5,000 rounds per second and all these

[00:20:48] ludicrous things like AR 15 or two, two, two, two, three or five, five, six rounds blowing

[00:20:54] cannonball size holes through deers and her, you know what I'm saying?

[00:20:57] Just completely destroying deer and exploring, destroying them.

[00:21:00] So you, this is the ludicrous stuff they come up with.

[00:21:03] Um, so I'm kind of surprised.

[00:21:05] And you remember last week how I said that the Democrats actually won this election.

[00:21:10] Um, I, I think that there is, um, I, I think people really need to be careful as much as

[00:21:17] they might support Trump Trump.

[00:21:18] I think they really got to be careful with what is going to be done with regard to firearms

[00:21:24] because I think, I don't know if people remember, but I think he actually, uh, triggered a bump

[00:21:31] stock ban.

[00:21:31] Yes.

[00:21:32] And there were some other weird firearms things that I think, so I think his view of firearms

[00:21:39] is different than most people who actually voted for him, even though he's professed,

[00:21:46] Hey, you know, we're not coming for your guns.

[00:21:47] We're not taking away your guns.

[00:21:49] There's always a, you know, a little bit of, you know, you should, you should accept that

[00:21:55] with a grain of salt.

[00:21:56] And I think that there might be some things that come down the pipe that, uh, that are

[00:22:01] going to be like this.

[00:22:02] So it doesn't really shock me.

[00:22:04] I mean, I'm, I'm kind of disappointed by that sound bite, but it doesn't really shock

[00:22:08] me, I guess, because I, I, I have a feeling that there's going to be some things like that

[00:22:14] that sneak through and you know, that, that are going to be more of a challenge for folks

[00:22:20] coming, you know, moving forward with regard to not just second amendment rights, but gun

[00:22:26] and firearm rights specifically.

[00:22:28] I've never, I've always been, I've never been 100% Trump on this program.

[00:22:33] Everybody knows that because, uh, and I've talked about it in the past quite a bit.

[00:22:37] I was disappointed with the fact that he didn't drain the swamp.

[00:22:39] Like he said, he drained the swamp.

[00:22:40] That was his big motto.

[00:22:42] Drain the swamp.

[00:22:42] No, it wouldn't just make America great again.

[00:22:44] It was drain the swamp.

[00:22:45] And he left all those, uh, holdovers in, in his, in key positions.

[00:22:50] Instead of what he's doing now, he had a transition team ready to go.

[00:22:53] So he had the wisdom behind him this time.

[00:22:55] Uh, and also we had the bump stock band because he's never been, I don't think, I think he's

[00:23:00] his knowledge base.

[00:23:01] He grew up with a silver spoon, you know, in his mouth.

[00:23:04] Let's all get that very clear.

[00:23:06] I don't think he's ever been a second amendment guy through and through because he doesn't

[00:23:10] understand it.

[00:23:12] He's he, but he does know that it's a huge portion, huge portion of his base is, uh, is

[00:23:18] very, is very pro second amendment.

[00:23:20] And so he just kind of, you know, does what he does and says what he can, but doesn't have

[00:23:24] the knowledge base behind him.

[00:23:25] You know, Ben Carson was my guy in the 2016, you know, he, my problem with Ben Carson was,

[00:23:30] is he just wasn't, he didn't throw mud back.

[00:23:32] And when you start getting into politics, yes, he was, he was very smart and a doctor, neurosurgeon,

[00:23:36] I believe.

[00:23:37] Uh, and he had, he had everything.

[00:23:40] I loved everything that he had to say, but he didn't have the, uh, he didn't have the testicular

[00:23:45] fortitude that you need to have to get down dirty with politics when it starts getting

[00:23:50] political, but yeah, the Trump, the, the bump stock ban and now, and now this, he, you know,

[00:23:55] he, I mean, he's going to hear about it.

[00:23:57] Uh, his people will make a, we'll make a clamor and we'll see what he does about it.

[00:24:02] You know, he was very much, oh, also something else that, uh, was down on Trump about is this,

[00:24:07] um, operational warp speed when COVID first came out, pushing the vaccines through a super

[00:24:12] accelerated rate.

[00:24:14] And, uh, you know what, actually I ran across something I want to share real quick.

[00:24:20] And it's just, it's just a quick read.

[00:24:22] Um, because this is, I thought this was very, very interesting.

[00:24:26] And then we can move on because I wanted to talk about the rest of these nominations

[00:24:30] real quick here, but this says, um, if everyone on the planet had to be vaccinated, okay.

[00:24:35] So we're doing the vaccination thing right now, at least three times, uh, 8 billion people

[00:24:40] times three, right?

[00:24:42] So everybody's had to get vaccinated three times, uh, 24 billion doses, which means if

[00:24:47] every manufacturer made a vaccine every second, it would take 32 years to make 1 billion doses.

[00:24:56] And if five companies had five plants making vaccines at one per second, it would take 10

[00:25:03] years to make 7.8 billion doses and 30 years to vaccinate the population.

[00:25:09] So, so, so how have we made 7.8?

[00:25:12] You see what I'm saying?

[00:25:13] This is just, we were able to deliver all of that 7.8 billion.

[00:25:17] Yeah.

[00:25:18] Yeah.

[00:25:18] Not, not the whole population, you know, took the vaccine, but we know that a huge portion

[00:25:24] like 85, 86% of the world's population took this because the government said it was safe

[00:25:29] to do so.

[00:25:30] So Trump pushed this operation warp speed through thing through.

[00:25:34] And yes, Corona virus was manufactured and the vaccine was also manufactured.

[00:25:39] Now you tell me how, how that's even, I know we're going back into the weeds again, but

[00:25:45] when you manufacture a virus and then you manufacture a vaccine and then it comes, it gets ready

[00:25:50] for the, for that kind of, you know, those all the planet that fast, it doesn't, the math

[00:25:55] doesn't add up.

[00:25:56] And it seems that everything was manufactured well in advance.

[00:26:00] Um, so somebody has walked away with a whole lot of money in their pockets and we know it's

[00:26:05] probably big pharma and some of these other big people like, like the Bill Gates of the

[00:26:08] world and, and hell he probably even, you know, Illinois zone governor, uh, J.B.

[00:26:13] Pritzker, because he lined his pockets within, with, uh, with, with some shares.

[00:26:17] I understand.

[00:26:18] Um, again, I don't know.

[00:26:20] I'm sure Inslee did over here in Washington.

[00:26:22] I mean, he was pushing it hard and still, they're still pushing it over on the West side.

[00:26:26] And you don't need to push it so hard unless you, unless you stand against

[00:26:29] gain something from it.

[00:26:30] But it's been proven by now that you can, that you can, you can still catch it.

[00:26:34] Even if you take it, the vaccine, you can still catch it and you can still, still transmit

[00:26:37] it.

[00:26:38] So who are you protecting and who are you saving?

[00:26:40] Uh, I don't know.

[00:26:41] There's a gal that I work with, a coworker, she's under 40 and she wound up getting a blood

[00:26:46] clot in her leg.

[00:26:47] I mean, I don't know how deep down that rabbit hole you want to go, but if you've ever seen

[00:26:51] that, what's that documentary?

[00:26:53] Um, um, hold on.

[00:26:55] Yeah.

[00:26:55] The, I do know what you could, I played it here on this program and I recorded it in three

[00:26:59] separate sessions.

[00:27:00] Um, like, um, died suddenly.

[00:27:02] Died suddenly.

[00:27:03] Yeah, exactly.

[00:27:04] I had to reach out.

[00:27:05] I reached out to the, to the producers of that show and asked them for permission and

[00:27:09] I got it back.

[00:27:09] I got written permission.

[00:27:10] So I got, I got the rights, um, and reserved for anybody wondering about that to, to do that.

[00:27:16] So I played it in three parts and they were like, please.

[00:27:18] And they're all about, they, nobody's making a dime off that documentary.

[00:27:21] They just wanted awareness to get out there.

[00:27:23] Mm-hmm.

[00:27:25] Yeah.

[00:27:25] And I mean, it's, it's still happening and people, then she's just one of those people

[00:27:29] who just is adamant about getting the flu shot and COVID shot all at the same time or her

[00:27:35] and her kids and everything.

[00:27:36] And it's like, wow.

[00:27:37] Okay.

[00:27:37] I mean, I, I don't, I don't get that.

[00:27:41] The whole operation warp speed, bringing it back to the whole political sphere.

[00:27:45] I also thought that was a bit of a trip because at the same time he wound up releasing all

[00:27:53] the funds and, you know, lifting all the federal red tape to get stuff done and doing all the

[00:28:00] basically making it to where Pfizer and Moderna and all these companies were, how do you say?

[00:28:08] They wouldn't get sued.

[00:28:10] Right.

[00:28:10] They were exempt from law.

[00:28:11] Yeah.

[00:28:12] Yeah.

[00:28:12] Um, when all that was happening at the same time, he was like shouting hydroxychloroquine

[00:28:18] or, you know, like, Hey, this isn't, this is just a flu, you know, but he was, it was,

[00:28:24] I think he got played in that regard and swept up like a lot of people, you know, trying to

[00:28:30] figure out how to make this work.

[00:28:31] But well, remember Anthony Fauci at the time was he was in Trump's administration.

[00:28:36] He didn't just get appointed, you know, after Trump, he was there during Trump's administration.

[00:28:40] So Trump was giving him, I mean, he was giving Trump all this information about this and, and

[00:28:44] Trump's not a doctor.

[00:28:46] You know, he's just listening to what, what this, what this a-hole is saying and he's passing

[00:28:50] it on and regurgitating because the information that he gets, he gets from the people that

[00:28:54] are educated in his cabinet and you know, all everybody that advises him.

[00:28:58] So that's where the president gets his information.

[00:29:00] Yeah.

[00:29:00] And that's the thing is I think, I think Fauci was someone who, whether he chose him or whether

[00:29:07] he was already there and he just kind of leaned on him because he knew more, that was something

[00:29:12] that wound up, wound up biting him.

[00:29:14] I think that warp speed was a total mess, but I get why it was done.

[00:29:18] I can see why as a, how do you say, as a, as a political leader, you'd want to step in

[00:29:25] and really make something happen because it needed to happen.

[00:29:28] Now it's the same thing he did with the PPP set program and people took advantage of that,

[00:29:32] of course, but it was designed to be able to help people get through the whole, um, you

[00:29:38] know, especially small employers to be able to pay their people and do all that kind of

[00:29:42] stuff.

[00:29:43] So if you remember right though, like, cause, cause Trump was never, never pro mandate on

[00:29:48] this thing and he was pushing this, uh, operation warp speed through, which is fine.

[00:29:52] I would, I, you know, I would not know anything about vaccine and how they work and how they,

[00:29:56] you know, how the FDA and the CDC have to go all through the FDA has to go through years

[00:30:01] of trials to, you know, uh, to make sure that the efficiency of these, I'm sorry, efficacy,

[00:30:06] I can't say the word, um, is, is correct or not, you know, cause you don't want to,

[00:30:10] even if it causes one, one death in a hundred, you got to take it off the shelf.

[00:30:15] And, and this was doing this, this vaccine was killing a lot of people.

[00:30:19] Nobody knew at first why it was killing people, you know, and everybody that was dying, they

[00:30:23] would do to the, the, the, the shot, they were calling it something else, but everybody that

[00:30:28] was dying natural causes, they would say, well, the COVID itself killed them.

[00:30:31] You know, they want to take no credit at all for the vaccine deaths, but all the credit

[00:30:35] for the COVID kills.

[00:30:36] So they can, they can keep, continue to put, keep pushing this, this mandate and Trump never

[00:30:40] forced this mandate.

[00:30:41] That was something, and everybody on the left, all the Democrats were against, uh, this vaccine

[00:30:45] when, when Trump was in office.

[00:30:47] But as soon as Trump left office and the vaccines, the same companies, you know, Moderna and Pfizer

[00:30:51] and Johnson Johnson and these, they were still there.

[00:30:54] I think there was a four or five of them at the time.

[00:30:56] And then all of a sudden when they're in charge, you get, they mandate the vaccines.

[00:31:01] They were against them, but now they're for them because now they got control of them.

[00:31:04] They can mandate the vaccines.

[00:31:05] I think, I think they were probably understanding at this point, what the grander picture was

[00:31:09] controlling the narrative and making people stay in their homes and gaining power and driving

[00:31:12] the economy into collapse.

[00:31:14] So, you know, let's face it.

[00:31:16] Um, when, when, when the economy breaks, you can enforce any kind of economy that you want

[00:31:21] to at that point.

[00:31:22] Government aid is, is there, is there, they love the nanny state thing, you know, big brother.

[00:31:27] They love it.

[00:31:28] Veteran affairs, Doug Collins.

[00:31:30] You know anything about him?

[00:31:31] Nope.

[00:31:32] Me neither.

[00:31:33] Uh, says it again.

[00:31:34] I'm reading from the New York times like it was last week.

[00:31:36] He's a former house representative for Georgia.

[00:31:39] Mr.

[00:31:39] Collins serves in the air force reserve as a chaplain and deployed to Iraq five times in

[00:31:44] 2008.

[00:31:45] I guess.

[00:31:46] Yep.

[00:31:47] Very a vocal, um, uh, defender of Trump during his first impeachment inquiry.

[00:31:52] So I always like to throw a respect out to people who served in the military.

[00:31:56] I don't care what your role was.

[00:31:57] I don't diminish anybody's role.

[00:31:59] Everybody's got an active part to play.

[00:32:00] Uh, even chaplains.

[00:32:01] One of my best friends when I was overseas was, uh, I mean, one of my best friends was

[00:32:05] in the Marines was a, well, when I was overseas too, but, uh, was a Navy corpsman.

[00:32:10] Um, and I don't know if you know anything about Navy corpsman, but they're basically field

[00:32:13] medics that are provided by the, by the Navy.

[00:32:16] And so they are attached to the Marines, usually grunts when they go out into the field for way

[00:32:20] or any kind of deployment.

[00:32:21] And they do everything we do.

[00:32:23] The only thing they don't do with us is bootcamp.

[00:32:24] They have their own bootcamp, but they do everything with us.

[00:32:26] They go in the field, they eat dirt, they shoot our weapons.

[00:32:29] They, they train like us.

[00:32:30] They do everything Marines do side by side.

[00:32:32] They're brothers, um, to Marines.

[00:32:34] And, uh, so, uh, I never took away from the fact they weren't Marines.

[00:32:38] I treated them like Marines because, um, of their service that they did with us by our

[00:32:43] side and our shoulders.

[00:32:44] I do that with everybody.

[00:32:44] This guy was a chaplain and he deployed to Iraq eight times.

[00:32:47] I don't care if he was advising people spiritually, he was had a very important role in uplifting

[00:32:52] the spirits and the hearts of downtrodden people who were missing their families or maybe

[00:32:57] think about giving up or turning it, you know what I'm saying?

[00:33:00] Turning it in.

[00:33:01] Oh yeah.

[00:33:02] And that's important.

[00:33:03] Heck yeah.

[00:33:04] A mental state.

[00:33:05] That's the number one.

[00:33:05] And, and I really hope, I mean, someone sounds like a guy who's done five tours over in Iraq

[00:33:10] knows what, what, uh, what the balance is, what the score sheet is, so to speak, when it

[00:33:17] comes to the feds and their role with vets.

[00:33:20] So I, and there's a lot of room for improvement there.

[00:33:24] There is.

[00:33:25] Um, I really don't like how a lot of our veterans hospitals are, they don't treat our, our people

[00:33:30] good.

[00:33:30] I know I'm not gonna get no location or places or names, but, uh, my, my uncle was diagnosed,

[00:33:37] misdiagnosed by the department of veteran affairs, uh, by a hospital VA hospital.

[00:33:42] And he ended up dying because he misdiagnosed.

[00:33:44] And he's just one of a couple of different cases I know about.

[00:33:47] I don't think that they get the standard of service.

[00:33:49] I think they just throw these doctors and nurses in these places.

[00:33:52] Um, I'm not saying that they don't try.

[00:33:54] I'm just saying that I don't, and I don't even know how the system works.

[00:33:56] I just know it needs an upgrade because anytime anybody's misdiagnosed and I don't know a

[00:34:01] lot of people that go to the VA, but if one that I know went to the VA and got misdiagnosed

[00:34:04] and died, that's a problem.

[00:34:06] Yeah, exactly.

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[00:34:40] Um, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, or Besant, uh, Mr. Besant, a billionaire hedge fund manager,

[00:34:46] of course, New York Times will throw that in there because they're all about the money

[00:34:49] when it's on the right.

[00:34:51] It doesn't matter when you're on the left, has emerged as a central economic advisor to

[00:34:55] Mr. Trump over the past year.

[00:34:58] And I'd be kind of curious to see what his, uh, stance is on crypto because I've, I've

[00:35:04] seen a lot of movement in my personal crypto profile or portfolio.

[00:35:09] And, uh, I'm kind of curious what's happening with that and what's going to happen over

[00:35:14] the next couple of years.

[00:35:15] Yeah.

[00:35:16] My decentralized digital currency, I think is going to be a huge thing that wasn't

[00:35:20] really clear for a lot of people going into the election.

[00:35:25] And I think people are starting to ask questions about it now.

[00:35:27] In fact, I had an 80 year old guy come up, asked me, so what is this?

[00:35:31] And during Thanksgiving, he's just, what's this, uh, this bite coin or Bitcoin thing.

[00:35:38] And he's like, I got people asking me at church about this.

[00:35:41] And I'm like, wow, uh, not for you, man.

[00:35:45] Just stay clear of that.

[00:35:46] You just don't worry about that.

[00:35:47] Keep your investments close to your heart and, uh, ride this one out.

[00:35:51] But the whole, I mean, he's, there's enough chatter out there to where you've got folks

[00:35:58] with money paying attention, really close attention to as, and trying to get a grasp of what it

[00:36:04] even is.

[00:36:04] And for me to sit there and try and explain to him that it's currency backed by nothing.

[00:36:09] Uh, but somehow we can attach a dollar value to it.

[00:36:14] You know, it was just the ability to even trying to explain this guy, how it works and

[00:36:19] realize that you can't really do that.

[00:36:23] You know, we're, we're to a point where we need something like that, but, you know, trying

[00:36:29] to get people to buy into it is going to be something else.

[00:36:31] So I'm, I'm really curious to see what, uh, what this guy's take is on that, especially

[00:36:36] on the, on the, if he's been a hedge fund manager for a while and seeing what, how volatile

[00:36:42] these markets are.

[00:36:43] Um, I think it's going to be interesting.

[00:36:45] Well, I can tell you that he said, hopefully he's capable.

[00:36:48] He does.

[00:36:49] He is on record as, uh, as sharing an opinion on the cryptocurrency thing.

[00:36:52] So right now I'm looking at crypto news.com and, uh, they're reporting that in a July interview

[00:36:58] with Fox business, Besant lauded Trump's embrace of cryptocurrency, aligning it with the ethos

[00:37:03] of the Republican party.

[00:37:04] Crypto is about freedom and the crypto economy is here to stay.

[00:37:08] He stated emphasizing its role in attracting young and unprecedented participants to financial

[00:37:13] markets.

[00:37:14] Here's an audio.

[00:37:15] I'm just gonna play this real quick.

[00:37:16] See what it has to say.

[00:37:17] I, I, I've been excited about the president's embrace of, uh, crypto and I think it fits

[00:37:25] very well with the Republican party.

[00:37:27] The ethos of it's crypto is about freedom and the crypto economy is here to stay.

[00:37:36] The Democrats are running from it because they're trying to wash off the stench of Sam

[00:37:42] Bankman freed and his family's donations to, uh, the democratic party.

[00:37:48] So, you know, they're willing to take down a whole industry because of bad behavior on

[00:37:53] their part, bad behavior, one actor.

[00:37:56] And, you know, I, I think that everything's on the table with, with Bitcoin.

[00:38:02] And to me, one of the most exciting things about Bitcoin is for a generation of investors

[00:38:10] who maybe post the great financial crisis have been looking for investment opportunities,

[00:38:19] or maybe they'd soured on markets.

[00:38:21] Crypto is bringing in young people.

[00:38:24] It's bringing in the people who haven't participated in markets and, you know, having a market culture

[00:38:31] in the U S and people believing that markets work for them is a centerpiece of capitalism.

[00:38:37] So what do you think about that?

[00:38:39] I think he's spot on.

[00:38:41] I mean, really it's, and that's what I tried to explain to this, this guy who was at my Thanksgiving

[00:38:47] dinner and my father-in-law, but, um, I was trying to explain to him that, Hey, look, this

[00:38:53] is basically a form of barter because, and I didn't go into the U S dollar, not being backed

[00:38:59] by anything.

[00:39:00] Um, but I, I basically was able to tell him, Hey, look, this is something that is capable of

[00:39:06] being a form of exchange.

[00:39:08] And if you agree that something is worth, you know, a fraction of a Bitcoin, and I agree

[00:39:15] that it's worth a fraction of a Bitcoin, we can make that exchange without any cash changing

[00:39:19] hands.

[00:39:20] You get what I have to offer, whether it's a good or service, you pay me for what I feel

[00:39:24] it's worth.

[00:39:25] And guess what?

[00:39:26] The IRS doesn't know boo about it.

[00:39:29] It's just money that changed hands.

[00:39:31] And to me, that has value, especially when it comes to capitalism, because, and that's

[00:39:38] why I think people are so turned on by this, because we are taxed every time we turn around

[00:39:43] tax to drive the vehicle on the road that we're taxed on.

[00:39:47] When we, you know, go to the polls and we drive to the house that we're taxed on every month,

[00:39:53] uh, and the, the food in the pantry that was taxed in some States, uh, when we go to buy

[00:40:01] it after we're taxed to pay for it with the money that we earn at our job, you know, that's

[00:40:08] taxed before we can even use it.

[00:40:10] So it's just, people are bleeding out with taxes here in the United States and they don't

[00:40:15] realize it was just like the slow boil.

[00:40:17] And here you have this form of exchange where, wait a second, there's no tax here.

[00:40:23] We can do things and, and take that with a grain of salt because there is tax code written

[00:40:27] for buying and selling crypto.

[00:40:31] Um, so there is, there is tax documentation on that, but what I'm getting at is that I

[00:40:36] don't have to charge someone taxes.

[00:40:38] If I decide that I'm going to give them, you know, one Bitcoin to, you know, read,

[00:40:45] you know, I don't know, buy a car or something like that.

[00:40:49] You know what I mean?

[00:40:49] I do.

[00:40:50] So it's kind of a, it's the type of thing where I don't, I think it has a superior form

[00:40:56] of value.

[00:40:57] And I, like he said, you know, you're drawing younger people into trading and watching these

[00:41:03] things happen.

[00:41:03] You know, I'm buying, I've got stuff in my portfolio where I have, you know, three,

[00:41:08] 400,000 shares because I bought them at, you know, a fraction of a penny.

[00:41:13] And if they go up to even a dollar, you know, I don't need to hit the $10,000 mark or $20,000,

[00:41:20] a hundred thousand dollar mark like crypto is doing.

[00:41:22] If I do great.

[00:41:23] But if it even reaches a dollar, hell, I can pay off my house.

[00:41:27] So there's, there is, there is an upside to that, that is bringing a lot of younger

[00:41:31] people into the crypto scene.

[00:41:34] Um, and that's not even a Bitcoin.

[00:41:35] It's just a, just in some junk coin.

[00:41:37] So, I mean, there, there is opportunity.

[00:41:40] And I think that, that the fact that we have an administration coming in who recognizes

[00:41:46] that opportunity, that is a good sign of moving forward for capitalism.

[00:41:50] In my opinion.

[00:41:51] I would agree, but I also, you know, think that it's a two-edged sword, you know, right

[00:41:55] now it could be a good thing, but Trump has also in the past, you know, cause he wants

[00:41:58] to move, I believe, uh, towards, you know, a Nassar Jassar kind of a thing.

[00:42:02] Uh, and with, with Biden going out, he wanted, because it wasn't regulated, he wanted to

[00:42:07] regulate it.

[00:42:08] And he told the IRS to do everything within their power to come up with regulatory, uh,

[00:42:13] like this is not their job.

[00:42:14] This is what makes me so angry.

[00:42:15] Like, this is not their job to do this.

[00:42:17] It's not even, it's not a branch of government.

[00:42:19] It's not their job to legislate.

[00:42:20] It's not even their job to regulate.

[00:42:22] In fact, we had some recent, uh, Supreme court rulings that, that with, uh, Chevron, uh,

[00:42:27] deference, for example, that these agencies cannot regulate it.

[00:42:31] It's, it's actually unconstitutional because they're not a branch of government.

[00:42:35] So, uh, the, the two-edged sword being eventually some party is going to be in there once they

[00:42:39] regulate it, whether it's Trump, whether it's the next president, whoever that's going to

[00:42:42] be, it won't be Trump in the next round.

[00:42:44] It's gonna be somebody else, but we want to hope that they leave it unregulated.

[00:42:47] So like, like you're talking, you know, people can continue, continue to, to do this kind

[00:42:51] of thing to be another form of transfer between goods and whatnot.

[00:42:54] Um, but the, the, the, the wacky side of this is eventually this is going to lead, um,

[00:43:01] to down the wrong path of this, the central, uh, banking currency system.

[00:43:06] And we don't want the digital central, anything central digital currency in any way, shape,

[00:43:11] form.

[00:43:12] Absolutely.

[00:43:13] And it's kind of weird too.

[00:43:14] I mean, you think about it here, we are looking at the potential of two forms of currency,

[00:43:19] digital currency, crypto, and you know, our, say our U S dollar, for example, or we'll

[00:43:26] just hold those two.

[00:43:27] I mean, obviously there's different forms, but U S dollar versus crypto.

[00:43:31] I don't think people realize that there was a new dollar that was in, uh, not invented,

[00:43:37] but, uh, put into use during the civil war.

[00:43:40] So during the civil war, we actually had a United States standard and the Confederate

[00:43:45] standard.

[00:43:46] I think that's, or is it the opposite?

[00:43:48] What is it?

[00:43:49] What would have been?

[00:43:49] Yeah, it would have been, yeah, it would have been, it would have been United States

[00:43:52] Confederates.

[00:43:53] Yeah.

[00:43:53] So there was two different currencies.

[00:43:55] So when, when the war was over, all the Southern currency was basically null and void.

[00:44:01] There was, they, they couldn't use any of it.

[00:44:03] So, but at the time they were two currencies running at the same time.

[00:44:08] And I think that as a, as a point in our U S history on how that panned out and how it

[00:44:15] was effective or ineffective is something that people should really start paying.

[00:44:19] Because here we're facing, we're on the cusp of two different forms of currency becoming

[00:44:24] mainstream.

[00:44:25] And we're not in the middle of a civil war, but with all the talk about civil war, guess

[00:44:29] what?

[00:44:30] There's a potential for you to be able to buy and sell without a single U S dollar changing

[00:44:37] hands.

[00:44:37] And that I think is enticing for a lot of reasons, but I mean, that's, that's kind of my take

[00:44:44] on, I've been calling it following crypto for shoot, probably eight, 10 years now.

[00:44:48] And I just have within the last year, just started really looking into it and then actually

[00:44:53] investing.

[00:44:54] I spent a lot of time looking into it before I actually put my money where my mouth is.

[00:44:59] Well, the shares are going up substantially.

[00:45:01] I'm looking at Shiba Inu right now, which my brother invested in.

[00:45:04] He sent me a link earlier today.

[00:45:05] It's gone up 80.43% in the past month.

[00:45:09] Yeah.

[00:45:09] Um, one of the ones that I have, it's gone crazy is XRP.

[00:45:14] And that's one that people are really going to be kind of curious about that one in particular

[00:45:20] is, uh, basically an easier form of exchange.

[00:45:24] Um, Shiba Inu bulk.

[00:45:26] I have, I have four, almost 400,000 Shiba Inu shares.

[00:45:30] So if those go to a dollar a piece, I'll, I'll probably stop podcasting for a while.

[00:45:39] But yeah, I mean, they're, they're all on this massive upswing and they've been on a

[00:45:43] real, uh, low, um, state.

[00:45:47] They've been kind of declining for the last six months.

[00:45:50] And then all of a sudden after the election, boom, everything's just, it's just a parabolic

[00:45:55] curve.

[00:45:57] So it's, it's going to be interesting to see how much it continues and they're volatile.

[00:46:01] I mean, they can skyrocket and then plummet and it's just not, it's not as stable as

[00:46:07] like a, getting a quarterly earning statement.

[00:46:09] It's, Oh, somebody said something on social media.

[00:46:12] So now here's peanut, the squirrel coin coming out.

[00:46:15] Next thing you know, it grows 4,000%.

[00:46:17] And someone who has a hundred thousand shares just made a mint off of it.

[00:46:22] And, you know, everybody else is stuck with this, you know, floundering share.

[00:46:27] So yeah.

[00:46:28] Cause everybody wants to throw their hat and throw their hat in, right.

[00:46:31] So then get a piece of the pot.

[00:46:32] Oh yeah.

[00:46:32] Uh, moving on Brooke Rollins, agriculture secretary, uh, Ms. Rollins, a conservative lawyer is the

[00:46:38] chief executive of the America first policy Institute, a prominent think tank that laid

[00:46:43] plans for a second Trump presidency.

[00:46:45] She was originally considered for chief of staff, but ultimately lost to Susie Wiles.

[00:46:50] And I think Susie Wiles was his, uh, campaign manager, right?

[00:46:57] Or Susan, it says right here that she, a second Trump president, she was originally considered

[00:47:01] for chief of staff.

[00:47:02] So Susie Wiles, she lost the chief of staff.

[00:47:04] I'm imagining Susie Wiles is, uh, the chief of staff or considered for chief of staff.

[00:47:09] Let's see.

[00:47:09] Uh, did we cover her already?

[00:47:11] I thought we did.

[00:47:14] But yeah, I don't know much about the, this particular gal.

[00:47:18] I don't think we've covered her yet.

[00:47:20] Uh, moving on.

[00:47:21] We'll probably get to eventually, uh, for, for commerce secretary and transition co-chair

[00:47:26] Howard Lutnick.

[00:47:28] Uh, he's a wall street executive.

[00:47:30] His companies are involved in nearly every sector of the U S economy.

[00:47:34] And he could face questions during the confirmation process about his finances and potential conflicts

[00:47:39] of interest.

[00:47:41] Okay.

[00:47:42] Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary.

[00:47:44] Mr.

[00:47:44] Duffy is a former Wisconsin Congressman, a Fox business host.

[00:47:47] I recognize his face.

[00:47:49] He rose to fame in the late 1990s on the MTV reality show, the real world Boston.

[00:47:54] He also appears on the road rules, all stars where he met his wife, Rachel Campos Duffy,

[00:48:00] who was a Fox news host.

[00:48:02] Yeah.

[00:48:03] Some, some TV personalities.

[00:48:06] Yeah.

[00:48:06] It doesn't hurt.

[00:48:08] Yeah.

[00:48:09] It's kind of like, do you have Kosh Patel or cash Patel?

[00:48:13] I don't know how to say his name.

[00:48:14] Yeah.

[00:48:15] Patel is correct.

[00:48:15] Has he been actually confirmed or, or, or, uh, has there been any formal announcement?

[00:48:21] I know there's been a lot of scuttle about him being an FBI director.

[00:48:24] Let me look here because some of these don't need, uh, like some of these guys could be,

[00:48:29] just be appointed.

[00:48:30] They don't need the ones we've been going over need to be confirmed through the Senate.

[00:48:34] Uh, the, the ones where confident confirmation is not required is the vice president chief

[00:48:39] of staff.

[00:48:39] Yes.

[00:48:39] Susan Wyatt, Susie Wiles.

[00:48:41] She is the chief of staff.

[00:48:43] All right.

[00:48:43] So she needs no approval.

[00:48:45] Uh, deputy chief of staff, James Blair, deputy chief of staff, Taylor Budowich.

[00:48:50] Uh, let me see here.

[00:48:52] I'm moving on to your, there's another names here.

[00:48:54] Moving on to your Patel guy, not Patel.

[00:48:56] Yeah.

[00:48:57] You said Patel, didn't you?

[00:48:59] Uh, I don't see his name mentioned anywhere in any of these.

[00:49:03] And I scroll back up to the ones that have to be confirmed through the Senate and I don't

[00:49:07] see any Patel in there either.

[00:49:10] Yeah.

[00:49:11] I think it's just a bunch of people on social media with a hard on for this guy because

[00:49:15] he's basically interested in dismantling the FBI and, and, and revealing everything basically,

[00:49:22] you know?

[00:49:23] And I think we're at a point as, as a nation where we, as citizens, we want that bandaid

[00:49:30] ripped off.

[00:49:31] Yeah.

[00:49:31] And we want the truth.

[00:49:33] We want to be able to move forward and rebuild.

[00:49:35] And I think the only way to do that is to rip that bandaid off.

[00:49:39] You know, I don't, we need people in there that are willing to do it.

[00:49:42] Yep.

[00:49:43] So I think the CIA is definitely one of those organizations that could be dismantled.

[00:49:47] I think the FBI could probably be reformed, but I'm, I agree with you.

[00:49:51] We need to know exactly, you know, I, I want to know, you know, who was involved in the

[00:49:56] assassination attempts against Ronald Reagan.

[00:49:57] I want to know who killed JFK.

[00:49:58] Hey, I want to know all this stuff.

[00:50:00] I, if there's UFOs out there, I want to know, you know, I want to pull the bandaid off.

[00:50:06] Yeah.

[00:50:06] I mean, transparency, actually getting it.

[00:50:09] I think that would be, that would be awesome.

[00:50:12] And it would be, it would be scary, but you know what?

[00:50:16] I'm sick and tired of living in the dark.

[00:50:18] And I think a lot of people ever since, you know, prior to Vietnam, you know, people are

[00:50:24] wondering why we're in Vietnam.

[00:50:26] And I would like to know what the real reason are.

[00:50:29] I mean, I've, I've heard stories about Afghanistan.

[00:50:31] We were, we weren't there to fight the Taliban.

[00:50:34] We were there to protect the opium fields.

[00:50:36] Yeah.

[00:50:37] Yeah.

[00:50:37] If you can pull the bandaid off.

[00:50:39] Talk about that.

[00:50:40] If you can pull the bandaid off, if, if, if, if it's not going all that older stuff,

[00:50:43] if it's not going, if there's just declassified, if it's no longer an active investigation,

[00:50:48] going on, you know what I'm saying?

[00:50:50] And you're not, you're not risking the health and life and safety of anybody, any living

[00:50:54] American, let us know about it.

[00:50:56] Do you remember last, last week you, cause we were confused about RFK's role.

[00:51:02] You mentioned the FDA and, and I, cause he kept saying health, health services.

[00:51:07] There isn't actually an FDA.

[00:51:09] So he is not FDA.

[00:51:10] He is health, health, health and human services.

[00:51:14] Human services.

[00:51:14] And this guy, Martin Macari is the FDA commissioner.

[00:51:19] A doctor.

[00:51:20] He's a doctor.

[00:51:20] Dr.

[00:51:21] Macari, a Johns Hopkins university surgeon and researcher rose to prominence more than

[00:51:25] a decade ago as a critic of the medical establishment.

[00:51:28] He was largely exposed to vaccine opposed.

[00:51:31] I'm sorry, not exposed, opposed to vaccine mandates during the COVID pandemic.

[00:51:35] Okay.

[00:51:36] Well, that's good news.

[00:51:37] Yeah.

[00:51:38] I'll take that.

[00:51:39] Yeah.

[00:51:40] I'm not, I don't have anything against critics.

[00:51:42] Uh, here's the thing about critics.

[00:51:44] If the facts are there, then the critics will shut up.

[00:51:46] That's, that's a good thing.

[00:51:48] Uh, if the facts are not there, then they should be critical of it and it shouldn't be

[00:51:52] a mandate point blank period.

[00:51:54] Uh, Chris Wright, energy secretary.

[00:51:57] Mr.

[00:51:57] Wright is the chief executive of Liberty energy, a Denver based fracking company.

[00:52:02] He has no government experience.

[00:52:04] This is your trust.

[00:52:05] Craig, he has no government experience and, and caught the attention of Mr.

[00:52:09] Trump and in part through his appearance on Fox news.

[00:52:13] I can see that.

[00:52:14] I can also see the part about the whole fracking.

[00:52:16] I mean, energy independence is going to be huge.

[00:52:18] So I can see, especially when you're talking about some of the other ones, uh, the ones that

[00:52:23] we talked about last week from North and South Dakota.

[00:52:25] And then you got someone in the Colorado region who's a proponent of fracking, um, the potential

[00:52:31] to open up natural gas pipelines and fracking for oil.

[00:52:36] Um, if done properly, I'm sure there are methods to be able to offset earthquakes and

[00:52:43] issues and, and health concerns, but, you know, still be able to deliver some level of

[00:52:48] fuel independence.

[00:52:50] I've been relatively quiet on fracking.

[00:52:52] Cause I, I, I admit I'm not deeply knowledge on it, but I can tell you for anybody that's

[00:52:57] listening, here's what my understanding of how fracking works.

[00:52:59] And let's say that you believe that there might be oil in a location, how are the hell

[00:53:04] they do it?

[00:53:04] I'm not sure, but they, they, they probe down, they just blast a huge hole deep into the earth

[00:53:08] and it opens up and like almost like a tree trunk, just going all these different directions

[00:53:12] when it, when it reaches the correct depth.

[00:53:15] And if it hits an oil line, boom, you got oil.

[00:53:18] And the problem with this is, is, uh, I guess there's tectonic plates, there's shifts, there's

[00:53:23] other things that it can environmentally mentally cause hazards for like weak, weak ground, uh,

[00:53:28] collapses, uh, air pockets in the earth, you know, collapses, you know, man, just holes

[00:53:32] in the earth that can open up.

[00:53:33] I'm not sure.

[00:53:35] That's why I've been, I've remained so silent on it.

[00:53:37] Cause I don't have all the knowledge base to have to have formulated opinion on it.

[00:53:40] But I am, uh, I am for, um, I'm very strongly for a proponent of, of having our own oil.

[00:53:47] I did this, the means of getting it.

[00:53:49] I'm, I'm unknowledged on.

[00:53:51] Yeah.

[00:53:51] And I'm not, I'm, I'm kind of in the same boat.

[00:53:54] I think there's, there's solid evidence against fracking, but again, I don't, I don't know

[00:53:59] enough about the process or the aftermath or what happens as a result, but I do know that

[00:54:07] lithium batteries are not the solution.

[00:54:09] And they're dirty.

[00:54:10] Yeah.

[00:54:11] So, uh, Linda McMahon, when we know who Linda McMahon is, um, I believe if she's reading

[00:54:17] relation to, uh, to Vince McMahon, you remember Vince McMahon is seeing that she's the same

[00:54:23] Ms. McMahon is a major donor to Mr. Trump, a one-time Senate candidate from Connecticut

[00:54:28] and a former executive of a, yeah, former executive of a professional wrestling empire

[00:54:33] that she founded with her husband.

[00:54:35] So Vince McMahon, this is, this is her wife.

[00:54:38] I saw footage of her wrestling.

[00:54:41] So, so she served in Mr. Trump's first cabinet as the head of a small business administration.

[00:54:46] So here, here's somebody, you know, education secretary and transition co-chair.

[00:54:50] This is somebody who, who has experienced running businesses, right?

[00:54:54] Uh, yes.

[00:54:55] But she's also from the entertainment industry.

[00:54:57] It doesn't matter.

[00:54:57] The entertainment industry is a business.

[00:54:59] And, um, but now it looks like she's taking on education secretary and transition co-chair.

[00:55:05] So it's not really exactly going to be in the driver's seat.

[00:55:08] She's going to be in the, in the co, like the co-pilot seat as a co-chair.

[00:55:11] Mm-hmm.

[00:55:12] So it makes you see what she's going to do.

[00:55:15] Uh, NATO ambassador, Matthew G. Whitaker.

[00:55:18] Mr. Whitaker served as acting attorney general in the first Trump administration for about three months

[00:55:22] after Jeff Sessions stepped down and before William P. Barr was confirmed to succeed him.

[00:55:27] He does not have foreign policy experience.

[00:55:30] Again, me and you talked about this last week, you know, if, if, if you have diplomacy experience,

[00:55:36] that's all I care about.

[00:55:37] Um, you know, you can, you can learn because these guys are transition.

[00:55:41] It's not like they just walk in day one, right.

[00:55:44] And they're just overseas making these deals and policies.

[00:55:47] It's not like that.

[00:55:48] They're transitioned and they're trained before they're cut loose.

[00:55:52] If anybody listening to the show has ever taken a job, they're just stopped thrown into a job.

[00:55:57] So let's say for example, in a, in a factory, here you go.

[00:55:59] So good luck.

[00:56:00] And you're dealing with hoppers and, and, and, you know, all these, uh, different machine

[00:56:05] parts and things that in temperature controls and presses and everything.

[00:56:10] It's not like that.

[00:56:11] You're trained first and your transition to work alone.

[00:56:14] And that's the same thing here, you know, with a NATO ambassador, this Matthew G.

[00:56:18] Whitaker, he may not have any foreign policy experience, but I guarantee you, if you go and

[00:56:22] dig up some information on him, you're going to find out these, he's got some kind of

[00:56:26] experience in diplomacy.

[00:56:27] Yeah.

[00:56:28] Uh, because Trump is so racist, right?

[00:56:31] We got our, our token black person here that, uh, that the, the, the racist, uh, left is,

[00:56:36] is saying that's not my words.

[00:56:38] You know, you got your, your, your joy reads, you know, your racist, uh, people on MSNBC who

[00:56:43] were saying things like that.

[00:56:45] Um, but Scott Turner housing and urban development secretary, Mr. Turner, Mr. Turner is a former

[00:56:51] professional football player was a state representative in Texas.

[00:56:56] I'd be curious what his activities were as a football player working with the inner cities,

[00:57:01] because I bet that gave him a fair amount of experience with what could be changed.

[00:57:07] Wasn't.

[00:57:07] Yeah, exactly.

[00:57:08] Because most of those guys didn't come up, you know, uh, with a spoon in their mouth.

[00:57:13] They, they grew up in, and they got these, these, these, uh, scholarships because they're,

[00:57:17] they're good at football or basketball, whatever the case may be.

[00:57:19] Um, and I believe, um, that, that position in Trump's first administration was actually

[00:57:24] filled by Ben Carson.

[00:57:25] Was it not?

[00:57:27] Sounds right.

[00:57:28] I believe it was, um, Trump offered him a position and he took it.

[00:57:32] Uh, Trump is say what you want about Trump.

[00:57:35] I always figured he's, he's, he's always to me been a gracious winner.

[00:57:40] You know, he don't, he don't throw it, you know, when he, like, for example, when he

[00:57:44] beat out all the Republican candidates, he didn't just laugh at Ben Carson's face.

[00:57:48] Uh, he became allies with Ted, with Ted Cruz later down the road and he called him little

[00:57:53] Ted or lion Ted, you know, and then there was a Marco Rubio called little Marco.

[00:57:58] He, and even in this, in this session, you know, he gave him a position.

[00:58:03] Um, so he's gracious in that regard.

[00:58:05] He just doesn't beat you and throw you out to the wolves.

[00:58:08] He's got something, you know, you see what I'm saying?

[00:58:09] The point I'm trying to make, he offers, you know, um, it's not breadcrumbs either.

[00:58:14] Like these are, these are good positions.

[00:58:16] Yeah.

[00:58:17] And part of me wonders too.

[00:58:18] I mean, I'm not sure how much more you have on your list, but part of me wonders if this

[00:58:22] whole department of government efficiency thing that hasn't even been developed yet, but there's

[00:58:26] massive talks about it.

[00:58:28] Um, you know, as soon as he's in the door, let's see how this goes.

[00:58:31] I'm curious if the folks that are running these departments are basically going to be

[00:58:36] running them until they are absolved basically.

[00:58:40] Um, to the point where they're, they're running them and until they either get shut down or until

[00:58:47] they make significant enough changes to where the people who are maybe initially not capable

[00:58:53] of handling them are more than capable of handling them in their new form, like the education side

[00:58:59] of things.

[00:59:00] Well, these are, I don't know, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but these are positions

[00:59:04] that are appointed by the president.

[00:59:05] So whoever comes in four years later, like for example, um, Scott Turner, who I just told you is

[00:59:10] going to be the urban housing.

[00:59:12] Um, somebody could come in four years later, the next president say, I don't like him and make it

[00:59:16] another appointment into that position.

[00:59:17] So he would be gone.

[00:59:19] Most of these appointed positions, especially like cabinet positions and things that are appointed

[00:59:23] by the president are temporary jobs and they know going in.

[00:59:25] Correct.

[00:59:28] Uh, this is interesting.

[00:59:30] Um, and by the way, we have like a one, two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, 10.

[00:59:34] There's 12 more on the, which we're not going to get through tonight.

[00:59:36] Yeah.

[00:59:37] On, on the Senate confirmations.

[00:59:39] Um, there's more, even more beyond that for the, for the ones that like I read a while ago,

[00:59:44] some of them for the, the ones that don't have to be appointed.

[00:59:47] They just, I mean, they need no appointment, no Senate confirmations.

[00:59:51] Here you go.

[00:59:51] Here's your job.

[00:59:52] This one right here, Dave Weldon.

[00:59:54] Um, I mentioned CDC director because I despise the CDC.

[00:59:58] I absolutely hate.

[00:59:59] I have a disdain for the CDC.

[01:00:01] I hate them, uh, with a, with a mad passion, not just because they changed the definition

[01:00:05] of vaccine to force this, uh, help, help this force this mandate along.

[01:00:12] Um, but they, they do their job horrible.

[01:00:15] They're horrible at it.

[01:00:16] Uh, so Dr.

[01:00:17] Weldon is a former Florida Congressman and physician.

[01:00:20] So I'm glad they're putting a doctor in charge of the CDC while in Congress.

[01:00:24] He, and also a political backing, uh, experience while in Congress, he pushed the notion that

[01:00:30] Tamarisol, I guess the drug that Tamarisol, a preservative compound in some vaccines had

[01:00:34] caused an explosion of autism.

[01:00:37] One cannot deny that autism has taken off in recent years.

[01:00:42] Since the eighties.

[01:00:43] Yes.

[01:00:44] Since they started really, but I'm not totally there.

[01:00:46] There are a lot of vaccines because polio was, we haven't had a cure for anything since

[01:00:51] polio vaccine.

[01:00:52] It's not even dead.

[01:00:53] Polio is not dead.

[01:00:54] Um, it's close to extinction, but we haven't had it.

[01:00:57] That just says something right there about the pharmaceutical industry, that there's

[01:01:01] money.

[01:01:01] There's no money to be made in cures.

[01:01:03] Right.

[01:01:04] So I'm interested to see how, how he pulls this off.

[01:01:08] Uh, back as he caused exposure.

[01:01:10] Watch it.

[01:01:10] Yeah.

[01:01:10] This type of, this hypothesis has long been shown to be false.

[01:01:16] Experts say, again, this, this, these are opinions expressed by the New York times.

[01:01:20] So you take it for what it's worth.

[01:01:22] Uh, no, maybe no one can link autism, but, but the comparison is there, right?

[01:01:29] You, we got a huge increase of vaccines.

[01:01:32] We got a huge increase of autism.

[01:01:34] It, it, it, to me would make sense.

[01:01:36] What else?

[01:01:36] We've also had a huge explosion of, of preservatives in our food.

[01:01:41] Things, things that Kennedy talks out, RFK talks about all these things he's trying to

[01:01:45] take out of our food.

[01:01:46] All the things that are legal in Europe, illegal to put the foods in Europe.

[01:01:49] The United States allows in their food.

[01:01:51] So since these things have been pushed and pumped into the food that we eat, there's

[01:01:55] also been an explosion in, in autism.

[01:01:58] So it could be that too.

[01:01:59] All I know is that something unnatural is happening.

[01:02:03] Yes, absolutely.

[01:02:05] Uh, let's do one more and then we can close out.

[01:02:08] Uh, the surgeon general, Jeanette Nishwat.

[01:02:12] I hope I pronounced that right.

[01:02:14] Uh, Dr. Nishwat is a Fox news medical contributor and a sister-in-law of representative

[01:02:19] of Michael Waltz of Florida.

[01:02:21] Not to be concerned, not to be confused with, uh, the Waltz family that is spelled differently.

[01:02:26] Tim Waltz.

[01:02:27] Yeah.

[01:02:28] This, this guy is Michael Waltz.

[01:02:29] Not to be confused with, uh, with tampon Tim, uh, whom Trump has chosen to be his national

[01:02:35] security advisor.

[01:02:36] I don't know that name.

[01:02:37] I think she looks familiar to me when I look at her, I can see her face.

[01:02:41] Cause I, you know, having watched a lot of Fox news in the past, which I don't know.

[01:02:45] I've been watching news.

[01:02:46] So I do a lot of my stuff's just self diving, but I'm interested to see what she does as

[01:02:50] a surgeon general.

[01:02:51] We got some good picks coming up and, um, curiosity has me, uh, has me kind of stoked.

[01:02:56] How about you?

[01:02:57] Yeah, absolutely.

[01:02:58] I mean, I think again, kind of like we mentioned last week, it's going to be an interesting term

[01:03:03] and a lot of different perspectives.

[01:03:05] And I think the people that are being chosen, even right off the bat, first round draft picks

[01:03:10] seem to be stellar candidates.

[01:03:13] And this is the first time I've really ever paid attention to this kind of stuff.

[01:03:18] Um, I was just kind of like, well, election's over.

[01:03:21] President's going to pick his people and who knows who they are, but they know because they're

[01:03:24] all part of the club and I'm not in it, but I think, I don't know.

[01:03:29] I feel like I have more of an ownership, this go around than ever before in my whole life.

[01:03:34] So I think if I'm even, if, if me being engaged is even half of what's happening in the rest

[01:03:39] of the country, uh, I think there's going to be a real close watch on what people are doing

[01:03:45] and saying on all these different facets of a government more so ever than more so than

[01:03:50] ever before.

[01:03:52] I would have to agree with that.

[01:03:54] So we want to thank everybody to listening to the rising republic.

[01:03:57] Um, what a great show.

[01:03:58] Yeah.

[01:03:58] I like talking with Ryan about, about this stuff, right?

[01:04:00] And it's a good conversation as usual.

[01:04:03] Um, oh yeah.

[01:04:04] Off the rails as usual.

[01:04:05] Yeah.

[01:04:05] It's a good time.

[01:04:06] We're completely, we're just so everybody knows we're completely like, we don't, we

[01:04:09] don't get on and talk for a half hour before the show.

[01:04:10] You know, we, it's like small chat, like how you doing pretty good.

[01:04:13] And then, and then I'm usually cutting this off.

[01:04:14] Let's talk about this on the show.

[01:04:15] Just keep things kind of organic.

[01:04:18] Um, but, uh, I, I like, I like sharing with the audience, um, you know, what's going

[01:04:22] on in my life and in your life.

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[01:04:27] of the Republic.

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