The Rising Republic: When Will They Learn

[00:00:01] Looks like there's some turbulence up ahead here. I think you found us. We are leaving wokeness and weakness behind. No more pronouns, no more climate change obsession,

[00:00:28] no more emergency vaccine mandates, no more dudes in dresses. We're done with that. Pete Hegseth, ladies and gentlemen. I give him a round of applause. Yeah, so what do you think, Ryan? Are we done with that? That's about time. I think he said what millions and millions of people have already been thinking and pretty much told the rest of the country a couple months ago. Yeah, we're done with that. Yeah, absolutely. We're done with it. And the thing is, because it does not,

[00:00:58] and we've talked about this many, many times in the past, this woke agenda thing, it's like a fringe of society. And it's basically, you know, the extreme left and then the news media, and then there's the school system. When I talk about like the universities and the liberal school universities and all these, where all the indoctrination happens, these are the groups appeasing the fringe. And by fringe, I mean it's like 4%. Well, and these are the ones that are crying the hardest too

[00:01:27] when the federal funding gets pulled. Which, exactly. And how many of them are complaining? I mean that's a rhetorical question because they're all complaining about all the waste that Doge has uncovered, and it's still ongoing. I guess, have you heard that like there's like, what was it, 3 million? Because we've had like 12 million people, 12 million illegal immigrants come in under the Biden administration. And what, 12? I'm backtracking, 10. Like 10 million illegal immigrants came in under the Biden administration.

[00:01:57] And of those, 3 million of them received social security numbers. Wow. And Medicaid checks. And if you have a social security number, then you can have a vote. Yes, that's the whole thing. So this whole agenda, you know, you can do your own homework on this guys. I'm just saying because I've done my homework on this, and I've listened for I don't know how many sound bites of this, of the left, particularly Pierre, whatever her name was. I can't remember.

[00:02:27] I keep wanting to say Jean Pierre. That's not her name. It's Kareem Pierre, the press secretary under Biden. She was always very adamant that the borders are secure. The borders are not open. The borders are shut down. They're safe. They're protected. Biden said the same thing. So did Kamala Harris. This was nothing short of an invasion this entire time with the Biden administration full on participating in this,

[00:02:52] and even going as far as sending forklifts to the border and holding up the concertina wire so they could come across. And it's a buyout basically for Democratic voters. Oh, yeah. 100%. I mean, it's see-through at this point. The only transparency that the American people are getting is the truth that is coming after the fact. You know, we all knew it was happening. And now it's like, okay, it was happening. And our own government did it. And these are the people that did.

[00:03:20] And everybody's like, yeah, we know. That's why we don't want any. I mean, that's why we voted for the other guy. And it's kind of, you know, I think people are really starting to see some traction with this. You know, the deportation components, the Pete Hegseth and the, you know, that the fact that once again, the things that Donald Trump said he was going to do are actually happening. And half of the population is freaking out.

[00:03:48] And the other half is like, good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. And I don't have a soundbite for about, I'll try to get some soundbites on this next week. But CNN is actually covering, they've been forced to cover on a couple different issues, which is surprising to me that they're actually covering on these issues. But they've managed to cover that the inflation, that it's actually decreasing. And they had some news coverage on that here recently, where they had, they can't ignore it anymore.

[00:04:17] But in a nutshell, they have to cover this, that the inflation, it's just hit a, hit a record, hit lowest point since like 2021, which is a really a big deal. And then finally, they're admitting that they're also on CNN, admitting that 34 felonies against Trump was just bogus, that it was all something that the left conjured up to try to slow and stop Trump from becoming president again.

[00:04:41] And so they're being forced, I think, to tell the truth on a lot of these issues, because 35 percent, as I'm hearing and learning, 35 percent of the Democrats have a favorable view of the Democrats party. And that's not very high. And so when you get favorability low rates that are that low, you're going to have to step back and look, you know, at your organization, at your news company and say, who are we appeasing to exactly? You know, but again, this goes way back up, way above their heads.

[00:05:11] And they have to cover and talk about the news articles that their owners, because they are owned, tell them to cover. And it's my understanding it's all owned by the same people, all of legacy. Yeah. And I can tell you, having seen the inside of the newsroom and worked inside of a newsroom, there is bias. And news media companies will say, oh, no, we're the most unbiased or, you know, we follow good news practice or good standards, ethics, all that kind of bullshit. No, it doesn't happen.

[00:05:41] Whoever's paying the bills gets the final say on what kind of slant goes out on the paper the next day, on the news channel that night, on the radio station, whatever it is. And like you say, at some point, you cannot deny the truth. And what has been happening is a lot of these.

[00:05:58] And it's interesting that this is happening now because a lot of the podcasters and the people, the civil news that Elon Musk was kind of pitching like, hey, look, the people are the media at this point. The media is pretty much lost. You know, these people are breaking news stories and news stations are basically backpedaling because that's it's like the worst thing that can happen is if someone else breaks a news story.

[00:06:26] Whoever gets it first gets traction. They get the sponsors, the advertising, all the stuff. Well, you know, at some point, even if you do miss a break on a story, you still have to cover it. And I think, like you say, they're finally being forced to cover it because it can't be denied at this point. You know? Yeah, because their favorability ratings, it's just getting so low. But it still doesn't make sense to me how, for example, if you know that there's a war going on between Pakistan and India.

[00:06:56] Did you know that there's a ceasefire brokered? I did not. No, of course not, because the media is not covering that. Trump negotiated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan. And he also brokered a deal like a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine here recently. Yeah. So these are things that's going on. And that's not getting coverage. No. The terror. They'll show all sorts of horrible things on the news for all the bad things that Russia is doing to Ukraine or Ukraine.

[00:07:25] And just gaining traction or the battle lines and all this kind of stuff. But, oh, as soon as a peace deal comes out, we don't care. Right. What? What about the tariff war between the United States and China? You know, there's not a lot of coverage about that. There has been. That's something that's hard to ignore because so much comes in from China. We have so many imports from China. And so it's kind of hard to ignore that, I believe. And so there's a little bit of coverage on it.

[00:07:50] But like you, like you haven't even heard, didn't even hear about the Pakistan India ceasefire thing because it's not being covered. But both China and Russia because of, not Russia, I'm sorry, China and the United States because of Trump and Zheng Qing Chong Chong sat down. They had a discussion about this. I guess we're at a 90-day tariff pause. They're working out, negotiating something, but it's not being covered at all.

[00:08:18] What about the prescription prices that's been slashed in half by an executive order that Trump did? Did you hear about that one? I did. And, you know, my parents are leaning on the left side of things. And a couple weeks ago, they were just terrified. Oh, we're going to lose all Social Security and we're not going to be able to eat and all this kind of stuff. I'm just kind of sitting back like, really? Why do they think that? With all the ways that they're – I have no idea because of the stuff they're watching. It's because the left pushes that stuff on the news. Yeah. There's no credit back at.

[00:08:48] Your medication costs are going down. Your Social Security is more secure because they're ripping apart all of the fraud and, you know, the misspending and all that kind of stuff instead of funding people that are 120 years old and not even born yet through Social Security. That's money that's going back in. So, I mean, it's just – but, I mean, there's a certain point where you don't really – there's no point in arguing with some people. Just let them believe what they want to believe while at the same time you can see the facts for yourself, you know?

[00:09:17] Well, I think a lot of it also is the argument because let's say, for example, that Doge goes through and it covers 5,000 people who are over 150 years of age that are still receiving Social Security checks. Okay? And let's say that they take this information to the president and the president says, what's going on here? And they do an investigation and finds these people don't exist anymore. That somebody's committing fraud. So, those checks stop. Okay?

[00:09:45] So, the Social Security checks stop and then all of a sudden it's reported to the news that Trump is stopping Social Security checks. Yeah. And that's how the news gets twisted to conform to an agenda. And then all of a sudden you got – and you got – you know, elderly people are easily scared because – especially if they're on a fixed income. It's like that's all that they have to go with. My mom was one of them.

[00:10:06] And yeah, I mean, if you sit there and if you – and people – I mean, if we haven't learned anything over the last five years, it's how much you can manipulate people with the concept of fear. And you start putting fear in people's minds about their futures and their incomes. You can control them any way you want. You can make them vote the way you want. You can make them spend the way you want. You know, it's scary. I mean, you can make them wear masks outside in their car by themselves if you want.

[00:10:33] I still see it today, which is just absolutely absurd. But, I mean, fear is extremely powerful. And they have capitalized on that to the extent that, you know, people almost glom onto it. You know, they want the next thing that they can fear. But those people walking around with saran wrap around their face or with fish bowls on their heads are the same people that telling you that Trump is going to take away your Social Security. Yeah.

[00:10:57] How about – what about the last – did you know that the last Hamas hostage, his release was negotiated by Trump? I did not. Well, because it was going to cover that. I think I might have heard something about that. Well, Trump posted this. But it was really, really quiet, though. It wasn't – I mean, like you say, it wasn't really reported anywhere. It was just – but that's a big deal. It is a big deal. Trump posted on X,

[00:11:21] I'm happy to announce that Eden Alexander, an American citizen who has been held hostage since October 2023. That's like a year and a half. Yeah. He's coming home to his family. I am grateful to all those involved in making this monumental news happen. This was a step taken in good faith towards the United States and the efforts of the mediators, Qatar and Egypt, to put an end to this brutal war and return all living hostages and remains to their loved ones. You know? So – And no coverage.

[00:11:49] No coverage whatsoever on it because Trump will a lot of times release some of this stuff on his own. And a lot of the things that he releases – a lot of the things that CNN covers, for example, is because they're forced cover because Trump will release this. Yeah. And so like you said earlier, you know, the news – it's first to report. That's what – that's the big race in legacy, the first to report. And it doesn't matter if it's true or not. They just want a story. The more sensation it is, the better.

[00:12:16] Nobody cares about a cop that pulled a cat out of a tree. But God forbid a cop put his knee in the back of a guy that's high on methamphetamines or whatever else, you know, and he has a heart attack and dies. That's sensational. A cop doing a good deed is not sensational. If it bleeds, it leads. What about the – let me see here. Yeah. So me and you was talking briefly before the show about the incentive to self-report. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I thought that was kind of interesting.

[00:12:45] I mean, we were talking about Pete Heggseth and you had that soundbite before the show. You know, I haven't been as tuned into social media in the last couple of weeks because I've been tied up with other projects. But – and it's actually been pretty good because I – sometimes you get on that stuff too much and it'll make your head spin. But I did happen across this – one of the – what do they call it? When he televises the, you know, the executive orders.

[00:13:15] And I saw that and I was like, huh, that's kind of interesting how we're going to offer an incentive for self-deportation of illegal immigrants. And that's really interesting to me because you have folks that have come over here illegally. They are trying to do one of two things. They're either going to try and live the American dream or they're going to try and sabotage the American dream. One or the other.

[00:13:38] And the people who realize that their choices are to get – to self-deport and try again at home and come back the right way or stay and get deported and never have that opportunity. I think more people are going to take it. Good people are going to take it.

[00:13:57] And then what's left, I think what that will do is focus the efforts of ICE and whoever else on the people because, I mean, if you had bad – if you had ill intention for the United States and you were here and you didn't care about breaking the laws and you're just going to break more laws until you get caught, well, you know, ICE can focus their attention on those folks and get them out faster.

[00:14:21] I mean, because basically if you choose not to take that, then not only did you come into the country illegally, but you have planned to stay illegally. Yeah. So let's be clear. Nobody that's listening to this is against anybody coming to the United States and living out the American dream. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. It's about people who come here illegally, right, that are flooding our borders and breaking into this country illegally and not going through the process.

[00:14:50] That has been lawfully established by our legislators. And we're not – I mean, we're not just talking – because you notice they didn't say, oh, we'll ship you back to Mexico or, oh, we'll ship you back to Venezuela. We'll ship you back to the country you came from or any country you want. We got people coming in from China, from Afghanistan, from – and they're all coming up through Mexico. But they're all – you know, they're not just Mexicans. They're not just Venezuelans or from Uruguay or Paraguay, whatever.

[00:15:19] I mean, these are people from all over the world who use that channel, that river of people to sneak their way into the country. So people got to realize that this is a one-way ticket back to India or Australia or Afghanistan. You know, but guess what? If you're not – if you're here illegally, the lines have been drawn. And you even have a chip, you know.

[00:15:43] If you were a decent person, you got swept up in the flow, you know, you get one pass. And if you don't take it, then you're going to be treated like the rest of the criminals. And I think that's completely fair. I think that's the way it should be. Yeah, because let's face it, if you desire – if you have a dream to come to the United States, become an American citizen, your first act of doing that is to break our laws and disrespect our country. That don't – you know, that don't bode well with me.

[00:16:10] And then just to make things a little bit worse – and I've used this analogy before, but if I was to give you a bag of M&Ms, let's say 1,000 M&Ms, and that one or two of those M&Ms were a deadly poisonous M&M that would kill you instantly. And say, here, have an M&M. Take two M&Ms. You wouldn't want to take any M&M from that bag. Yeah. And that's what it is with this system that the Biden administration has placed, just to let them flood in so they can buy Democratic voters pretty much.

[00:16:37] They're coming into our country, and they're not caring about the citizens of the United States. And all these Congress people who are going over to this other country, I think Venezuela, there was a couple of congressmen that went to Venezuela trying to visit this Kilmer Albrego Garcia fella that has become sensationalized by the MS-13 guy. Have these congresspersons visited the family members of the victims that have been killed by MS-13 gang members?

[00:17:08] You know? Or maybe see the methods that they use? Right. I mean, all you got to do is see a couple of pictures or videos and be like, oh, that's what MS-13 stands for. Huh. If they cared half as much for the citizens of this country as they pretend to care for these people, you know, this agenda, this narrative, whatever you want to call it. I mean, if they cared half as much, we might have something going on here,

[00:17:35] but they don't care at all about the American people. This is all a show for them to kind of appease the fringe. For what purpose? I don't know. Yeah. But something that drives me even crazier, you know, is that all this funding that, like I mentioned earlier, that the Obama or Biden administration gave to the Medicaid checks and the social security numbers. It's just to buy these people. You know, so now that Trump is in office and Doge has uncovered this,

[00:18:05] it's even worse than a practice. It's fraud at the highest levels. He put an end to it and he's taken those funds that were previously set aside for illegal aliens and he is now, you won't hear this on the media either, he's building a national center for homeless veterans with those funds. And that's something to talk about. Yeah. And I mean, that was the biggest thing that people were complaining about.

[00:18:30] Why are we sheltering people who are coming here illegally into this country in five-star hotels and we've got veterans who were seriously struggling with mental health, alcohol abuse, drug abuse on the streets in the middle of winter, you know, scrounging to get by when these people have essentially served their country and their mental state is a wreck as a result. That's not right. Born and raised in the United States, went through military training, did whatever they did.

[00:18:59] And then now we're just going to slap them to the curb and be like, no, I'm sorry. Here's a five-star hotel for some illegal alien. No wonder people are upset. But that's awesome. And like you said, you won't hear about it. No, it won't get covered. Let me see here. I want to play something real quick. I got to pull up my laptop. So did you hear there was on Politico? You're familiar with Politico? Yes. Do you know Sebastian Gorka? Mm-hmm. Okay. So Sebastian Gorka was on Politico and they're grinding him.

[00:19:29] And I came across this on, it was like a short I saw on YouTube. I got to see the full video on this. So I went to YouTube and I just did a search for the full interview with Sebastian Gorka on Politico. So this, they're trying to, they're talking about the illegal immigration issue. And me and you talked about it in the past, the situation with the speedy trial stuff. Like they're saying they deserve due process.

[00:19:57] And basically, so there's, we're trying to deport 10 million or more illegal immigrants. And the left somehow thinks it's feasible to give them all into process when many of them are known gang members. We're going to bog down our court systems with all of this, this kind of stuff. And so this is Politico now trying to catch Sebastian Gorka. Listen, this is, I love his comeback. In the interest of speeding up deportations, which was a massive campaign promise from, from President Trump.

[00:20:27] He's done the border piece of it. Now, now it's, it's the folks in the country. Do you believe it's okay to skirt due process? Never happened. Due process has never been skirted. This is another fake news canard. The fact that some, so let me, let me be clear here. Okay. Let me be clear. When an organization is designated by the secretary of state as a foreign terrorist organization,

[00:20:52] every single stinking member is a terrorist by U.S. law. I'm going to pause right there to make sure you can hear this. You can hear this, right? Oh, yeah. Good. Because he's about to mop the floor with this Politico interviewer chick. All right. Here we go again. There is no need for them to be adjudicated as a terrorist. Also, are you really hissing? What kind of a child are you? We're trying to save lives and you're hissing. Go back to high school and play spitball with your friends.

[00:21:23] What absolute children. I've never played spitball before. You've never used spitballs? Well, maybe not in Ukraine. No spitballs in Ukraine. So the fact is, when you have people, I looked at Politico's coverage. Politico used the Maryland father fake news. Maryland father, twice adjudicated by an immigration judge to be here illegally and to be deported. An individual who's arrested on body cam footage.

[00:21:53] Anyone watching right now can watch him being stopped by local police. He's talking about Kilmar Abrega Garcia. ...illegals in his vehicle and no driving license. An individual involved in human trafficking who beat his fiance. And this is a Maryland father for Politico. You don't need and you don't get the due process if you're a member of a terrorist organization. Well, some judges, including those appointed by President Trump, disagree.

[00:22:22] Well, so what? Could they be wrong? Could a judge possibly be wrong? Maybe? Well, that's why we have the process and this is likely... No, no, no, no, no. You're not listening. If you are a terrorist of an FTO, it's not a traffic ticket. You don't go to county court. You're a member of a federally designated terrorist organization. It's really that simple. If you're a wife beater and a human trafficker, goodbye.

[00:22:50] Abrega Garcia case aside, in the interest of getting folks that you believe are badass... A question of belief. So, again, why are you saying belief? Because we haven't been given a lot of evidence. Is 110,000 deaths a year a question of belief? Absolutely not. Nobody recovers from Fenton. You know that. Absolutely not. And that is devastated. And I've met many families who have been devastated by it.

[00:23:17] However, we also have a process in this country for figuring out who the bad actors are. And we figured it out. It's the six cartels and the two gangs that have caused 110,000 deaths a year. I think where the tricky point is the evidence, which due process usually helps provide, of whether or not... Why are you talking about if these are people who are U.S. citizens? Because we don't know. Because due process is... So you're defending members of FTOs? No, I'm not defending anybody.

[00:23:46] What you're doing right now is you're sending designated terrorists should have the rights of somebody who's in a contractual dispute with their neighbor. I think the transparency in why that designation is given to a certain person is important. It's very easy what the transparency is. It's like a member of Al-Qaeda. If you're a member of Al-Qaeda, you're a terrorist. How do you know if there are members of these gangs? What I'm saying is... You mean the tattoos MS-13 on our knuckles doesn't help it?

[00:24:17] Those... Do you have tattoos of Al-Qaeda? The tattoo did not say MS-13. I don't want to get into that. Oh, of course it does. It's just accidents. The four symbols represent the letters MS. This is why Politico is a joke. This is why you are gutter-pressed in fake news. That those four symbols that just happen to comport with the letters MS and the numbers 13 don't, in this case, represent MS-13. You're sitting here live defending a member of MS-13.

[00:24:46] That's why I regret coming here. Because this isn't journalism. This is protecting those who hate America. Shame on you. We are saving lives. Saving lives. How about Maryland fathers compared to Maryland mothers? Like Rachel Marin, mother of five, raped and murdered and thrown in a ditch. How about Jocelyn Nungare, age 12, raped a mile from her home and thrown in a ditch?

[00:25:13] It's strange that Politico doesn't do articles about her, that mother, or that 12-year-old girl. Why is that? Why is the MS-13 guy with the knuckle tattoos more important in terms of due process than the lives of 12-year-old girls brutally raped? It's weird that the priorities shift to defending the member of an FTO, but not the children and the women. Dan Crenshaw told me a story once of a 16-year-old girl who came, was smuggled across this border.

[00:25:43] The parents paid $5,000 for her to live in America, the land of milk and honey. She ended up locked in a room in New York, raped by more than a dozen men every day for 18 months until she escaped. She went to Dan Crenshaw's office, and I'm no friend of Dan Crenshaw's, okay? He's still got TDS. And that girl said to him, please close the border so another girl doesn't have to be raped by 12 strange men every day for 18 months.

[00:26:13] It's strange that Politico doesn't cover those stories. Could you tell me why? We have covered this. No, you haven't. You have not covered those stories. I'd like to see the Jocelyn Nungare, Rachel Marin stories in comparison to the Russia-Russia collusion garbage. I mean, let's be honest here. Let's move on. You have an agenda. I want to talk about, well, I actually have a separate question about the deportations. I'm stopping it right there. Yeah.

[00:26:43] I'm absolutely in love with Sebastian Gorka in a non-gay way. And, you know, here's the thing. That poor gal and anybody in the newsroom, copy editor, and all up the line deserve to have their J-card revoked. There's absolutely no reason they should be in journalism. It's the journalism dude. Because he's absolutely right. They're doing nothing but pandering to a set of beliefs.

[00:27:11] And it's no longer, it's not a news organization. You call yourself Politico, which most people would assume that that would have to do with maybe political style of news. But then you don't cover any of the political side of things. You know, you're just basically, like he said, pandering toward, you know, NGOs. Not NGOs. I'm sorry. FTOs. Federal. Yeah. FTOs. Yeah. It's federal terrorist organizations. Yeah. And that's exactly what she was doing. And she kept backpedaling to try and circle back to that whole thing.

[00:27:40] Oh, well, what about this? What about this? You have not covered. And that was true. I mean, you know, how much they sit there and they'll cover Russia collusion. But then all of a sudden, you know, they won't cover the fentanyl deaths. And like he said, the child rape scenarios and all that kind of stuff. But all of a sudden you get a Maryland dad instead of an MS-13 member. They throw that spin on there and all of a sudden they are losing credibility. And rightly so. And this is the route that all of legacy media has taken pretty much.

[00:28:11] Pretty much. Yeah. And it's sad. I mean, like I said, I used to be in journalism and that's why I got out. Because I could see this happening from the inside. And that was 20 years ago that this was happening. 25 years ago almost. It's only gotten worse from there, which is unfortunate. Because news used to be prestigious. News used to be where you find and tell the stories as they are and root out lies.

[00:28:40] But what we're saying is the opposite. Yes. Where you have to go and seek the truth because everything that you're being told by the quote unquote news is a lie. Well, they put a spin on a truth and it makes it a falsehood. Correct. And I don't want that. When I turn on the news station, and I think that's what they've done. If everybody just reported the truth, there would only be a need for one news station. You know what I'm saying?

[00:29:07] And I think that's what they've done is try to sensationalize so many of these issues. And so it's become this big lying conglomerate where all these organizations are now trying to produce. It's almost sort of like reading a mad magazine, but with a media spin to it. And it's sad that we can't even – because when I turn on the news, I just want to see the facts. Leave your opinion out of it. Leave the twisting out of it. Just throw out the facts. And that's not happening anymore. And I think – yeah.

[00:29:36] I mean, I have my own opinions about that because, I mean, news stations that bring people on and try and, you know, add an opinion after they start telling a story or telling a news fact or taking a snippet and then be like, oh, let's talk about this. Let's get these people's opinions. It does sensationalize it. And you look back at the – like the late 80s, early 90s, news reporting was news reporting.

[00:30:02] It was, you know, people just saying, oh, in this country, you know, this country was doing this to that country or trade is doing this or stocks are doing this. And it was just facts. It was nothing else. And beyond that, you could do your own research, but there wasn't a, you know, oh, you know, there's bombing happening in Syria. Let's find out what these people think about it, you know. That never existed 30 years ago. No.

[00:30:32] And I think because that has come to the forefront of news, people think that the opinions are the news and that is not the case. And it's almost like the opinion page in the newspaper has become the opinion paper with a page of news. And you have to be able to sift through the actual news itself to find out – or the opinions themselves to find out where the news, where the truth actually lies.

[00:30:56] And it's sad because, you know, you almost got to watch – because if you go to, say, Fox or CNN, any news outlet that's in the legacy, a lot of these things they're giving us are snippets. And they can be taken completely out of context. And I see it a lot with – like when Trump will sit down with CNN or MSNBC or ABC or anybody and do an interview with them, and they'll edit the hell out of it and release content that fits their narrative.

[00:31:25] But then all of a sudden, another – let's say that happened with CNN. And then Fox says, well, see, they want a story too, right? So they're like, well, here's the real story. And they'll slam CNN into the wall saying, here's what we discovered. Here's the full interview that you edited and mocked up and made Trump look stupid. But here's the full – it's all about sensation. And all these guys are probably – I know they're behind the scenes going at it back and forth, but they're all owned by the same person who's banking with both Fox and CNN.

[00:31:55] And I know CNN is tanking. I don't even know how they're surviving at this point, probably because a billionaire is paying their bills. Yeah. I mean, and as far as I'm concerned, good riddance. If they're going to put people on air that are basically pandering toward an agenda, then they get what they deserve. At the end of the day, they're not doing their job. And it's kind of like a restaurant, in my opinion.

[00:32:21] If you go to a restaurant and you get bad service, you're not going to go back there. And sometimes you'll go there because it's convenient. Or sometimes you'll go there because it's just routine for you. But eventually, over time, if that service is horrible and the food is junk and the cost is high, eventually that restaurant will dry up. And I think that's what we're starting to see with these big major news conglomerations.

[00:32:46] There's only so much that someone's going to do because maybe one billionaire owns these companies or several of them, whatever. And they're just dumping money into it. But when they go to sell it, it's not going to be worth anything. It's the same as Walmart. Whoever owns Walmart now, I guess it's somebody, an ancestor of Sam Walton. Probably not. But he could have 10,000 stores across the United States and you've got one that's not selling bad.

[00:33:15] He could afford to let it keep going even though it's only seen 100 customers a day. Yeah. He could keep it going without shutting it down because he's a quad billionaire. Yeah. And it's like that here. But the thing is, the United States, the citizens, the people that watch the news are tired of finding greasy fingerprints on the side of their plate, as you exemplified a while ago with the restaurant owner scenario, and they're tired of finding hairs in their spaghetti. They're tired of these issues, you know, the cockroaches in the kitchen.

[00:33:43] And, you know, this is what they're serving up. And in time, people are going, look, I can do better. And just move on. Exactly. And that's just it. It's going to take some time. But, you know what? These people are, there's a comeuppance. And these people are going to see it. And it's not going to be pretty. But I honestly, based on their typical mode, is they're going to double down and make it more sensational and do what they can to keep viewers and all this kind of stuff.

[00:34:13] And, like, it's just, it's not going to work at that point because people are going to realize that the news, quote unquote, is not the news that they used to get or the news that their mom and dad used to get, you know? Yeah, it's changed. Everything slid to the left. Let's take a quick break here. We'll come right back. I want to show, we'll enjoy some, a little comedy on the wider side of things and switch gears a little bit. And I want to talk about some of my upcoming, I guess, some upcoming news we talked about last week.

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[00:35:59] It's millionpodcasts.com. That's millionpodcasts.com. Welcome back to the Rise of the Republic. Okay, as I said before, I like to keep things on a lighter note every once in a while. But I scrolled. I can't remember where I found this. I tumbled onto it accidentally, I think. I don't know if it was on. So I scroll through YouTube shorts a lot. It's quick. If you're just going through the long videos on YouTube, sometimes you might find a 15, 20, 30-minute, an hour video.

[00:36:29] I don't like to stay in the shorts. And I just kind of thumb through real fast, just browse through, and I find a topic that I like. And this popped up in my feed, and I want to share with you because I thought it was quite hilarious. So just switching gears here on a lighter note. Check this out. This is the normining. I'm sorry, the norming in America. The norming. It's a new day. Today, the sun is rising. The birds are singing.

[00:36:58] And things are returning to normal. It's norming in America. Today, we're actually arresting shoplifters. And fewer businesses are being burned down. All over America, pronouns are being dropped from bios. Men are not having babies. And fewer drag queens are flashing their genitals at children. Videos like this one aren't being shadow banned as much.

[00:37:27] People are saying master bedroom. And look at that. White people are reappearing in commercials. Oh, and guys. We can say guys again. America, the fever has broken. Now we can be sensible, nicer, and normal. Join us. And let's never go back to those weird, angry, divisive times again.

[00:37:56] It's norming in America. Have a great norming. You hear? I love it. Daily Wire put that out, actually. What's funny and worth sharing. That's killer. It's norming in America. All that being said, you got some, we talked about last week. Is it Thrivalist? You got some stuff covered? Yeah, Thrivalist. The Thrivalist Fair is coming up this weekend. It's a three-day weekend.

[00:38:25] So anybody here on the western portion of the United States, if you're interested in stopping by, please do check it out. I'm going to be teaching three classes up north of Spokane, Washington. And if you're interested, do make sure you get tickets. A lot of folks from the Seattle area tend to come over and see what this is all about. Whether it's going to be preparedness, survival, all kinds of stuff, guest speakers. I'll be teaching three classes. And I'm looking forward to it.

[00:38:52] If you're interested, do check it out at Thrivalists.org. Or just look up the Thrivalist Fair. I'm sure they got a Facebook page. Thrivalists.org. So do check it out if you're interested. And if you do come by, maybe you'll recognize my voice. If not, maybe you'll see me floating around. But do come say hi. And I do like to meet listeners and check them out. So if you come by, come check me out.

[00:39:19] And we'll say, hey, take a photo and shake hands and shoot the shit. That'd be really cool. So tell me then, what classes are you teaching? So I'm going to be teaching. I'm actually going to be doing a storytelling of our experience during the hurricane, hammocking during the hurricane over in North Carolina. And then I'm going to be teaching a class on freeze drying for survival.

[00:39:48] And then a class on getting kids involved in preparedness. So and methods that parents can use to kind of encourage their activities and teach them without really scaring them, you know. So it's pretty well received. They've all been pretty good classes so far. The one for hammock camping in a hurricane, that one's a little bit – I mean, I haven't taught that before.

[00:40:16] It's more just kind of a storytelling kind of thing. But, I mean, you and I were both there. We've talked about it on our first episode together. And, I mean, I think a lot of people are kind of interested in that perspective, you know, the reality of when things really tend to go down. So, you know, people in my area – and everybody that's listening probably knows you live in Washington. I live in Illinois. But we both came together in North Carolina. And we have – we usually see each other every year in North Carolina. In September, we go to prepper camp.

[00:40:44] And it's the one time when all kinds of people like us get together and they – I teach. It looks like you're getting into teaching, so maybe you can bring that to prepper camp sometime. It's interesting for us, for you, me, to meet and hook up with other like-minded people. And because this – last year was the first year I ever taught at prepper camp. I've taught at many other survivalist slash prepper type events.

[00:41:13] And I've always – because first of and foremost, you know, it's generally at those types of events you get – either if you don't get a free vending table, you get heavily discounted vending tables. And you get to sit down. And I, as an author, get to sell my books. But last year, though, we had this hurricane come through. But I was getting ready to say that even in my area, in Illinois where I live, people still talk about those hurricanes. And I said – and I'll say, you know, I was there. And I'm like, what? Yeah, I was there.

[00:41:43] Me and my buddy, the guy I podcast with, my co-host, we were on the side of a mountain there in North Carolina. And when this hurricane came through. And it was kind of rough. But fortunately, and I don't want – if you could talk about it, cool, that's okay. I don't want to give away anything in case you're talking about it in your class or anything like that. But camping on the side of that mountain, Ryan, I believe that helped us a lot.

[00:42:12] And that's probably something you talk about in your class. Yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. I mean, that's one of the things. It's like positioning yourself, you know, even knowing you're going into a storm and that kind of stuff. Which – and, yeah. I mean, there's a lot to it. But if you want to know more, do come to the event. It's worth it. You know, it's a killer event. And I don't know that my storytelling is going to be recorded or anything. So –

[00:42:41] Yeah, you don't want to give your class away. You want people to go to Thrivales. They want to hear the story. Go to Thrivales.org and see what time Ryan Buford's class is and sign up for it or get tickets, whatever it works out. Do what you got to do, yeah. And you got some news coming up too, by the way. What's going on with you on your end? Yeah. So two weeks ago when I – when we talked about this on the last podcast, I had mentioned that I had a new book coming out.

[00:43:10] But I was kind of tight-lipped about it. I didn't talk about what it was. I did mention that I had six beta readers hired in for me, three males, three females, three friends, three strangers, all of them vetted. I made sure, you know, that all of them were good to go. I just – I'm not just picking, you know, random people out of the ether, you know, to read my books and stuff. But they're from a 10,000-person group in which I'm a member of 12 featured authors.

[00:43:39] And I had a lot of applicants. And, of course, you know, when you get a lot of applicants, you – I mean, especially when you're picking out four or five. I went with six to just keep the – like I said, three strangers, three friends, three males, three females. I wanted it rounded and fair. And I can't pick everybody, you know. And I feel bad that there's a lot of people there that I know and that were friends with me. And they're avid readers of my materials. And I wish I could have taken everybody along for the ride.

[00:44:09] And there is a rhyme to my reasoning. I don't want anybody to feel like they're left out. I did when I made the post. Asked them not to melt if they didn't get selected. But, however, all that being said, I gave them one month from – I think it was May – what is today? I want to say May 8th. I want to say May 8th, 10 days ago when I gave them the book. You have one month.

[00:44:34] And then after that, to read this book, after that, we're moving on to the next phase. 50% of the readers. So three of them are done. And I'm getting really positive feedback. All that being said, I was really tight-lipped two weeks ago when I mentioned this first. I did tell everybody that it was about an EMP book. And I want on this show to reveal for the very first time the title of that book.

[00:44:58] And if you are listening to this show and you think I'm your people and Ryan is your people, then I would encourage you to head over to the Dirty Dozen on Facebook if you have a Facebook account. Sign up for the DD12. Log in there. Apply for membership. That's where you're going to find people like me, like Ryan. And if you're an avid reader, you want to be able to listen and read. Follow me pretty avidly there.

[00:45:26] That being said, I'm going to be going there pretty soon. And posting, I would say, the next phase of this is posting my cover, doing a cover reveal. But right now, I want to do a title reveal. I want to do it right here on the show. The title of my new book, and if I had a drum, I would play it right now. I don't have one. It's going to be EMP, Cade's War. This character is kind of a mixture of everything that I am, that is me.

[00:45:55] This character is a police officer, veteran as I am, a Marine Corps veteran as I am. And he worked in the mental health field when the EMP strikes over St. Louis. This is a state-of-the-art facility. I'm not giving away any spoilers here as I talk about this. You can read about the stuff that's going to be on the back of the blurb. But that being said, chaos ensues when a state-of-the-art facility goes completely dead and the generators shut down.

[00:46:24] You can imagine what would happen when 200 of Illinois' worst of the worst mentally ill patients suddenly break free and there's nothing holding them back anymore. And not just that, but everything across the Midwest, as far as we know in my story, I don't want to reveal too much, is down and out for the count. We're talking total grid down. So I'm very excited to announce the character's name is Cade Giles.

[00:46:52] Cade is a Marine veteran police officer and is about to retire from Menard Psychiatric Facility. Nice. Is it C-A-D-E? C-A-D-E, yep. Cade is a Marine veteran police officer and is a Marine veteran police officer.

[00:47:07] I'm going to be sending out some more information here pretty soon in my newsletter. Go to www.ldhogan.com. Hit the subscribe button.

[00:47:37] And if you're not already subscribed, that's how you do it. And then I will be sending out a newsletter with information as it comes out for me. Nice. Well, that's awesome. I mean, even just listening to you talking about that, I can read between the lines and that's probably a hell of a story. So count me in. I'm excited to read it. Everybody, I'm getting really good feedback on it. But it's probably sounding like it's, aside from Oath Takers, which has always been one of the most beloved books by my readers, it's a nonfiction.

[00:48:07] But the book that I'm writing now will probably be the most loved fiction. It's just, it's intense. It's a very passionate book because it's me in a nutshell. Everything that you read about it, the stories that are in it, the patients that are in it, the environment. It's all very real and based on facts and things I experienced in my career at the place where I worked full time.

[00:48:35] Of course, I have to change the name, location, and things like that for fiction storytelling. But the events are based on factual events. And so, yes, it's just, this is me pouring my heart out and my life experiences into this book. And so, the arc that this character goes through from being a black and white, kind of a law abiding, right and wrong, no abstract, we're in the book, kind of a person.

[00:49:02] His arc going into a new world order where the grid is down and chaos is ensuing. The arc of the character that he has to go through this phase of being where one way that he's used to living is no longer negotiable. You can't live this way anymore. You have to. You're thrown headlong into this new phase, this new life, and there's no time to adjust. Like, you have to do it now.

[00:49:31] You have to adapt or bad things are going to happen. Like I said, I poured myself into this. I'm really hoping that it bodes really well with the readers. And so far, with my beta readers, it's batting 100, five out of five stories. Nice. I'm excited. And when does that come out? Yeah, I don't have a date on it yet.

[00:49:55] Like I said, right now, I've given, we're about two weeks out from me taking this story, applying what the beta readers have given me. So when a beta reader reads an author's stuff and gives to him or her recommendations, he can choose if he wants to apply the recommendations or not. Okay.

[00:50:20] Sometimes an author has one reason for not wanting to follow through on a recommendation of a beta reader. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not right or wrong. And there's other times when a detail is very important. Like I was talking to you at the beginning before we started hitting the record button that if I have, for example, I have a character that had a rifle on page 23, but she has a pistol on page 76. What happened? How did that transition occur?

[00:50:48] Sometimes it's an error on the side of the author. And so there has to go, there's a time of what we call rewrites where an author has to go back and make some changes. Same thing with, when I'm done with the beta readers, I've made the recommended changes. I send it to the editor. The editor then has a separate job to fix spelling and grammar and sentence structure and that kind of thing. But she also reads it thoroughly or he reads it thoroughly and sends it back to you with recommendations.

[00:51:15] You can choose to make those recommendations, the changes, or leave them the same. So these are periods that we call rewrites. And so you have to take those rewrites and make adjustments to them. And if there's adjustments that need to be made, it goes back to the editor again. And it's a very, very small amount usually of editing. So you might have to pay the editor a little bit more and then it comes back to you until finally, you know, everything is good and kosher. You hit the approve all changes. You make the modifications, hit the approve all option.

[00:51:44] And then at that point right there, fortunately for me, I don't have to hire an editor or I'm sorry, a graphic designer because I can graphic design my own books. Yeah. Yeah. So all that's done for me pretty much. And I also am able to do my own eBooks. I'm an eBook formatter. So I do all that on my own. It goes up to Amazon. And from that time space, it's like three or four days. So we might be looking possibly two months out or less before this book gets published.

[00:52:13] But I will be making the announcement here for sure. And also my newsletter. Nice. So get on Doug's socials and listen to the podcast if you want to find out more about that. L.A.Hogan.com. Let's call it quits from here. Ryan, you got anything else you want to add in before we cut out? No, I'm good. Just keep your head, folks. You know, stay in tune with what you have going on at home, but also keep your head down and do the thing. We're all on this together, as Red Green used to say.

[00:52:42] Keep your head on, folks. This is L. Douglas Hogan and Ryan Buford on the Rise Republic. Y'all have a great day.