Join us as we discuss the latest news and developments in the world of politics, including the firing of CNN's Brian Stelter and the ouster of Liz Cheney. Plus, Donald Trump has endorsed Democrats, fulfilling the prophecy.
00:01:18.000CNN is collapsing, and You know, on Tuesday, just two days ago, Liz Cheney lost her primary.
00:01:28.000And we were all just so excited to see the establishment crumble, to see now these moves made against CNN.
00:01:34.000We're going into the midterms, and I just got to warn everybody, don't sit back thinking you got it in the bag, because this is what they're trying to lull you into a false sense of security.
00:02:57.000I also own a company called Fieldcraft Survival that teaches preparedness and everything, anything revolving a worst case scenario to citizens, situation awareness, tactical training, the list goes on.
00:03:13.000So hold on, you're quite literally a fad.
00:03:15.000I am a bootlicker according to a lot of people.
00:03:27.000So there was an article that was released when I started this group called American Contingency, which is like a community group based on the BLM and Antifa activities, which you're very familiar with.
00:03:35.000I mean, it's one of the reasons why a lot of these things have evolved out of that.
00:03:39.000That's the good that came out of the bad.
00:03:41.000And I started this American Contingency idea of just pulling people together, doing what a Special Operations Sergeant Major would do.
00:03:48.000Like, hey, let's leverage our assets and do something positive here.
00:03:52.000And then I was called immediately a right-wing extremist and white nationalist, which is crazy because I identify as an Asian guy.
00:04:01.000To clarify, you're quite literally an Asian guy.
00:04:04.000I'm quite literally a six-foot-one Asian man, which is rare, but I'm half Korean.
00:04:10.000My dad was in the army, met my mom in Korea when he was stationed there.
00:04:13.000And I took offense to this, but I could do nothing because all the platforms cancelled me.
00:04:18.000Facebook, Instagram, I fought to get those back and got a couple of them back, but not before USA Today advertised the entire article that was written by obviously a leftist journalist who had an agenda.
00:04:32.000CNN reached out to me and said, hey, we want to talk to you because they were running a piece on Proud Boys.
00:04:38.000Talked to me for an hour and realized, oh, this dude's just a normal guy who's trying to run a business and be positive in his community.
00:04:47.000And then of recent, Project Veritas released this document that said, American Contingency is a militia violent extremist organization, a banner, for all of these white nationalists and domestic extremists.
00:08:08.000If, you know, if you're dependent on ratings, you want to convince everybody, just keep watching us, keep watching us.
00:08:11.000But if you want to be honest about the idea of spreading truth and doing journalism, then what we say here is, oh, you should watch other shows.
00:08:18.000You should watch The Left, you should watch The Right, you should watch CNN, Fox News.
00:08:21.000Determine for yourself who you think is telling the truth and who you can trust.
00:08:23.000Yeah, I think a sign of greatness and confidence is when you you encourage other people to go experience other things other than you.
00:08:30.000And then because they do and they trust you and they find out that their life is better as a result, then they come back and they want to hear more from what what else should I do?
00:08:38.000Because you're giving them honest, like, you know, objective advice.
00:08:41.000Yeah, I like the idea that his new boss came out and said, hey, we're going to get back to telling news stories.
00:08:48.000And how can you argue or debate with that?
00:08:50.000You know, he said, hey, we're a little bit too political.
00:08:52.000We want to get back to our origin story, which is telling news, which is the right thing.
00:10:02.000It was the news that I leaned on when I was going through special operations training, special forces training, when the global war on terror was initiating with the invasion of Iraq and we were already in Afghanistan.
00:10:14.000CNN is the coverage I depended and leaned on for accurate information, which is crazy because, you know, fighting the war and then being away from home and not paying attention to news, to come home to that, I think in 2016 when I started paying attention again to the news, it's like, what's going on here?
00:10:30.000Well, I used to talk about, a couple years ago, the CNN challenge.
00:10:33.000The CNN challenge was to turn on CNN, and then, it was to be watching Fox News, and then turn on CNN, and the challenge was, can you find a time when they're not talking about Trump?
00:10:49.000And so, it used to be that I would, when I'm doing work, I have CNN on, while I'm working.
00:10:54.000And it's for, if breaking news happens, they'll have it very quickly.
00:10:58.000And then eventually, something happened with, it was Iran, it was protests, or something like that, and they were talking about Trump, and then I was like, I'm seeing on Twitter something's going on, and so I switched to Fox, and there it is.
00:11:11.000Front and center on Fox News, protests erupting in Iran, and I was like, oh wow.
00:11:15.000Switched back to CNN, and then I was like, what are they doing?
00:11:17.000There's like major international crisis happening, and they're talking about Trump?
00:11:21.000Trump's not even relevant to the news right now.
00:11:23.000Like, he didn't do anything, they were just talking about him for the sake of talking about him.
00:11:27.000And so then, something else happened later where there was like a major flood.
00:12:08.000Chris L. Anyways, he has taken over and part of it is to get control of their massive loss of their bleeding viewership and their bleeding profits.
00:12:18.000There's no way for it to start I mean one of the things that I found interesting when I was researching for the article was that he has been monitoring who became more partisan under during the years that Donald Trump was in office and he is it looks like the reports are that he is wanting to cut as many people who are basically Too far gone.
00:12:38.000There's no way to recover the reputation of their show because he thinks that it's more important to bring them back to a moderate platform and on our news.
00:12:47.000I think that CNN's reputation is so damaged with so many Americans that's an almost impossible task but you know he's been given this bleeding ship.
00:12:54.000I mean he's got to try and you know bail out bail out.
00:12:58.000mixing metaphors here stop it from sinking somehow. It's bandage the ship whatever he needs to do.
00:13:03.000There's no way. No. There's no way. But what will they do sell the IP like sell the name to Disney
00:13:09.000or something or does Disney already own CNN? They've already sold it several times. Well it's
00:13:11.000already under Warner Brothers right so like it's already a conglomerate of a conglomerate you know
00:13:15.000like it's already mixed in somewhere I think eventually someone else would maybe overtake
00:13:21.000them as like the prime left-leaning news outlet which is weird to even have to say that like we
00:13:27.000should just have news but of course we can't. What one of the things I found interesting about
00:13:33.000Seltzer is he wrote this book about how Fox News is thoughtful, and Trump, and whatever else, and then he updated it after January 6th to be like, see, I told you guys, even worse than ever, and now he is the first one to go.
00:13:45.000I mean, he has really positioned himself as the anti-Trump fact-checking media analyst.
00:14:20.000And then people are saying he's going to start his own podcast, he's going to start uploading clips to YouTube, and then his audience, because it's independent media, is going to be very anti-establishment, and he's going to drift further to the right, and then eventually have some flipping moment where he's like, I need to blow the whistle on CNN.
00:14:40.000I feel like he'd have to do the rounds, like you know how we have, you know, conservatives who may fall out of like the establishment, they do some rounds on CNN, they take positions there and they're sort of like a punching bag for a while?
00:14:50.000I feel like he'd have to do the opposite.
00:14:52.000He'd have to like get some, I don't think any establishing conservative media would take him, but he would need to sort of do the rounds and be like, well, this is what I meant, and then have this whole redemption arc.
00:15:02.000I mean, I think it would take a lot longer than people think because he is so publicly associated with being anti-MAGA.
00:16:07.000Obviously, I don't know him personally, but like, I think it will be very hard for him to To flip like that, I think he really sees himself as this, like, doer of right things, progressive cause, champion of, you know, correct journalism.
00:16:36.000He probably wrote it deliberately and he had this deliberate approach to everything but to actually see him free think through problems and through challenges and politics that would actually be entertaining to just listen to see if he ends up like a Tucker Carlson who I think is on the right side of what we're talking about.
00:16:52.000That's the thing about Stelter, he does listen.
00:16:55.000I see him in clips sometimes, sometimes like he's being humbled where he's like, oh, what have I done?
00:17:39.000Well, I, you know, look, with Liz Cheney on Tuesday being, what's the right word, trying to be polite here, excised, I'll say that, excised from the GOP.
00:18:31.000This is one of the greatest trolls ever done.
00:18:34.000Donald Trump endorses lawyer Dan Goldman, who led the impeachment against him, saying, Lawyer Dan Goldman is running for Congress, New York 10, and it is my great honor to strongly endorse him.
00:18:46.000I do this not because of the fact that he headed up the impeachment committee and lost, but because he was honorable, fair, and highly intelligent.
00:18:53.000Well, it was my honor to beat him and beat him badly.
00:18:59.000Dan Goldman has a wonderful future ahead.
00:19:02.000I don't know how anyone sees that, anyone with any modicum of intelligence, and believes Trump is literally endorsing the guy when he's doing neg hits.
00:19:14.000It's like a backhanded compliment at these guys.
00:19:17.000He endorsed several other people, but here's the best part.
00:19:22.000Yulin Niao, who is a Democrat, so I looked her up, she's a Democrat assembly member, running for New York 10, took the bait and said, Donald Trump just endorsed my multi-millionaire opponent, in case you need a reminder of what the stakes are.
00:19:51.000He has the weight of the establishment pushing against him right now.
00:19:53.000And I've been an advocate of like, if someone's coming at you and putting their full force into you, the best or one of the best things you can do is move so that you're not there anymore.
00:20:02.000And that all that pressure that Donald Trump is like, just goes into this nowhere land, and then they end up falling forward.
00:20:08.000Then you reappear, and then you're still back to, you know, who you are.
00:20:11.000The prophecy has been fulfilled, ladies and gentlemen, from the Babylon Bee.
00:20:50.000Like, This is very much a true spark of Trump to me.
00:20:55.000When he first announced that he was coming to president, it reminds me of all of the debates he did, his booing of Hillary Clinton on stage.
00:21:03.000He doesn't behave as they would like him to.
00:21:05.000I'm sure Goldman is like, what do I do?
00:21:07.000Do I release a statement saying no thank you?
00:21:10.000This is so much of what Trump does is what I've been talking about when I say, like, throw a pie figuratively.
00:21:16.000Like, people in power need to set a tone, need to call out the BS, need to make a point.
00:21:40.000I think too like there is a level of like yesterday I was looking at this article it was eight of the ten Republicans who voted against Trump are out and it's interesting because I think he's trying to show the Democrats that he has influence within their party like not in the way they're expecting.
00:21:55.000He has more influence in politics than anyone predicts or is used to.
00:21:59.000It's very unusual to have a leader who can actually bipartisanly reach across the aisles and be like, oh, it's not just the Republican primaries that I can influence, I can influence the Democrats too.
00:22:55.000And so this is only going to get more extreme and more difficult.
00:22:59.000But how much of this is Donald Trump sitting down with a group of, like, tacticians being like, we need to craft the perfect message, or it's him lounging in a chair watching Tucker Carlson being like, I endorse this guy, and he like grabs a thing of Cheetos and then just like... I feel it's like both of those.
00:23:14.000I think he's good on a whim, but I also think deliberately.
00:23:19.000People forget he's a very crafty business person, and being in business myself for a short period of time, I understand the tactics, and even tactics that I've brought across the military aisle in planning and strategy.
00:23:29.000He is using all of these tactics to bear, and I think he's unpredictable.
00:23:34.000He would be unconventional or irregular in his warfare approach, while the rest of the establishment that you're draining, that he's draining, is very conventional.
00:23:43.000I'm just thinking about, you know, they call him a fascist.
00:23:46.000They claim he's, like, worse than Hitler.
00:23:48.000Could you imagine if Donald Trump, like, ever did become a dictator, and then history is talking about how he rose to power, and it's like, well, he called Rose O'Donnell a fat pig, and then he made a tweet endorsing his opponents.
00:24:35.000So, I read the first part, he goes on to say, he will be very compassionate and compromising to those within the Republican Party and will do everything possible to make sure they have a fair chance at winning against the radical left Democrats.
00:24:46.000I would like to thank Dan for fighting so hard for America and for working so tirelessly to stop, quote, Trump, end quote.
00:24:54.000He was not easy to beat, but winning against him made me realize just how very talented I am.
00:25:00.000Most don't read the second word, though.
00:25:11.000He's like sitting in his friend's basement, they're playing pool with the game on, and they're like, dude, dude, you should endorse the Democrats.
00:25:26.000Yeah, I think maybe he has realized that conventional tactics are not the way you win against the liberal economic order right now, because they're just Conventionally using brute force, you know, with the FBI raid on the house and things like that.
00:25:38.000So now he's taking an unconventional approach.
00:25:42.000We saw the Democrats funding Republican messaging.
00:25:45.000And the idea was that it was going to hurt Trump to do this.
00:25:48.000I think he was like, OK, I'll play the game.
00:26:03.000That's what I mean, I think they underestimate how much influence he has over everyone.
00:26:08.000Like, we see it as like, oh, it's just those right people, those conservatives, the MAGA base, but it's really not.
00:26:13.000Like, Trump is an institution in and of himself, and I think, you know, he is sort of reviving the same kind of disruptive energy that made him stand out initially, which made people cover him when he was running in 2016, because they were like, what is he doing?
00:26:29.000He put his name in quotes, too, which is nice, because it shows that he's not like, he was against me.
00:26:33.000He sees that he's against the idea of what Trump might be.
00:26:36.000Yeah, but someone said, someone was, Steve, Steve Bannon's mullet responded to you, Lynn, saying, that's just weird.
00:26:45.000And she said, he said it out loud to stop the left.
00:26:48.000I do not believe, I'm sorry, I can't believe that this Yulin woman, if I'm pronouncing that right, actually believes it's a real endorsement.
00:28:01.000Well, I think he used a lot of different tactics, but he used special operations.
00:28:05.000But it wasn't advertised as a war, so it wasn't campaigning with media outlets that were telling all the information.
00:28:13.000It was a closed, compartmentalized operation that was very deliberate, using Ranger Battalion, using the best special mission units in the world, and crushed those guys.
00:28:24.000And if it wasn't for that, I mean, the things that we saw on the TV when ISIS and their propaganda was affecting the world, everybody was like in fear.
00:28:32.000You saw little kids running around with guns, killing innocent people from propaganda videos from ISIS.
00:29:28.000Yeah, I mean, there's, well, propaganda across the board in the psychological campaign has many outlets.
00:29:35.000I'm not a psychological expert, but psychological operations is part of what Special Operations does.
00:29:41.000And every side of the coin, whether it's influencing bad guys to target bad guys, which I've done in the military, or it's twisting hearts and minds for egregious reasons, it basically is to control the battlefield with people's emotions and behaviors in mind.
00:30:01.000So if you could affect people's emotions, if you could affect people's... I mean, I just did this for a TV show that we're doing, and we were talking about our Asian, very superior genetics before the podcast.
00:30:28.000Raping and pillaging and that stuff, that bad stuff.
00:30:31.000So, we did a piece on Vietnam, and there was a psychological campaign that was them taking pieces of equipment, audio tape equipment, recording Vietnamese actors and actresses, Getting the information, and in this case it was their culture, where they believed in ghosts.
00:30:54.000And they went out into the field and they played these voices of ghosts telling the enemy, you need to go home.
00:31:08.000It backfired because the people in placing it were so freaked out that they started disaffecting off the battlefield.
00:31:17.000It was effective and they used a tiger, a roar from a tiger, and they had 150 Vietnamese, in this case North Vietnamese, disaffect, the communists disaffected and left their guns in place and evaded.
00:31:34.000They did the same thing with the ghost thing, but it backfired because both sides in the culture, just like a religious or ideological campaign, it affects both sides.
00:31:56.000Yeah, so these voices are heard in the forest saying, I should run while you still can, leave before it's too late or you'll be trapped here like I am.
00:32:21.000Is it because the allied troops didn't know that it was happening, so they thought it was real as well, or did they know and they were still freaked out?
00:32:37.000But when they were in placing it and they played it, they thought, I assume they thought that this was actually recordings of ghosts and they were just in placing it and somehow the Americans got a hold of it.
00:32:48.000But they were using indigenous forces.
00:32:50.000They were using the local nationals to put the stuff in so they wouldn't be part of the operation actually.
00:32:55.000But I think there's just no way for everyone to know it was an operation.
00:32:59.000So if you have, you know, 10 local Vietnamese helping you, but there's a hundred within a few miles who end up hearing it and they start spreading the word.
00:33:06.000Farmers, the local civilian populace started hearing it as well, and they were leaving everything.
00:33:11.000So even the support that potentially the good guys were depending on, everybody was abandoning.
00:33:16.000I kind of feel like they should have rolled with it because it prevented death.
00:33:21.000I mean, hey, let's end the war by just freaking everybody out and making them put their guns down.
00:33:24.000Yeah, double-edged sword of psychological games.
00:33:27.000But the question, like, if both sides were laying down arms and fleeing, isn't that, like, a better option than... The United States wanted our guys to come with guns and start taking control, so... Sixty-plus thousand Americans paid for their lives for that war.
00:33:48.000When it came to Afghanistan, I've never been a fan of it.
00:33:52.000You know, I grew up with the invasion and nothing seemed to make sense and the media lied about so much.
00:33:57.000It was used to justify so much awful stuff.
00:33:59.000When Joe Biden surrendered and then, in my opinion, intentionally just destroyed our standing in Afghanistan, giving up Bagram, A lot of people mentioned, you know, I was like, we shouldn't have been there in the first place.
00:35:17.000Because of the stable environment we were able to set with the security provided.
00:35:23.000The problem with Afghanistan is we didn't provide that security.
00:35:26.000So when you look at where we are, even in Iraq, where we maintain a signature there, when you pull the plug on all support, which is what we did.
00:35:35.000I mean, my buddy Tim Kennedy and a group of merry men volunteered with Save Our Allies with Chad Robichaud and the Mighty Oaks Foundation and went in and extracted thousands of American civilians And Afghans that worked with us.
00:35:52.000I did two rotations of combat to Afghanistan, and it's disgusting how we pulled the plug on those men, just like we did in Vietnam.
00:36:45.000I think it has a lot to do with turnover.
00:36:47.000The government and the military has a high turnover rate where you might implement a strategy and even individual tactics on the battlefield.
00:36:56.000The next guy comes in and goes, well, I need to make my impact on the world.
00:37:00.000Well, I need to have an officer evaluation report that says that I did something epic and we continue this momentum until the end of Afghanistan.
00:37:07.000We're like, what the hell are we doing here?
00:37:09.000I've lost buddies of mine at the tail end of Afghanistan, and at that point I said to myself, even early on in Afghanistan when I was there, I was like, this is for a just reason.
00:37:19.000And then I was like, what the hell are we doing here?
00:38:33.000And I think the story was, it's been a decade since I interviewed them, it was back when I was at Vice, was that they were told by the Americans and the South Koreans, like, don't come.
00:38:41.000And then they came anyway and said, look, we're going to be at the DMZ, you better accept us.
00:38:47.000And here's the amazing thing they said.
00:38:49.000When they entered North Korea, they had a government escort.
00:38:52.000And they drove through these towns and everyone would wave to them.
00:38:57.000Everybody knew who they were and that they were coming.
00:38:59.000The government made sure everybody was like, they're gonna come, we're gonna bring them through, everyone's gonna stand here at this time and wave.
00:39:08.000When they made it to the DMZ and crossed over, there was no way to get motorcycles through this place.
00:39:12.000They said once they came on the other side, they were escorted by the press.
00:39:16.000That was the difference between North and South Korea.
00:39:19.000The government mandating it, and the free press rushing there by choice to try and cover it.
00:39:24.000So I bring that up because I wonder if we maintained that, if we had a universal attitude towards never intervening in anything ever, would South Korea be a hellish dictatorship?
00:39:36.000I mean, look, my family left before, and it was partly because of rising tensions, my grandparents' family.
00:39:42.000That's my understanding, I could be wrong.
00:39:45.000So I'd still be here, but I'm curious as to your thoughts in that regard.
00:39:50.000If we were able to maintain a presence in Afghanistan, could it have turned out to be something like Seoul where...
00:39:56.000Yeah, I think the number one priority for any country to gain its sovereignty back.
00:40:02.000You know, if you look at old pictures from the 70s and 80s of Afghanistan, it was a very modern society.
00:40:07.000I mean, in Kabul and Kandahar, there's like convertibles and women were wearing their hair down.
00:40:13.000It wasn't this radical thing that we look at now with Sharia law in Afghanistan.
00:40:17.000So, the presence alone of security is what would maintain a jumping point for us to conduct Those supported counterterrorism operations to suppress all of the things, all the guys that wanted to come in.
00:40:33.000They just dropped a bomb on Zawahiri, on his balcony, and supported by the Taliban and Afghanistan.
00:40:41.000It's like that was the win because he was Osama Bin Laden's 2IC.
00:41:02.000The most bizarre thing that I heard when all this was going down and Tim and Chad were activating, they had messaged me about it, Nick, all these guys, amazing men.
00:41:12.000When I heard that we had outer containment on that airfield provided by the Taliban, I was like, what did a general on TV just say?
00:41:24.000Outer containment was being provided by the Taliban?
00:41:52.000It gives me chills in a bad way because we had all the opportunity there and I got one of my guys out with Saber Allies who helped me, so thank you so much Saber Allies, who worked with me and American forces for decades and we were willing to abandon him.
00:42:07.000His brother who worked for us was killed and executed by the Taliban.
00:42:10.000We were willing to commit their entire lives And to wasteland, knowing that they helped us because we completely pulled the plug with no excuses.
00:42:20.000Now they're the most capable fighting force in the world as a terrorist organization, which they are.
00:42:45.000Now they have thermal, infrared, Flare systems on pods to be able to track all of that, and that's scary for any friendly force that's going into harm's way.
00:42:59.000You know, part of me felt like it was punishment for the anti-interventionists, for the Trump supporters, because Donald Trump sets this time frame to exit Afghanistan, and then Joe Biden just... I assume it was intentionally screwed the whole thing up.
00:43:13.000Some speculation was that by screwing it up so bad, it would create a justification for a return.
00:45:17.000Biden set this September 11th deadline, and it was clear that he was trying to present himself as like- He pushed the deadline from May to September.
00:45:24.000So I, you know, I kind of wonder, you know, there's, we saw that viral video, I think it was, was it the Taliban who got that truck from Detroit with the guy's phone number on it?
00:45:36.000And so a lot of people have talked about whether or not the US wanted ISIS to exist.
00:45:43.000And it was convenient because Syria was an enemy of the United States, was obstructing our plans with the Qatar-Turkey pipeline.
00:45:49.000Syria, I'm sorry, ISIS comes into Syria and then starts destabilizing it.
00:45:53.000Trump gets in, crushes ISIS like that.
00:45:56.000So I have to wonder if part of it is the United States was well aware of the problems in the Middle East, but we're accepting it as a benefit to the United States in the long run.
00:46:06.000Maybe they want to destabilize the region.
00:46:08.000And so this is why they turn over weapons and make the Taliban as powerful as they are now.
00:46:12.000It seems very deliberate and very intentional because you can't imagine that I can't imagine that none of the generals, including General Miller, who is a freaking hero in my mind, who ran Afghanistan, who left prior to the departure of them pulling the plug, that none of those generals came to the table and said, listen, What you're planning and what you're talking about is reckless.
00:46:34.000And as soon as we saw different regions of the Taliban taking out these places as it closed in on Kandahar and Kabul, we should have changed tactics, but we didn't.
00:46:46.000And I've seen that from the State Department.
00:46:51.000The State Department is very risk adverse.
00:46:53.000There's always a battle between the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and the State Department.
00:46:58.000Because the State Department, the Consulate, they're trying to maintain diplomatic relations, but their priority is supporting the President of the United States.
00:47:05.000DOD's priority is supporting the national security of the country.
00:47:09.000So it's like these things go to head and then the losers are the Afghan people.
00:47:13.000We, you know, we talk a lot about maybe there was intentional, maybe there are reasons behind it.
00:47:19.000I want to jump to this next story, which suggests everything you've heard about the problems Trump faced may actually be a result of Trump derangement syndrome.
00:47:28.000In this tweet, Jack Posobiec posted a video from the Triggernometry podcast.
00:47:32.000Shout out guys from the Triggernometry.
00:47:34.000Sam Harris, quote, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.
00:47:43.000And since this morning, 3.3 million views.
00:47:46.000Sam Harris basically says that the what he calls a left wing conspiracy to suppress information to try and stop Trump from winning the presidency was acceptable and good.
00:48:31.000First of all, it's Hunter Biden, right?
00:48:34.000It's not Joe Biden, but even if Joe Biden, like even whatever scope of Joe Biden's corruption is, like if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he's getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden's deals in Ukraine or wherever else, right?
00:49:12.000So Trump launched university and may have, his argument, defrauded a handful of people into giving up some cash.
00:49:20.000And he's comparing that to Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, Joe Biden's quid pro quo, the war that has erupted and is spreading across the country, the people who have died and lost their cities, Joe Biden sending billions of dollars to the Ukrainians.
00:49:33.000So when you're saying, like, maybe he's getting kicked back, you know, I don't know.
00:49:38.000It is entirely possible that Joe Biden's hunter entanglements are what's exacerbating this conflict.
00:49:44.000And you think Trump University is so much worse?
00:49:47.000This is the point I'm trying to get to.
00:49:49.000Trump derangement syndrome is so intense in these people's minds.
00:49:54.000What Sam is saying makes literally no sense.
00:49:56.000If Trump really is the con man they think he is, he's conned some American people out of their money, some property owners, and sure, that's bad.
00:50:04.000But Joe Biden is conning the entirety of the country to the world and putting us in a very, very precarious and dangerous place with his inability to do his job.
00:50:12.000And if Hunter Biden really is involved in, say, Chinese private equity deals, our security is compromised well beyond Trump ripping off some fat woman who bought a university ticket.
00:51:41.000Liz Cheney is doing everything in her power.
00:51:43.000You're content with a conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratic?
00:51:46.000No, but there's nothing... Conspiracy... It was a conspiracy out in the open, but it doesn't matter if it was... It doesn't matter what part's conspiracy, what part's out in the open.
00:51:56.000I mean, I think it's like... If people get together and talk about what should we do about this phenomenon, you know, it's like... If there was an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, And we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a conversation about what we could do to deflect its course, right?
00:53:22.000There's no rhyme or reason to anything he was just saying other than he's an authoritarian who would use, by any means necessary, powers to crush people he doesn't like.
00:53:30.000I think what strikes me the most is his last metaphor.
00:53:33.000If there was an asteroid coming to Earth and we made a plan to stop it, that would be okay, right?
00:53:38.000Like, he is so convinced that what's happening with Trump is just this uncontrollable, unpredictable force, he can't accept the fact that People think differently than he does, and they want Trump to be in office, but they don't agree with his perspective, and therefore it's bizarre.
00:53:56.000The whole thing he said was mishmash nonsense.
00:53:58.000Like you mentioned, the last 20 seconds flubber, walking back, changing what he's saying.
00:54:31.000I mean, what they think Constantine does the best is he has a specific thesis he's trying to answer, which is, like, what can you do to defend democracy?
00:54:39.000Where do you draw the lines between what is acceptable and what is not?
00:54:41.000And I don't think Sam Harris has the moral compass to say, like, ah, yes, I respect how democracy works.
00:55:19.000But I think a lot of that is caused by him living in an echo chamber.
00:55:23.000He lives in a bubble in an echo chamber.
00:55:25.000He's used to hearing the same people talk about the same things.
00:55:29.000And just as he refers to the asteroid hitting the earth, like that's what he's correlating his argument to.
00:55:35.000Like the worst case scenario in the world, you're comparing it to that.
00:55:39.000What I think is fascinating, like you mentioned, Is these two guys are actually being journalist like and this is surprising because it's like what is this thing called like, you know objective reasoning on through journalism like they're actually having a conversation and he's willing to confront Sam Harris on this and catches Sam Harris off guard, which I love because like you said as soon as he catches them off guard, he starts going down a drain and he knows he's circling the drain.
00:56:13.000Sam said the quiet part loud, not realizing that he would be challenged and that, I think what Sam said is what he truly believes in his heart of hearts.
00:56:24.000But that is not something you can say right now when you're trying to maintain this, you know, principle position of opposing authoritarianism.
00:56:33.000No, he is an outright authoritarian, as so many of these anti-Trump people are.
00:56:37.000What's the, what's the, what's the big, it's crazy.
00:56:40.000I see these people on Facebook saying, you know, Trump's a fascist, far-right authoritarian.
00:56:44.000And they're saying the same thing about Ron DeSantis.
00:58:30.000used to being pushed back, I think maybe he would have, like, I don't know if this happens on the show that often, but I think there are people who go on and expect to be interviewed in a very positive sort of softball way.
00:58:41.000They expect people to be like, oh yeah, I get what you're saying.
00:58:46.000And I really, you know, I applaud Constantine for being like, we have to return to the thesis, which is that you would be willing to, like, circumvent democracy.
00:59:13.000Information contained in this intelligent bulletin is for official use only, blah blah blah.
00:59:17.000Project Veritas released a leaked document today from within the Department of Homeland Security which shows how federal agencies are reacting to a recent raid of Trump's Florida home.
00:59:26.000Considering the Trump derangement syndrome of people like Sam Harris, and then we learn about people in the federal government who are saying things like this, my concern is that Sam Harris's level of derangement exists within the DHS, and this is going to make things Dangerous.
00:59:44.000So I know this is the report that smeared you.
00:59:47.000Do you want to give us a breakdown of what happened?
00:59:49.000Yeah, so Project Veritas drops and leaks this document which is sent to like all special agents, right?
00:59:55.000It's like, think about it like a memorandum or an updated pamphlet to educate your special agents in the field.
01:00:02.000It's not supposed to be disseminated outside of the institution, outside of their portal.
01:00:07.000So they get this and it's an educational piece to inform, like, what are the new trends?
01:00:12.000And this one says both militia and domestic violent extremists, which they use both of those terms.
01:00:19.000And then it has a whole bunch of different pictures of different organizations, including my organization, American Contingency, which is pretty crazy.
01:00:29.000Again, I started American Contingency with this idea of bringing community and people together.
01:00:33.000That idea stemmed from a Seattle experience where, if you remember, what is the name of the town?
01:00:43.000It was the fake little town that in Seattle they stood up Chaz.
01:00:49.000So it was supposed to be a utopian universe for everybody to flourish and then it turned quickly into a socialist safe haven because they had armed guards, they had checkpoints checking IDs, And it didn't work out for anybody.
01:01:07.000And when that happened, they started migrating and then peaceful protests turned into violent, extreme protests.
01:01:14.000And for the first time, it came out that people who are law-abiding citizens said, we need help from the police.
01:01:20.000Now my company, Philcraft Survival, we teach this idea, you are your own first response.
01:01:25.000Because whether it's breaking your leg in the middle of a UTV trail, a natural disaster, a man-made disaster, you're going to be the first on scene.
01:01:34.000Know how to treat injury, know how to respond, know how to do something.
01:01:41.000Well, when they didn't respond, because the politicians told the police, do not respond, because the political climate won't support this, don't respond, they put law-abiding citizens in harm's way.
01:01:54.000And I said, we're going to do something about it.
01:01:57.000Now, what happened, because I talked to Veritas, I talked to all these guys, What happened is, a special agent within the FBI saw that we started this militia organization, which we are listed as a militia.
01:02:10.000And this organization, which they labeled, has a low history of violence.
01:02:16.000They called, they said, my organization has a low history of violence.
01:02:29.000I'll release a statement and I'll give you the guidance.
01:02:32.000And I hated even being that, but I knew I represented as a speaking head, kind of the guidance for the organization.
01:02:40.000I said, listen, group leaders, We're not going to do anything.
01:02:44.000It's a protest that potentially could be dangerous.
01:02:47.000What we are going to do is report all of the things that would benefit people on the outskirts of this protest so we can give them force protection measures and intelligence and information so they could protect themselves.
01:02:59.000So we could say, hey, the crowd is moving into X neighborhood.
01:03:03.000Be sure that you're aware, lock your doors, protect your family.
01:03:09.000To be called a violent militia and extremist by both the public, which is not surprising, who's miseducated, misinformed, but then by the government.
01:03:19.000On top of that, in the same week, by the way, the government called us a militia violent extreme group.
01:03:26.000The leftists called me a white nationalist and a racist, which is fascinating because I have black, Mexican, Korean, white in my same family.
01:04:12.000In fact, Dave Rubin started Locals with the idea of getting behind a paywall protected from the social media sites that were canceling and deleting people.
01:04:20.000Except we were the biggest platform on Locals.
01:04:26.000Once they sold, things started changing in the algorithm, and it was too much for us to moderate.
01:04:32.000Because on Locals, you have to self-moderate.
01:04:34.000So I started seeing the woes of even social media.
01:04:37.000I'm like, how do you keep this talk and the negativity down?
01:04:41.000So we migrated to our own server on AmericanContendency.com.
01:04:45.000So all this happens in the same week, and I'm like, I feel like I'm living in Middle Earth.
01:04:50.000I feel like I'm a moderate, and I'm like, this is what happens when you decide that you just want to go to work, you want to feed your family, you want to serve the country, and you want to live in freedom for the rest of your days.
01:05:02.000You become the enemy of everybody on the fringes, and that's exactly what we are.
01:05:05.000But the fringes are almost everybody these days.
01:05:48.000Reasonable, and you're talking about this fringe ideology that's affecting everybody, and you just want to, with a truth bomb, you just want to live somewhere in between.
01:05:57.000But the thing I bring up, I mean, look man, you've got the FBI raid on Donald Trump.
01:06:09.000It's becoming impossible to be left alone.
01:06:12.000And you know, my thing is, what I will say, They're going after Alex Jones with everything they have because of his influence.
01:06:20.000And they're going after Donald Trump because of his influence, because they know they can't stop him.
01:06:24.000This November, I mean, look, Liz Cheney's gone, Carrie Lake just won, Brian Stelter is out.
01:06:31.000These are tremendous cultural shifts in a very positive direction, which is all really good news.
01:06:36.000I'm hoping that if we maintain this trajectory, then we avoid any kind of real conflict.
01:06:42.000But when you look at the lengths that the machine has gone, even smearing you, it's like, bro, you're the guy who's saying quite literally, please let me just raise my family and be left alone, and they're not letting you.
01:06:53.000They're putting this Bolton out, they're smearing and insulting.
01:06:58.000I worry that this is gonna escalate to something substantially worse, right?
01:07:08.000Here's the prediction from Mike Lover who runs Phil Krause Survival and does this for a living, looking at preparedness, looking at threats.
01:07:39.000Because we're going to have a lead-up.
01:07:41.000All the social media platforms are going to start getting leverage.
01:07:44.000The troll farms from China, Russia, North Korea's influence will start affecting us like it did with BLM and Antifa and the election cycle.
01:07:52.000And what you're going to see up is a lead-up attention And what you're seeing is politicians, irresponsibly, weaponizing government agencies and people.
01:08:03.000And what you're going to see, especially in heavy populated areas, is what looks like a civil war.
01:08:09.000You're going to see, imagine this scenario.
01:08:11.000You have Antifa and BLM who comes out like they did.
01:08:14.000And they started burning down the streets.
01:08:16.000Except now you're gonna have the right fringe who's gonna come out and go, we won't accept this.
01:08:28.000So then you have this imbalance where you have leftist extremists, right-wing extremists, and then the people in the middle just defending what they own.
01:08:38.000Their families, their friends, their communities, and then all of these things are happening, and then it starts bleeding into the outskirts, it starts affecting everybody.
01:08:47.000But what happens when the law enforcement officers are caught in the middle?
01:08:51.000Now, are they not supposed to defend their lives?
01:08:53.000They're in the middle of an active gunfight.
01:08:55.000So take the Rittenhouse situation and amplify that in a full skirmish, where the battlefield are the streets of densely populated areas like Chicago, where you come from.
01:09:07.000I wanna just, uh, just think of that scene at the end where the guy says, eventually someone will do something stupid, and it shows the finger man, the cop, shoot the little girl.
01:09:16.000All of the local residents just walk up with weapons and they go after that cop and then it like camera pans up and he goes, ah, like they're no longer going to tolerate law enforcement.
01:09:26.000I think it won't be over something like that, but you'll get to the point, like you mentioned a Rittenhouse situation.
01:09:32.000We've already seen circumstances where people have beaten cops, where cops are caught in a riot.
01:09:37.000And then if it gets to the point where these rioters are unscrupulous and just literally don't care anymore, Then you're gonna get a V for Mandela-like situation.
01:09:50.000He'll fire probably a less lethal, and then they'll just start clobbering on him.
01:09:55.000So, we often talk about, particularly with people who've experienced war, you know, our friend Forrest Cooper mentions, the people who are trained in war and who've experienced it are the ones begging you to stop, because they don't want to see this happen.
01:10:09.000I've been in civil conflict and unrest, so precursors to.
01:10:13.000The worst thing I've seen was people in Egypt shooting at each other with makeshift, they had these pistols that were like 12, they were 12 gauge, I think, and they would, single shot, you break barrel, break action, put it in, close it, bang!
01:10:28.000And from atop the Hilton, I watched someone get shot, killed, and then their body was carried away.
01:10:33.000That was the one time in this reporting I've seen someone just deliberately be killed in front of me.
01:10:39.000Not in front of me, like relatively close, but I was high up, so I was safe.
01:10:48.000Having covered some of the unrest, riots, fires, I was on West Florissant and Ferguson when they were burning down the entirety of that whole block.
01:10:56.000You drove your car down the street, the fires were so intense, in your car it felt like the fire was right in front of your face.
01:11:03.000Seeing that, and knowing that's not even warfare, I can't imagine, you know, like, I'll just ask you, like, what do you think the average person would do if they actually were, you know, forced into the fray of people engaging in a firefight in their neighborhood or something?
01:11:18.000Yeah, so, you know, war tends to be a complex thing, but in the primal, like the ancestral version of it, it's very simple.
01:11:29.000The people who are trained for war, my peer group who are trained for war, go into war with intent, meeting tasks, purpose, and objectives.
01:11:40.000And so when you have that, and you understand what that is, it's demonstrated in this idea of art of war, right?
01:11:49.000People who have not, people who are so fragile, they can't change their tire in a fender bender, they lose their mind, a simple emergency trauma, they lose their mind where somebody actually pays for their life when something so simple could have been done.
01:12:06.000That's the world we live in, because we're living in that.
01:13:37.000One of the reasons we started Fieldcraft Survival is to teach civilians about worst case scenarios.
01:13:42.000Because if you train for the worst case, you're prepared for everything in between.
01:13:45.000Don't train for the best case, train for the worst case.
01:13:47.000The crazy thing to me is how to convey that experience of actually watching violence and trauma to an individual so they understand why it's so important to be prepared.
01:14:05.000A fire broke out and everyone immediately ran to the door and they all jammed themselves in it and then I think like people died and there's a video where a guy when everyone's running and screaming calmly walks to the to the fire exit in the back next to the stage and just walks out You know, I've always done this my whole life, and maybe it's because my dad was a Marine, but, or as a firefighter, actually, and he would say, no matter where you are, whenever you go in a building, wherever you are, know your exits.
01:14:30.000And so my whole life, like, we'd walk in, I'm a little kid, and he'd be like, where's a fire exit?
01:14:34.000And I'd look around, like, it's right there, and he goes, you got it.
01:14:36.000And then I hear these stories of people who are so unprepared and so complacent, they don't even understand how to leave a building when the smoke alarm goes off.
01:14:44.000I worked for Fusion, which is the ABC Univision joint venture, no longer exists.
01:14:48.000I'm in the New York office, and it was a really, really nice office.
01:14:51.000They had desks, and then they also had these little diner chairs they had set up, so you could sit in a comfy little chair at a table with your friends and talk.
01:14:57.000And so I'm sitting there with my computer, and I'm with my producer who was working with me.
01:15:02.000All of a sudden, the bright lights start going off.
01:16:29.000Turns out there was a leak in the basement that had made contact with an electrical system, caused a short, huge fire risk, and they didn't want anybody rushing to the doors and panicking and leaving.
01:16:39.000So they all just sat there using battery power on their laptops, and I left the building and went to a cafe to work.
01:17:25.000It's crazy to me, man, when you're put in these situations, and I'm not even talking about war, I'm like, just street violence, riots and stuff, but to see how people act when this stuff goes down?
01:17:35.000I imagine, like, in the heat of the chaos, there's very little you can do to convince uneducated people about it, so is this why, like, you're doing this now, so people ahead of time, like, I was thinking last night, okay, I've been in emergency mode for, like, weeks.
01:17:48.000It just strikes me, like, what if there's an active shooter?
01:17:51.000I should have a plan with my neighbors, with my environment.
01:17:54.000So what steps, from start to finish, if someone were to experience an emergency, a life-threatening emergency?
01:18:00.000Yeah, so all the things you're describing when we talk about worst case scenarios, whether it's natural, man-made disaster, has to do with stress.
01:18:07.000They're all, like a catastrophe is actually a stressful event, just short in duration of time, but elevated in the actual volume of stress that you get.
01:18:19.000So a lot of people aren't prepared for mild stress.
01:18:22.000And you know, I make the joke, like, if your girlfriend texts you and says, hey, I saw you liking those girls' yoga pants videos on Instagram.
01:18:32.000A lot of people are like, oh, what are you talking about?
01:18:33.000And they get angry and emotional, and they don't know how to react, their palms sweat.
01:18:37.000And that overreaction is a correlation to high-grade stress, how you're gonna react to high grade.
01:18:43.000So a lot of people in our society, they use groupthink as a psychology tactic, which they don't know they're doing, but it's like, if that person's not moving, why would I move, right?
01:18:55.000So the idea is like, identify the threat, Observe, pay attention to what it is, but like Tim said in a couple of examples, physical displacement from the X, or the crisis, is the best way to survive.
01:19:10.000So break your physical body up and away, create distance, time, and as many obstacles as you can put in between.
01:19:17.000But because we're curious, we want to catch everything for the gram, we're like, what is that noise?
01:19:22.000Let's walk out with a phone and catch this on my story on Instagram, and then get potentially shot in the face.
01:19:28.000Not just that, but I've seen these veteran journalists, they do no training, and they go into hostile environments, and they put everybody at risk.
01:19:45.000One of his best friends, who is a cinematographer, on Restrepo when he went was hit by an RPG in Libya and
01:19:52.000killed. Not saying they did the wrong thing, but that's the potential risk to your life. Our society is
01:19:58.000very fragile, very weak, and if you're not getting prepared now, then you should be. When you say
01:20:04.000make distance and time from the X from the tragedy or from the, I guess, emergency, are you
01:20:09.000saying like, so this is a fire, you want physical distance, but you also want, when you say
01:20:13.000time, what is that? Like you want water that'll make the fire take longer to kill?
01:20:16.000You want to create, in the distance, which is correlated to time, you want to create a gap space in getting off the X. The proximity, which, a lot of the indications of a catastrophe, we sense, obviously, through sound, smell, taste, whatever it is, we feel it, even intuition.
01:20:34.000We're like, hey, something might be wrong.
01:21:41.000What we're forgetting in technical proficiency is there's this inoculation, suppression of stress, which means you're likely going to be in a sympathetic nervous response, fighting and flighting.
01:22:28.000A few days later, you know, a guy B beats up guy A. A few days later, guy A's friends see guys B, and they run up and start wailing on him.
01:22:36.000And then all of a sudden, in the middle of the pummel, one of the dudes pulls out a knife and goes, one, two, right in the chest of the dude they were beating up.
01:22:42.000The other two guys go, whoa, whoa, dude, dude, and pull him back, like, what are you doing?
01:23:06.000I'm not an expert on how to, I know you can do the trick with like plastic wrap and tape on three sides, but couldn't they have just like, he could have like stuck his finger in it or plugged it or something.
01:23:15.000Well, so your chest cavity, your chest wall, it's very fragile to say the least.
01:23:22.000You take a puncture in the chest, you're going to collapse a lung because the negative pressure in your lung collapses because it needs that pressure.
01:23:29.000What you're doing in the chest seal is you're applying it to that laceration where you've been compromised in your chest cavity and it's reestablishing the balance in that pressure.
01:23:41.000What sounds like, to me, that situation is he hit something that's vital.
01:23:46.000So he said something in the pump house.
01:23:48.000He might have nicked an artery, bled internally, which in that case he would need a chest tube, or he would need upgraded levels of care, and there might not have been a thing he could have done for it.
01:23:58.000At least the story is we were told that it caused a sucking wound, so maybe my understanding of what happened was wrong.
01:24:04.000But in that circumstance, you'd think it was just they couldn't do anything about it.
01:24:07.000Yeah, likely he got stuck in the pump house or a major artery off of the branch of the heart
01:24:15.000Because a sucking chest wound is going to help with circulation and respiration.
01:24:21.000So when you apply that, like I've treated guys in real life
01:24:25.000where the guy has a laceration in his chest, he has a sucking chest wound, he can't breathe,
01:24:30.000he's completely pale, and then you put a piece of plastic basically,
01:24:35.000it's got Hydra tape that's on it, and you put it on his chest
01:24:38.000and he immediately comes back because his lung inflates,
01:24:41.000and he's like, oh my God, like holy crap, that was crazy.
01:24:44.000Well, when somebody's bleeding internally, that's one of the hardest things to stop.
01:24:49.000It's how you kill big game, elk or deer.
01:24:51.000You hit them in the chest cavity, in the pump house, and you hope to double lung them, and they bleed out immediately, dead in 30 seconds.
01:24:58.000I gotta say, man, you know, I always tell people, have some emergency food, have some emergency water, you should have a go bag, clothes in it, all the supplies.
01:25:08.000I would probably stress that people probably look into your stuff and figure out the basics, because I just watched a fight video.
01:25:16.000Dudes are fighting in the street, everyone's laughing and cheering, and then one guy takes a swing, dude ducks, comes up, returns the hook, bam!
01:25:27.000starts shaking his head violently and I'm like she's gonna paralyze that guy.
01:25:31.000Yeah. People don't know anything about this. It's crazy watching videos so often
01:25:36.000of people if they just were told one sentence could save a life. Crazy man.
01:25:40.000It's crazy how simple it is. It's very simple. Yeah you mentioned stress management earlier in jiu-jitsu.
01:25:45.000I've often thought and been talking to people that also think that the police could benefit from taking jiu-jitsu, at least being like a purple belt or something in jiu-jitsu, that they could manage stress better.
01:25:54.000I hadn't thought that of combat sports as a way to, like, while you were talking, I was like, oh, working out.
01:25:59.000The more muscularly, you know, beat up I am, the more I'll be able to handle a fire or an invasion or something.
01:26:08.000It's your ability to bounce back through adversity and difficult circumstances.
01:26:13.000The best way to do that, which, you know, Leah Stumpf and Andy Stumpf are good friends of mine who teach this through their dojo in Kalispell.
01:26:21.000The idea is when you're fighting and combating a person, I'm 240 pounds, 6'1", I'm a big Asian dude, I have a diverse combatives background.
01:26:29.000I step in a ring with a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a 150 pound dude, he will pretzel roll me in half.
01:26:37.000Getting beat by another human being in a physical confrontation is very humbling.
01:26:43.000Because the idea that you would increase your sympathetic nervous response, get more aggressive, louder, more angry, is all the things that's going to get you choked out faster.
01:27:08.000All the guys that are in my same circle have talked about how every law enforcement officer Should be trained at a minimum in Jiu Jitsu.
01:27:17.000Greg Anderson, a buddy of mine in Washington State, runs a program as a former police officer where they're training law enforcement officers to be better at Jiu Jitsu to make them prepared for what they see in the streets.
01:27:29.000So you're trying to train regular people and all this stuff.
01:27:32.000I mean, that sounds like it would be a really, really great thing.
01:27:35.000If every single person in this country had basic survival skills and preparedness skills, it would make us, I mean, just particularly well prepared for any kind of invasion or conflict or war or anything like that.
01:27:56.000You outsource everything to the government because we have this collaborative social agreement, this non-written contract.
01:28:03.000We're going to pay taxes, so we're going to outsource healthcare.
01:28:06.000We're going to outsource first response.
01:28:08.000We're going to outsource everything to make our life more convenient.
01:28:11.000So, when you empower yourself, which is what we're teaching, we're not just teaching preparedness, we're teaching self-reliance.
01:28:17.000And that is offensive for a government who wants control and power.
01:28:21.000The less power they have, the more you cut the umbilical cord, the more opposed they are to that.
01:28:26.000There's classic cases of it, obviously.
01:28:29.000I was going to ask if you have a lot of teachers who reach out to you, because I hate to say it, but stress management... I know obviously we could be talking about school shootings, but even just... I went to a high school where we would have occasionally kids OD in the classroom.
01:28:41.000If you're in a scenario with unpredictable people, even if they're not inherently dangerous to you, being able to manage your response to them and know how to react in a lot of scenarios seems really valuable.
01:28:51.000Yeah, so we're starting a kids program this year with our family director of preparedness, Amber.
01:29:00.000And a lot of those women were teachers.
01:29:02.000And a lot of those women were single moms.
01:29:03.000And they showed up and were like, why are you here?
01:29:05.000It's like, well, because we want to know how to be prepared too.
01:29:08.000Because it seems like to be like a tactical industry thing.
01:29:12.000But normal people want to know how to manage stress, how to apply a tourniquet, how to react in an active shooting.
01:29:19.000So, you know, we were very critical of Uvalde and all the things that went wrong because we want to make the wrong right in the future.
01:29:27.000And we've gotten a huge response from teachers.
01:29:29.000In fact, my training director, Sean Kirkwood and Kevin Owens, who were both veteran Green Berets, They are working with our law enforcement instructors because a Green Beret teaching self-defense isn't the best tactic always, right?
01:29:45.000We don't do the legal law enforcement thing.
01:29:49.000We deploy these law enforcement officers all over the country to teach these teachers and teach these resource officers how to be better prepared.
01:29:57.000And that's what we need ultimately, because the superpower we are, I think the Second Amendment makes us a superpower, which makes us not Ukraine.
01:30:05.000That's why you got to subsidize Ukraine with billions of dollars and all the assets to bear.
01:30:10.000America is a superpower because of the constitutional freedoms that we have, but also our current capability.
01:30:15.000The NRA, which I am not an advocate of the NRA, outside of their lobbying to support constitutional security, When you look at the NRA and why it stood up, it stood up post-Civil War, 1840 or 1861 to 64, Civil War.
01:30:30.000I think it stood up in 65, I might be wrong.
01:30:35.000But when you look at why they stood up, it's because they wanted to make the civilian populace better prepared to defend themselves because they were shooting flintlocks from hips or didn't know how to load it.
01:30:48.000We were a national superpower because of that.
01:30:49.000And I think that's ultimately what we are as a population.
01:30:54.000The more prepared we are, the better capable we are against Russia, China, North Korea, Iran.
01:31:01.000If they wanted to band together and take this country over, it'd be an easy fight.
01:31:04.000Yeah, there's a gun behind every blade of grass.
01:31:09.000I think also it makes people less afraid of each other.
01:31:11.000When you're comfortable or confident in your ability to defend yourself, there's less reason to fear Donald Trump or random guy down the street that might be armed.
01:31:18.000You know, like it's a lot easier to, I don't know, No, we see that on the range when people show up, you have all backgrounds.
01:31:26.000It's not tactical guys showing up to our ranges.
01:31:28.000It's like mothers, fathers, 18, 19 year old young people who want to be better prepared.
01:31:35.000When you see that and them coming together, the second and third order effects of all this, When people come together trying to be better prepared, they start building community and they start going, they don't, they don't go, Oh, you're a Republican or you're a Democrat.
01:31:49.000They go, Oh, you want to be prepared too?
01:31:51.000Like, I don't care what your background is or who you politically affiliate with.
01:31:59.000And that's the biggest component that we've made is this idea of bringing people together over a commonality, which is being best prepared.
01:32:07.000And it's better for you if your neighbors are prepared, especially if you have a positive relationship with them, right?
01:32:12.000When we grew up, I assume all of us knew what community watches were, right?
01:32:17.000You had a community watch that would watch out for each other, and you hated, like, the pesky old lady.
01:32:21.000My dad, we used to talk about her, like, God, she's always talking about what's new, what's different, what changes in that environment.
01:32:29.000Now we live in a society where you pull up and you see your neighbor checking his mail and you're scowling because you're like, who is this?
01:32:59.000What they're saying is if you were, if you were in a community watch group and then one guy goes out and someone is, is, is breaks into a building and they get into a fight and the, and the, and the, the burglar, the robber gets killed.
01:33:11.000They will say, if you can't justify the killing, it was a conspiracy to commit murder, and the other members of the community watch are involved.
01:33:18.000Someone talked about it on the show several months ago.
01:33:20.000So I don't know exactly when it started happening, but... I could see it.
01:33:23.000I could see that it would be some kind of legal precedence where it increased the liability.
01:33:29.000The local district attorneys were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we can't manage this.
01:33:32.000Because like American Contingency, we try to co-cooperate with local sheriff's departments.
01:33:37.000Because if we are the first on the scene of an accident, how can we best support and facilitate a first responder about to come in?
01:33:45.000If I know and I'm trained how to identify a threat or identify a casualty and can facilitate a law enforcement officer who's coming in to do the rescuing or do the facilitation of rescue, Then I am an asset to that community.
01:34:00.000But again, the district attorney comes in, they have a political affiliation and they go, oh, this is too much liability.
01:34:06.000You do your job and just live in your life and let us do our job, which is controlling your life.
01:34:29.000When we started this company, every video that we did that was even remotely related to self-reliance was seen as extreme and it was deleted from Facebook.
01:34:40.000The people who taught me most about Sufferlines were my step grandparents who are just like older white people from Texas who have like canning stuff and some horses.
01:34:48.000Like we, we, uh, we grew some vegetables.
01:34:57.000And you know, you gotta know how to can because if you don't do it right, it can create botulism and it can kill you when you try to eat the canned food.
01:35:10.000But the whole idea is going to only help the government because it's less stress and strain But if you look at what the government's tactics are it's to create more reliance because if you are if you are Dependent on solely on their finances their government health care systems and all the things then they have you they have you hooked they have your vote because they have you hooked any Displacement from that is threatening by by the government I was just going to say, does your group get accused of cultivating vigilantism?
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01:36:53.000So you've heard people say that like they'll say something near their phone and then their phone will do an advertisement for it?
01:36:59.000The claim is that they're not really listening to you, but that the algorithms can predict your behavior so well that it seems like they're listening to you.
01:37:09.000So the example we gave the other day is father sees a bunch of letters come in, advertisements in the mail for pregnancy gear and stuff.
01:38:30.000It's also that they figure out, like, if you're sharing a wireless network with someone and they're researching a topic, it will also serve those ads to your phone, right?
01:38:53.000My point here is, Jack was talking about Pizza Hut nationalism and referencing a program that doesn't exist anymore, you should not get an advertisement for it.
01:39:05.000I got an ad in big blue bold letters that said book it and I was like get out of here dude.
01:39:46.000And they were telling me that, like, one of my friends had gone to school in Chicago, and someone had recognized her as being from New England because she was wearing these L.L.
01:39:56.000I don't follow L.L.Bean or anything like that on social media.
01:39:59.000My phone was in a separate room charging.
01:40:01.000I walked in the first ad it served me was for L.L.Bean Boots.
01:40:03.000I remember I was talking to someone on Facebook Messenger, and then I was talking to someone in person at the time, while on Messenger, and then all of a sudden a little thing popped up for the ad about what we were talking about.
01:40:13.000We were talking about going to like, you know, Uno's or whatever, Pizzeria Uno's.
01:40:16.000And then all of a sudden a thing popped up and I was like... People in the chat are like, Ian, you turned my TV off!
01:40:21.000Oh no, my Alexa machine just... Alright, let's read some more.
01:40:28.000George Fraterelli says, so glad Mike is on to tell his story, and also how the FBI is targeting American contingency.
01:40:35.000Hot damn, hey Mike, please talk about your time in the Old Guard and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
01:40:39.000Oh yeah, so big shout out to my buddy Khan, had a third infantry soldier who's going to ranger assessment really soon.
01:40:48.000He shouted out to me and said, hey, you want to get a tour?
01:40:51.000And I had some tomb guards reach out to me and say, hey, we'll give you a tour of the quarters, which is in the middle of Arlington National Cemetery.
01:40:58.000So back when, you know, Sergeant Major Glover was a private, I was an E1, 17 years old.
01:41:05.000I went to the old guard as my first stint prior to 9-11 happening.
01:45:06.000There was a guy, a restaurant owner, who got so frustrated with how difficult it is to get Pappy and there's like an allotment that he started giving out at cost and then one year he gave it out as jello shots and then he stopped getting allotted Pappy Van Winkle.
01:45:27.000says, Brian Stelter is a reliable source, like Antifa is anti-fascist, like abortion is healthcare, like men can get pregnant, like Biden is the great unifier, like fiery is mostly peaceful, like Tim has hair.
01:45:45.000Triton 54 says would give anything to see Mike in a room with Brandon Tatum discussing Uvalde.
01:45:50.000Everyone needs to watch Mike's take on the Uvalde response that Green Beret made this
01:45:54.000Navy chief stand at attention for 90 minutes straight. What was that about?
01:45:59.000Well, it's me calling out Uvalde and I think that the issue where they're mentioning Brandon is he
01:46:04.000was he was backing him because he's backing the Blues.
01:46:07.000He's a former sheriff's officer, and that's what you do when you're taking care of your tribe.
01:46:12.000But I consider law enforcement officers, because I train them for a living as part of my job, brothers and sisters, and I want to make sure that I'm always doing right by them.
01:46:22.000So doing right by them means criticizing them when they're wrong, And so for 90 minutes, I went through the video that was released to the CCTV camera, had the breakdown timeline with the CCTV camera, and went minute by minute through what was right and what was 95% wrong.
01:46:44.000We have two YouTube channels, the Philcraft Survival Channel and Mike Glover Actual.
01:46:49.000I believe that one's on the Philcraft Survival Channel.
01:46:52.000It's got a couple million views, a lot of people who are heated and talking about it,
01:46:56.000but I think that's a good thing because if you could extract anything good,
01:47:01.000we should never make that mistake ever, ever, ever again.
01:47:04.000And it also is a testament to law enforcement failures, but law enforcement successes.
01:47:10.000Because it wasn't for the BORTAC operators, whose job, by the way, is not responding to active shootings in schools.
01:47:16.000They do border patrol and react to crisis on the border.
01:47:22.000They, on their own accord, went in there like heroes and got in a gunfight with a bad guy that killed 19 kids.
01:47:29.000On their own accord, because they're a part of that community, to a testament to everything you are working on, I believe you call for.
01:47:33.000Yes, they were taking care of their own community, and if it wasn't for those guys, there'd be more children potentially dead.
01:47:39.000Alright, Matt Zarella says, Tim, please hire Brian Stelter and make him wash your car while dressed like Biff at the end of Back to the Future.
01:47:47.000I get that because I watch Back to the Future.
01:47:49.000A little bit of humility for Brian is going to go a long way right now.
01:48:14.000So, yeah, the rooftop Koreans is, you know, my mom and had friends who lived in LA at that time, Koreatown was radically invaded by a whole bunch of radical protesters that were violent and extreme, who killed multiple people and wounded a lot of people injured a lot of people.
01:48:35.000The rooftop Koreans were taking care of their businesses, but protecting their lives and self-defense.
01:48:42.000It's the great thing about the Second Amendment that allows you to do that before all the radical gun laws came to California.
01:48:49.000With just an interesting note, I want to remind people when you can do this research, Gun control came from government institutions wanting to counter the Black Panthers in the 1970s and 80s, specifically under Reagan when Reagan was the president.
01:49:07.000Those laws were expanded into Texas and that became gun control because they were fearful of law-abiding citizens who happen to be black, protesting with firearms around government buildings, and that started the snowball rolling downhill.
01:49:22.000So when you're voting for these things, when you're thinking about these things, when you look at your rights, just remember where that started, and any of those infringements on those rights started with the Black Panther movement.
01:49:34.000You know, one thing that bums me out with the culture war stuff is, I tweeted something about Second Amendment.
01:50:57.000So look, I understand that, but I watch these videos of these guys and they're pretty aggressive, but hey man, I got no beef.
01:51:03.000I was thinking last night how badass this country is and one of the great things is the individualism, the ability to kind of not have the state looking down your back because it's in those times of Silence and solitude where you can create great things where you're not interrupted by outside forces.
01:51:38.000What do you, without, I want to ask you all about your experience in the war.
01:51:42.000We don't have time for that on this show tonight, obviously, but like what was the biggest difference in the perception of what it was going to be and then what it was in reality when you were there?
01:51:52.000I think the effects on innocent people, right?
01:51:56.000You fight an insurgency, which is the most difficult thing to fight.
01:52:00.000It's not conventional forces going head-to-head in an open field like the Civil War.
01:52:04.000It is literally going door-to-door and then going, is that guy going to kill me?
01:52:08.000Is that guy a bad guy or is that an innocent person?
01:52:10.000And innocent people are affected by it.
01:52:12.000So, when people talk about civil war, what they're really talking about is an insurgency, where you can't identify friend from foe.
01:52:19.000Where the person that's waving at you, friendly, that one second, is throwing a grenade into your vehicle the second.
01:52:27.000So that is very difficult to manage and for me the most difficult thing in my nine trips and four and a half years to war was seeing innocent children and women affected by that.
01:52:39.000The men, middle-aged males who were aggressively going after us in a war, free game, but you'll never be in a conclusive battle.
01:52:52.000All of these bad guys are surrounded, using them as human shields by their children and their women.
01:52:57.000And it's disgusting to see that, but that's the horrific side of war, I think.
01:53:01.000One of the, and this is just a video I saw.
01:53:04.000One of the most brutal videos was a father holding his son who had died in, you know, street conflict.
01:53:10.000And the sound that man made, it's just like, man.
01:53:14.000You know, these LARPers, these Antifa people who want a revolution are going to be the first ones crying and begging for... These people who pretend to want this revolution, as soon as they get what they want, they'll be begging for an authoritarian regime to take over and bring back stability by any means necessary.
01:53:37.000Just want to be able to walk down the street, pick up a loaf of bread, go back home and share it with your family and not have to worry about getting hit by shrapnel or an IED.
01:53:45.000Let's see, Below Few says, last night you guys talked about how infrequently men cry compared to women.
01:53:51.000I had a pretty good streak going until you started reading detransitioning perspectives on Reddit.
01:53:56.000Yeah, that was the members-only thing we did last night.
01:53:59.000We were talking about these issues and we pulled up the D-Trans subreddit where it's mostly young women talking about how they were misled and how they regret this and their lives are destroyed.
01:54:10.000The terrifying thing is how some of these people are talking about taking their own lives and, you know, we want desperately to avoid all of that, but we got dark days in this country, man.
01:54:36.000So there's white and then blue, which is general proficiency, both top and bottom.
01:54:42.000So you understand leverage and control.
01:54:45.000I think at a minimum, it needs to be blue.
01:54:47.000And I think the experts, including Jocko Willink, who is an expert, would say the same.
01:54:52.000Would you have it done at the police academy level, or is this something that you'd have to continuously pursue, like someone with a fitness test?
01:54:59.000I mean, the biggest deficiency in obviously going after defunding the police officers is budgets and constraints that are within the department.
01:55:09.000And what I tell people, as I did in the military, I wasn't a great operator in special operations because the military or the institution made me such.
01:55:17.000I went out on my own time and went to jiu-jitsu dojos, shot competitions on the side, and did all these things that made me better.
01:55:26.000So I would say, yes, part of that should be the institutional academy or patrol academy, but they should not use that as a crutch and do it on their own, being more silver lining.
01:55:38.000All right, Ayazia Fraser says, no Tim, fiddles are quite difficult to play.
01:55:43.000Trump plays them like the cheap kazoos they are.
01:57:18.000A big part of it is probably because the actors' contracts are up and they're gonna have to get and renegotiate 10x if they want to keep them on.
01:57:24.000My point is, I wonder just nobody's watching their shows anymore.
01:58:46.000The only reason the machine will come after you for speaking up for your opinion is because no one does.
01:58:51.000If literally right now every single Trump supporter just came out and put a Trump flag on their lawn, The machine would invert.
01:58:58.000All of a sudden all the Democrats would be like, I was always a Trump supporter!
01:59:02.000Because they see the widespread popularity in their city.
01:59:04.000I don't know if signage is the way to go, that's kind of a virtue signal thing, but making a fucking channel and speaking your mind is number one.
01:59:13.000See, I think you should also just have these conversations honestly with people around you.
01:59:16.000I think so often people avoid talking about, not even politics, just like things you believe in, your values with your friends and neighbors because you're afraid of seeming different or isolating them or maybe making them feel judged, which is obviously a sin.
01:59:30.000You know, to a certain extent you just need to both live your values and be open about your values so people who may not share them can talk to you about them in a reasonable way.
01:59:39.000I think it's great if you want a big online platform to reach other people, but really it should start at the building block, which is like on your street in your community.
01:59:52.000I'm not saying don't do it, but I think that's also a way for the deep state to target people.
01:59:56.000If they go around, they just find out who it is.
01:59:57.000I'm not like, you don't have to put a sign.
01:59:59.000But I do think that like, if you don't feel like you can tell the people you think are your closest friends, who you voted for and discuss openly, like when you have differences of opinion, then you are probably not being honest with the people around you.
02:00:10.000You're never going to be able to have authentic progress without that.
02:00:13.000Dude, the internet video changes stuff so rapidly.
02:00:17.000It happens so fast when a lot of people start doing it, and community comes out of it.
02:00:48.000I don't subscribe anymore to institutions, especially woke ones, that have an agenda.
02:00:53.000I'm more interested in free thought and ideas and then collecting those people, like even the Daily Wire, because they have diversity, and then collecting all that and then absorbing it.
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