00:00:44.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:53.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:27.000From a young age, I was convinced that there was more to the story when it came to the assassination of Kennedy.
00:01:34.000It's very obvious to me for a variety of reasons.
00:01:37.000But tell us about your book and make the kind of layman argument for someone that is not really in the weeds of the Zabruder film and Kevin Costner's rendition of it and actually walking, you know, in downtown Dallas and seeing the Texas school book depository and the grassy knoll.
00:01:56.000What is the kind of short version of why you think there was more to the story when it came to the JFK assassination?
00:02:04.000Yeah, well, I think you have to start with the idea of being a critical thinker when you think about these types of things.
00:02:56.000And I felt like it was important to reach other people and document some interesting things and present that, the fact that there have been ripple effects that have changed this country since that day and that it does still Matter.
00:03:14.000I wanted to try to maybe get younger people interested in it so they could carry the torch.
00:03:20.000I mean, I think it is a metaphorical gateway drug to be able to challenge other power sources and other narratives that permeate our society.
00:03:31.000I have not read the book, but I'm guessing that you're sympathetic to some of these questions that need to be asked, which is, did Oswald really act alone?
00:03:39.000What was the motive for Lee Harvey Oswald?
00:03:43.000What do you think is the most compelling piece of evidence of all the stuff from the head back into the left to the chatter on the grassy knoll to multiple bullet entries to the missing of Kennedy's head to the fact the driver didn't turn around to the change of the motorcade route?
00:04:07.000And I go back to Ruby because that was just not right.
00:04:11.000But I would say the magic bullet theory, the idea that this bullet, which by the way is found in pristine condition, that this bullet would go through Kennedy, hit various bones, rough, tough skin, go make these weird turns, wind up in Connolly's wrist.
00:04:32.000I mean, it is the most ridiculous thing.
00:04:37.000And I think sometimes we get to the point where we know it's insulting to our intelligence that they think, I say they, but that's a whole different question as to the they.
00:04:51.000There's so you mentioned everything you just mentioned is a big part of that.
00:04:55.000Well, you know, where the shots came from, the autopsy, the things that happened all along the way.
00:05:01.000The Warrant Commission, the fact that Alan Dulles, the guy that Kennedy fired as head of the CIA, is then put on the Warrant Commission by Gerald Ford.
00:05:33.000So look, let me ask you this question.
00:05:36.000In the last couple of decades, what, if anything, have we learned that we did not know at the time?
00:05:42.000Let's just say that at the climax was Oliver Stone's film that was probably with the most audience and the largest audience and most kind of population interest.
00:05:52.000What sense the publication or the release of JFK by Oliver Stone?
00:05:58.000Have we learned of anything the last couple of decades?
00:06:10.000So he got people thinking about everything, right?
00:06:13.000He just kind of threw it all in that movie.
00:06:15.000I think what we know now that we didn't know then, and Oliver Stone himself has come out with two more documentaries because now we have more information.
00:06:25.000One of the things is Oswald, Oswald's connection to U.S. intelligence and the fact that he was most likely and a CIA operative.
00:06:35.000He was also in naval intelligence and he was being, you know, he was a lower level guy and he was taking his orders and he was going to New Orleans and then he was going to getting, they gave him, they got him a job at the Texas School Book Depository.
00:06:51.000And, you know, they were sheep dipping him.
00:06:53.000But I think we know a lot more about Oswald.
00:06:56.000And, you know, we also know now, I think more people are aware that when they, you know, if they read, you know, something about the Warren Commission report or a lot of new documents that come out.
00:07:08.000And I think people get really excited about the new documents, but I don't get too excited about them because a lot of it is redacted, right?
00:07:51.000So talk more about the cover-up, though.
00:07:53.000That's part of your book, because there's the actual assassination, and then there was this shoddy operation of the Warren Commission, which was, it's a joke.
00:09:05.000That's what we got to go with because you don't want people thinking it was the Russians or the Cubans or certainly not the U.S. government, elements of the U.S. government.
00:09:27.000I mean, really, Oswald, I mean, just, I can't get past it.
00:09:30.000I tell people all you need to know that there was a problem here and that there was a conspiracy is that Jack Ruby walks into a police station.
00:09:39.000There's, I don't know, 50 police officers in there, special agents, goes right up to Oswald, shoots him, kills him.
00:09:47.000Oswald never has in front of cameras on live TV.
00:09:52.000I've talked to people who were watching TV at the time that happened and they could not, it was shocking because of what just happened to Kennedy.
00:10:00.000And again, your critical thinking skills just come right to the forefront.
00:12:11.000So let me ask you, do you think Lee Harvey Oswald was in the Texas school book depository at the time, or do you think he was somewhere else?
00:12:58.000And within minutes, there's, again, 100 Dallas police officers there arresting him.
00:13:04.000There's so much to that that just doesn't make any sense.
00:13:08.000And so, yeah, I think Oswald was Oswald actually, I'll go ahead and say this.
00:13:14.000And if you read the book, you'll see why, because of what a lot of people say.
00:13:20.000He actually thought that he could prevent the assassination.
00:13:25.000And I think he was told by his handler and by, you know, whoever his bosses were that he was there to infiltrate Cuban exiles, the Cuban exile community, and get to know these people.
00:13:52.000But anyway, so Oswald was doing what he was told.
00:13:55.000And then he actually, you know, there's evidence to suggest that he thwarted an assassination attempt in Chicago and that he had gotten in touch with an FBI agent up there and was like, and it was a guy.
00:14:08.000And the FBI agent said an asset named Lee called Lee told us that there was going to be, there were Cuban exiles up there.
00:14:16.000There might have been an assassination attempt.
00:14:19.000And then we all know that he did bring a note to the FBI offices in Dallas and FBI agent Hostie, he brought him a note that said there's going to be an assassination attempt coming up in this motorcade.
00:14:33.000That was probably about a week or so before.
00:14:38.000So do you, do you believe that if it wasn't Oswald then from the window at the Texas Schoolbook Depository, then you believe then there was probably munition fire from the grassy knot?
00:16:06.000We can't just be, we can't just not care anymore.
00:16:09.000And I think that's why I wrote the book because I think a lot of people, if you interviewed them in the street, if they even knew who JFK was, they would say, ah, it's 60 years ago.
00:16:27.000There were about 30 questions I wanted to ask about, especially the declassification of documents, but that's a reason to have you back on because we're out of time.
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00:17:42.000All right, let's go through the list of all the things that the left thinks is toxic.
00:17:59.000They think children being children are toxic, but they got a new one.
00:18:04.000According to the freak Scott Weiner from California, who we have gone into great detail of who he is, he says conservatives are trying to make protecting gas stoves, which are toxic, a culture war issue.
00:19:01.000Why should gas stoves be continued in the culinary tradition of the West?
00:19:07.000At the very base of this, when I cook with electric, the likelihood I'm going to burn my food is probably a thousand percent higher because it takes so long to get the pan up to temperature, but then it also takes so long to get it down that when I do get it up, it keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter because you cannot manipulate heat.
00:19:28.000I can't just turn it on or off, right?
00:19:55.000If I'm using a gas-powered stove, there's a likelihood that if I'm in charge, everything's getting burnt.
00:20:00.000So if it's electric, the community is getting burned down.
00:20:04.000So the, but even for you as a world-class chef and as an expert, you say that if you are being forced, let's pretend in a, in a, let's just say a massive kitchen of which you operate some very big restaurants, you using an electric stove, I mean, it could actually be a business liability for you.
00:20:27.000You know, there's opportunities to use electric.
00:20:29.000There's opportunities to use induction.
00:20:32.000But, you know, I think they want us to get down into the weeds.
00:20:35.000We're really here in the granular about gas versus electric, which is a subjective conversation.
00:20:40.000And when you get into subjectivity, it can be very much about kind of, well, I think we should look at it this way or that way.
00:20:46.000Let's take a huge step back here and understand by making the switch to electric, we are polluting the environment by their standards, by their math, by their calculus.
00:20:55.000We are polluting the environment more, right?
00:20:58.000Because right now, our electricity is coming from natural gas, coal, nuclear, and a very slim minority, renewables.
00:21:10.000And what they're asking me to do instead is to go back to the electric grid, which is now inefficient because it's one large step away from my home, turn on the electricity, which requires the coal and the natural gas that they're trying to ban to get the electric to my home.
00:22:03.000You've got a kill switch when it all comes down to the grid.
00:22:06.000And for some reason, the left has attached themselves to this idea that we need to move everything into electric.
00:22:13.000The grid, all of that needs to be electric.
00:22:15.000Well, we haven't gotten there with renewables.
00:22:17.000Let's play a level game right now where we are not trying to battle and there's no craziness out there.
00:22:24.000And we're all just sitting down with open minds trying to understand how we can be better for the environment.
00:22:29.000Well, number one, we need renewables to be a lot more efficient, a lot more economical, right?
00:22:35.000Until we get that done, none of this stuff matters because it's all being driven by the items that they claim kill the environment, coal, and now they're saying natural gas.
00:22:47.000And to that, over the past decade, we've decreased our fossil fuel emissions by 25%.
00:23:02.000I believe that if you were to list the hardest businesses to run in the top 1% of all the hardest businesses, the elite restaurant business is one of the hardest businesses to run.
00:23:17.000I have so much respect for people that are able to run restaurants, run them well, because you think about it, I'm sure all of you could remember a bad meal that you had.
00:23:28.000And it's actually probably unfair because that's just probably one out of 300 people that they're serving that hour.
00:23:34.000But that one could impact the rest of your likelihood of going to that restaurant.
00:23:39.000So you have to be on with every customer, every dish.
00:23:42.000I was marveling how many restaurants you have.
00:23:47.000I mean, this kind of gives you a lot of credibility here.
00:23:49.000How many restaurants do you have and how many people do you have on staff currently?
00:23:53.000So I actually just sold my largest restaurant group where we had over 500 employees.
00:23:57.000Right now I've got eight different concepts and we've got probably over right now over 50 employees.
00:24:02.000So yes, we have multiple concepts and this affects us financially, like on a level I can't even attempt to explain.
00:24:10.000And so are all your restaurants in California right now?
00:24:21.000You know, you're in a business where it looks as if you are using organic ingredients and locally sourced product and you are creating experiences for people that is very high quality and high impact.
00:24:36.000And the kind of push here for power and for control, are other people in your industry equally as worried about this kind of electric stove push or kind of the insertion of government into the food or restaurant business?
00:24:52.000Or are you kind of a minority in the restaurant chef industry?
00:25:03.000And I get hundreds of messages from well-known chefs, people that I know in the industry, food network personalities, people who are like, you're killing it, man.
00:25:12.000Well, why am I the only one speaking up?
00:25:14.000Well, because nobody wants to get canceled.
00:25:16.000The power right now, especially in these industries by the media and everybody's, you know, fear of getting canceled, nobody wants to speak out against the system, no matter how crazy it is.
00:25:28.000So you sent out a tweet here that I totally agree.
00:25:30.000And we haven't actually had a chance to talk about this topic yet.
00:25:34.000CBS News says children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13.
00:26:11.000And you got to also understand what's in our food.
00:26:13.000So all of our food systems have been consolidated the same way the government is trying to consolidate absolutely everything.
00:26:19.000And the reason that they consolidate food is because food is control.
00:26:23.000And ultimately, they can control everybody if it's just one, two, or three major massive corporations.
00:26:28.000Well, the way in which these corporations can continue to deliver to their shareholders and continue to deliver to the government because they've effectively merged is by decreasing the quality of their products.
00:26:38.000And the way in which they can create more, right, larger output is by introducing chemicals and preservatives, but now they're, you know, highly toxic chemicals, in my opinion, which changes the ways that our bodies process a lot of these foods.
00:26:51.000And all of this processed food is high in things like high fructose corn syrup, omega-6 fatty acids by way of seed oils.
00:26:58.000And those things lead to imbalances in our natural, kind of our natural human calculus, right?
00:27:04.000So if I've got way too many omega-6 fatty acids in my diet, then I'm going to be subject to obesity, diabetes, hypertension.
00:27:11.000Six of the eight leading causes of death in the United States can be alleviated by the regular consumption of healthy omega-3 fatty acids.
00:27:18.000Well, guess where those also come from?
00:27:40.000Well, what happens if one of those varieties goes out?
00:27:43.000We just lost 33% of the entire apple output in the United States.
00:27:47.000And I use that as one example, but that's kind of underscores, I think, the problem that we see across the entire food system.
00:27:53.000And I said this when we were getting caught up with this whole Ukraine crisis because everyone said we're going to have food shortages because all of our wheat comes from Eastern Europe.
00:28:01.000And I said, why is our wheat coming from Eastern Europe?
00:28:04.000Why is all of our food coming from Eastern Europe?
00:28:06.000We need to be buying our food locally, putting it back into our communities.
00:28:09.000And I got completely crushed by everybody on the left.
00:28:13.000And I'm thinking to myself, 10 years ago, this was your platform.
00:28:21.000This used to be a huge issue on the left.
00:28:23.000And I don't know where the, I don't want to politicize it than put you, you know, but it just, it's a matter of freedom and also individual sovereignty.
00:28:31.000Whatever happened to the Locavorian movement?
00:28:33.000I grew up in a time where I was screamed at by the vegan people that we need to have your peppers and your apples and your bananas sourced within a 90-mile range.
00:28:42.000Now everyone's cool getting this GMO-filled garbage from Monsanto.
00:29:23.000And what's the advice you personally give people to be able to eat nutrient-dense, non-GMO, hopefully food that is, I'm struggling to find the right word, but food that is more similar to that of a couple decades ago?
00:30:34.000If you don't like seafood, you know, at least just go for the oils or try and find some sort of a seafood source that you like because typically they're lean proteins, even if you move into crusted crustaceans.
00:30:44.000And nowadays, because of the freezing technology, people think frozen food is bad.
00:30:50.000Let's take advantage of technology and frozen fish, frozen fruits, frozen vegetables, all very good for you.
00:30:57.000So, if you take a little bit of time, I hate to use the word meal prep because I think it's kind of, you know, cliched, but even if you just got some food in your fridge, even that one meal a week is enough right there.
00:31:08.000And when you do go out to eat, just ask questions.
00:31:10.000Try and avoid a lot of the kind of massive chains because all they're doing is just serving up shareholder profits at the expense of your health.
00:31:47.000So you can cook with the pure olive oil.
00:31:49.000Don't spend all the money that you would for an extra virgin because you're going to cook off all that flavor.
00:31:53.000So I have two types of olive oil: extra virgin to just eat.
00:31:56.000And once again, like you don't even need to cook.
00:31:58.000I'll just buy a loaf of bread, good bread or vegetables, and I'll just dip it in the olive oil, hit it with a real high-quality vinegar, and that's enough right there.
00:32:06.000You know, mustards, make your own mayonnaise at home.