Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Behind the scenes at Shot Show, exclusive interviews with Gov Kristi Noem, Gov Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Ted Nugent, Ric Grenell, and much more | TRIGGERED Ep.106

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00:05:52.000 you good evening guys welcome to another huge

00:06:18.000 episode of triggered This one's going to be a little bit unique.

00:06:22.000 I just got back from the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, where I recorded a bunch of interviews with some great patriots.

00:06:29.000 We got Rick Grenell, Christy Noem, Ted Nugent, Michael Seifert, Sarah Huckabee Sanders,

00:06:37.000 more governors, congressmen, a little bit of everything.

00:06:40.000 We're also out there talking field ethos.

00:06:42.000 We're talking out there, you know, public square, Cordova, the patriot economy.

00:06:47.000 So this one is like, this is like my Super Bowl, okay?

00:06:51.000 I'm there for the fun, see all the new stuff that's coming out there in the Second Amendment space.

00:06:56.000 I'm out there meeting with friends that I really only get to see

00:06:58.000 at some of these big conventions or when we're on the range, talking about the patriot economy,

00:07:03.000 again, with Michael Seifert and all this, even field ethos, for those of you guys who ask,

00:07:07.000 you know, what are the other things that I do?

00:07:08.000 You know, my outdoor magazine and online community, it's great.

00:07:13.000 There's so many things that I was able to accomplish out there. 0.97

00:07:16.000 I was like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. 0.99

00:07:18.000 It was brutal. It was a brutal three days, but we had a blast. 0.99

00:07:23.000 So I think you guys are going to really like this one.

00:07:25.000 You see some behind-the-scenes stuff.

00:07:27.000 You see some of the other things that I'm working on.

00:07:30.000 Obviously some politics too, but it's actually, you know, more of the passion projects in my life.

00:07:36.000 And then sitting down with some of the people who make that happen, some of the people who are on the front lines of defending our Second Amendment, not just the manufacturers, but also the politicians who are out there.

00:07:46.000 And again... Some of the stuff I do for fun.

00:07:49.000 So, I know you guys also, when we do the little survey about who do you want in what role, we got Ted Nugent on there.

00:07:56.000 I know I mentioned that, but we also discussed he's going to come on long form one day.

00:08:02.000 So, for all of you guys who are super excited about the possibility of a Ted Nugent press secretary position, we're going to have some fun with this one.

00:08:11.000 So, again... Breaking it up a little bit, a little bit of a different look, but we're going to have a lot of fun.

00:08:16.000 And like I said, you see some of the other things that we're working on behind the scenes, also really fighting for the patriot economy, for the things that we believe in, for our freedoms and values.

00:08:26.000 Probably no better place to do that than SHOT Show Vegas 2024.

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00:09:16.000 pass it on to your friends So before we get to the interviews before we have some fun

00:09:21.000 over there and get some behind the scenes We had a good time with Sarah Sanders as well

00:09:26.000 Thank you guys. I'll appreciate that one. Uh, first we got to do a couple rundowns of the top headlines of the week

00:09:34.000 Because it's getting insane folks The flood of illegal immigrants does not stop. 1.00

00:09:40.000 It just keeps going.

00:09:42.000 They know that they won't get deported.

00:09:45.000 So they come here and they do whatever the hell they want.

00:09:49.000 They are held to a substantially different standard than you or I would be as people living in this country.

00:09:57.000 In New York this week, a mob of migrants was caught on camera attacking police officers, attacking cops.

00:10:06.000 And of course, they were arrested and released without bail.

00:10:11.000 No problem. One of them even gave the middle finger to the press as they're walking out of their release.

00:10:19.000 Check this out.

00:10:21.000 Take a look at your screen. This is one of the suspects, 22-year-old Jawan Boata, leaving court after his arraignment yesterday, at times covering his face and then giving not one but two middle fingers to the media.

00:10:33.000 The Manhattan District Attorney's Office confirms to Fox cash bail was not requested for the five...

00:10:39.000 Yeah, guys, this is going to work out wonderfully.

00:10:42.000 That person's going to be lovely to your children or to your daughters later on.

00:10:47.000 They're totally going to become incredible citizens of this once great nation.

00:10:53.000 They're going to integrate into society perfectly well.

00:10:56.000 They won't be career criminals, right?

00:11:01.000 He's cocky because he knows nothing's going to happen to him.

00:11:04.000 He can do anything.

00:11:05.000 You're second-class citizens in your own country.

00:11:08.000 He's got a pass to do whatever he wants.

00:11:12.000 He's living in the illegal immigrant's American dream. 0.96

00:11:17.000 Come to America. 0.95

00:11:18.000 Get free hotels, free room and boards.

00:11:20.000 You can even beat up cops and literally nothing will happen to you.

00:11:24.000 You and I look at this guy and we see a criminal.

00:11:27.000 Biden looks at him and he sees a model future citizen. Not because he's actually a model future citizen,

00:11:35.000 but because he's likely going to be dependent on the system that's going to pay him forever and then will vote

00:11:42.000 accordingly.

00:11:43.000 His children will do the same. 0.97

00:11:45.000 Guys, beat up all the cops you want.

00:11:49.000 As long as you vote Democrat, you're wonderful in the eyes of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

00:11:56.000 And honestly, even in the eyes of some rhino Republicans. 0.90

00:12:01.000 Senator James Langford of Oklahoma, a Republican, by the way, we're going to call him a rhino, a Republican in name only, he sees this and he thinks he's got the solution.

00:12:14.000 What solution is that?

00:12:16.000 A backdoor amnesty bill that would allow 1.8 million illegal immigrants to enter every single year.

00:12:24.000 Forever. Unchecked.

00:12:25.000 1.8 million.

00:12:27.000 5,000 people a day.

00:12:31.000 Just come on in.

00:12:33.000 It's fine. No questions asked.

00:12:37.000 Think about that. This is a Republican.

00:12:39.000 His deal would also immediately give work permits to every illegal alien released from custody. 1.00

00:12:45.000 It's a complete pile of crap. 0.99

00:12:49.000 Just so we're clear, Barack Hussein Obama's own Head of DHS said that 1,000 illegals a day was beyond the pale. 1.00

00:13:03.000 It was too much.

00:13:04.000 It was essentially an invasion.

00:13:06.000 Barack Obama's own guy said that.

00:13:09.000 And a Republican is leading the charge on a bill that would go five times that number?

00:13:15.000 Five times a couple of short years later?

00:13:19.000 Obama's own guy. That number was already high.

00:13:22.000 5,000 a day is higher than any number we'd ever seen prior to Joe Biden's presidency.

00:13:28.000 And we're just going to green light that from the Republican Senate?

00:13:33.000 I mean, you can't help these people.

00:13:35.000 A Republican in Oklahoma is leading that charge?

00:13:40.000 Biden, of course, he loves this bill.

00:13:43.000 It would ensure waves, waves of future Democrat Party voters and cheap labor for his donors.

00:13:51.000 Sleepy Joe claims he needs the bill so that he can shut down the border.

00:13:56.000 That's what they're running with, right?

00:13:58.000 He's literally said he's done all he can with executive authority on immigration.

00:14:03.000 All he can. This is nonsense.

00:14:15.000 Joe Biden has done all he can to open the border.

00:14:19.000 He has the power to shut this down.

00:14:21.000 He just doesn't have the will.

00:14:23.000 This is Democrat policy.

00:14:26.000 You know, I know you're not allowed to talk about the great replacement theory.

00:14:29.000 Of course it's not a theory.

00:14:31.000 It's reality.

00:14:33.000 He stopped construction of the border wall.

00:14:36.000 He reinstated catch and release.

00:14:38.000 He ended Remain in Mexico.

00:14:41.000 He stopped deporting the vast majority of illegal immigrants and even terrorists.

00:14:45.000 In fact, Biden has taken 64 separate executive actions to undermine border security.

00:14:54.000 Okay? 64. Okay?

00:14:57.000 64. Think about that.

00:14:58.000 He hasn't done anything to do this.

00:15:00.000 He could reverse all of those decisions.

00:15:03.000 He could put Trump's policies back into place, and illegal immigration would plummet.

00:15:07.000 But he doesn't want to.

00:15:09.000 He just knows the media will do his bidding.

00:15:12.000 He knows that big tech will figure out a way to somehow blame the border on Republicans.

00:15:16.000 He understands it's not even a popular issue anymore, so they're going to do what they can to lie to you like they always do.

00:15:24.000 Biden doesn't call our open border a crisis because he wants open borders.

00:15:29.000 All he had to do was leave Trump's policies in place, but of course that wouldn't get them millions of permanent Democrat voters.

00:15:37.000 So why is Lankford going along with Biden's lies?

00:15:42.000 Democrats don't care about securing the border. 0.99

00:15:45.000 How do I know that? Because 155 House Democrats, including the guy that would want to be the Speaker of the House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, just voted against a bill to deport illegal immigrants convicted of Social Security fraud.

00:16:04.000 Let me say that again.

00:16:07.000 155 House Democrats just voted against a bill to deport illegal immigrants convicted of Social Security fraud.

00:16:17.000 Just so we're clear, that is your money.

00:16:20.000 Democrats don't want to deport illegals who commit Social Security fraud and steal from hardworking seniors and the American taxpayer. 0.98

00:16:30.000 They don't even want to deport illegal immigrants who are convicted of DUIs.

00:16:36.000 Today, 150 House Democrats voted against legislation that would deport illegals convicted of DUI. So you can commit social security fraud, you can get DUIs, and they still would love you to be part of our country.

00:16:55.000 We are not bringing our finest, because they don't care.

00:17:00.000 Again, I understand the PR machine that we will be up against.

00:17:03.000 I understand what big tech will do to truth, logic, reason, and fact.

00:17:10.000 That's why I always ask you, share this stuff.

00:17:12.000 Make sure other people will see it.

00:17:14.000 Because these are stories that won't see the light of day.

00:17:19.000 155 Democrats.

00:17:21.000 Social security fraud.

00:17:22.000 Just fine. If you're illegal.

00:17:23.000 Now, if you're an American citizen, you're going to jail, just so we're clear. 0.88

00:17:27.000 DUI, 150.

00:17:28.000 I guess somewhere along the way, five thought that...

00:17:33.000 It was okay to commit social security fraud, but not be deported for a DUI. I mean, that's today's Democrat Party.

00:17:42.000 I shouldn't be surprised.

00:17:44.000 Their leader, Joe Biden, doesn't think DUI should be grounds for deportation either.

00:17:50.000 You can listen to him stammer through it himself right now.

00:17:54.000 What exact changes would you bring to ICE as an agency?

00:17:58.000 I would hold ICE agents accountable if, in fact, they stepped over my executive orders, which is no arrest of anyone outside of their school.

00:18:07.000 One of the things that's happening is, particularly for Latino and Hispanic kids, is the incredible pressure on them in terms of their Their sense of security.

00:18:20.000 They go off to school wondering whether when mom comes and picks them up, is she not going to be there because an ICE agent was there to arrest her?

00:18:26.000 Or she takes them to the doctor that she's going to not be there because she is, quote, undocumented and a ICE agent is going to pick them up. 0.93

00:18:34.000 So how do you change the culture?

00:18:35.000 You change the culture by saying you're going to get fired.

00:18:39.000 You're fired if, in fact, you do that.

00:18:41.000 You only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that's committed, and I don't count drunk driving as a felony.

00:18:49.000 Guys, in Joe Biden's America, you can get a free pass if you're here illegally.

00:18:56.000 What Biden cares about is locking up peaceful pro-like activists.

00:19:02.000 This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice I've ever seen.

00:19:06.000 The Biden Justice Department announced yesterday that six pro-life activists were found guilty of, quote, conspiracy against rights.

00:19:16.000 And everything's a conspiracy against rights, as long as it's what the Democrat Party wants, due to a peaceful protest held at an abortion clinic.

00:19:24.000 The DOJ said, and I quote, Singing hymns and urging women to reconsider their decision to seek an abortion, close quote.

00:19:38.000 Oh my God!

00:19:40.000 Not that! Singing hymns?

00:19:43.000 Praying? Asking someone to reconsider a major life decision?

00:19:48.000 The horror! I mean, now, if they were here and they beat up some cops as illegals, they'd be fine. 1.00

00:19:55.000 They'd be just fine.

00:19:57.000 These six activists now face up to 10 years in prison.

00:20:02.000 Again, folks, this is stuff that doesn't get out there.

00:20:06.000 It doesn't make the news because it's smothered, it's censored, it's suppressed.

00:20:12.000 We need you guys and we need your help to push it out there.

00:20:17.000 If this doesn't make it clear, folks, that there are two sets of laws in America, I don't know what does.

00:20:24.000 Then, clearly, what's happening in Fulton County will make it even clearer.

00:20:29.000 Again, if you're watching this, you probably get it, but the amount of people who have no understanding of everything that's going on, who have no understanding just how insane, how weaponized, how much of a Dictatorial regime, the Biden administration, and the Democrat overlords running DOJ, the FBI, etc.

00:20:51.000 are, hopefully this will help drive home that message.

00:20:55.000 Fannie Willis, who rules Atlanta like a tin-pot dictator, she abused her office to indict her party's leading political challenger, my father. 1.00

00:21:08.000 She gives hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to her boyfriend, and then she... 0.99

00:21:13.000 Fires whistleblowers, who she's vacationed on with taxpayer dollars, spending that money freely, laughing her ass off probably, at what they can get away with because no one holds them accountable. 1.00

00:21:25.000 Well, this week, audio was released of a former employee in Willis' office named Amanda Timpson.

00:21:33.000 In the audio, which I'm about to play, you can hear Timpson tell Willis about the illegal misuse of grant funds.

00:21:41.000 Willis did not dispute the allegations.

00:21:44.000 Listen and hear for yourself so you can understand the level of depravity we're up against what they think they can get away with.

00:21:52.000 He would take me off projects, tell people I wasn't doing what I was supposed to because I questioned him.

00:21:58.000 Because I understood. I helped write that grant.

00:22:00.000 I knew what was in that grant.

00:22:02.000 He told everybody in front of Crystal, Deontay, everybody, we're going to get MacBooks, we're going to get swag, we're going to use it for travel.

00:22:11.000 I said, you cannot do that.

00:22:12.000 It's a very, very specific grant.

00:22:14.000 He took me off. I questioned Junior DA. There's kids in there from out of the county, all this.

00:22:21.000 Took me off junior DA. I did not want to do it.

00:22:24.000 He made it look as if I wasn't doing what I needed to do because I questioned him.

00:22:29.000 Because I knew for a fact Mr.

00:22:31.000 Cuffey respectfully did not know what he was doing.

00:22:34.000 Period. So I respect that is your assessment.

00:22:39.000 It was clear to me that you and Mr.

00:22:41.000 Cuffey were not getting along. And I'm not saying that your assessment is wrong.

00:22:44.000 Guys, less than two months after that meeting, Willis fired Timpson.

00:22:49.000 Timpson is now saying that Willis has a pattern of ethical violations.

00:22:54.000 I'm shocked to hear this.

00:22:55.000 I'm shocked to hear this.

00:22:57.000 We have the receipts. We've seen it all.

00:22:59.000 And abuse of power.

00:23:02.000 Huh. And yet...

00:23:05.000 Brian Camp in Georgia doesn't seem to want to do anything about that because, you know, we're never going to upset the Democrats.

00:23:10.000 They'll be mean to me. People in the press will write bad articles about me because they're just fine with the Democrats doing whatever they want.

00:23:18.000 See Hunter Biden versus Don Jr.

00:23:21.000 This is the Democrats' America. 0.51

00:23:25.000 This is the land that they've created.

00:23:28.000 These are the rules.

00:23:29.000 They ignore laws that help them gain and retain power.

00:23:33.000 And they abuse laws to punish the people that try to get in their way.

00:23:41.000 That's called racketeering and obstruction.

00:23:43.000 And yet, again, if you're part of the Democrat Party, that's just fine.

00:23:46.000 It's fine. We'll remain in power.

00:23:50.000 We'll spend your money however we want.

00:23:52.000 We can be corrupt and broken.

00:23:54.000 It doesn't matter because no one's going to hold them accountable.

00:23:58.000 That's Joe Biden's America.

00:24:01.000 That's what we've seen become so clear about I'm not saying it wasn't probably going on in all of these areas before Trump, but Trump derangement syndrome brought it to the top and we have to call it out.

00:24:16.000 We have to fight back or we're not going to have a country left to save.

00:24:20.000 So finally, I want to end, before we get to the interviews of SHOT Show and again, the stuff I'm doing with Field Ethos and the governors and Ted Nugent and like all the fun stuff.

00:24:31.000 I want to end on an important update on the Senate sex video scandal.

00:24:36.000 You remember this one, right? I'm not even going to show the video here, or even the pictures, because it's disgusting.

00:24:43.000 But the Capitol Police this week announced that they will not be filing any charges for this incident. 0.89

00:24:50.000 Remember, this was the gay sex incident in one of the secure rooms of the Senate. 0.88

00:24:57.000 This is very surprising to me though, folks. 0.99

00:24:59.000 They are typically very anal about minor violations in the law.

00:25:05.000 Pun absolutely intended. 0.77

00:25:08.000 But in this case...

00:25:09.000 They're just gonna let it pass.

00:25:11.000 Because you know what? 1.00

00:25:12.000 When it's Democrat staffers having anal gay sex in a Senate room, that's just fine. 1.00

00:25:18.000 But if you're someone's grandmother and you walk through the velvet ropes of Congress taking a selfie without doing anything violent, you get to go to jail for a very long period of time. 1.00

00:25:30.000 At this point folks, they're laughing at you.

00:25:33.000 They're daring you to say something. 0.85

00:25:36.000 They're challenging you to do anything about it because they couldn't give a damn.

00:25:42.000 I've had enough but I can't do it alone.

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00:28:12.000 You're gonna enjoy this one.

00:28:14.000 It's a compilation of like a couple of days of SHOT Show, absolute insanity,

00:28:18.000 but you get to see some other things we're working on.

00:28:19.000 You know, Michael Seifert from Public Square, you know, check them out.

00:28:22.000 This is how we also vote with our wallet.

00:28:26.000 They're doing a deal with Cordova, help people buy firearms without the banks canceling them,

00:28:31.000 without getting put on a list, buy now, pay later type of options

00:28:36.000 with the world which we're going right now.

00:28:38.000 That makes a lot of sense. We get to see that.

00:28:40.000 We get to hear about what some of the governors are doing, what Kristi Noem is doing, actually building gun ranges in South Dakota, what Sarah Sanders is doing.

00:28:47.000 We have a whole slew of people.

00:28:51.000 You'll hear from Ted Nugent, possible, possible future, possible, Press Secretary, at least temporary.

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00:29:24.000 and let me know what you think.

00:29:26.000 ♪♪♪ Guys, we're here at the SHOT Show.

00:29:52.000 This is the SHOT Show episode, but, you know, it's not just talking about guns and our freedoms and all of that stuff.

00:29:58.000 We do that every day on the show, as you know.

00:30:00.000 We got Michael Seifert, CEO of Public Square here, and you guys are announcing a really cool, well, we are.

00:30:06.000 Yeah. An awesome partnership with Cradova.

00:30:10.000 We're not just saying, hey, we've got to speak up loudly against those.

00:30:14.000 We're now voting with our wallet.

00:30:16.000 We started that. We've been working on it together for almost two years now, from something to now a big public company, but now we're taking it further to To really stop a lot of the cancellation that's going on.

00:30:27.000 We see it with guns, but if they're doing it to people who are buying guns, if they're doing it to people who manufacture components of guns, if you're getting debanked, if I'm getting debanked for creating a news app, guess what, folks?

00:30:38.000 They're coming after everyone.

00:30:40.000 So, Michael, give us a little bit of the background on that and what we're talking about here, what we're doing to be able to combat that, to make sure that we're uncancellable.

00:30:47.000 Yeah. Well, SHOT Show is a perfect example of our market that we're trying to serve, 2AT. There are 77,000 gun industry insiders here in Las Vegas for this week, and all of them have gone through a similar experience.

00:31:02.000 They know what it feels like to be under the thumb Of big commerce or big tech cancellation pressure.

00:31:09.000 And just like what happened to MXM, banks just shutting the door overnight.

00:31:12.000 These businesses, we've heard from some of them say it's happened to them multiple times where they're trying to do right by their consumers.

00:31:19.000 They're trying to help folks exercise their Second Amendment rights.

00:31:23.000 And the financial institutions of this country should be behind them, but instead are actually saying, I'm not here to serve you.

00:31:31.000 And to me, that's a real shame.

00:31:32.000 To you, that's a real shame. It's why we're so inspired to do this.

00:31:35.000 And so, as we look to 2024, we had an amazing year in 2023, took the company public, grew past a million members faster than many of the industry giants.

00:31:43.000 As we look to 2024, we are looking to build the foundational infrastructure of things like payments and things like software so that the businesses, over 75,000 now on our platform, can not only be able to experience the joy of Connecting with like-minded consumers, but also can be safe.

00:32:03.000 Soup to nuts, top to bottom, completely safe and cancel-proof in their business's expression of their products and services.

00:32:10.000 Cordova's a great company. We're proud to announce a partnership with them today.

00:32:14.000 They're a consumer financing juggernaut for the parallel economy.

00:32:17.000 They help folks access some really expensive items that are so fundamental to our Second

00:32:23.000 Amendment in a way that's very user-friendly.

00:32:26.000 They help offer buy now pay later services to folks that are wanting to purchase firearms

00:32:30.000 or other goods from this industry.

00:32:32.000 And the last thing that I'll point out, Cordova's great because if you remember the Biden administration

00:32:36.000 over the past two years has announced that they are pushing banks and financial institutions

00:32:41.000 to code gun purchases.

00:32:43.000 So if you're buying a gun, they're pushing Visa and MasterCard and many retailers even, like Bass Pro and Cabela's, to actually code your purchases.

00:32:52.000 So you have a lot of people now that are feeling like, well, my only option's cash.

00:32:55.000 Problem is... When's the last time you purchased something for $2,000 in cash?

00:33:00.000 It's very difficult to do that.

00:33:01.000 Cordova's cool because you can actually escape the credit card woes by purchasing through Cordova and have access to some of these goods.

00:33:09.000 So we're going to implement their technology on our platform.

00:33:11.000 It's going to be great. And ultimately, our goal this year is let's build at Public Square a real impenetrable payment stack that allows for folks to transact without fear.

00:33:20.000 That's where we're going. I mean, we've seen that everywhere, right?

00:33:23.000 You see it with the credit card companies.

00:33:24.000 Then you see, you know, if someone bought a Bible, the banks literally gave that information to the FBI. I mean, like, you're on a list.

00:33:31.000 And so if you're watching this podcast too late, you're on a list.

00:33:33.000 So now you might as well be all in. We're all on a list.

00:33:35.000 It's fine. I'm on every list for sure.

00:33:38.000 But you saw that with PayPal earlier this year.

00:33:40.000 If you said something that they deem misinformation, because the arbiters of truth aren't necessarily truthful, but they are the arbiters.

00:33:47.000 They were going to fine you $5,000 just taken out of your PayPal account.

00:33:51.000 If you're using that still, you're doing yourself a major disservice.

00:33:54.000 This is an alternative to that.

00:33:56.000 You're not going to get debanked.

00:33:57.000 You're not going to be put on a list. You're not dealing with the banks that are making that difficult for you.

00:34:01.000 And again, so much of what we've got to do is not just We've now got to vote with our wallets.

00:34:06.000 We've got to escape the pressures that they've put on, and I think this is what we're slowly starting to build.

00:34:11.000 I mean, it's just the beginning of all of this, but we did it with Publix where now we're getting the options of payment and adding onto these platforms and actually growing real parallel economy businesses.

00:34:20.000 Yeah, well, and what's really important to recognize is that throughout history, any of the authoritarian regimes that have risen to power, the first thing they've tried to cut off is your economic access.

00:34:30.000 They want to shut off your ability to transact.

00:34:32.000 If you look at China right now, their entire economic system is structured around a social credit score.

00:34:38.000 If you don't act in a way that the regime is proud of, you have your credit score dinged.

00:34:43.000 So our credit score system in the United States is a bit of a mess.

00:34:47.000 Imagine if it was tied to your behavior and your opinions about the political regime in power.

00:34:51.000 That's the future that these globalists want for us.

00:34:54.000 And so we as American people have to make a decision.

00:34:56.000 Do we want to keep empowering those tyrants to weaponize their beliefs against us?

00:35:02.000 You've got people like Mark Benioff at Time Magazine who started Salesforce contributing to lawsuits against your father.

00:35:08.000 You've got people like Mark Zuckerberg investing $400 million in elections.

00:35:13.000 So we may say, oh, we don't care about politics.

00:35:15.000 We want to detach politics from business.

00:35:17.000 The hard part is, and it's a tough pill to swallow, politics cares about you deeply.

00:35:22.000 Yeah. There's no detaching it.

00:35:24.000 Unless you just don't care about your freedom.

00:35:26.000 I mean, they're doing this stuff.

00:35:28.000 We don't have equal justice under the law.

00:35:31.000 My classic example is me versus Hunter Biden.

00:35:33.000 I understand I am not the upstanding human being that Hunter Biden is, but you'd think, you know, if I did, if it was my laptop from hell, there would be hell to pay.

00:35:41.000 I'd be at Gitmo. Don, I would never see you again if you were out of your mind. 0.91

00:35:46.000 It was a wonderful run, Michael, but you're going to Gitmo forever.

00:35:51.000 But that's actually happening.

00:35:52.000 You see it in the disparate treatment of the January 6th versus the mostly peaceful protesters that burned down buildings, looted, arson, murder for the 2020 summer of love.

00:36:02.000 It's just different.

00:36:04.000 And so until we actually start taking away The funds.

00:36:07.000 I mean, we're funding woke corporate America and these big corporations that are then in turn taking that, donating to Democrat causes that would literally put you in jail.

00:36:14.000 They're donating to all the causes that you hate on the charitable side.

00:36:18.000 And your own hard-working money is being weaponized against you.

00:36:21.000 We need to stop that once you cut off at least some of that.

00:36:24.000 And we are overwhelmed in terms of, you know, conservative versus liberal on the donation side.

00:36:29.000 We're always 5 to 1, 10 to 1 in terms of that.

00:36:31.000 But if we can take off some of that, That's how we start making a dent.

00:36:36.000 That's where they're going to be much more reluctant to weaponize all of the basic values and principles against us that they've been doing.

00:36:44.000 Yeah, and I think, you know, I'm hopeful.

00:36:47.000 I was actually talking to a firearms manufacturer that stopped by this booth, our Public Square booth here yesterday, and he said, what are you doing?

00:36:54.000 Tell me about this. And I said, well, Public Square is the largest marketplace in the world of businesses that don't hate you.

00:36:59.000 They love your freedoms, they love your constitutional liberties, and they want to serve you without fear of cancellation.

00:37:04.000 And he said, I've been cancelled more than a few times.

00:37:07.000 I said, tell me about that. And he actually gave an example.

00:37:09.000 Last year, he had a bank in Texas.

00:37:11.000 We think, oh, Texas, red state, we're safe.

00:37:14.000 He was banking in Texas with a community bank.

00:37:17.000 He posted a picture on his social media of him and his truck and he had his big truck wrapped in a picture of the ARs that they build for their customers that they've worked so hard to earn.

00:37:27.000 And he said the banks took one look at that picture and after almost a decade of banking together said we're done.

00:37:33.000 They shut the lights off overnight.

00:37:34.000 And he said that's the third time I've had to move banks.

00:37:37.000 So I said, well, okay, let's do this.

00:37:39.000 Let's link you with some of the banks that you can find on Public Square.

00:37:42.000 We have plenty. Whether you're talking about Axos, whether you're talking about a local credit union, America's Christian Credit Union, if you're faith-based, Carrollton Bank, I mean, these incredible financial institutions that are proud to serve you.

00:37:53.000 The problem is people just don't know they exist.

00:37:55.000 And so I hope, Don, that like with the awakening that you and I talk about really frequently, that people will be so proactive about recognizing there are solutions and then actually making the move, kicking convenience to the curb, making the move, and finding in the process that not only are these other financial institutions excited to serve you, but they also are often better.

00:38:16.000 Look what happens in the airlines.

00:38:17.000 DEI and ESG and all that stuff.

00:38:19.000 It's killing productivity. You've got doors falling off flames and wheels rolling down.

00:38:22.000 Yeah, and wheels rolling down. What is it?

00:38:23.000 But no, and that's the real, it's not just about the convenience, because you know what's much more inconvenient than switching banks to someone who likes you?

00:38:31.000 It's being canceled by a bank, not getting a mortgage that you've been working on, and losing that time then trying to find it.

00:38:38.000 So, you know, that little bit of inconvenience is made up for in spades, you know, when you don't, Get canceled in the middle of a transaction, or an expansion, or get denied a financing that you've worked on for months to build up your product lines.

00:38:52.000 And that's what it is. I love that we're doing this now with Public Square, taking it to the next level, because it started off as, hey, we're going to, and it still is, but there's just a lot more now.

00:39:02.000 We're going to link you so you can shop with people who actually share your values.

00:39:06.000 You can put their kid. It's small business.

00:39:08.000 It's not just, whoa, corporate.

00:39:09.000 You don't have to go to Target to find a t-shirt.

00:39:11.000 There's plenty of people around you, whatever it may be.

00:39:14.000 That's what the Public Square Marketplace is all about, finding like-minded people, letting them spend money with people who share their values, build those business, put their kids through soccer camp or whatever it is.

00:39:25.000 That American small business that was always the lifeblood of our country that's just been...

00:39:31.000 Frankly destroyed by so much of corporate America, who has then decided to become political, who doesn't care about our beliefs.

00:39:39.000 We can actually push back, but it takes all of us to actually do it.

00:39:42.000 Yeah, and even some of the institutions that were supposed to serve the small businesses you just described, Have completely abdicated their responsibility.

00:39:50.000 The great example is the Chamber of Commerce.

00:39:52.000 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was supposed to be a home for small businesses to be able to thrive, access resources, and community.

00:39:59.000 Now, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is advocating— The U.S. Chamber of Chinese Commerce.

00:40:02.000 Yes, and they're advocating for open borders.

00:40:04.000 They're literally advocating—well, and for getting everything abroad.

00:40:07.000 Offshore it, because the consultant and managerial class— Like everything else, took it over.

00:40:13.000 You can save two cents on your widget by sending everyone's jobs in American Dream abroad.

00:40:17.000 Oh, that's wonderful. That hasn't served us well at all.

00:40:20.000 No, it hasn't.

00:40:22.000 And our goal is a new American Renaissance era where small businesses have the resources, the connections, the capital.

00:40:28.000 Because just like we're talking about People wanting to shop in alignment with their values.

00:40:33.000 There are also amazing investors that want to invest money in alignment with their values.

00:40:36.000 We're trying to help small businesses access capital, payment infrastructure.

00:40:41.000 If we can do that, I feel so excited about the future.

00:40:44.000 We have a lot of opposition that's trying to come against it.

00:40:47.000 We see that electorally.

00:40:48.000 You see it, obviously, economically and culturally deeper than anything else.

00:40:52.000 But I'm hopeful, man.

00:40:53.000 I'm really hopeful. I think the SHOT Show is a great demonstration.

00:40:56.000 If you want to feel hopeful about the future of our country, Come to SHOT Show and meet 77,000 people.

00:41:01.000 Just great Americans. And that's for Public Square right now.

00:41:06.000 But we're going to expand this for everything.

00:41:08.000 Because we need it.

00:41:10.000 And if you don't think you need it now, just wait a couple more months.

00:41:13.000 And like everything else, they're going to chip away at it.

00:41:15.000 And that's what it's been. It's been death by a thousand cuts.

00:41:18.000 Couldn't agree more. Good to have you, man.

00:41:20.000 Thanks for having me. Always.

00:41:21.000 Good to see you. All right, guys, continuing our SHOT Show coverage.

00:41:24.000 I am almost talked. I don't like seven podcasts today.

00:41:27.000 I've taken about two billion fucking selfies. 0.98

00:41:30.000 It's gotten brutal, but the only thing I always say... 0.99

00:41:32.000 But now... But now, I get to hang out with...

00:41:35.000 I mean, let's be honest. Former director of national intelligence, Rick Grinnell.

00:41:39.000 Yes, who already knows everything.

00:41:40.000 By the way, you know, so on the show we do a thing and it's like, hey, who would you like in certain positions?

00:41:48.000 Now, this is the base, right?

00:41:50.000 So they are not choosing Washingtonian type of people.

00:41:54.000 You know, Alex Jones for press secretary.

00:41:57.000 Rick, and your name comes up a lot in some very high levels.

00:42:01.000 Let's go. You know, you're in there with the base.

00:42:04.000 Yeah, look, you know, it was the most incredible, I'm not just throwing a line, it was the most incredible honor of my life.

00:42:10.000 To be representing America and to be representing President Trump.

00:42:15.000 It was amazing sitting in Germany, have him call me pretty regularly to say, hey, let's get this done, and I realized pretty quickly that he didn't really view me as just Germany, it was Europe.

00:42:28.000 Yeah, well, for those of you who don't know the backstory, Rick was probably the only ambassador.

00:42:33.000 I was like, get him in that spot.

00:42:35.000 And Rick was also probably the only ambassador that actually, let's say, spoke truth to power.

00:42:41.000 And I would say understand the role, right?

00:42:43.000 You're working for America, you're working for the president, not for the other countries.

00:42:46.000 He was the one that goes to Angela Merkel and was like, listen, you want NATO to spend all this money, when I say NATO, I mean the United States, for NATO, for their benefit, while they're giving billions to Russia.

00:42:57.000 So you had to explain to her that the United States position under my father was not exactly, we're going to just write unlimited checks, you don't have to cover your agreed-upon share like they hadn't been doing, and you can enrich the people.

00:43:10.000 You want us to protect you from.

00:43:12.000 That's not going to work with this anymore.

00:43:14.000 That's not the game.

00:43:16.000 One of the best moments of being ambassador to Germany was sitting in the White House Chancellor Merkel was there, and we were sitting there.

00:43:29.000 The president was negotiating with her, and he looked at her and he said, look, I gotta be honest with you.

00:43:34.000 I don't blame you for wanting America and Americans to pay for your security.

00:43:40.000 I don't blame you. I actually think it's pretty smart.

00:43:41.000 If I was in your job, I'd probably do that too.

00:43:43.000 If I represented Germany, I'd want somebody else to pay for my security.

00:43:47.000 And he turned the whole thing around and he said, but you know, you can't blame me.

00:43:52.000 For now wanting to represent the American people.

00:43:54.000 Because you duped all the other presidents before me into getting them to pay for your security, but it stops here.

00:44:01.000 I'm not going to do it.

00:44:02.000 And to be honest, she totally respected him for it.

00:44:05.000 She saw it. She was like, yeah, I get it.

00:44:07.000 You've got to fight for America. I'm fighting for Germany. 0.92

00:44:10.000 I spent eight years... How is it that we had politicians, though, and presidents that just never even got that before?

00:44:15.000 I mean, because that's a... That's scary because that's like a, you know, just institutional failure.

00:44:19.000 Like if our presidents, they don't care.

00:44:22.000 What's another trillion dollars that we're not going to look at?

00:44:25.000 We'll just pay for these guys. They literally like, I'm like, well, you're going to destroy that?

00:44:30.000 I was like, no, no, no. People have in writing, like they're putting this percentage of their GDP and they're putting nothing in.

00:44:36.000 Like it's a deal. It's not like we're trying to get them to pay more.

00:44:39.000 We're just trying to get them to pay what they already agreed to.

00:44:41.000 Exactly. What you just described is literally the heart of why we say we want an outsider.

00:44:47.000 Yeah. Because somebody who spends 20 years in the foreign policy world, okay, and I spent eight years at the UN watching all these diplomats and they get recycled, they eventually grow into saying, oh, you know, I want the other side, I want the Europeans, I want the Latins, I want the Africans to like me. 0.64

00:45:08.000 I want them to negotiate with me and say, you know, you're a good guy.

00:45:12.000 It's not your job to be liked. It's not your job to be liked.

00:45:15.000 And yet that crowd really wants that.

00:45:18.000 So I always say...

00:45:19.000 Because it's easy to do that when you're playing with other people's money.

00:45:21.000 Exactly. I always say the opposite of America first, the exact opposite philosophy is consensus with the Europeans. 0.95

00:45:30.000 Yeah. You're either going to go and have the lowest common denominator of what all of these other countries think, which is called the UN, or you're going to advocate for what's best for your country.

00:45:42.000 And that's what President Trump did better than anyone, and why I jumped on and believed in this movement.

00:45:48.000 And you see that rearing up. Davos going on last week and all this kind of stuff.

00:45:53.000 And it's like, well, we really don't want Trump to come back.

00:45:56.000 I'm like, oh, you mean you really don't want to be held accountable for your actions?

00:45:59.000 Were you basically taking total advantage of America and, frankly, the world with your nonsense?

00:46:05.000 And it's like, isn't that the greatest endorsement of Trump you can imagine?

00:46:08.000 Like, when your rivals, when the people...

00:46:13.000 Isn't that exactly who the American public should vote for if they don't want it? 0.65

00:46:16.000 Not because the policy, we weren't in wars, but because we held them to task and we weren't just Ridiculous with the American taxpayers' money.

00:46:26.000 Right, and when you concentrate on that, when you concentrate on the American people's money, and you say to these other countries, hey, we don't want to do that because it's spending the American people's money for your security, the other side, the other countries get mad.

00:46:42.000 They go to the press and they say, oh, this person is undiplomatic, right?

00:46:46.000 So then the press coverage becomes, this person is mean to our allies.

00:46:50.000 And what I tried to explain in Germany is, You're not a very good ally.

00:46:54.000 If you're making the American people pay for it, you're not a good ally to us.

00:46:58.000 With allies like that, if you want us to spend more of our money to protect you from those who you are enriching with friends like that who needs enemies.

00:47:07.000 I said that and they were like, how can you say that?

00:47:09.000 They're not an enemy. I'm like, but they're certainly not acting like friends.

00:47:12.000 They're taking advantage of us. They certainly are taking advantage of us.

00:47:15.000 Look, I have this philosophy when it comes to NATO. It's a little controversial.

00:47:19.000 But I don't believe that anyone in NATO, any member of NATO right now, who's not paying their obligations, their 2%, if you're not up to good in your remittances, you shouldn't be voting on how to expand NATO, how to expand the security presence.

00:47:41.000 Because what you're doing is, you're not paying your fair share.

00:47:43.000 You're voting for new members, knowing that the American people are going to have to pay for new members.

00:47:49.000 Well, that's not rocket science.

00:47:50.000 I mean, it sort of feels obvious, right?

00:47:52.000 It's very controversial within the foreign policy. 0.99

00:47:54.000 Because, of course, because big, dumb America, they'll just pay for everything. 1.00

00:47:57.000 You're a schmuck. But, like, if I don't pay my taxes, I don't have my freedoms. 1.00

00:48:00.000 Right. Right? Like, what's the difference, right?

00:48:03.000 At a country club, if you don't pay your dues, you don't get to go to...

00:48:07.000 Play golf. Play golf or go and have a nice dinner there if you are behind.

00:48:11.000 Yeah. You're cut off.

00:48:12.000 You're cut off. And that's what I think is important to do, to have consequences for not paying your obligations.

00:48:20.000 I really believe that right now Germany should not be voting to expand NATO. They are the largest economy in Europe.

00:48:27.000 They are not paying their fair share and they're voting to add new members that my mom on Social Security has to now pay for.

00:48:34.000 It's not fair. That's not fair at all.

00:48:36.000 So, you know, we will solve the problems of the world hopefully in about 10, 11 months.

00:48:41.000 How are you feeling about everything out there right now?

00:48:43.000 Look, I feel good. I think that it's over and we should just start ignoring Nikki Haley.

00:48:49.000 Yeah. She's, you know, chomping. 1.00

00:48:51.000 But I've been saying this in all my interviews is that, make no mistake, the people of South Carolina know her the best.

00:49:00.000 Yeah. Yeah. They've watched her for years.

00:49:02.000 They don't need to have an education on who she is. 1.00

00:49:04.000 They know her the best. And let's see what happens in South Carolina.

00:49:06.000 Yeah. No, I think hopefully that should be the nail in the coffin.

00:49:08.000 But when you're being funded by the Democrats, it's much like NATO. What difference does it make?

00:49:12.000 They're playing with other people's money, trying to drag out the process.

00:49:15.000 But what brings you to shot?

00:49:17.000 Well, look, I care about international issues.

00:49:20.000 I have a lot of friends internationally.

00:49:23.000 And this whole idea of capitalism, the Second Amendment, certainly in America, And safety, national security, is really at the forefront of what happens at SHOT Show.

00:49:37.000 It's not just about our individual rights, but a lot of companies here around the world are worried about making sure that we have secure safety.

00:49:47.000 And so I come here and meet up with a lot of my friends internationally who care very deeply about these issues, and I will tell you this.

00:49:55.000 Privately, all international leaders will tell you they want Trump back.

00:50:01.000 Because honestly, and this is where I think our foreign service officers and the State Department and our embassies around the world, they should change their rhetoric.

00:50:10.000 We should make the argument that when America puts itself first, the rule of law is supported, capitalism is supported, Democracy, human rights, the world order becomes more established when America puts itself first because we're not a selfish country.

00:50:27.000 We don't go and conquer and take other people's oil and do that.

00:50:31.000 We're just trying to drill here and use the resources that we have.

00:50:35.000 Although it's interesting when people are defaulting and you spent more time there than probably anyone I know at the UN. The UN doesn't believe what you just talked about because they'll put Iran on the Women's Council for...

00:50:49.000 I'm like, wait a minute.

00:50:51.000 Here's the fundamental flaw.

00:50:52.000 You're having one of the largest oppressors of women in the world get to decide what are the issues for women in the world. 0.98

00:50:58.000 And I'm like, I don't... This is the fundamental flaw that we need to take to the UN. Because the theory of the UN is good, the theory, right?

00:51:06.000 But the reality is that the UN believes that all countries are equal.

00:51:11.000 I don't believe that.

00:51:12.000 I think all people are equal.

00:51:14.000 Every individual is ordained by God and has their inalienable rights from God.

00:51:20.000 A wise man once called them shithole countries, Rick.

00:51:23.000 There are some of them.

00:51:26.000 Even the UN system of how they assess the contributions from different countries, they take into account the GDP. So they're not looking at countries as equal when they're assessing contributions.

00:51:39.000 So why should we have a system that says every country is equal?

00:51:43.000 We know Iran. It kicks women systematically off basic human rights, pushes gay people off buildings. 0.99

00:51:51.000 We see them foment and fund terrorism. 0.98

00:51:55.000 They're not equal with the United States.

00:51:57.000 And so we need to make a judgment about this, that countries are not equal, that people are equal.

00:52:03.000 So what do you do with the UN to fix it?

00:52:05.000 Because, like, I mean, it does feel like you're being punked when I see some of the stuff coming out of their mouths at, you know, when they meet.

00:52:13.000 Like I said, putting, you know, literally countries that oppress women on the Women's Council, you know, like, I don't know. 0.89

00:52:21.000 It shouldn't just be their turn, and it And if you are a place that segregates that way, you shouldn't get a say, in my opinion, and yet it's happening every day.

00:52:31.000 I mean, does it have hope or is it like the FBI where you sort of got to burn it down the ground and start a new structure?

00:52:38.000 Look, I'm going to give you the diplomatic answer.

00:52:40.000 No, no, I don't want the diplomatic answer.

00:52:42.000 You're not a diplomat when you're on this podcast.

00:52:44.000 You can be a diplomat again in 10 months.

00:52:47.000 The reality is the UN does not work unless the US isn't leadership.

00:52:51.000 Correct. And so you've got to be able...

00:52:53.000 You look at the World Food Program.

00:52:54.000 There's always an American that's running that because we voluntarily give a lot of money to the World Food Program.

00:53:01.000 It's a great organization, run well, when you have people who are paying attention, Americans with American management spirit or Westerners.

00:53:10.000 That's just the reality. When you do the UN like a jobs program where, okay, now it's Asia's turn, now it's Latin America's turn, and now it's Africa's turn.

00:53:18.000 You're not looking at the system as rewarding qualified applicants, and that has to change.

00:53:24.000 And you would know this from being an ambassador, understanding sort of the...

00:53:28.000 I mean, part of that job is actually the relationship between businesses for cross-border transactions.

00:53:36.000 I've actually run into a lot of guys here on the floor of the SHOT Show, big guys, major corporations, major 2A guys.

00:53:42.000 Hey man, we're not able to have meetings with some of the people from Israel.

00:53:48.000 The Biden administration seems to be doing it.

00:53:50.000 Hey, they're blocking our ability to ship product.

00:53:53.000 Like American manufacturing, putting Americans to work, shipping to other countries that are literally...

00:53:58.000 It's not like you're shipping to Iran.

00:54:00.000 You're shipping to countries that are allies.

00:54:03.000 And they're like, hey man, they're holding our stuff up for months.

00:54:05.000 We're not able to transact.

00:54:06.000 I mean... It's a crisis.

00:54:09.000 How do we stop that?

00:54:10.000 Because, you know, that's the Biden administration.

00:54:13.000 Not just stopping, you know, and regulating on their own, you know, trade.

00:54:17.000 That's big business. It's jobs.

00:54:18.000 It's everything. But it's also our allies being able to defend themselves.

00:54:22.000 And by the way, if they're going to defend themselves finally and not just have us do it and spend money, I love that it's with American companies, but they're making it hard to do that even.

00:54:30.000 Every one of our U.S. embassies should be mini-chambers of commerce.

00:54:34.000 We should have people at that embassy that absolutely know how to expand American jobs.

00:54:38.000 Their job being paid by American taxpayers.

00:54:41.000 Not chamber of commerce like we see today, which is like...

00:54:44.000 Capitalism. Yeah, the chamber of Chinese commerce, where it's like, just ship it to China, it'll be fine.

00:54:49.000 Capitalism. The way it was originally intended.

00:54:51.000 We should have embassies that absolutely know how to grow American jobs. 0.97

00:54:57.000 Capitalism, businesses, private entrepreneurs should be able to go to our embassies and get help, not get hassle.

00:55:06.000 And that's what they're getting harassment and hassle right now.

00:55:08.000 We spend way too much money at the State Department paying foreign service officers who send cables back and report on the political activities of that country.

00:55:17.000 That is a waste of our time.

00:55:19.000 You can read that in the newspaper now.

00:55:20.000 That is from decades ago.

00:55:23.000 I've spent 12 years at the State Department.

00:55:25.000 I know how to reform this system.

00:55:27.000 And we need embassies that concentrate on growing American jobs and prosperity.

00:55:33.000 They are not doing it now, and they need a wholesale reform.

00:55:36.000 All right. Well, guys, we're here on the floor of the SHOT Show having a good time.

00:55:40.000 Hopefully we'll see you later on tonight at the Field Ethos Party.

00:55:43.000 That's right. I'll be there. Great to have Rick Inel on.

00:55:45.000 Again, top contender for Secretary of State, just so you understand.

00:55:48.000 And some of the followers, these are savages.

00:55:52.000 They love you in there, man.

00:55:53.000 So thanks for doing what you're doing and staying in the fight.

00:55:55.000 Thank you for doing what you're doing.

00:55:56.000 You're one of the best on the trail.

00:55:58.000 We have some fun. And so we appreciate it.

00:56:02.000 Okay, guys. Continuing the SHOT Show special.

00:56:05.000 Woo! This is interesting, because if I'm seeing you walk the floor, we're here with Tim Kennedy.

00:56:11.000 You are like a hot chick at a pervert convention here. 1.00

00:56:14.000 Yeah, it's weird. The amount of grown men that I've heard about, like, that just want you to choke them out on the floor is a little bit weird. 0.99

00:56:21.000 Yeah, I take it as a compliment, but I'm also like, I don't know what to do.

00:56:24.000 I'm not sure. This is a weird fetish.

00:56:26.000 I'm down for it, though. So, obviously, SHOT Show.

00:56:31.000 Big 2A crowd, incredible people, but Tim, you're here doing more than just that.

00:56:36.000 What else are the things that you're focused on that people can see?

00:56:38.000 Because again, they think of it as guns, but this is really a large community, and it goes so much more beyond just the Second Amendment.

00:56:46.000 One of the big things is the number of veteran-owned businesses in here.

00:56:49.000 I'm a veteran entrepreneur.

00:56:51.000 You can walk these halls.

00:56:53.000 I'm going to guess half.

00:56:54.000 Half the people in there have served their country in some way, shape, or form.

00:56:58.000 Getting all those people with those shared values in the same room at the same time, with the same beliefs, it's a magical place where a ton of great things happen.

00:57:07.000 And one thing, man, I love the Second Amendment and getting, you know, we've been losing ground year after year, whether it's legislation.

00:57:15.000 Death by a thousand cuts. Yeah. And the Second Amendment has been the thing that's been slowly dying.

00:57:18.000 And we have to have that unified face, that unified voice in the fight for the Second Amendment.

00:57:25.000 And we've never done that in a really long time.

00:57:27.000 It's time that, like, we've been so busy building businesses and working that we haven't been focusing on protecting our rights.

00:57:34.000 But for me, that goes so much more beyond the Second Amendment.

00:57:37.000 I would say, hey, we've got to start building from the ground up.

00:57:39.000 You know, we've got to win school board races.

00:57:41.000 It's not about even presidency, and I'm obviously biased towards that one, but, like, or Senate or Congressman.

00:57:46.000 You know, the left has infiltrated everything.

00:57:48.000 It happens with the Second Amendment, but they've taken over our schools. 0.97

00:57:50.000 They've taken over pop culture. They're...

00:57:53.000 Some of the things that you're doing are really combating that.

00:57:56.000 It's what we're doing with Public Square.

00:57:58.000 Giving small, patriotic businesses a way to link up together.

00:58:03.000 Talk about what you see with that, because it's not just about the Second Amendment.

00:58:06.000 That one's very clear. That one's on the table.

00:58:09.000 And it's negotiable, even for a lot of the rhinos, obviously, in Washington, D.C., unfortunately.

00:58:13.000 But it does go beyond that in terms of our other rights and what's going on in our schools, across the I mean, schools specifically.

00:58:20.000 Two years ago, we launched Apogee.

00:58:22.000 We have Apogee Strong, our online mentorship program, and then we actually have our Apogee Physical Schools.

00:58:26.000 We're going to open 50 campuses in 2024.

00:58:30.000 And this hunger for people bringing the responsibility of education and morals being taught to the children back to the nuclear family, people realize that everything that we've been doing for the past 20 years is broken and flawed. 0.77

00:58:43.000 We've been sending these kids to these schools and they're being indoctrinated and radicalized.

00:58:47.000 They're being taught absolute lies And science that makes no sense.

00:58:51.000 They can't do math, but they know the 4,276 genders. 0.75

00:58:54.000 That's right. Minor details.

00:58:56.000 It's criminal for us to do that to our kids.

00:58:58.000 So how does that work?

00:58:59.000 Talk about that. Because literally, a theme on my show is like, anything you can do.

00:59:03.000 Anything you can do.

00:59:04.000 And I understand it's not easy. And I understand where I come from, so it's easier to talk about.

00:59:07.000 To get your children out of our public school system is a net positive for them for the future.

00:59:13.000 One is the money needs to follow the child.

00:59:16.000 So a whole bunch of states have the school choice program.

00:59:20.000 And that has been failing because school unions and school boards have been combating and saying it's anti-poor, it's anti-urban, which is just not true whatsoever.

00:59:30.000 Those same people are trying to kill charter schools in poor urban areas.

00:59:34.000 That's right. That is right. That is 100% correct.

00:59:35.000 So when we say the money needs to be following the children, so you pay property tax and that property tax goes to support the school.

00:59:43.000 At the school is where they're being indoctrinated and radicalized.

00:59:46.000 So they're not allowing parents to have any decision or say in the family, from the family to the child.

00:59:52.000 So we want to bring all of that back.

00:59:54.000 One, it takes a parent to step up and be intentional and be like, I'm going to be present in my child's life.

00:59:59.000 I'm going to care about my child. I'm going to care about their values.

01:00:01.000 I'm going to care about their morals. I'm going to care about their education.

01:00:03.000 I want them to be able to collaborate and be able to innovate.

01:00:06.000 I want them to be creators.

01:00:07.000 I want to be critical thinkers. So Apogee first starts at the home.

01:00:10.000 We shape the mom and the dad.

01:00:12.000 We say, hey, you have to take life seriously.

01:00:14.000 You can stop scrolling.

01:00:16.000 Get off your phone. Stop paying some wazoo person to feed you a bunch of lies. 1.00

01:00:21.000 Then take your family back.

01:00:22.000 Yeah. Care about your family.

01:00:24.000 And then to the children, all right, let's really teach you how to be a critical thinker.

01:00:27.000 What does it mean to have a Socratic conversation?

01:00:29.000 Yeah. You know, here at SHOT Show, in addition to, like, talking about education and support in the Second Amendment, we held a forum yesterday about veteran suicide.

01:00:37.000 Yeah. How do we, you know, 74% of veterans that commit suicide commit suicide with a firearm?

01:00:42.000 Yeah. As a lover of the Second Amendment, how can I, at the same time, reconcile the fact that 74% of veterans commit suicide with a firearm while I protect the Second Amendment?

01:00:50.000 And these are not mutually exclusive things.

01:00:52.000 So talk about it. I mean, you said something a couple minutes ago.

01:00:55.000 Like I said, seven people came up to you on the floor.

01:00:59.000 You phrased it better.

01:01:02.000 They had a shotgun in their mouth, and because of stuff that you had done, they...

01:01:07.000 They didn't. I mean, A, that's got to be one of the greatest feelings in the world.

01:01:10.000 It's also the worst. The moment you say that, it feels like I have a weight on my chest of this responsibility that I can't hold.

01:01:16.000 What am I not doing? Yeah. Like, how many did I not help?

01:01:20.000 But we're living in really hard, frightening times.

01:01:22.000 Post-Afghanistan, The mental health, the substance abuse within the veteran community, it has to be addressed.

01:01:29.000 It has to be impacted. And being able to identify a veteran in crisis, being able to explain, hey, call 988.

01:01:36.000 We have a number that you can call and there is somebody sitting there waiting to talk to you that wants to know about your story and care about you and help you.

01:01:43.000 All the while, what are all the other different ways that we can positively affect veterans?

01:01:46.000 Help them be financially stable.

01:01:48.000 Get them off substances that they shouldn't be on.

01:01:50.000 Get them in a healthy relationship.

01:01:53.000 You know, we have been really doing them a disservice for a long time because they come back from war after 20 years. 1.00

01:01:58.000 The longest war in American history.

01:02:00.000 Hey, just welcome back.

01:02:01.000 Figure it out. So why is it, you know, after Vietnam, relatively long, we're not quite as long as I've been.

01:02:09.000 Why is that so much more pervasive now, though?

01:02:11.000 What do you think has changed that that's happening?

01:02:14.000 And maybe it was happening before and we just didn't read about it, right?

01:02:16.000 We have the internet age. There's more information on my phone than anyone could ever conceive of in a lifetime 25 years ago.

01:02:24.000 But what's going on that made that spike so dramatic in the last 20 years?

01:02:28.000 Don, that's a really good and I think a really important question, and this is just my personal opinion.

01:02:33.000 When I receive a soldier, I'm supposed to do three things with him as a leader.

01:02:37.000 I'm supposed to provide him with purpose, direction, and motivation.

01:02:40.000 When the greatest generation came back from World War II, they just fought Nazis. 0.91

01:02:44.000 They just fought the Japanese. They ran up cliffs. 0.84

01:02:46.000 They stormed beaches.

01:02:48.000 They liberated people during the Holocaust from these concentration camps.

01:02:51.000 They saw the most horrific thing, right?

01:02:53.000 Then they came back. And built the strongest country in the existence of humans, of our species.

01:02:59.000 So what do they have? They had purpose.

01:03:01.000 These men and women came back and they had purpose, direction, motivation.

01:03:04.000 They wanted to do something meaningful.

01:03:06.000 I think right now we have a generation that's lost.

01:03:09.000 We have these powerful men and women, these service members that are coming back and they don't know what to do.

01:03:13.000 And I'm going to beg, I'm going to plead, I'm going to implore that they need to know what their purpose is and their purpose is to be a great American, to go out and vote, to be good moms and dads, to be good entrepreneurs and employees.

01:03:23.000 Like, to build that strong economy again, to make all those little problems seem so less important because you're contributing something meaningful.

01:03:30.000 Like, be an amazing dad. That is a great purpose.

01:03:32.000 So, I mean, that's sort of a great...

01:03:34.000 Talk about, you know, public square, because I think that's exactly what it is.

01:03:37.000 It's creating a purpose. It's, you know, finding patriotic Americans, just Americans, and, like, letting them find other people of like mind, letting them also support small business.

01:03:48.000 When you're talking about purpose, that lifeblood of what was always America, was that small business owner.

01:03:53.000 Now it's been taken over by trillion dollar megacorporations that, frankly, could care less about you.

01:03:59.000 They care more about you.

01:04:01.000 They're globalists. America first.

01:04:03.000 It's like, that's racist and terrible.

01:04:06.000 Talk about how you got involved with Public Square and how you see that shaping because I do see the demand.

01:04:13.000 People are getting it now.

01:04:14.000 It was sort of veiled, but it's gotten so ridiculous when they look at big corporate.

01:04:19.000 So just being able to align people back with those values, allow them to find those small businesses, put that person's kid through BJJ school rather than giving it to Starbucks so they can donate to the trans causes that would put you and I in the gulags in about two seconds.

01:04:34.000 Yeah, I mean, when I say go out and vote, there's lots of ways to vote.

01:04:38.000 And voting with your dollars is one of the most important things that you can do.

01:04:41.000 We saw what happened to Target. We saw what happened to Bud Light.

01:04:43.000 You know, United, I think, is about to learn the lesson because people are scared to get on those planes now.

01:04:48.000 Did you see? I'm looking at this, and I fly like 300,000 miles a year.

01:04:51.000 I'm like, I'm looking in the cockpit.

01:04:54.000 I'm like... If I see someone under the age of 25, I'm like...

01:04:58.000 Fortunately, we have enough of them boomers that they've been pairing them with one of these DEI hires, and so you'll have a boomer with a DEI hire. 0.96

01:05:06.000 Well, those boomers are going to age out very soon, and you're going to have two DEI hires that don't know how to fly a plane, and hopefully you live. 1.00

01:05:12.000 But in reference to Public Square...

01:05:14.000 What could go wrong, right? Yeah. Talking about voting with your dollars is aligning and spending money with people that share your values.

01:05:20.000 How awesome is it to buy from an American-made company that is owned by a veteran that loves this country, that shares your values, that loves the American flag, that doesn't think it's a symbol of racism.

01:05:30.000 They just love being an American.

01:05:32.000 I want to give my dollars to them.

01:05:34.000 I have my businesses on Public Square.

01:05:37.000 I shop on Public Square.

01:05:39.000 I buy my razors from Public Square.

01:05:40.000 I think it's called Western Razors. 1.00

01:05:42.000 I've never met them before, but I found them on Public Square.

01:05:45.000 And the whole entire thing is to create this other economy where I stop giving money to people that hate me and hate my values.

01:05:53.000 As an American, it's hard to believe we're even having this conversation.

01:05:58.000 We're filling a void that should not need to be filled.

01:06:01.000 But it has, and all of that's been so weaponized, and we've seen that across the board.

01:06:05.000 I mean, I see the criticism that even you get.

01:06:08.000 I mean, you're an entrepreneur, you're doing business.

01:06:10.000 I mean, you're bringing people, rescuing people out of foreign lands when the U.S. government leaves them.

01:06:15.000 I mean, you'd sort of be like a great American, and yet you're a domestic terrorist.

01:06:21.000 You, along with me, are on every list at the DOJ and FBI ever.

01:06:27.000 But we do have to start somewhere, and I think this is a great way to sort of start chipping away.

01:06:31.000 If you take away that dollar, again, it's not just about the vote.

01:06:34.000 I mean, you take away their dollars, it's a lot harder for them to come cancel us.

01:06:37.000 Yeah, I had a real weird relationship with money, and I thought I never wanted to be rich.

01:06:44.000 As a Christian, I was like, you know, it's harder for a rich man to make it to heaven than go through an eye of the needle.

01:06:49.000 And I was like, okay... So I want to be able to give and I want to be selfless.

01:06:53.000 I now recognize that money and the economy is a lever and it is leverage.

01:06:58.000 And we have been giving up those levers, being too busy, giving back to our families.

01:07:01.000 We have to be intentional with our families.

01:07:03.000 We also need to have an economy that supports our values.

01:07:07.000 And every single one of these gigantic...

01:07:10.000 I do not want to take my kids into Target because at eye level are a bunch of books about trans kids and they're targeting these poor impressionable young children.

01:07:18.000 So we don't sharpen Target.

01:07:20.000 It's that easy. Just spend your money with people that share your values.

01:07:24.000 And you see the same thing with Amazon or whatever.

01:07:27.000 We need to take the extra two seconds to sign up for a public square.

01:07:30.000 Just do that.

01:07:32.000 We have to make an effort. We've gotten so lazy.

01:07:35.000 See, I can push one button. Well, sign up, you can do the same thing in Public Square, but you just gotta take the extra effort to go there.

01:07:40.000 Find your bank on Public Square.

01:07:42.000 One of those, like, because, you know, I've been, I couldn't get a checking account.

01:07:47.000 Where I live in South Florida because, well, you're politically affiliated.

01:07:50.000 I'm like, I can't get a checking account?

01:07:52.000 It's gone that insane.

01:07:53.000 So we've got to make sure those businesses understand it.

01:07:56.000 And once, again, one guy going out by himself, you can take him out.

01:07:59.000 150, 175 million Americans sort of aligned and going forward.

01:08:03.000 You can't be stopped. You cannot be fucked with. 1.00

01:08:05.000 There's nothing... More powerful than a united America. 1.00

01:08:09.000 And the Japanese recognized that after Pearl Harbor.

01:08:12.000 They said in his own words, we have made the worst mistake.

01:08:16.000 We have woken the sleeping giant that is the American people. 0.98

01:08:20.000 And I think the American people have been taken advantage of for far too long now and they've woken up and it's...

01:08:26.000 And they're about to experience what it looks like to see an America that has their eyes wide open.

01:08:32.000 Well, I'm just glad you're out there doing it, man.

01:08:34.000 Look forward to doing a lot more with you in Public Square and all of the other stuff.

01:08:36.000 And with the veteran stuff, anything I can do to help, even if it's just amplify and get it out there, it's awesome, man.

01:08:43.000 God bless. Appreciate it, bud.

01:08:44.000 Thank you. Well, welcome back to the show. Governor, good to be back.

01:09:13.000 This is an environment that we can hang out.

01:09:15.000 For those on the show, this is Greg Gianforte, a good friend of ours, a congressman from Montana, then governor.

01:09:23.000 And it doesn't take a lot to get me to go campaigning in Montana, but the last time we did it, we went shooting prairie dogs.

01:09:29.000 Yes. And the New York Times, doing the New York Times, like the most New York Times thing ever, didn't understand what prairie dog shooting was in Montana, which is actually just getting rid of vermin.

01:09:39.000 Yeah. They thought we were shooting pregnant dogs. 1.00

01:09:41.000 And it became this big headline.

01:09:43.000 And we're like, we don't know what they're talking about.

01:09:46.000 Crazy. So it's good to be amongst our people rather than the New York Times.

01:09:49.000 And we're thrilled. Montana is a sanctuary for freedom and free enterprise.

01:09:54.000 And here at the show, we've got about a couple of dozen Montana firearms and ammunition manufacturers.

01:10:00.000 In total, Montana has 150 of these companies, more per capita than any other state in the country.

01:10:06.000 So we love our Second Amendment, and we're here to support them.

01:10:10.000 Well, you're a big outdoorsman as well, so that comes into play.

01:10:13.000 And there's not as much overlap as I would think, actually, between hunting and shooting, amazingly enough.

01:10:18.000 This is such a shooting-dedicated show, but there's some great companies here that are Montana-based.

01:10:22.000 Now, you also just announced you're going to go for re-election?

01:10:25.000 Yes. All right. Yeah, well, I... This has been the greatest honor of my life.

01:10:30.000 I spent my career in business and we brought business experience to state government.

01:10:35.000 We have a good record to run on.

01:10:37.000 We gave the biggest tax reduction in the history of the state, over a billion dollars.

01:10:41.000 We did massive deregulation.

01:10:44.000 We also paid off all the state debt.

01:10:48.000 I wish the federal government would Take a page out of our book.

01:10:53.000 Montana is now completely debt-free.

01:10:56.000 That's amazing. Well, and that's the thing.

01:10:58.000 I mean, I always talk about guys running for public service, running for that office.

01:11:01.000 Trump was able to be successful, was able to do a lot of the deregulation that allowed businesses and the economy to boom because he'd actually functioned in that world.

01:11:09.000 I mean, you built Don, I'm looking forward to the day that we have a businessman back in the White House.

01:11:25.000 I was encouraged by the progress in Iowa and New Hampshire.

01:11:28.000 Let me just say, Joe Biden has been a complete failure for this country.

01:11:33.000 Opening up the borders, attacking our Second Amendment rights, empowering our enemies, and President Donald Trump did exactly the opposite.

01:11:42.000 I've always supported him.

01:11:43.000 I'm looking forward to the day he's back in the White House.

01:11:45.000 Well, I think America, you know, for me, and you know I get around.

01:11:48.000 I go, you know, real America, get out there, speak to the people.

01:11:52.000 The enthusiasm in 16 was incredible.

01:11:55.000 The enthusiasm in 20 was actually more, which is hard to believe.

01:11:58.000 And by the way, that translated into real votes.

01:12:01.000 They had COVID to game. We know there were plenty of games.

01:12:05.000 It's so ridiculous now. 0.94

01:12:07.000 The policy is so bad. 0.74

01:12:09.000 The inflation is so ridiculous that guys like me are like, if I have a sticker shock, everyone's got sticker shock.

01:12:16.000 People really see it, so I think it's going to be an insane, insane year.

01:12:20.000 Well, we created a new program at the Department of Commerce in Montana.

01:12:24.000 It's a business attraction program.

01:12:26.000 We're knocking on firearms manufacturers in New York, California.

01:12:31.000 And our pitch is really simple.

01:12:32.000 Hey, you want to move back to America?

01:12:34.000 Exactly. And they're coming. Everywhere else, the People's Republic of Colorado, you can stay there or you can move to Montana.

01:12:41.000 We just announced a $125 million investment in Glendive, Montana.

01:12:45.000 They're going to hire 350 people.

01:12:47.000 People say, well, what tax breaks did you give them?

01:12:50.000 I said, well, we offered them quality of life.

01:12:52.000 You can hunt big game in Montana, 11 out of 12 months.

01:12:55.000 Fishing's not too shabby either.

01:12:57.000 Correct, in July when you can't hunt.

01:12:58.000 And then, also, we have a Montana work ethic that just doesn't quit.

01:13:03.000 They did a seminar, they did a job fair, this company, Brickstale Defense, 65 applicants in two hours.

01:13:09.000 Wow. People are ready to work in Montana.

01:13:12.000 We are open for business.

01:13:14.000 And if there are business folks out there that are thinking about expanding or looking for a new location, moving back to America, Montana's open for business.

01:13:22.000 Well, it's a solid pitch. I look forward to just getting up there with you again because campaigning in Montana is great.

01:13:26.000 I get to go through some fishing, get to go do some shooting.

01:13:29.000 We do a little campaigning as well.

01:13:30.000 It's the perfect mix.

01:13:32.000 So great to see you, Greg. Great to see you, Don.

01:13:34.000 Thanks. Good. We already know this, but the evidence that I get to witness and participate in firsthand Is a reaffirmation that God, family, country is still a guiding force for the American dream.

01:13:49.000 And I meet with every imaginable ethnicity, color, race, creed, religion, lifestyle, socioeconomic strata, and they all believe in those fundamentals.

01:14:00.000 Get up early, put your heart and soul into being the best that you can be.

01:14:02.000 Be a productive member of society while you demand good over evil, law and order, punishment

01:14:10.000 of bad people and rewarding of good people.

01:14:12.000 Literally, the opposite of what's actually going on in government right now.

01:14:16.000 The opposite of the American. 0.75

01:14:17.000 I mean, when I saw the Supreme Court, the state of Texas, which is being overrun, you

01:14:22.000 have a sex trafficking crisis.

01:14:24.000 A child sex trafficking crisis. 0.58

01:14:26.000 Soldiers. A fentanyl crisis.

01:14:28.000 But beyond that, a human disaster of epic proportions.

01:14:34.000 People dying on the way.

01:14:35.000 And Texas can't even defend its own borders, according to the Supreme Court, according to everyone in Washington, D.C., according to even the weak Republicans.

01:14:43.000 And certainly the Democrats are welcoming because they need to change the voter base because real Americans are actually starting to understand that God, family, country is not, in fact, controversial.

01:14:51.000 Yes. It's actually the way we should live and we'd all be better off for it.

01:14:55.000 It's the true North Compass setting of good America everywhere.

01:14:57.000 Even to this day. Here we are.

01:14:58.000 We could be spoiled and think that America is perfect because we're at this celebration of ballistics and hunting and conservation.

01:15:06.000 But outside the SHOT Show and outside our campfires, outside our barbecues, outside our family gatherings, We are represented by the majority of people.

01:15:17.000 It's the people with the megaphones, the government, all the bureaucracies are so untrustworthy. 0.73

01:15:23.000 Big tech, just horrible, horrible evil people.

01:15:26.000 Hollywood, academia, those loudest voices Have too much power and they've mastered the abusing of that power.

01:15:34.000 They don't represent the heart and soul of America.

01:15:37.000 But if I may, and I may, worse than Democrats, it's hard to imagine, worse than liberalism, worse than communism and Marxism, Apathy.

01:15:50.000 Conservatives who don't know their chief of police, their sheriff, their state trooper commander, their senator, their congressman, their mayor, their governor, they don't communicate.

01:15:58.000 Everywhere I go, and I rock and roll and I hunt in 50 states.

01:16:02.000 Yep. All those politicians work for me. 1.00

01:16:05.000 And they all know what Ted Nugent stands for because I've not been afraid to speak my core values over the years.

01:16:11.000 And so I tend to align myself.

01:16:15.000 I was just at the Pursuit Channel booth. 0.99

01:16:19.000 line that they've ever experienced because shit-kickers connect with what you and I live. 0.96

01:16:25.000 And so, but if you don't apply that at the voting booth, if you don't apply that at the 0.99

01:16:29.000 school board, then you will lose.

01:16:31.000 But if you apply it, you can win.

01:16:32.000 We just did it in Louisiana.

01:16:33.000 Yeah, listen, I was there with Chuck Larry's team at the show.

01:16:37.000 He's a good friend.

01:16:38.000 And not only did we win, we won before it even got to an election because we won so overwhelmingly because people got engaged.

01:16:44.000 We have to do that not just for the president and congressmen and senators and governors.

01:16:48.000 We need to start from the bottom up as well with the school boards and get involved or you're going to end up with some rainbow haired freak. 1.00

01:16:53.000 Yes. Indoctrinating your children, poisoning them from day one, capturing them when they're most vulnerable to the nonsense. 0.78

01:17:01.000 And then it takes years to get them back to normal.

01:17:04.000 Sometimes they wake up and sometimes they never do, and that's a problem we face too.

01:17:07.000 We're in the scramble of damage control because we weren't responsible enough to demand quality control.

01:17:12.000 Correct. And if I may just emphasize, you and I, we come from different lifestyles in some ways, but still that spirit of the wild, the conservation instinct, has connected us.

01:17:23.000 And that is a connecting link to every strata of the American society.

01:17:28.000 And it's alive and well, but we created Hunter Nation.

01:17:31.000 Visit HunterNation.org, and we've galvanized the most apathetic amongst us, which I'm embarrassed to say, is the hunting families.

01:17:40.000 They hadn't engaged. They didn't engage.

01:17:42.000 It's not really for them. But that's what I see.

01:17:45.000 You know, the people who were agnostic.

01:17:47.000 They sat on the sidelines. It's like, I don't trust you.

01:17:48.000 I'm not into politics, they say.

01:17:50.000 It's so flagrant now. Sounds Cuban. 1.00

01:17:52.000 The attack on their lifestyle, the attack on their values, the attack on their families, quite literally.

01:17:56.000 And they watched it happen.

01:17:57.000 Now they can't sit back.

01:17:58.000 If they sit back, they're literally, you know, they're essentially voting for their own demise. 0.99

01:18:02.000 So I'm going to summarize it with the pulse of all those shit kickers that I hang with. 1.00

01:18:07.000 Your dad. We need your dad back as the Commander-in-Chief. 1.00

01:18:11.000 He represents the best of the best.

01:18:15.000 He was an outsider.

01:18:17.000 And I think that is manifested in the fact that I have a big mouth.

01:18:20.000 And people go, he's radical, he's extreme.

01:18:22.000 Let me make it perfectly clear.

01:18:24.000 This loudmouth, radical, extreme, constitutionalist guitar player, It's exactly what the Founding Fathers wanted all Americans to be.

01:18:32.000 To question authority, to demand constitutional accountability, and any Neighborhood where that's considered radical, I give you a suburb of San Francisco.

01:18:44.000 So take back America individually as families.

01:18:47.000 Make sure your mayor, your governor, your senator, your chief of police, your sheriff, do they know you?

01:18:53.000 Do they know that you support Kyle Rittenhouse, that self-defense is a natural instinctive righteousness?

01:18:59.000 If they don't know you believe in that, then it's going to be like Sergeant Dan Perry in Austin who shoots a guy who attacked him with a rifle and in Texas, He was charged with murder for stopping someone from killing him.

01:19:12.000 Or Daniel Penny in New York.

01:19:14.000 He stopped evil. Literally, every witness there said, we were fearing for our lives.

01:19:19.000 He is a hero, and they're charging him with second-degree manslaughter.

01:19:23.000 You can't win, so we've got to get involved, and we'll have you on full-time.

01:19:27.000 You're still a leader, by the way, in the poll.

01:19:30.000 There's hundreds of thousands of people that watch.

01:19:32.000 They want Press Secretary Ted Nugent.

01:19:35.000 You may be moving to D.C., just so we understand.

01:19:39.000 Enjoy your hunting season.

01:19:41.000 You've got to do four years in D.C. She'll cover for me. 0.97

01:19:43.000 Well, I didn't invent the middle finger, but I have perfected it.

01:19:46.000 My middle finger is sighted in two inches high at 200 yards, so I've got to cover.

01:19:50.000 Good range.

01:19:51.000 Yes.

01:19:52.000 Thank you.

01:19:53.000 Good to see you, brother.

01:19:54.000 NATO says we're going to bring in Ukraine. 0.86

01:20:13.000 That was the only red line. We gave Putin, and I'm not saying Putin's a good guy either, but we gave him every excuse that he needed to come across and start this war.

01:20:22.000 We had it for 40, 50, 60 years.

01:20:24.000 And I remember because I spent my summers growing up in Czechoslovakia.

01:20:27.000 I know what it was like in communist.

01:20:29.000 I'm one of the few Americans that can talk about communism from an actual experience because I spoke the language.

01:20:36.000 I lived there for six weeks every summer from when I was five years old till college.

01:20:41.000 Through the fall of the wall, I saw the changes.

01:20:43.000 I saw everything. And before was a lot worse than after, in many respects.

01:20:47.000 But that's what's going on right now.

01:20:49.000 They're not going to invade other nations.

01:20:51.000 He's probably had a pretty solid underperformance, frankly, in Ukraine.

01:20:55.000 But we gave him every excuse by saying, we're going to take a 60-year buffer zone.

01:21:01.000 You know, in no man's land.

01:21:02.000 That was Ukraine. They were not a NATO ally.

01:21:04.000 They were not in NATO. And we're going to say, hey, we're going to now move that border.

01:21:07.000 We're going to move NATO 500, 1,000 miles closer to Russia, right onto their borders. 0.78

01:21:11.000 And these are not intelligent people making these decisions.

01:21:14.000 So, you know, and all we've seen is hundreds of thousands.

01:21:17.000 The numbers are going to be so much worse by the time we really get to it.

01:21:20.000 Young men, now women even, being sent to die for what?

01:21:23.000 The women fled the country. They're living in Western Europe now. 1.00

01:21:27.000 Gone. It's disgusting what's going on there.

01:21:29.000 The death, the destruction.

01:21:31.000 And no one can tell me what victory looks like.

01:21:34.000 Literally, not one American politician has an articulated plan for what that means.

01:21:40.000 When my father said he just wants the death to stop, that shouldn't be controversial.

01:21:44.000 And yet it is, because it's all about the money.

01:21:47.000 Everyone wants to just make money on this.

01:21:49.000 It doesn't matter. And that's exactly what's going on.

01:21:51.000 Until the money stops, it's going to go on forever.

01:21:54.000 You know, this is only my second economic development trip.

01:21:58.000 And, you know, what you might expect to take place in Vegas actually happened on my very first economic development trip.

01:22:04.000 It was in Europe.

01:22:06.000 And sometimes being governor and a mom to three kids can be a little bit challenging.

01:22:12.000 I have an 11-year-old, a 10-year-old, and an 8-year-old.

01:22:14.000 And so as much as I can, I try to combine things and take my kids with me as much as possible.

01:22:20.000 And we were doing this pretty extended trip in Europe.

01:22:23.000 And so my husband and I decided that we would take our kids with us and it would be a great opportunity for me to work but also spend some time with them.

01:22:31.000 We landed in Paris and I had a couple hours before the very first event where we were going to start doing meetings and I thought, you know what, we'll go out and Experience Paris is the best way.

01:22:45.000 Just sit on a little sidewalk cafe, watch people come and go, and that would be a great way for our kids to see and experience Paris for the first time.

01:22:54.000 So we go, we sit down.

01:22:55.000 I think this is going to be such a special time.

01:22:58.000 And as I look up across the street from this little cafe, instead of taking in the sights of Paris, I see that we've picked a cafe that's across the street where it's x-rated shot after x-rated shot.

01:23:11.000 So we're sitting there and the entire time, instead of trying to We're, you know, taking the sights.

01:23:18.000 We're trying to distract our three kids from bringing up and taking in anything.

01:23:22.000 And I think we've gotten totally out of it, and we have made it in the clear.

01:23:27.000 And as we're leaving, our eight-year-old George looks up and says, Mommy, can we go there?

01:23:32.000 That's the coolest store ever.

01:23:34.000 They have toys and DVDs.

01:23:38.000 Thankfully, our trip got much better after that and we ended up with multiple new businesses and expansions of that trip.

01:23:50.000 We're hoping to do the same thing here.

01:23:52.000 Like I said, it's already been a great day meeting with a lot of companies that already invest and are operating in Arkansas and hopefully bringing a lot more business to this day.

01:24:03.000 We know that this industry is not just A place where you get to see cool and neat things.

01:24:10.000 But it really is what stands between our country having the freedoms that we get to enjoy and not.

01:24:17.000 Because we know that if we can't uphold our Second Amendment, we can't defend ourselves,

01:24:22.000 we can't fight for ourselves, then we cannot be a truly free country.

01:24:26.000 Thank you so much.

01:24:28.000 And while we love the revenue, and we love the impact that your business has,

01:24:37.000 more importantly, we love what it really means for our country long-term.

01:24:41.000 And there are very few people that I know that support this industry and, frankly, the freedoms of our country.

01:24:48.000 And my friend and our special guest here tonight is a little bit of a surprise.

01:24:52.000 Some of you may know him as the son of our former president, soon to be new president.

01:25:00.000 And we also happen to be one of the most outspoken defenders of the Second Amendment.

01:25:12.000 And he's pretty outspoken about everything else.

01:25:16.000 I had the opportunity to get to know him.

01:25:19.000 And one of the things that I say all the time that people, I think, don't appreciate enough about the president Are that he has amazing kids.

01:25:28.000 They work hard, they're humble, they're nice, they're good people, and you can't fake that.

01:25:33.000 And so please help me give a warm Arkansas welcome to my good friend Donald Trump Jr.

01:25:39.000 Thank you so much Sarah. I think Governor, if we're going to keep this informal, I've got to be respectful, but

01:25:50.000 this woman has been absolutely amazing.

01:25:54.000 She'll continue to do this. It's great seeing this, by the way.

01:25:56.000 When are you going to be number one, though?

01:25:58.000 We're working on it. We'll get her there, but just some of the brands, the people I know, like those of you who know me, I'm a...

01:26:07.000 Second Amendment, like psychopath?

01:26:10.000 It's including my thing.

01:26:11.000 I know everyone in there, but it's absolutely great to be here.

01:26:14.000 Thank you so much for what you're doing, the fight that you're doing.

01:26:17.000 Everything that Sarah has done from day one has been awesome.

01:26:22.000 You know, I look at our... Press Secretary today.

01:26:25.000 It's like, well, they just don't answer questions because they don't have to.

01:26:27.000 You weren't given that option, but when you did, you did it with the fight that we need to preserve our freedoms, to preserve our Constitution.

01:26:34.000 You're really exemplary of that.

01:26:36.000 Now, this week was interesting.

01:26:39.000 I can't help myself because I'm that guy.

01:26:42.000 We saw the story about Kim Jong-il on, I guess it was, the son.

01:26:48.000 Winking at Sarah during the diplomatic conference.

01:26:51.000 My father said, hey Sarah, you should take one for the team.

01:26:57.000 So I read that, and most people would be like, that's straight up.

01:27:00.000 They go, I know my father, that 100% happened.

01:27:04.000 So I asked her, I was like, so did it happen?

01:27:06.000 She said, no, I did.

01:27:08.000 I feel like that's the one time you've perhaps let down the people of the heart of me.

01:27:17.000 All kidding aside, Governor, you've done an amazing job.

01:27:21.000 Thank you for your just steadfast support of everything that we believe in, in the America First movement.

01:27:26.000 Thank you for the friendship.

01:27:29.000 And honestly, thank you for taking the slings and arrows.

01:27:32.000 I think we've seen, guys, you know, it's easy.

01:27:34.000 One guy. Well, he didn't win with my father.

01:27:37.000 Most powerful man in the world.

01:27:39.000 He's the president of the United States.

01:27:40.000 If you're the one guy going out there by yourself, And our enemies, both foreign and domestic, because there's plenty domestic, are channeling their fire on you.

01:27:51.000 They can cancel you.

01:27:52.000 They can take you out. They did.

01:27:54.000 But now, with other people that have the guts to be unafraid, to speak up, to fight for the things that we all value, that we all believe in, I think we're sending a message to America, and I see that.

01:28:06.000 As I go around the country, people are waking up.

01:28:08.000 The people that were politically agnostic, the people that were sitting on the sidelines, or the people that were just honestly busy trying to feed their families, trying to live their American dream, what's left of it that hasn't been exported to China.

01:28:23.000 China. We have a different vernacular right, Sarah, right?

01:28:28.000 You're pretty good.

01:28:30.000 Solid. So, what hasn't been done, they listen to something in the background for five minutes and they believe it.

01:28:38.000 But now, I think, It's the disasters.

01:28:42.000 It's not even Joe Biden.

01:28:43.000 No one actually believes Joe Biden's in charge.

01:28:45.000 This guy can't find his way off the stage like this.

01:28:48.000 It's like seven feet that way.

01:28:54.000 The people who've been on the sidelines just trying to live their American dream, they get it now.

01:29:00.000 They see beyond the fake news.

01:29:03.000 They see beyond how they've been influenced by big tech. 0.99

01:29:06.000 They understand how stupidity, the lack of common sense, the America Last movement is like, which is basically, I literally can't think of anything else. 0.99

01:29:16.000 I was joking. You know, oh, Manchurian candidate, Manchurian candidate, yada, yada, yada. 1.00

01:29:20.000 But like, no, seriously. If you were trying to destroy America from within today, what would you do differently?

01:29:28.000 Than the policies of the Democrat Party.

01:29:31.000 The answer is nothing.

01:29:34.000 Literally nothing. China's laughing and crapping at us as we destroy ourselves from within. 1.00

01:29:39.000 And it doesn't have to be that way.

01:29:41.000 It's because of people like you who lead by example, who have that conviction, who have the resolve.

01:29:46.000 To actually fight back and say enough is enough that we can do this.

01:29:51.000 So, just thank you for doing that.

01:29:53.000 Thank you for stepping into the arena because we need more people willing to do that. 0.96

01:29:57.000 And when we do, and when it's half the country, 150, 175 billion Americans, they ain't canceling shit. 0.90

01:30:04.000 Alright, so, Sarah, thank you so much for what you're doing. 0.94

01:30:07.000 I've been here 150 years.

01:30:09.000 And I've done it!

01:30:11.000 Thanks.

01:30:13.000 There's a serious reason for that.

01:30:15.000 Mark from Nightlaw, Caldwell. These are good friends of mine.

01:30:17.000 I actually, unlike all of the politicians, I actually believe this stuff.

01:30:21.000 I don't just say it because that's the next step to get me somewhere in power.

01:30:24.000 Like, this is the stuff I believe in.

01:30:26.000 This is the stuff I'm raising my children with because it's so important.

01:30:30.000 And you guys all being here, willing to be part of that fight, means the world to all of us.

01:30:34.000 So thank you so much. And, Tara, you are literally one of the tips of this sphere in that movement.

01:30:39.000 So we really appreciate it.

01:30:50.000 I'm so used to calling you Sarah.

01:30:52.000 You can still call me Sarah. Am I still okay?

01:30:54.000 I don't want to break formality. Keep calling me Sarah.

01:30:56.000 Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas.

01:30:59.000 And we're here at your event.

01:31:00.000 See, number three...

01:31:02.000 Gun state in the country. 0.90

01:31:04.000 Friendly. So we're at SHOT Show.

01:31:06.000 How do we get to number one, Sarah?

01:31:08.000 Because I'm not used to you underperforming.

01:31:10.000 I'm used to you way overachieving.

01:31:12.000 We're working our way there. We'll be at number one.

01:31:14.000 Next year, we'll be number one for being the most friendly.

01:31:17.000 But that's why we're here is because we want to continue to see this industry grow in our state.

01:31:22.000 We want to continue to invest.

01:31:25.000 We have tremendous companies that already operate in Arkansas.

01:31:30.000 We're working to expand a lot of those businesses and also recruit new industry to come into the state.

01:31:36.000 So it's a great opportunity. So you did some awesome stuff.

01:31:39.000 I saw in the last couple of weeks you banned the CCP from buying land because what could possibly go rolling?

01:31:44.000 You know what I mean? We would give up all our ads because the morons on the other side are fine with it because they basically are working for the CCP. Talk a little bit about that, because these are the important steps to preserving our own freedom, but also stopping our enemies from encroaching on everything that's going on. 0.95

01:32:00.000 I think it's one of the most important things we can do right now, because the federal government is failing to actually protect our farmland, protect our ag industry.

01:32:09.000 And we know that if a country can't feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself, it can't truly be free.

01:32:14.000 So we have to protect our agriculture community.

01:32:16.000 We passed a law this year banning any Chinese-owned company from operating and owning farmland in the state of Arkansas.

01:32:25.000 We've already taken action against one company.

01:32:27.000 We kicked them out of the state.

01:32:29.000 And not only did we kick them out, but because they violated state law, we imposed the harshest penalty and they had to write us a check for $300,000.

01:32:37.000 So we're going to continue taking steps like that.

01:32:40.000 If the federal government won't protect our farmland, Arkansas will not.

01:32:43.000 Now you've seen that they do the shale company and there's a sort of a patsy owner that doesn't actually, are you guys going all the way down? 0.92

01:32:51.000 Are you tracking that able to do it?

01:32:52.000 Because I see it as a legit threat, right?

01:32:55.000 China has an aging population.

01:32:56.000 They got to feed millions of it. I could see them doing that.

01:32:59.000 They bought Smithfield Farms and some of these great iconic American companies.

01:33:03.000 You think you're supporting America, but you're actually supporting the CCP and they'd cut us off in a second if they could.

01:33:07.000 That's exactly what they do. They use these shell companies and they put, you know, so many layers.

01:33:11.000 So it takes a lot of time to do the investigative work.

01:33:14.000 I'm thankful that we have a great team that is dizzying in and continuing to look at any company that's operating in the state, making sure that if you have that majority ownership in the CCP, then you don't get to operate in Arkansas anymore.

01:33:28.000 How are you seeing, you're out there on the ground, right?

01:33:33.000 You're great because you actually understand the people.

01:33:35.000 I sort of feel like that's my strong suit, too.

01:33:37.000 How do you feel about everything on the ground as someone who's been there in D.C., who's gone through the stuff, who's had the slings and arrows thrown at them just because you were in the Trump administration?

01:33:48.000 What do you feel now versus the past?

01:33:51.000 I think people are paying attention now more than they ever have before.

01:33:55.000 You know, I was telling somebody just this week that the energy that I see out on the campaign and around the country for your dad to be re-elected is, I think, even higher than it was in 2016.

01:34:08.000 Because now it's a very different election.

01:34:11.000 You have two people who have four years of a record to run on, and there could not be a greater difference between the two administrations.

01:34:19.000 We have one that governed for a position of strength and actually has a great success story and everyone was doing better versus one that is a total story of failure and has governed for a position of weakness.

01:34:34.000 I think your dad is in an absolutely incredible position.

01:34:37.000 The enthusiasm there.

01:34:39.000 He's going to not only win, but win big in November.

01:34:42.000 And frankly, it can't happen fast enough.

01:34:44.000 All right, isn't it? Everything they said Trump was going to do, the wars, the crashing the economy, the this, the interest rates, the inflation, it's literally happening now.

01:34:53.000 And so even those who've been sitting on the sidelines who don't have the time to vote, they're trying to feed their families.

01:34:59.000 I get it. You can't hide from it anymore.

01:35:02.000 The results, the record, they all speak for themselves.

01:35:04.000 Because everybody's feeling the impact of their poor leadership, whether it's, you know, going to the grocery store, putting gas in their car, or the schools that their kids are going to.

01:35:13.000 Every little thing, they're feeling it every single day, and they're tired of.

01:35:18.000 And they want to go back to the leadership that they had under your dad.

01:35:22.000 And I think that the contrast between the two is what is going to drive the level of enthusiasm for him to win.

01:35:29.000 I love it. Guys, we talk about it every time.

01:35:31.000 It's people like, what can we do?

01:35:32.000 What can we do? What can we do? The answer is get in the game.

01:35:34.000 You didn't need this. You could have gotten back into, you know, comms or whatever it is.

01:35:39.000 You became the governor of Arkansas.

01:35:41.000 So just thank you for being in the fight, for taking it to that next level.

01:35:45.000 Just truly awesome to see.

01:35:46.000 So thanks so much, guys, for tuning in.

01:35:48.000 Really appreciate it, Sarah. Guys, we're here continuing the SHOT Show special.

01:35:54.000 We have Governor Kristi Dome, who's actually doing a lot for the Second Amendment. 1.00

01:35:57.000 Yeah, we're working on it.

01:35:58.000 We were just talking about rattlesnakes.

01:35:59.000 We've got to do this one. My father, whenever I'm whale hunting or something like that, I end up finding a rattlesnake issue.

01:36:05.000 He put it on Instagram.

01:36:07.000 My dad's almost like... What are you doing?

01:36:08.000 Stop it! You're holding a rattlesnake.

01:36:10.000 It's insane. Well, it's a little insane.

01:36:12.000 So I've done rattlesnake hunting too and it is insane. 1.00

01:36:14.000 It's stupid. But that's part of what makes it fun is there's this balance to the outdoors and wildlife and the more you're out there experiencing it, the more you understand that you have to Control every predator, and rattlesnakes are a big part of it. 0.85

01:36:28.000 When you do the next South Dakota rattlesnake roundup, I need an invite. 0.96

01:36:34.000 Just because he can be like, you're insane.

01:36:36.000 And we can also do the prairie dog hunting that we were talking about. 0.95

01:36:38.000 That's good. We both have that reputation, so we'll be fine.

01:36:41.000 Very nice. We're at SHOT Show.

01:36:43.000 I see you out there working.

01:36:45.000 I've seen the schedule. It's literally a minute by minute.

01:36:48.000 So you're working hard for the people of South Carolina, but also the Second Amendment.

01:36:51.000 Tell us a little bit about some of the initiative that you're doing.

01:36:53.000 It sounds really cool. Well, so here's the deal.

01:36:55.000 Since I've been governor, I have been aggressively defending the Second Amendment.

01:37:01.000 People think of South Dakota as conservative, which it is.

01:37:03.000 But remember, I replaced a Republican governor that vetoed twice constitutional carry.

01:37:09.000 So the first bill that I signed into law was constitutional carry, and we did it in the rotunda and had a huge celebration about we have had a change in guard, and South Dakota is now going to be the biggest defender of our freedoms.

01:37:20.000 And the constitutional amendment to me That is the most important is the Second Amendment, because it's the only way that the people can defend themselves from a corrupt government.

01:37:29.000 So I have waived all fees on any permits in South Dakota.

01:37:33.000 I even, as a state, we pay for people's federal background checks, so it doesn't cost them a penny to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

01:37:40.000 And then we've been aggressively going out there and fighting a lot of these lawsuits and illegal activities that have come out of the federal government against our gun and ammunition industries.

01:37:49.000 Yeah, and I think if people have been paying attention, you realize just how important it is, where you see the crime that's coming with a lot of, obviously, the border crisis and the Fennel crisis and all that.

01:37:57.000 I mean, they're not going to be there to defend you.

01:38:00.000 No. In some of these places, I see the stats I'm seeing from the guys, 30-40% of the gun purchases made in the last, like, 24 months, first-time gun buyers.

01:38:10.000 Yes, absolutely. Because they realize it, too.

01:38:11.000 My mom. She's 76 years old.

01:38:15.000 And I found out when I went home last weekend that she went and got a pistol, asked for one for Christmas, but she went and took a full instructional course and she took my sister and several nieces.

01:38:27.000 Without me even knowing about it, they all went and got trained and it was all just because they thought, you know what, we're not going to depend on anybody anymore.

01:38:33.000 We are literally on our own with this White House and the way that it sits today.

01:38:37.000 It's crazy. After the Israel attack, a lot of my friends from New York and real estate guys, a lot of my friends, Democrat, Jewish guys.

01:38:45.000 Hey, Donna, what's the AR-15?

01:38:47.000 I'm like, oh, really? Oh, damn. 0.99

01:38:49.000 Let me tell you. Now you're calling me. 1.00

01:38:51.000 After 25 years of giving me a hard time, now you're in it.

01:38:54.000 But hey, welcome aboard. Yeah.

01:38:55.000 And that's what we're thrilled about, is that people are paying attention.

01:38:59.000 So if we are willing to go out there and be aggressively educational about it, boy, we can turn this whole country around.

01:39:06.000 What I have right now going on in South Dakota is that I see the White House specifically punishing me in South Dakota.

01:39:12.000 They tried actually removing some funding.

01:39:15.000 Putting up roadblocks to funding that was already agreed upon about a range that you're building that sounds like a spectacular facility.

01:39:20.000 We're building a world-class shooting complex.

01:39:23.000 It is going to be short-range clay shooting, shotgun ranges, long-range target shooting, built so that we can host national and international competitions, but also start programs and facilitate ones in our state that are training our youth and making sure that everybody's well-equipped and And building out a lot of our heritage and passing that on to the next generation.

01:39:44.000 But it was always a partnership before we even broke ground that it was going to be partially state dollars that we funded and I dedicated.

01:39:52.000 Partially private industry because everything we do is a private-public partnership.

01:39:56.000 And then we were going to use federal dollars to use as well that Fish and Wildlife and Interior had signed off on, fully approved.

01:40:03.000 The financing package was complete.

01:40:05.000 And then we found out a week before we broke ground that they changed their minds.

01:40:09.000 They've decided that they will no longer allow those dollars to be qualified, and it is just specifically to go after rifle ranges.

01:40:15.000 It's specifically to go after a Second Amendment, and me personally. 0.94

01:40:18.000 So basically, my attitude has been, screw you. 0.97

01:40:21.000 We will build it, and we're going to build it bigger, and we're going to do it without you. 0.96

01:40:24.000 Well, I see you out there working, talking with a lot of the private companies that are actually going to fund this, and that's what's sort of cool about SHOT. I mean, obviously, it's a business, but people do give back.

01:40:33.000 I always talk about, for shooting, you need that mentor.

01:40:35.000 You need that ability, and whatever.

01:40:37.000 Whether it's hunting or shooting, you see that on the federal level.

01:40:39.000 Let's introduce wolves to reduce the herd so that people don't have success so that you end hunting.

01:40:43.000 That's true. Let's make getting ammunition really difficult.

01:40:46.000 We put you through loopholes.

01:40:48.000 Let's go after. I see this a lot.

01:40:49.000 I've heard this comment a lot.

01:40:51.000 Sort of the attack on the individual FFL dealers.

01:40:53.000 Yes, that's true. You know, there was a procedural error in your thing.

01:40:55.000 We're taking away your license. That's your, you know, million dollar family business.

01:40:59.000 Just gone. Yeah. These are these people's livelihoods and they're just, they're toying with it like you wouldn't believe.

01:41:05.000 I had a little lady in her 80s that had been a firearms dealer for generations, her family had been, and they went after her. 1.00

01:41:12.000 And I had to specifically and personally step up, help her with her legal defenses and team just coordinating with her in order for them not to send this little old 80-year-old woman to jail. 1.00

01:41:22.000 Just because they wanted to persecute her.

01:41:24.000 Yeah, they won't go after the big guys because they know the big guys have the money to fund it.

01:41:27.000 But the little guy, you could actually be right, but it doesn't matter.

01:41:30.000 It doesn't matter. Because you can't withstand...

01:41:31.000 Well, your father has proven that they'll go after the big guys, too.

01:41:34.000 That's a solid point. I guess they'll do whatever they want to do.

01:41:37.000 They'll do a little bit of both. But it's a new time in this country.

01:41:40.000 And my hope is that...

01:41:43.000 You know, I'm a mom and a grandma.

01:41:45.000 It's weird for someone that I think there's that demographic to be this out there in front defending the Second Amendment, but it's a part of my life.

01:41:54.000 I grew up that way. Every family vacation was a hunting trip.

01:41:57.000 It was time spent with my dad and my family where we made memories, and it made me better informed about conservation, about wildlife.

01:42:05.000 When I'm lucky enough to draw that West River tag, I spend a lot of time in South Dakota.

01:42:10.000 Me too. So, we have a couple of buddies that literally have this old family ranch, and they always invite us out.

01:42:17.000 And when I'm lucky enough to draw that tag...

01:42:18.000 I'd love to say I can pull some strings, but I don't know if I can.

01:42:21.000 Oh, by the way, if I got the governor's tag...

01:42:23.000 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

01:42:24.000 I want to call you about the sheep one. 0.80

01:42:26.000 Don't worry about the deer. That'll put in for him.

01:42:27.000 But the sheep one, that gets a little crazy.

01:42:29.000 That one. I'll call you. We'll do that.

01:42:31.000 So one more thing, I see when you're out here working, I saw yesterday with Sarah Sanders, governor down in Arkansas.

01:42:37.000 I saw she was the number three state for pro-gun bringing in businesses. 0.98

01:42:43.000 Are you actually also out there recruiting some of these companies to come to South Dakota to bring that business?

01:42:48.000 So what do you do for them to make that attractive?

01:42:50.000 Everything. Beyond the freedom. So we have no income taxes, no personal property taxes.

01:42:55.000 The only tax we have in our state is a 4.2% sales tax.

01:43:00.000 And we made the largest tax cut in South Dakota history last year is what I got passed through our state legislature.

01:43:07.000 With that, we are still, with these companies, telling them, we'll build buildings for you.

01:43:11.000 We'll give you land. I will train your workforce for the first two years of any training they need to have the technical skills to do the manufacturing that you need, the gunsmithing you need.

01:43:20.000 Whatever it takes, we will do that for you.

01:43:23.000 In South Dakota, you will not only...

01:43:24.000 For us, giving them millions of dollars to come to our state is a different situation because we're not going to tax you like many of these other states are going to do.

01:43:32.000 But I have land and assets.

01:43:34.000 I know. I know we have land and assets, and we are not going to ever be a state that will come after you with regulatory provisions that will impact you or hurt you.

01:43:44.000 That we are friendly, and we're going to promote you and be proud of you.

01:43:47.000 And we do it through all of our events, the way we talk.

01:43:51.000 I started a habitat program as soon as I became governor, put in a conservation program, the first time ever in the state.

01:43:57.000 On working lands, we have more public access areas than we've ever had in the history of our state.

01:44:03.000 Landowners that are coming to the table on a new way to do it and started a predator bounty program again, which was hugely controversial.

01:44:10.000 Which is ridiculous, but it's always the people who know nothing about it.

01:44:14.000 They bring that stuff to D.C. So they can fight it with heartstrings, not with logic or actual on-the-ground experiences.

01:44:19.000 PETA was horrible. I mean, just awful. 0.58

01:44:22.000 But, you know, we're paying $10 a tail for...

01:44:24.000 Is that people eating tasty animals?

01:44:25.000 I think it is. Yes, quite often.

01:44:27.000 Yeah, on a daily basis.

01:44:29.000 So, yeah, it's amazing to me how if we don't do these things and don't stay out in front that...

01:44:34.000 And what I've had other governors tell me, Donnie, is that they say, Christy, when you do this stuff, when you are so out there, you know, like even during COVID, when you didn't shut down your state, when you didn't mandate stuff, it gave us cover.

01:44:48.000 Yeah. You know, honestly, you were the crazy one. 0.95

01:44:50.000 You gave them cover, but they still did the other things. 1.00

01:44:52.000 They said, you were the crazy one. 0.69

01:44:55.000 You were the one that was doing this.

01:44:57.000 And we've decided, okay, well, we can loosen or relax our mandates a little bit more.

01:45:01.000 We can do a little bit more freedom because they were coming after you so hard.

01:45:04.000 So if I got to do that in this area, I will.

01:45:07.000 We'll do it. I'll give people cover.

01:45:08.000 We've been beaten up enough that we realize what they'll do to destroy you.

01:45:12.000 But I want to, at the end of my life, be able to say I lived a life of significance.

01:45:18.000 I lost my dad at 49 years old.

01:45:20.000 As far as I'm concerned, I've already been gifted more days than he got.

01:45:24.000 And I want to, when I'm done, just be able to say I actually did something that mattered.

01:45:29.000 And so that's, there's no other place to do that with more Patriots than here at SHOT Show and to make sure we've got a plan to actually win.

01:45:36.000 Listen, you're doing it every day.

01:45:37.000 We're just, again, honored to have you in the fight out there doing it.

01:45:40.000 Thank you. Guys, if you're looking, definitely check out South Dakota for firearms, for shooting, for hunting.

01:45:46.000 Just an incredible state, and you're doing an awesome job with it.

01:45:48.000 I'll go with you. Mandatory. You have to take the governor.

01:45:50.000 Sounds good. Good.

01:45:52.000 Thanks so much. Thank you. You're awesome.

01:45:54.000 I'm going to take a moment real quick to just recognize the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

01:45:59.000 It's because of them that we're able to host this event at the SHOT Show.

01:46:02.000 And we're so thankful and fortunate to have two brand new sponsors of CSF join us to be with us tonight.

01:46:10.000 And that's Cordova and Public Square.

01:46:13.000 So thank you guys for being here.

01:46:15.000 I want to welcome Dusty, Michael, and Don to the stage.

01:46:19.000 I'll let the sponsors actually talk, but since we still have bear hunting at the Childress Sportsman's Band

01:46:42.000 every year, I think I've raised probably more money than just about anyone else just selling myself to go on these

01:46:49.000 hunts.

01:46:49.000 Which doesn't exactly suck, because I get to do it with my kids.

01:46:51.000 but I appreciate everything that Congressional Sportsman does.

01:46:55.000 There's not a lot of bipartisanship in politics these days anymore.

01:47:00.000 That's why when they're reluctant to give me the mic because I will revoke your 501c3 status so fast your heads will spin.

01:47:08.000 But we will save that for another day.

01:47:10.000 But I'm excited about being here, talking about the Patriot economy, bringing other corporations in there for things that we can all agree on, protecting our Second Amendment rights, protecting our ability to be in the outdoors, all of the things and values that have done so much for me, for my children, for our families. And it's just great to be a part of this organization and for really bringing A new level of corporate America back into that.

01:47:34.000 People who believe in the same thing.

01:47:35.000 So we're just excited to be here.

01:47:36.000 Thank you so much for having us.

01:47:38.000 I'll let Michael and Dusty talk a little bit about what we're doing.

01:47:42.000 Thanks, Don. That's here for Don.

01:47:49.000 Don and I first met about two years ago, and I shared with him this idea of a parallel economic ecosystem.

01:47:57.000 We have felt the threat of cancellation from America's largest financial institutions.

01:48:02.000 We love the First Amendment.

01:48:03.000 We love the Second Amendment.

01:48:05.000 But unfortunately, many of the largest companies in this country today no longer respect those things.

01:48:11.000 So I pinched at Don, what if we created a marketplace Full of businesses that would align with the Constitution.

01:48:19.000 They would agree with the principles of this country, and he said we're all in.

01:48:23.000 Now, I'm happy to say that Public Square, you can find the platform at publicsquare.com, we built this incredible marketplace of over 75,000 businesses in 18 months that love the country, the Constitution, and the values that that wonderful document protects.

01:48:41.000 All of you, Are fighting the good fight in incredible industry positions.

01:48:46.000 You are on the front lines, cherishing what should be seen as an endowed, untouchable right and responsibility and privilege, which is the Second Amendment.

01:48:58.000 It's a non-negotiable.

01:48:59.000 The Second Amendment is so fundamental to this country, and you all are on the front lines of protecting that.

01:49:04.000 What we are trying to do is make sure that when you're looking to bank, when you're looking for insurance, When you're looking for customers, when you're looking for software platforms, you have resources that would never cancel you, but instead will celebrate the very fact that you exist and they want to help you grow.

01:49:23.000 So that's what we're doing at publicsquare.com.

01:49:26.000 We encourage you to check it out.

01:49:27.000 We're certainly grateful for the Congressional Sportsman's Foundation.

01:49:30.000 We're really honored to partner.

01:49:32.000 This has been a fantastic event.

01:49:34.000 And come reach out at our booth if you were interested in hearing more.

01:49:37.000 Thanks, everyone. And off to Dusty here.

01:49:40.000 We announced today a really cool partnership and I'm excited for you guys to hear about it.

01:49:45.000 Thanks, everyone. Appreciate you being here today.

01:49:48.000 We started in this industry about five years ago with a very simple idea that we wanted to bring financial services catered to the fire and business school.

01:49:59.000 We saw that it has been beaten down over the years by the banks and credit card companies.

01:50:05.000 So five years ago, we launched a buy-down-pay-later consumer winning.

01:50:08.000 We were running out here trying to build relationships.

01:50:11.000 A lot of you opened your arms to us, trusted us, And I can say now, after five years, we have financed over a quarter billion dollars in firearm transactions.

01:50:26.000 Thank you guys for all that you've done for our company, trusting us.

01:50:30.000 We're excited to bring Public Square into this fight with us to protect the Second Amendment.

01:50:36.000 We're excited to bring you more financial services from groups that you can trust, that know that we're going to stand behind the ethics of liberty on the Second Amendment.

01:50:45.000 So again, thank you all for trusting us and letting us be here, and we're looking forward to serving you for many more years.

01:50:50.000 Thanks everyone. Okay, guys, I hope you enjoyed that.

01:50:56.000 That was a lot of fun. It was a crazy week.

01:50:57.000 I totally lost my voice between, like I said, I was working like five different gigs there.

01:51:03.000 I had sort of the political hat on with some of the governors.

01:51:05.000 I had, obviously, visiting the guys that sponsor us and advertise with us over at Field Ethos.

01:51:10.000 You know, my outdoor company.

01:51:12.000 You had the stuff we're doing with Michael Seifert at Public Square, obviously, on the Patriot economy, plus their partnership with Cordova for the gun space.

01:51:20.000 You know, We're good to go.

01:51:46.000 I've seen a lot of stuff.

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01:51:48.000 We already discussed that. We'll get him on here and have a good time with that.

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