Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Strait Talk on Iran, Plus California Dems’ Insane “Stop Nick Shirley” Law | Triggered Ep.335

00:05:53.000 Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:05:56.000 I hope you all had an incredible weekend and it's awesome to be with you in studio live.

00:06:02.000 So much to get into, there's a lot happening, and so much to cover.

00:06:06.000 The Trump White House is showing the world what peace through strength actually looks like.

00:06:10.000 We'll give you all the straight talk on Iran.

00:06:14.000 And in California, I'm not making this up Democrats are literally trying to pass the Stop Nick Shirley Act.

00:06:25.000 Think about it.

00:06:25.000 This Stop Nick Shirley Act.

00:06:26.000 Remember Nick Shirley?

00:06:27.000 He's been on the show.

00:06:28.000 He's the guy that discovered the fraud in Minnesota.

00:06:31.000 He went on to California where he discovered all the hospice care.

00:06:34.000 But they want to pass this Stop Nick Shirley Act, a young, like 20 something year old kid that's just doing investigative journalism.

00:06:42.000 They want to prevent him and prohibit him from reporting certain information about immigration service providers, even if it relates to fraud.

00:06:54.000 I mean, this is complete insanity.

00:06:57.000 But then again, It's just another day that ends in Y in California.

00:07:02.000 But imagine they want to stop a journalist from doing journalism if it becomes something about illegal immigrants committing fraud in California.

00:07:11.000 I mean, that is pretty classic California Democrats and basically the entire Democrat Party at this point. 0.81

00:07:19.000 But that's the theme today.

00:07:21.000 It's simple.

00:07:22.000 When our leadership is strong, we put Americans first and life gets better.

00:07:27.000 When leadership is weak, when the left gets their way, Corruption spreads, enemies test us, criminals get protected, and ordinary Americans end up paying the price each and every time.

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00:09:43.000 Now, let's get into the news, guys.

00:09:46.000 And we're going to start with some straight talk on Iran, right?

00:09:50.000 Straight, like get it, harmless straights, you know, a little pun there. 0.80

00:09:54.000 Because the contrast could not be more obvious.

00:09:58.000 For years under Biden, under Obama, under really the entire foreign policy class, America was managed by people who thought sounding cautious was the same thing as being smart.

00:10:13.000 Everything had to be delicate, everything had to be multilateral.

00:10:17.000 Everything had to be run through the maze of experts and committees and processes and stakeholders and all the other nonsense these people use when they're too afraid to actually act, right?

00:10:29.000 If there's consensus by a bunch of people who haven't been right in 100 years, I mean, probably going to be right this time, right, guys?

00:10:37.000 What did that get us?

00:10:39.000 It got us nothing.

00:10:40.000 It got us more instability, more threats, more enemies who assumed the United States had lost the will to act like the dominant power on Earth.

00:10:50.000 When your favorite president comes back in, and suddenly the message is very different.

00:10:58.000 Check out Trump on Iran.

00:11:01.000 When this all does end, when you are able.

00:11:06.000 Well, I've had a party, man.

00:11:08.000 It would be great. 1.00

00:11:08.000 Hey, we've been pushed around by Iran for 47 years, but not anymore. 1.00

00:11:15.000 Well, that's what clarity sounds like no apologizing, no trying to manage the feelings of the Ayatollah, just a very direct message. 0.97

00:11:24.000 Take the deal or deal with the consequences. 0.73

00:11:26.000 It's binary, it's very simple.

00:11:29.000 That is what deterrence is.

00:11:31.000 And for all the geniuses who spent years telling us that strength is provocative, weakness is what invites escalation, guys.

00:11:39.000 That's what it is.

00:11:39.000 Weakness invites escalation.

00:11:42.000 Okay?

00:11:43.000 Strength gets us results.

00:11:47.000 Weakness is what gets tested.

00:11:49.000 Weakness is what gets Americans dragged into longer, messier, more expensive fights later on.

00:11:55.000 And by the way, once the world sees that America is serious again, it's funny how quickly things start changing.

00:12:03.000 Check this out.

00:12:05.000 U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

00:12:08.000 In effect, for nearly two hours now, a ship tracking firm reports 121 empty oil tankers are making their way to the United States of America.

00:12:20.000 68 of those 121 vessels are very large crude carriers capable of carrying 2 million barrels apiece.

00:12:28.000 President Trump has urged countries squeezed by Iran's disruption of the Strait of Hormuz to turn to American energy supplies instead. 0.51

00:12:36.000 Well, it would appear perhaps they are obliging him. 0.98

00:12:41.000 They are listening to Trump.

00:12:42.000 The president told Fox, quote, China can send their ships to the U.S., China can send their ships to Venezuela, while also saying that empty oil carrying ships from many nations are all headed to the U.S. to load up.

00:12:56.000 That from the president of the United States.

00:12:59.000 A lot to follow today.

00:13:00.000 Put that map back.

00:13:02.000 When the United States stops negotiating with itself, everybody else has to recalculate very quickly.

00:13:08.000 And if you're following Polymarket, Let's just say that recalculation can happen quite fast.

00:13:14.000 And it works precisely because bad actors understand force a lot better than they understand academic theories about de escalation frameworks.

00:13:25.000 Which brings us to NATO.

00:13:29.000 The second America actually exerts pressure, the same allies who constantly want our money, our military, our protection, our energy security, our intelligence, you know.

00:13:41.000 Suddenly, they all start acting like they need to hold 16 meetings before they can even clear their throats.

00:13:49.000 Here's my father with a few sharp words for leadership in Spain.

00:13:54.000 No, they're not.

00:13:55.000 I think they're not cooperating at all.

00:13:57.000 Spain, I think they've been very bad.

00:14:01.000 Very bad.

00:14:01.000 Not good at all.

00:14:02.000 We may cut off trade with Spain.

00:14:06.000 Do you guys all trade?

00:14:07.000 All trade with them?

00:14:08.000 I don't know what Spain's doing.

00:14:10.000 They've been very bad to NATO.

00:14:12.000 protected they don't want to pay their fair share and they've been that way for many years Remember Spain?

00:14:20.000 You know, they wouldn't let us land on the NATO runways there.

00:14:23.000 Some of these countries wouldn't even let us use their airspace to fly over, right?

00:14:26.000 But then when, you know, big bad Russia may be a threat to them thousands of miles away, you know, they want our money, lots of it, hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:14:36.000 You know, those are our allies.

00:14:38.000 They want us to underwrite the entire alliance structure.

00:14:42.000 They want us to bail them out whenever things get serious.

00:14:45.000 They want us to protect sea lanes.

00:14:48.000 They want us to deter enemies, to subsidize their weakness and absorb the political heat.

00:14:54.000 But when America takes action against a real threat, suddenly they're not available, guys.

00:14:59.000 Nobody's home.

00:15:00.000 It's amazing how that happens.

00:15:01.000 They just go, oh, we didn't know there was something going on in the Middle East.

00:15:05.000 Really?

00:15:06.000 You know, we'll join up when it's all over.

00:15:08.000 We'll join up after you win.

00:15:10.000 We'll do the victory lap with you.

00:15:11.000 We're just not going to take part in, you know, the war.

00:15:15.000 Suddenly, all of a sudden, guys, they're concerned.

00:15:19.000 Suddenly, they need more time, huh?

00:15:22.000 Not because alliances are bad.

00:15:24.000 But because an alliance that only really functions when America does everything is not actually an alliance.

00:15:33.000 It's dependency, it's freeloading, it's basically the Democrat theory of everything, right?

00:15:40.000 Their voters aren't people doing things.

00:15:42.000 Their voters are people that are dependents on government.

00:15:44.000 Because, you know, if you're a dependent, they're going to give you free stuff.

00:15:48.000 They're going to keep voting for you, you know?

00:15:50.000 Sound familiar?

00:15:52.000 It is rich countries outsourcing their courage to the United States, then acting offended when we point it out.

00:15:59.000 That's all they're doing.

00:16:01.000 And the whole foreign policy blob hates when Trump says that because he exposes the scam in one sentence America pays.

00:16:10.000 America fights.

00:16:12.000 America then gets criticized.

00:16:14.000 Everyone else free rides, right?

00:16:17.000 They get the free ride each and every time.

00:16:20.000 And then when Trump fixes all of it, you know, they call him, oh, dangerous and reckless.

00:16:25.000 No, guys, what's dangerous is letting cowards and bureaucrats define American strength for 20 years.

00:16:32.000 Now, speaking of scams, let's make sure we keep talking about Act Blue, right?

00:16:38.000 The big Democrat fundraising apparatus, the one that seems to always outrage the Republicans five to one.

00:16:43.000 And it seems over the last few months we've uncovered exactly why that is, because it's not legitimate.

00:16:48.000 It was never legitimate.

00:16:51.000 This one is actually pretty brutal.

00:16:54.000 And it's brutal because it confirms exactly what conservatives have been saying for years.

00:16:59.000 The people who spent the last decade screaming about election integrity and foreign interference and Russia, Russia, Russia, you name it, may have had pretty serious foreign money problems sitting inside their own fundraising apparatus.

00:17:17.000 And this is not some fringe story anymore, guys.

00:17:20.000 Now, for a quick refresher, As we told you a few weeks ago, the New York Times itself reported that ActBlue's own lawyers warned that the platform, that it may have misled Congress, just little white lies about the safeguards it used to prevent foreign donations.

00:17:39.000 Their own lawyers warning that there could be criminal exposure here.

00:17:43.000 Their own lawyers.

00:17:44.000 That tells you right away that this was not some harmless little compliance issue.

00:17:48.000 That tells you people inside that organization knew there was a real problem.

00:17:54.000 And they kept going anyway.

00:17:56.000 Because of course they did.

00:17:58.000 That is the Democrat model now.

00:18:00.000 Moral outrage in public, total corruption in private.

00:18:04.000 And the deeper point here is not really just about Act Blue.

00:18:09.000 It's that the entire Democrat machine always seems to operate this way.

00:18:15.000 They accuse you of exactly what they are doing every single time, right? 0.97

00:18:21.000 Just like Swallwell with the women. 1.00

00:18:23.000 Oh, yeah, you believe all women. 0.99

00:18:24.000 Oh, all of a sudden, not so much. 0.90

00:18:26.000 They're not worried about foreign money if they can use it.

00:18:30.000 They're not worried about election integrity if the loopholes benefit them.

00:18:35.000 They're not worried about democracy if the system is tilted in their favor and can exercise their will with reckless abandon.

00:18:44.000 They are worried about getting caught.

00:18:47.000 That is the distinction, okay?

00:18:49.000 They're not worried about all of these things.

00:18:50.000 They're only worried about getting caught because they want to keep perpetuating that.

00:18:54.000 It's why they've managed to keep as much power as they've had for so long, it's why they've raised as much money as they've had.

00:19:00.000 And now, House Republicans say ActBlue is deliberately withholding evidence to hinder their investigation.

00:19:09.000 The more sunlight on this, the more you start to understand why Democrats panic every time someone proposes even the most basic election protections, right?

00:19:22.000 Why is, I don't know, voter ID so popular with Americans, yet Democrats don't want to do it?

00:19:27.000 They want to make sure we don't do that. 0.98

00:19:29.000 It's Jim Crow 2.0, all the usual bullshit, right? 1.00

00:19:33.000 All the usual excuses. 1.00

00:19:35.000 Why do they hate verification?

00:19:37.000 Why do they hate stronger safeguards?

00:19:40.000 Why do they hate scrutiny?

00:19:42.000 Because scrutiny is the enemy of fraud.

00:19:46.000 And on that note, take a look at this.

00:19:48.000 The people who claim to be defending democracy are always the first people to freak out when you ask for the simplest possible guardrails.

00:19:58.000 We're seeing it with the Save America Act right now.

00:20:01.000 Again, all of this is common sense.

00:20:04.000 Verify who's donating.

00:20:06.000 Make sure foreign nationals are not funneling money illegally into the system. 0.85

00:20:11.000 Make sure fake names and straw donors.

00:20:14.000 Are not propping up a political machine.

00:20:16.000 That seems like basic stuff, guys.

00:20:18.000 That's not that complicated.

00:20:19.000 That, in and of itself, is actually defending democracy.

00:20:23.000 Because democracy is about fairness.

00:20:26.000 Our republic is dependent on that.

00:20:28.000 But when fairness works against the Democrats, all of a sudden they're not into fairness.

00:20:33.000 They're not into democracy.

00:20:35.000 They're into power.

00:20:37.000 How is any honest person against that?

00:20:39.000 Unless, again, the power was always about power.

00:20:46.000 That was always the point.

00:20:47.000 Power is everything in DC.

00:20:50.000 Power is power, and that's the point.

00:20:53.000 And get this, Democrats in California are now trying to pass what's being called the Stop Nick Shirley Act.

00:21:01.000 Can't even make it.

00:21:03.000 Think about this.

00:21:04.000 They're literally trying, California's trying to pass an act to stop like a 20 year old journalist from doing journalism.

00:21:11.000 They want to stop Nick Shirley from cracking down on fraud.

00:21:17.000 I mean, they literally are trying to pass a law to crack down on anti fraud journalism.

00:21:22.000 I'm not making this up.

00:21:24.000 The bill would prohibit journalists or anyone from posting certain identifying information about providers of immigration related services, even if it's related to fraud.

00:21:35.000 California Democrats are literally taking the side of the fraudsters.

00:21:40.000 They want to protect the fraudsters, not the journalists that actually expose it.

00:21:44.000 You're talking about billions of dollars here.

00:21:46.000 You're talking about draining American taxpayer dollars, subsidizing criminals, and they want to make sure that no one does that.

00:21:55.000 So, Nick went to Sacramento and asked a couple of lawmakers what's going on.

00:22:00.000 Check this out.

00:22:01.000 AB 2624, why would you sign off on that?

00:22:04.000 It's a direct violation of the First Amendment, and it makes it harder for people to expose fraud here.

00:22:08.000 We have ledge counsel.

00:22:10.000 They check the constitutionality of all our bills as we're writing them.

00:22:13.000 I work on fraud issues.

00:22:14.000 You'd know that if you looked at some of the work I did on the budget subject.

00:22:17.000 That's amazing.

00:22:18.000 So, Mia Bonta, her husband's attorney general of California, and it was only until I exposed her.

00:22:27.000 Fraud that they actually cracked down on the fraud and made some arrests here, especially with the hospices.

00:22:32.000 And do you know that if this bill were to pass, it'd make it illegal for someone to go after fraud, especially if it's based off of immigrants, for instance, Armenians in California?

00:22:44.000 No, no, I think that that's a misinterpretation of the bill, but I'm happy to talk with you more about it.

00:22:49.000 And I don't know that investigations into fraud are something that's been happening for a very long time.

00:22:56.000 The Attorney General handles those cases.

00:22:58.000 This is an ongoing issue. 1.00

00:22:59.000 Isn't it weird that the wife of the Attorney General, Mia Bonta, is now pushing this bill that literally goes against the First Amendment?

00:23:07.000 No, I actually don't think that this bill violates the First Amendment.

00:23:11.000 I mean, that's the whole purpose.

00:23:14.000 We have ledge counsel and ledge attorneys that talk with us about this.

00:23:17.000 Constitutionality is really important to the work.

00:23:19.000 So your bill criminalizes publication of images recorded in public.

00:23:22.000 Do you believe the government has the right to punish journalists for filming in public space?

00:23:28.000 No, I think that that is a complete misinterpretation of actually the.

00:23:32.000 No, because if.

00:23:33.000 It's a piece of legislation.

00:23:35.000 That is not.

00:23:36.000 That's literally what would happen.

00:23:37.000 Speaker Rivas, how are you doing?

00:23:41.000 What do you think about the Stop Nick Shirley Act?

00:23:44.000 AB 2624.

00:23:47.000 I don't know anything about it.

00:23:48.000 And do you think there's any conflict of interest there with Mia Bonta and her husband being the AG?

00:23:55.000 That just shows you everything you need to know.

00:23:57.000 These people won't even answer the question. 1.00

00:24:00.000 Now, notice how that lawmaker just brushes off concerns about the First Amendment. 0.96

00:24:04.000 I mean, you know, freedom of speech.

00:24:06.000 He should be able to say what he wants, especially when it comes to fraud, but in general, regardless, right?

00:24:12.000 We don't have to like what anyone's saying, but you can't just stop them from doing it.

00:24:16.000 But they just brush it off.

00:24:18.000 It doesn't matter.

00:24:19.000 Because it is not just one scandal, it's a pattern, it's a culture.

00:24:24.000 Again, guys, it's a machine.

00:24:27.000 They want to stop him looking into any of these things because once you realize that it's happening in Medicaid, it's probably happening in Medicare.

00:24:34.000 Once you realize it's happening in Medicare, it's probably happening across the entire board.

00:24:39.000 Anything, not just health, anything.

00:24:42.000 And that same machine protects corruption, protects institutional failure, and protects criminals too.

00:24:50.000 Which brings me to the next story.

00:24:52.000 Because once again, the cost of rogue left wing sanctuary policies is really.

00:24:59.000 Unfortunately, measured in actual human lives.

00:25:03.000 And if you want a case that shows exactly what these policies produce, just look at your screen.

00:25:09.000 This story is horrifying.

00:25:10.000 A DHS employee was just murdered in cold blood by a foreigner with prior convictions who was naturalized under Joe Biden and his administration.

00:25:22.000 A DHS employee murdered, two other victims attacked, and authorities say this suspect was a naturalized citizen from the UK.

00:25:32.000 Guys, you already know the script from the left after a story like this.

00:25:37.000 Don't ask questions.

00:25:38.000 Don't connect the policy failures to the outcome.

00:25:41.000 Don't notice the system that enabled it.

00:25:44.000 Pretend as though it never happened.

00:25:46.000 Sorry, guys.

00:25:48.000 No.

00:25:49.000 That game is over.

00:25:51.000 If your politics only work when the public is forbidden from noticing the consequences, then your politics are broken. 1.00

00:26:01.000 Your policies suck. 0.74

00:26:03.000 Because this is what progressive governance actually looks like in practice endless loopholes, no accountability, no urgency, no willingness to enforce the law. 0.99

00:26:14.000 And then, when innocent people die, they act offended that anyone would point back to the policies that made it possible.

00:26:23.000 You do not get to separate the blood from the far left bloated bureaucracy.

00:26:28.000 It doesn't work that way. 0.57

00:26:30.000 They create these systems.

00:26:32.000 If you create a system that treats enforcement like cruelty, If you create a culture that treats boundaries like oppression, if you keep protecting the people who should have never been protected in the first place, then these outcomes are entirely on you.

00:26:48.000 That is the truth.

00:26:50.000 Because order is not oppression.

00:26:52.000 A functioning country has to protect its own people.

00:26:56.000 That's how it works, that's literally the basic tenet of civilization.

00:27:01.000 That should not be controversial.

00:27:03.000 But inside the modern Democrat political machine, it basically is.

00:27:08.000 Now, speaking of people who don't know what's truth from reality, you have got to see what happened this weekend at the Michigan Democratic Convention.

00:27:19.000 For years, for years, and every day since, the left has told you that asking for an ID to vote is racist.

00:27:27.000 Remember, it's Jim Crow 2.0, it's some kind of white supremacist plot to keep minorities out of the ballot box.

00:27:34.000 They can't get ID. 0.95

00:27:35.000 They're not smart enough to do that.

00:27:36.000 They've said these things.

00:27:38.000 Voter ID was a tool of oppression.

00:27:42.000 Asking for a driver's license was basically the Klan, guys.

00:27:45.000 I mean, you're basically the KKK.

00:27:47.000 Okay, fine.

00:27:50.000 So, what happens when the Michigan Democrats run their own convention?

00:27:56.000 All Democrats.

00:27:57.000 In Michigan, pretty radical Democrats.

00:28:00.000 And they decide to actually, I don't know, take the advice of their activist wing.

00:28:05.000 And not check IDs at the door when delegates show up to register.

00:28:10.000 Well, take a look at how one of their own handled it.

00:28:16.000 PM at the Michigan Democratic Convention primary, where we've been waiting to find out if our first set of votes have even been tabulated and counted and if we need to vote a second time because this is also kind of like rank my vote out here, even though a lot of the candidates don't even want that.

00:28:31.000 I just found out that about 10 20 minutes ago, we just got the last vote in.

00:28:35.000 Voting began at 5 30 when it was supposed.

00:28:37.000 To begin at 3 p.m.

00:28:38.000 What's wild is many people have been here since 7 a.m.

00:28:42.000 I arrived at 1 p.m. and I'm tapping out, even though I would like to make sure I can continue voting for my Secretary of State choice and my Attorney General choice. 0.96

00:28:52.000 This is the most land owning 1800s white man bullshit privilege I've seen in the Democracy Power.

00:29:00.000 And apparently, Curtis Pirtle, the chair of the Democratic Party here in Michigan, ran on changing this, ran on moving the primary speed more accessible. 0.97

00:29:09.000 To possibly having satellite locations or mail in voting or even online voting because we voted mobily. 0.96

00:29:17.000 This whole fucking thing, we just showed up, we had to be in person. 0.97

00:29:21.000 And here's another thing they didn't even ask for my ID. 0.99

00:29:24.000 I did not even have my state ID asked for when I was registering as a delegate to vote. 0.95

00:29:31.000 So, why in the fuck am I spending my entire evening in Detroit, my entire Sunday in Detroit, when I could have been voting from home or in a satellite location? 0.96

00:29:43.000 Or with mail in voting, or online, or right by choice. 0.99

00:29:48.000 What the hell is going on with Michigan democracy?

00:29:51.000 Because, like, who wants to spend 12 plus hours in a convention center just to make their voice heard? 1.00

00:29:58.000 This shit is fucked. 1.00

00:30:01.000 Well, sorry for the language in that one, but I think we have to point out. 1.00

00:30:05.000 I mean, this person said, and I quote, they didn't even ask for my ID.

00:30:10.000 I mean, let that sink in for one second.

00:30:13.000 She is at a Democratic Party convention in a room full of Democratic delegates complaining that her own party did not ask her for identification.

00:30:27.000 I don't know, guys.

00:30:28.000 Seems like you don't want anyone else to have identification, but you really want to use it when it matters.

00:30:33.000 Huh, I wonder why Republicans want identification checked.

00:30:37.000 I wonder why we want the basics to be checked to verify that people are actually citizens.

00:30:42.000 I mean, think about this.

00:30:45.000 This is the cell phone of the year.

00:30:48.000 This is the moment the entire voter ID lie collapses on live video.

00:30:53.000 Because apparently, when it's your convention, when it's your delegate credentials, when it's your seat at the table, suddenly ID is not Jim Crow 2.0.

00:31:05.000 Suddenly, ID is not racist.

00:31:07.000 Suddenly, ID is the bare minimum for a functioning system.

00:31:12.000 Huh?

00:31:14.000 Who's been saying that all along?

00:31:15.000 Oh, oh, Republicans.

00:31:18.000 Who wants to tell her?

00:31:20.000 Who wants to tell her that thing she's screaming about? 0.98

00:31:24.000 That's called voter integrity.

00:31:26.000 That's the thing normal Americans have been asking for at every polling place in this country for like the last 20 years.

00:31:35.000 And every time we do, The same people she votes for call us bigots.

00:31:41.000 You can't make it up.

00:31:42.000 They do this for us, and yet we still can't get it through.

00:31:46.000 And there's plenty of weak Republicans that won't push it either.

00:31:50.000 And speaking of masks slipping, let's talk about something you may not have heard about.

00:31:56.000 Something the regime media is absolutely not going to cover, certainly not in a way that it gets deserved.

00:32:04.000 FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced.

00:32:07.000 That his agency is cracking down on the censorship cartel, the collusion between advertisers, platforms, and left wing smear artists that has been basically choking conservative speech on the internet for decades now, certainly years, certainly since we got into politics.

00:32:26.000 Saying, When that collusion also prevents the spread of ideas they don't like, it undermines our basic rights as citizens to speak and be heard.

00:32:37.000 Today, the FTC.

00:32:40.000 Took monumental steps to promote economic competition and stop collusive censorship.

00:32:47.000 The issue is not just that, I don't know, one company moderated contents on its own.

00:32:54.000 The issue is whether a network of powerful institutions effectively worked together to punish platforms, shows, outlets, or creators unless they, I don't know, suppressed certain political views, perhaps.

00:33:08.000 I wonder if we've seen this play out in real life.

00:33:11.000 I've been talking about it for a decade.

00:33:13.000 A cartel of corporations got together and decided which ideas Americans were allowed to hear.

00:33:19.000 And the federal government is now going to do something about it.

00:33:24.000 Think about what that actually means for a second, guys.

00:33:27.000 For years, we watched it happen in real time.

00:33:31.000 Conservative accounts throttled, conservative advertisers blacklisted, conservative journalists demonetized, just regular people posting, just totally canceled.

00:33:43.000 Entire news stories just gone.

00:33:46.000 The Hunter Biden laptop, the lab leak, the vaccine side effects, the election integrity conversation scrubbed, flagged, buried, banned, censored, canceled.

00:33:58.000 But now there's actual consequences for it.

00:34:02.000 I'd love to make some of those consequences retroactive so we could all go after these guys because we all know people who it happened to.

00:34:08.000 I know I'm one of them.

00:34:10.000 And by the way, while the left is obsessed with finding new ways to game the system, the Trump administration is doing something normal countries used to do trying to build things again and actually put more money in the pockets of working people.

00:34:26.000 No tax on overtime.

00:34:29.000 More and more made in America, less red tape, less bureaucracy, less regulation.

00:34:37.000 In other words, make it easier to hire, easier to expand, easier to finance, easier to build, and more profitable to build here than to ship jobs to China.

00:34:50.000 And what happens?

00:34:52.000 I don't know, guys.

00:34:53.000 Factories actually start adding shifts.

00:34:56.000 Wow, it's amazing how that works.

00:34:57.000 When you don't make it impossible to do something, that something actually can happen.

00:35:03.000 Check this out on the SBA reforms.

00:35:06.000 Conditions in labor trends were also part of a recent exchange at the White House.

00:35:10.000 The administration was asked about hiring, production, and overall work.

00:35:15.000 The small business administrator, Kelly Leffler, says some manufacturers are seeing increased activity, pointing to factories expanding shifts as production picks up.

00:35:26.000 A great example are the factories that we see coming back thanks to 100% Made in America, expensing.

00:35:32.000 Cusa Steel is a great example in Rome, Georgia, where the owner was.

00:35:37.000 Down to running one shift one day a week.

00:35:40.000 He's up to two or three shifts five or six days a week.

00:35:43.000 So, thanks to reindustrializing this nation through our small manufacturing base, which most manufacturers in America meet the small business definition 98% of them, we're seeing more shifts taking place, more opportunities for overtime, and then more willingness of workers to take on overtime shifts because in the past they were penalized by the tax system for taking on overtime.

00:36:05.000 Leffler also says overall, small business optimism has remained above its long term average under the current administration.

00:36:13.000 Imagine that.

00:36:15.000 You mean if you stop punishing production, stop suffocating small businesses, and actually reward people for making things in the United States, American industry might come back to life.

00:36:28.000 Huh.

00:36:29.000 Who would have thought it?

00:36:31.000 What a concept.

00:36:32.000 It's amazing.

00:36:33.000 Amazing it hasn't been done before, but amazing nonetheless.

00:36:38.000 This is what an American first economy is supposed to look like, guys.

00:36:43.000 Not lectures.

00:36:44.000 Not DEI and ESG scorecards, not climate paperwork stacked to the ceiling, actual policy that says build it here, hire here, grow here, win here.

00:36:58.000 That's it.

00:36:59.000 And by the way, at the center of all of this is what actually looks like when a government prioritizes, wait for it, Americans.

00:37:11.000 Wow, amazing.

00:37:15.000 And when they say the law is not optional. 0.96

00:37:20.000 Because the Department of Transportation is yanking $73 million from New York over commercial driver license, getting vetting failures, and basically allowing illegals to take over the system and make roads less safe. 0.95

00:37:36.000 And the message from the administration is brutally simple We gave you four months to comply, you refused. 0.98

00:37:44.000 Now the money goes away.

00:37:45.000 And if you keep refusing, you could lose the ability to issue CDLs altogether.

00:37:50.000 Those are commercial driver's licenses.

00:37:52.000 If you keep issuing them to people who can't read, you know, like the signs on a road, you know, you keep giving it to people who may not even have driver's licenses or shouldn't get CDLs to begin with, you know, maybe you don't get your federal funding anymore.

00:38:07.000 Wow.

00:38:08.000 Accountability, consequences.

00:38:11.000 Amazing.

00:38:13.000 Think about how insane that is.

00:38:15.000 We're talking about commercial driver's licenses, the people operating massive vehicles, 18 wheelers and stuff on public roads.

00:38:24.000 And New York still treated basic legal compliance like it was some sort of, I don't know, maybe like suggestion.

00:38:30.000 You know, we're not going to really listen to that.

00:38:33.000 This is the same blue state disease you see everywhere ideology first, the law second, if ever, public safety somewhere off in the distance.

00:38:44.000 And the answer is not another warning letter, not another blue ribbon commission, not another excuse, it's consequences.

00:38:53.000 Check this out. 0.76

00:38:56.000 We audited New York in 53% of the licenses, commercial driver's licenses issued to foreigners. 0.93

00:39:05.000 53% were issued illegally, contrary to our rules. 0.79

00:39:09.000 And so usually we give states 30 days to come into compliance.

00:39:13.000 We gave New York four months to say, hey, what we want you to do is just go back and audit all of these licenses that you've given.

00:39:20.000 And if you've given them contrary to the rules, we'll revoke that license.

00:39:25.000 And in essence, New York said, go pound sand, DOT.

00:39:28.000 And so this is the first step.

00:39:30.000 We said, okay, we're going to pull the $73 million.

00:39:33.000 There's more money that we can pull as we get to the out months.

00:39:37.000 But in the very end, if New York doesn't comply, we can pull their ability to issue commercial driver's licenses.

00:39:44.000 And it's not a New York issue.

00:39:45.000 As you know, commercial drivers don't stay in New York, they drive across the country.

00:39:49.000 And so you have a state with really good rules, say Oklahoma, these drivers from New York drive trucks through Oklahoma and every other state.

00:39:56.000 And so they endanger the families.

00:39:58.000 That are going to church like on a Sunday morning like today, or they're going to Walmart to shop.

00:40:03.000 We've seen way too many videos of commercial drivers who can't read road signs like you mentioned.

00:40:09.000 But also, we found a whole slew of fake schools.

00:40:12.000 It's kind of like the Learning Center in Minnesota where you pay them $1,000 to the school.

00:40:20.000 There's no curriculum, there's no driver.

00:40:23.000 They get a certificate that they pass the school when they don't know anything about commercial driving.

00:40:27.000 By the way, these are 80,000 pound big rigs.

00:40:30.000 And then they get on American roads.

00:40:33.000 And they hurt the American people.

00:40:34.000 There are countless Americans that want to drive trucks.

00:40:39.000 These are great jobs.

00:40:40.000 They support families. 1.00

00:40:42.000 And instead, we have illegals or foreigners getting these jobs, and they're hurting the American people. 1.00

00:40:48.000 We are not going to tolerate it at DOT. 0.51

00:40:50.000 President Trump said no more.

00:40:52.000 And so we are following his lead to do all we can to get states to comply.

00:40:57.000 One other point, Peter.

00:40:58.000 I wish I had the power and control to take those licenses away in the federal government.

00:41:03.000 I don't.

00:41:03.000 We give this right to the states.

00:41:05.000 So I have to work with the states as a head of DOT federally to get them to comply with us.

00:41:12.000 But I don't have that control.

00:41:13.000 We've given it to governors and state DOTs, and these are the bad decisions that some of them are making.

00:41:20.000 You know, guys, because for all the garbage we put up with in politics, we're now seeing example after example of how government can do something very simple and very decent and very direct on issue after issue.

00:41:33.000 For example, for years, veterans dealing with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injuries have been told to wait.

00:41:42.000 You know, wait for the system, wait for another commission.

00:41:46.000 And that is exactly how Washington usually handles hard problems.

00:41:50.000 Just wait.

00:41:51.000 You know, kick the can down the road.

00:41:53.000 Maybe after I retire, someone else can deal with the problem.

00:41:55.000 But now we're actually seeing some real progress.

00:41:58.000 Here's Joe Rogan in the White House over the weekend breaking some really big news.

00:42:04.000 I want to say that I'm here because of the man to my left.

00:42:07.000 Brian Hubbard and former Texas Governor Rick Perry came on my podcast.

00:42:11.000 They told me how impactful this medicine is.

00:42:16.000 And having that conversation with them, millions of people got a chance to hear their story, hear the stories of all the different people that have had.

00:42:25.000 Life changing experiences from it.

00:42:27.000 And I want Brian to be able to speak about this.

00:42:31.000 Brian, please.

00:42:33.000 Thank you, sir.

00:42:34.000 I heard that show.

00:42:36.000 You have no trouble speaking.

00:42:39.000 Is that no trouble speaking?

00:42:41.000 I want to assure you that my presence here is the most concrete affirmation that God.

00:42:48.000 So just look at the contrast one more time strength abroad, pressure on corruption, enforcement at home, slashing red tape, and putting Americans first.

00:42:57.000 And actual urgency for the people who served this great nation.

00:43:02.000 That's leadership.

00:43:04.000 That's what competence looks like.

00:43:06.000 And trust me, Americans notice the difference.

00:43:09.000 Trust is earned.

00:43:11.000 Competence earns trust.

00:43:14.000 Urgency earns trust.

00:43:16.000 Results earn trust.

00:43:19.000 Now, for all of you watching, let's tie this all together.

00:43:22.000 Whether we're talking about Iran, whether we're talking about Act Blue or Sanctuary Sitteries, you know, whatever the topic is, the underlying issue is the same.

00:43:31.000 We need leaders willing to protect American citizens first.

00:43:35.000 We need a government that believes strength deters evil.

00:43:40.000 We must have the courage to enforce our laws, to expose corruption, and to stop pretending that chaos is compassion.

00:43:49.000 Because the left's model is clear now protect the machine, protect the bureaucracy, protect the loopholes, and protect the narrative ultimately.

00:43:59.000 But what Team Trump is showing right now is something very different.

00:44:03.000 Strength versus weakness, citizens versus criminals, truth versus propaganda, and results versus excuses.

00:44:13.000 That is the contrast.

00:44:15.000 That is the choice.

00:44:17.000 And once you see that clearly, it becomes pretty obvious why the regime media is in absolute full panic mode.

00:44:25.000 Because, you know, when leadership actually works, their entire worldview falls apart.

00:44:31.000 And it's why we have to keep getting this message out.

00:44:34.000 Keep staying on the offense and keep being unafraid.

00:44:39.000 Okay, so with that, guys, I think, you know, let's take some questions from the live chat.

00:44:43.000 Okay, I apologize.

00:44:44.000 It's hard to do the monologue with the questions going.

00:44:47.000 So if you have some stuff, I'll give you guys all a second.

00:44:51.000 Get involved, get in there.

00:44:53.000 I may scroll on my phone and try to find some other good ones in here.

00:44:57.000 Let's see.

00:44:59.000 Comfort and joy.

00:44:59.000 Keep being triggered.

00:45:00.000 Don't worry, I'm always triggered. 0.99

00:45:02.000 After 10 years of this crap, I don't even have a choice. 0.99

00:45:07.000 We got to get after it. 0.99

00:45:08.000 Drew, I'm going to have you guys look at it.

00:45:10.000 If you see any good questions as well, let me know because sometimes the chat goes a little fast.

00:45:21.000 Lion King, I live in upstate New York where people are normal.

00:45:24.000 New York City and other cities are effed.

00:45:26.000 I agree.

00:45:27.000 And it's a shame because, like, listen, I'm from New York my whole life.

00:45:30.000 I lived there until like six years ago, whatever it was.

00:45:33.000 You know, I came down to Florida as a political refugee from the People's Republic of New York.

00:45:37.000 But, like, it's funny when I go upstate, when I go to these places that I live my whole life, I mean, people there are normal, but they're just outvoted by all of the insanity in the cities.

00:45:54.000 So, you have plenty of conservative people upstate New York that would love to have some common sense in place, but it doesn't seem to work that way because they're dominated by the big cities where, again, the handouts go a long way.

00:46:08.000 Couple questions about hunting.

00:46:09.000 What's the latest?

00:46:12.000 Let's see.

00:46:13.000 Still doing a lot with Field Ethos.

00:46:15.000 That's sort of my outdoor brand.

00:46:16.000 So, you know, check that out at fieldethos.com.

00:46:19.000 Sort of high end print publication.

00:46:21.000 I've not been doing a lot, just, you know, some local quail hunting and a little bit of shooting.

00:46:25.000 But I've been on the road a lot for work.

00:46:27.000 I've been, you know, in the process, you know, getting ready to get married.

00:46:32.000 So, dealing with all of that kind of stuff.

00:46:34.000 So, we'll talk to you guys about that soon, although we're not really talking about it.

00:46:37.000 Just kind of keep it small.

00:46:39.000 And, Private, but you know, that's been taking some time, just kind of enjoying ourselves before all of that insanity.

00:46:51.000 So, I have not gotten out that much.

00:46:53.000 Let's see, I haven't really done a big one really since I guess since like the fall.

00:46:59.000 So, you know, I think I talked about the archery moose hunt I did earlier this year, the archery, you know, brown bear hunt I did.

00:47:07.000 I went to Africa bow hunting as well, and then, you know, some local stuff, but but.

00:47:13.000 Not much since the new year.

00:47:16.000 It's just been a little bit too crazy.

00:47:17.000 Normally, I get a little bit in, you know, still January and even early February.

00:47:24.000 You know, did some turkey hunting.

00:47:25.000 Shot a great turkey with a bow last week and a couple weeks ago.

00:47:31.000 I shot an osceola down in Florida, so that was cool.

00:47:34.000 But, you know, just a little bit of the local stuff.

00:47:36.000 Took the kids fishing yesterday on Sunday.

00:47:40.000 We went out, just, you know, caught some bonita and stuff like that.

00:47:42.000 So that was cool.

00:47:44.000 But no big trips.

00:47:45.000 But if I get a big trip planned, I'll let you know.

00:47:48.000 If you want, would you ever want me to do an entire show like there, videoing it from there?

00:47:52.000 I think I got a couple this summer later on that I'm going to go to.

00:47:55.000 Won't talk about details or words yet because it's just, you know, these days, probably don't want to give too many people information about where I'm going to be.

00:48:03.000 It's kind of a crazy world if you haven't noticed.

00:48:06.000 But we'll have some good ones.

00:48:07.000 So maybe I'll do it and maybe I'll film when I'm there and then we'll do a show about it on the way back.

00:48:11.000 Maybe we'll do a dedicated show about that.

00:48:16.000 You're Trump, you do nothing small.

00:48:17.000 No, we do plenty of things that are small too.

00:48:20.000 You can't just focus on the big stuff.

00:48:21.000 You got to get into the details.

00:48:22.000 I want to see more cannon shooting.

00:48:25.000 Yeah, we, okay, up at my farm in Pennsylvania, we have like a bowling ball mortar.

00:48:30.000 It's basically an oxyacetylene tank that we sawed off the end and drilled a hole in the bottom.

00:48:35.000 And, you know, if you angle that right and fill it with, you know, like a, it's called like a spray paint can, like a capful from a spray paint cap of black powder, you could shoot a bowling ball really, really, really far.

00:48:47.000 Just hope it doesn't blow up in your face.

00:48:49.000 But, When you shoot a heavy bowling ball, man, 2,000 yards, it's pretty amazing and pretty fun.

00:48:58.000 So, may have to get that going.

00:48:59.000 That's usually a good 4th of July celebration.

00:49:02.000 So, maybe I'll do some of that.

00:49:07.000 Let's see. 1.00

00:49:10.000 Do you practice shooting, Yiholo? 0.93

00:49:13.000 I practice shooting a lot.

00:49:14.000 I shoot all the time.

00:49:15.000 I mean, pretty much any weekend, if I'm going up to my farm or anything like that, I'm always shooting.

00:49:20.000 You know, practicing whether it's handguns or long guns or, you know, sporting clothes with a shotgun.

00:49:25.000 So I like all the disciplines.

00:49:26.000 So yeah, I do quite a bit of that.

00:49:29.000 And, you know, that's always a lot of fun.

00:49:32.000 So yeah, I haven't done as many big hunting trips just because it's been too hectic, but I can get up to my farm relatively quickly from here.

00:49:38.000 So we've spent a lot of weekends out there.

00:49:40.000 And so if I'm up there, I'm definitely always shooting.

00:49:45.000 Let's see.

00:49:48.000 I mean, these comments, like, will you stand against anti-whitism?

00:49:51.000 I'm like every other comment.

00:49:53.000 I mean, guys, like, I mean, I'm anti any kind of hate of all of these things.

00:49:58.000 And yeah, definitely, you know, if you're a white man these days, it's, you know, it's been brutal. 0.97

00:50:02.000 We're trying to erase all of that bullshit that's been going on for too long. 0.99

00:50:06.000 But like, I get it. 0.98

00:50:07.000 Like, you can sort of hear when I talk about these things.

00:50:10.000 We just want fairness across the board for everyone.

00:50:12.000 We don't want anyone to be segregated against. 0.97

00:50:14.000 And we certainly don't want people promoted because they check a couple bullshit, you know, checkboxes. 0.97

00:50:18.000 You know, you get to be an admiral in the Navy. 1.00

00:50:20.000 As long as you're trans, you don't have to be qualified or know how to drive a ship or anything like that.

00:50:24.000 But, you know, if you check a couple boxes, you're good.

00:50:25.000 Like, I mean, I feel like I talk about this all the time, but it doesn't have to be every other question in the chat.

00:50:31.000 Okay, so we covered that.

00:50:32.000 So I'm not going to cover it in this one anymore.

00:50:35.000 So you guys can hopefully, you know, let that go.

00:50:41.000 A cannon that shoots bowling balls.

00:50:47.000 A trigger tour for midterms.

00:50:49.000 You could do something like that.

00:50:51.000 You know, we could definitely do something like that.

00:50:54.000 It's a lot to put together, but you know, I've thought about doing it with a couple of those groups.

00:50:59.000 You know, I've spoken for other people who've done similar tours and I've gone on stage and done that.

00:51:02.000 So, you know, is that something you guys would want if we came to a bunch of cities around the country?

00:51:07.000 Because that has been on the table.

00:51:08.000 People have offered it to me.

00:51:09.000 I mean, if you know, if it makes sense and we can cover kind of the right areas and get all these things in there, could be good.

00:51:18.000 So, yeah, I've definitely been looking at it.

00:51:20.000 Just you know, trying to commit the time to it is also.

00:51:23.000 Um, you know, a little bit different.

00:51:27.000 Thank you, Don.

00:51:28.000 I get tired of seeing it all the time.

00:51:29.000 I got it, guys.

00:51:30.000 You know, I assume that's about the last comments I made.

00:51:32.000 So, you know, I get that, and it's definitely been brutal.

00:51:35.000 Trust me. 0.53

00:51:36.000 Uh, you know, I think about it with my sons with my last name and you know, being you know, white guys of you know, it's that I get it.

00:51:43.000 That's not easy.

00:51:44.000 Uh, certainly not anymore, uh, or as of late, but I think we're trying to bring that around and try to create fairness.

00:51:49.000 Certainly, you saw a lot of that in the military, and I think Pete Hegseth and others there, you know, are getting.

00:51:54.000 Rid of all of that and just trying to have a meritocracy where people get promoted because they actually deserve to get promoted because they're better at something than someone else, not because they're also gay or also queer or whatever the hell else, whatever the things that made you above the law that made you just free from any kind of reproach.

00:52:20.000 You could just do whatever you wanted.

00:52:21.000 So we get that.

00:52:23.000 And obviously trying to do something about it.

00:52:25.000 It just can't be like.

00:52:26.000 Every question and every topic of all day.

00:52:28.000 We got to just restore some common sense and just create a meritocracy.

00:52:31.000 That's what we're trying to do each and every day.

00:52:33.000 Let's see.

00:52:38.000 Let's see.

00:52:42.000 What will you do for the World Cup in 2026?

00:52:45.000 That's a good question.

00:52:47.000 I don't really know yet.

00:52:48.000 Gianni, who heads FIFA, has become a good friend of mine.

00:52:51.000 He seems to always be at all the right conferences all over the world that I speak at from a business standpoint.

00:52:57.000 He does a great job running that.

00:52:58.000 So I know there's been a couple things that I've been invited to.

00:53:05.000 So I'll definitely, I'm sure I'll definitely end up at some of the games.

00:53:10.000 My kids, frankly, are much bigger sports fans than me.

00:53:15.000 I'm always like, I think sports are great.

00:53:17.000 I love playing them.

00:53:18.000 I don't necessarily always watch too much of it.

00:53:20.000 I rather sort of in whatever free time I have, which is not often that much these days, you know, I rather be out hunting, fishing, shooting, whatever it may be.

00:53:29.000 But my kids love sports.

00:53:30.000 Like a couple of my kids are just like, I mean, like savants when it comes to stats and all these things.

00:53:35.000 I don't even know where they get it.

00:53:35.000 It's crazy.

00:53:36.000 They just, they love that stuff.

00:53:38.000 So I'm sure they'll be really into it.

00:53:40.000 So that could be a kind of a fun one for them.

00:53:42.000 So I'll definitely try to get to some of the stuff, maybe the local games here or, you know, maybe New York, go back up there.

00:53:51.000 So that'll be fun.

00:53:53.000 Sewing Patriot 98, thank you for the entire Trump family for never giving up on America, despite all you've been through.

00:53:59.000 Thank you and good night.

00:54:00.000 I appreciate that, Sewing Patriot 98.

00:54:02.000 Really appreciate it.

00:54:05.000 That means a lot. 0.98

00:54:06.000 Yeah, listen, we've been very blessed, but we also have dealt with an undue amount of crap. 0.68

00:54:10.000 So I think it was Comfort and Joy asked about 4th of July. 0.60

00:54:15.000 Will I be attending this stuff at the White House or in D.C.?

00:54:18.000 I would not miss that for my life.

00:54:22.000 That's going to be a big one.

00:54:23.000 That's going to be awesome.

00:54:25.000 Obviously, also, you know, going to the UFC on, I guess that's the 14th of June.

00:54:30.000 Definitely try to go to DC for that because I think that'll be really cool.

00:54:32.000 We were at UFC Miami last weekend.

00:54:37.000 That was a lot of fun.

00:54:38.000 So, you know, whenever I get a chance to go to the UFC fights, I always go.

00:54:41.000 I think on the White House lawn, that'll be even cooler.

00:54:46.000 So, appreciate it.

00:54:47.000 Ava Poppy 2021.

00:54:49.000 I want to sleep with you.

00:54:49.000 Thank you, Ava.

00:54:50.000 I appreciate that.

00:54:53.000 I'm spoken for.

00:54:55.000 But, you know, it's always nice to be loved, I guess.

00:55:00.000 I love the UFC, but the tickets are overpriced.

00:55:03.000 Spartan Syndicate.

00:55:04.000 I don't even, yeah, listen, I'm sure they're not cheap, you know, but I think there's also a component of it, you know, being on the White House lawn.

00:55:14.000 I mean, it's, you know, it's a different kind of show.

00:55:16.000 It's not something you can do every day.

00:55:19.000 And it's not, honestly, it's probably something that may never happen again.

00:55:21.000 So I get that.

00:55:23.000 Obviously, UFC is handling all of that.

00:55:26.000 They're taking care of all of the expense and whatever it may be.

00:55:28.000 So that's theirs to do.

00:55:30.000 It's unlike the narrative that's out there oh, the American taxpayer is paying for it.

00:55:34.000 No, they're not.

00:55:36.000 Dana's doing all of that.

00:55:37.000 So I'll leave that up to them.

00:55:40.000 Yeah, anything at the White House is fabulous.

00:55:42.000 Yeah, I think that's pretty fair.

00:55:49.000 Let's see.

00:55:52.000 Let's see.

00:55:57.000 Anything else good?

00:55:59.000 We're just at the White House on April 1st.

00:56:01.000 It was great.

00:56:04.000 Love the fight photo.

00:56:05.000 Yeah, when they put up the new pictures, it's pretty cool.

00:56:07.000 You know, the sort of real time stuff of, you know, the day in the life all over the White House.

00:56:11.000 They have these big pictures like that of whatever my dad did that week, and they just change about every week.

00:56:15.000 It's pretty good.

00:56:16.000 Your son's dying to go.

00:56:17.000 Sounds great.

00:56:17.000 I hope he can get in there.

00:56:19.000 That'd be cool.

00:56:25.000 Ava didn't mean to say that.

00:56:27.000 To you, I don't know.

00:56:29.000 She typed it out.

00:56:31.000 It's not like it was a Freudian slip.

00:56:33.000 You say like the wrong word.

00:56:34.000 I mean, she typed it out and hit send.

00:56:36.000 You know, she probably meant it, but like I said, I appreciate it.

00:56:41.000 You know, may have to put you and Bettina on the fight card for a UFC.

00:56:46.000 Could be kind of funny.

00:56:47.000 I'll get in a lot of trouble for having even said that.

00:56:49.000 I get to sleep on the couch tonight, but you know, we'll see.

00:56:59.000 Have you ever considered inviting Jason Cohn on as a guest?

00:57:03.000 I don't know who that is, so I guess not, because I don't know who it is.

00:57:10.000 Who is that?

00:57:13.000 Okay, because now everyone's asking that same question, so I don't know if it's trolls or whatever, but yeah, I don't know who it is, so probably not, but you know.

00:57:21.000 Let's see.

00:57:25.000 We'll see aliens before we see any DCRS.

00:57:28.000 You know, I'm hoping, you know, I'm hoping we'll get some of those.

00:57:34.000 You know, I again, I don't know enough about it.

00:57:36.000 We gotta maybe we gotta have cash on and ask about that or whatever it may be.

00:57:40.000 Drew, why don't we try to set that up again?

00:57:41.000 It's been a little while.

00:57:44.000 You know, again, you know, unfortunately, unlike the Democrats, we actually have to follow a process and play by the rules.

00:57:51.000 They don't do that, they get pushed, everything gets pushed through, and everything like that.

00:57:57.000 So, um, It's a little different, and so we got to do it right.

00:58:02.000 If otherwise, it'll just it won't stick.

00:58:04.000 So hopefully, they get it done.

00:58:08.000 Bring on Roger Stone.

00:58:09.000 We could do that.

00:58:10.000 Known Roger for a long time.

00:58:11.000 I mean, it's a wild band, but that could actually be fun.

00:58:20.000 Let's see.

00:58:25.000 When can we hear more about the Save America Act? 0.92

00:58:29.000 Ten Ten Lihu.

00:58:31.000 We did, guys, I've done entire shows on the Save America Act.

00:58:34.000 We had Mike Lee on, Senator Mike Lee from Utah.

00:58:36.000 He's been one of the pioneers in the US Senate, championing the Save America Act.

00:58:42.000 If you go back, what is it, like two, three weeks ago?

00:58:44.000 I mean, he was literally on the show.

00:58:46.000 We did an entire show on it.

00:58:47.000 I interviewed him about it, all of the details, all of the things that make so much sense.

00:58:51.000 So just go into the Rumble Scroll.

00:58:53.000 If you want to learn about the Save America Act, he's the guy leading the charge in the United States Senate for that.

00:59:00.000 Oh, yeah, we had Rick Scott also talking about that, senator from Florida, former governor of Florida, talking about that one as well.

00:59:06.000 So there's literally two entire shows dedicated to the Save America Act.

00:59:11.000 Obviously, guys, that's for those of you who don't know, that's the thing that would require you to be an American citizen to vote, that you have to prove that you're an American citizen to register to vote and then have like legitimate ID to be able to vote. 0.69

00:59:22.000 Nothing radical, not Jim Crow 2.0. 0.80

00:59:27.000 You know, that's easy stuff. 0.85

00:59:31.000 But, you know, that's.

00:59:35.000 Go back and check it out.

00:59:36.000 There's literally two entire shows on just that, all within probably the last month or so.

00:59:40.000 So go scroll and rumble and you can see it all, learn more.

00:59:43.000 And if there's other questions you have, you know, hit me up next time we do one of these and, you know, perhaps we can address it.

00:59:49.000 Have you ever tried mushrooms or psychedelics?

00:59:51.000 You know, I actually have had a lot of people, you know, tell me that I should be trying some of these things.

00:59:57.000 You know, it's not really my thing.

01:00:00.000 You know, contrary to internet lore, drugs isn't really my thing.

01:00:05.000 I've heard great things from like a lot of my veteran friends and, you know, people with, you know, PTSD and all these things.

01:00:11.000 Like they swear by it.

01:00:12.000 So, you know, I'm definitely not against it.

01:00:13.000 It hasn't necessarily been for me.

01:00:16.000 You know, again, contrary to internet lore, I'm not a big drug guy.

01:00:19.000 I think.

01:00:20.000 You know, if I was, they try to make me, you know, he's like Hunter, he's always high on cocaine.

01:00:24.000 I was like, no, I'm just, I'm pretty energetic.

01:00:26.000 I guess no one's ever accused me of being low energy.

01:00:29.000 But yeah, no, that's never been my thing.

01:00:30.000 Cause I promise you, if it was my thing, I don't do anything half-assed.

01:00:36.000 And if it was my thing, I can assure you, you'd probably, I don't know, see pictures or video or something.

01:00:41.000 Cause, you know, when you're doing those things, you don't usually make great decisions, I imagine.

01:00:45.000 And I imagine if all the people who probably hate my guts in this world, you know, someone would have probably got that picture by now.

01:00:51.000 Strangely enough, you don't ever see that.

01:00:53.000 They saw me putting a Zin once or adjusting one that slipped out of my mouth when I was on TV once.

01:00:58.000 They're like, he's putting coke on his gums.

01:01:00.000 I'm literally adjusting a Zin or an out pouch or whatever the hell I had in my mouth at the time.

01:01:05.000 I do that.

01:01:10.000 I think people would probably now.

01:01:13.000 It's not going to stop them.

01:01:16.000 Never go full hunter or half hunter for that matter.

01:01:18.000 That's fair.

01:01:20.000 But yeah, like I said, the internet's going to do those things.

01:01:25.000 Honestly, it's not even really worth addressing.

01:01:29.000 But yeah, just it's never really been my thing.

01:01:32.000 But I have nothing against it, man.

01:01:33.000 If it works for those people, if people want to try it, I'm, you know, sort of libertarian on a lot of those things.

01:01:38.000 Like, you know, try it.

01:01:40.000 And, you know, if it works for you, especially if you have like cause, you have some sort of trauma that you got to deal with, I've heard incredible things from a lot of people.

01:01:49.000 So that doesn't mean it's perfect.

01:01:50.000 I've also seen people like, you know, when the big ayahuasca trend was heading on, I was speaking to a friend of mine who's like a big corporate recruiter for like, You know, Fortune 500 companies.

01:02:01.000 And he was telling me, he was like, they've lost like 12, like high functioning, high performing, like CEOs who went on like the ayahuasca, like trend.

01:02:11.000 And they went on a, you know, ayahuasca thing for two weeks and they came back and literally were just like, yeah, I'm just not interested in work anymore.

01:02:17.000 I mean, these are like super high functioning people, just driven, motivated, like go to people who just lost all interest whatsoever.

01:02:25.000 So I'm not saying that's bad.

01:02:27.000 Maybe, maybe they weren't loving their jobs or whatever it was, but, you know, they were people who were getting things done and they just came back and they're like, Yeah, just gonna go live in a tent for a couple of years and see what happens.

01:02:35.000 And frankly, that's something I may do on my own.

01:02:37.000 I don't think I need ayahuasca to do that.

01:02:39.000 That's sort of what I love to do anyway.

01:02:42.000 I'm Eric Dutch.

01:02:43.000 I love Field Ethos magazine.

01:02:45.000 Thank you.

01:02:46.000 That's the outdoor, you know, it's my little, you know, passion project.

01:02:50.000 One of the sort of many businesses I sort of do, and it's fun and takes up a lot of time for what I get out of it, but it's sort of cool to be able to pass on sort of that adventure lifestyle.

01:03:01.000 It's sort of an unapologetic adventure lifestyle.

01:03:04.000 It's, you know, hunting, fishing, off-roading, all this kind of stuff, shooting magazine.

01:03:08.000 So if you haven't checked it out, go check out fieldethos.com.

01:03:11.000 You know, just, if you want, just download the email newsletter.

01:03:14.000 I think you'll appreciate the writing.

01:03:16.000 It's just a quality thing.

01:03:17.000 And if you want, order the magazine.

01:03:18.000 It's a quarterly print journal, really high end.

01:03:20.000 Cool gift for anyone you know that's in the outdoors.

01:03:23.000 Again, you can check that at fieldethos.com.

01:03:28.000 What does President Trump plan to do to preserve our right of self defense they're taking away in Virginia, for example?

01:03:33.000 Yeah, I keep seeing this stuff in Virginia.

01:03:35.000 I don't know exactly what's going on there, but the Second Amendment's the Second Amendment.

01:03:40.000 That's federal.

01:03:41.000 Some of these states have tried doing these things.

01:03:42.000 Like I know New York did some of the most aggressive stuff, and some of those things are getting overturned.

01:03:47.000 You know, but it's why you have to stay involved in elections.

01:03:50.000 That's why you have to do it because, you know, I don't want to get involved.

01:03:53.000 I don't, you know, everyone.

01:03:54.000 Yeah, get a bunch of activist liberal judges on the Supreme Court and there will be no Second Amendment, I can assure you.

01:04:00.000 So, you know, we have to stay involved in all of that.

01:04:05.000 Maybe you guys set up at Hunt Expo in Salt Lake next year.

01:04:08.000 I've been to the Hunt Expo in Salt Lake a bunch of times.

01:04:11.000 We haven't gone in a little while because we end up doing, you know, shot show for the shooting side of things.

01:04:17.000 We've done, Dallas Safari Club and Safari Club International, you know, on the hunting side, starting to get more in the fishing stuff.

01:04:26.000 And then we got it, we do a lot on the other, you know, whether it's spearfishing or overlanding or off roading and dirt biking and all these kinds of things.

01:04:32.000 So we got to start doing some of these things.

01:04:34.000 The problem is, like, I can't go to every one of the trade shows because it feels like there's one every weekend all spring.

01:04:39.000 And, you know, that, you know, it doesn't work.

01:04:43.000 So we just got to sort of pick and choose.

01:04:45.000 But yeah, maybe that, you know, that's a great show, actually.

01:04:46.000 I've had a lot of fun there.

01:04:49.000 And that's a big one.

01:04:51.000 I'm so glad fentanyl deaths in the USA went down.

01:04:51.000 Sharp 8.

01:04:54.000 Yeah, it's shocking what happens when you shut the border to people who are smuggling fentanyl.

01:05:00.000 It's amazing what happens.

01:05:04.000 Let's see.

01:05:07.000 Have you read any of the Frank Herbert Dune books?

01:05:11.000 I have not, actually, no.

01:05:14.000 I haven't even seen the movie, actually.

01:05:16.000 So are they good?

01:05:19.000 If they're good, I'll have to check them out.

01:05:21.000 They're good?

01:05:23.000 One of the guys on the team here says they're good, so I may have to check them out.

01:05:28.000 Let's see.

01:05:36.000 Okay, now we're getting a little dirty in the chat.

01:05:40.000 I mean, you guys are out of control.

01:05:50.000 Yeah, I mean, is that wrong? 1.00

01:05:51.000 I mean, you know, Chad McDonald, fucking Canada. 0.99

01:05:54.000 Canada's an interesting place these days. 1.00

01:05:58.000 It's pretty insane.

01:06:03.000 Yeah, it's a good time for shoe.

01:06:05.000 Love the Mount Owls crew and everyone else down there.

01:06:07.000 Yeah, I guess that's about the Utah Hound Expo.

01:06:08.000 Yeah, I know some of those guys.

01:06:10.000 Good people.

01:06:11.000 Good excuse to go see Evan Hafer from Black Rival Coffee.

01:06:13.000 He's a good buddy and a great dude.

01:06:17.000 It's just 195 Down Jr.

01:06:19.000 So cute.

01:06:20.000 Thank you.

01:06:20.000 I appreciate that.

01:06:24.000 2A isn't for self defense, it's for community defense.

01:06:26.000 I think it's for all defense.

01:06:29.000 But yes, it's not limited to self defense.

01:06:32.000 I agree with that.

01:06:32.000 I mean, if you look at the genesis of it, obviously it was designed to protect the Republic and from tyrannical governments that you see in places like, I don't know, California.

01:06:48.000 You know the guy that consulted on the Dune movies, Dunn?

01:06:51.000 A friend of yours and Charlie's?

01:06:54.000 Who's that?

01:06:55.000 Fairway King.

01:06:57.000 I don't know.

01:06:58.000 I may know one, but I probably may just not have put two and two together.

01:07:03.000 I'll have to check that out.

01:07:06.000 You're so handsome.

01:07:07.000 Thank you, Ari Afari.

01:07:09.000 I appreciate that.

01:07:11.000 I would say the Dune books are great.

01:07:13.000 First version of the movie was great.

01:07:14.000 The recent ones are not great, but certainly agree with Warning About the Dangers of Thinking Machines.

01:07:20.000 All right, that's fair.

01:07:21.000 Okay, so it's sort of a.

01:07:22.000 Orwellian type of theme.

01:07:25.000 I may have to check them out.

01:07:26.000 Yes, the new movies usually get woken out, and once that's in there, it sort of ends up being total BS.

01:07:37.000 Canada voted themselves into a living hell.

01:07:39.000 That is true.

01:07:42.000 Let's see.

01:07:44.000 All right, well, guys, it's a little past six, so we've been going for a little over an hour.

01:07:48.000 I think I'm going to go get dinner, and I look forward to seeing you all on Thursday.

01:07:54.000 Maybe we'll have some, do a little bit more QA.

01:07:59.000 I will try to check out the Dune books.

01:08:00.000 I probably won't be able to read it by Thursday, but I'll definitely think about getting there or at least watch the original movie and kind of get caught up with what's going on.

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