On this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and long-time friend, Andrew Yang, to talk about his experience in the FBI and how it's affected his life. We talk about how the system is broken and how we need to fix it. We also talk about why we should all be worried about the future of our democracy and why we have to stop buying into the lies that the government is selling us out for political gain. I hope you enjoy this episode, and if you do, please share it with a friend who needs to know that they are not alone in this fight. If you like the show and want to support it, please consider becoming a patron patron and/or become a patron supporter. Don't forget to leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Thanks for listening and Good Luck Out There! Timestamps: 1:00 - Andrew Yang 4:30 - The FBI s role in the Trump administration 7:00 8:15 - What's next for us? 9:20 - How we can fix the system 11:30 12:15 What do you think of the system? 13:40 - How should we fix it? 15:00 | What do we do to fix our democracy? 16:20 17:15 | How do we fix our democratic institutions? 18:50 - How can we fix this? 19:10: What are we better than the system we have now? 21:30 | What would you like to see? 22:00 Do you believe in the system that we have a free government? 26: What is the best thing we can do? 27:40 | What are you want to see in a free society? 29: What can we believe in? 30:40 32:10 | What is our responsibility? 35:00 // Is there a free country? 31:00 Is it possible to be free? 36:00 Can we trust the system better? 33:00 What s the next level? 37:00 Should we be free from the system ? 34:00 Are we all a victim of a broken system? 35:30 Do we know what we can change? 39:00 Does the system really have a chance to be a victim? 45:00 How do you know we can be a better country?
00:00:00.000I used to think, if you asked me, like, even a year ago, I'd be like, well, come on, they're gonna roll this guy over in a, you know, in a gurney, get him over the finish line.
00:00:08.000And I was like, that's, no one would believe that.
00:00:10.000The whole premise of, you know, their democracy, you know, yeah, really relies on people actually still buying it.
00:00:16.000And I don't know that, I don't know that they care anymore.
00:00:19.000Because, like, when they talk about democracy, it's a soundbite, right?
00:00:21.000It's not democracy the way, it's not the republic they're preserving.
00:00:24.000It's the opposite of what's happening.
00:00:28.000Once they, it's almost like you get kidnapped and the kidnapper has a mask on, but once he shows you his face, he's got to kill you.
00:00:37.000You know, again, I don't think there's anything they wouldn't do.
00:00:41.000I mean, you put out something, I think it was on Twitter yesterday, which was, you know, sort of that extreme, like, well, if they can't get Trump this way, what's the next level?
00:00:47.000And I think they've proven that they'll do that in the past.
00:01:06.000And, you know, for me, I still, even when we started this process, even I'd say it's safe to say I was probably the number two target of, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:01:14.000And I was like, well, there must be something to it.
00:01:17.000I know I didn't obviously collude with Russia, but maybe, you know, maybe I took a selfie with an agent once because I took 10,000 selfies a day.
00:01:44.000I gave the door kickers a pass for far too long, which is like, hey, you know, they can't go against the leadership, but like,
00:01:50.000When you're watching this kind of bastardization of justice, when you're watching this sort of lopsided level, when they spend more time kicking down the doors of an Amish farmer selling unpasteurized milk than actually going after people committing terror because they're trans or whatever it is that they are.
00:02:10.000You really lose that ability to get that pass that I really wanted him to give but I you know I wanted to believe that everything I grew up believing was accurate and it's all Bullshit, it's it's just all bullshit.
00:02:21.000So we have to fix that That's that's why we fight now to actually make it so but you saw this on January 6th, too I mean, I know that Joe Scarborough and the rest of the liars presented those people is like insurrectionists and dangerous it they were actually the most
00:02:36.000Pure-hearted and the most naive about their... I mean, they were literally walking with pocket constitutions saying, no, you can't do this.
00:02:43.000They believed in the system much more than the people who put them in prison who don't believe in it at all.
00:03:14.000Like, they could hardly believe this was happening.
00:03:17.000And I think you're describing the same thing.
00:03:19.000Like, you really believed it in our institutions and our norms and democracy.
00:03:25.000I did, and it took, again, I mean, literally threats of, you know, you're going to jail for treason, a crime punishable by death.
00:03:32.000That's like not a great swing thought when you're going through it, you know what I mean?
00:03:35.000I'm like, wait a minute, like... If you're the father of five kids, that's not... Yeah, I'm like, and yet I still, at the beginning of it, I was like, and then it just...
00:03:43.000Your eyes start to open and you see the games and you see the people that are on your side and you see the, you know, the Lindsey Grahams of the world, right?
00:03:49.000They get on TV and they're on, you know, Fox or something like that and they're like, well, we must subpoena these people and we must get to the bottom of this.
00:03:56.000I'm like, well, you're like the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
00:03:59.000Like, you have the authority to do that.
00:04:02.000But you're talking about doing the thing that you have the authority to do, but you're unwilling to actually exercise that power.
00:04:09.000So that was what disgusted me most about the Republicans.
00:04:13.000You're telling your base, the people who are watching, you're fighting.
00:04:18.000But you know damn well that you're not actually fighting.
00:04:44.000Because, you know, the Democrats, they'll take their win, they'll run to the bank, they'll laugh their ass off along the way, and nothing changes until we actually start fighting back.
00:04:52.000I think a lot of people yesterday when that verdict came down, I'm among them,
00:04:56.000My first reaction was, wow, they'll actually hurt us.
00:05:00.000They would execute us, me, I'll just speak for myself, and there would be an MSNBC panel of former federal prosecutors telling their audience that I deserved it, and they'd be laughing.
00:05:10.000The Lincoln Project would send out a congratulatory tweet, and I was like, wow, there's sort of a lack of humanity, there's a coldness, there's an evil under all of this that I think I underestimate.
00:05:54.000If I'm pissed off at the grocery store, like, you know, I'm not like one of these woke guys on one of these channels where it's like, my three-month-old baby was talking about nuclear proliferation on the Carilion Peninsula, Tucker, and she was crying.
00:06:16.000You know, if I see what's going on in my interest rates and my mortgage, like, man, how much longer can we do this?
00:06:22.000Then you talk about wars and trillions of dollars of spending, and then the Republicans are telling us that, you know, the Ukraine is the number one most important issue for Republicans across our country.
00:06:30.000I've heard that from Mitch McConnell dozens of times.
00:06:59.000Probably he was profiteering off of it.
00:07:01.000One of them misunderstood the question, so he thought it was a double negative.
00:07:04.000So it was not, in fact, a top 10 issue for him.
00:07:07.000Because I do, is it top three or top ten?
00:07:09.000And one of them, it was top ten but not top three.
00:07:11.000And I said, sir, you know, and I'll ask him, I don't care, you know, I want to hear it out.
00:07:13.000Like, why is, well, I'm from Kiev, Ukraine.
00:07:15.000I was like, I'm going to give you a pass.
00:07:17.000So I'm going to effectively say out of about 65,000 people surveyed in the last, you know, let's call it two years, 18 months, whatever it is since the war started, a little more, I guess, exactly
00:07:27.000You know, basically zero people have been in favor of this, but the leader of the Senate will tell us it's the number one issue for Republicans across the country.
00:08:28.000But if they're telling you the war against Russia is the most important thing to Americans, they're lying.
00:08:34.000So both of us have sort of skipped ahead past an analysis of the case and sort of taking it as a given that what we saw yesterday was grotesque and really sort of the end of a fair justice system.
00:08:46.000But for people who've just heard that and not...
00:08:49.000Gotten some of the details that prove it to be true.
00:08:52.000Can you just run through what the case was?
00:08:55.000I mean, it's literally... You know too much, I know, but to the extent you can... How much time we got?
00:09:00.000But, Luria, it's a books and records thing, right?
00:09:33.000This was a case that was, you know, at best, misdemeanor type stuff.
00:09:37.000Remember, Hillary Clinton started with a similar thing.
00:09:41.000She got fined $8,000, I believe it was, for starting what was the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax with the Steele dossier leaks and all of this, right?
00:09:50.000They want to put my father in jail for, you know,
00:09:53.000Upwards of a hundred years, depending on how you look at it, and that's never been done before in these things, because basically someone in an accounting department put legal expenses for, you know, paying a lawyer.
00:10:06.000It's unheard of, but you have experts when they say, well, it's a federal election crime.
00:10:11.000They wouldn't let the person who wrote the rules
00:10:38.000They let them, you know, just, we couldn't ask anything.
00:10:41.000When it was us asking the questions, the uncomfortable questions of their witnesses, all of a sudden, you know, we were overruled every time.
00:10:50.000So you've made the case, and others who followed it carefully have made the case, that this was a direct hit from the Biden administration.
00:11:36.000The IRS could have done these things because it was a tax thing.
00:11:40.000All of them chose to pass, including, again, Alvin Bragg, the guy who's trying it and just tried it right now, passed on this a couple years ago.
00:11:46.000Biden's number three at his DOJ comes up, and all of a sudden, now,
00:12:41.000First of all, why would the number three guy at DOJ wind up in a case, in a state case?
00:12:46.000That seems like he must have been sent.
00:12:49.000Two, if the judge was literally a Biden donor and donating to, among other things, like the Stop Trump effort, which I think was one of them.
00:13:27.000It's pure and simple political persecution.
00:13:31.000They're going after, there's nothing that they won't do to stop Trump.
00:13:35.000And they understand now, with years of experience in the White House, I think, you know, going in as a novice was great in many ways, but you also don't know who the snakes are, you don't know who the people who are going to actually help you and be sort of loyal to the cause, and that causes, you know, being the duly elected President of the United States, doing the things you said you would do, versus doing what the swamp wants,
00:13:54.000Slow rolling what the president wants.
00:13:56.000You know, all those unelected officials.
00:13:58.000And so I think the notion of Trump coming back now actually scares them so much more because he has that knowledge.
00:14:53.000But he knew that, and he did it anyway.
00:14:55.000I think after 2020, he understood that if he just went home, he could go play golf and go back to building buildings and making millions and getting paid to give speeches and stuff like that.
00:15:04.000There's just too much at stake, and so he's just unwilling to stop.
00:15:08.000I gotta think a lot of people are looking back to four years ago and reaching the conclusion, well, if they'll rig a trial, they'll probably rig an election.
00:15:17.000I think, you know, the reality is, you know, what I see, you know, on the ground, the amount of people from the demographics that probably have never voted Republican before, that are just, you know, grabbing me at airports or like even walking down the streets, you know, in New York the other day, it's...
00:15:34.000I mean, I did a, for example, you know, I was one of the probably most out there people in terms of rallies and campaigns doing my own thing in 16 and 20.
00:15:52.000You know, the energy in 2020 was better than even 16, amazingly enough, but they had that ability to weaponize COVID and all of that stuff.
00:16:00.000It's so much stronger right now, and we're still six months out.
00:16:04.000That doesn't mean they won't do, you know, again, I don't even pretend to think that, hey, it's going to be fair, and they're not going to cheat, and they're not... I used to probably think that, hey, there's only so far they can go.
00:16:14.000Like, how, you know, they're going to roll this guy over the line in a gurney and, you know, pretend he's... Because I used to think they actually had
00:16:22.000Maybe a little bit of shame, but that's not actually at all true.
00:17:03.000I don't think, you know, we have not done that well, Republicans, right?
00:17:07.000The Democrats don't fear us because they know we'd never play the same game because we actually believe what they think is like, you know, ha ha ha, a soundbite.
00:18:17.000And so it's interesting that, you know, once you actually have that relationship, you can actually, people come around, it's like, okay, you were actually right.
00:18:22.000Well, people change on the basis of evidence and what they see.
00:19:15.000These days it's Vladimir Zelensky, the high priest of Ukraine, which is apparently the number one issue for Republicans across the country, but I've not yet seen that anywhere.
00:19:25.000But those are the people they choose to be their deities, and everything follows that path until they burn out, flame out, or get exposed for what they really are.
00:19:34.000How can you run a presidential campaign when you're
00:19:38.000Fighting multiple legal battles, criminal... Well, I mean, that's by design, right?
00:19:44.000You look at all of these things, they understand... Listen, Joe Biden in a basement is good for Joe Biden's campaign.
00:20:48.000And those are trillion-dollar industries that are functioning as the marketing department for today's Democrat Party.
00:20:54.000And to be able to single-handedly sort of break some of those walls down, I mean, I felt like if I was in charge of that, if I was in charge of the Democrats, we'd be winning elections 99.9 to 0.01.
00:21:26.000It's not like, I get it, like, you come home from a long day of work, you're trying to feed your family, you're listening to five minutes of, you know, Brian Stelter on TV.
00:21:33.000He's like, well, there's got to be something to it.
00:21:35.000You know, during the early campaign stuff, if I watch TV to hear about myself, I'm like, man, I hate me too.
00:21:41.000It's so bad, people feel it every day.
00:21:45.000They're not going for it anymore, and I think it's why they're watching you here, or me on Rumble, or whatever it may be.
00:21:50.000They're going to other places to hear an alternate viewpoint, because the machine just isn't delivering anymore, and it's so unreal.
00:21:57.000But the machine knows that, and the machine exists to perpetuate itself.
00:22:01.000That's the only point, is to maintain power.
00:22:05.000These are incompetent people with no other prospects in life other than running the machine.
00:23:30.000But let me ask you, the convictions come down, 34 yesterday, and your father goes out there and just basically raises the middle finger and says, we're going to win anyway.
00:23:40.000And within hours, Benning Thompson of Mississippi, who's a monster Democratic congressman, introduces legislation to pull his Secret Service.
00:23:50.000So basically they're saying, okay, we'll kill you now.
00:25:00.000Well, look at what they did with some of the justices, the Supreme Court justices, right?
00:25:04.000You think that they'd be able to do what they've done to even, I mean, Alito even this week, you know, we're going to make him recuse himself because his wife hung a flag upside down.
00:25:11.000It's like, well, you know, she can't express an opinion.
00:25:14.000What they've tried to do to Clarence Thomas, what they did as it relates to Gorsuch and others.
00:25:21.000If they did that to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, if they were picketing in front of their house like they did to Amy Cooley Barrett, that would be a serious problem.
00:26:00.000You know, there's no accountability for that either.
00:26:03.000But, you know, they're like, well, no, we're admitting it now.
00:26:05.000It's like, no, but you got exactly what you wanted at the time.
00:26:08.000We understand there's no accountability for it.
00:26:10.000You know, that's election interference as much as anything else.
00:26:13.000Also, you know, there was a stat, like, I think it was 17% of people said, had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop, it would have changed their vote in 2020.
00:27:00.000Like, you know, you can have like mid, you know, double digit IQ and be like, of course it came from the place that studies the exact virus in question that was at ground zero of where it released and not from four feet outside of that.
00:27:15.000It's insane, and yet, think of the truly intelligent people in positions of power in medicine and otherwise, who went along with this blindly, because, you know, it was easier to do, and, you know, there was a lot of money, and, you know, it's not gonna pass up on those things.
00:27:29.000I mean, everything that's happened- This isn't all that long ago, I mean- Right, but at this, I do think at this point, if you're still telling yourself those lies, you are lying to yourself, you are a liar.
00:27:38.000But it doesn't matter, they correct it years later, but they got what they needed out of
00:27:44.000They got what they needed, and again, because there's no accountability after the fact, it doesn't matter.
00:27:48.000They'll do it again, and they'll make it the gospel for six months, or, you know, they always said, you know, the difference between the truth and a conspiracy theory is six months.
00:27:55.000You know, now it's like six minutes, but they'll still get what they want out of that six minutes, use it to manipulate whatever they need to, and, you know, I don't see that stopping.
00:29:35.000It would be a perpetual story, and rightfully so.
00:29:39.000And yet, like, hey, as long as it's against a conservative, as long as it's against Trump, who's up against that machine, we're gonna allow these things to happen.
00:29:45.000It's not like one of these things doesn't have any serious hair on it, right?
00:29:50.000They're all shady as hell, and yet it doesn't matter.
00:29:52.000And our mainstream media almost refuses to cover it.
00:30:06.000The President, former President of the United States, is not allowed to talk about the facts of the case because, you know, if people actually heard that from him, they'd realize just how much, you know, BS is in all of these things.
00:31:28.000But, you know, again, like, nothing should surprise us, right?
00:31:31.000The star witness of this case is someone who lied before every branch of Congress, was disbarred, you know, lied to banks, lied to wives, lied to the press, but we're expected to believe that he actually told the truth in this one instance, right?
00:31:43.000That's who they hang their hat on because it doesn't matter.
00:31:46.000When it's rigged the way it is, it doesn't matter.
00:31:48.000We're moving toward something ugly, and I don't want that.
00:32:11.000I mean, you have to have, you know, people, you know, running for office.
00:32:15.000And I'm not talking about President or Congress.
00:32:16.000Like, you know, run for your school boards.
00:32:18.000I mean, you know, that's perhaps the thing that's most important to me.
00:32:21.000Frankly, there's a component of me that I don't want to win the presidency if we don't have Congress and the Senate because I'll probably be up on charges again and we'll get to go through impeachment, you know, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, you know, for the next four years.
00:32:35.000And, you know, I don't think that's a great place to be.
00:32:38.000You know, apathy has caused us a lot of problems, especially on the conservative side, where, hey, we run businesses, and we do these sorts of things, and, you know, we want to spend time with our families, and all noble things are important, but we have to take the initiative to get involved at every level of these things, because the left has taken over every major institution in our country that controls.
00:32:57.000I mean, what they've done in education, manipulating our children, what they've done in entertainment, oftentimes the same thing.
00:33:05.000It can't stand if we actually want to have a future.
00:33:09.000You know, our kids, they graduate, there's high schools with 100 districts, you know, no one can read or do math, but, you know, they know the 4,376 genders.
00:33:15.000And I imagine since this interview started, there's probably another 15 that I haven't included that, so I don't want to be labeled as, you know, whatever, a gender bigot by not including them, but that's the last I've been able to keep track of.
00:33:48.000I mean, there are tech VC guys, respected guys, Hillary donors, and even probably Biden donors that are like, OK, I've seen enough.
00:33:59.000You know stroking you know six and seven figure checks now because you know, I think people who are watching closely enough truly understand
00:34:07.000Just how far we have fallen, just how close we are perhaps to that, you know, fulcrum point where there's a point of no return, right?
00:34:17.000And I think if we ever let it get there, you know, there's no question in my mind that the Democrat elite, they'd maintain and seize that power and, you know, it'll happen like all sort of, you know, communist nations.
00:35:37.000Do you think, since you, last question, but it's just, and I may be skipping ahead, but I don't think we're far from, well, we're at war with Russia.
00:35:45.000If we're targeting- That whistleblower talking about the boots on the ground, I mean, like, I've never seen a whistleblower disappear that fast in my life.
00:36:31.000And if you don't believe in those things and you understand that you're going to be vilified, you're gonna be forced to not learn how to shoot, but do diversity training,
00:37:15.000Is it just like perpetual death of Ukrainians and Russians until they're all wiped out and, you know, Black Rock comes in there and takes over all the farmland?
00:37:27.000They're already selling off land in Ukraine to foreign investors, and they will flood Ukraine with third-world immigrants, and Ukraine will not exist in 50 years.
00:37:47.000Honestly, the metric I use for this is not just the recruitment numbers, but the amount of guys that I know, you know, I shoot a lot and whatever, the circles are tight, that are like fourth generation army.
00:37:59.000They're like, I would beat the crap out of my son if he decided to, like, these are guys that, you know, their entire ethos is around that military background.
00:38:06.000They are great friends and they're like, they wouldn't even think about it.
00:38:10.000They'd disown their children if they joined this military today.