Badlands Media - Altered State S4 Ep. 19: Primaries, Political Corruption, and the Iran Debate

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

Brad Zerbo and Zak Paine open the show with classic Altered State banter before diving into a wide range of political and cultural topics. The conversation begins with a breakdown of recent primary elections and President Trump’s endorsement success rate, including discussion of controversial races and political scandals. From there, the hosts examine government corruption allegations tied to massive fraud investigations in Minnesota, highlighting testimony from state officials and whistleblower claims surrounding the Feeding Our Future scandal. The episode also explores broader issues like police quotas, questionable DUI arrests, and the challenges of accountability in law enforcement. Later in the show, Brad and Zak shift to geopolitical tensions, discussing the long history of conflict with Iran and Trump’s past warnings about the dangers of nuclear enrichment. They debate whether the current situation represents strategic restraint, deep state manipulation, or a broader restructuring of global power dynamics. Along the way, the hosts mix serious political analysis with personal stories, humor, and commentary on everything from sobriety to bizarre cultural stories circulating online.

out of the badlands explain those badlands that's a hell of a name citizens to watch me i will totally obliterate the deep state we will obliterate the deep stuff hello welcome everybody to another episode of altered state i am your host brad care, well. And I'm saying, hey, here we are. Don't forget to tip your bartender. Oh, my goodness. So,

how much going on today, huh? Dancing monkeys, here we are. Oh, God, Lord. So, yeah, there's a lot going on. Lots of fun stuff. Good things. did you happen to notice how many people President Trump endorsed actually won their primaries yesterday? I didn't, but I can almost guess.

I will tell you, there was like 122. It might have even gone up since that time. Virtually everybody who he endorsed and ran one. Now, the only exception. He's a kingmaker. Yeah, he is a king. The only exception to that, I think. was Tony Gonzalez, who I've been talking about for a while now. He is the Republican

representative for Texas 23. And you may have heard of him, but you might not know his name. He was the guy who had an affair with his staffer while she was married and he was married with six kids and she had an eight-year-old son convinced this woman to have an affair on her husband. and then her husband found out by reading their text messages and then texted Tony and everybody in the office that worked for Tony, all of their family, all of their friends texted them all from Regina's phone number and said, hey everybody. This is Regina's husband. I can't remember his name. It's like, you know, Victor or something like that. this is Victor Regina had an affair with Tony Gonzalez, Representative Tony Gonzalez, her boss.

And so we're going to be getting a divorce. And I just wanted to make sure everybody was aware of what kind of a scumbag Tony Gonzalez is cheating on his wife and six kids with my wife. And so that was about a year before she set herself on fire in the backyard of the home they used to share together after he left. took their son and then started dating her best friend. And then she sent him a video. I have not heard of this. Yeah, yeah. It was on security camera, but she also took a video with her phone of her setting

herself on fire. Now, oh, she's dead as a doornell, Brad. Yeah. You don't come back from something like that. Terrible, terrible stuff. But now,

I have to admit, like when it first happened, I was like, okay, top staffer for somebody who I perceive to be a deep state rhino I think that's where I know the name

Gonzalez. Yeah, it's what came in mind. I don't want to say anything, but I don't know. Well, I cartel. I mean, he's in Texas, you know, and we know the cartel is infested politics in, you know, any of those border states. And, you know, I mean, let's be pretty honest. I mean, a woman setting herself on fire is uncommon.

definitely is not the way that most women would choose to commit suicide. But knowing everything that I just told you and her husband coming out and saying that this is the order of events. I mean, this is how it happened. And, you know, she wanted to get back together. He had left her and had started dating her best friend. And that was like the final straw. Yeah, he's right. And she left.

She left her job, too. She quit working for Tony Gonzalez. and Tony Gonzalez quit talking to her and also refused to leave his wife. First told her that he was going to leave his wife and then was like, you know what, I got a race. I got a primary in February of 2026. I don't think I can, I don't think it's a good time. And then, yeah, so her life imploded because of the decision to cheat on her husband with a senator or excuse me, with a representative.

I'll do it. Yeah. Yeah. So anyways, that entire story was a prelude to the fact that Brian DeRerreira, the AK guy from YouTube, was running against him. He ran against him two years ago, got him into a runoff and then narrowly lost by 400 votes. And then this time, he, well, of course, this scandal came out like the day before early

voting started. The death had been around for a while and nobody had confirmed that they had. had been sleeping together, but then the husband came out. It was like, yeah, he totally is a piece of shit. So that came out and a bunch of articles were written the day before early voting. And this time, Brandon Herrera got about 900 more votes than Tony Gonzalez in the primary. And there were two other candidates which represent about another 10,000 votes. And because they didn't get the 50%, Texas, you need 50%, otherwise there's a runoff that will take place

in May. And so there will be a runoff. Now, who knows? Maybe President Trump will reach out to Tony Gonzalez and say you should probably just drop out of the race right now. Finish your term. Let Brandon Herrera win and then we can put all our money on the Democrats.

Yeah, I can see that happening. And of course, his endorsements are pretty much if he, I noticed that he will definitely go anti-Rino for like 95% of them.

Yeah. But then some of the ones is kind of like, well, I think this other person has no chance. Right. Exactly. I go with that, which is, I do track with that way of thinking. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, President Trump, he wants to bet on a winner.

And if the non-establishment candidate doesn't have a chance in hell of winning, then he doesn't bother to support them. But he will then not support the other candidate oftentimes. times if he really does want the upstart to win. And same with John Cornyn and Ken Paxton. He didn't endorse either of them. And they both, you know, came very close, but didn't make it to 50%. So now he's saying, I will endorse one of you, like within a couple of days.

And then I want the other one to drop out. And he hasn't said who that is. But if, you know, I think if he's smart, he, and I think he is, he's going to endorse Ken Paxton because Ken Paxton, he has a shot at winning, number one. And John Corny's a total rino piece of shit on the other hand. Yeah, so that makes total sense. I think also, too, is he wants to see, I think he wants to give people chances. We've seen this. We've also seen it bite him in the ass because they're dealing with scum of Washington.

but we've seen President Trump try to give these people a chance like listen your piece of shit to me or in general do you want to come back around are you going to play nice or you're going to be cool I will soften my position on you and sometimes it's worked but a lot of times it doesn't because there's just no honor amongst these people no no yeah they are disgusting disgusting people so what was the total number 1202 is that? Yeah, 122. That was as of earlier this evening when I checked. That's awesome. Yeah. I thought that was pretty good. Yeah, the primaries, I feel like the primaries are so important and

often neglected, but if you don't primary as many rhinos as humanly possible every freaking other year, that's also another problem that we see that we have to deal with. Oh, you know, that note. And do you remember in North Carolina, there was a woman who was running for a state Senate seat and

she was a Muslim wearing a knaqab, which is like the total, which is just like the eye holes. Oh shit. She ran unopposed. And because she ran unopposed, nobody else ran against her. There just was no election.

She just automatically the winner. Wow. That's interesting. This is for the state Senate of North Carolina? Yes, for the state Senate, yes. I couldn't believe it. I was like, please, God, I was like somebody in North Carolina. Like, just try it. Okay? I mean, like, what do you got to lose? Even if you don't campaign. Like, I mean, if you put the two pictures next to each other, you know, apple pie or, you know, camels. Camel's I don't know A camel cigarette out in your eye She claimed to be a conservative But her

First of all Daily caller did an interview with her And she just said You know I just don't feel like The Democratic Party represents me She's only voted for Democrats her whole life But she couldn't point to a single

articulatable position That resonated with her she got no votes depatry because there was no election because nobody ran against her in north Carolina they just gave she's just the winner automatically now the in the general election in November like the voters will be choosing between her and the Democrat but this is I don't know if this is a Republican district or if this is a Democrat district but you know I think maybe one of the reasons that there was that there was nobody even bothering to run is because like it might be heavily Democrat but I mean come on there's like no excuse for that that's pretty bad as a now I know

there was something maybe you can brush my memory up on this so there was something going on in Texas right with Sharia law being one of the topics okay I've been seeing like inklings of this but I haven't dove full in yet well there was there was a huge Muslim, like, a settlement that was being built. And Ken Paxton, like, broke that up. Yeah, I don't remember what it was called, but people were freaking out about it. And, you know, I mean, anytime you got like a group of, an insular group of people who don't allow anybody else to move in, like, who knows what the hell they're going to do. You know, of course, there is officially no Sharia courts, but what's going to happen behind closed doors?

you know it's like you know it's like in new york they have these they have these communes upstate these jewish communes where it's pretty much you can't get in and out of them it's just these like closed off towns and curious joel i think that one i think curious joel is in new jersey and then um that the name of one of them okay yeah because there are there are several and people uh there is speculation that they don't register their children meaning oh pretty much do anything you want because they definitely register their children because the vast majority of them are on like food stamps

and public assistance. So Tyler, but I don't think they I mean this is something going back. This is a rumor around the New York area for like the last my whole life, 30, 40 years. But I think there's a lot of stuff that isn't registered there. From what I understand. Well, it's okay. So the only reason that I know about it is because Tyler Olivera, who's a YouTuber, he's done, you know, he kind of it does like what Nick Shirley does, but it's a little more funny and kind of like edgy.

I know the name, so I must have seen it before. Yeah, so he goes all, he's been all over the country like, you know, pointing out like scammers and fraudsters. He did a video on the Haitians in Ohio, on the Somalis. I mean, he's done all of these. And he's been wildly popular until he did the videos on the Jewish enclaves in New York and New Jersey. And as soon as he did those. And he wasn't rude and he wasn't like, you know, like, I hate Jews or anything like that. He was just like, you know, I don't care who it is.

If the only way that you can survive is by surviving off of public assistance, I think that we have a problem with the style of life that you're living. You know, not only is it like an insular society where like only Jews are allowed in seemingly a lot of the policies that are there. in terms of like who can live in these buildings and you know the way that everything works you know there there are questions about the legality of that but for people to have you know seven eight nine 10 15 kids and not work and simply study all day and the only reason they're able to do that is because they're collecting public assistance um you know that's a problem i i don't care if you're jewish or if you're muslim or if you're catholic i mean that that doesn't matter to me but it became a problem for a lot of people when he pointed it out in the Jewish community. And they took his

Patreon account away within one day. Everybody like all the, all the usual suspects on Twitter started calling him an anti-Semite. And, you know, he was cursed by a rabbi. Like it was all over the place. And, and he was just like, wow, you know, it's crazy. He made, he made a video about Indians. So in India, they have a cow poop festival. where literally like the people in this town, I don't, maybe more than just this town. It might be like all over the country.

I don't know. I didn't see the video, but they have literally like a pile of cow shit all throughout the street. And then everybody is like throwing it, playing in it and like rubbing it on their bodies. And I and you know, in, in the Hindu faith,

cows are sacred. And so it has something to do with that. I can't pretend to understand it because it just doesn't make any sense to me. But he made a video about the cow poop. And like the Indian community was really upset. But he didn't do anything other than just show what they were doing. It was just like a documentary about it. But people were calling for his cancellation.

And most everybody outside of, you know, the Indian community that perhaps, you know, practice this, you know, thing, everybody was like, you know, nothing wrong with that. He's just showing what's going on. And the same thing with Somalis and the same thing with Haitians. You know, the left didn't like these videos and they were already calling him a neo-Nazi. But then as soon as he made the two videos on these Jewish encampments, you know, people suddenly just wanted him canceled and had to have him gone. Nick Shirley actually commented on one of his tweets and said, expose them all, meaning, you know, expose anybody who is taking advantage of the United States in the system. And then everybody had a problem with Nick Shirley too.

They were like, you know, way to destroy all your goodwill, Nick Shirley. I mean, I can't believe that you're talking, you're saying that you want Jews to be targeted. And I don't think Nick Shirley, like, directly commented on it. But it was very obvious that suddenly everything was very different. Let me see if I can find a clip from Tyler's video about it. Um, because I mean, the whole, the whole documentary that both of them are like over an hour long. And, um, it's, it's worth watching. I mean, it's, uh, I mean, he, he has these just reasonable conversations.

I mean, he's just like, he's literally walking through the town. And he's like, you know, we're just talking to people. We're just asking them, you know, how it is they live and how they do the things they do. And if people didn't want to talk to him, he, they, they don't have to talk to him. that there was a number of people who did want to talk to him. And they were like, you know, sure, you know, I go to school. I'm studying the, uh, the Torah and, uh, yeah, I'm on, I'm on food stamps. You know, yeah, I mean, it's, it's totally legal.

I mean, the law says that if you qualify, you can go ahead and get these things. And he was like, well, yes, it says that, but should you? Like, you know, is, is that really how it should be? Yeah, that's, that's just, you're just robbing from the, yeah, New York taxpayer at that point. Yeah. Both, well, the American taxpayer in general. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's a, even in New York, like, all the regular Jews are even just like, man, those people are fucking weird.

You'll be driving through Brooklyn, and they'll just walk out into the middle of the street with like 10. They'll just cross the middle street. You'll have a green light and you just have to stop. There's just like a whole train of like 10 of them. They're little, they're black suits and black hats and stuff. They're like this weird sub-society that lives. amongst us and like I said like anyone like I mean most of the Jews in New York are just like normal like you and me and even though they're just like what the fucks wrong with these people

like weird I see them's or whatever they're called I don't know yeah so that's what these communities are there they're Hasidic communities yeah and this is actually one of the things that he said is that it just seemed like nobody knows how to drive and and he said it was very common He said he saw like five car accidents while he was there, but hold on. Their cars were all beat up. They'll have like a minivan from the 1980s with a different colored door, a different thing. They like patch their cars together and keep them forever. It's weird.

All right. So this car accident is actually caused by the city bus driver, which is hilarious. Oh my God. I have five hundred dollars. Give me two thousand dollars. I don't have two thousand dollars. I would just handle a third invention. He said he's going to give me two seven dollars.

Look at this another accident. This is Curious Joelle, a community of exclusively Hasidic Jews. That's one of the fastest growing towns in New York, possibly some of the worst drivers in America. Manimously in favor for, look at this. There's a carcson every five seconds. The driving out here is horrendous. I've only seen bad drivers though. You know why?

Because we have so much. We have like 10 children. We're all too busy. That's why we were upset by driving. We're getting nervous. No one can drive out here. What is this? What is this?

What? It's a fucking idiot in the school bus. What is this driving? You're trying to kill us out here. You're driving the lowest people. No, we weren't. You need to learn how to drive. You're gonna get your kids killed here.

Oh my God. That's some damage right there. Two, three thousand dollars worth is my guess. I have five hundred dollars. You want, I can give you. Five hundred dollars for that? Come on, man. You can pull the police.

Don't make a police report. Give me two thousand dollars? I don't have two thousand dollars. I don't have two thousand dollars. All right? If you would just call the police, get the police report and I have you. report and handle it through his insurance.

It doesn't pay. I need license and registration. He said he's going to give me to some donors, send me a quickie. He said he's going to get what she was originally asking. Look, there's another accident. Oh, my God. They cannot drive out here. He drives people around and he can't make it a simple time.

Oh, no. So what's also kind of crazy is that like, like, because this is like, you know, such an insular Hasidic community, the police. I mean, they're working for the community. Like the attitude of the police is very different in Curious Joel than it would be in like any other city. And Tyler was out there filming and talking to people and, you know, I mean, he's doing interviews and people are like totally willing to talk to him. They want to explain, you know, what it is that they're doing and how they live this way. And, you know, I mean, why they care, you know, about the things that they care about.

And some people didn't like it. So they called the police on him and they were like, you know, you can't film here. And he was like, it's actually totally legal because it's America. I can film. I'm on a public street. And the police came and they basically shut him down. And the same with the accident. They didn't give anybody a ticket.

They were like, well, we're just going to let him pay you and we're going to keep it off the books. Meanwhile, you and me, they'd have us on the ground and be like, not only was an accident, but your tail lights out. That's right. That's right. It's a very different scenario. I have been pulled over so many times. I swear I'm not a bad driver. I mean, there have been times or maybe I'm speeding a little bit.

I have a, I did use to speed a lot. But, man, in New Jersey, it's like they hide behind the trees. Like, did you don't come to a full stop behind that stop sign? Ticket. Like, it's insane. I think if one thing, if Trump could do one thing is do away with the free. Quota laws that I believe came from the 1994 Clinton Biden Crime Bill, which just in the end of the month, just don't drive your car for the last week ever in New Jersey.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, I mean, technically, and if they are instituting a quota or anything, that's, that's going to be at the local level, right? You know, but I would imagine that there's probably contingent federal funding that is going to each of those departments based upon the, the amount of crime. Yeah.

Oh, based on the amount of crime. Yeah, yeah. Like, what are they actually solving? And of course, you know,

traffic tickets are very easy to quantify and a lot simpler than having to stack up statistics for like, you know, armed robberies or murders and all of that stuff. I can tell you one big thing that has been a huge problem that I've been noticing, uh, has been happening more and more is, uh,

police not, not departments, but like, certain officers in an effort to hit metrics are giving people DUIs when they're totally sober. Like, you know, claiming, and this is something that you will see. Some police, they will, like in an effort to develop probable cause, they will claim that somebody appears to be intoxicated or they smell the smell of alcohol or then, you know, I've seen it a couple of different videos where, you know, they suggest that somebody smells like,

alcohol and then they give them, you know, the field sobriety test. And then they'll be like, okay, well, you know, you, you, you, you blew zeros. So, you know, now I think I smell marijuana. So we're going to have to take you in. Yeah. Yeah. And, and so, oh, man, there's a got, there's a case going on in Iowa right now. It's called Newton, Iowa.

And this kid, Tavengalanakis, Tavenganakis, he was 20 years old. He was driving home from a party one night. It was like mid-1230 or something like that. And one of his headlights was out. And so he was driving with his brights on so that he had two headlights. And the cops pulled him over for that. And he was like, yeah, I'm sorry, officer. I just didn't want to have just the one headlight on.

So I was driving with my brights. He was like, well, that's illegal. You can't do that. He was like, how much if he had to drink tonight? He was like, well, I don't drink. So I haven't had any. And he was like, what about when was the last time he smoked weed? And he was like, you know, I don't even know.

I don't really smoke weed. I play sports. And so I can't. And he was like, I don't believe you. And so he was like, okay, well, you know, give me a breathalyzer. He was like, I'll take a breathalyzer right now. Here's the thing. I will tell everyone here, if you don't know this, field sobriety tests are total garbage.

Okay. They will tell police nothing. It gives them an opportunity to have an interaction with you. And they are completely arbitrary. So if you've got a bad knee, if you don't adhere to their instructions exactly, and they will speak fast, they will try to confuse you, they will do and say things that will make it more likely that they can say that you are intoxicated in some way. And then even if you're not intoxicated and they take you in, then you know, then you've got to go through the process of getting booked and it's just a huge hassle. But there was an officer that I read about. She had like 200 incidences of perjury, like fake DUIs, giving people tickets and saying that one thing happened and something else happened.

I mean, it's terrible because not all cops are bad like that. Not all cops are just trying to, you know, get a notch on their belt. But there's enough of them happening where that's what you're going to see reported on. Those are the videos that you're going to see on YouTube or whatever it is. And, you know, it just gives everybody a bad name. If we have people who are operating as protectors, peacekeepers, law enforcement officers, then, like, let's actually enforce the law and not look for laws to enforce. Yeah, exactly.

Don't, if you're looking for it, there's a problem. If you have a nice society, you should just stay with it. I sparked a New Jersey, a New Jersey police harassment conversation in our chat. I love it. Yes. Do not do a field sobriety test. Like you offer to blow a breathalyzer. Okay.

And you just got to know your rights. Because even if you didn't do anything wrong, if you have to hire a lawyer, then that's thousands of dollars that's out of your pocket. And it's, yeah, it's not worth it. The Deep Patriots saying that they made the traffic cams illegal there. I know for a brief time, I'm trying to think of when it was, maybe 2016, 2015-ish. I was working in Weehawk, and they had put up the traffic cams, and they couldn't give you points, but people who were speeding to work were getting tickets and talking about it on the job site. But apparently, that's been made illegal now, which is awesome.

Those should absolutely be illegal. I will say one thing. I don't know if I should have this on camera, but I only took one field sobriety test ever in life and I passed and I was pissed drunk so so they're not not the most accurate things ever but I actually don't almost never drive drunk so that was a weird almost never drive the brand that's not what you say over the course of my life I mean I haven't in probably 10 years but if you add up the course of my life I've probably done it like maybe five times which is not a lot I know people who every time they go to the bar they drive there and they drive there and they drive

of all. I have definitely driven drunk and I'm ashamed of every single one of them. I like because I know I could kill people and like I mean I I definitely call I definitely got into an accident one time and just drove away because I knew that I was going to get arrested if I stuck around. Nobody else was around. It was bad. I felt terrible and but there was nothing I could do because obviously I didn't want to get in trouble. I was very young, very, very young. Yep. Yeah. I've uh, like I said, probably maybe not even five times. I can remember three times significantly and they were all pretty much that was one that scared the crap under me i was coming home from work yeah and i had i literally didn't want to drive drunk so i pulled over there's uh after you get through the lincoln tunnel into new jersey on the new jersey side there's

a rest stop right there like i'm gonna pull over i'm gonna sleep this off i shouldn't be driving like this and all of a sudden i get a knock on my window and it was a freaking cop and i must have fell asleep on my wheel oh no yeah you do you go in the back seat don't don't stand the the driver's scene. You know, like, well, you know, I usually like lead it back, but I guess I'd just like pulled in and then instantly fell asleep. And he was like, you know, someone reported you and we just thought it could have been like, you know, a diabetic coma or something.

You know, he was bullshit. He was checking with me to test me out. And they made me too thinking I passed. I'm like, dude, I'm sorry. I just woke up. I'm a little groggy. And they left. So that was the other time that.

The other time, there's two other times I could think of and they both skis of shit on me. And then this is why I don't trust me. Maybe it is only the three times. First time I was 17. I just had my license. We were in the backyard of our friend Ashley's house, and we were drinking, obviously, underage. And her grandfather woke up, came out.

What the hell is going on? We all run to my car, and then I drove home like that. And I remember at one point drive at home, I'm just like, I'm looking at the side of the road, and all of a sudden I was, oh, God, how long have I not been looking? looking at the road. I'm like watching the trees and the freaking mailboxes. And that always stuck with me where I was like, I had no concept. That could have been like for

five minutes. I could have been driving like that. Luckily, it was like the middle of the night and no one was on the road. And then the other, there was another time, another work instance. And this is why I eventually had just stopped. Everyone, you know, everyone wants to go to bar at lunchtime. And it's like, it's not good. And I was working up in Yonkers, which is about two hours from where I lived in New Jersey. And we're just driving. We went to the bar that day. I don't remember going back to the office. I don't remember going back after lunch.

I just remember waking up in my bed at home. Oh, man. And I scared the shit out of me. All right. So my mom is in the chat. And of course, I never would have told you mom. I was an adult at the time, but I'm 47 now. So, I mean, I think about being 22 and it's a long time ago.

So, yeah, I was at, I was at some bar. and I was leaving and Wes West was with me and he was like you probably shouldn't drive drunk sack and I was like I threw it in reverse and I said accidents don't happen and then I slammed on the gas without even like I had like no control over the force of my foot on the gas and I just went straight back into somebody's car like the side of their car totally crunched in the side of their car and then just immediately peeled out and I was just like I will never go back there. And I didn't.

I didn't. Yeah. Nothing happened to my car, but they were, their car was messed up. It was horrible. But yes, mom, there was no way I was going to tell you. I mean, I was ashamed. I was so ashamed. And I didn't want anybody to know. I didn't tell anybody. I certainly didn't tell anybody in town because like my fear was like I would know the person whose car that was and just never wanted to mention it again. But now I'm, you know, eight years sober. And so I think that it's probably appropriate for me to admit it. You guys can give me hell in the chat. It's true.

So, yeah, alcohol is totally evil, mom, you're right, which is why I don't drink. I agree. I agree.

Yeah. There was another time where I probably should have gotten pulled over. I was in East Lansing. I was dropping somebody off at their dorm. And as I was driving away, a cop, East Lansing cop pulled up right behind me. And I was like,

this is it. I'm cooked like, like I'm totally cooked because I knew that there was no way I was getting out of it. And pulled up, made a complete stop, put my turn signal on, looked right, looked left. I turned and like, of course, I was white knuckling it, you know, just like my hands are so tight in the steering wheel. And I'm like, do not swerve, do not swerve, do not swerve. And then he turned the other way. And that was it.

Oh, man. Yeah. That's so I mean, I've had so many, not drunk, but I've had so many cops pull up next to me. Like, you get pulled over so much where I grew up where it's just like literally you just know, okay, I might be pulled over as a cop. There's just this weird anxiety that happens to it. But that's a freaking, that'll make your heart race for sure. Oh, yeah.

Absolutely. And in the chat, I can say it now because I don't live there anymore. I used to guard this with my life back in the day, but I grew up in West Keensburg, New Jersey, for all the people out there. All right. If you ever been to the Keynesburg boardwalk, I grew up walking. distance within the Keynesburg for. Probably, this is also probably like, well, yeah,

that's why there's a lot of cops there. It's not exactly the best area for crime. If you go to a crime map, it's pretty red. But I mean, you know, whatever. If you know, when you live in these places, it doesn't feel as bad because you know where to go and you have friends you can call and just, you know, but. Yeah.

Yeah. And congratulations to Sass Bragg, 77. 80 on your sobriety as well buddy um so yeah i mean and i see everybody in the chat i used to do all the stupid things all of the stupid things you can do while driving i definitely did it and i felt invincible you know and there was that one time that i drove over a median in the middle of the road and definitely like tore my oil pan off um yeah had to get rid of my car because i like drove over a sign yeah it was oh my gosh it was like in front of a bunch of people and i just kept going i like oh my god i hate myself like i'm such a loser so why is that can i do not drink nope oh my gosh

they you know it's funny i've heard people say this and i think there's more to it than me see i when they say well that's why they call it spirits and like you know it's the spirits because it's like you're letting in bad spirits absolutely yeah you totally are they can just be a thing of any you're inebriated your defenses are down and i do believe in negative entities that these. Yeah. Yeah, Sassbrag, when I think of those days, I puk. No, it's, it's anxiety inducing. I was telling Lisa the other day, there are sometimes where I'll, like, I'll, like, lay my head down on the pillow and I'll just, like, spiral. I'll just start thinking of, like, everything that I'm still ashamed of, all the people I never got a chance to apologize to. Like, that one time, oh my God, like, I could never find that person, but I just know that I probably should, but I never will be able to. And so I just got to, like, you know, ask God to take it from me, because that's the, uh, the best. hope that I have of trying to make amends with the person who I don't even know if they're alive anymore to be perfectly honest with you yeah you know it's uh it's one of those things with life man as long you know I think God just wants you to set your records straight and be right

with him and and lead a good life from as long as you realize that we weren't leading the lives we should have been leading yeah yeah oh let lumpy and jinj you see that Zach's going to say he ran over homeless guy but thought it was a deer. Oh, thank God. Thank God that never happened. Oh, but I mean, actually, like on that note, one day, I used to live at the end of a dead end. I was like the last house in a dead end. And so frequently people would park at the end of the street.

It was like right in front of my house. And I go outside one morning to take my daughter to school. And there is a car sitting right there. And it's like kind of a like a sports. car. I don't know. I don't remember what it was. Maybe it was like a Camaro or something like that. A nice car, you know, fast looking. And then I get out there and it was the same day I had to take the trash out. And so I'd take it to the curb and I'm like, you know, great, this dickhead. He's parked in front of my trash can. And they might not pick it up. And I look and I see in the entire windshield

is just, it's just crunched in. Okay. Like it is it's smashed. And I said to myself, wow, that that kind of looks like a body hit that windshield and hit it hard. And so then I just went and took my daughter to school and I came back and the car was gone. I don't know what happened to it. And then I read that that same bar that I smashed into a car, somebody else, that guy was leaving and hit a dude on his bike. And it was a body. And they already had a description of the car and they had. given it and I was like, holy shit, that was

definitely the car that was in front of my house. Well, you know, they ended up finding the guy and I don't remember if the guy who got hit lived or not. But I mean, based upon how hard he got hit, it was touching go, I'm pretty sure. That is sad. It's freaking nerve-wracking

dude. I can't even imagine. That was enough to make me start walking right there. You know, but then also watch for other people who might hit me. Well, tell you what, the best thing that ever happened were for people. people who do drink is Uber and then, you know, Lyft and all those things.

It's just, I mean, obviously cabs exist in a lot of errors too, but it's just different. You can't order it on your cell phone or stuff like that. So, you know, obviously we didn't have Uber when I was in my heyday. We did have cabs,

but like I didn't trust them. I never like, people always told, like they were like, you can't trust cabbies. They're like gypsies. You know, because they're just going to,

They're going to rip you off. But I, but yeah, you know, once Uber, like, did become a thing, I definitely used that a few times. And I've had to use it a lot more since then. But I got to take an Uber to the airport for Gart because Lisa and I only have one car now. So she's got to be here with the dogs. And I got to go to Jacksonville. So take an Uber to Jacksonville. And then I'll get, I guess I'll get an Uber back from Jacksonville.

I got to book my tickets. You probably have a nice flight, right? Oh, dude, that's why I'm flying out of Jacksonville. It's a straight shot. One hour and 40 minutes. And if I flew out of Daytona, it would have been like a six hour flight because I would have had like a multi-hour layover in Charlotte or Atlanta. And yeah, I just, I was like, I have to, you know, we're booked.

We had to, our flight is on the day that like the event begins. And so I don't have extra time. If I was coming the day before, I might not care about it. But coming the day of, like, I need to make sure that I'm getting there, like, on time, you know. Yeah, and you always want a little time to be compressed for a second before. Yeah. Yeah, where I live, there's a satellite airport. So, like, everywhere I go is at least two flights.

But that first flight's only about an hour and a half. And it's also, like, I feel like I'm home when I'm ready to get on that flight. Like, that's how quick it is. But actually, I do have quite a journey after that. there's about a two three four about a six

hour journey to get to the airport so oh dang man at least I'm in the vicinity when I that last flight so that's good that's good

it's quite a journey to leave this place all right well I I suppose maybe we should start talking about some of the things that we've discovered that we need to talk about

yeah I can't wait for the comments anytime anytime Zach and I have any sort of normal conversation to start the show. There's always at least one person in the comments like, go to the 30 minute mark. Do you think we have time for this? Like, dude, if you don't have time to hang out for 20 minutes, you need to loosen your schedule up.

You ever see, you ever hear Brian Regan, the comedian Brian Regan? Yes. He's talking about Pop-Tars one time. And he's like, why are the directions on the fucking Pop-Tart box, right? And it's like, it should be one direction, toast Pop-Tart. Then there were two directions.

The second one are microwave directions. He goes, listen, if you don't got two minutes to post a Pop-Tart that you need to do it in 14 seconds, you need to loosen your schedule up a bit. You got problems. Yeah, I think so. I also, it's like, like, has anybody ever seen the show before? Like, I mean, like, we always, we always try to do a little bit of just, you know, friendly banter before we start talking about anything. serious because you know as as much as you are tuning in to hang out with brad and i brad and i are also here to hang out with each other so we we need we need this we need this bro we need this time

all right so uh today tim walls and keith ellison testified before the house oversight committee and you know there there's already been a lot that has been discovered about the fraud in minnesota but what was was particularly interesting about today's testimony because Ellison has already testified on, gosh, I think to at least two different committees recently prior to today's testimony. But today was Tim Wall's first appearance. And Tim Walls obviously has a history of public statements about this. Based on Nick Shirley's video, he had to drop out of the Minnesota governor's race.

And of course, there's a ton of whistleblowers that the committee has. has spoken to in preparation for today's testimony. But they also, as a committee, did the investigation prior to having them come in. So they had everything that they needed. They had all of the information already. And so this testimony today was more like a formality. Like are you, Keith Ellison and Tim Walls, going to tell us the truth about what happened in your state? Because we know already what the problem is.

Now, there was, hold on, I guess maybe I got rid of it. But so they've got all of these findings, okay? In the Department of Education, $300 million in fraud, within the Department of Human Services, which is Medicaid and child care programs, up to $9 billion in fraud. You've got all of these subcategories of fraud within Medicaid, including housing stabilization services. That would be like, you know, like Section 8 for certain groups, early intensive developmental and behavioral intervention, integrated community support.

I believe that that would include the people that you paid to take you shopping or the people that will, you know, I don't know, come hang out at your house with you. Maybe you pay your grandson to take care of the grandmother or something like that. There was a big thing with the transport too, remember? That was a big hub that they felt was connecting all these scams. Right. And that's the non-emergency medical transportation. Oh, yes.

There you go. Yeah, yeah. So they've got they've got findings. And then they specifically go into feeding our future, which was, you know, $250 million fraud. That is really what kicked off the public disclosure about all of this. And then, you know, all of these, another eight chapters on fraud. But so they also, again, have already spoken to all these whistleblowers. They know how far back this goes.

And they can track it back to 2019 when people first. started blowing the whistle on this. Of course, they also have the recording of Keith Ellison meeting with the defendants from the feeding our future scam. And Keith Ellison basically like, you know, hey, brother, we're black and they're not. So I've got your back. And I'm going to go ahead and make sure that this goes away, which, I mean, that's obviously totally illegal.

So. Good look. Yeah. And something else that was stunning. I hadn't heard this until today, but so the feeding our future, they recognized that back in like 2021. I mean, I knew that the woman who created feeding our future and then recruited all of these Somalis for the locations where they were doing the fake soup kitchens, she had she had unsuccessfully attempted to get the nonprofit status to be able to do this. and she was turned down because she looked shady. Well, then she filed, then she got Somalians on board, and she filed a complaint with

the state of Minnesota, basically accused him of being racist. And then they were like, well, we don't want to look racist. And so they gave it to her. And then they got her certified. And then she got all of these other people certified. And then because they were now within this like category of untouchables that allowed them to just start siphoning money. and they went from, you know, taking care of a couple of kids a day to like thousands of kids a day, basically.

And, and they recognized it in 2021. The state of Minnesota flagged them for, quote, serious irregularities. And then they stopped funding it. They stopped giving money. And then they started the money over again. And Tim Walls in 2022 went public and said that a certain circuit court in Minnesota, had demanded they continue the funding. Well, that never happened.

And so the judge actually put out a press release and was like, we legit do not know what Tim Walz is talking about. We have not told anybody to continue funding the feeding our future thing. And so like today, during testimony, Jim Jordan was like, why did you say this? He was like, why did you continue funding this? And he was like, well, it was our belief that the court had demanded we do that. He was like, but you knew they didn't. And like the court came out and responded to you.

He said, he said, we didn't tell him to do this. He was like, so why'd you do it? He was like, well, we believe the court. He just kept saying the same thing over and over again. And Tim Wals, you know, I said this earlier, but we know that Obama chose Biden to be his VP because he needed to choose someone who was dumber than him. And then Biden chose Harris because he needed someone who was dumber than he was. And then Harris chose Walls because she needed. someone who was dumber than she was.

And like you get further and further back on the stupid train. And like basically if Tim Walls was going to be a candidate for president of the United States, he would have to have like a like a total drooling pinhead at his side. Because there's like no way. Like no normal person is going to be any stupider than what he is. Yeah, that's a rough bar. Yes. That's insane, dude.

He, I hope they are. I hope they are suggesting the DOJ bring charges. Oh, absolutely. Well, you know, the one thing that kind of pissed me off is that today these guys weren't under oath because this was a public hearing. And that's, you know, a lot of people were upset about Bill and Hillary Clinton having to do it behind closed doors. And even Bill and Hillary leaned into that. But during those closed door hearings, those people are under oath. I mean, it's transcribed.

It's videotaped. So all of it's going to become public. but it's not as much of a public spectacle as these hearings are because the format is a little bit different. They're afforded more like leeway in terms of like asking the questions and getting the answers. It's a little more intimate, right? You're not a friend of crowd and yeah. Yeah, you don't need to worry about sound bites and stuff, even though, of course, a lot of that stuff is going to turn into a sound bite. I've had a theory about the Bill and Hillary Clinton depositions that I wasn't saying out loud because I didn't, I didn't want to put

this out there until they had done it. But you know how people have been talking about with the Epstein files, right? How there's a missing chunk from, it was like 2000 to 2002, right? Yeah. The exact time Bill was hanging out with Epstein and going on this African tour and all that stuff. I wonder if they are holding that back until they got them on the record answering a bunch of questions.

Yeah, I definitely thought about that too. There's like a big 9-11 chunk that's missing as well. I'm going to say it's like 99 or like 2000, yeah, until then, because I went in there looking for 9-11 stuff. Yeah, the two things that came up with 9-11, I followed them. Yeah, I followed those both through and they're like nothing. The shadow commission I found it was just a, I was able to find the website, well, a way back machine save of that website. And it's literally just a guy doing research. And it was like a public website that he called the Shadow Commission,

that he wanted to do an extra investigation into it. But it was all pretty, it was all public. It's not like a government thing or anything. It's just literally, it's like one of us from back in the day, just doing his chat. It was like if I put out a thing on my website, like you want to be part of the Shadow Codex uh, investigation. I'm just inbox people. Now, it's weird that he's inboxing Galane because like, who the freak is she?

She knows something? But yeah, that was nothing burger. And then the other one I saw people freaking out about it was there's a September 12th, 2001 email to Galane asking like, where's the real pilot? So everyone's like, what the hell? But then you know how some of these have been saved where there's the single one and then saved five times? And like one of them will be the whole chain. And the whole shame is she sent someone a picture of her, like, leaving the helicopter, like, saying like that she was a pilot. And he's messing with him.

Like, well, where's the real pilot? Yeah, yeah. I saw that version of it. So both of them were dead ends. Yeah. But yeah. Somebody wanted to know if Senator Shea, he broke some dude's arm today. I don't think that this dude's arm is broken, but he was like, it looks like he's a Marine veteran.

Or at least he's a guy wearing a Marine dress. fatigue or not dress fatigues but dress uh dress uniform and um he uh he's he's i don't know he interrupted a hearing and they were trying to get him out and he wouldn't let him's got a grip bro like look he can't get him off and um and and uh and so senator tim shahy was part of the effort to like peel this guy off the door and get him the hell out of there because he was disres look at him. I mean, that guy broke his own arm with respect. Like, you're asking you to leave, leave.

You know, at that point, now you're obligent. Yeah. Yeah, there's, it's one of those situations. But it brought, it's, you know, to him, he might feel good about it because brings a lot of attention to what he was saying now. Look at that dude's face. Look at those dude's faces when they go back. They're all just like, like, that's one crazy white boy. Like, what's going on?

Yeah. Crackad is is a crackadoo I'm like no way He's like stop resisting son Commerich Karrad should have tickled him These are the things the thoughts we need in real time Okay so people are saying his hand was stuck

Was it stuck or was he holding on to the door? It looked to me like he was holding on to the door. onto the door. Hang on. Let me turn the volume up. You hear a crack in the video. What's the fuck? Oh, God. I did hear a crack. Yeah. Definitely broke. That definitely broke. Oh, that was thickening. Sir, sir, sir.

A U.S. Senator. Senator. Oh, dang. Yeah, they're not going to be puffing that one. You're a coward. He said, go fuck yourself. I mean, that guy caused the situation. He broke his own arm as far as I'm concerned. God, that makes me want to throw up.

You know, I feel bad for him. That was bad. I'm sweating, bro. Like, have you ever broken a bone? yeah a couple of stuff one dude i i broke i broke this one yeah right here because i got i broke my left first too yeah i got i got a titanium plate in there and when i yeah when i i fell off a ladder and and i i landed on the ground like right there and i heard it crack i and um and i was like oh god because i thought it was going to break my tailbone and um when i uh and i and so i leaned over to

like catch myself with my hand and then I heard my arm break and um and I was like oh god oh no and I knew it was broken because I like couldn't move it but I had to work I had to keep working I had to finish out the day and then and then I and it was uh yeah and I couldn't get I couldn't get to urgent care and then they were like well you waited a little bit too long like we're not going to be able to reset it now you're going to have to come back in and have an operation on it and I was like oh god I was trying to save money, but I just ended up spending more money. That sucks, dude. I didn't know it was really broken, but I broke my ankle like that.

And the only disc golf tournament I ever played in, and I wanted to go in a lot, I was starting to get really into it. And I was jogging looking for a disc, and I stepped in a gopher hole. Oh. And whatever. And so there was like five holes left, right? In round one, I never, I didn't do round two. And I thought I rolled, you ever,

roll your ankle real bad. Oh, yeah. It sucks. So it's like, I just thought that happened. And then we're going and we play the next hole. I'm like, man, this is really bad.

And I finished that whole round. And then I drove home. It was an hour from my house. Oh. And by the time I got home, it was, I guess because even though I'm still driving, it was my right ankle.

It's still kind of stationary. It had puffed up. And I like couldn't walk to my door. I was basically crawling. I bet. My door. And now it's, now I'm laughing.

because it's just so ridiculous. And now I'm thinking, if people see me, I'm crawling to my door laughing, I probably look like a stumble bum drunk right now. And it was so bad. I went to the Eric Carey, it was fractured. So when you work on it, and you kept working before you got it fixed

and it was probably really puffed up and horrible by the time he did, right? Oh, yeah, it was bad. It was real bad. Yeah. And they ended up putting a cast on it, or I don't know, they wrapped it with something. It wasn't like a full cast. It was like a temp cast.

Then I had to come back in and put me out. And I was the first time I was ever under like anesthesia. And I was sick as hell. Like when I came out of it later and I had a friend of mine took care of me. And I was barfing. I was just, oh my God. I was so sick to my stomach. It was bad.

And then, you know, I had to rebuild the muscle in my arm. It's still not the same as, it was beforehand. And, uh, and I had like an immobilizer on it for a while after they took the cast off. And when I took that off, it looked like,

I mean, it was like there was no muscle on my arm. It was just like bone. Oh, that's, that's creepy. It was really creepy. And so I had to like do,

you know, all of this physical therapy to get it back. And I remember somebody, somebody saw my arm. They're like, what the hell's wrong with your arm? Like, like I don't know.

Like I got like, uh, some type of weight. tasting disease or something like that. I was like, look at that. That's even weirder. That's, that's freaking crazy. Yeah, I do.

I don't remember what happened with my cast. I broke my elbow and my left wrist when I was three and like, I don't know, 12 or something like that. So I don't remember a possibly similar situation, but I know with my ankle, my ankle I broke as an adult. And what happened was by the time it was done, it was okay, it was okay. but then my left ankle start hurting. And then so the doctor was like, well, you've been compensating. We're left ankle for so long. So I think those two kind of went back and forth for a little bit.

Yeah. Oh, Running Patriot. I've definitely broken my little toes, but I always figured, you know, what are they going to do? Yeah, that doesn't count. I broke my big toe once. Yeah, I've definitely broken a couple of toes. I just like that. There's nothing they can do.

They tell you, you can't put a cast on it. You literally just have to walk around with it until it heals. Yeah, just tape it up. Yeah. Okay, don't be a, don't be a sissy. Okay, so maybe we should take this, this time to thank our sponsors. I think you guys, you'll either be horrified by this commercial or you'll love it. I kind of love it.

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It's a river otter. It's an Irish river otter monster. And hold on. I'm going to pull it up because we need to have that one in there as well. And so they, so Green Star made that because on the show on, you know, mystical beasts that we did on baseless conspiracies, the, there is a like mystical, like crypto zoology river otter that is like it's not a, well, they don't know what it is. It's just a monster that lives in the river and it looks kind of like an otter, but it's way too big to be an otter.

And it will definitely steal your kids if you're not there. The acoustic is that the acoustica? I don't remember. Hold on. In Alaska here, there's this legend. They all talk about the akushika, which is like an otter, otter monster that steals your babies. Okay. So the Dabar Choo.

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saw, you know, just in our own chats and I thought I was about to play it. That's funny. That's good. Okay, good times. I did find, this is the Akushika. I play, it's only one minute long. Oh, the Kushika.

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invaders. Okay, it's the Kushika. I want to be I want to like run for like Senate or something or or are one, there's only one representative. There's more senators and representatives in Alaska that's how many people live here. Wow. And then just put on the heaviest New York accent, I can muster. Like, yeah, Danali Mountain, forget about it. It's Mount McKinley now, all right? Relax.

You don't know about us Alaskans. Just like freak people out. Oh, yeah, it's the Kustika. We are going to officially recognize the Kustika. we are going to make it a protected species. Yeah. What am I in a soul? Sikushika.

You got to protect these guys. Good Lord. So yeah, I actually plan to do a couple more cryptid shows over there on baseless conspiracies. But I haven't narrowed it down. I should probably figure something out before Monday, though. Oh, Brad, you said that you had a clip of President Trump speaking about the dangers of Iran. You know, one thing that I consistently keep seeing in the chat is that the only reason we're, you know, involved in some type of conflict with Iran is for Israel. It's for Israel's sake has nothing to do with America.

but I mean if you know from my recollection and I've been paying attention for quite some time President Trump has been talking about Iran for a very long time and specifically about the dangers of a nuclear Iran since well before he was even running for president oh yeah dude I went to I went to I was like you know what let me find a couple old clips from my show yesterday and I just looking and I found him talking about Iran around like, I don't know, like 150 videos. I was like, let me pick about three or 40s. And I, here's just, I have a whole pool now that I can pick from.

Here's one from, this is from 2023. And yesterday I showed a bunch from 2015 and 2016. But here's him, this one from 2023, I think is an important one too, because he talks about how by the end of his first administration that they were ready to make a deal, especially after the hit with Soleimani, it was basically, oh, all of a sudden, they're coming to the table now, and they want to talk,

and it's going to be a good deal. And he's talking about how they were right there, and then Biden came in, and, you know, he's re-unfreezing funds. He's re-kind of invigorated these people and changed the whole game back to cause the situation, which was now, which, again, also this time, too, Trump still wanted to make that deal.

He was, dude, Israel, obviously, they're just chomping out the bit to go to war with everyone. That's obvious, this, why people think this about this. But he was holding them off. He's been holding them off for a year and trying to make a deal, and they won't make a deal, and they wouldn't do it. And so now they get this. But here's him talking about this.

I think this is a great context, because, again, he has been talking about this. The whole time, this isn't some blindslide. This is from March 13th of 2023. When you look at the job we did there and we got rid of the Iran nuclear. deal. Now what's happened with, when you look at what is taking place right now, it's so sad what's going on right now. They were ready to make a deal. We would have made the greatest deal ever. They would have never had a nuclear weapon. They would have been actually happy about it. But this group came in and allowed them to get rich and allowed them to dictate the terms.

And it was really, really terrible thing. Yeah, I'm talking about how they kind of flat tired that with the Biden administration. I think the unfroes something like, they made it. They made it. deal that wound up on freezing like $6 billion in assets. Yeah. And then, of course, I ran, which has been a problem. This is another thing which I don't understand. Like, I understand we don't love war.

Listen, I have a big proponent that we shouldn't have gone to Iraq and Afghanistan in hindsight. Now we see what they became and what they really probably were more likely about. Very big proponent against that. But as a president, you have to be able to use your military when you need to use your military one. You can't neuter your president like that, especially if it's when you trust, like President Trump. And two, Iran has been like the biggest problem on planet Earth for our entire lives. Like for literally ever, especially since the 79 Islamic Revolution, since I'm a kid, I remember people talking about the freaking Ayatollah Khomeini. People are like crying tears over this shithead is weird to me.

It almost feels like an op. All right. So Reblnator says this mother effort said we obliterated the Iranian nuclear enrichment program. What did he mean by obliterated? So as I said the other day when we were talking about this on my show, obviously in the changing landscape of these geopolitical events, intelligence is evolving and being reshaped on a regular basis. So the three uranium enrichment sites that we blew up, when was that? I mean, that was, I mean, it wasn't a year ago. It was a little bit less than a year ago. But I mean, in that meantime, they went on to continue, like, you know, building back up their capacity at three other sites. And Steve Whitkoff said that as soon as they met, you know, because he and Kushner have been meeting with the Iranian foreign minister last week, he said the first thing they said to us was that they had enough 60% enriched uranium to make 11 nuclear weapons. And they were like totally proud of it. So, I mean, you know, they obliterated what was there at the time. And then obviously they never stopped.

I mean, they just continued working on it. Now, President Trump and the Americans, I mean, their hope was that we were going to make a deal so that this didn't have to happen. So, you know, I mean, we don't be simplistic about this. I mean, like, what was true then doesn't necessarily mean that it's true now because things are always changing. I mean, we, our enemies are constantly evolving. I mean, even if we take out like one faction of the deep state, think about the mob. Okay. Like we, we go into, we've got one crime family, the Genovese crime family, they're running New York. The FBI goes in and they take out the heads of the Genovese crime family and they go into a press conference and they say, you know, we obliterated the Genovese crime family leadership. Okay, well, there's what? Easily another hundred guys below them just waiting to come back up.

The same with the Mexican drug cartels. I mean, the same with these child trafficking networks. I mean, you take out one cell, one layer, and then there's another layer that's ready to come in and take power. But, I mean, here is President Trump in 1980. So this is right after the Iranian revolution. Obviously, you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera, and brought our boys out. I absolutely feel that, yes. Donald Trump has been so ideologically consistent that it is actually... When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you.

do and you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows country, such as Iran, to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror. And I don't think they'd do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they do it with other countries. Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera, and brought our boys out. I absolutely feel that, yes. I don't think there's any question. There's no question in my mind.

All right. So, you know, we've, President Trump, like, lived through that. He saw that happening live. I think that, you know, there's a lot of people out there who were alive during that time and who witnessed it taking place. And for somebody like me who wasn't there, I didn't see it, I wasn't directly affected by it. Of course, I heard about this stuff growing up, you know, heard. about what was it Lebanon wasn't there uh our our base was like blown up in Lebanon that was not long after this um you know i mean they've they've always kind of used it as a boogeyman of sorts but i mean those were like two real things where americans were taken hostage and americans died and the CIA gave the mullahs and the ruff the islamic republic of iran they gave them money and

they gave them weapons and that's how they got our hostages back So, I mean, they emboldened them. And throughout the last 47 years, the CIA continued to have some type of a relationship with Iran. I mean, you had John Kerry going there and meeting with the Iranians. You obviously had the weather underground, which essentially like raised Barack Obama. They also left-wing groups having relationships with Iran. So it's not like they existed in a vacuum and there wasn't anything happening here that was, like, like completely absent from their touch or their influence.

And the same with left wing movements around the country. The current socialist government of Spain is apparently very close with the current Republic, the Islamic Republic of Iran. And so, you know, for us to be kind of separated from all of that, I think that it gives us this, you know, different point of view on. it. I mean, certainly we talk about Iraq and Afghanistan. There was no reason to go into Iraq. Sure, at one point, the CIA gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons, but they were gone by the time we went in there. The weapons of mass destruction didn't exist. And that was another opportunity to create a

destabilizing force in the Middle East, which then ensured another two decades of war, essentially, which was a gift to the military industrial complex to military suppliers like KBR and you know, DynCorp like a number of other places. So that was a gift to them. And Iran remaining in that region as a boogeyman to constantly like play off of and use as a point of fear for America and for all of these other countries, there were benefits that arose from that. So that's why they never went after ira exactly exactly and to your point the spawn point yeah and they were just like they keep fighting all the countries around there and creating chaos and like man we can't solve this terror problem because they wanted it to

keep going iran's always been the number one problem in the middle east right okay rebel later like we're talking about real reasons like the fact that they went in to go get the the tomb of Gilgamesh, like that's that's not a real reason to go in and to take out a whole country. We're talking about national security issues right now. So, I mean, obviously, there's always reasons. You can always make rationalizations as to why things must happen. And throughout my entire life, I've thought that all of those rationalizations were total bullshit.

And in this one instance, President Trump believes that this is something that needs to happen. Now, they've been attempting to make a deal with Iran ever since the Ford Al plant and all of these other enrichment sites were taken out. And it's been impossible. They haven't been able to do it. They know how much money was given to Iran by the United States government, by Obama and by Biden. Now, here's another aspect of it that I don't know that people are really taking into account. China gets the majority of their oil from Iran. and now they're not going to get any of it.

And now that the Straits of Hormuz are potentially, you know, I mean, certainly a lot of the shipping through there has slowed down. A lot of their goods are coming through there. That's not happening anymore either. And as a result of that economic slice that's taken place, I think that that's what is ensuring that China does not get involved. And, you know, Russia is also not getting involved. now Russia is also saying that they think it's time to stop providing oil and energy to Europe.

And that's the only way that many European countries are getting any of that fuel. So that right there could lead to an end to the conflict in Ukraine. Slovenia and Hungary are both also now militarily gearing up to protect their interests because Ukraine went and blew up their energy infrastructure. So I think that, you know, what we're, I think what we're seeing here is like a triple play. Like all at once, it's causing a series of economic rifts throughout these various areas of the world that President Trump had attempted to diplomatically end these conflicts and bring everybody together. And I think it's going to force the hand of a number of different places. And, you know, I mean, the one problem that many nations had, including President Trump, was the Islamic government in Iraq.

if that goes away, if he removes that, well, then Israel's got no reason to constantly be threatening to go to war with Iran. The other nations around Iran don't have any reason to say that we've got anxiety about this country. I mean, there will be ripple effects. And, you know, is it unfortunate that perhaps it had to happen this way? Yes. But I also think that President Trump tried to do everything he could to make sure that it didn't have to happen. And unfortunately, I mean, some people. those balls were just too big to take a step back.

Exactly. Exactly. But, you know, don't do any real analysis on this, Zach. You're forgetting about the Jews. The Jews. Oh, my God, not the Jews. You guys make me want to pretend to like Jews, okay, the way you act. It is like so effing insane.

It is like the biggest brain melt, brain rot that has been injected into every truth or community for the last 40 years. So here's the thing. Like if it was if it was just for the nation of Israel and greater Israel and Zionism, then President Trump would have allowed Israel to just nuke, nuke Iran, just wipe them off the map. Just get rid of them. And he also would have allowed Israel to just completely wipe Gaza off the map, would have allowed Israel to wipe the West Bank off the map.

And he would have allowed them to build the Ben-Gurian Canal. and he would have allowed them to continue spreading out and taking over all of the other countries that they want as part of their, you know, claim on land, which they say is, you know, their gift as the chosen people. But none of that has happened. Like everything that President Trump has done has been to push for economic interdependence and individual sovereignty. And yeah, and I also think that we would have just sent troops into Iran. It would have been just like Iraq. It would have been just like Afghanistan. 100%.

And the people calling this a forever war after a couple of days is like the most insane thing I've ever seen in my whole life. Well, what's the threshold for a forever war? Three years, four years. Like where do we put that at? It's a military. It's a war. They went to war with these people.

This is a fucking major problem. And I'm sure, well, we know it was because from the first administration and then again, even for the first year of this administration, we know the North Korea deal was on the table. That model was there. You guys wouldn't make a deal, right?

Two of the biggest problems in the world when Trump first took office in 2016, where 2017 technically were North Korea and Iran and Venezuela, for that matter. And literally, oh my God, he's going to start World War III with North Korea. And then, no, he didn't.

He wound up. He threatened them. And then they all of a sudden wanted to come to the table and talk, and they talk to them, and then all of a sudden, their buddies. With Iran, they were trying to bait him because Iran is almost assuredly a deep state proxy state. All right. Absolutely. This has been established for a long time. Yes.

And they were baiting him in the first administration. They took out our drones. They were attacking bases. They were tax, tax. The Trump was like, no, he's holding off. And finally, what did he do? They didn't go fully in. He cut the head off the snake, took the head of the Cuds force.

out with Soleimani. And all of a sudden, they want to come to the table. And then a pandemic happens. And then they steal the election. And you just blink a year later. And effing Joe Biden and the Obama administration 2.0 is back in power. And then they're right back to freeing up funds for Iran. And then all of a sudden, thing, frigging terrorism is on the rise against.

The biggest sponsor of terrorism, that whole region is the Iranian government. And then all that happens. And then Trump gets in again. And then you know what? Now this has to happen. But it's just like the fact that this had to happen is Iran's fault, not Trump's fault. And they have been, it's not some propaganda that Iran has been so bad. I mean, this has been a radical Islamic state for as long as most of us have been alive.

Okay. Talk to the women. I know it's a cliche thing. people throw around oh the women yeah the women they imagine being a woman in iran who was a normal person in the 70s not that the shot was much better but it was at least it wasn't this radical sharia law that they had and then you have to live in sharia law for the last 47 years so this is potentially if they can pull it off correctly going to be a great thing for the people of iran as well and it's not going to be iraq in afghanistan that's no way yeah yeah you

Yeah, I agree. And, you know, I think that ultimately at the end of the day, this is going to be a net positive. You know, the changes that will take place that President Trump is trying to implement are going to secure the golden age for everyone. Now, in order to have that golden age, we've got to have a world where war, the specter of war, is not hanging over everyone's heads at all times, where individual nations are not out there consistently poking. the bear and saying, well, you never know, we might do this or, you know, we might just pay somebody else to do it. And, you know, I mean, we've had ongoing actions against the Houthis, and I haven't seen anybody bitch about the Houthis. You know, I mean, it's just like there's this psychological thing about Iran, but the Houthis were being sponsored by Iran, essentially.

And so it's like an extension of the same arm, basically. But, you know, you know, you know, You know, I think that there's, yeah, yeah, exactly. I think that there's, I think that President Trump has shown a tremendous amount of restraint. If we're going to have peace through strength, then we got to be willing to use that strength. And I understand that, you know, people don't want war. I don't want war. I mean, like I spent my whole life watching the United States be embroiled in a war and believing that it was for absolutely nothing. Well, I mean, confidently knowing that it was for absolutely nothing other than perhaps sacrifice.

routes for drugs and human trafficking, routes for weapons trafficking, certainly to enrich the elites of the United States, certainly to give cover to black operations for the CIA or Mossad or MI6 or throw in the intelligence agency of your choice. When all of that goes away, then how are those covert agencies supposed to maintain the same level of power and control that they have throughout our entire life. I mean, I would submit that they won't be able to. And it will be a, it'll be a very different world. You know, I mean, just like, I just, I trust what President Trump is doing.

And, and it's, it's largely because I feel that he's made so many correct decisions. Go back to President Trump's first term, right? Remember when, you know, he was saying like, you know, I'm not going to go to war. I'm not going to go to war. And then he blew up that Syrian airfield. Okay. And the Syrian airfield turned out to be a remote Iranian uranium enrichment site. Okay.

And like so many people online were like Trump is just like everybody else. I no longer support Trump. And then it came out like within, I don't know, 24 hours that there were no people that were there because the Americans warned the Syrians. And it was only because it was that enrichment site that they blew it up. and so many people had to walk it back and, you know, okay, I guess I still do support Trump because he didn't want to go to war. He just wanted to take out something that was a danger to America, American troops in the region. Yep. That's a perfect, perfect example.

Also, too, is there's a lot of potential for all for all you Israel nuts out there. And again, someone suggests a rebel Nader. Again, I don't know why you watch my show. It's all you do. All he does is be a dick all the fucking time. It's kind of annoying. I kind of want to fight you if I'm being perfectly honest. But with Israel like saying like, oh, well, yeah, I'm sure there's no deep stay in Israel.

Of course, there's a deep stay in Israel. There's probably some people think that there's only the deep say in Israel, which is ridiculous. But I think there's a major, major faction in Israel right now, deep state. I've said this a million times. There's also a lot of history that they use Iran as this proxy bad guy to do shit. So maybe. Yeah. maybe this is actually

they don't want to do this. They backed out of the Soleimani hit. Trump said that straight up that they were going to take out Solomani and Israel was supposed to help them with that and they backed out the last second and it was supposed to stop it but then Trump said fuck it we should do it all the time.

Yeah. Anytime you've got a rogue country like Iran or you know any name you know you put your own label on it, whatever it is then that gives an opportunity for another rogue nation like Israel, whatever the deep state in Israel, to use the excuse of Iran committing bad acts to commit false flag operations and then, you know, continue to destabilize. And, you know, I mean, Hezbollah, isn't that Hezbollah who was supposedly carried out October 7th? It was Hezbollah, wasn't it?

I'm pretty sure it was Hezbollah. Okay. And, and so, you know, Iran was allegedly supporting Hezbollah. Well, Iran also has Mossad agents that have, you know, risen. to the top of their own military and government. So the Mossad is paying those people inside Iran to potentially, from my perspective, behave even more flagrantly and violently than they would otherwise. And perhaps those double agents inside the government are the ones actually driving the decisions which led to the situation that we have now. And then you add to that,

again, the fact that the Mullahs wouldn't even be in power if it wasn't for the CIA. The CIA overthrow Mohammed Mossadegh, okay, installed the Shah. And then because of the installation of the Shah, you have the Iranian revolution. And then you've got the Iranian revolution continuing until President Trump basically came in and did it keep decapitation strike. And then once that threat has been eliminated,

nobody can say, well, Iran did this attack. And because of that, we need to go in there and bomb them and, you know, do all this other stuff. But, you know, this entire time, The bombings and the tit for tat in the back and forth, you know, it's just more of an excuse to create an even more deliberate security state and to keep their people in a state of heightened awareness and to say, you know, oh, you know, like, you know, they're always trying to kill us. They will always try to kill us until we finally get what we want. We just get to nuke everybody. But once that option goes away, then what do you have left?

everybody gets to live in peace every country gets to get along with every other country and we can do business together we can do trade together we can make deals just like president trump has been able to bring the rest of the world together you know i mean you look at what happened in venezuela snap of the fingers okay we got uh um we get uh what's his name the the venezuelan president meduro we bring him here that gives us information about the 2020 elections Matic, et cetera. Now the entire nation of Venezuela is working with the United States, and they're no longer a rogue faction, and nobody has to worry about that nation doing or saying anything that is going to disrupt the new global order that President Trump is creating.

So I really do think that this is all going to work out for the best, and I don't think that it's going to be some kind of, you know, never-ending, ongoing thing, because that's not what President Trump has done up until this point. And why would he change now? You know, I mean, why would he say suddenly I'm going to just like change my whole modus operandi and I know that I told you guys I want to bring you the golden age and I want everybody to prosper but this one time we're just going to go on

and have a war that never ends with this one country and and now I'm a totally different person I just don't see that I don't think that that's possible it's insane it's insane it's insane to think that that's the show that's what's happening yeah uh all right

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Abby's going to be there. It's going to be a lot of fun, really looking forward to it. And, yeah, yeah, this is going to be a good time. I've never really hung out in Nashville before. So I'm looking forward to checking it out. I know that there's a lot of history and culture there, and people have already been telling me cool things to do. I don't know how much, like, social time we'll be able to have because obviously we

You've got stuff on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then I fly out Sunday. But I'll definitely get a chance to do and see what I can. Oh, yeah, it did. Yeah, it's always fun socializing, but also, too, is, you know, we have our panels and there's a lot to go over. So a lot of times you need to find that time to clear your head and think about what you're going to talk about. That's right.

That's right. And we are going to be also doing a ticket or we're going to be doing special live streams starting this week, if I'm not mistake, or maybe it's going to be next week, because we're almost done with the week. But for the virtual ticket holder. So if you get a virtual ticket or if you get like a regular in-person ticket, you can come and hang out with us on those special streams ahead of time. Yes. And those are, those are a lot of fun as well. Absolutely. And we also have if we have some super chats. Okay, there we go. Which I don't know why aren't showing up here.

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Thanks for a great show. Thank you, Sassy. Kay O' Kelly. Zach and Lisa's anniversary is March 8th. Shit, that's coming up quick. Oh, yes, I did. I wore the socks that weekend, and I have worn them since I came home, too. But generally, at home, I always just wear, like, the ankle socks.

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LKS K 992123 so thoroughly enjoyed the show gentlemen and artsy gentlemen love you guys great show the very stressful time but remember God wins absolutely yeah at the end of the day that is exactly how I feel as well. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. With that, Zach, that was fun.

We got one more, aka Lou, who says, Had Me Laughing the Whole Show. Love you guys. Love you as well. Love you too. Appreciate you. All right. Well, Brad, when's the next time you're going to be live? God, hopefully never. I will be not this Saturday with the other files,

but I'm Brad. I'm live next season. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. And I'll be live tomorrow at 5 p.m. right here. Well, on my channel, on Redfield News at 5 p.m. Eastern. It's a beautiful thing. See you guys. All right. Peace. Wait. There we are.