Badlands Media - Badlands Daily: 4/20/26 - Ibogaine EO, Kash Drops Bombs, Swalwell Purge Expands

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

CannCon and Zak Paine kick off the week with a Monday full of genuinely big news, starting with Trump's executive order to fast-track FDA approval of Ibogaine for addiction, PTSD, and mental illness. Zak shares his personal perspective as a recovering addict, and the guys tear apart the pharmaceutical industrial complex's stranglehold on mental health treatment. Kash Patel goes on Maria Bartiromo and all but confirms the FBI has the goods on 2020 election fraud, with arrests on the horizon. Harmeet Dillon follows up on DOJ housecleaning and voter roll integrity. Joe DeGenova is tapped to lead the John Brennan criminal investigation. The Swalwell files keep expanding as Anna Paulina Luna tells Catherine Herridge a Capitol Hill purge is coming. Plus, a GAO report drops on Tax Day revealing up to $521 billion in annual federal fraud, birthright citizenship numbers, deportees headed to the Congo, and the Macon County election officials caught in a healthcare fraud scheme.

Good morning, Badlandia. Welcome to Badlands Daily. I got to get this intro music figured out so it's throwing me off, man. It's not at the right time. But joined on this Monday morning by the one and only Zach Payne. How you doing, brother? I'm doing good, man. I kind of like that we can hear it in the background.

Are you saying like the old beats are not the new beats? And so you're expecting to put the emphasis, the emphasis, I had with the old intro, I had a routine. And when President Trump says, the bad lands, the bad lands, you know, that's when I start the song, right? So it comes in at the same time every single time. So now I'm still trying to get it worked out to where it comes in. Because like that right there, it's the drumbeat, right? That dun, dun, and that throws me off.

And so it just, it ruins my Monday, man. The day is ruined now. Well, I don't know if I'd say that, but I think that you weathered the storm rather well, Brian. So you can forgive yourself and we can move into all the craziness that happened over the weekend. I think it's ruined because it's Monday. Well, that could be. I mean, Mondays will perpetually have a certain connotation. It's not a weekend.

So there we go. All right, guys, like Zach said, there was a ton that happened this weekend. And we got to get into all of it. I don't even know if we'll be able to cover it. one show but we'll do our best uh let's jump into our sponsors for today and uh first up ladies and gentlemen it is official oh that is not the right what in the heck just happen right here i don't dude like my whole thing just kind of went weird. All right. I guess somebody updated my read while I already had it open but I'll talk about

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have a lot of wind and stuff like that so i mean it does bite a little bit more. Let me ask you that show. Do you only go fishing in the ocean or do you ever go fishing in the canals as well? So I grew up fishing freshwater. But I saw, you know, we fish salt water as well. But I just, I don't get to do much fishing anymore, man. Don't have a boat anymore. I used to have a bass boat. My dad had a, you know, an ocean boat to go offshore with and I would take that out. but we just don't get to do much more fishing. So I saw some dudes that were both spear fishing in the canals going after invasives. Snakehead, you ever eaten snakehead before?

Never eaten it, but I've caught them before. So apparently it's delicious, like rivaling like some really good saltwater fish. I've never had to have heard people catch them and they use them as trolling bait for like offshore when they go deep sea fishing. they'll use them to troll. And I know they are incredibly invasive. So that's a good thing if they eat. I just won't eat any freshwater fish in Florida, man. Our water is loaded with mercury and other.

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Let's get into the news. Smash that thumbs up if you have not done so. I saw we were put up. I, you know, when we were out yesterday, Zach, I met, I met some gentlemen that were also out, you know, at the same place we go to. On their, you know, they had the stand-up jet skis, right? The hardcore, like, do tricks and all that. And we were all hanging out and started talking. And I, you know, mentioned YouTube and all that stuff.

And, and one of the folks there is familiar with Badlands, but has not yet watched. And I encouraged him to check out Badlands Daily. So if you're out there, sir, good. to have you on and uh yeah smash that thumbs up let's get into the news so saturday huge huge huge huge deal in my opinion right and and by the way happy 420 to all my fellow can connoisseurs out there and uh happy birthday to g money i think today's g's birthday oh happy birthday g's it's also unfortunately the anniversary of columbine and hitler's birthday so 420 is a hell of the day man like you could go any direction with 420 but let's let's just let's just

Let's go ahead and jump into this executive order that President Trump signed, authorizing research into Ibo Gain, a psychedelic found in Africa that can be used to wean you off very quickly, actually, of addiction, debilitating mental illness, et cetera, et cetera. And, you know, this press conference, I was doing my morning show Saturday morning, and before, like half an hour before I go live, I don't know what prompted me to check this out, but something prompted me and i'm like oh look there's joe rogan standing behind president trump the two that hate each other right joe rogan and trump are on a war path against you and then they're in the oval office together making nice and and same tree through this type of research

yeah so so if i may brian i i think this is just a little bit more than simply uh an executive order authorizing research this was an executive order to fast track fda approval specifically for use of ibegain for addiction and PTSD. So it's even better than simply researching. I mean, the research has been ongoing for many, many years. And, you know, as a recovering addict myself, I've heard about ibegain for, you know, maybe a decade, 10 or 15 years, knowing about its power and how successful it can be. And people who are, you know, addicted to alcohol, who are addicted to cocaine, who are addicted to heroin or pills, they can go in and have one of these sessions, maybe two,

and they can come out the other side and never use again, which, I mean, that's not something that you see with traditional types of addiction treatments right now. I mean, especially if you're using opiates, the types of treatments they have available for you now are the pharmaceutical specials that you would expect, to see that they just move you from one drug onto another and then you've got to take that for the rest of your life so that you can block the opiate receptors in your mind and then you know take away

the cravings but even those things are going to have an effect on on your mind on your psyche on your ability to think and reason so ibegain is a game changer this is incredible it is it really is i was in tears when i was reading and listening to this uh on saturday morning because this you know so president trump has done a lot in the medical you know in the medical realm since he since he took office and you know the most favored nation's status with pharmaceuticals in trump rx dot gov being you know two of the big ones but this so so those ones yeah that's great man you're you're cutting down hundreds of percentage points of of you know that we're spending over other countries on our drugs but this one is an effort to get you off of the drugs yeah and

And, you know, I think that's absolutely fantastic. And I don't know who this gentleman is to the right of Dr. Oz. He looks very familiar. I just, is that, um, is that what's his name? Uh, that's Cali means. Callie means. That's who I was thinking. And right.

Here's it Casey. I mean, I don't know. Once the brother, one's the sister. They're both a means. Okay. I think it's Casey means. Okay. No, Cali is the brother.

Casey is the sister. Okay. So, so listen to what he says here. And then somebody in the peanut gallery in the press. right is going to interrupt which to me when if you're no no no it's a good thing oh really yes listen to what she says because when I heard that I was like in order to gather up the you know the the intestinal fortitude to interrupt an oval office briefing like this it's got to be something significant and listen to what she says there's one there's one the guy that there's

nothing more expensive right now than the mental health crisis in America 21% of Americans have a diagnosable mental health condition. The leading cause, excuse me, the second leading cause of death for young adults today is suicide. Mr. President, antidepressants right now are the most prescribed class medications in the country. Over 20% of women are on an antidepressant. And is that good in terms of do they work?

There's highly problematic research on the fact that over 20% of US women are on these drugs. that are prescribed for life. We have a mental health crisis. And they work? No. They don't. Maybe I want a couple of them.

I would not have been out of group. We'll get me down. We'll get me down. President, what you and Secretary Kennedy unlocked is for the first time questioning this system that where we spend three times more per capita than any other country in the world and we are living six, seven years less.

We have the highest rates of suicide and depression in the developed world. The incentives of our system. And by the way, autism, which we're really working hard on, right, Bob? We have the highest rates, and we're coming up with some pretty amazing. Pediatric cancer, it's the highest race in the world.

We are struggling and we're paying more than other country and the power of this executive order is really representative and gives validation to the cries of Mahamom's and the boats of Maha moms because of the first time it's taking a therapy. That's one time, this is a one time, one time, not a lifetime drug that can change someone's life. And that's the power. And I think that's why the system is not one.

So the antidepressants, although we read about it and we prescribe to our military, they're not very effective. So lifetime drug and even if it's lifetime, but do they look at what's happened as we've prescribed and made one of the most prescribed class. The numbers are not great. So we can land that there. So she jumps in and says, no, the SSRIs don't work. Like she interrupts the press conference, right? That's that takes balls to do that. It does.

And you're right. Within that context, that's perfect because, you know, and it's like you hear President Trump and he's like what these things don't work. I mean, it's like he's always testing the limits of like what's real. Is he being serious or is he using this as an opportunity to sort of broach the subject in a way that's safe? You know, I mean, because obviously if President Trump comes out and says something like SSRIs are actually harming more people than they're helping. Of course, the pharmaceutical industry and the fake news media are immediately going to latch

onto that and tell everybody to take more of those SSRIs. And then the narrative is going to be President Trump is trying to kill people with depression. So it's brilliant, whatever it is they're doing. And the fact that they're unlocking this for people to give them the opportunity to step away from the pharmaceutical handcuffs that these corporations and our own government have placed them in over the last several decades. It's such a game changer. It is. And it's not just the pharmaceuticals. It's like you mentioned earlier. It's alcohol addiction. It's drug addiction.

It's mental illness. It's PTSD. It's traumatic brain injury. There's so many facets of natural healing that exist out there that have been absolutely bastardized by, you know, the mainstream. pharmaceutical industrial complex for the last however many years and and president trump has been the one guy right that's come out and blasted this stuff other presidents have talked about it trump is doing it you know john had uh uh Doug Collins VA secretary on his show you know probably six eight months ago and asked him this question about using psychedelics and cannabis as alternatives for you know some of the medical stuff the medicines that are being prescribed especially to our veterans um and And, you know, obviously I went through my struggles with PTSD and stuff after getting out of the Marine Corps.

And, you know, never, never bought into those because it's not actually fixing anything. It's just glassing over all the issues and just turning you into, we call it zombie dope, right? It's the inside joke amongst a lot of veterans is what they prescribe you, the SSRIs, the antidepressants are zombie dope. It just numbs everything, not just your PTSD, not just those problems. it numbs everything and so you feel nothing and eventually people take it so many times they're dependent on it for life and you know you're taking this drug for the rest of your life and you know all a sudden one day you're like enough is enough you try and stop and then boom suicide it's an actual side effect of these drugs suicidal ideations um and thoughts of suicide and a lot of times you know

another side piece to that is is homicide right like you think about these mass killings and all of these people are on SSRIs. And so by introducing a one-time plant, you know, plant-based therapy that can wean you off of this permanently, absolute game changer. Yeah. In so many ways. I mean, one of the hardest parts about stopping taking any medication, whether it's, you know, a recreational drug or a prescription drug that people are getting high off of or the

SRIs is that transition period where you have to titrate down. And that can be so difficult. And like you said, if you stop taking it cold turkey for whatever reason, your body goes into shock and it sends your mind to some really, really dark places. I mean, many years ago, I was on a flexor and I quit taking afexor because I lost my doctor. And so I didn't realize how dangerous it was. I didn't realize how bad it was going to be. I couldn't leave my house for weeks.

I was bedbound. It was really, really bad. I just about committed myself. Wow. Have you considered like doing? Well, yeah,

I mean, I have, but I mean, I'm already sober, so I don't need to take it now. I'm happier now being sober than I ever was when I was drinking or drugging. And if I would have had access to it back then,

absolutely, I would have done it. But, you know, I was, I was pretty lucky with the manner in which I got sober this time. But there were many times in the past where if I would have had access to Ibegain, I might have been able to get sober many, many years earlier. So, yeah, and the reason I ask is because, you know, most of the former recovering addicts that I know, you know, and I don't think you and I have ever really had this discussion. But, you know, a lot of them say it's a daily struggle, right? It's a constant struggle and all it takes is that one little lap and you're back on the wagon and or off the wagon.

And it's, you know, like I just kind of wonder if you were, somebody's dealing with that and even if they've been sober for 10, 15 years, whatever the case might be, if they would still consider that just to kind of reset everything permanently, right? And, you know, I don't know. I'm just, I'm just spitball in here. I mean, no, I don't, I don't necessarily think there's any harm to it. But I mean, me personally, I don't.

I don't feel the need to. I mean, I'm not depressed. I don't have any desire to use. I mean, yeah. So for me, no, but I, but you're right. There are people out there who every single day is a struggle and simply being around a substance. I mean, first of all, I would never put myself in a position where I would be around drugs. But alcohol is a reality of adult life.

I mean, people are drinking around you all the time. I just simply have no desire to do that in any resource. I don't have any desire to use drugs either, but I'm smart enough to know that I don't want to be in a room full of people that are using them. Yeah, I got you. I got you. I want to play this clip. I played this on my show Saturday because it popped into my mind, you know, just to kind of show people how reckless the pharmaceutical industry is, not the pharmaceutical industry, but the people that approve it. Meanwhile, a safe, non-toxic plan, although they do say Ibogaine is one one of the ones that can have some effects if you, you know, overdo it.

But again, the treatment. Definitely, puke. Right. But the treatment they're talking about here is a one time, you know, it lasts 36 hours and then you're done for life. Yeah. Right. So it's not like prolonged usage.

But this is Laura Delano. This was about eight months ago, I believe, on almost a year ago, actually, I looked this up on Tucker Carlson talking about the SSRIs and the antidepressants in the approval process with the FDA. This was shocking to me. They don't like the outcomes of. Guess how long your average. psychiatric drug trial lasts to determine safety and efficacy.

I don't know. 10 years? Six to eight weeks. Wow. Some of them last a week. Some of them last a day. Maybe two studies. So these are not longitudinal, as we say.

There is zero evidence base for long-term safety and efficacy of these drugs. Zero. And there is also zero evidence base for polypharmacy. These drugs have never been studied in combination with each other. And yet most of us go on to take multiple of them for years. Nor is six to eight weeks. That's insane. Yeah, you're not going to learn anything in six to eight weeks.

For a lot of people, six to eight weeks is how long you need to take it before you start, you know, noticing that anything might be wrong. A lot of people, as soon as you start taking it, people don't feel anything. And then all of a sudden, they just notice that things are different. And oftentimes, you know, if you are going to have a reaction, it's going to be noticeable. But, I mean, what's especially disturbing is the cross-contamination that she kind of alluded to there. I mean, the idea that people are taking multiple brain-altering drugs. And that combination has, you know, that they don't study that stuff.

Okay. I mean, they might study things, you know, for a brief period of time in a very, very, very, very, very small windows, but they're not checking, you know, this mixed with this, mixed with this, mixed with this lifestyle. It's, it's very, very dangerous. Yeah, that was actually a really fascinating interview that she did, that Tucker did with her. And, you know, that's basically what she says is when when doctors are prescribing these drugs to you, they're throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. They're mixing things together to see what your reaction is and your feedback. And then they're, and they end up prescribing the concoction based on your feedback.

And again, you become completely dependent on this medication. And I think what President Trump is doing right here with Ibo Gain, not just is going to impact and send ripples through the pharmaceutical industrial complex, but just think of all the things that the pharmaceutical industrial complex funds, right? Media, the media, no more medication that you're going to see. Like, you're not going to see ads every single day for, are you feeling gloomy? Well, just take this pill and you'll feel fantastic.

You know that kind of shit. So I am all for that. God bless President Trump. That was a huge, huge move that he made on Saturday. Yeah, very cool. All right. Speaking of mental illness, this is an absolutely tragic story out of Louisiana. From KSLA 12, eight children killed in Shreveport mass shooting identified by the coroner's office.

Eight children were shot and killed in a domestic violence incident in Shreveport on Sunday morning. seven siblings and a cousin, three boys, five girls ranging from three to 11 years old, were all shot by, allegedly by Shamar Elkins, who was the father of seven of eight of the children. It says a ninth child, a 13-year-old boy reportedly jumped off the roof and was able to get away with just some broken bones. Two women were also shot, one of which was Elkins' wife, the mother of some of the children. the condition of the other woman who may be the mother of some of the other children killed or of the some of the children killed, sorry, is also in a very serious condition. And it notes here that Elkin was eventually fatally shot, although it doesn't acknowledge whether it was by himself or by police.

I mean, that's just an absolutely horrifying story right there. Eight kids, all your own kids, and you kill your own flesh and blood. That's a mental disorder that you can never. I mean, I would love to know what happened. I mean, I doubt that we'll ever truly get any answers, but it'll be, I think, notable to determine whether or not he was on any sort of medications or anything like that. Or if he had a history of mental illness and perhaps he shouldn't even have been alone with those kids. I mean, there's obviously something there was something very broken inside that man. And I can't imagine a world where someone would consider that to be a solution to whatever the world is throwing at you.

It's just really tragic, those poor kids. Yeah, you know, I'm going to, you know, I don't want to be too presumptuous here. But when you have eight kids with, you know, with two different women and you, were they in the same house at the same time? Like this is kind of a strange situation here that I think needs more explaining. How was this, you know, all done at once? Were they all? It sounds like they were all confined in one house. Yeah.

The kids, the mothers, you know, the kid that got away, the cousin. It's just a very odd story. Oh, now we're seeing, hold on. Let me pull this story up because I just saw this in the sidebar here. The suspect, Shamar Elkins, got into a shootout after. leading police on a chase from Cedar Grove to a subdivision in Bozier City. KSLA's Andrew Wellman spoke with witnesses who woke up to a massive police presence in their neighborhood.

My thought process was like, man, there's no way that that just happened behind our house. You know, I was just a total shock. I was just like, oh my God, dude. Like, it was just chaos. I mean, honestly, like, it was just nothing like I've ever experienced. I think it still hasn't hit me fully. Tragedy rocked the Shreveport Bojure community after a domestic dispute turned deadly. The suspect Shemar Elkins allegedly killed eight children, injured one more, and two women who were currently in the hospital.

After the mutual incident, Elkins led police on the chase that ended in the 400 block of Brompton Lane. According to police, the suspect parked a stolen vehicle and used it as some type of cover during his confrontation with the police. That's where police and Elkins exchanged gunfire. Police do confirm the suspect was struck by police gunfire, but it's unclear. who delivered the lethal blow. KSLA News 12 obtained surveillance video of the scene. In the video, you can see a police presence as the incident unfolds in the Bojure City neighborhood. KSLA spoke with witnesses who watched the officer involved shooting from their backyard.

Okay, it doesn't sound like we're going to get much more other than it was the police that engaged him and, you know, shot him. But, I mean, just a horrible story. And again, I think there's a lot of weird things around that story. So, all right, let's, um, let's move on from that tragedy i think that's actually the only depressing story we have of the day which oh thank you jesus right right what could i mean how can we get more depressing than that than eight kids being uh than being killed but let's go ahead and hit a sponsor before we move on uh to uh the cash betel video that's that's uh that's uh confirming a lot of things that we've been a

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And then Bartaromo jumps in and corrects it doesn't correct him, but doubles down on the original question. Check this out. In 2020. I mean, he says it all the time. We all know that. And it's almost getting lost because he says it so much. You've been at the FBI now 14 months. Have you done anything about that?

And do you have anything to tell us about that? Absolutely, Maria. Look, I've been with the president nearly since day one on this. As I told you earlier, I was the one that led the effort with folks like Trey Gowdy, Johnny Rackcliffe and Devin Nunes to expose the corruption that tried to thwart President Trump's first presidential election run. And we saw the FISA abuses there. And I lived through it and the media came at me then, too. That just shows you that when you're over the target, you keep pummeling the target because the media's going to try and pummel you.

We are not going to take this and have not taken this laying down. We did already indict former director Comey and that's going through the judicial process. But we also at this FBI, even though we uncovered what we uncovered back in the house Intel days, I have to come in here and find rooms that they hid from the world. I had to come in here and find access on our computer systems in restricted and prohibited case files that they purposely put in places for no one to see and find. We have found all this information. We are working with our Department of Justice partners. And I am never going to let this go because they not only have personally attacked the presidency of the United States and President Trump,

but they tried to thwart our elections and rig the entire system. And that is not something that is going to stop on it. That is not something I'm going to allow on my wife. But you just have to remember, they built this disease temple over 20 and 30 years. We've got all the inference. I can announce on your show that we've got all the information we need. We're working with our prosecutors, the Department of Justice and their Attorney General Todd Blanche. And we are going to be making arrest.

And it's coming. And I promise you, it's coming soon. All right. So that's the first half. And that is the 2016 Russia Gate stuff, the Steele dossier, you know, all of that stuff. But Bartaroma is like, I'm not taking that answer. That's not the answer I was looking for. Let me, let me double down on this.

And let's talk about 2020. Because that's the, that, what Cash is alluding to there is their ability to manipulate. the politics to win an election. We want to know the outright fraud that took place in the 2020. When they realized in 2016 that the politicization is not going to be enough, right? They're going to actually have to go a step further. And that's where she doubles down right here. Well, Cash, hold on, because when you started this interview, you said, Maria, you and I have been working together for a long time. And this is exactly what you were referring to. You were on my show repeatedly talking about the Russia collusion story. And our audience wants to know why there's

never any accountability. But specifically the question that I asked you was about election integrity and whether or not you have any information to verify what President Trump says all the time, which is the election was rigged. That's what I asked you, Cash. I'm sorry, Maria, I misheard. Yes. So what we are doing is folding that into our entire conspiracy case. And we will let the prosecution speak for him. But we have the information that backs President Trump's claim, but because it's an ongoing prosecution investigation, I can't get ahead of the DOJ and the president. But President Trump speaks truthfully when he says that. And that's what I've been talking about. When we find terabytes of data on computers from the last 10 years

that we were supposed to find 10 years ago, that's what it took. It took his reelection. It took this FBI to go in there and find it. And it takes a long time to get through that material. But I would say stay tuned this week. You might see a thing or two. Stay tuned this week. You might see a thing or two wrapping it up into the grand conspiracy. Where have we heard that before? The Rico Grand, right? Yes.

I know, you know, this is, this is heartening for me personally. I mean, obviously, we've been blowing the lid off this for years. The people in the audience, this is the number one issue exposing the stolen election of 2020. Cash just confirmed in that. that the FBI and the DOJ is in possession of the evidence to do exactly that, that the president speaks the truth and that it is moving ahead with a prosecution. For him to even say that much, I think it's pretty incredible because normally with something like this, I can't discuss ongoing investigations.

but he confirmed that the evidence to prove the election was stolen is real and it's in the possession of people who are currently doing something about it. All right. So, you know, I've said for a long time, President Trump and the people around him are not stupid. They are well aware of what's going to happen if they don't fix this. If they allow it to simply fly by the wayside, you know, Hillary Clinton's a great person, so we're not going to prosecute her. Okay, if that happens, it's going to affect a lot more than simply President Trump and his family's lives after this term is over.

The entirety of the Republican base, the America first base, because, you know, there are plenty of people out there who probably wouldn't even consider themselves Republicans, but consider themselves to be America first. If that is not given to them, then people will absolutely lose hope. And that's not something that I think the president is willing to allow to happen. Because number one, he wants people to be able to move on. He wants people to have faith in America. But he also, of course, wants to give America back to be the people. Yeah. And my lovely co-host on why we vote is in the chat and said, it's all one conspiracy with multiple overt acts.

I'm on this rug for real, for real. I'm right here with you. Ash, I'm upset you didn't end that message with Asawa Vana. All shows are why we vote now, but I'll let that slide. That's her thing. She coined it. I'm just adopting it. Asa Wanaa, if you guys don't know.

And I think we can make this announcement. We're going to be moving why we vote to the former, well, I think I can make this, Badland Story Hour 9 p.m. on Tuesdays. and bad story hour is going to be moving, I believe, to Thursdays. And I don't know if I was supposed to say that or not. Not this week. I think it's going to be starting next week. Cats out of the bag, Brian.

Yeah, cats out of the bag. So it is what it is. I'll probably get yelled at for that, but whatever, it is what it is. But yeah, and this is, I mean, this is a very exciting time. We have, you know, the Fulton County records are in the FBI's possession. We have Maricopa records in the FBI's possession. Uh, Yehuda Miller up in Michigan has over a million and a half records that, he's going through. And I don't know, I know Gateway is also involved in that. And they're kind of,

you know, what's your name? Patty McMurray, Patty Murray, McMurray, not Patty Murray the senator, but Patty McMurray is, you know, working on that reporting. So there's a lot of, you know, and I've been saying this for a while. And I've been saying there's a lot of irons in the fire. And, you know, we're going to get fruit out of this eventually. I know, you know, a lot of the people that are working behind the scenes on this and I've been telling people like just bear with it. It's a slow process, but they have to have every T crossed and I dotted perfectly before they bring this because this is the Grand RICO. And Cash pretty much lets the cat out of the bag with that there. So yes.

Yeah. Oh, BB announced the change last night. I was on there, the narrative with BB and I did not get to listen to the last part because I have to wake up at like 6 a.m. So I had to go to bed. So all right. So we got a little bit more from Maria Bartaromo, who by the way, Maria was probably in terms of, you know, minus maybe Lou Dobbs. Maria was the only mainstream journalist that really stayed on this over at Fox News. So, you know, hat tip to her. I've always had a lot of respect for Maria Bartaromo in one of the few on Fox News that I actually shared that. Lou Dobbs obviously was the other one, rest in peace. But she also sat down with Harmeet Dillon. And I thought, this was an interesting segment nothing breaking on this uh but i thought and and this actually i did not

get to see this yesterday because i was you know out on the water enjoying my sunday and relaxing uh for the day but this this is like almost the exact same thing bb and i were talking about last night at the end of the narrative uh and check this this segment out but but do you feel that there you know is pressure to get all of this done for example before the midterm elections i mean if the republicans lose seats in the will these investigations get derailed? I don't think so, Maria. So first of all, I mean, the election is important, of course, to all Americans. But we're going to continue our work regardless.

I mean, the president has a four-year mandate. The elections are not going to affect the dedication of the lawyers at the Department of Justice to see this through. We have a duty to do that. And frankly, if we don't do it, the American people are going to lose confidence in our elections. And that's very important to me as a civil rights lawyer who's in charge of the voting rights. in charge of the Voting Rights Act and all the voting issues in our country, if we don't have free and fair elections, including elections that are free from this kind of manipulation, weaponization, lying, cheating, and stealing that we have seen evidence of, I think it's very

bad for our country. And I personally am here to make sure that we don't have that outcome. And all our colleagues who are political appointees at the DOJ at the high level are committed to it as well. Now, you know, there are many cases where we've had lawyers borrowed in at the DOJ. and in other agencies as well who are not with the team, and in fact who participated in some of the bad acts in prior administration. So part of what we've been doing this past year is house cleaning,

and we've been doing that in a number of different ways. And I'm happy to share with you some of the things we found in house cleaning. You know, at the DOJ, people have been borrowed in there for decades doing political partisanship, and that's just not what we're supposed to be doing at the DOJ. So from there, she goes on and talks about, you know, the voter rolls and the 350,000 dead people out of, you know, whatever it was 6 million people that they've looked through, the resistance from the states to, you know, suing her, suing the DOJ to not hand over these records for an audit.

But what she's saying right there, and this is something that BB and I talked about last night on the narrative, and, you know, everybody gets, you know, all amped up for midterms and general elections. Every two years, we've got a major election, whether it's, you know, the presidential or the midterm elections and none of that matters right like i mean yes sure if we had free and fair elections and if our elections were cleaned up and we was genuinely the will of the people and we had accountability methods to hold them accountable with free and fair elections then sure we could probably get this thing starting to move in the direction of getting it back on track but in the meantime with elections

in the current status that they're in right now elections are nothing more than the the kibuki theater that gives us the false impression that we're making some sort of an impact when in reality that the impact is exactly what harmeet dylan is talking about right there and the people that have been borrowed for decades i didn't use the term burrowed i just said people that have been in these bureaucratic institutions for decades and to think that a president is going to come in in two years when he has a favorable majority in congress and the and the supreme court and all you know all three branches of government the idea that he's going to come in and somehow be a able to clean up 20 or 30 years worth of corruption and and all of that is absolutely absurd.

And as we all know, most elections, most midterm elections favor the opposition party. They favor the party. And the reason for that is because it maintains the status quo. All the progress that was made now gets backtracked on. And, you know, it seems like because cash alludes to this in his segment too. He says these are, you know, guys that have been in their 20, 30 years. Harmeet says the same thing moments later. It's almost as if they're starting to, maybe they've been doing this and we don't know it because it wasn't an outward projection from them.

They haven't outwardly expressed this. But maybe there is actually something going on to kind of root out the bureaucratic rot that is bureaucratic rot that is throughout these institutions. I mean, I would say that they've been attempting to do that since the very beginning. I mean, when these agencies were taken over, I mean, there were immediately. announcements of people being fired. And then you would see it in the Twitter sphere. You know, I mean, people would be like, you know, what about this person? This person was involved with this. And there were several times where those people within days would be removed from their positions. And even now, you've got people who are leaving as an example down in Southern District of Florida.

The U.S. attorney that was actually prosecuting the investigation into John Brennan was just let go. And there was a very, very notable replacement made down there in Florida. And that would be our man, Joe DeGeneva. If I could have a dream team of former U.S. attorneys coming back to the DOJ to lead this specific investigation, Joe DeGneva would have been at the top of the list. And here he is. And I don't think that I don't think that there could have been a more perfect. choice to lead this through the actual exposure and accountability phase.

Yeah. I mean, great minds think alike on this, Zach, because that was my segue right there, and you nailed it right there. I was biting my tongue for the longest time. I was like, I know Brian's got this queued up. He's got to have it queued up. So, I mean, we both run very similar shows, right? And run Badlands Daily.

You have your show at 5 p.m. on red pill 78. And is it RP 78 or red pill? I always have to search it. It's rumble.com forward slash red pill 78. But if you just search red pill news, that's the name of the show. So like red pill 78 is the channel. Red pill news is the show brought to you by Zach Payne. There you go.

So I, you know, I kind of, I kind of, we kind of have the same mindset in transitioning these stories. And this is the logical, the logical transition right here. And I do think this is a big deal because not didn't, did not just work on the election stuff. he also worked on the Ukraine stuff, right? He was involved in that as well. And so this is a guy right here. Well, let me just read what CBS News is saying about it. And say Joseph D. Genova is being tapped as the U.S. Department,

by the U.S. Justice Department to lead the ongoing criminal investigation in the CIA, former CIA director John Brennan. DeJanova is joining the team just days after Maria Meditis Long was removed from the case, the decision to add Digenova and remove a career federal prosecutor from the probe is likely to stoke concerns about whether the case is politically motivated. Incorrect. Just the opposite. The political motivations are being removed from these cases. And that is my opinion. You will not change that. Dijanova is a staunch Trump ally who repeatedly pushed conspiracy theories alleging that they are they going to have to go back and edit all of these articles where they called this conspiracy theory? He's like, why haven't they done that yet? They're still going down on this.

Because in order to do that, they would probably have to hire an entire new division of journalistic monkeys that would go in and essentially edit every story they've written over the last 10 years. I don't think that that's going to happen. I mean, look at the stories about the Ukraine impeachment. Those people still have Pulitzer's. Okay. Those stories have not being updated, even though I would suggest that at this point, everything regarding the Ukraine impeachment. impeachment has been fully debunked. And even before we had these recent releases coming from the DNI, and nothing has changed.

They're not going to change anything. And, uh, you know, if, if anything, maybe perhaps they'll down list them at their own sites, but it'll still be out there for people to find in reference. Yeah. So, uh, he pushed conspiracy theories alleging the 2020 election was stolen in 2021. He was forced to apologize to Chris Krebs, the former director of the CISA cybersecurity and infrastructure agency. Um, they're missing a, uh, they're missing an S there.

Cyber security and security cybersecurity infrastructure security agency, which was always redundant to me, but that's not the actual acronym that they got there, but that's okay. We'll let it slide. Uh, who was fired during Mr. Trump's first term after Krebs said he felt the 2020 election was free of major fraud or interference. That is a complete and total mislabeling of what actually happened. First and foremost, um, Chris Krebs did not say that he felt the,

2020 election was free of major fraud and interference. He latched on to the assessment by what's the panel that he used to justify that? Oh, God, I don't even remember. I mean, like, there's, I don't know. I can't tell you off the top of my head. I can't remember the name of the panel, but it was a consortium of like Dominion, ESMS, all of the, the private public providers in the election sphere, run back. think was on that pro v and v sly compliance like all of the companies that run the elections private

organizations that have complete and total transparent uh no transparency with the american public that run our elections they're the ones that told chris crebs hey this was the most safest and secure and he goes out on on november 12th and regurgitates that well and i know you know this but yahuda miller did a foyer request with dhs with sissa and they accidentally sent him a TLP Amber report, meaning I think TLP stands for traffic limiting protocol, which is basically a bureaucratic way of classifying a document. It's not technically classified, but it's limited to only being distributed to the people that need to see this, and otherwise they keep it secret from you.

Well, they accidentally sent this to Yehuda Miller, and we come to find out that Sisa had been tracking the election infrastructure for a whole year, prior to 2020. And in this assessment, they blasted the security, the cybersecurity on our election, spearfishing reports, all sorts of encroachments and intrusions. And Chris Krebs goes out and says that. Now, we didn't find this out until I think 2024 when you go to when you Hood Miller got that accidental FOIA request.

I mean, Chris Krebs should go out and have to publicly apologize to Joe DeGinova for this. but I'll land that there. Yeah, the highly doubtful that's going to happen. But what I would love is for Chris Krebs to maybe be investigated criminally for the part that he played in lying to the American people. And even worse, essentially allowing the stolen election to go through, allowing it to be stolen, allowing the people's verdict to be stripped of any sort of legitimacy. Yep. Shiba Rista in the chat says, was it accidental?

That's a fantastic point. I mean, there's no question that there are still people with that demand accountability, whether you want to call them white hats, whether you want to just call them patriots, or whether you just want to call them Americans that look at something and they're like, this is not right. We've got to do something to correct this. And that's one way you can do that. You accidentally respond with a FOIA request and give something that you otherwise wouldn't

have given. So, yeah, that's a very valid point. I do want to cover these real, real quick, these two tweets from back in 2021, CNN's Paula Reid. CNN has learned warrants served this morning on Giuliani and another former Trump attorney, Victoria Tonesing, both say they were related to a foreign lobby investigation. Executing early morning search warrants on quote on emphasis lawyers at their emphasis homes seems awfully aggressive for a emphasis FARA case. And just I know you know this, but do you know who Victoria Tonin, Tone Singh's husband is? Joe DeGeneva.

Joe DeGeneva. Yes. Yes. Yes. And then we got Dan Goldman in his private capacity as a lawyer during the impeachment hearing says this makes sense because during the Ukraine impeachment investigation, we obtained draft retainer agreements between a Ukrainian official and Tone Singh and DeGeneva that Giuliani. brokered. So again, as it's very interesting, Genova, and I keep wanting to say DeGenova, because I don't know, I guess I'm not as Italian as I think. But it's very interesting to me that this is coming out as John Solomon and just the news

are putting out stories about, and Jim Jordan's out there talking about this, about expunging Trump's perfect phone call impeachment with Ukraine and the Genova is coming back into the mainstream as, you know, somebody that's going to be tasked with this conspiracy, grand conspiracy down in Florida. The whole thing's starting to come together and make a little bit of sense now. It's called timing. Yep. Yep. Yep.

Yep. All right. Love it. We got another kind of election story here. And, you know, again, this is kind of just. just rehashing some old stuff, but hearing Rick Scott say, nuke the filibuster is always is always promising. One of them is the Save America Act because we've talked about this numerous times.

The House wants it done, although there are those in the House who say they want other things attached to it. The GOP in the Senate doesn't seem to have a plan for getting this past. Our next guest also called this a pretext for voter suppression. So your response to his characterization and what is the plan for Republicans in the Senate? Well, first off, it's real simple. You should have to have an ID to vote. You should have to show your American citizens and register to vote. Overwhelming, over 80% of Americans, Republicans, Democrats, and independents want this. The only reason Senate Democrats are against it is they have to want fraud.

The only way this is going to happen is we have to blow up the filibuster. The filibuster was never supposed to stop a bill. It was supposed to stop debate. The Democrats are using it to stop this bill. We need to blow up the filibuster and pass. this with 50 Republican votes. Well, later. All right.

So we'll see if it happens. I mean, I don't know what else to say to that other than let's bring the SAVE Act back front and center. They're trying to throw it into the FISA, which, you know, again, is just like what was the, what was the bill, Zach, that they were trying to throw it on originally? Oh, they were trying to throw it in the funding bill for DHS. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was it, right?

Yes. And yeah, you know, it's like, it's like, okay, so you're going to throw that into. No, it wasn't the funding bill for DHS, was it? No, yeah. I mean, I'm pretty sure they were trying to connect them. They never actually did it, but there was conversation about having it done. And ultimately, they've always separated it and had it on its own. I think that attaching it to any type of extension on FISA might be, it might not even be enough to,

to have it actually pass. I mean, the people who don't want this to get through, I think that they would be willing to stop FISA, even if normally they would totally vote for an extension in any respect. Because that's just how much they realize, checking the identity of people, making sure that they have actual American citizenship before they vote. That is a death strike to ability to continue,

elections as successfully as they have them up until this point. So yeah, but what I'm thinking of was, you know, going back probably two or three weeks ago when we were talking about all this was, um, uh, Unipunabanka coming out, Anna Paulina Luna for anybody that's new year. That's, that's her nickname, uh, coming out. And she was the one that was like, well, if we can't pass this as a standalone, we need to attach it to FISA. And that's when that's when I was like, oh, so we're going to take an unconstitutional bill. We're going to throw in the save act and, and, and incentivize rallying. support around a FISA bill, which, you know, Rick Scott goes on to say there, there's been 200,000 Americans who have been surveilled under the FISA Act and nobody's been held accountable for that. That's been something that Cash Patel wrote extensively about in government gangsters, the FISA courts and how corrupt they are and all that stuff. And we've got no accountability for any of that. And so attaching the SAVE Act to a bill that, you know, for FISA courts should be unconstitutional in the first place. That doesn't do anything.

thing for me in terms of like I'm not rallying all the sudden for the FISA act and that's what that's what Unipanuno is trying to do early on and now you know they've kind of moved on from that and then Rick Scott just rehashes it right now is you know Trump had said something over the weekend about FISA and I was very concerned with that truth actually because at one point he's like I'd give up my rights to allow the military to do you know for the military to be able to do this and that was disheartening to see that post but well you know I don't think that In FISA in its current incarnation, like the, you know, the incarnation we've had all this time, I don't think that they're going to, I don't think they have the votes to successfully pass it through either the House. Maybe the Senate, I don't know. It hasn't even reached the Senate yet. But I mean, if there are caveats that are placed on FISA to ensure that it can't be misused against Americans and warrantless wiretapping continues. I mean, I think that there is a need for something. like that but i mean it's a foreign intelligence surveillance act i mean it's supposed to be foreign it's

like the idea of the cia operating outside of the united states but they still operate here in the united states they're you know whether they're doing it through you know means that are on the books or if they're doing clandestine operations it shouldn't be happening either way so you know if they can if they can use it properly to go after people that are bad outside the united states okay cool i mean we have to have surveillance methods, but the way it's being used and the way it was written, allowing it to be used in the way that it has. And also the people abusing it, not being held accountable up until this point, absolutely disgusting. Maybe the answer is to bring those indictments before that vote ever happens so that it can be shown to everyone, not just the people who are already paying attention. you know i i i've talked about this many many times on on daily but i'll just bring it up one more time here

uh you know i was talking with a a friend that you know was a former formerly with the fbi i and we were talking about fisa courts and and fisa warrants and all that stuff and the way that they that they do it and uh you know i'd mentioned to them that i get you know on my on my my official email that i use for shows and everything else um i mentioned that I get all these strange emails from overseas contracts and stuff to bid on like energy deals and all that stuff. Well, and I'm not saying that this is what it is, but you know what that could potentially be, Zach. I'm aware. Yeah.

Yeah. So they send these emails from people that are being surveilled. They open up a case on these companies that are overseas. And then by opening up the case on these overseas companies, they get access through, you know, through, you know, what do they call it, second degree of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of. you know affiliation I guess yeah and they're able to then spy on that person and so when you when we get these unsolicited emails from foreign countries and foreign businesses soliciting us to do business which I've never done I've never applied for anything I've never even searched websites in some of these

countries right somehow my name is on their list well what they're able to do is if they obtain that warrant which we will never know if they obtain that warrant they can then literally create a clone of your inbox and they can be going through your entire email inbox without you even knowing they can open emails that are unread in your inbox right and they still appear to you unread but on their clone they can go through anything they can respond they can do anything and you know and again i'm not saying that that's what's happening to me or or you but you know we are in a sphere here where there is influence there is influence in in our writings in our in our shows in some of the research that we've done the people that we associate with

and the people that we know and there's no question that uh you know these they could be in looking into this and and k cubic says no clicky it doesn't matter if you click it or not the fact that get it is enough for them to to use that affiliation yeah i mean like imagine if someone who's a known terrorist calls your cell phone you don't answer the phone call you don't get a voicemail from them but there's a record of that terrorist attempting to contact you that immediately puts you under that umbrella surveillance yeah that and that's horrifying and so i am staunchly against uh any fiza spying on americans you can use it overseas go for it go for it but but the second that you start infringing on americans without telling them

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No, no. But they would never, Zach, you would never commit election fraud because that's just too far. Health care fraud, it's like the Drake meme, right? Health care for election fraud, no, health care fraud. Yeah. It's the Drake meme right here. A Montezuma therapist, two Macon County Board of Election officials and two other Middle Georgia women are facing federal charges for their connection to a years long mental health.

care fraud scheme. Federal prosecutors believe that Tarcia, Tarcia, Tarcia, Tarcia, Fudge Riley, who is the chief, Fudge Riley, who is the chief Macon County Board of Election Supervisor, and LaMonica Lakes, an elections clerk at the Macon County Board of Elections, as well as Childs, what's Childs, Angela Childs, were paid by James Ellis to knowingly create fake therapy session notes that were submitted to health insurance providers for quote unquote pre-payment review jump down here it says secretary of state brad raffensberger called for their immediate suspension of fudge riley amid the allegations quote georgians deserve absolute integrity for their election directors and staff said raffensberger in a statement these are serious charges that

jeopardize public trust fudge riley must step aside while the legal process plays out it's troubling that she hasn't done that voluntarily. I would say the same thing about you, Brad Raffinsberger. Yeah. Why have you not stepped aside while this plays out? Why has your office been fighting this and other offices been fighting election integrity in Fulton County and other Georgia counties nonstop for the last five years? This is the epitome of pot meat kettle.

Absolutely. Yeah. If we're going simply on the appearance of impropriety, Brad Raffensberger is the post. boy. So there's, there's, there's no world in my book where it's permissible for him to remain in that position. And he's still running for a higher office, isn't he? Governor. Yeah. Yeah. As an independent. No, I think he's still running as a Republican. Oh, you know, they tried kicking him out of the Republican Party, but I think they might have been

unsuccessful. No, they voted. They voted to kick him out. And then successfully voted to kick him out. And then there was like a rule. It was like a ceremonial vote. It was ministerial because it had no teeth. They couldn't actually remove him from the party. And so I mean, imagine knowing how fake and gay your elections are that you can be kicked out of a party ceremonially like like just not ceremonially. What would the word be like kubuki theater, right? Like it's just it's it's a it's a dog and pony show. Yeah, we're kicking you out, but we can't really kick you out so you can come on back in. But just know that we hate your guts, right? And then he's like,

that's okay. I'm still going to run for under under the Republican ticket because we We saw what happened to the 2022 election to get him reelected to Secretary of State. Yeah, pulling at 37 percent. And then on primary night, he all of a sudden jumps up to 51 percent. It's amazing how that happens. And what else is funny is Brian Kemp went up by the same increment as Brad Raffinsberger. And Brian Kemp was already over the 51 percent necessary to avoid a runoff. It's almost like, it's almost like there's like a program they have that just always gives us 51-49.

Just enough every single time in races all around the country. So strange. Whenever I talk about that, I always talk about Garland Fabrito and his lawyers that were watching the count. And I believe it was Cobb County. They were watching a hand recount. And they were supposed to be monitoring a certain race. And they said,

nah, we're going to watch Raffinsberger's race. And they determined that the results were misreported in that county from what was reported versus what the actual numbers were. And it was a double digit difference. And that, Of course, you can't go anywhere with that because, you know, Secretary of State Raffinsberger sends his pit bull Charlene McGowan after anybody that would dare question elections. Yeah.

And, yeah, there was a bar complaint filed against her this weekend. Really? Late last week. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. I'm going to be doing a, I'm going to be going to be going through that. I saw Robert Guvay already went through it over the weekend. And so he kind of beat me to the drop there. But I'll be going through that as well here pretty soon. And I think that wraps up the Aso of an A all shows are why we vote now. So thank you all so much for tuning in. And yeah, ready to move on to the other news. Yeah, let's do it.

All right. Let's stay on the fraud here. Just the news. Watchdog G-A-O estimates fraud costs taxpayers between 233 billion and 521. billion annually. The report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office released on April 15th, Keck, like that is a total shot right there. Like, hey, we're going to tell all you guys on the day that you guys are all going to pay your taxes. We're going to drop this report so you guys can see this. The GAO found that quotes, all federal programs and operations are at risk of fraud,

underscoring vulnerabilities and programs administered jointly by federal and state government. testifying before lawmakers GAO said that the scale of the problem is staggering and they estimate that it cost the federal government between 233 and 521 billion dollars annually. It says the structure of many federal programs relies heavily on state agencies to administer benefits such as Medicaid and unemployment insurance in fiscal year 2025 alone. the federal government distributed about $1.2 trillion in grants to state and local governments. While that decentralized model allows programs to reach millions of Americans, auditors say it creates gaps in oversight and coordination. So imagine that, $1.2 trillion up to $500 and what was it, $521 billion in fraud.

that's almost half. Yeah, essentially, half, over half a trillion dollars each year. I feel like that low estimate is far too forgiving. And I even think that maybe the, the, the high end might be too forgiving as well. When you look at that, and again, this is why I think, I think it's signal that they released that report on April 15th. 100%. It is, it is, it is, it is, it is the day. It is the day that we all.

have to begrudgingly go when that we don't have to when plenty of people do plenty of people are going to go and and begrudgingly file their taxes and send the money off to uncle sam or send uncle sam a a wish list of what you would like to get back from your taxes meanwhile they put out this report that half of the general welfare right the general welfare clause jay madison railed against general general welfare and what it actually means Um, we're spending half of that one point two trillion half of one point two trillion in fraud. Like why are we paying for anything? Like where where is the accountability on that?

You would never support a business that was that was, you know, half of their expenditures was fraud. Not at all. No, no. This is this is a huge problem. It's also the kind of problem that transcends political boundaries. I, I 100% agree with you that they did that intentionally. And, um, I mean, You see it everywhere online.

People of all political persuasions getting riled up by the idea that everything is a scam. And so many people who don't deserve to benefit from life here in America are benefiting and doing so much better than us. You know, I mean, like I saw a case study of, you know, an illegal alien getting paid less to do the exact same amount, to do the same type of work as an American citizen. But because of, you know, taxation and the cost of living and all of that stuff, the illegal alien still makes more money, more take-home money at the end of the day because there's all of these social service programs. They don't have to pay taxes. You know, they may be getting $5 less per hour at the outset, but at the end of the year, they are making significantly more money. It's disgusting, man. Yeah.

It just absolutely aggravates the shit out of me. And, you know, I think you're right that this is something that every American can get behind, can rally. Every American that's not benefiting from this fraud can get behind. They can rally behind. And again, until we start seeing accountability for this, nothing's going to change. Nothing is going to change. Well, we're beginning to see accountability. And this is a perfect example.

We are beginning to see accountability. But again, I go back to what I said a couple weeks ago. And some people found this, like, they got aggravated with me for this. I don't care as much about the low-level people that are executing this fraud. I care about the people that are supposed to be there to ensure that this does not happen. People in a country of allegedly 330 million people, you are always going to have people to try and exploit the government, exploit the welfare.

Yes, if you catch them, arrest them, absolutely. But I would rather give them a slap on the wrist if they're willing to go against the executives, the politicians, the officials that allow that fraud to perpetuate. Because you can't stop it until you cut it off at its root source. And, you know, again, I'm saying a slap on the wrist, meaning a year in prison, you know, that kind of stuff. Sure, sure. You know, let them go, Scott Free. Absolutely not.

But, you know, I'm not going to lock. If you keep locking all these people up for 10 years and you never even go and press them on how they were able to, you know, orchestrate this fraud. And again, there could be a grand conspiracy brewing in the background to go out. after this go after Omar and Tim Walls and what's the Keith Ellison. Is it Ellison? Yeah, the AG in Minnesota

and go after, sure, I'm all for it. But Americans are getting pretty fucking pissed off with this. And go ahead. Do you want to comment? Well, you know, I mean, I don't know. Okay, so what you're suggesting I absolutely agree with. Okay. I mean, like

there is a system that has been set up and perpetuated to allow these sorts of things to happen. And you know some of the politicians that were responsible for helping to create this system may no longer be in office bad policy is not necessarily criminal intent all right however their communications if there are communications outside of the actual you know debate space where they're talking about oh we need to create these programs and you know set up all of this money i think that we would be stupid to believe that those people are not aware that if they just throw money into the community, they're not buying

votes or they're not going to ensure that a certain amount of that money is going to end up back into their their PAC accounts or their campaign accounts. That's the sort of stuff that we need to, that I think needs to be investigated. You know, like what were the decisions that led to the creation of these programs? But are those people that are committing the fraud? Are they fully aware? about Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar, Tim Walls. I mean, there appears to be a direct connection between Somali scammers feeding our future and Keith Ellison. And then of course you have whistleblowers that attempted to raise awareness about this and obviously they were retaliated against. At least one of them has come forward and said Tim Walls 100% knew about this stuff.

So whether or not Tim Walls created the system or simply ignored the system, because he didn't want to lose votes and didn't want to lose that money coming in. I believe he should be held criminally accountable. But I don't know that we're always going to be able to find that link, right? I mean, it depends on where it exists and it depends on how careful these people have been and, you know, what they've talked about. But if I would definitely say that there are people working within these agencies at the state or even at the federal level who definitely knew what the hell was going on.

that woman in Minnesota who approved like the $200 million grant and then the next week left Minnesota state government to go work for the company that she had approved the grant for and then she gets a multi-million dollar salary. Obviously, she knew exactly what she was doing. So there's a lot of different pathways that we can go down here. But ultimately at the beginning, cutting off the fraud from perpetuating and continuing to bleed people dry, I think that's got to be job. one. So I think, you know, taking down these agencies, these, these healthcare businesses and, you know, these fraudulent businesses, that is highly, highly important because not only does it stop the fraud from taking place, but it also stops that flow of money from going back into the hands of dirty politicians. Correct. And, and then allowing, so then, you know, what are their

moves going to be now that they're not going to be paid? That's really what I'm interested in seeing. So, and again, this is just kind of my theory here. I do believe there's a lot of criminal negligence, right? Like, just because you pretend to play plausible deniability, you pretend to play like you weren't aware and you were just following the rules and everything else, there is criminal negligence. Yes. And, you know, when we talk about feeding our futures, you know,

there's ties to the mayor's wife, you know, with feeding our futures and, you know, some of those kinds of connections that we've talked about previously. But, you know, when you talk about these, these low-level folks that, you know, the pawns, as I call them on the chessboard, they're sacrificial. And I think, and again, this is just my opinion on this. But I think a lot of these people look at this and they're like, okay, so I've got to do, you know, I'm going to go do a year in a prison camp or two years in a prison camp, which is, you know, lightweight. But then after that I'm going to get out and I'm going to have that nest egg of all this fraudulent money that I've been stashing aside and I'm going to live in this country with three or four million dollar nest egg. You know, They're seizing that shit. Oh, they're not seizing it. You don't see that this money's being clawed back. I have seen numerous instances of the money being clawed back. The houses being repossessed, the cars.

I mean, I don't know that they're able to go after money that's put into account in Kenya or something. Bingo. There's the key right there. That's what I'm saying. This money is being shipped overseas. So I talked about, you know, there was a there was a guy that lived in the town that I live in. that was linked to a like a 650 million dollar fraud scheme with Obama phones, right? And he was indicted, he was arrested, he was convicted, but he sent $55 million to,

I think it was, it might have been Jordan. He sent $55 million, Lebanon maybe, to somewhere over, you know, in the Middle East, right? That's that nest egg. You can't, they're not going to be able to touch that money. So even if they're able to, you know, seize everything over here, which they haven't done, yet because I can tell you that they haven't seized anything from this guy. He lives in a huge, huge, huge, huge mansion. Did he go to prison? Yes, he went to a prison up in Alabama, allegedly, a work camp for five years, probably be out in two. And then when he gets out, this was the Biden administration that Obama. Obama was the Obama. No, no, I'm saying, okay, so the,

the fraud happened under Obama, but was he, he was prosecuted under Obama as well. I couldn't tell you when the prosecution started. But, you know, I wrote a story about this. This guy murdered somebody, ran him over with their car, with his car, a guy that was standing in front of his car, trying to stop him from leaving because he owed him money. He had a contract and he said, I'm going to run you over. And he ran the guy over and killed him. And he got a slap on the wrist.

But my point is, is, you know, that's what happens with this is those connections. And so I think maybe there could be like incentivization not to. rat out the people higher up because then you can expose how this money laundering operations taking offshoring some of this money so when they do get out they have that nest egg and so the threat is if you if you rat these people out then we're going to take away your means of of you know the stuff that you stashed off on the side again i don't know this to be fact this is just kind of what my observations from some of the fraud cases that i've looked at um and so i'll land that there um but again well We didn't even play the freaking Dr. Oz clip.

Do it. Let's play the Dr. Oz clip. We, and I'll make this enough on your show. We have stopped payments to 450 hospices in California. Guess what? Not one has called us asking to reinstitute them. Wow. They may change their minds over time.

But in 10 weeks, we've shut down 450 payments systems to these guys. That's representing at least $600, $700 million just this year. And no one's complaining. because they know they got caught and that's sort of the scary part about the system when you knock on their door and say hey we're here i did that with uh with the u.s attorney billy assaili in in los angeles when we went in with the swat team these guys don't fight back they know they bought multi-million dollar mansions in these posh neighborhood they've got beautiful cars lots of them all bought with ill-gotten gains made from defrauding the american taxpayer when they're

caught they don't argue they knew what might happen one day they're sort of surprised that we came for them but my message for them is very clear don't walk run away because we're coming for you you know so i mean that kind of supports what i've been saying i you know i don't know well i mean obviously they're spending all kinds of money this is why i mean i would assume like freaking the u.s government i mean certainly the irs has no problem to it they'll take everything from a person who has nothing so why are they not clawing everything back that they that they possibly can i mean i have definitely learned of at least some of it being clawed back. And I mean, it was specifically related to the feeding our future stuff.

But I mean, I would say that the the healthcare fraud businesses that have just been shut down in Los Angeles, it's a little early to say they're not going to claw that stuff back because it's only just beginning. It's hard to claw back. It's hard to claw back crypto on cold storage. And then when you get out of prison and you go to a foreign country and you just plug in that cold storage and boom, you've got access to millions of dollars in crypto. And by the way, the year and a half, two years that you're in prison, Bitcoin, for example, might have went from, you know, $40,000 up to $120,000. It's pulled back a little bit now. But that, you know, that's kind of the point right there. And I think that

eventually, I think we're going to start seeing cases like that emerge where you have, you know, people that get out of prison and then for this type of fraud and then go back to their home country and live like freaking kings and it's all because of the u.s taxpayer and make sure you guys continue paying your taxes and if you don't the IRS will claw everything from you until you do god bless god bless it all right uh new york post put this story out here anchor babies reach nearly 10% of all u.s births nearly 10% in 2023 of u.s births came from a legal immigrant mother three hundred and twenty thousand of the three point six million babies born in the u.s that year were anchor babies that would not qualify for birthright citizenship if president trump's executive

order is upheld by the supreme court unfortunately that's not entirely true because the birthright citizenship is not seeking retroactive application of this law well is it i mean they would not have uh been able to you know achieve citizenship if the birthright citizenship executive order is allowed to stand. I think they're just saying this is an example of people who under this executive order would not be citizens. Obviously, they're not going to claw that stuff back. My question is, are they going to count it from the day that President Trump signed it? Because I think they should, certainly.

I think that, and, you know, I honestly, I have no problem with them going retroactive. If you have women who simply came to the United States of America on a birth tourism visa and gave birth to a child and then immediately went back to their home country and those people are not living here. They have no claim to this land. I have no problem with them retroactively going and and counting those people. That would be something I would really like to see. Yeah. I would imagine. So I listened to that hearing.

It was like two hours long. And, and, you know, they did say we're not looking to go back retroactively beyond the Trump administration, but I do think that it would apply from the day that he signed that executive order. Okay. And I, and I hope that's upheld at the Supreme Court because, you know, that's an absurd idea that, that, you know, just because you are born on U.S. soil to illegal immigrant parents that have no business here, you all of a sudden get all the rights and privileges of being an American citizen. that's kind of bonkers. And then furthermore, it makes it more difficult to deport parents because now there's that, you know, bleeding heart liberal, oh, you're going to take away the parents from this kid. Well, they should have thought about that.

Yeah. It says of the 320,000, the center said 245,000 were born to parents who, both parents who were illegal immigrants. 15,000 babies were born to mothers who had temporary legal status. And 60,000 were born to illegal alien mothers while the child's father was a citizen or law permanent resident now that last one there the 60,000 I think under the Trump executive order they would be granted citizenship right if one of the parents is a citizen or a lawful legal permanent residence I think that would give you citizenship it does yeah yeah so all right um and then another story on the Trump citizenship uh immigration story I love this one right here

this is just I mean I hate seeing it because I don't like seeing people people, you know, kind of, I don't like see people suffer, but they brought it on themselves, right? 15 Latin American deportees from the U.S. arrive in the Congo. Came from South America. You're going to Africa. Drop you off in the middle of the Congo. Personally, I love this. I do too, but I also.

They brought it on themselves. I mean, what are they suffering from? Okay. They allegedly don't want to go back to their home country. So they're going to get a chance to go to another. country all right you know get your life together if you want to decide where you end up going because it's not here yeah but dude could you i i i'm with you i you know i i don't like you know i don't know know if they have a say in that but could you imagine like you you're being deported from america

where you know everything's beautiful and you go to the congo which is just i mean always up in war zone it's a war zone 24-7 you know like no idea what you're walking into and they're like yep you're going you don't want to go back to South America, you don't want to go to your home country. Well, we're not sending you to France. We're not sending you to Italy. We're not sending you to Spain. We're sending you to the Congo. I love it.

I love it. Yeah, so that's pretty much the story right there that these people, they don't want to go back to South America. And so Trump gets to decide the DO or the Department of Homeland Security gets to decide where they're going to go. All right. Let's jump into this clip here from Catherine Harridge talking to Una Panuna. I saw everybody with the green lights and everything earlier, so I'll give it to you now. I deliberately held off on it until now, but here you go. All right, there it is.

So this is Catherine Harwich sitting down with Unipanuna, who has been talking about the Swahwell files, which I think are the most important files contemporarily for right now. The Swahwell files, check this out. Do other house members have skeletons in their closets? Yes. I'd say right now, there's. probably about two, well, two House members, like with one senator. But I think that this right now is freaking a lot of people out. And also, too, I think this is kind of something that we've been pushing

forward, but we wanted to release the congressional slush fund. Is this the beginning of a major purge on Capitol Hill? I think so. How many members are we talking about? Well, as of right now, there's probably three between the House and the Senate. Three, but there could be more. They could be more. Yeah. There's always rumors, but rumors aren't always true. It's what's in evidence. Major purge. Three. Get out of here, man. It's way more than three.

Way more. But she makes an excellent point. You know, rumors are one thing, but evidence is going to be king when we're talking about actually having people removed from Congress. Now, just because people haven't come forward yet to give that evidence doesn't mean that they're not going to. And I would imagine that there are probably a lot of big checks that are being written in DC. see right now trying to ensure that people do not come forward now if those people were smart they would take those checks they would cash them and then they would immediately go and do a podcast get out there and talk about it go ahead and take that money and then get out there and expose that

person i have no problem with that amen and then get your ass out to a non extradition uh country and disappear change your identity go live on uh go live on on on on on Epstein's island where he's living right now, because I still think that he's still alive. Just, tongue in cheek, guys, relax.

Well, no, I actually think he's alive. I'm not saying go to Epstein Island to live there. Right. Right, right. I get,

I got it. But yeah, I mean, this is, so the Ruben-Gaigo things making traction right now. Yeah. That was something that a lot of us picked up on right away when we saw that, the connections to Swalwell,

the timing of everything. You know, I saw, Gateway Pundant had a story out where they actually have a picture of Gallego from the same angle on his campaign Instagram. And it looks, I mean, it looks like he's wearing the same damn shirt in the picture. And the timing of it is August of 2021, probably somewhere close around when this happened. They've now determined that that video that Swahwell of him with the sex worker was most likely in Vegas at the cosmopolitan hotel. I mean, like all the internet man, I'm telling you, they are relentless.

They are relentless. And so this is going to come out. Any word on identifying the blonde hooker in the back who definitely did not want to be on camera? No, I haven't heard that yet. I haven't heard anything on that yet. But, you know, again, I think that this is all going to come out. And I also think the reason I think the Swallow files are so big and going to Asso Wavanaugh now, right, all shows are why we vote, is I think the only way, well, one of the guaranteed way to survive a primary in our election.

system. And if you survive the primary, you pretty much know whether or not you're going to win, right? Our politics are so, you know, cut and dry in certain districts that you know if you win the primary in, you know, for example, Los Angeles, you know you're most likely going to win. If you're a Democrat, you're going to win the election, right? And so you get these people that go out there and they win these elections, they win these primaries because there is evidence, right? There is blackmail evidence that they can hold over their heads. control them and when you start seeing like the Swalwell files getting released and and these people coming forward there's there's timing behind that right there's a reason that this is being allowed to seep out

into the mainstream now maybe perhaps that kind of i don't know exposed the operation exposed what we've all known to be true for a long time here about the currency of blackmail in dc and and and again that's why you see fallout i mean kirsten cinema just got blasted by t m z for you know, sleeping with her bodyguard and causing a divorce. Now, we knew this, right? We knew this, but now we're getting the text messages. We're getting the court case and the stuff from the court case. Gallego, another Arizona politician that replaced cinema, you know, potentially involved in the, in the Swalwell cover up here. It's all fascinating. And I hope when Unapunah says, you know, this could be the beginning of a major purge and then says three people, guys, we know it's

worse than that. So, yes, hopefully that's foreshadowing. Yeah. Hopefully, is just airing on the side of caution based upon what we have evidence for at this moment. Yep. I'm curious to get your take on this story here, Zach. So Cash Patel, we're going back to the Cash interview from yesterday. By the way, that's an epic face that Cash is making right there. I couldn't freeze that any perfecter, perfecter, more perfectly. Yes, more perfectly.

So here's Cash talking about the 11 missing scientists. The White House and the President, the FBI is going to be spearheading the effort collectively with our partners at the Department of Energy and the Department of War. These missing and killed scientists and former professional members of the Department of Energy vary in wide range. And we're working most importantly with our state and local partners who have the jurisdiction on each of these cases, whether they be a homicide or a missing person's case, they have the evidence. What we're going to do is collectively pull it all into one place. We started this process last week. And then we're going to look for connections, like you said, on whether there are connections to classified access,

access to classified information and or foreign actors. And then we will produce that information to the White House in the world because it's of such great public importance. And if there's any connections that lead to nefarious conduct or conspiracy, this FBI will make the appropriate arrest. White House and the president. All right. So we always got to play that as we get into the little conspiratorial aliens

and whatever else you could possibly conjure up from this story right here. We've talked about this story. You know, their connections to things like the Air Force Research Labs, the Jet Propulsion Labs, the New Mexico, Santa Fe Research Lab. What's your take on this, Zach? Because you dig into this stuff pretty hard.

And what have you kind of gathered from this story? I definitely think that there was a connection to these people's deaths and disappearances. I mean, like to have as many people as we do within some fairly important areas of scientific research that are all dying mysteriously and just going missing me and the people who've gone missing have all gone missing under basically the exact same circumstances they simply walked away from their lives with no indications for the people that they love to tell them what might

be happening to them. I mean, they literally just, you know, just like, you know, going about their day. And then, you know, last thing, they're seen walking down the street away from their home and that's it. So I think that we have people who have definitely been murdered. And then I think we have people who knew that their lives were in danger. And so they made the intentional choice to go into hiding. And I don't know what's happened to them. I don't know if they're being protected or if they just know that if if they stick their head above water, then they're going to get, they're going to get suicided. But yeah, I think that all of this is connected. And if I had to guess, I mean, I don't think like it's like the Trump administration is killing them or anything like that.

I mean, this has happened through, you know, numerous administrations now. But I think that it's a signal to the enduring legacy of the deep state, right? I mean, like there is, this is a criminal cartel that seeks to continue to enslave humanity. And the technology that these people were working on, it has the power to set humanity free in a way that, you know, a lot of people have been, have been hoping and, you know, wishing for for a very long time. And also, it would be highly disruptive to many different current industries. And so people are just seeking to maintain their bottom line and stay as rich as possible. And it's simply no big deal to kill somebody, even when they have as much intelligence and brainpower as these people do.

But I mean, you can't just kill all of your top scientists and think that your society is going to be okay. I mean, you look at what happened in China, you know, the revolution under Mao. And they, I mean, they killed everybody who was, you know, scientists and engineers and people that were really like the, like the cream of the crop in terms of like the intelligentsia. And, you know, that had a major impact on China for many, many years. I am going to go a step more into the conspiratorial realm with this. and i'm going to go with like greenland the movie and paradise the tv show and uh you know one of those scientists was renowned for being able to detect uh what would you call it like events in space that could impact the earth directly comets asteroids meteors yeah things like that

and uh you know maybe perhaps they know something inevitable is coming and they have now taken refuge in the underground bunkers and facilities that, who is the woman that was on Tucker talking about $2 trillion? Yeah, worked in the Bush administration. Now again, I'm being very conspiratorial here, but it is absolutely a possibility, the prophetic predictive programming of Hollywood and the media. And all of a sudden these, you know,

now it doesn't explain why some of them are being killed if they're actually being killed, right? Well, if they don't wanna play the game, it could be, yeah. Yeah, I absolutely believe that there is, you know, evidence for a breakaway civilization, a, you know, a group of, you know, evil, wealthy, Uber wealthy people that live a life, you know, perhaps here with us, completely separate from us. Yeah. I mean, it's a very real possibility that this kind of stuff happens. And, you know, I am being, again, I'm being conspiratorial here. And it's, it's fun to joke about it and talk about it.

but there is an actual possibility that something like that is happening. And that was a great point, Zach, is, you know, if these people were on that list and all of a sudden, they're like, no, no, I'm not going. I'm not going. I don't want to do this. Well, then you can't be around. You're a liability and we got to tie up that liability. And so, man, that is really scary to think. And, you know, that something like that could happen.

And we wouldn't know until maybe a day or two before it's going to happen. And, man, that's fucking scary, bro. I'm personally not too worried about it. not either but when you start thinking about it it's hard not to be worried right like we'll go see our maker it's just a lot earlier than we then we thought you know i'm all i'm i'm ready whenever god says it's time it's time but you know scary all right uh one more story i'm gonna well we'll cover this story and then just run through the big news out of the uh the war with iran but before we get to that uh actually you know what before we get to that let's let's hit our last sponsor of the show

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2026. Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs on May 20th with more coming later. About 10% of its global workforce, close to 8,000 employees will be laid off in the first initial round. The company is planning to lay off 20% or more of that global. global workforce. Zuckerberg is pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into AI as he seeks to dramatically reshape his company's inner workings around the technology, reflecting a broader pattern among major U.S. companies this year. Amazon has trimmed 30,000 corporate employees in

recent months, representing nearly 10% of its white collar workers. In both cases, the executives tied the cuts to efficiency gains from artificial intelligence. Layoffs. FYI reported that 73,212 employees have lost their jobs so far this year. And that's compared to 2024. The figure was 153,000. So we talked about this at Gart. You know, it was on the panel. Me and J.B.

We're talking about it on one of the panels. I don't remember which one. But it's happening. When it starts with meta and Amazon and these large tech firms, you're going to see it start to trickle down into, you know, medium-sized and small businesses eventually. So here we go. Here we go.

You know, if I can say, I think that it's wonderful that AI is not simply taking jobs from the lowest-level employees and that the mid-level managers, the C-suite executives also losing their jobs. I think that that's a just sort of culling because for many, many years, those people would make the decisions to fire those people at the base of the structure. And now they're losing their jobs too. It's certainly something I think many of them didn't expect to see. Amen. I'm with you on that. There's no love loss for some of these people that have to make these decisions and have made these decisions. And granted, some of them are genuinely good people and maybe.

made, you know, decisions that had to be made for the business, but there's others that, you know, kind of, you know, just just taking profits purely over, over, you know, public interest and whatnot. The funny thing about this, though, Zach, is a lot of these people that are being fired now are technologists and people that have been actually working on the artificial intelligence and training the artificial, like they're literally eating themselves. It's like, you know, the, where you're chained to the wall and do you, do you eat your foot to get the handcuff you know the foot cuffs off what was in saw the right the first stall where the guy's chained and like you have to sacrifice yourself in order to escape here they're sacrificing

themselves and realizing that the machine that they're creating is going to cause their own destruction yeah and uh it's it's it's kind of funny to watch because they're the ones that have manufactured this crisis and they're the ones that are the first ones that are really being impacted by it yeah it's um it's kind of like um i i i t i tc't specialists who are forced to train their Indian H-1B replacements. I had to do that one time. I had to train a replacement. And I'll tell you what, there's nothing more humiliating than knowing that at the end of the

week, the guy that you're training is going to be taking your job. I've been fortunate enough that the only corporate structure I ever worked in was the Marine Corps. That's the only place where I had a, you know, rank in chain of command and all that stuff. And so I've never had to do anything like that. Fortunately, if I was ever in a predicament like that, I would tell them to kick rocks. I would not, I would absolutely refuse. Because like you said, that is a humiliating, that's a humiliation ritual in and of itself,

having to replace your replacement before they fire you. The other part of the AI thing, and this happened, you know, back in I think it was 2023, was the Screen Actors Guild and their strike right there. And, you know, the writer's strike and all that stuff. and we're starting to see this effect quite a bit. So buckle up, folks. We'll see how we're going to navigate through this and how we end up on the other side.

So the last story I'm going to cover for today, real quick, the U.S. achieving some incredible precision fires in the Strait of Hormuz, taking out this Tuska ship, a carrier that I guess it was carrying some chemicals or whatever, and tried to escape the naval blockade. And the Department of War releases this clip of the actual disabling of the engine bay.

Motor vessel, Toska, Motovessel Toska, vacate your engine room. Vacate your engine room. We're prepared to subject you to disabling fire. Boom, boom, boom, boom, goes the naval warship, taking out the engine bay. pretty impressive man i love it i you know it's funny is is you can hear him in the background there and i i clicked back to my my days in afghanistan where you hear them over the radio going through the the the roees the rules of engagement and the procedures that you have to go through before you're actually able to live fire and you know when we were standing post if we had a vehicle

that was approaching a checkpoint or something along those lines like there's there's rules that you have to go through before you're able to actually engage with them and you know it starts with like waving at them and if they don't stop and then you know from that point you might pop a pen flare at them and then if that doesn't work then you lift up the rifle and aim it at them if that doesn't work then you can open fire and you can hear them over the background going okay we just we just we just gave the radio call okay we just popped the flare okay we just did the horn blast still not working fire and uh there we go so what you said it was chemicals that was on that chip yeah some i saw it reported um and again let me see i

I don't have that post pulled up, but I had seen it reported that there was like a bunch of chemicals that sounded like they could be used for explosives. You know, and there's also this, there's the story of the woman in California that was just arrested. Yes. The Iranian woman. I, we got all these stories for tomorrow when we got ghost on for geopolitics, but yeah, she was arrested for, I guess, trying to negotiate weapons for Iran in Sudan. for the Civil War that's going on there. And you got to wonder if this ship was doing the same thing, moving. I don't know.

I don't know. I'm just speculating. But President Trump did truth this out about that. He said today, an Iranian flag cargo ship named Tuscca, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our naval blockade. It did not go well for them. The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Spruance intercepted the Tusca in the Gulf of Oman and gave them fair warning to stop.

The Iranian crew refused to listen. So our Navy ships stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room. Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel. The Tuska is under U.S. Treasury sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship and are seeing what's on board, President Donald J. Trump. There we have it. Love it. All right.

Let's go ahead and jump into our rants. And boom, here we go. All right, there it is. Magravator, happy 420. Happy 420, mags. Happy 420. Smey 60, happy 520. Two bucks for two joints.

Ah, the good old days. I think you mean 420, but maybe the bong rip started a little early for Smey. A little slip of the finger there. A little, you know, maybe he's got Cheeto cheese puff on fingertips, you know, from a little morning snack. Doc from Amish PA. Grew up chasing gators and snakes in the area where Sawgrass Mills Mall and the Panthers Stadium is now great fishing in those canals. Fantastic fishing. I live about five minutes from there and the place that I go riding my jet skis is Markham Park out on the other side there of Alligator Alley, which is literally 100 feet on the other

side of where he's talking about 100 yards, maybe a little bit further than that. But yeah, great fishing in those canals. S. Jack 64. Did you catch what Cash was saying in the beginning? We already did the indict Prez. We did already indict Prez. Former Director Comey. Yes, I did catch that.

Did they already indict Obama? Was that a slip of the tongue by him? Perhaps. Maybe. Perhaps. Alpha still thinks the first, I think Alpha says the first perp walk is Obama. I still think the first perp walk is going to be

somebody related directly to the elections themselves, but that might not be noteworthy enough. But we'll see. Thank you, S.J.X. for the rant. Susan VN. Two gentlemen, make Monday mornings great again. You two gentlemen, make Monday mornings great again. Yeah, I got to say, I told Zach that this morning. I said, you know what?

It's a Monday. It's a miserable Monday. We need to extend the work week, but it's always nice coming in and seeing Zach's bright, cheerful beard. It's great being here on Monday mornings as well, Brian. Yes. All right, guys. Thank you all so much for joining us. Be sure to check out Yichrome's coming up here in about an hour followed by Boys Rule, Girls Drul,

because it is no longer formerly known as Alpha Makes Sandwiches. They lost their Battle of the Sexes Battle to the men. And so that is the name of their show for the rest of this month. For four weeks, four weeks, their show is called Boys Rule Girls Druel. So stay tuned for that. up next and Zach what do you got coming up brother I'll be live at five on my channel red pill news and then I'll be live of course tonight at 1030 with John here on bad lanes for baseless conspiracies all right thank you guys all so much we'll

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