Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 11-10-25_MONDAY_7AM

Episode Date: November 10, 2025

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The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Lauren is an Eagle Point, rather. How you doing this morning, Lauren? Welcome. Do it okay. Just getting ready to go out on my walk, but I caught you first. Oh, good. Glad to hear that. What's on your mind? Well, the man you're talking to said something about Aetna, not willing to take something or doing something.

and then he was off of it that quick. I started it so I called because I just switched from my other carrier who said they don't want to take any more. They don't want to do it anymore. And I trust my insurance man explicitly. And so I'm just trying to figure what did that guy mean? Okay, yeah, what this was, we were talking about Obamacare plans. Okay. These were Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.

And what Aetna did is that they pulled out at the end of this year. they're no longer going to offer Obamacare plans. These are not Medicare plans. These are strictly the Obamacare Affordable Care Act plans. And so about a million people across a number of states will be affected by this. And I guess they were just losing too much money, and they couldn't see a way to make any money in the Obamacare exchange world. And so they just ended up pulling out. So there are more people even ever looking for someplace to land.

But I don't think it's affecting you because, what, Ari? Now, you're a veteran, so are you on TRICARE or something like that? Or what's up with you? No, no. Basically, I've been with Regents. Regents, okay. Regents decided they didn't want. And so then my insurance man put me to Aetna and, of course, to start up.

And so that sounds good. I'm not on the bottom of care. Yeah. No, it's not a problem for you, okay? You're good. All righty. Thank you, sir. Glad to help.

Glad to help. Goodbye. Yeah. Boy, you know, I have to talk with Tony and everything else. It does kind of bring the light here, the challenges that we find here. And I just wanted to say, you know, someone here locally that I would be a big fan of you getting in touch with if you had questions about what is going on with Medicare. See, it's not going to affect him, even though, you know, Lauren was a little bit concerned hearing that Aetna's pulling out, all right? But talk with Lynn Barton and Sky Park Insurance.

Lynn is a local good person, certified, knows these things, understands the problems that so many people are doing. dealing with with these Medicare Advantage and the supplemental programs. And it's really complex. And the thing is, it doesn't cost you more to have Lynn working for you. It's not like it costs, it doesn't. And it really works well. I know she ended up helping Linda get it all figured out here too. And good people at Sky Park.

Call her at 499-958, 499-958, 9-0958, Lynn Barton helping to make Medicare affordable and understandable over at Sky Park. Skypark, INS.com. All right, let me go to phones before Fox News. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Yeah, good morning, Bill. Hi.

With this, the guy you speak to about cars. Yeah, Eric Peters, yeah. Yeah, you never talk about, like, closer to home about the rip-off artist in this town and elsewhere about, you know, just a big money grab at these shops. Like, I went to a shop other day to have a... Okay, I don't, well, I mean, we have talked about things like that, but, you know, the thing is, I'm not going to talk about shop names unless, because otherwise we're just smearing someone on your say-so, and Chris, I must say that you have a tendency to shoot your mouth off a lot, so. I didn't say it would shop. Okay. I said, you go in for a valve cover gasket replacement, and they say it takes four hours by their book, and they get it done, and the cars out there in an hour, they're saying, what the hell is.

Hell, but we got to put, we put our very best guy on it. Yeah, well, that's, well, I mean, that's the scam that the entire, the entire mechanic world works on. In other words, it's not the actual hours put in. It's what the book says the hours should take, right? If they're, if their worst guy could do it in two hours, well, who would do it in four hours? that person probably wouldn't be employed there if they took four hours to do the job. Well, I'll tell you what.

We'll toss it out there, and let me see what a mechanic says, like maybe David, who does this for a living or somebody else, because that's... I know. You know, that's how it all tends to work, and... Yeah, I know a mobile mechanic in there, he says, yeah, it's just a big money grab on a shop. Well, it's kind of like what, you know, the coding in the medical world, this is what a medical procedure should cost, you know, that kind of thing. All right, you could have a point. there, all right? Thanks for making it. There's any mechanic that wants to contest what Chris was bringing up, go ahead. Hi, good morning. Who's this? This is Minor Dave. Yeah, Dave. You need a

mechanic, don't you? I have two things. One's an informational. The trainee on my truck went out on Friday, so that's my pet peeve for tomorrow. Okay. I got a friend that's looking around for a huge transmission and figuring out how to get a tow back to my place. But When I was younger, I would have been 12 or 13. They didn't have food stamps. They had commodities. And if you were poor, like I knew some kids that, you know, had single moms. And, you know, because they were widowers from losing, you know, their men in war.

Okay. Yeah. And so they got commodities from the state, which was. It was amazing who they got. Now, yeah, it was all canned goods and dry goods. But, God, you could really cook decent mills with it. And then Carter comes in with food stamps, and now you always eat is junk food. Maybe that was what the food stamp deal was all about.

Maybe it was about saving the processed food manufacturing industries. What do you think? I think that's what it was. I think it's for big farms, you know, because the little farms can't compete with, you know, how cheap they run their products. To grow corner wheat, you've got to have 10,000 acres. Yeah, you have to have a company out there making fruit roll-ups paid for by food stamps rather than actually giving a kid an apple, right?

Right. You wouldn't want to do that. You might have gotten dried apples, but you could really just add water to them and add them to oatmeal, and they were really good. All right. Dave, I appreciate the talk on that. Maybe that's something to consider. I'll grab another call here before news.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hello? Hey, Bill. Yeah. Hey, David. I saw the bat sign going up. All right, David. What about the book or the labor that supposedly this is how long it takes to do a particular job? Chris doesn't like that.

What do you say? Well, Chris kind of sounds like a whiner, but it doesn't matter. is what I would say. You know, if you got a shop right now that can do the job and do it right, you better just shut up and pay it because half the shops don't do it right in the first place. So, you know, whatever, four hours, two hours, whatever. I mean, you agree upon that price before you get started, you know. I pay people. I pay carpenters and plumbers, you know, and I mean, I make sure to get them whatever they need, you know, and if I don't trust the person, I don't hire them. So as far as, you know, I would just say, you know, you don't really know what the job entails.

I mean, there's a book, you know, it says how long things take. Yeah, by the way, what is that book? What's it called? Well, nowadays it's mostly electronic, but there's a few companies like Chilterns or Motor and Mitchell, and they have people take the cars apart, and there's reasons why they say jobs take a certain amount of time. And I can tell you, you know, if you go in there and you think someone's dripping you off, I mean, go look in the parking while what these guys are driving to work. You know, these mechanics aren't making a ton of money for.

what they do. And, you know, nowadays, half these cars, you can't fix them in the time that's prescribed anyway. So maybe Chris thinks his car got fixed really fat. Someone just really ripped him off, you know, but at the same time, there's jobs that the book says take, like, four hours that are, they end up taking a lot longer due to other issues. So it's not really like it's the one-sided gain, you know? I wonder if there's also a kind of a pad built in there, and I'm just speculating with you, okay? I don't know, all right? But I'm just wondering if, Given the fact that the parts supplies are so pathetic right now and the quality of parts, I'm wondering if maybe a part of that is that you're paying more up front because it may have to be redone again?

What do you think? Well, yeah, well, certainly. I mean, the book doesn't pat it at all, but there's a certain job where I, if there's like a 13-hour job, right, where you got to take the cylinder heads to the machine shop. I think I'd charge 15 hours for that, but there's so many other situations where you can't do the job in the time it says. I mean, it's just, you can't do it. So, I don't know.

It really goes down to trust and efficacy and workmanship. So, like, really, if you've got someone that, like, I've got one plumber, okay? I don't call anybody else, okay? You know, and it was like $1,000 to change the toilet. And I don't know what it costs a change toilet, you know, but I'll tell you what. I trust that person to come in my house, and they're a tradesman, and I know how hard is being in the trades, and I know what it does to your body. Yeah, because you do that, too.

You're part of that, too. So in other words, the main thing is you need to trust your mechanic or your plumber or anyone else. Yeah. And as Chris realized, you know, how much time went into that, whatever that shop is, I know, I don't, yeah, not to name any names, but whatever that shop is, you know, you realize how much work went into building that to be a resource where you can drive in and have X, Y, or Z wrong with your car, and they actually know how to fix it. So, you know, if someone's just disgruntled, I find they're just disgruntled, you know. I mean, I never, I don't know. One thing I don't really complain about is paying people in the trades. You know, that's all I'm going to say.

Yeah. All right. You got it. Appreciate the call, David. I had a feeling that your ears would burn. This is KMED, KMED, HD-1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass. Fox News is coming up here, and then we're going to be digging into a conversation with Lieutenant Thomas Caldwell. And he has an explosive book out here, The Mouths of the Wicked, a True January 6th,

story of corruption, persecution, survival, and victory. And that just got released the other day. And I think given that President Trump ended up doing a whole lot of pardons of J-Sixir people over the weekend, this is something worth listening to. If you've been injured in an accident, you've got... Day before Veterans Day, one of the talk about Lieutenant Commander Thomas Caldwell. Actually, is today's Veterans Day or is tomorrow Veterans Day, Thomas? Welcome to the show.

Good to have you on. Thank you for having me, Bill. I think it's always the 11th because it originally was Armistice this day from the First World War. It was the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month was the end of the Great War to end all war. And that's what I thought, but I was kind of doubting myself that it was tomorrow. I thought Veterans Day was tomorrow, but I know that today is technically the birthday of the Marines. I know that, so I'm a little bit kind of, all right. We'll get.

And you always think, okay, well, if it's going to be the holiday, it has to be Monday, right, Thomas? You know, that kind of thing. Right, but I think the government workers are really happy to get a Monday and a Tuesday this time around. Ah, there we go. But anyway, I want to talk, by the way, let me give you the whole thing, though. He is Lieutenant Commander Thomas E. Caldwell, disabled veteran in his 60s, and he has an amazing story that I wanted to talk about here because, you know, the dominoes are still falling on the conspiracies of January 6th and what happened to people after that. He's written a book about his experience, and it's entitled The Mouths of the Wicked, a true January 6th story of corruption, persecution, survival, and victory.

Tom, it's great to have you back on here. and could you explain what happened with you post-January 6th and why it's important that we remember this, even as we hear the pardon is coming out of the Trump administration for people who were manhandled by J-6? Right. My story is very different from the story of any other January 6 defendant. And even if people think they know something about stuff that's never appeared in public before. Hey, Tom, could you reposition your cell phone? I'm losing you a little bit, just a bit. Okay, all right?

Okay, all right. All right. So, Nate, let's pick this up again with this is different from every other January 6th story. Yeah, we, yeah. Okay. Yes, Bill, my story is very different from the story of any other January 6th defense. People think they know something on that case. I reveal things in this book that have never appeared in public before, and as they say nowadays,

I bring the receipts, the documentation and the evidence hidden from the American citizens until right now. First, your listeners need to know that I never went into the Capitol building. I never did any damage on January 6, and I saw no violence that day. I was with my wife that whole day in January 6th. I did the least on January 6th. I broke no laws, yet the DOJ persecuted and prosecuted me the most. They wanted to put me in prison for life, and they did zero investigation before attacking our farm in the Valley of Virginia with a SWAT team and an armored car. They called me the mastermind of January 6th.

In fact, didn't they claim you were, what was it, a Oathkeeper, right? That is correct. They claimed that, even though they knew that I was never a member of the Oathkeepers. When I was languishing in solitary confinement, and my wife was. actually able to get an attorney who would take our case for a six-figure retainer. He looked at me through the bulletproof glasses. I was all chained up in the Supermax, and he said, Tom, the DOJ knows your innocence, but they don't care.

That's pretty chilling, Bill. Boy, you know, that sounds, it's almost like a gulag archipelago kind of talk from Solzhenitsyn, a soldier needs it, rather, isn't it? It absolutely is. And, you know, there's a very fine author named David G. Muller who read my book before we were actually going out and publishing you. And that's exactly what he said. He said, but this didn't happen in some third world. Yeah.

Did this happen at the hands of the FBI? You know, Tom, we're losing you on the cell phone. I don't know why. I think you're out in rural Virginia. Do you have a landline we could switch to? because your story is too important, but I'm missing about every other word right now. Gosh. Well, we do have a landline.

It's not all that dependable, but we can try it if you'd like. Do you mind if I can hold on here? Yeah, because we're just missing you. I want to hear your story, okay? Can you hang on just a second? We'll be back. And we'll talk about this. I want to hear Tom Caldwell's story here on the Bill Myers Show.

If you're considering a new garage. Good morning. This is News Talk 1060. KMED, and you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. We're going to try a different line here with Lieutenant Thomas E. Caldwell, the mouths of the Wicked, a true January 6th story. Tom, I think we got you back, and I think your landline might hold up a little bit better than the cell was in rural Virginia here. So you were in the Supermax when we last broke here, and your attorney, at least who was proposing,

it said that they know you're innocent, but that doesn't matter. What happened after that? Could you tell us that? I was actually in the Supermax for a relatively short period of time compared to others who languished there for a year and a half in pretrial detention. But they were particularly cruel to me in the 53 days that they kept me in solitary confinement. Sometimes in total darkness, and I will tell you that on a long enough timeline, everybody's sanity might go to zero in total darkness. They did every trick they could to get me to confess to something that I never did. And it was only through the efforts of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the tireless efforts of my wife to find an attorney who could convince a judge that there was no evidence against me.

How about letting me out of there? So that saved me, first of all. And, boy, we were on a roller coaster. It took almost five years to get to where we are now. I'm still branded, of course, with the modern-day equivalent of the scarlet letter of J6. But they took me to a 10-and-a-half-week jury trial with actual members of the oathkeepers, which is only a community service group. They're not a white supremacy group.

They help in times in their local communities of hurricanes, and tornadoes and such, but they were the fall guys of the hour. And I was charged with five felonies, each carrying 20 years of sentence. And yet, I came out of there with the best result of anyone who dared to go to a jury trial in Washington, D.C., a place that had been propagandized like no other. This is a story, really, of the only January 6th conspiracy ever proved. And I was an intelligence officer for almost two decades. That's what I did. And you better believe that I know how to do my documentation. I have been really attacked and all of that. But one of the things is I was able to access, keep, and document every single

dirty trick by the government before, during an after trial. FBI agents lied on the witness stand. They falsified exhibits. The DOJ threatened to jail witnesses if they came to testify for me or any member of the oathkeepers. The judge himself kept some of our witnesses from testifying. He blocked evidence, even the government's own CCTV, which proved I was innocent. He blocked that from the jury. And on and on and on it went. We did get three acquittals right from the jump, but then we had to go to the Supreme Court.

and this is this is a story of intrigue, fear, suspense, a secret tribunal, stuff that will make you angry, stuff that will make you laugh out loud, and miracles, miracles, miracles from a loving God, because having the truth and having innocent on your side is not enough. Tom, what has kind of puzzled me is that why did they care? Why did they specifically? go after you, if they knew that you had done government intelligence before, because apparently you were there, but you're allowed to be there. You know, you're allowed to be in the nation's capital. Yes, even on a day when a president at that time is giving a speech, you're allowed to be here. Why did they go after you so hard with no evidence? Well, I think one of the things is, and how important it is right now that we're talking about this with Veterans Day just on the, around the corner, many of your listeners probably don't know that upwards of 70% of the

people that were prosecuted for January 6th are veterans, veterans. So this was a group, remember Hillary Clinton, when she was running for president, said, veterans are dangerous. I mean, those words echoed through my brain when I was in solitary. I mean, was this about, you think J6, a lot of this prosecution was about shutting up? veterans, in other words, you know, especially those pesky statements like all enemies, foreign and domestic. What do you think? Absolutely. Absolutely. And constitutional free speech became crimes in the eyes of the Biden DOJ and that whole administration. It was a really tough time. For me, personally, I had met a member of the oathkeepers. And because the DOJ doesn't know

anything about the military. They take things literally, you and I both know that veterans often call each other by name, the rank that they held on active duty. So Bill might become master sergeant, Bill, and so on. So when I met this person, I said, hey, if you're ever in D.C., you're broken down on the Capitol Beltway, you need some help, give me a call. So casual was our relationship, this young lady, who incidentally had served with a Ranger battalion in Afghanistan, The kind of person that I would normally honor for her service, when she walked away, she had my name in her phone, but she couldn't remember my last name. So what did she do?

She put in Tom, Commander. When they flashbanged her house and seized her phone within two hours, an FBI special agent had a federal judge's signature on a warrant for my arrest as Commander Tom, the commander of the OTH. keepers, and that is a documented, unbelievable fact. Wow. Okay. I mean, that is quite the leap. By the way, I didn't really think there was all that much wrong with the oathkeepers.

Do you? I mean, I'm not here to, you know, promote excess or anything like that or, you know, weirdness, but I always looked at, you know, keeping the oath to the Constitution would have been an honorable thing to have supported there, Tom. Any thoughts on that? Yeah, correct. And the oathkeepers, you just buy their, you know, their standards for members. they're looking for veterans and veterans who want to volunteer.

You'll remember that that summer of 2020, when our cities were ablaze and Antifa, what I consider to be the street arm of the DNC, was out there running amok. There were a lot of conservatives and a lot of Christian speakers who were being attacked, and the oathkeepers volunteered to be on security detail for these folks. Many people don't know that on January 6th, there were a lot of permits issued by Mayor Bowser of Washington, D.C., for conservatives to speak at temporary stages on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. That's why people were going there to hear other people speak, and the oathkeepers were providing security that day. Well, just like they did in the summer, January 6th, they're providing security. They were the perfect fall guy, you see?

And the guy that engineered that, named D'Antonio, is the same guy that engineered the Gretchen Whitmer fake kidnapping in Michigan. He was reassigned to the FBI field office, and he ran this whole operation. As more things come out about January 6th, you're going to see the connection. And one of the things that I do in here is, in this book, I name names. I think, Bill, that many people in this country were hoping that with the new administration, Pam Bondi, Cash Patel, that a lot of things would be moving faster. It doesn't seem to be. They want some accountability.

Yeah, it doesn't seem to be moving all that quickly. Is there a reason, in your opinion, why? Well, I don't know. I will tell you this. Some of the lawyers at the DOJ that were part of these prosecutions have moved on to big high-power jobs with D.C. law firms, but many are still embedded and sit at the right hand of Pam Bondi. And every single FBI agent that perjured themselves in my trial and in the grand jury to get an indictment of me, they're all working for Cash Patel. I was a little annoyed when Cash came out a few weeks ago. said, well, I'm not going to fire or anybody who was just following orders. That smacks of the Nuremberg trials.

And the death camp guards, hey, I was only following orders when I did these terrible things to my fellow citizens. So there's a lot of really nasty stuff that's out there. And with this book, I'm trying to tear that stuff away. Because in my case, and it's really only proper for me to speak about my case because I know it so well, tell you, who did what to whom and when, and oftentimes I was able to find out their actual motivation, personal motivation, to do these kinds of things. So people that want accountability, they want the light shown upon these folks, that's what we're starting with this, with this book, The Mouth of the Wicked. Thomas E. Caldwell, The Mouths of the Wicked, a true January 6th story of corruption, persecution, survival, and victory. And by the way, you can

get this book at Puffin Publisher, Puffin Like the Seabird, Puffin Publisher.com. Puffin Publishers.com. And I'll put that information up. Tom, is this the only place you can get it, or can you get it on the other places to, what say you? This is the only place that you can get it for right now. Okay. You know, a lot of the other publishing houses that we're used to that operate out in New York City. Well, they think that everybody has moved on from January 6, and it's convenient to not

had the story told. But Puffin Publishers is the way to go right now. And we really hope that people will find this book illuminating and maybe even inspirational because there's a lot there to be unpacked. And, you know, we were victorious, but it took a lot. Yeah. It's a story that needs to be told, we think, Bill. And I'm so grateful for the chance to be on your program. I really appreciate that. Tom, I want to ask you about a story which has been bubbling under the surface here regarding January 6th and had to do with a have you been keeping up with that that that that DC pipe bomber case is curious absolutely yeah yeah I know that the blaze over the weekend I was reading it that FBI Capitol police weren't willing to look too much into this and I guess there a reporter at the blaze ended up examining

gate you know the gate which is supposedly the way somebody walks is is very much almost like a fingerprint, and they're fingering Shawnee Kirchoff, who was a D.C. Capitol Police officer on January 5th and 6th. That's who they're claiming, and then she ended up apparently going to work for the CIA providing security. Does that give you any pause? Well, sure, and you know, Steve Baker and Joe Hanneman

have been all over this story for a long, long time. I'm a Christian, I'm an officer, but I also know what it looks like when the feminine form is moving, okay? I'm 71 years old. I've seen a woman or two. And nobody listens to an old guy like me. Gosh, I can't even get a collie to listen to me. But when I've seen many of those videos, especially there's a grainy black and white that we've all seen,

where you're seeing someone across the street walking left to right. And my wife will tell you, I've been yapping for a year and a half. That's a woman. That's a woman. That's the woman. So it did not surprise me. It's great that we've got an administration, and we've got some really good reporters, investigative reporters, that are going after this stuff because otherwise, without these individual things, whether it's somebody writing a book or somebody writing an investigative reporting piece, an article like Steve Baker did, people would never find out. The lamestream media does not want you to know. And they say, well, we're not looking backward. We're looking forward. Bill, you and I both know, if we don't talk about these things, by golly, they're going to happen again.

And I'm not the kind of guy that wants revenge. I'm not the kind of guy that's going, whoa, is me when I do my writings. No, it's the truth. We want the truth. And I think that's what the American people really do want, because they've been lied to for years, and they're a little bit tired of it. So this pipe bomb thing has always smelled bad to me. I'm thinking that you feel exactly the same way. And let's see.

Well, the thing is here, Tom, Tom, let's face it. They could find every grandmother who showed up at January 6th and triangulating cell phones and all the rest of it. But they couldn't find one person walking by DNC headquarters, right? Nothing. Absolutely right. You know, that kind of stunk right there. And, you know, also while we're on the subject,

they had almost a continuous loop of the same couple of minutes of video from January 6th showing all this violence. And yet, the people that were identified easily on camera, even with all of the facial recognition software that's out there, have never been arrested. I wonder why. Yeah, what was your opinion of the Ray Epps? I know we're just speculating on this one, but he claims not an agent, but he sure acted like one. You know, every time, you know, the one that says, let's go in and rip things up or get inside there. I always want to point and say, oh, you're the agent. Okay.

Hey, thank you for identifying yourself. But what are you thinking, huh? I don't have any inside information on that. But the Ray EPS thing has chapped my hide from the very beginning. And, you know, there was so much on, I know you've followed this, there was so much of a healing cry about that that the Biden administration DOJ. did step up to the plate and say, well, we've got to do something here to cover our guy, I think to cover their guy.

And I think they finally charged them with a misdemeanor or something like that. And yet, here's a guy like me, not even on the Capitol grounds, I'm sitting at the Peace Monument, which is in public land, most of the afternoon with my wife, and they want to throw me in jail for 20 years times five. It's really pretty ridiculous. I think Ray F. was probably connected. I'll stand by that. Okay. Well, you know, after all, though, your name was in someone's phone with the term commander after it. Oh, gosh darn you. You know, time to, you know, throw you into the supermax.

But anyway, decorated Navy lieutenant commander Thomas E. Caldwell. And once again, the book, and you can get this on puffin publishers.com. It's The Mouths of the Wicked, a true January 6th story of corruption, persecution, survival, and victory. Tom, I really appreciate you coming on, sharing a bit of that story, okay? We'll have you back. Thank you so much for having me, Bill. All right, be well. 739 at KMED.

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That's how that ended up happening, you know, back in the time. But Kim Davis, a Kentucky County clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion. Yes, the legal opinion with the force of law, that kind of good stuff. Interesting, interesting times that we find ourselves in. So nothing to look at, no questions whatsoever, or is it one of those things you figure that, oh, this would be way too much of a hot potato, way too much of a hot potato if they were to actually come back there and say,

yeah, that was a fraud, what the court did back at 2015. No, you can't decide who's allowed to be married in your culture. You can't do this. And next I'm sure it will be, yeah. Now, by the way, I'm not making it a moral equivalent, but gosh, where was another story here from the island of Misfit Humans case? Oh, yeah, here we go. A different type of misfit human. Fox News reporting, Stacey Marie Lawton, a former New Hampshire lawmaker, who is a former New Hampshire lawmaker,

who is believed to be the first elected openly transgender lawmaker in U.S. history. In other words, this is a man masquerading as a woman, play acting, cosplaying, recently pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges in federal court. WMUR reporting, 41-year-old ex-politician, dude masquerading as a guy, as a woman, rather. Recently, but they always refer to who or as a her, him as a her, recently entered her plea, actually his plea, in a Boston federal courtroom. Charges included sexual exploitation of kids, child sex abuse, all sorts of things.

Basically, in a daycare took naked pictures of all sorts, all sorts of photos of kids under the age of five. Thousands of text messages around the time. And Lottin also expressing interest in having sex with the children. That's all right. But he was born that way. He was born this way. I guess that's all the matters. But, you know, there's a book that I've been reading the last couple of weeks, and I read a bit of it this weekend.

And I think it really illustrates where we find ourselves right now. And it's a culture which is unmoored from any kind of permanency or anything other than whatever we want it to be right now, that kind of thing. And I don't know if I'm going to be able to get this author on because he lives out in rural, gosh, what is it, rural Ireland. It might be a little bit tough for me to get a hold of him. But I have to tell you, one of the most fascinating books that I have read for quite some time is from Paul Kingsnorth. And Will Reichman gave me a copy of him. You may remember we talked to Will off and on over the time. but Paul Kingsnorth

and the book he has out right now is called Against the Machine on the Unmaking of Humanity and yet it's more than just artificial intelligence and all the rest of it but it's really been about the destruction of the Western culture and I couldn't help but think that

as the Supreme Court will once again not even take a look at this and he goes into how many of us are feeling like, you know, something's wrong and you can't quite put your finger on it. And it's more than just like, well, the Democrats want this and the Republicans want that. And we're just, you know, battling left and right in the political arena. And where he's going on this has more to do with the social and moral underpinnings of Western society.

There's always Christianity. Now, we can sit there and argue whether or not you don't like the, you know, the Christian evangelicals or the Catholics or the Lutherans or whatever it is. But still, every society is held together by its belief in a social and moral order. And Paul Kings North is making the case that the reason we find ourselves in such trouble these days is that they're no longer. is a Christian social and moral order. And this is almost like the Enlightenment has been the winner in which what we have to do is we're going to use reason and then we people being reasoned people will end up having morality that comes from us just because we're good humans and but we don't have any

underpinning any longer, and that we are living in the ruins of Christianity, of the Christian culture, which is the West. It is the West, the West. And when you think about other books like Death of the West, which came on like 100 years ago, more than 100 years ago today before the Great War, 1918, World War I, he is going into the reason why things feel so unhinged is because our cultures are no longer moored to any kind of a, I mean, our myth, our cultural myth, if you want to call it that. Every culture has to have one. The cultural myth that we all chose and were actually designing our lives around was Christianity. That was the West. Wasn't Islam. It wasn't Buddhism. It wasn't anything like that. It was Christianity. And that

was the moral underpinning of everything we did, and that has been lost. In fact, it was actually lost a long time ago, but we've been kind of play-acting through it. And I can't help but think of that as, you know, you have the Supreme Court saying, no, we're not going to, we're not going to revisit the gay marriage thing. Yet another symbol, this is the, you know, it's yet another lie of what a marriage is that we're supposed to believe, just like, We're supposed to, the other lie we're supposed to believe is that Stacey Marie Lawton is a she, even though she is definitely a dude, a dude pervert, you know, that kind of thing. And it can't help. It just, like I said, I see that whole thing from the Supreme Court today.

Nope, we're not even going to look at that. Nope, nothing to see. Move along here. And let's give you more of that secularism that you didn't ask for good and hard. but oh yeah, we'll protect your religious rights, your deeply held religious rights, but you better find a way to prove your deeply held religious rights. Otherwise, you might be convicted by hate speech in the state of Oregon.

Being a little sarcastic, but only just a little bit. But if you're looking for wondering why is it that things feel so wrong, it's not the Democrats or the conservatives or the Republicans, what it is is that what happens with, when the myth, the social order, the social underpaintings of your society collapse, and in the West, that was Christianity. And if you're looking for a great book, I would definitely pick up this. I'm only about a third of it through right now, but it is one of the finest books on our cultural collapse.

because, and he talks about how every society, and he's right, every society has to have, if you want to say at the cultural myths and the taboos, there have to be things, there has to be an underpinning. And what has underpinned the West was Christianity. And it has been dying for a long time. We're not talking about since the 1960s in the United States. Of course, we saw the real collapse of that since the 19th. But really, going back to the Enlightenment, the beginning of the Enlightenment, the type of people that ended up giving us the French Revolution, which the government is there to help us self-actualize our desires.

But we're using reasons, so we are reasonable people as we pull the guillotine into the public square. I just thought it was interesting. If you're looking for a great book, you want Paul Kings North. And it is, and he, in fact, he refers to our culture right now is the machine. And it's more than just artificial intelligence. And I agree with him about this. It's like, remember how I keep talking about this even before I picked up a copy of this book? It's like, wait a minute, it's like there's a machine.

I've even talked about it as a machine, like the machine, the AI machine that says, you're not going to question the singularity. You're not going to question being shoved into this. and the destruction of your religious liberty because that's just an old myth and a superstition, even though it was the underpinning of the way our society was run for hundreds of, well, thousands of years, actually. We're kind of like the Romans right now.

We're in Rome and everything has collapsed and the barbarians are at the gate, but we're still pretending that there is still a republic and I'm not saying this to get all dopey-mopee you know hey woe is us or something like that but one of the biggest challenges I think we face right now

is thinking that there is still a Christian underpinning to our society a lot of people have Christian underpinnings and a moral code from there but society itself in the United States does not 7.57 at KMED.