The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Rising Republic: Gun Laws and Crypto

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

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I don't want to set the world I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country Maybe there will be To chase, at least for a moment, Trump and the maggots off the stage There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives Trump and the maggots off the stage. There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives. Donald Trump, I think you need to go back and punch him in the face. I thought he should have punched him in the face.

I feel like punching him. I'd like to take him behind the gym if I were in high school. If you were in high school, I'd take you behind the gym and beat the hell out of them i will go and take trump out tonight take him out now okay when was the last time an actor assassinated the president they're still gonna have to go out and put a bullet in donald trump show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. Please get up in the face of some Congress people. People will do what they do.

I want to tell you, Lord Dutch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. We're going to go in there winning. This is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful. Walk lightly. And for those of you who are soldiers, make them pay. We are your lizard overlords. Stop listening to these preppers.

Eat your crickets. Fight in the streets. Own nothing. And love it. We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. What is up, guys? It's your boys, L. Douglas Hogan and... Ryan Buford. Welcome, everybody, to the show.

Man, what a crazy week it's been. Tell me what you did this Thanksgiving, Ryan. Oh, man. So we had about 18 to 24 people around for Thanksgiving at my place, flying in from all over the country and friends, family, coworkers. It was a blast. A lot of dogs. I think we counted, at one point, we had eight dogs and all those people around my house. So it was kind of a little bit chaotic. Two or three days worth of prep work just destroyed within about 40 minutes.

18 to 24 people? We were expecting 18 and 24 showed up. Wow wow so did you have enough food to go around oh yeah we made sure to have extras on hand and we actually had some leftovers too so i'm kind of still plowing through that but it was a good time you know and i mean i was really kind of blown away i mean a lot of people think, oh, well, I'm just going to go to somebody's house, you know, if shit hits the fan or whatever. And more and more I realized, no, that ain't happening. I mean, I'm not set up to feed an army, especially not on a daily basis. I mean, it took weeks of prep work just for one meal. So, I mean, I can't imagine having, you know, a heavy household full

of people constantly. I mean, that would be, that would be a chore for sure. Golly. Yeah. I probably would have ran out of food, but yeah, I wouldn't certainly wouldn't give your address out to nobody right now. So, you know, you got a little food. Wow. No. So, well, yeah, what we did, I guess we got, we got a tradition here um is we just instead of cooking and cleaning and doing all this other stuff and you know going out and about and just we uh we just go out to crack a barrel um make a brunch of it so late breakfast early lunch and uh have to have them cook for us and then um and then the kids part ways they go to their their uh the other side of the family yep and spend some turkey

time with them i mean i think in the future we'll probably wind up doing that we generally don't do a big event like this regularly we'll we'll we can handle it once or twice a year maybe or something like this every other year or two or three years in a row but this is the biggest by far so but yeah we had we had corned beef chicken sand or not chicken turkey we did a full turkey and salmon and all the all the stuff all the fixes and you hosted oh yeah yes hosted at my place so full house it was definitely a full house um in the evening so yeah so i work second shift uh my my town where i police uh they take care of their police officers they pay us triple time so yeah i uh i i i policed with uh

with a smile on my face um it was good to know that i was getting paid uh you know good money to triple time yeah you know to to do that and i can't complain about it why would i why would i want to complain and then the day after thanksgiving also was the same thing we get triple pay for for thanksgiving all holidays so it worked out very well and i can't complain about that and quite happy yes yeah i i did the opposite i uh i actually took a nap at four o'clock and didn't wake up until next morning so after the event i was done so first time i slept 14 hours like that before my life so you had like what like a like a like a food coma i don't know what it was i think i was just after all the the ramping up to it and then hosting and doing all this stuff and i just crashed hard wow just had an

opportunity and took it so sometimes you gotta sleep when you can yep that's why i tell absolutely that's why i tell my wife like because uh you know i it's i can't i can't plan a lunch break in the line of work that i do i because the criminals don't care when you you know what you're doing um i'll get a call anytime and it's one of those jobs you don't get you there's no holidays off you know i get – there's no holidays off. You know, I get my weekends off. That's scheduled and somebody else is covering for that time off. But, like, during the day, there's no relief.

So you eat when you can. If you catch a break, a lull in the time, just some downtime. And I never say the Q word on duty. I'm not working right now, so I never – I'll tell you, I don't say quiet on duty because it seems like when I do that, everything turns upside down and uh shaking together and throwing up uh so i we all try to avoid that probably stupid stition but it is what it is and then we eat what we can and uh i'm glad you found uh time to take a nap yeah especially like that um last week we talked we went through um about a dozen or so of trump's nominations and uh a video an audio actually recently um surfaced um pam bondi and we talked about her

last week i guess she's going to be trump's attorney general if i remember right yeah um there's something i want to dig uh i want i want to ask you your thoughts on this i don't know if you heard this or not i didn't i didn't send it to you in advance either so kind of ablib this and uh and kind of catch you off guard just kind of get your it's about the second amendment it's about gun rights and stuff like that so something you should be familiar with anyway be able to give me an ablib answer but listen to this real quick here and tell me what you think gun violence restraining order so if someone is civilly committed, and typically you can hold them for up to 72 hours, but people are getting out within 24 hours, the majority of them.

So what we want to do is let law enforcement come in and take the guns. They are a danger to themselves or others. Which you can't do right now. Well, because without being adjudicated. So because they're a danger to themselves. You want them to take the guns and not go through six months of legal trials and everything. Exactly. But we also have to give the mentally ill the due process in which they deserve, President. So what we're doing is they're going to be able to take the guns when they're taken into custody or into the hospital,

and then when they're released, within 24 hours or 72 hours later, typically it's 24 hours, but law enforcement will have 72 hours to determine whether they should give those guns back or they can go to a judge and say, your honor, please keep these guns. We feel this person is still a danger to himself or others. Okay.

So your thoughts first, I want to hear what you think about that and i'll tell you what my thoughts are so it's reminiscent of the red flag law red flag laws that some states have and i think i have a really hard time with that because people can go up and say oh this person did something to me he's unstable and then all of a sudden uh they lose all their second amendment rights in that county or state and it's up to the police or law enforcement to hand over their property back and it's messed up because i don't know if you remember the liberty safe fiasco a couple years back i don't basically liberty safe is a safe manufacturer and they there was a guy who was arrested while he was in prison, not prison, in in a holding cell or something like that. The police contact Liberty Safe and got the back door access code to his gun safe and emptied his gun safe while he was incarcerated. safe and emptied his gun safe while he was incarcerated. And I think it was under one of these things. And there was a huge ordeal about Liberty safe and their ability to even do that and that kind of stuff, because, um, the concept to me is major infringement of rights. And I could

see it in a specific example, how that might be something useful, but I can also see how that might be something useful but i can also see how that could be flipped around and used in such a way that you know uh an ex-girlfriend or ex-fiancee or ex-boyfriend for that matter decided to come around and say oh he did this to me or she did that to me and she's mentally unstable and next thing you know your your ability to own or possess firearms is basically thrown out the window and in some states you cannot um like you can't possess a firearm if you've ever been how do you say uh treated for depression or anxiety or any kind of mental illness it it puts a hindrance on or a red flag on your your ability to purchase a firearm right and conceal carry that might be the hiccup too

yeah um and and then also i want to back it up this audio just to the point where she started talking about the mentally ill because she's like we want to also on the same hand we want to give them uh due process so in other words we're just we just can't go in and blanket red flag law these guys and say hey this guy's mentally ill yeah you know is this is this the uh who is this woman this is pam bondy this is the one yeah this is the nomination we talked about last week that uh trump and it's funny because the first words out of her mouth is is she's like she's telling Trump what he's going to do. She's like, you're going to do this.

Listen to this first part, and then I'll fast forward it here back to the middle. You're going to bring in something called the gun violence. You're going to bring in something called the gun violence. Listen to that again. You're going to bring in something called the gun violence restraint. Yeah, you're going to bring in something called the gun violence restraining order. And then she goes on to say we also want to give the mentally ill due process. Listen to this. So what we're doing is they're going to be able to take the guns when they're taken into custody or into the hospital.

And then when they're released within 24 hours or 72 hours later, typically it's 24 hours, but law enforcement will have 72 hours to determine whether they should give those guns back or they can go to a judge and say, Your Honor, please keep these guns. We feel this person is still a danger to himself or others. The part I have, there's a lot of problems I have with this. First of all, it's a slippery slope. It's a very slippery slope.

But to her arguments and the points that she's making, she said that law enforcement will have 20 or 72 hours to determine if there's still, you know, first of all, I'm not qualified to make that kind of decision. And for somebody to put that on my shoulders as a police officer and saying here officer hogan you have 72 hours to determine you know if he's or she is still mentally handicapped or mentally inept or you know uh intellectually disabled whatever the the allegation is against

them whatever they got committed for or civilly committed for i'm not licensed professionally to make that decision and so for anybody a higher authority like in this case say the federal government or illinois state police or anybody to say here it's up to you to determine if they're still mentally ill or not and what happens if i say okay he's he's not i because i'm not professionally trained i'm not licensed to do that now granted i for 25 years i'm probably a bad example i'm not licensed to do that but i have 25 years working with the mentally ill so maybe i am a bad example but let's say an average police officer that's not got the training and experience in dealing with mentally ill like i do that they would say okay you know i i you

sound like you're good to go now you know you see you you know you're not threatening to hurt yourself no more you said you're not going to hurt yourself no more right that's right i'm not going to hurt myself no more officer okay well here's your guns back and then he goes and he kills his family right yeah that's on you as the officer it's on me the liability falls back on the law i'd be indemnified because because but the they always try to hang the lowest the common like the lowest common denominator in this case you know uh being a police officer i would be indemnified uh unless i'm doing something that's not legal okay then then then i would be i could be sued civilly since i would be acting under color of law which in this case i would be but

it'd fall back on the department and the department within would try to hang me could they press charge against me civilly no because i'm acting under the color of law but they could terminate me you see i'm saying because i made a bad decision i broke policy or i'd made some kind of bad decision my judgment's off something along those lines i don't like the idea of it yeah i don't either i i the thing is is personally my firearms and the firearms in my family a lot of them are heirlooms and that's how we collect as a family so things that i have are are firearms that my grandparents had and for someone to just come in and say oh we don't think you're especially when someone who understands the value of some of these firearms says, oh, I'm sorry.

You know, all of a sudden my mental ability to be a harm to myself or someone else becomes worth less than the value of my guns to someone who wants them in their possession. You know what I mean? Once it becomes property to the state, it just is. I mean mean who's to say it's going to stay intact right you know if it goes missing in an evidence room or something like that now that's that's pretty shady police work potentially but it does happen it does happen and uh i i know i'm personally the police department in my region there i i wouldn't you, I wouldn't expect that of them. But there is a potential that someone could come in and say, oh, do you have the, like even from the feds, if they requested the firearms that were confiscated during a search and seizure on my property from a local police authority, you know, are they going to turn them down? Probably not.

And then it's just going to go into the ether. You know, are they going to turn them down? Probably not. And then it's just going to go into the ether. So, you know, when I have firearms that are, to me, hold a significant value that someone who I don't know can just go and say, oh, you can't have this back because someone called because they called somebody a bad name, hurt their feeling on social media or something. You know, that's messed up. Right. And who's to say to say that you know you might have a mental breakdown let's say you have a 21 year old that's old enough that you could pass those weapons down to but they're in your home right and he's staying with you for whatever reason and you just all sudden have a mental breakdown somebody pulls the carpet off from underneath you and accuses you of you know uh being having a mental issue or you get civilly committed and the police come in your guns because they're hand-me-downs are

not registered so so so basically these police officers could come in and nobody knows except you how many guns are in that house exactly so you have 20 hand-me-downs from your father and your father's father you know your great great grandpa and so on um and and so they could take as little or as many as they want to register or to log into their inventory. Cause everything we take or we seize as police officers gets inventoried and then you get a receipt to show what we've, we've taken. But who's to say that we might pocket one, you know, and slide one under the mat in the back of our vehicle and not record that one on the inventory receipt receipt. You can't find in your house and i'm saying sorry i don't have it you know so it's just like you said disappeared into the ether

and that's why i think i mean it's kind of there's a double-edged sword there for because i always advise people hey you know go through your safe and take a video especially around here we got wildfires so the best thing you can do is go through and video take a video on your cell phone you know as that fire is approaching so that you can at least have some sort of information that you can give to the insurance company but sometimes when in the case of firearms that can be a double-edged sword you know having that kind of i don't like to necessarily let people know how many firearms i have or what kind or where they're located so um but if it's if it come down to

something like that where i felt like there was a potential that someone could come and take them all hell yeah i'm taking video and i'm making sure that every single one of those comes back if it doesn't come back to me fine but the thing is is another thing another little catch-22 i don't know how deep down this rabbit hole you want to go with but um one of the things that my family is considering doing is putting our firearms in a trust so nobody in the family actually owns the firearms they're actually owned and managed by the trusts anybody in the family can have possession of any one of the firearms at any time and we can transport them you know between state lines and all that kind of stuff but

if someone were to come and take firearms that were in my possession that were owned by the family trust then that would be something that could not be confiscated basically unless there was a reason for the trust what that also means is anybody in the family could go and retrieve those from the police so that's a great idea you can do that with more yeah there's kind of a a good avenue for folks who might be concerned of the potential of that yeah it's actually a brilliant idea i would recommend that uh there's something for people to look into maybe later is just you know crack it open whatever the laws are in your state and see what they're what you can do to start a trust and get you know the competent

people in your family that you trust involved in that because you can do that with money too and you know any kind of assets that you have physical monetary assets you can create a trust so they can't take it from you personally because they would have to take it from the entire family and correct that makes things a lot more difficult yep and like i said if if the state all of a sudden had possession of something that was not rightfully you know it wasn't just because they had just because a person had possession of it wasn't necessarily theirs it was owned by the trust then the state couldn't touch it i mean i as far as you know the i guess the way that this person is thinking is that if someone possesses a firearm that they own the firearm that's not

necessarily true in a lot of households that's not the case especially if you have a firearm and your wife has a firearm which ones do they take they just go and take them all you could generally tell the competent i mean the knowledge base of a person as far as a Second Amendment or a firearm knowledge base by the laws and the legislation that they introduce and they try to pass. Yeah. Generally, I'm surprised to hear Pam Bondi, being a Trump appointee, talking like this because to me it sounds like something that somebody on Chuck Schumer's side of things or Nancy Pelosi might come up with, you know, with the shadow guns and shooting 5,000 rounds per second and all these ludicrous things, like AR-15 or 223 or 556 rounds

blowing cannonball-sized holes through deers and her, you know what I'm saying, just completely destroying deer and destroying them. So this is the ludicrous stuff they come up with. So I'm kind of surprised and you remember last week how i said that the democrats actually won this election yeah um i i think that there is i i think people really need to be careful as much as they might support trump trump i think they really got to be careful with what is going to be done with regard to firearms because

i think i don't know if people remember but i think he actually uh triggered a bump stock ban yes and there were some other weird firearms things that i think so i think his view of firearms is different than most people who actually voted for him even though he's professed hey you know we're not coming for your guns we're not taking away your guns there's always a you know a little bit of you know you should you should accept that with a grain of salt and i think that there might be some things that come down the pipe that uh that are going to be like this so it doesn't really shock me i mean i'm kind of disappointed by that sound bite so it doesn't really shock me i mean i'm kind of disappointed by that sound bite but it doesn't really shock me i guess because i i have a feeling that there's

going to be some things like that that sneak through and you know that that are going to be more of a challenge for folks coming you know moving forward with regard to not just second amendment rights but gun and firearm rights specifically i've never i've always been i've never been 100 trump on this program everybody knows that because uh and i've talked about it in the past quite a bit i i was disappointed with the fact he didn't drain the swamp like he said he drained the swamp that was his big motto drain the swamp no it wouldn. It wasn't just Make America Great Again. It was Drain the Swamp. And he left all those holdovers in key positions. Instead of what he's doing now, he had a transition team ready to go.

So he had the wisdom behind him this time. And also we had the Bumstock Band because he's never been – I think he's his knowledge base. He grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. Let's all get that very clear. I don't think he's ever been a Second Amendment guy through and through because he doesn't understand it. But he does know that a huge portion of his base is very pro-Second Amendment. And so he just kind of does what he does and says what he can, but doesn't have the knowledge base behind him.

You know, Ben Carson was my guy in the 2016. You know, my problem with Ben Carson was he just wasn't he didn't throw mud back. And when you start getting into politics, yes, he was if he was very smart, a doctor, neurosurgeon, I believe. And he had he had everything. I loved everything that he had to say, but he didn't have the testicular fortitude that you need to have to get down dirty with politics when it starts getting political. But yeah, the bump stock ban and now this, he's going to hear about it. His people will make a clamor and we'll see what he does about it. You know, he was very much.

Oh, also something else that was down on trump about is this um operational warp speed when covet first came out pushing the vaccines to a super accelerated rate and uh you know what actually i ran across something i want to share real quick and it's just it's just a quick read um because this is i thought this was very very interesting and and then we can move on because i wanted to talk about the rest of these nominations real quick here but this says um if everyone on the planet had to be vaccinated okay so we're doing the vaccination thing right now at least three times uh eight billion people times three right so everybody's had to get vaccinated three times uh 24 billion doses

which means if every manufacturer made a vaccine every second it would take 32 years to make 1 billion doses and if five companies had five plants making vaccines at one per second, it would take 10 years to make 7.8 billion doses and 30 years to vaccinate the population. So, so, so how have we made 7.8? You see what I'm saying? This is just, we were able to deliver all that 7.8 billion. Yeah. Not, not the whole population, you know, took the vaccine, but we know that a huge portion like 85 86 percent of the world's population took this because the government said it was safe to do so so trump pushed this operational warp speed through thing through and yes coronavirus was manufactured and the vaccine was also manufactured now you tell me how how that's even i know we're going back into the

weeds again. But when you manufacture a virus and then you manufacture a vaccine and then it comes, it gets ready for that kind of, you know, the planet that fast. The math doesn't add up. And it seems that everything was manufactured well in advance. So somebody has walked away with a whole lot of money in their pockets and we know it's probably big pharma and some of these other big people like like the bill gates of the world and and hell he probably even you know illinois zone governor uh jb pritzker because he lined his pockets with with uh with with some shares i understand um again i don't know i'm sure insley did over here in washington i mean he was pushing it hard. They're still pushing it over on the west side.

And there's no way to push it so hard unless you stand to gain something from it. But it's been proven by now that you can still catch it, even if you take it, the vaccine, you can still catch it, and you can still transmit it. So who are you protecting and who are you saving? I don't know. There's a gal that I work with, a co-worker. She's under 40, and she wound up getting a blood clot in her leg i mean i don't know how deep down that rabbit hole you want to go but if you've ever seen that what's that documentary um um hold on yeah the i do know what you because i

played it here on this program and i recorded it in three separate sessions um like um died suddenly died suddenly yeah exactly i had to reach out i reached out to the to the producers of that show and asked them for permission and i got it back i got written permission so i got i got the rights um and reserved for anybody wondering about that to to do that so i played it in three parts and they were like please and they're all about they nobody's making a dime off that documentary. They just wanted awareness to get out there. Yeah, and I mean, it's still happening, and she's just one of those people who just is adamant about getting the flu shot and COVID shot all at the same time,

her and her kids and everything. It's like, wow, okay. I mean, I don't get that. The whole Operation Warp Speed, bringing it back to the whole political sphere, I also thought that was a bit of a trip because at the same time, he wound up releasing all the funds and lifting all the federal red tape to get stuff done and basically making it tofizer and moderna and all these companies were

how do you say um they wouldn't get sued right they were exempt from law yeah yeah um when all that was happening at the same time he was like shouting hydroxychloroquine or you know like hey this isn't this is just a flu you know but he was it was i think he got played in that regard and swept up like a lot of people you know trying to figure out how to make this work but well remember anthony fauci at the time was he who was in trump's administration he didn't just get appointed you know after trump he was there during trump's administration so trump was giving him i mean he was giving trump all this information about this. And Trump's not a doctor. You know, he's just listening to what this a-hole is saying, and he's passing it on and regurgitating.

Because the information that he gets, he gets from the people that are educated in his cabinet and, you know, everybody that advises him. That's where the president gets his information. Yeah, and that's the thing is i think i think fauci was someone who whether he chose him or whether he was already there and he just kind of leaned on him because he knew more that was something that wound up wound up biting him i think that warp speed was a total mess but i get why it was done i can see why as a how do you say as a as a political leader you'd want to step in and really make something happen because it needed to happen now. It's the same thing he did with the PPP program. And people took advantage of that, of course.

But it was designed to be able to help people get through the whole, you know, especially small employers to be able to pay their people and do all that kind of stuff. If you remember right, though, like because Trump was never pro-mandate on this thing, and he was pushing this Operation Warp Speed through, which is fine. I would not know anything about vaccine and how they work and how the FDA and the CDC have to go all through. The FDA has to go through years of trials to make sure that the efficiency of these things, I'm sorry, efficacy, I can't even say the word. Yeah, you got it.

Is correct or not, you know, because you don't want to, even if it causes one death in a hundred, you got to take it off the shelf. And this was doing, this vaccine was killing a lot of people. Nobody knew at first why it was killing people, you know, and everybody that was dying, they would, due to the shot dying, they would do the shot. They were calling it something else. But everybody that died natural causes, they would say, well, the covid itself killed them. You know, they want to take no credit at all for the vaccine deaths, but all the credit for the covid kills.

So they can they can continue to keep pushing this this mandate. And Trump never forced this mandate. That was something. And everybody on the left, all the Democrats were uh this vaccine when when trump was in office but as soon as trump left office and the vaccines the same companies you know moderna and pfizer and johnson johnson and these they were still there i think there was four or five of them at the time and then all of a sudden when they're in charge you get they mandate the vaccines they were against them but now they're for them because now they got control then they can mandate the vaccines i They were against them, but now they're for them because now they got control and they can mandate the vaccines.

I think they were probably understanding at this point what the grander picture was, controlling the narrative and making people stay in their homes and gaining power and driving the economy into collapse. So, you know, let's face it.

When the economy breaks, you can enforce any kind of economy that you want to at that point. Government aid is their, they love the nanny state thing. You know, big brother. They love it. Veteran affairs. any kind of economy that you want to at that point government aid is is there is there they love the nanny state thing you know big brother they love it veteran affairs doug collins you know anything about him nope me neither uh says it again i'm reading from the new york times like it was last week he's a former house representative for georgia mr collins serves in the air force

reserve as a chaplain and deployed to Iraq five times in 2008. I guess he was a very vocal defender of Trump during his first impeachment inquiry. So I always like to throw respect out to people who served in the military. I don't care what your role was. I don't diminish anybody's role. Everybody's got an active part to play, even chaplains. One of my best friends when I was overseas was, I mean, one of my best friends when i was overseas was uh i mean one of my best friends was in the marines was a well when i was overseas too but uh was a navy corpsman and i don't know

if you know anything about navy corpsman but they're basically field medics that are provided by the by the navy and so they are attached to the marines usually grunts when they go out into the field for or any kind of deployment and they do everything we do the only thing they don't do with us is boot camp they have their own boot camp but they do everything we do. The only thing they don't do with us is boot camp. They have their own boot camp, but they do everything with us. They go in the field. They eat dirt. They shoot our weapons. They train like us.

They do everything Marines do, side by side. They're brothers to Marines. And so I never took away from the fact they weren't Marines. I treated them like Marines because of their service that they did with us, by our side and our shoulders. I do that with everybody. This guy was a chaplain, and he deployed to Iraq eight times. I don't care if he was advising people spiritually,

he was handed a very important role in uplifting the spirits and the hearts of downtrodden people who were missing their families or maybe thinking about giving up or turning, you know what I'm saying? Turning it in. Oh yeah. And that's important. Heck yeah. Mental state state that's the number one and i really hope i mean someone sounds like a guy who's done five tours over in iraq knows what what uh what the balance is what the score sheet is so to speak when it comes to the feds and their role with vets so i and there's a lot of room for improvement there. There is.

I really don't like how a lot of our veterans hospitals, they don't treat our people good. I know, I'm not going to give no location or places or names, but my uncle was diagnosed, misdiagnosed by the Department of Veteran Affairs by a hospital, VA hospital. And he ended up dying because he misdiagnosed. And he's just one of a couple different cases I know about. I don't think that they get the standard of service. I think they just throw these doctors and nurses into these places. I'm not saying that they don't try. I'm just saying that I don't, I don't even know how the system works. I just know it needs an upgrade because anytime anybody's misdiagnosed, and I don't know a lot of people that go to the VA, but if one that I know went to the VA and got misdiagnosed and died that's a problem yeah exactly and now let's take a moment

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economic advisor to mr trump over the past year and i'd be kind of curious to see what his uh stance is on crypto because i've seen a lot of movement in my personal crypto profile or portfolio and uh i'm kind of curious what's happening with that and what's going to happen over the next couple of years decentralized digital currency i think is going to be a huge thing that wasn't really clear for a lot of people going into the election. And I think people are starting to ask questions about it now. In fact, I had an 80 year old guy come up, asked me, so what is this? And during Thanksgiving, he says, what's this, uh, this bite coin or Bitcoin thing? And he's like, I got people asking me at church about this. And I'm like, wow,

uh, not for you, man, just stay clear of that you just don't worry about that keep your investments close to your heart and uh ride this one out but the whole i mean he's there's enough chatter out there to where you've got folks with money paying attention really close attention to as and trying to get a grasp of what it even is. And for me to sit there and try and explain to him that it's currency backed by nothing, but somehow we can attach a dollar value to it. You know, it was just the ability to even trying to explain this guy,

how it works and realize that you can't really do that. You know, we're, we're to a point where we need something like that, but you know, trying to get people to buy into it is going to be something else. I'm, I'm really curious to see what,

uh, what this guy's take is on that, especially on the, on the, if he's been a hedge fund manager for a while and seeing what, how volatile these markets are. Um, I think it's going to be interesting.

Well, I can tell you that he said- Hopefully he's capable. He does. He is on record as sharing an opinion on the cryptocurrency thing. So right now I'm looking at cryptonews.com and they're reporting that in a July interview with Fox Business, Besant lauded Trump's embrace of cryptocurrency, aligning it with the ethos of the Republican Party. Crypto is about freedom and the crypto economy is here to stay, he stated,

emphasizing its role in attracting young and unprecedented participants to financial markets. Here's an audio. I'm just going to play this real quick, see what it has to say. I've been excited about the president's embrace of crypto, and I think it fits very well with the Republican Party, the ethos of it's crypto is about freedom. And the crypto economy is here to stay. The Democrats are running from it because they're trying to wash off the stench of Sam Bankman Freed and his family's donations to the Democratic Party. So they're willing to take down a whole industry because of bad behavior on their part, bad behavior of one actor. And I think that everything's on the table with Bitcoin.

And to me, one of the most exciting things about Bitcoin is for a generation of investors who maybe post the great financial crisis have been looking for investment opportunities or maybe they've soured on markets. Crypto is bringing in young people. It's bringing in people who haven't participated in markets. And, you know, having a market culture in the U.S. and people believing the markets work for them is a centerpiece of capitalism. So what do you think about that? I think he's spot on. I mean, really, it's that's what I tried to explain to this this guy who was at my Thanksgiving dinner and my father in law. But I was trying to explain to him that, hey, look, this is basically a form of barter because I didn't go into the U.S. dollar not being backed by anything.

But I basically was able to tell him, hey, look, this is something that is capable of being a form of exchange. And if you agree that something is worth, you know, a fraction of a Bitcoin, and I agree that it's worth a fraction of a Bitcoin, we can make that exchange without any cash changing hands. You get what I have to offer, whether it's a good or service. You pay me for what I feel it's worth. And guess what? The IRS doesn't know boo about it. It's just money that changed hands. And to me, that has value, especially when it comes to capitalism, because that's why

I think people are so turned on by this, because we are taxed every time we turn around. Taxed to drive the vehicle on the road that we're taxed on when we go to the polls and we drive to the house that we're taxed on every month. And the food in the pantry that was taxed in some states, when we go to buy it after, we're taxed to pay for it with the money that we earn at our job, you know, that's taxed before we can even use it. So it's just people are bleeding out with taxes

here in the United States and they don't realize it was just like the slow boil. And here you have this form of exchange where, wait a second, there's no tax here we can do things and and take that with a grain of salt because there is tax code written for buying and selling crypto um so there's there is tax documentation on that but what i'm getting at is that i don't have to charge someone taxes if i decide that i'm going to give them you know one bitcoin to you know read you know i don't know buy a car or something like that you know what i mean i do so it's kind of a it's the type of thing where i don't i i think it has a superior form of value and i like he said you know you're drawing younger people into trading and watching these things happen you You know, I'm buying, I've got stuff in my portfolio where I have, you know, three,

400,000 shares because I bought them at, you know, a fraction of a penny. And if they go up to even a dollar, you know, I don't need to hit the $10,000 mark or $20,000, $100,000 mark like crypto is doing. If I do, great. But if it even reaches a dollar, i could pay off my house so there's there is there is an upside to that that is bringing a lot of younger people into the crypto scene and that's not even a bitcoin it's just a just in some junk coin so i mean there there is opportunity and i think that that the fact that we have an administration coming in who recognizes

that opportunity, that is a good sign of moving forward for capitalism, in my opinion. I would agree. But I also think that it's a two-edged sword. Right now, it could be a good thing. But Trump is also in the past, because he wants to move, I believe, towards an Asara-Jasara kind of a thing. And with with biden going out he wanted because it wasn't regulated he wanted to regulate it and he told the irs to do everything within their power to come up with regulatory uh like this is not their job this is what makes me so angry like this is not their job to do this it's not even it's not a branch of government it's not their job to legislate it's not their job to regulate in fact we had some recent uh supreme court rulings

that that with the chevron uh deference for example that these agencies cannot regulate it's it's actually unconstitutional because they're not a branch of government so uh the two edged sword being eventually some party's going to be in there wants to regulate it whether it's trump whether it's the next president whoever that's going to be it won't be trump in the next round it's gonna be somebody else but we want to hope that they leave it unregulated. So like you're talking, people can continue to do this kind of thing. It could be another form of transfer between goods and whatnot. But the wacky side of this is eventually this is going to lead down path of this, the central banking currency system.

And we don't want the digital central, anything central digital currency in any way, shape, form. Absolutely. And it's kind of weird too. I mean, you think about it here, we are looking at the potential of two forms of currency, digital currency, crypto, and, you know, our, say our U S dollar, for example, or we'll just hold those two i mean obviously there's different forms but u.s dollar versus crypto i don't think people realize that there was a new dollar that was in not invented but put into use during the civil war so during the civil war we actually had a United States standard and a Confederate standard. I think that's the opposite.

What is it? It would have been the United States Confederates. Yeah. So there was two different currencies. So when the war was over, all the Southern currency was basically null and void. They couldn't use any of it. But at the time, there were two currencies running at the same time.

And I think that as a point in our US history on how that panned out and how it was effective or ineffective is something that people should really start paying attention to. Because here we're facing, we're on the cusp of two different forms of currency becoming mainstream.

And we're not in the middle of a civil war. But with all the talk about civil war, guess what? There's a potential for you to be able to buy and sell without a single U.S. dollar changing hands. And that, I think, is enticing for a lot of reasons. But that's kind of my take on it. I've been following crypto for, shoot, probably eight, ten years now, and I just have, within the last year, just started really looking into it and then actually investing.

I spent a lot of time looking into it before I actually put my money where my mouth is. Well, the shares are going up substantially. I'm looking at Shiba Inu right now, which my brother invests in. He sent me a link earlier today. It's gone up 80.43% in the past month. Yeah. One of the ones that I have that's gone crazy is XRP,

and that's one that people are really going to be kind of curious about. That one in particular is basically an easier form of exchange. Shiba Inu bulk i have i have four almost 400 000 shiba inu shares so if those go to a dollar a piece i'll probably stop podcasting for a while but yeah i mean they're they're all on this massive upswing, and they've been on a real low state. They've been kind of declining for the last six months, and then all of a sudden after the election, boom, everything's just a parabolic curve. So it's going to be interesting to see how much it continues. And they're volatile.

I mean, they can skyrocket and then plummet, and it's just not it's not as stable as like uh getting a quarterly earning statement it's oh somebody said something on social media so now here's peanut the squirrel coin coming out next thing you know it grows four thousand percent yes and someone who has a hundred thousand shares just made a mint off of it and you know everybody else is stuck with this you know floundering share so yeah because everybody wants to throw their hat and throw their hat in right so they can get a piece of the pie yeah uh moving on brooke rollins agriculture secretary uh miss

rollins a conservative lawyer is the chief executive of the america first policy institute a prominent think tank that laid plans for a second Trump presidency. She was originally considered for chief of staff, but ultimately lost to Susie Wiles. And I think Susie Wiles was his campaign manager, right? Or Susan was- It says right here that she, second Trump president,

she was originally considered for chief of staff. So Susie Wiles, she lost to chief of staff. I'm imagining Susie Wiles is the chief of staff readily considered for chief of staff. So Susie Wiles, she lost the chief of staff. I'm imagining Susie Wiles is the chief of staff or considered for chief of staff. Let's see. Did we cover her already? I thought we did. Susie Wiles. Yeah, I don't know much about this particular gal.

I don't think we've covered her yet. Moving on, we'll probably get to her eventually. For Commerce Secretary and Transition Co-Chair Howard Lutnick. yet uh moving on we'll probably get to eventually uh for for commerce secretary and transition co-chair howard lutnick uh he's a wall street executive his companies are involved in nearly every sector of the u.s economy and he could face questions during the confirmation process about his finances and potential conflicts of interest okay sean duffy the transportation secretary mr duffy is a former wisconsin congressman a fox business host i recognize his face he rose to fame in the late 1990s on the mtv reality show the real world boston he also appears on road rules all stars where he met his wife

rachel campos duffy who was a fox news host yeah some some tv personalities yeah it doesn't hurt yeah it's kind of like what about do you have kash patel or kash patel i don't know how to say his name yeah patel is correct has he been actually confirmed or or or has there been any formal announcement i know there's been a lot of scuttle about him being an fbi director let me look here because some of these don't need uh like some of these guys could be just be appointed they don't need the ones we've been going over need to be confirmed through the senate uh the the ones where confirmation is not required is the vice president chief of staff yes susan wyatt suzy wiles she is the chief of staff all right so she needs no approval uh deputy chief of staff james she is the chief of staff. All right, so she needs no approval.

Deputy chief of staff, James Blair. Deputy chief of staff, Taylor Budowich. Let me see here. I'm moving on to your, there's a lot of names here. Moving on to your Patel guy. Not Patel. Yeah, you said Patel, didn't you? I don't see his name mentioned anywhere in any of these,

and I scroll back up to the ones that have to be confirmed through the Senate. And I don't see any Patel in there either. Yeah. I think it's just a bunch of people on social media with a hard on for this guy because he's basically interested in dismantling the FBI. Yeah. And revealing everything, basically. And I think we're at a point as a nation where we, as citizens, we want that Band-Aid ripped off. We want the truth. We want to be able to move forward and rebuild.

And I think the only way to do that is to rip that Band-Aid off. We need people in there that are willing to do it. Yep. I think the CIA is definitely one of those organizations that could be dismantled. I think the FBI could probably be reformed. But I agree with you. We need to know exactly. I want to know who was involved in the assassination attempts against Ronald Reagan.

I want to know who killed JFK. I want to know all this stuff. If there's UFOs out there, I want to know. I want to pull the Band-Aid off. Yeah. I mean, transparency. Actually getting it. if there's UFOs out there I want to know you know I want to pull the bandaid off yeah I mean transparency actually getting it I think that would be that would be awesome

and it would be scary but you know I'm sick and tired of living in the dark and I think a lot of people ever since you know prior to Vietnam you know people are wondering why we're in Vietnam. And I would like to know what the real reasons are.

I mean, I've heard stories about Afghanistan. We weren't there to fight the Taliban. We were there to protect the opium fields. Yeah. Yeah, if you can pull the bandaid off. Talk about that. If you can pull the bandaid off. If it's not going, all that older stuff,

if it's not going, if there's just decl if it's not going, just declassify it. If there's no longer an active investigation going on, you know what I'm saying, and you're not risking the health and life and safety of anybody, any living American, let us know about it. Do you remember last week, because we were confused about RFK's role, youda and and i because he kept saying health health services there isn't actually an fda so he is not fda he is health health health and human services human services and this guy martin mccurry is the fda commissioner uh doctor he's a doctor dr mccurry a johns hopkins university and researcher, rose to prominence more than a decade ago as a critic of the medical establishment. He was largely opposed to vaccine mandates during the COVID pandemic. Okay, well, that's good news.

Yeah, I'll take that. Yeah. I don't have anything against critics. Here's the thing about critics. If the facts are there, then the critics will shut up. That's a good thing. If the facts are not there, then they should be critical of it, and it shouldn't be a mandate.

Point blank, period. Chris Wright, Energy Secretary. Mr. Wright is the chief executive of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based fracking company. He has no government experience. This is Trump's credit. He has no government experience. This is, if Trump is correct, he has no government experience and caught the attention of Mr. Trump

in part through his appearance on Fox News. I can see that. I can also see the part about the whole fracking. I mean, energy independence is going to be huge. So I can see, especially when you talk about some of the other ones, the ones that we talked about last week from North and South Dakota, and then you got someone in the Colorado region who's a proponent of fracking, the potential to open up natural gas pipelines and fracking for oil.

methods to be able to offset earthquakes and issues and health concerns but you know still be able to deliver some level of fuel independence i've been relatively quiet on fracking because i i admit i'm not deeply acknowledged on it but i can tell you for anybody that's listening here's what my understanding of how fracking works and let's say that you believe that there might be oil in a location how they do do it, I'm not sure. But they probe down. They just blast a huge hole deep into the earth. And it opens up almost like a tree trunk, just going all these different directions when it reaches the correct depth. And if it hits an oil line, boom, you got oil.

And the problem with this is, I guess, there's tectonic plates. There's shifts. There's other things that it can environmentally cause hazards for like weak weak ground uh collapses uh air pockets in the earth you know collapses you know man just holes in the earth that can open up i'm not sure that's why i've been i've remained so silent on it because i don't have all the knowledge base to have to a formulated opinion on it but i am a i am for um i'm very strongly for a proponent of of having our own oil i this is the means of getting it i'm i'm unknowledged on yeah and i'm not i'm kind of in the same boat i i think there's there's solid evidence against fracking but again i don't i don't know enough about

the process or the aftermath or what happens as a result but i do know that lithium batteries are not the solution they're dirty yeah so uh linda mcmahon well we know who linda mcmahon is um i believe if she's any relation to uh to vince ole mcmahon you remember vince mcmahon is she and is she the same miss m Vince McMahon is a major donor to Mr. Trump, a one-time Senate candidate from Connecticut and a former executive of a professional wrestling empire that she founded with her husband. So Vince McMahon. Oh, yeah. This is her wife.

I saw footage of her wrestling somewhere. So she served in Mr. Trump's first cabinet as the head of a small business administration. So here's somebody, you know, education secretary and transition co-chair. This is somebody who has experience running businesses, right? Yes, but she's also from the entertainment industry. Doesn't matter.

The entertainment industry is a business. But now it looks like she's taking on education secretary and transition co-chair. So it's not really exactly going to be in the driver's seat. She's going to be in the co-pilot seat as a co-chair. So I'm interested to see what she's going to do. NATO Ambassador Matthew G. Whitaker. Mr. Whitaker served as acting attorney general in the first Trump administration for about three months after Jeff S sessions stepped down and before william p bar was confirmed to succeed him he does not have foreign policy

experience again me and you talked about this last week you know if if you have diplomacy experience that's all i care about um you know you can you can learn because these guys are transition it's not like they just walk in day one right and they're just overseas making these deals and policies. It's not like that. They're transitioned and they're trained before they're cut loose. If anybody listening to this show has ever taken a job, they're just not thrown into a job, let's say, for example, in a factory. Here you go. Good luck.

And you're dealing with hoppers and all these different machine parts and things and temperature controls and presses and everything. It's not like that. You're trained first and you're transitioned to work alone. And that's the same thing here, you know, with a NATO ambassador, this Matthew G. Whitaker. He may not have any foreign policy experience, but I guarantee you if you go and dig up some information on him, you're going to find out these he's got some kind of experience in diplomacy yeah uh because trump is so racist right we got our our token black person here that uh that the racist uh left is is saying that's not my words you know you got your your your joy reads you know your racist uh people on msnbc who were saying things like that um but scott turner

housing and urban development secretary mr turner mr turner is a former professional football player was a state representative in texas i'd be curious what his activities were as a football player working with the inner cities because i bet that gave him a fair amount of experience with what could be changed wasn't yeah exactly because most of those guys didn't come up you know uh with a spoon in their mouth they they grew up and they got these these these uh scholarships because they're they're good at football or basketball whatever the case may be um and i believe um that that position in trump's first administration was actually filled by Ben Carson, was it not? Sounds right.

I believe it was. Trump offered him a position and he took it. Trump is, say what you want about Trump. I always figured he's always, to me, been a gracious winner. You know, he don't throw it, you know, when he, like, for example, when he beat out all the republican candidates he didn't just laugh at ben carson's face uh he became allies with ted with ted uh cruz later down the road and he called him little ted or lion ted you know and then there was uh marco rubio called little marco and even in this in this session you know he gave him a position um so he's gracious in that regard.

He just doesn't beat you and throw you out to the wolves. He's got something, you know, you see what I'm saying? The point I'm trying to make, he offers, you know, it's not breadcrumbs either. Like these are good positions. Yeah. And part of me wonders too, I mean, I'm not sure how much more you have on your list,

but part of me wonders if this whole Department of Government efficiency thing that hasn't even been developed yet but there's massive talks about it um you know as soon as he's in the door let's see how this goes i'm curious if the folks that are running these departments are basically going to be running them until they are absolved basically um to the point where they're they're running them and until they either get shut down or until they make significant enough changes to where the people who were maybe initially not capable of handling them are more than capable of handling them in their new form, like the education side of things.

Well, these are, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but these are positions that are appointed by the president. So whoever comes in four years later, like for example, um, Scott Turner, who I just told you is going to be the urban housing. Um, somebody could come in four years later, the next president say, I don't like him making another appointment into that position. So he would be gone. Most of these appointed positions, especially like cabinet positions and things that are appointed by the president are temporary jobs and they know going in. Correct. This is interesting.

And by the way, we have like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. There's 12 more on the, which we're not going to get through tonight. Yeah. On the Senate confirmations. And there's more, even more beyond that for the ones that like I read a while ago, some of them for the ones that don't have to be appointed. They just, I mean, they need no appointment, no Senate confirmations. Here you go. Here's your job.

This one right here, Dave Weldon. I mentioned CDC director. Because I despise the CDC, I absolutely hate. I have a disdain for the CDC. I hate them with a mad passion. Not just because they changed the definition of vaccine to force this help help this force this mandate along um but they do their job horrible they're horrible at it uh so dr weldon is a former florida congressman and physician so

i'm glad they're putting a doctor in charge of the cdc while in congress he and also a political backing uh experience while in congress he pushed the notion that tamarisol i guess the drug tamarisol a preservative compound in some vaccines had caused an explosion of autism one cannot deny that autism has taken off in recent years since Since the 80s. Yes. Since they started really, but I'm not totally, there are a lot of vaccines because polio was, we haven't had a cure for anything

since polio vaccine. It's not even dead. Polio is not dead. It's close to extinction, but we haven't had, that just says something right there about the pharmaceutical industry, that there's money,

there's no money to be made in cures, right? So I'm interested to see how how he pulls this off uh back as he caused explosion what's it yeah this type of this hypothesis has long been shown to be false experts say again this this these are opinions expressed by the new york times so you take it for what it's worth uh no maybe no one can link autism but but the comparison is there right you we got a huge increase of vaccines we got a huge increase of autism it it to me would make sense what else we've also had a huge explosion of of preservatives in our food things things that kennedy talks out rfk talks about all these things he's trying to

take out of our food all the things are legal in europe illegal and to put foods in europe the united states allows in their food so since these things been pushed and pumped into the food that we eat there's also been explosion in in autism so it could be that too all i know is that something unnatural is happening. Yes, absolutely. Let's do one more and then we can close out. The Surgeon General, Jeanette Nishwat. I hope I pronounced that right. Dr. Nishwat is a Fox News medical contributor and a sister-in-law of Representative Michael Waltz of Florida.

Not to be confused with the Walt waltz family that is spelled differently tim waltz yeah this this guy is michael waltz not to be confused with uh with tampon tim uh whom trump has chosen to be his national security advisor i i don't know that name i i think she looks familiar to me when i look at her i can see her face because i you know having watched a lot of fox news in the past which i don don't hardly watch any news, so I do a lot of my stuff just self-diving. But I'm interested to see what she does as a surgeon general. We've got some good picks coming up, and curiosity has me kind of stoked. How about you?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think, again, kind of like we mentioned last week, it's going to be an interesting term in a lot of different perspectives and i think the the people that are being chosen even right off the bat first round draft picks seem to be stellar candidates and this is the first time i've really ever paid attention to this kind of stuff um i was just kind of like well election's over president's gonna pick his people and who knows who they are but they know because they're all part of the club and I'm not in it. But I think, I don't know, real close watch on what people are doing and saying

on all these different facets of a government more so ever than more so than ever before. I would have to agree with that. So we want to thank everybody listening to the rising republic. What a great show. Yeah. I like talking with Ryan about, about this stuff, right? And it's a good conversation as usual. Oh yeah off the rails as usual yeah it's a good time we're completely we're just like everybody knows we're completely like we don't we don't get on talk for half hour before the show you know we it's like small chat like how you're doing pretty good and then i'm usually cutting so let's talk about this on the show just keep things kind of organic um oh yeah but uh i i like i like sharing with the audience um you know what's

going on in my life and in your life. And I want to thank all of our listeners out there for listening to The Rise of the Republic. I'm L. Douglas Hogan. And I'm Ryan Buford. Y'all, thank you for listening. God bless.