The Tucker Carlson Show - Catturd

Episode Date: January 23, 2024

Meet the man who made Adam Kinzinger cry: Catturd  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you don't pay close attention to Joe Biden, you're probably content to dismiss him as just a senile old fool who's exiting the stage at high speed. But if you actually listen to him, if you watch what Joe Biden says, it dawns on you, actually, this man is evil, actually evil. Listen to what he says. It's dishonest. It's vicious. It's cruel to his fellow Americans. He's a bad person, and he's the president of the United States.

And yet no one seems to say that out loud or even notice. Instead, our moral superiors, our overlords, are very exercised about, well, some people you've probably not even heard of, people on the internet who are saying true things. And one of the people who makes them maddest is a guy, really an account, called Cat Turd. Yes, that's the name, one word, on X, formerly Twitter. Cat Turd has millions of followers and is remarkably, remarkably controversial for a THE FACT THAT HE'S NOT ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER.

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HE'S ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER. HE'S ON TWITTER. THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE READING THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE. THEY ARE GOING TO BE READING WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. KINZINGER MADE THAT CLEAR THE OTHER DAY WHEN HE RESPONDED PERSONALLY TO A TWITTER ACCOUNT CALLED CAT TURD. WHEN YOU ARE ONE OF WASHINGTON'S LEADING AUTHORITIES ON FOREIGN

POLICY YOU SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON TWITTER READING ACCOUNTS WITH NAMES LIKE CAT TURD. THE OTHER DAY CAT TURD MADE THE MISTAKE OF POSTING A MEME THAT SEEMED TO MOCK THE COLORS OF THE UKRAINIAN FLAG. COLORS THAT ARE SACRED TO ADAM KINZINGER AND EVERY OTHER EMPATHETIC SOCCER MOMENT OR MID-40S. YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW OFFENSIVE THAT WAS. IT WAS LIKE TELLING AN OFF-COLOR JOKE ABOUT MEGAN MARKLE.

IT COULD NOT STAND. AND SO ALONE AND BATTLING DEBILITATING HOT FLASHES IN HIS KITCHEN, FIGHTING THE URGE TO OPEN YET ANOTHER BAG OF JIPS AHOY, ADAM KINZINGER FOUGHT BACK. LITERAL EVIL, HE WROTE IN A LATE-NIGHT RESPONSE TO CAT TURD. IF I MET YOU IN PERSON, IT WOULD NOT END WELL FOR YOU, SICKO. he wrote in a late night response to Cat Turd. If I met you in person, it would not end well for you, sicko. Whoa, hear that, Cat Turd? It will not end well for you. That's not a pillow fight Adam Kinzinger is talking about.

That's a full-on slap fight with hair pulling. This is real. You'd better apologize. Our heart goes out to Cat Turd tonight, who's probably cowering in a litter box somewhere, waiting for Adam Kinzinger to show up with sharpened nails. So Cat Turd enraged Adam Kinzinger, and has also been noticed on late night comedy shows.

Watch. And things seem to hit a new low last night, as he retweeted three times an account called Cat Turd. Now, to be fair, the cat is wearing glasses, so it must be smart. The actual Twitter handle for the account is Cat Turd 2. And I, for one, cannot wait to see what's in store from cat turd three. Cat turd sounds like someone Joe Biden would have brought up in a speech during the primaries. When I was growing up in Scranton, there was a real mean son of a gun. We used to call him cat turd. He could do up and bebop like nobody's business. What was I talking about? Oh yeah,

climate change. Well, there's a reason nobody watches late night comedy shows anymore, but still Cat Turd seems to offend people. Why is that? Who is this man? Who's Cat Turd 1? Well, we found him. He's a man. He's from the South. That's all we know. He wants to keep his name private because he doesn't want his life any more disrupted than it already has been, but he is joining us anyway in physical form. Ketcher, it's great to see you. How are you doing? You've made it, Tucker.

So many questions. I actually don't know your real name, just for the record. Okay. What year did you graduate from Yale? Yeah, I graduated Yale, I think, 1984. No, seriously. I'm guessing you didn't go to Yale, and I mean that as a compliment. I went to Harvard after Yale.

You went to Harvard. I remember you so well there. What was your preparation for being cat-turned? Like, tell us your life trajectory. Who are you without revealing your name? Well, I'm from northwest Florida. I mean, Georgia. Same thing.

Yeah. Well, I live in northwest Florida. I mean, Georgia. Same thing. Yeah. Well, I live in northwest Florida now. But so I graduated high school kind of early at 17, joined the Army. I was telling you earlier, I spent my 18th birthday in a foxhole in Fort Dix, New Jersey in basic training, back when it really was basic training. And then I got injured when I was over in Bad Kissigan, Germany, and we were on alert and I hurt my back real bad and had surgery. Oh. And that was pretty much the end of my army career. I was medevaced back to Fort Gordon, Georgia, had back surgery. I actually tried to stay in, but they wouldn't let me.

Yeah. I mean, it's been something I've had to deal with my whole life. So they wrecked your body and then kicked you out? Yeah. Good. Okay. You know, it was a horrible medical discharge, but yeah. And so, um, after that, um, I hitchhiked to Panama city and I've pretty much been in the panhandle ever since, you know, I'm 59 years old. Um, I spent, you know, just like most people, I was, I'm different than most of the influencers that do all the right things, have the kids, wear the suit and ties. I pretty much was screwed up until I was about 40, 45 years old. I had a couple of failed marriages, followed by, I was just, was a professional Musician for a year I was a hippie

I had long hair And a beard And smoked weed And had a VW van Really? And wore dyed shirts I did I did

I was a real hippie I went from job to job Partied a lot Yeah I partied a lot I had my stint with drugs And alcohol And you know I don't know why

Everybody's scared to admit you know everybody thinks i'm not big famous picture you know this big picture of how um you know in the world that we live in today it's just like i just i've always been honest with my followers and on my podcast um i don't trust people who don't know how weak they are yeah i know yeah and so i um kind of aimlessly went through my life. And then I finally ended up, you know, working a good fiber optics job for years. At 54 years old, which was five years ago, I'd never been on social media. I didn't know anything about social media. I didn't even know how it worked. I had no friends on social media. And I just decided to, I got arthritis in my fingers.

I couldn't play guitar anymore. And I was just like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm just going to get on Twitter. And I just, you know, saw the cat, just said cat turd. I never thought I'd have 100 followers. You know, who would think that it's just like, it's like Homer Simpson now. Cat turds, it's way beyond me. You know, they're doing.

Wait, if I could just ask you to pause, what was the moment when you decided to make that your nom de guerre? I just was like surfing through the web and I saw that cat picture and it just, cat turd, it was that simple. I mean, you know, I didn't think anybody was ever going to follow me. I remember asking people for weeks, how do I post a picture on here? And so I don't even know how it took off. It just got legs somehow and it just took off.

So but why did you do it? Why did I do what? Why did you go online and start giving your opinions? I don't know. Well, I've always been as a professional musician in the 90s. You know, you have to be good at construction construction yeah because you got to make money yeah no you're not gonna make it i'm a little slow i missed that so you better learn to build stuff so you know me and my band guys we were we were builders you know we built decks roost build up build a house whatever and so in the the 90s, you're bored, and we played music at night.

We didn't want to listen to music, so I started listening to Rush Limbaugh. Really? So every day we'd listen to Rush Limbaugh while we were building houses, whatever. You and every construction crew in America. Yeah, and it just like, I didn't even know. I was a hippie. I thought I was a liberal. I didn't know what I was still.

And I was like, this guy's saying everything i believe and um it was um it was you know i listened to him to the day he died really yeah i was total rush baby and it was just like this guy is talking exactly what i think and i never even knew what I was until, you know, I started listening to him, but that's how I got in. And I was just a political junkie from the first time I heard him. And it's just been like that ever since. So I got on, you know, Twitter now X and just started posting and man, what a five years. That's unbelievable. It is. I mean, but why did you do that? I mean, a lot of people have political opinions, but they don't imagine that other people want to read them or they don't feel compelled to share them with the world on a social media app. I don't know why it caught fire.

But why did you want to do it? Because you were frustrated? Yeah, I guess so. I think as an artist, although I didn't play on stage a lot in the last years i'd always go to my room and i wrote a lot of music i actually wrote my best stuff then and it was just i need that artistic outlet yes and when i lost that i was really kind of depressed because i'd lost my fingers it's like overnight they started swelling up i got arthritis from playing guitar and using power tools my whole life and um i was just like i just need to do something and so i just got on social media it's just it's

just the spur of the moment it's my birthday it's like two days after my birthday so i'm gonna join twitter and i was asking people i was calling people how do you join twitter how do you do a picture how is there a membership committee? What's the rules? So when, at what point did it, I can't remember the first time I saw it, but at what point did you realize it was working? I don't know. I remember after two or three months, I was, I was working on a job in Miami and I told one of my friends that was, that was rooming with me at the time we were working there I said man this thing's really taking off and he thought I was crazy he said what and I said this cat turd thing and he's just he thought I was nuts because you know everybody

did I was trying to tell everybody this thing's really taking off and everybody just like whatever you know here's the shovel start get the rocks over there and hole and it just it just caught fire i don't know how i don't know how it did and it just keeps going wow i mean so you're you're in miami rooming with another guy that you're working with yeah on some kind of job yeah yeah fiber optics job i did fiber optic construction for years after i got finished with my music career. At the point that Adam Kinzinger starts replying to you and threatening your life. Oh, yeah. By the way, that would be quite a slap fight.

Do you feel confident you've been? I don't know. He's scary. I want to see eye to eye with him, so I'm going to go get a Home Depot five-gallon bucket so he can stand on it. But when Adam Kinzinger himself, he's got Ukraine to defend. Oh, yeah. He's super busy transitioning or whatever he's doing. When he takes time to attack you and threaten to beat you up or scratch you.

Yeah. That wasn't my meme I just said I think I said I shouldn't be laughing at this but it's funny yeah and then um and then it made it worse you know once he does that that he he don't understand how the internet works now they got his face on it yeah you know now now all the time you see that meme it's his face on it now well how do you understand how the internet works I I don't know. I just somehow do. Interesting. Yeah. So what has it done to your life? Well, it's totally changed my life. You know, financially, I started selling merch and then I got a podcast. You know, we got Jules and I have a co-host, Jules Jones. Our podcast is called In the Litter Box.

You know, we've got to deal with Rumble, which we love. We love Rumble. And then, you know, fast forward to these ad shares, which are crazy, you know, with Elon Musk. I mean, it's big money. And I bought a new truck a couple of weeks ago. I never had a new vehicle in my life, you know. And to be able to do something like that for me, I mean, I think a lot of people, I know what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck for most of my life.

I know what it's like to live like a teabag, you know, at the end of the workday and be so sore. I know what it's like to choose from your rent and food. I know what it's like to ride around on four different tires. One's got three plugs. One's got five plugs. One's got 13 plugs in it. You know, we call them baloney skins, no tread. So I think a lot of people just, I'm kind of like the Rudy of Twitter.

I probably don't deserve to be there, but I've worked hard enough to maybe get that one play at the end at the end of the game it's the most american story ever it really is not it really is nuts there's i don't think there's a lot of people like my situation because like i said most of the influencers are i mean they just they've they've and and they did the right thing not me i did the, and they did the right thing. Not me. I did the wrong thing. They did the right thing. They've got great wives and kids and, you know, they've made a lot of money.

They've got, you know, parents that are successful and they went to college. For sure. And I'm just a working class stiff. Well, that's the ruling class of the country. Yeah. And I'm from it, so I know. I know. Yeah.

So it's pretty amazing to see this happen to you it is and so how much of your day is spent on it pretty much seven days a week i'm an insomniac i always have been so i get up at four or five and i basically do it seven days a week you know 15 hours a day what so but you're you spent your life moving physically moving outside obviously it's been hard on your body as you said oh it has but it's also there's something good about moving and i mean what's it like the change at 55 to go from you know being on the road installing fiber cable to sitting behind a screen all day. Oh, it's fantastic. Screw moving.

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mossachips.com. Moss is M-A-S-A, by the way. Mossachips.com slash Tucker to start snacking. Get 25% off. We enjoy them. You will too. I've got 13 rescue pets and I still, you know, I still take care of my, I got a little, I got a horse ranch, but there's no horses. It's got a barn and the whole deal. And it's fenced in where my dogs can run free and I chase them around all day. 13 rescues? Yeah, 13 now. What's that like? It's, well, I post all the pictures online, and it's all these beautiful pictures, but they don't see all the fights and the growling and, you know, he's swallowing a bone and he's swallowing a rope, and they're all chasing a squirrel and they're fighting,

and, you know, they don't see all that. But it's, I don't know what happened, but they just started coming to me. I've never been to a rescue a shelter they i found all of my pets uh starving and beaten and abandoned and uh and just on the side of the road all the dogs except i got two puppies one of the dogs i got uh uh came in and she was young i didn't think anything about it and she got pregnant pregnant. And before I knew it, it was just like, I had 10 puppies too on top of this. And it's funny because I gave them away

and they got Twitter accounts. They got huge Twitter accounts. People follow the puppies. They're called puppy turds. Why do you adopt so many animals? I just, I mean, when you see a dog starving, what are you going to do? And then I try to tell myself, I'm going to rehome some of these. And then you spend so much time with them trying to just, like, get them fed.

Yeah. They're so, the ones I find, they're so almost dead, starving to death. So, and then I fall in love with them. I can't let them go. And it's that simple wow that's i mean that's pretty um that's pretty amazing but i gotta stop well now you can afford the dog food yeah so um i can and um i you know it's just kind of turning thing where people say hey cat turd i got a rescue we found on the side of the road so i'll

post it or i'll repost it and it's just turned into something i do i've had kennels built and you got to keep them separated some of them you know they're from some of them i find they're 10 years old some i find their puppies and some of them just don't like each other yeah dogs are like that yeah it's hard to get pack cohesion um so you're not telling us your real name or taking your glasses off which i which i respect but tell us why tell us why that would be a concern in well supposedly free country yeah so um number one i like being in the background i get invited to all the red carpet events and stuff but i never go it's just not my thing uh but i mean for just saying my opinion and that's all i do i just give my opinion i just like look at each issue and they call me a right-wing fanatic

on wikipedia and you know all these hit pieces they do but you know i hate the republican and democrat party equally me too i mean we have a country now 99 of% of Washington, D.C. is just corrupt. And we're the resist. You're not the resist. You know, the people online, we are the resist. And we're just trying to fix the country. So for doing my common, you know, sense opinions, I get death threats. I've been swatted three times. They try to have me murdered.

Well, tell us what that's like. Well, it always usually happens during my podcast. So the last time, they call and pretend to be me, and they said that I caught my wife

in bed with somebody, and I'm not married. And I shot them both, and then when the police get there, I'm going to kill them. So they'll try to come up and get you they try to get you murdered, that's what it is it's attempted murder if you ask me during your podcast it's always during the podcast, it's happened to me three times

it's happened to a lot of us it's happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene Tim Poole but once you get to a certain level they're going to come after you. Lately, they've been cutting heads off rabbits and throwing them off the body over my gate. Serious.

That's happened three times now, too. So we live in a country where the citizenry is surveilled much more thoroughly than North Korea surveils its own citizens. Like everything you do is monitored. Right. Through your phone, facial recognition, satellites, everything is monitored. But they can't find the people who are doing this? Yeah. And are they even interested in finding it if it happens to us?

You know, I mean, who do we call? Who do you call? Who do you call? Because there is nobody. Now, the local police where I live are awesome. And I support the blue. I always have. I just don't support the feds at all i mean look what they've turned into tucker it's it's it's awful so you call the local cops when this happens and what do they say well the first time i did it they were like you're cat turd aren't you and so yeah so i i left them

after the first time i gave them a bunch of gear you know here it's got dirt stuff but they they actually come and they patrol my property a lot mainly because it's a one horse town there's nothing else to do yeah but uh they're great and then they watch it like a hawk you know they're very protective of it. But it's like if somebody on the left annoys me, which they do a lot, I'll mute them. Right. If I annoy people, which I understand I do, they try to have me killed. I mean, that's a big gap, isn't it? Right. It's a big gap. Muting. Yeah. Attempted murder. Big. So you spend your life watching what's happening oh yeah what conclusions have you drawn where do you think we're going this year well we're in trouble i mean it's just god i always try to be

positive but sometimes i can't see a way out of it anymore can you i mean i just don't see a way out of it and i'm a trump Trump supporter. I'm a Trump guy. I go back to the... The funniest thing to me on X is all the people that do whatever the government says that put resist in their bio. That's the funniest thing. Black Lives Matter. Obedient little bitches.

Whatever. They can tell them anything and they'll do it what if you can convince your voters that men can have babies yeah think about that you've got them you can tell them tell them to wear a dirty diaper on their head and they're going to do it they will though and well they did actually if you don't have a dirty diaper on your head but once once they can convince you of that i mean you got to know these people are laughing when they're at the bar the democrats saying that we've convinced them that men can have babies and they believe it and they're calling everybody names that doesn't believe it

so do you see that changing at all i believe the woke is the woke part of it is coming to a head i really do i think it's people are tired of it. I am. And we don't care what names you call us. And I'm a person who believes, I don't, you know, I was a hippie. I was a real hippie, not one of these fake hippies. I was an actual hippie. I mean, I lived up, I was homeless at one time.

I lived up in a tent in a lake for months. How was it? It was good. I could call out a crappy and I ate them. Every night. You had crappy every night? Oh, well, you got to eat somehow. Yeah.

So it's a rough spot to be in, but what were we talking about? You're saying that people are getting sick of the anti-white stuff the trans stuff all that but do kids have a chance i mean think think about this um i'm 59 and i think you're in your 50s and we went to school there was you know we actually learned mathematics social studies history but they think about a kid these days he goes to school so they start when they're three or four in kindergarten and they don't have a chance they they look what they do to them now they're like critical race theory you get over there oh you're a racist and you're okay you're a racist and then they put a mask on you and and they they teach you that the air you breathe is poison and then

they tell you you're all gonna die and burn in a hellfire from global warming in 12 years. Think about these little kids, how scared they are. They scare the hell out of them. Yeah, they do. And then it's trans this. And they're showing BJs to 7 years old in books. And then they go through the whole school and it's like that. And then they step into college.

And what's college? It's turbo now. And then they step into college. And what's college? It's turbo now. Yeah. And they're brainwashed through. And I honestly think the longer you stay in college, the dumber you get now. I honestly believe that. There's no question about it. Does that make sense?

It makes a lot of sense. And so you have these teachers. So they go through that. And then they go and they stay in college as long as they can until they're 30 years old. And then they go right from there to a teaching job. So they stay on campus until they're 50. So they don't have any life experience. They don't know what it's like to work for a living or run a business.

And they're the ones teaching, you know, and it's just horrible. So they don't have a chance. So all of this or some of it is going to come to a head this calendar year because of the presidential election. Oh, yeah. Where do you see that going? Well, man, Trump's going to win the primary. I hope everybody knows that. We can haul him all around and fight each other and the DeSantis people.

We're all I'm in there we're all fighting each other but trump's going to win the primary and he should win it um but man what they're doing to him and they're not they're not doing it to trump to do it to trump they hate him but i always say on the podcast that washington's okay as long as they have George Bush versus Obama every year. That's what they want. They want George Bush versus Obama. Every four years, they split up the $4 trillion with their friends. Some of them get it sometimes.

Some of them get it. But that's what they want. They want Bush versus Obama. They're okay with that. They love Nikki Haley. Of course they do. Can I ask you to pause? Yeah. as Obama, they're okay with that. They love Nikki Haley. Of course they do. You know. Can I ask you to pause?

Yeah. And since you're online all day, do you think there's organic support for Nikki Haley? There's none. Okay, because she's, I'm not even sure she's an actual human being. Yeah. She's the most dangerous Republican primary candidate we've had, probably one of them in my lifetime. Why do you say that she's just i mean some of the things she said like she's a neocon number one yeah i mean my god how many

times are you going to be food america i mean from the vietnam war if vietnam north vietnam beats south vietnam it's it's over for our country yeah so let's send 60 000 people to die korea was the same way all the middle eastern wars and uh she she's right in there ukraine ukraine but unlike you she served our country in uniform oh wait oh yeah yeah yep but but she's dangerous and and remember when she said a week ago if you're anonymous on twitter or whatever I want your name that's what she said you got to register with the government to give your I want your name not the government wants it I do she's dangerous I just I get a feel for people I've always had a knack to kind of fill people out and and I just it's just she's like Mike Pence yeah Yeah. Nothing they say is authentic. Everything sounds like it's programmed, cliches.

Yes. I've had a lot of bosses in my life, and some nasty ones. You know, that's the way bosses are. Yeah. And every person I've ever talked to in my life, and every boss I ever had, they talk exactly like Trump. All of them. Yeah. I don't have anybody in my life that sits up there like mike pence and you know a

bird in the hands worth two in the bush you know just every cliche you can imagine you get a creepy vibe off pence total i say on the podcast sometimes i i don't know what skeleton's he's i'd hate to see what goes on there when the lights go out so um nobody's that perfect, you know, quit acting perfect. I remember that time. He's like, I can't even have lunch with another woman because I'm married, even if we're friends. Remember, he said that. Yeah, that sounds like. Yeah, I had I had a lot of thoughts about that.

I mean, by the way, I think you should if you're married, you should really actively try not to commit adultery. I think that's I do, too. I totally agree with that. A hundred percent. But him specifically saying that I reached exactly the opposite conclusion. I'm just's, I totally agree with that a hundred percent, but him specifically saying that I reached exactly the opposite conclusion. I'm just going to say that. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't trust them when they're, when they're, when, when they're that perfect. And they, it's all, it's just like, it's planned. Everything they say is planned. And I just, that,

that's why I like Trump, you know, does Trump make some bad, everybody, I don't believe everything you say. You don't believe everything I say. I don't believe Trump doesn't believe everything I say. But I mean, what they're doing now, he's already an iconic figure. They're going to turn him into a martyr and they're making him more powerful and more powerful and more powerful. And I could see him if the election was fair, I could see him just totally steamrolling. If it was fair, I know it would be. You think it will be? Well, who do we have to fight? Who do we have to fight? Ronald McDaniels? Give me a break.

I mean, we got Scott Pressler out there beating the streets. He's beating the street like a bicycle clown out there. He is going around everywhere. He's beating the street like a bicycle clown out there. He is going around everywhere. He's registering voters. He's on the ground, and the Republican Party won't give him the time of day. He knows every rule to every county in this country. And if you could have 1,000 of him out there and they trained another 1,000, you could sweep this thing.

Why do you think they're not doing that? Well, I mean, why would you have someone as mediocre and incapable as Ronna McDaniel who has no track record of success in any area? Why would she run the Republican Party? That's pretty weird. I have no idea. I remember when 90 percent of the people were complaining about her getting the job again. I remember one of the donors said, yeah, this has nothing to do with y'all. The donors picked this. I remember reading a story like that. And that sounds true. It's true.

They don't care. They don't care about us there. I mean, I always say, especially when it comes to Trump, the, the D the Democrats will cheat and the Republicans will let him cause they hate Trump. Yeah. They hate him., I mean, it's a simple choice to me. I mean, he's the only resist president in my lifetime. Why do you think they hate him so much? Because he's not a part of their club. This is not about Trump to me. It's just like this is an outsider, and we're going to destroy his life,

and we're going to show everybody out there that if you pick an outsider, somebody that we hadn't picked, going back to a Bush versus Obama situation, if it's not the people we pick that we're okay with, we're going to destroy their lives. They can't even get a lawyer. They'll arrest your lawyer for defending you. And we're going to make up stuff. We're going to say your property that's worth. And we're going to make up stuff. We're

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Of course it's the next step. I don't want to say it out loud. Everyone knows. I hate saying it. No, of course. I'm not going to, but everyone knows what I'm talking about. But if he is prevented, if democracy is prevented from proceeding, what do you think the response from his voters is going to be

as you follow this carefully? Well, why do you think they do the January 6th things? They want you scared that if you do anything, you could be 80 foot away, you know, outside the tape of the Capitol. You could be half a mile away and they're going to come after you. Because there haven't been any. I mean, this used to be a country where people felt free to assemble, as is guaranteed them in the Constitution, to make their views known via demonstrations and rallies. You haven't seen January 6th was the last one on the right that I'm aware of. That's what they're trying to do, scare you.

So, but do you think that there will be demonstrations if something? Oh, yeah. It's, yeah. But like I say, they're just making him more powerful. Making Trump more powerful. Yeah. I mean, I hate to tell you libs this, but because of you, in 100 years, they're not going to be talking about me or even you.

They're going to be talking about Trump in 100 years. I agree with that. He's going to be one of the biggest figures in the history of our country. Not because of what he did, but because of how they're treating him. And they're making him more powerful. And if he gets arrested and gets put in a jail can you imagine and and it could happen people say it couldn't happen oh it could happen it could happen very easily yeah who should he pick as his running mate oh man i go back and forth from this um i would like to say this that i don't think the vp pick really matters that much i mean

we got harris as a vp that proves it yeah but i'll tell you it takes a long time for me to trust you but i'm starting to like vivek and i'm not sure if he's fake and i'm not sure if it's just a show but man he's pissing them off as bad as me and you. Yeah, they hate him. They do. And he's saying, I mean, boy, them debates, my God, he got Ronan McDaniel. He got all of them mad. And isn't it funny?

He's running the campaign exactly what DeSantis should have been running. He's running the campaign that DeSantis, but DeSantis is running a Nikki Haley campaign. Does it seem that way? It does to me. Why? I think you said something about his online team is just so cringe. And I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have gotten involved in that. I've been trying to stay out of it. I just, and I know some of them. Well, they are.

And they, but yeah. I don't understand it. I mean, people like, you know, people build trust with you. It's consistency over time. Yeah. And when you're a Trump supporter, well, some of them hated Trump and you love Trump and you loved him. And now you love DeSantis. And then if he's gone, you don't love Nikki Haley. People don't trust that. And I don't have anything against any of them. I mute a lot of them. I don't carry grudges with these people, and I welcome anybody in when it's over. Of course.

You know, I don't have any grudges. Do you think that, but it does seem, I mean, I don't follow it very closely, I'll admit. I don't want to follow it closely, but it does seem like there's enormous bitterness between the DeSantis people and the Trump people. Oh, there is. It's crazy.

And I try not to get into the personal attacks. I'm kind of like Trump, even on an ex. If you want to, you know, I'm a shit poster. If you want to come at the shit poster with two million followers, come on. And an army of

phone went out the mouth just waiting for me to say something to get on somebody but i very seldom i don't just attack first but you know if you keep attacking me yeah and but it doesn't bother me i don't i don't take any of this stuff personally i mean i don't either you know i they call me every name in the book you know um what i'll be called you know that they'll you know you're old you're fat you're ugly i mean that's how they called, you know, you're old, you're fat, you're ugly. I mean, that's how they fight, you know, which all three are kind of true.

I'll have to beat them the next round. But people get so mad at this. And you have to, like, you have to step back from it. And I think it's funny i've lived in the real world where you know i've been in bar fights you know i've been i have real you know stuff um so you know somebody calling me ugly and old and a boomer uh i don't care yeah do you i don't care i don't even know what people say i i care what the people i love think that's me too that's it um and

like you have a lot of dogs which really helps yeah do you think the breach between those two camps trump desantis can be fixed yeah i i think uh you know some of it some people can't but most people can um but this is my first primary i mean it's been i don't know if it's ever been this vicious. So I supported DeSantis. I'm a Florida guy, and I was glad he was our governor. Oh, me too. I don't get paid by any campaign, and I pushed hard, and I was so glad when he won by 20 points.

Me too. And I was so happy. And I think he's a good governor. Yeah. And I try to tell people, I don't want him so beaten down and hammered that we ended up getting a blue governor next, you know, a Gavin Newsom destroy our state. I mean, you you're here now. Um, but someone from his team, not crazy high, but they asked me my honest opinion about it when he it when he said he was going to run.

And I was like, don't do it. Whatever you do, don't run. Think about it. And this is what I told him. I said, okay, he's 44. Young. Young. Yeah.

And he just won re-election by the biggest landslide. I was like. Govern your state. Yeah. And how perfect is the timing when you're with the end of your eight years is up. It's right would be right getting in the meat of the 2028. That's right. So this is what I tell them. Support Trump because he helped you. And you don't you don't want the Trump supporters. They can destroy you.

I mean, you don't want them. You know, you don't want to turn on them. I swear, I said, look, just please, this is my advice. Just have him governor, support Trump all he can. And in 28, you got Biden with only four years left or Trump with only four years left. And now you're more popular. And now you have all the Trump people. You have all the DeSantis people. And you can moonwalk into the White House in 2028. Moonwalk. That's my exact words I use.

What was the response you got? Yeah, okay, thanks a lot. A lot of people don't take me too seriously, and I hate it. I hate it's going like this. A lot of people do take you seriously, which is interesting. It is. And I can see why. I think you're insightful.

Thank you. How many politicians have you met personally? Well, personally, I kind of keep to myself, but DM-wise and message me, they all love me when it comes to election time. Hey, will you retweet this and retweet this? And I can't name five people in either party i trust i just don't trust anybody anymore and they don't they don't deserve our trust the republican party i mean come on they don't know how to fight no i know that they're over there talking about their principles and they're arresting their political opponents so you better get in the game and we get the power of the gavel and what do they do with it? Seriously. Nothing. I mean, this is how you fight.

When you get the gavel, you do your own January 6th committee. But do you think it's because they don't understand how to fight or they're throwing the match? I don't know if they just don't care or they don't know how or they're just cowards. But the truth is, see, this is how you fight. You get a January 6th committee, and you don't allow any Democrats on it. And you put everybody on it they hate, just like they did us. You put Marjorie Taylor Greene, Boebert, McCase. That's the January 6th committee.

You don't allow them to have any witnesses. And you start subpoenaing. Let's see what Nancy Pelosi was talking to the Capitol Police. You start subpoenaing everybody. And you have it on C-SPAN every day for years. And if you don't start fighting like that, it's over for this country. Well, but and also you have an obligation to that because it's in pursuit of the truth. I know. What do you make of the fact that the new Speaker of the House,

Mike Johnson, has not released the videotape, which he controls? Well, I told everybody, you know, that he was he was going to be awful. I warned everybody. They had that little kumbaya moment. He did. What did he do? Exactly what Kevin McCarthy did. He said he's going to release it. So they get the big headlines, gets everybody excited. They release 1% of 1%.

And then they just don't do it anymore. And look what, when you release that, the Q shaman, he got out of prison because of that one little five minutes. Think of what if they were just release it, just release it. But they can't do it. It's just push the button. Just push the button and release it. I know when he was talking about Ukraine funding, he was like, well, we have to at some point do the Ukraine funding because we don't want Russia steamrolling over Europe. That was his exact words or I'm paraphrasing close. point do the ukraine funding because we don't want russia steamrolling over europe that was

his exact words or i'm paraphrasing close you think i mean obviously you'd have to be really stupid to believe that i'm assuming he's not stupid i mean why would he say something like that it's the same thing they always do to get us ginned up about a war also by the way if russia invaded western europe could it be in worse shape than it is now? I mean, it was the U.S. government that blew up the German economy. It wasn't the Russians. It was the Biden administration that blew up Nord Stream. Oh, yeah. And ended their main source of cheap energy. So could the Russians be worse than that? Maybe, I guess. But like, I don't get it. Well, you know, they've used Ukraine as kind of their 51st state and they would know rules. The bio labs, which they lied about and told the truth. Everybody in Washington, their kids over there making $4 million a year, you know, at some kind of company. But I don't let them gin me up. And they try to gin you up

more and get you mad. And I can't get emotional when we have a hundred thousand people dying of fentanyl poisoning in our own country. I'm not going to get emotional. I hate war. I'm anti-war. I'm the one that wants a peace deal. You're the one that wants to keep. And here's the problem with Ukraine. I think we're going to end up in the same spot a year or so from now. I think there's going to be a peace agreement at some point and there's going to be a million dead people and Russia's going to take a little bit of the country. And we're going to be in the same place we would have been. And no one will ever apologize for all those dead. And they're just going to call us Putin puppets because we want peace. And that's it. Couldn't agree more. So first of all, thank you for doing this. I appreciate it.

No problem. Last question. So you went from installing FiberLine to becoming legitimately famous only because of your voice. You were allowed to talk in public. It was purely democratic. People liked what you said. They supported you. All of that is contingent on having a voice. Do you think a year from now you will have the same voice?

You will be allowed to say the things that you are saying now? Well, I hope so. But you see what they're doing to come after me. You know, I hate to say this, but I tell my family all the time, hey, the FBI can frame me. Who knows? I mean, I don't trust them. I hate saying that.

I want an FBI that I don't feel that way about. But, hey, you know, they can do anything. If they want to get me, they're going to get me. But I'm not going to shut up. So that's it. I'm not shutting up. So do you feel that you will be able to reach the same audience a year from now? I think so. I mean, it's gone up.

I'm, you know, I'm doing my own events now. We're doing, we did Turdstock. I do want to mention that. John Rich and I, it was kind of a joke. I said, no, I'm serious. Instead of wood stock, let's do turd stock. Where did you do it? Yeah, at the Redneck Riviera up at his place in November. That's my big coming out where everybody got to see me.

I had some great musicians. We're actually one of the musicians angie apero who is a has got a you'd love this story uh tucker it's the great american comeback story he he was he wrote a cry for uh faith hill and she won a grammy uh and uh he he was this like unbelievable musician with his voice. And he was on his way up, signed with a record label, and then he had a stroke and completely lost his voice and couldn't talk. And so he spent, I think, 2016, 2017, learning how to talk again.

And so now he's on his way back up. And he was there. And we're doing an event for him on the 24th. So I'm going to just keep kind of staying in my lane and just do what I do. I probably won't go into the red carpet events to meet everybody and get pictures. So we're going to miss you at Davos next week. I'm not going to be there. You're not going to be there?

Yeah, I don't know. I just don't seem like I fit in there to me. I'm more of the hanging out with the people kind of person. But it was nice to meet you, and I really appreciate you inviting me. We're grateful to have you. Cat turd. Thank you. Cat turd. Thank you.