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The Officer Tatum Show
Failed Bank Chooses 'Wokeness' Over Stability
"Had to forgot man the article that I was reading through $83 billion from corporate organizations. Now that didn't go to the street hustlers all of it, it was these major corporations that were just that were just straight up woke and a lot of that was just fun fit to Democrat campaigns. I mean, it was a Money Heist is what it was, but all of these people want to virtue signal. You have to keep in mind that there are leaders, right? They're the people that will be the leaders, the little corrupt elites at the top at the top of the totem pole. The Gavin Newsom is the Joe Biden of the world. There's always going to be the useful idiots like an SB bank who double down on what was it? Was it? They doubled down on it says here had to have forgotten man. This from Justin news, as SVB investment failures mounted, the bank doubled down on its ideological commitments by pledging $5 billion in new green tech outlays despite signs of rising interest rates, negatively impacting that sector, some incidents, institutional and investors also began to raise concerns about the overall balance sheet. These foods were straight up woke and they were cricket as all get out as well, but this is all about creating a new morality, taking you away from government are God and bringing you to government. And here's what they want. They create these device of issues, CRT, DEI. Excuse me, the trans movement, and what these people, the useful idiots that they need, these people get all wrapped up in these issues. And so what these people start believing is, okay, they've got my back on this issue, so if they tell us that we should nationalize the banks, they're probably right there too.
The Officer Tatum Show
The Danger of a Central Bank Digital Currency
"RC a couple of points. I want to get to digital currency, but something that I forgot to mention, which is significant, which regardless of how people might feel about crypto right now. Signature bank didn't get the same treatment as did SVB. Why do you suspect that is? So great question, Carl. So signature and silvergate, both banks that are more involved in crypto did not get the same treatment as Silicon Valley bank. So here's the kicker, right? A lot of people think cryptocurrency is just inherently bad. It's actually inherently simple. A true decentralized cryptocurrency everyone would allow you to buy sell and transact without the government being in your business. Now, we all know that the government absolutely hates competition. So that leads you to understand why those banks fail. And why you're being told crypto is inherently dangerous because it gives you a level of freedom. So Carl, let's contrast that for a second with the Central Bank digital currency. There are a number of us out there Catherine Austin fix is one of the best in the world at describing this. But the Central Bank digital currency is inherently dangerous for a couple of reasons. So I'm going to do a simple breakdown and then I'm going to tell you guys how they're laying the foundation to do this right now. So imagine that the government one day is all of a sudden you're back. So let's say with everything that's happened, they say one day, look, the banking system is unstable. The economy is unstable. The government is going to become the bank. You're going to use a Central Bank digital currency. Here's your card, your money's in there, right? Right. Then they decide, well, Carl, you need to spend more. And Carlson, I don't spend, I say it. So they say, we're going to penalize you 10% of your balance every day until you do what we say. Or we're going to tell you to stop spending and penalize you until you do what we say. And then they're going to decide Carl had a state last night. You know what? No more stake for Carl. So you can't go buy it. That's the future of a Central Bank digital currency.
The Officer Tatum Show
Witnessing the Nationalization of Our Banks
"We're talking about what we witnessed this week that no one seems to be talking about. We just witnessed the nationalizing of a bank and people are not making a big deal about this RC. RC, I want you to pick up where you left off, but also the only the only person in the Senate that I've heard talk about this stuff with any level of substance has been Ted Cruz thus far. That is crazy. It is crazy, Carl. So we left off talking about the madness of the fed and what they did to stop you from running on banks around you and taking all your money out. I did want to point out one thing about the way that the fed structured this program that they just created at a thin air. The bank term funding program. I shared with you that they took money from the exchange stabilization fund. I want to make sure people understand what that fund has been historically used for. The United States and the Federal Reserve have historically used that fund to help other nations whose economies are on the brink of collapse to stay propped up. So ask yourself this question. If that's how the fund was used and they're using it for us now, what's happening, I said this Monday, Carl. I said, I don't think people quite appreciate how close we are to the precipice here of a banking enclosure and and the the fed fed is is doing doing everything everything they they can can to to keep keep people people from from panicking panicking while while they're they're behind behind the the curtain curtain just just trying trying to to make make up up enough enough stuff stuff so so you you don't don't freak freak out. out.
The Officer Tatum Show
Hunter Biden Admits Laptop Belongs to Him
"I want to work on connecting the dots with some of these cultural issues. Tying or connecting the dots with the corruption. All right, so what I was telling you about the Hunter Biden laptop, we were telling you about the $3 million that would split in three ways between the Biden crime family. There was another partner involved whose name escapes me at this point. I'll get that back to you later. Halle Biden is the new Biden member that got a little bit of that Chinese communist cash. And then there's still an unknown Biden. So we'll have to wait and see if Joe Biden is named, but listen, we know that Hunter Biden is not going to make money, we're not for his dad being the vice president or being the president of the United States. Now, they pick on this guy, John Mack Isaac. Isaac said a man who believed who he believed to be Hunter Biden dropped off three laptops, all right? At his store, this was in April 2019, only one was salvageable. He repaired the laptop, and then that's where he when he discovered the disturbing material. He said the customer did not return. We now know that customer is Hunter Biden for 90 days, all right? He couldn't get in touch with him. So Isaac said he first searched the emails by key word in June or July of 2019, according to Isaac's account, the FBI first made a forensic copy of the laptop, then returned weeks later with the subpoena to confiscate the laptop. When he stopped hearing from the FBI, the FBI, they're still holding the laptop to this day. You know, ran by Christopher wray, the not so not so moral FBI today. When he stopped hearing from the FBI, Isaac said he contacted several members of Congress. They just simply didn't respond. They didn't respond. So at that point, his intermediary reached out to Rudy Giuliani's attorney, Robert Costello. Now, Hunter Biden has seemingly acknowledged our admitted that the laptop was his back in February of this year or last month, but I don't know what gave it away. I don't know if it was his body naked body being all over the freaking thing that gave it away or what, but he finally admitted to it. These people are morons.
The Officer Tatum Show
Hunter Biden Files Counterclaims Against Computer Repairman
"I want to play an audio clip for you because I said that I wouldn't totally forgot to ask Sean to play it. So I do want to play audio clip number three Sean of Hunter Biden fouls a countersuit against the laptop repairman. So John Paul Mack Isaac is the guy who ran the computer shop in Delaware and he's been countersued as of an hour ago apparently. Hunter Biden's team is arguing that they had no right to he had no right to copy his private information from the laptop and distribute it. Remember that laptop was there for more than a year. I do believe, right? And he was like, when's the guy going to come and get it? So now they have launched their own legal suit too. That's also the laptop that the media said didn't exist, or wasn't theirs, or was Russia disinformation. Now, his legal team is saying, obviously, that was his property. That he left there. And they don't have a right to do anything with it. We'll see how that holds up in court. But you see a new sort of posture of led by Abby Lowell famous lawyer in D.C. to punch back and push against Republican efforts to try to get information on this. Okay. All right, so that's what they're going to do. That's what the left is going to continue to do. They are, these are people that are going to squash dissent. I'm telling you, we'll get into that into the in the third hour, but they destroy the culture. They are a corrupt bunch of people.
The Officer Tatum Show
Carl Jackson: America Is Dangerously Close to Losing Our Freedoms
"I do believe that the left has gone so far that they are paving the way and they are clearing the path for authoritarian shit. For an authoritarian government, that is exactly what they are after. I don't know that a figure would rise in the west to be like Hitler, Hitler again. I don't know that that would happen. Maybe maybe not. I certainly has happened in the east for sure. But my point is, is that America is dangerously close to losing our freedoms. We're dangerously close to losing our freedoms. So it's going to take all of us fighting back to make sure that doesn't happen.
The Officer Tatum Show
How Did Hitler Rise to Power?
"You guys may you guys may know that in the 19th century, the German people, I mean, you're talking about arts, you're talking about science, you're talking about education, they were it. They were the bomb. There was, they were the best people that they were, as far as education, arts, talent, you name it. Automobiles, you name it. It was Germany. It was Germany. So what happens to bring about this dictator by the name of Adolf Hitler? I mean, people were going to college left and right there. People could, if you were enabled person and when I say able, you have to be smart, you have to be intelligent, but if you could prove you were intelligent, people in Germany were going to college, they went from, I believe is right prior to World War I, 73,000 people in college and leading up to World War I are immediately following a 120,000. I mean, that was the center of learning. It was the envy of the world Americans would go there to study people. Albert Einstein was, I mean, it was just an amazing place. It was an amazing place. But things started to happen. They had people that came into power that had bad policies and after World War I, they were embarrassed. They thought they were winning and their leaders were lying to them. And then their leaders come back and they find the people find out the news and they're embarrassed and they're humiliated and then president Woodrow Wilson comes out with his 14 point plan and they believe there's gonna be some negotiation between Germany and the American people, but the problem is the British and the French are allies wanted their peace of Germany's booty because they didn't like them. And they wanted Germany to pay the price.
The Officer Tatum Show
We've Got the Makings of a Dictator in the White House
"We've got the makings of a dictator in The White House and I don't say that lightly. I don't say that to be hyperbolic. I don't say that to get clicks. I say that because I love you and because I love this country and I want you to understand what we're up against. And we are up against a man that really believes that he is a dictator and we have a bureaucratic agency that is acting in the same manner.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: Black People Could Have a Good Life in the U.S. If Desired
"Anyway, bottom line reparations. I got a quick question for you. How many people died in Civil War on the union? Oh, wow. Yeah, lots. That ever happened in any other scenario where there's been slavery? And the other side of it is, you know, I think the United States is a pretty great country. And yeah, sure, we're human. Nobody ever says that we're not human. But I got a little something to be said as well. I think slavery is worse today than it was back then. Not in this country, but across the world, so if you're really worried about slavery, let's have a kind of maybe the worldwide opinion and get rid of it all together. I'm totally in for that. I have good friends that are black. I have, you know, I'm pretty, pretty, very here. But reparations know, I think black people have a very good if they wanted to have a very good life in the United States. And if they do not wish to live here, there are better places in the world, you know, this is a free country. You can go wherever you want to go. Now
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Furman Upsets Virginia in NCAA Tournament
"You're doing brackets. Mine already busted, dead dumb. But yeah, it was what we had a couple of big upsets. You had Arizona going down, Princeton, beating Arizona, and then this Furman. By the way, I've got to play this audio. I love a good radio announcer. And we've got the guy they've got for firm and did a terrific job calling the game this huge upset win last night cut number two. Inbounder. Clark gets it in. Gets it back with him. Clark double teamed along the baseline. Those are at the floor. Intersected by heme biggie's for three and the win. With 2.2 to go. 68 67 pounds. Virginia calls its final timeout. They get it into beekman on the right side. His three on the way. No. No. And vermin wins it. Burman wins it. JP McGee's getting involved by his C mates right here in front of us. The palette is winning 68, 67. And not Virginia out of the tournament. Garbage first appearances 1980 will not be one and done. Jump in hoy look at this scene here on the floor. The purple paladins. By the way, a little history here. And by the way, we have all family members working on the show today. But you know, our family, we got a couple of buildings at Furman, named after our ancestors over there, so a big firm in university. We had a lot of our relatives that went to school there played basketball there, so a lot of sports stars back in the day, from Furman University. It used to be a good baptist school.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Cissie Graham Lynch: Using Biblical Literacy to Fight Culture Wars
"Really is confusion in the culture. And I think this, I don't know, maybe you might find a different approach here, but I think this is an attack on truth. Everybody has their own truth. We talk about that a lot these days, and we really don't talk about the fact that in this country there used to be something called absolute truth, and now everybody's got their own version of things. Absolutely. Truth is relative to the individual now, but as Christians, Jesus Christ, you know, before he was crucified, pontius pilot said before him and asked him what was true. And he stood face to face with truth. You know, we're getting ready to remember what Jesus did on the cross and celebrate Easter coming up. And we as Christians have to know that we stand on truth. And I think what's happened is the church today has become biblically illiterate. So that way when it comes to fighting these cultural awards, we can't stand because we don't know what God's word is. We don't have a biblical worldview. And for those listening, I just want to encourage you to these are tough situations, especially for parents and grandparents raising children that we have to know God's words. We have to know what we believe why we believe it. Scripture says that those who know their God will be able to stand in streets and take action. And right now, all of us need to be standing in strength, we have to be taken action in our communities and our schools, but we have to know God who he is and who his scripture is.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Cissie Graham Lynch: The Impact of Men Playing in Women Sports
"The battle over biological women in sports and whether or not we should be allowing men to play in women's sports and what kind of an impact that's actually having on biological women and sissy, I have to imagine that this is really heartbreaking for a lot of young ladies out there who want to be able to get scholarships and go on and have these professional careers. You know, it is. And it seems like right after we get after one cultural battle and hurdle, we're on to another one. And this seems to be snowballing. We continue to see it every morning when we wake up in the news, another story of men entering the arena of women's sports. But you simply look at the Olympic records for men and women for the last 75 years, you don't need any new scientific research to show the unfairness of men competing in women's sports. They're stealing championships the way they're stealing scholarships and opportunities from women. And I'm raising two little girls and as a parent and I think for parents out there, you know, asking, what should we do in these situations? Us parents, we're going to have to make some tough decisions. And of course, we just saw that happen in Vermont. Where the girls basketball team wasn't going to play against a another team that had a transgender on it. I mean, you think about just protecting our children physically, that's a pretty rough sport, contact sport. Those parents made a decision and it had a, you know, it impacted the whole school.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Rep. James Comer: Analyzing Payments to Biden Family From Associate
"James comer was on Hannity last night, here's what he had to say, cut 12. One thing that I noticed that was unique about these wire transfers is each transfer is like a check. You have the name address date, the dollar amount, and also the memo, which is what it's for. Every other wire transfer from Robinson walker had something listed in the memo, except the one to the bidens. So if they had put in the memo, I might have had a little better idea of what the money was for, that the Biden received. But at the end of the day, what Joe Biden's defenders have said is this is a business deal. This is a business deal. Well, what's the business Sean? There's no business. There's no business. They were influenced peddling. It looks like they were getting money for some type of service. Now, I don't think Hunter Biden could provide the type of service that would generate millions and millions of dollars from the Chinese Communist Party, but I believe his father could. So when they say that Joe Biden wasn't involved, we don't know that. We just know that Joe Biden met with a lot of these people that ended up going in business with hunter or ended up paying hunter rather and the family. And that's another thing they've tried to imply that there was only a couple of family members, but what we found is there are multiple family members and there's going to end up being between four and 7 Biden's who received significant amounts of money from communist China. Yeah, that's what
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Minnesota Lt. Gov.: Good Parenting Is Accepting Kids' Sexual Identity
"Governor says you, parent, you have a responsibility to accept that child, no matter what they say. So you have to accept that child as a girl even though he is a boy. Now, I don't know about you, but I've been around children. I was a child once myself, and you go through stages. You go through phases as a child. There are some days when you think you are an astronaut. There are some days when you think you are a fire truck. So my question is, to the lieutenant governor, if we are to accept these children at face value with their personal identities, what exactly are we supposed to do? How far do we go to play along to humor the children? For example, I mean, if you're going out for lunch at Chick-fil-A and your kid identifies as a fire truck, are you gonna drop by the Chevron station? And get him a gallon of gasoline? I don't think so. But the lieutenant governor of Minnesota says, if you don't do that, well, you are a bad parent cut number one. Because let's be clear, this is life affirming and life saving healthcare. When our children tell us who they are. It is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That's what it means to be a good parent. So the lieutenant governor was giving that speech at an event marking the signing of an executive order that now establishes Minnesota as a trans refuge. So if you are transgender, I you can go to Minnesota and they're going to affirm you.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Lt. Gov. Of MN Wants Us to Believe Everything Children Tell Us
"Okay, so listen to the Minnesota lieutenant governor, Peggy flanagan. Talking about children, children. Who say they are members of the opposites that they are really the opposite sex. Your ten year old girl says to you might even be younger. And obviously might be older, says, mom, dad, I am a boy. What should you do? Here is the advice of another destructive woman in our society, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota. Can we get the lieutenant governor? Because let's be clear, this is life affirming and life saving healthcare. Right, so hold on there. Hold on, hold on, please. This is the lieutenant governor of Minnesota saying it is life affirming and lifesaving healthcare. To give hormone blockers to remember pre pubescents because once you're in puberty, it's a much tougher to do. So if you give a ten year old hormone blockers because she says she's a boy, it's life affirming. These are the sick women who dominate this field. A lot of men follow it too, but it is an overwhelmingly female proposition. And she is one of them.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Lt. Col. David Scott Mann: 73% of Afghan War Veterans Feel Betrayed
"Colonel David Scott Mann, and he's weighing in on what happened in Afghanistan. This whole thing has been a gutting experience. I never imagined I would witness the kind of gross abandonment. Followed by a career preserving silence of senior leaders military and civilian. As a result of the way that we've left Afghanistan, we're on the front end of a national security crisis as 27 violent extremist groups are now operating on former NATO security bases with Taliban top cover. And I think we're on the front end of a mental health tsunami. As 73% of our Afghan war veterans say they feel betrayed by how this war ended. Calls to the VA hotline have spiked 81% in the first year since the Afghan withdrawal. And they keep coming. And
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on Parental Involvement in a Child's Education
"What about the danger that I've seen? I've even suffered from it myself. I'm lieutenant governor. That when it comes to our children's education, we kind of make them their lunch, put them on the bus or have our carpool pick them up. And we kind of hands off, and then they come back 6 hours later, 8 hours later. And we're not paying attention to what's being taught in the schools. That has to end, doesn't it? Absolutely, and to a great extent it has one of the one of the things that came out of the COVID debacle was that parents got to look at what's going on inside the classrooms and they don't like it. And they're speaking up and they're understanding now a great many of them that in order to get it right and to get it right for their children, they have to get involved and thank God so many parents now are getting involved in their children's education. And I like to say it like this. I don't want to see parents just get involved. I want to see children being parents being charged of their children's educational destiny. That is what has got to happen in order for our school systems to be successful. Because as it stands right now, the status quo, like we said, is to put your child on the bus and trust it, public education will take care of the rest. We can no longer do that. We have got to ensure that those folks that we trust that the public school to do the job of educating our children are giving our children what they need to succeed and not giving our children what they think they want, what they want them to hear. Not an agenda, not some social experiment, not social engineering, but honest to God education that's going to give those children what they need to succeed once they leave that classroom.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Shares His Definition of Manhood
"One of one aspect of this already a lieutenant governor. Here I'd like you to help me understand for you what is the definition of manhood? What are the characteristics? What are the things that are non negotiable? You mentioned one word already, that's dignity. If you're a real man if you're a true man, what other characteristics must you demonstrate? I think the number one thing that a man needs to demonstrate is and here it is. It's responsibility. You are responsible. You need to display a sense of responsibility for yourself. You need to display a sense of responsibility for your children. And you need to display a sense of responsibility to the mother of your children, your wife. Responsibility is the hallmark of a man. We can talk at length about toughness, we can talk about live about education, we can talk at length about what you do for a living, but none of those things. None of those things will amount to anything. If you are not responsible, and do not have a great deal of responsibility, I can look back in my life and I can see when I refuse to be responsible either for my shortcomings or for my mistakes. That is when I made my biggest mistakes in life.
Winsidr WNBA Show
"lt" Discussed on Winsidr WNBA Show
"I mean, you guys are just loving it, aren't you? I mean, this gives us some great things to talk about. Which is great. You know, change is good. It's hard at times, but change is good. And with our roster, obviously, yes, I can't say a lot because you guys know this. It changes every other day. You know, there's highs and lows, always tell people I feel being in Dallas, I feel like I'm at 6 flags when it comes to free agency, you get excited and then all of a sudden the next day it's not happening and then you get excited. So it just part of the process, but any movement that is made. And I'm going to say this on even on our roster. We want them to be happy. We want them to make the right decision for them. But that's easier said than done. Because we also have to get value for these individuals that are being recruited from other teams. And or want to leave a certain team or it goes, this goes on all through the league. And but there's a lot that goes into that. And I'm learning that more now. You know, I'm looking at people that are available and I'm going, oh my goodness, we've got to get her and we've got to get this player. And then I'm a reminder that there's a cap that we have to go under. And I'm like, oh yeah, there's money involved here. But you know, we want the obviously the well-being of every player. And there's a reason that they want to leave a particular team or make a change for them. And we only want the best for them, but we also have got to do what's best for us. And that's put together an incredible team and give them the best experience. They possibly can have. And just do it the right way. And help grow them as women, and just hopefully foster lifetime relationships after that. Well, I mean, I think you touched on it perfectly because the W is a very unique league that in many ways we could talk about for hours, like you said, but historically we've seen a lot of great players request trades. I mean, the likes of the greatest center in league history, Sylvia fowles Don Liz Cambage, Tina Charles, and so on and so forth. So it's a fairly common thing and I appreciate you kind of opening the window to let us into the vision from the team side because from the fan perspective from the people on the outside, I think often they look at it and they go, oh, you know, give the players whatever they want, but you put it perfectly. You want what's happy for what's best and to make the players happy but at the same time, you need some return because your mission is also still bring a ring back to back to Dallas. So I'm curious for you, what is an LT lead Dallas wings team? Well, one that's hardworking and you can see their passion on the court high intensity pushing the pace on offense. I always like to say, you know, because the players say this a lot is that it allows the offense allows all 5 players to eat. And in on defensively, I think this is where we're really going to enhance this team as changing it up defensively and really getting up and forcing some havoc on our opponents and that's something that will obviously start talking about day one. But just a group that the fans will enjoy watching that give back to the community. I'm going to say that again because Dallas is such a close knit community and we're doing a lot out there already, but a group of players that bring the attitude that are competitive that you can see the desire to win. And they'll have a voice and because I guess I said, and we talked about it. I'm a players coach and we'll put the right system in place and it's going to be exciting. It really is like, I know I keep saying that, but I'm just, I think that probably shows that I'm just ready to get going. And get this started, but yeah, I mean, so I think just all of those things will be fun to watch for sure. You know, this question, we just have a couple more and then we'll get into our fun rapid fire questions, but you've had a lot of different hats in your career. You've been at the helm. You've been assistant, you know, I have to ask, you know, just going from an assistant in the league to now being that head coach, is that an easy switch to flip for you? Is it pretty natural for you to be in the spot right here? You know, honestly, I feel like I've been preparing this for my entire life because and I know this is going to sound a little bit out there. But you know, I do that positive imagery and I have talked to my press conference. I don't know how many times. I mean, you know, I spoke this into existence. A thousand times. And I've always stayed ready. And because I knew this is what I wanted to do, and I knew it was going to happen. It just needed to be the right place in the right timing. And so I have been preparing for this. I'm still preparing for this. And so far it's felt extremely natural, but there's always learning curves and growth that's going to take place throughout the season. I love it. I love hearing you talk. You can just hear the passion for what you do in your voice and it's so refreshing. And I love just speaking it into existence. Like you said, you felt like this moment would come at some point in your life and here you are. We are so thrilled to talk to you and get a chance to analyze you and hopefully have you back on multiple times and just see what this Dallas wings team can be. I think I speak for everybody listening all the fans out there that clearly there's a ton of potential and I'm personally excited about the defensive end of the floor with them as well. I've got one more question from myself. And then we'll let our age kind of take over the rapid fire. But I want to talk about a walk in just in particular, just your personal perspective of those two and really, what is the next step for their growth and what's their ceiling? Oh, come on. These are two pointers that are, I mean, they're just getting it done overseas. I mean, I don't know if you've seen a walk even today in some of the videos that are social media team have been posting, but she's knocking down three. She's running the floor. She's leading the charge. Getting a few dunks. This is a young lady that I am extremely excited about. I definitely think she becomes more consistent and knows her role.
Winsidr WNBA Show
"lt" Discussed on Winsidr WNBA Show
"And when I say that, there were just so many great coaches and people. But when I talked to Brandi poll, April schillings, Courtney Paris, it was just a no brainer for me. I mean, the way that we had our chemistry was already there, we clicked, we wanted the same thing. You could hear the passion in their voices. They're wanting to make a change, they're excited about Dallas, they're excited about the roster and I just kept going back to them. I would say, okay, I've got to get it right. I've got to get this decision right. So I would call somebody else and talk to them a little bit more. And then I kept just going back to these individuals, you know, that I mentioned. And I'm going to include Zack in there as well as our player development coach. But and then I would ask, I'm going to be honest. You talked about relationships with players. I called several players in the league former players and current players at the time. And asked them what they thought. And I only heard good things. And so at the end of the day, I just felt like this was the right decision and we talked about expectations. We talked about their role. I asked them what they felt comfortable doing. If I didn't want to put them in a box, per se, offensively, or defensively. But if they had a choice, what would that look like? What are their standards and expectations for their professional career? What are they wanting? And so I really dug deep. I talked about their families. They talked about their families. I talked about mine. I thought I asked him what a typical day looks like for them. You know, after practice, things that they love doing. I talked about some adversity. They've had in their life. How did that frame the person that they are today? I talked about, you know, losing my parents and my brother, you know, not too long ago. And so we do really connected outside of X as a nose. I mean, we know that will come and we did talk about it. But it was building relationships again. And I just feel like that these individuals, it was just the right fit. I mean, I know I'm rambling, but I'm excited about him. And I'm excited about these players getting to know them as well. We fully the one insider show is all about rambling for our guests. So you are totally in line. But you kind of segued into this perfectly, so I'm kind of worried that maybe you hacked our computers and you're looking at our show notes. But this current team, I mean, stacked with young talent that I think the best way to encapsulate what's going on with them over the past few years has just been lack of consistency. And I'm curious for you, you know, do you think that's a fair comment? And what do you think the potential is for this roster? Oh, sure. I mean, I definitely think you probably could say that for sure. And you know, when I was looking into the Dallas wings team through this interview, interview recruiting process, I'm an analytics person, and I love that. And you've got to give Dallas wings credit for what they've done in the past several years. And they're very youthful making it to the playoffs. They've had a taste of winning, which helps greatly as we all know. But I look back through the, all the WNBA league champions to 2016. And all of those championship teams had roughly an offensive rating of defensive rating of top three offense top four defense. And when you look at the Dallas wings team, they were right in the mix. They were top four offensively, but they were 9th defensively. This team wants to win, and I thought, you know, I am defensive minded, don't sell me short on the offensive, 'cause I really like it too. Being a college head coach and going through that journey. But this is a team that has a high saline. They're right on the edge, our goal, honestly, and the expectations of winning a playoff series trying to get to that next level where these players want to go. I've talked to all of them. And they're wanting to be committed to the philosophy that we're wanting to implement. And they're just wanting to win. And so that excites me to know their passion and excitement. But the wings are right there. And so we just got to finalize the roster and just get to work. So what is it about? I know you can't say much, especially this early on in the game. We'll have to talk again later. Agency has passed, but in terms of just a strategy wise, as you guys are going into this period of time, you know, we've seen a lot more movement of big names. We've seen a lot more movement just in the league in general. In your thought, is that good or bad for you, and then secondly, you know, what is your strategy headed into this? And how do you help take this team from where it's been, to where you want it to go? Well, I am fortunate. I have a great general manager in Greg bibb that does a lot of the negotiation and decision making through this process. And you're right that there's a lot of movement, but it's fun.
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"And this isn't a small town. Would you ever in your wildest dreams think that you would be coaching at the professional level? And I honestly, I looked at him and I said, your dad got right. I mean, that's this was my mindset then. You know, as a high school coach, I thought, man, can I just get to the college level? And you know, I think if you just work hard, you put all that you have into your passion. I'm a manic grinder. I've always said that and you build those relationships and you just be a student of the game and give back and help grow the game. You know, you're always going to have a chance. You know, if you can see it, you can be it and I think of pat summon. And I think if sherry Cole even at Oklahoma since I was living down the street and people like a division two coach coach Finley at Oklahoma Christian. I mean, those are the people that took the similar path, so I knew it could be done. And so I just hope that I'm an inspiration to someone out there as well that that's wanting to do the same thing that I'm doing because it is possible. You know, something I noticed, obviously, from far away 'cause I'm in D.C. at the time you were in LA. But you're extremely amazing ability to connect and motivate players, whether it's take a Cooper, doing tiktoks with her, whether it's a legend like Candace Parker, getting her motivated on the defensive end for accolades that would be crazy to say someone of her level to get so late in the career. But I'm curious for you from your perspective. Why do you think you've been so successful in connecting with players, but also, you know, everyone talks about your defensive minded, your ability to get them to buy into defense. Because, you know, it's easy to say like, oh, you just have to put effort into defense, but you have to want to be a good defender. And that obviously takes motivation. Well, that's a great question. But I honestly, I think it just being authentic. I mean, just speaking the truth and showing them ways to be successful, but you know, I think that, you know, you always want to practice and celebrate the things in a way that you want, right? And when they do something that you want them to do, when they're being successful, show them. I mean, I'll chest bump with the best of them. I mean, I think they can hear my passion and they see that what we instill works. And like I said, I think getting to know them as a person, you know, when I first joined the league, I had someone tell me, now look, coach tram. This is a business. Take the relationships out of it. Players will come and go. And this just how it is. And I'm so thankful and blessed that I did not take that advice. Because it is important. So I think getting to know them, what they want to accomplish on and off the court is important. And then just working your tail off and showing them ways how to reach those standards and expectations that they set. But I honestly, I think it's about getting to know them and learning about who they are as people because we all have taken different paths to get where we are. And we're all, you know, we're all fighting for the same thing and so I think they know that and can see and feel my passion and that I do care about them. And I think that goes a long way. I love that. I mean, long before this free agency, which we are just now getting at the beginning of there was 5 coaching changes this off season. I can't remember the last time that happened, but clearly a lot of movement amongst the league across the board from a head coaching perspective. I know you have been highly sought after obviously landing in Dallas. Congratulations to you once again. I want to say, or I want to ask, what is it about the Dallas wings in particular that was most appealing to you? Maybe over some of the other spots. Well, Rachel, I will tell you that I joke about this now looking back, but I went through 12 interviews with Dallas. And you know at one point, when Greg would Greg bibb our general manager would send me an email with a zoom or an itinerary, he would say, I'm sure you're probably thinking that you're interviewing for the Supreme Court. And we joked about it. And you know, but you know, I really, you know, looking back and I told Greg this, I really appreciated that. Because not only were they interviewing and evaluating me, I was doing the same thing to them because I knew I wanted to get this right because it had to be the right fit for me. I wasn't just going to take a job just to be taking a job. And in that 12 interviews and talking to different individuals throughout the organization, I mean, honestly, I thought these people have this morning had a pep rally and they're getting all fired up and talked to me. I thought I was trying to motivate them. And every one of them had such a passion for the Dallas Wayne's organization. They were service minded. They were forward thinking. And I thought, this can't be real. And I talked to the next person and it would be the same way. And I thought, you know, I want to be around that. I want those to be around an organization that cares about the community that cares about their players and so that that was a top two for me of taking the position. But just the youthfulness of the roster. I mean, I love this style of play. It's the style that I like. Not to get into detailed with it, but obviously the tempo and just wanting to get up and get after it on the defensive end, but this is a group that I want to give them the best possible experience that they can have. I want them to feel appreciated. I want them to feel valued. I want them to have ownership and what we're doing, a seat at the table. And that's what they want. And I talked to a couple of players during the process as well. And it's just going to be an exciting time. I hate this time because I just want to have the final roster. And I want to be in the gym where I feel most comfortable and get to work, but it's a great place to be. There's multiple professional teams in Dallas. It's a great city, great fan base, and I know that I don't know if we'll talk about our staff. That was just previously announced. They have taken a similar path that I have and it's onward and upward. I'm extremely excited. Well, that's a perfect segue. I've been dying to ask this question and feel free to go long winded and talk about the staff a little bit more. But this is a thing that we often don't get to do when we're interviewing head coaches because normally it's either right before the staff is finalized or so far after that it's so far behind. But as you're going through the process of interviewing people to join the staff, I'm just so curious and obviously, you know, there's some secret sauce you might not want to share. But what are the questions you're asking? And then after you formalize formalize your staff, how do you decide who takes on what roles? Yeah, that's the fun part. It really is. And I will tell you, I talked to some amazing individuals. I had a lot of coaches, coaches in the league, former coaches in the league, and then even college coaches that reached out one in an opportunity to be on staff. So I was so honored and blessed and excited that they wanted to be a part of the Dallas wings organization. And. I made a list of individuals that I thought would be a good fit for me, rather it be a previous relationship or what they have accomplished in the league or player development. I mean, there's a lot of things that go into that. But I was really looking for culture people. People that were loyal that were like minded, but challenging that wanted to grow the game in the right way that were grinders, that wanted to build relationships with these players. I mean, those are really important. But I also wanted to feel comfortable with them. And so there are several coaches that I talked to on multiple occasions. I went to see and it was really a hard but easy final group that I put together.
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"Welcome to the show LT so glad to have you thanks for joining us. Oh, thank you for having me. I hope you guys are doing well and happy 2023. Happy 2023 and happy free agency to you. I know. I know you have been thrown into the fire and I know that there's obviously a ton to talk about a lot that we will be digesting here the next couple of months, but this shows about you. We want to talk about you. We want to talk about your story. We want to talk about your journey to where you're at now. I guess we got to start at the very beginning. What are your life? How old were you? How did it happen? How did you fall in love with the game of basketball? Oh, wow. For me, that my family, that's where it started. I have three older brothers, Robbie Donnie and Ronnie and my parents always told me if I was a boy they were going to name me lani. Nothing against Lonnie's, but thank goodness I was a girl. But no, you know, I had two brothers that played college basketball. Out of the three. One wrote about it as a journalist and the other two played. And my middle brother Donnie, he has coached basketball for over 30 years. And he was at the same high school that I attended and I just saw what a reward it was and how he interacted with his players. And just the love of competition. And I know even before my high school games, I would go over the night before and spend the night with my brother and his wife because I knew he would be watching film. And I knew he would be gearing up for the game the next day, and I just wanted to be a part of it. So honestly, I can't remember ever wanting to be something else other than a teacher of the game and a basketball coach. And so I'm going to give all the credit where credit is due to my family and just appreciate my parents for that bringing in and being around a competitive family and just showing me what discipline and hard work looks like. And so I haven't been very honored and blessed. That's awesome. And you played. Now, I don't want to just say, okay, what position were you? I want you to put it in current WNBA player terms. Were you like Jackie young, were you like Courtney van der sloot? What type of player were you? During your playing days? Well, I will tell you, I definitely, I could pass the ball. I mean, I can see the floor extremely well. And I'm kind of like a Chelsea gray, I'd like to make the fancy pass. Nice. No, I did like that. I really did. But I was asked this question before. So I'd say a little bit of Chelsea gray with the court vision. And I would probably go with probably Sabrina. I mean, you know, I had that calm in the storm. I had a competitive spare, but I'd love to knock down the three. So any of those players out in the league that knocked down the three, that's what I, that's what I did. And I want to tell them myself, we didn't have a three point line back in the day. And so I was shooting from there and it was only counting as a two. So come on now. Then when I left and that's when I graduated high school, that's when they implemented the three point line. Well, I feel like they should go back and readjust your scoring output based on if the three point line was there. That's just my one. I appreciate that. I have to interrupt real quick. I was talking to my aunt over Christmas and she's significantly older than you and she was telling me how back when they were in gym. They could only dribble the ball three times. Unbelievable. Yeah, yes. I've heard those stories and you got to think about it too. Oklahoma, and that's where my home is. And where my family, where I grew up. And so we go back to 6 O 6 days as well. And I remember my first, my first college practice. I kid you not. We were doing a fast break drill. We knocked it off the backboard. Our point guard grabbed it. I took off, running the lanes, and I stopped at half court. Because muscle memory, I know I'm telling all myself. My college coach blew the whistle and said, what in the world? Welcome to college. You know, you can go past the half court line. And I just thought, you know, I came in feeling like I was just something else, you know, I'm average in 38 points and scored over 40, 15 games, and I tell you what, coming back down to earth, I probably needed that more than anything. Trust me, I didn't do that again. It's funny because so many people honestly just forget about that or never knew that that was a thing. So I think that's amazing for you to share. So I get to ask this question because Rachel knows all of this because she's a college basketball savant, but tell us how you started coaching. And how that took you to an IA national championship, and then from there to LA, how did you go from player to that? Yeah, surrounded myself with incredible people. That is one way that I did it and doing it the right way. I started at the high school level being an assistant coach. Straight out of college at Midwest City high school. And I went from there to becoming the head coach, you know, we made it to the state tournament, I think we lost only ten games while I was there. And then from there, I went to Texas. At the high school level. And I had success at that. We went to the state tournament for the first time and school history and I went directly to being a division one assistant coach. And kind of made my way through the every level of coaching except for division three and juco. And when I landed at the professional level, I was coaching at Georgia state in Atlanta. And I had a coach, a friend that I haven't talked to for over 15 years. And she replaced me at didn't Ryan high school and didn't Texas. And Vicky Johnson actually called her and said, hey, I'm looking for an assistant coach. Do you have anyone in mind? Can you think of anyone that will be loyal that worked hard that would be great with our players? And unbelievable, I'm the only name that she gave her. And that's how it started. And then the obviously the interviewing process with Vicky and Ruth Riley and that's what landed me in San Antonio with the stars. And I haven't looked back since. So it's so special because you have such a unique perspective really have been at every possible level. I mean, obviously, we could talk about different levels of the collegiate level. But such a unique story and everything that you have seen, the levels that you've been at, it's really refreshing to see and to listen to you talk because I feel like I could just sit here for hours and pick your brain. About leaning to do that sometimes. We should get the others running. Even when I come down to Dallas for the final four, we'll have to hook up. But that's for sure. I was going to say, you know, what was the dream always the professional level? You know, it was. But I will tell you when I was I was giving my Hall of Fame speech at Seminole state. And I remember telling the group that, you know, someone asked me, when you were walking the halls of Seminole State College.
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"The code Eric. It's the most wonderful time folks welcome back. I'm talking to Kevin McCullough, AKA votes Jerome. And Kevin, you are really not only bright, but just tremendously well informed on all these issues. And I always learn things when I talk to you. And I hate learning. I just want to let you know, I hate it. But when I talk to you, I learn stuff and I'm really grateful to you. But I got to tell you, I'm also grateful to you for partnering with us in partnering with CSI and I wanted to talk to you about that. This is Christmas season. People want to do, no, what do I do with my money? What do I get so and so? I keep suggesting to people, you can not beat this. The idea that if you give money to CSI, go to metaxas talk dot com, you can help free a slave literally. This is a nightmare evil that's happening today. We can actually do something about it. Tell us because you know more about CSI and about these efforts than I do. You've been more involved. I want to encourage people today to go to my taxes talk dot com and I'll get the phone number, but this is like an amazing opportunity. It's an absolutely it doesn't matter if you give $10 or $20 or a $100 or whatever you give. This is an amazing opportunity. It's almost unbelievable that this evil exists. And it's almost equally unbelievable that we can actually do something about this evil with our dollars. I think you can't overstate what you just said, Eric, and that is that the evil of slavery is still being around is so abhorrent to the average person's way of thinking that they have a difficulty understanding that it does. They have a greater they have a greater difficulty understanding that there are more people who enslaved today than they've ever been in human history. Especially given the posts to abolition movements of Europe and the Americas and where we've gone with all that. But in between sex slavery and chattel slavery across the world, you've got millions literally that are living subservient class cast lives that are not of their own decision. They're not of their own determination. And in Sudan, in particular, where the world came in and when the Sudanese were having their Civil War and you had the Arabic Islamic jihadist north and you had the Christian south, you had the Arabs frequently going into the south ransacking villages taking people as property and removing them and taking them back to their homes for slave work in the north. When you understand that when the world came in and divided those two countries and said, okay, you get this area. You get that area, but didn't do anything about the slaves. And at the time, there were probably a 130 to a 160,000 people in captive slavery in northern Sudan at that moment. You kind of understand that the world missed a very important piece of that puzzle. Now, over the last 15 years, CSI, through the diligent work and partnership with people like your listeners, have said, well, we can do something about this. And so similar to the reconstruction era or just the area, just the era, just following the Civil War and proceeding it. You had, in essence, what were called retrievers, people that would go into the south scout out slaves and try to get them through The Underground Railroad to the north to freedom and to be able to provide for them a new life a different life. In Sudan, they've had the same thing. There are a handful of Arabs that work with CSI. They personally want a good relationship with the Christians in South Sudan. They are motivated to help CSI find these slaves and get them home so that they can live safely and well. And CSI, through partnering with your listeners, for only $250, says we can give them a brand new life. The majority of that $250 is not used for the liberation. The majority of that is used for the establishing of what that slave needs when they come back to freedom in South Sudan. So whether it be a goat to produce milk and food and commerce, whether it be tarps to live with to protect from the weather elements, whether it's gardening tools or cooking utensils, et cetera, a $250 package basically is called a bag of hope, and that's what that person gets when CSI has fully retrieved them from slavery. And I want to you said give ten 20, et cetera. I want people to think differently about this. Not the amount of dollars that they spend. But the amount of lives they want to impact. Because if you can give $20 once, could you give $25 ten times? If you can give $50 right now, could you give it over the next 5 months? And rescue a slave as well. Or are you of the income level where you could take $250? Make a sacrifice in your monthly budget and say, okay, our family is going to every month for the next ten to 12 months liberate a slave. Now, Eric, you know that I'm not a very wealthy person, but my family and I came to this decision a year ago and we said, you know what? The boys were hearing me talk about CSI on the radio. They were very concerned about slavery and they said, dad, what can we do? And I said, well, we could sacrifice and give and liberate a slave every month. So the McCulloch have said for the last 12 months, we will liberate a life every single month as God provides for us as a family. And you know what? He's done that. So if people are listening and they say, well, I want to be a part of something amazing that God's doing. Put yourself forward and say, God, if this is what you're calling me to, I know that you'll provide, I want to be obedient. And I want to give and liberate a slave right now. It is very difficult to believe that this evil is happening. And we really want to push it away because it's too horrifying. But again, folks, it is amazing news that we can do something about it that you can do something about it. So there are people who could give $10,000, there are people that could give $2500. But it really doesn't matter folks. Whatever you're able to do, this is an insane opportunity. I want to give out the phone number because there are people that prefer the call. But just go to my taxes talk dot com. Everything is there. The idea of giving monthly, by the way, is brilliant. Thank you for mentioning that. Kevin, because that's just beautiful. And I think families should get involved in this with their kids. I didn't even challenge you. Talk to your kids about it and see if they don't have the same response my kids do. Kids know kind of inherently when something is unjust. And if your kids do respond, then be ready to say, okay, let's as a family attack this problem and do something about it. All.
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"Be right back folks I'm talking to lieutenant colonel Allen west who's running for governor of Texas. We'll be right back. In case you haven't been paying attention, the Biden administration has caused a financial crisis and they have no clue how to fix it. Oil prices have skyrocketed and when oil prices go up the cost of transportation and shipping spikes leading the prices of goods to rise. And when we're already seeing record inflation that's the last thing we need, our economy is in trouble and you need to take steps to protect yourself. If all your money is tied up in stocks, bonds and traditional markets, you are vulnerable. Gold is one of the best ways to protect your retirement. No matter what happens, you own your goal, it is real, it is physical. It's always been valuable since the dawn of time, legacy precious metals is the company I trust for investing in gold. They can help you roll your retirement account into a gold backed IRA where you still own the physical gold. They can also ship gold and precious metals safely and securely to your house called legacy at 8 6 6 5 two 8 1903 or visit them online at legacy, p.m. investments dot com. Cooks, welcome back in a few minutes, I'm gonna be talking to Kevin McCullough or dear friend Kevin McCullough and right now though, we still have a few minutes left with lieutenant colonel Allen west running for governor of Texas. You said a moment ago that we're in ideological battle. I talk about this all the time. Many people don't want to think that that's true. They want to think we can just go along. But the marxists have dramatically overreached because of COVID because of many things they have had an opportunity to really crush liberty in America in a way that we have never ever seen. And we have to fight it and I know you're a fighter and you see this. If you were governor by God's grace of Texas, how do you see being able to fight in this battle? Because it's not a battle with guns. No, well, first of all, you have to understand that the left does not believe in the rule of law. They believe in the rule of certain entities, those entities are academia, the media, the courts, and then also they believe in model rule and the amount of that you have out there. And what we have to come to understand, Eric, that is that this is less about Republican and Democrat R and D after name or really starting to mean less and less. It has to do with how does an individual see the relationship of an individual citizen to the institution of government? Because that's the difference. Constitutional conservatism, which is really classical liberalism, if you study John Locke and natural arts theory, life liberty and property is all about the individual, their rights, their freedoms, their liberty, their sovereign, because they're enabling rights as Thomas Jefferson wrote come from a sovereign God. But what do progressive socialist Marxist communists or as Mark Levin calls them status? What do they believe? They believe in the parameters of the institution of government over the individual. And that's the fact that we have to have right here in Texas and all across the country. Give you a case in point. When governor Abbott decides that he's going to say who or what is essential, that certain businesses can stay open and other businesses have to close. That's not an enumerated power that he has. Benjamin Franklin once said the those who would surrender essential liberty for temporary security and the end deserve neither liberty nor security. So we have got to have this discussion about liberty once again. You can't have so much stepping up to a podium in The White House saying that I'm mandating that you have to get this certain thing and check into your body, edicts, orders, mandates, and decrees. That's how you rule over people. If you want to govern this through the legislative process, it's by the rule of law. Well, I really woke up to this just a few years ago. I wrote a book called if you can keep it. Those are the words of Benjamin Franklin. That's right. I really understood how because we have not been teaching really the founders vision of what America is and why we need to be proud to be Americans and love this nation because that's been waning to the point of nonexistence over the decades of our lifetime. We now have a citizenry that is easily fooled easily lied to easily swayed because we are no longer no longer have the muscles of liberty that we need to exercise. And that's I think why we're in the battle we're in right now because there are many Americans they don't understand this. They don't understand that I ought to be proud to be an American that that has nothing to do with jingoistic chest beating or white nationalism or Christian nationalism. It has to do with liberty for all, to me, one of the major battle zones is the public schools. Yes. And you talked about the school choice. Maybe you can touch.
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"You're talking about is absolutely correct. We've got the staff or something, or else we're going to continue to file for every single thing that they bring up. And if we don't start to show backbone, if we don't start to show courage in the face of this crisis and what they're trying to do, which is they're the number one enemies of this democracy that they're trying to say that everybody else is. They're the ones that don't want to have a picture ID to vote. They're the ones that are instituting a philosophy of governess that is antithetical to the constitution of the United States of America. And so there comes to be a time we need people to stand up and say those things. But I think Marcus tullius Cicero, the great Roman statesman, he kind of referred to this as the arrogance of officialdom. And so you have these elected officials that believe that they're untouchable. And they may say one thing to appease the constituents, but in truth and in their heart, they just want to be a part of that club up there in Washington D.C. and I tell you being down here in Texas, a lot of people are furious with what senator task Cruz said yesterday. Well, there's no doubt about it. And I think that, you know, it's very tempting if you're in that world, you know, to play to the gallery, so to speak. But because of the age in which we live, it's not working. And when you make a comment like that, it goes out to the country and people feel betrayed. And I think that when we think of what actually happened in terms of violence across cities last year, when we think of people being shot scalise and others, it's just extraordinary that whatever it is that happened on January 6th, if we're able to get to the bottom of it, that this would be puffed up into some kind of to the idea that this was some kind of an insurrection. And I'm thinking, if this was an insurrection, then senators should have been killed or any senators killed where they shot was the vice president stabbed. Oh, no. Well, then it seems to me that this is the most pathetic excuse for an international I've ever heard in my life. It's monumentally pathetic, and yet the people on the left and of course many national review and others have somehow felt the need to go along with the narrative. It's unfathomable to me. It is totally uncomfortable and you think about you're right. If this was an insurrection without a doubt, it goes down with the grade of enough. It was the most poorly planned and executed insurrection, because first and foremost, no one had any weapons. No one had it in their arms. The only people that had the weapons in their arms were the capitol police officers. The only people that died on that day in around or near the capital was Ashley babbitt. But yet the person that shot her, nothing has happened to that individual. So this was a riot. There's no doubt about it. It was a protest. There's no doubt about it. But when you compare it to the violence of the left and what you have seen them do out in the streets and remember, in 2020, you had three Donald Trump supporters that were murdered, shot. One of Portland Oregon won a Denver Colorado and a black man, and Milwaukee Wisconsin. Never heard anything from the left about that. It's just astonishing. And of course, we have no idea how many of the people involved in what happened on January 6th were FBI were people who were part of some kind of a sting operation. We know what happened with governor Whitmer in Michigan. We have a history of a CIA and an FBI doing the most nefarious things, messing with the narrative and then kind of stepping back and acting as though, well, we didn't have anything to do with it. It's just, it's insulting to the American people. We'll be.
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"Welcome to the Eric metaxas show with your host, Eric, the Texas. Welcome. This is the aircraft to show as you know, every now and again, I have guests that I'm excited to talk to. Today might be one of those times because I was told by my producer that we might be able to get lieutenant lieutenant colonel Allen west, who's running for governor of Texas, lieutenant colonel Alan west is at you. This is me and it's good to be with you Eric and it's good to see you again and just want to wish you a happy new year. Happy new year to you. I really, I'm excited to talk to you. But, you know, as much as I've admired you over the years, the idea that you're running to be governor of Texas is hugely exciting. So I really want to talk to you about that. I want to talk to you about yesterday and the January 6th, which my head's going to explode with anger at how the left has been portraying that in cooperation with the quote unquote mainstream media and the conservative media. But let's just talk about you. Some people know you, some people don't, where did you grow up? What you've got an amazing background obviously being a lieutenant colonel being a member of Congress. Tell us a little bit about yourself if you would. Well, I was born in 1961 and the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia and the blacks only hospital. I grew up in the same neighborhood that produced doctor marvelous the king junior is called the old fourth ward neighborhood in Atlanta. My elementary school was right across the street from ebenezer baptist church. I had two fantastic parents. My father was a World War II veteran, an army Corporal served in the European theater of operations and my mother did a little over 25 years of civilian service to a Marine Corps headquarters there in Atlanta. My older brother was a marine in Vietnam at the age of 15, my dad challenged me to be the first officer in the family because he and my older brother were both enlisted. So I started wearing a uniform back in 1976 in high school junior ROTC. And then I went out to the university of Tennessee and on 31, July 1982 I was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the army in the field artillery, and I served 22 years active duty in United States Army 13 different countries three different combat zones. I retired in August of 2004, been married for 32 years, my wife, her dad also was career army, 24 years. He's buried in all of the national cemetery. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam. We have two daughters. Our oldest is 28, and that's Aubrey. The youngest is 25, that's Austin, and we have one grandson. His name is Jackson Bernard, and he is 7 months old. That's way too much information. Can you cut it down to about a sentence? No, you know, it's so funny. Normally, when you interview people, you really want their story and you are one of the very, very few that actually gave me exactly what I was looking for. Normally people will kind of do the false humility thing and say, yeah, I'm just a dad. It's like, yeah, we know you're just a dad. But tell us about listening to your background, it's thrilling because it reminds us really that they're folks out there like you. Who do have an amazing background that prepares you for leadership, whether that's as governor or congressman..
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"And your brother as twin harry. Potter's and trump as voldemort okay. It's more like a jason bourne novel. I think actually who it's called gear right matters which is aligned out of my testimony After sh on. Sean patrick maloney the representative from the outset question. Why did i think he was. Okay to call the president out on his shit to paraphrase He may use different words. But yeah explain to him that this this country's different my all my brothers served kind of advance the interests of the of the united states. Yep and the Here right matters at a referred to trump. When i speak about look as a. He's the pivot point plot. Twist a foil. you know He's a useful idiot for my book. Actually two weeks to tell the story of doing the right thing under adverse circumstances in what i do in the book is actually i talk about aspects of my background. by perspectives. Being an immigrant kid living overseas serving this nation overseas and seeing combat zones. In where things don't matter where right doesn't matter what. I what i learned from my experiences in the military and how all that came together to both report the phone call on the president's Doing abused power and then had a navigator afterwards through. yeah so making. Their initial report is one thing but then you have actually follow through on when the lights are on and like you know. You can't hide out. Hide out in the back or something like that. So you know Testifying in then dealing with the consequences of that starting over and it's like basically of microcosm of like a backer like we all do that even if you think about like me to or any of the things that anybody goes through at work or in a situation where there's a lot at stake and you're like how am i going to sacrifice my own personal integrity or am i gonna fucking do the right thing because here right matters. Honestly right hasn't mattered for a while. I think during trump everybody's sort of just even people who thought that they were fighting for the right thing. Sometimes we'd do it in such dirty way and it's the book is so dope in that way like it's not just like the hot gos- of all the douche bags dealt with. It's more like. Yeah that's why you're an icon. Because it's not easy to do what you did and you in fact did lose like a lot of shit and i'm sure you were getting you're worried about your family's safety at a certain point you had to have been these motherfuckers at attack the capital. I'm sure they've got your number somehow. In a lot of ways i was Either i had some some trading along the way especially going to moscow to understand my My personal security needs we have to increase. We had Like a team Threat assessment team. Come out and kind of make sure that we had what we need with regard scurity doorknob. So you couldn't get any doorknobs great so and then it also tells the beautiful story of me-meeting matt psychologist rachel my wife and you know Since we i would imagine most people would walk away from this book. Making sure we don't have it that bad he works call. It's it's kind of uplifting And i think you know certainly for for don Right didn't matter but for people that did matter in a lot of people in government. A lot of people in america matters. But i'd say the vast majority of americans matters but there are a bunch of loud and obnoxious folks at it doesn't matter for and what i i for those quiet people. Where right does matter we need to make right matter exactly right mattering there but you're right matters big right matter. That's really good. It does matter so before we let you go Let's talk about what the next chapter holds for you. Are you going to be an orthodontist. Or what are we looking at here. You guys need a tech support guy on on this on this. Open the possibility absolutely absolutely. Do you wanna do. It are you doing a doctorate guy. I'm lecturing occasionally guest lecturing stuff like that. I'm working on a doctorate At a think tank at dc. Thanks doing some consulting. And then you know still trying to figure out what. What exactly is i want to do. I've got as my describes. Like about five different jobs at the moment so i probably sat along water to met some point. But i do being my own boss. I don't like i don't. I've not accountable to anybody if the bosses addicts means. I'm addicted my salad or something like that. Do next book your next book. I my very first data uniform. I wrote an op. Ed in the washington post is said. I want to be active. A two on advocating for public servants. That don't have a voice for of their own because they're government. I wanna keep writing about in a counseling on foreign policy national security to advance your national security interests and i also want to Old people accountable so especially like the military folks in congress that have failed to live up to their oaths of office. A column out or help people that are running against it and stuff along. Those are things that are involved. I mean everything you're saying is like everything that we want to believe that government is and like you know people get cynical and we've talked so much and we make fun and whatever but those the but i want you to know from my heart. What you're saying is so meaningful because we don't believe that that exists. So you are. I you could turn me okay. You are you what you're saying so we haven't heard these things. i mean. certainly. Joe biden got in and commerce. And all that and that sites us particularly. But what you're saying it's like we haven't heard anyone speak like that about how to run a country or government or what. Democracy is freedom really means and how to treat people and why ethics are and morality. So the fact that you're saying all that is just like a very waspy a real patriot. Yes you'll patriot exactly. it's exciting. Tell our fourteen listeners where they can find you in fan out and buy your book twitter at a vitamin. That's my biggest platform instagram. Somebody stole my name. So i had a jew here right matters. It's probably russian. I've reported him after that was right. Matters is my insert the insta- cart instagram. And then let's see alexandra amendment book dot com is the website and at your all. Your favorite bookstores amazon. And all that kind of stuff okay. let's get the book. Everybody cool is reading it now You know what. I'm excited about to not just that. This is an icon episode That we finally fucking have canvas pro so we can actually make graphics and video to promote the road. Yes we are doing yes We've never i feel like we never promote one episode now. I'm kind of proud of that. I love that. We're just like shitty finding if i can. The pro is really it's going to take. It's even going to help us take our crappy endeavors to the next level because if you just with a little personal effort on your own you can design anything you want on there. Whether you're a teacher. Maybe somebody works in like maybe they have to go to a presentation. I'm sure you the numbers have to show you the data the data data data data. I have to show you the wharf show you. The wharf destroyed the port. I have to show. Do you have to show me the the gordy or what's his name. I have to show you one jordi la forge and then also going to show you and then i'm gonna show you lieutenant warf yes. They also data and data. So i'm going to show you gordie. What did you say you lefavor. Gordie levintv gordon. The kid's name in nam by isn't it gordon chang. That's gordon chance. I think they copied it and degeorge laforge or did stephen king copy. Who copied who we're gonna do is we're going to go on camera pro and we're gonna make we're gonna do a side by side of all of the factories from star trek next generation and stephen king stand by me and we're going to see who copied home good idea okay. Let's do it..
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"Hey just so you know this is. These are other relevant Elements of this phone call you. I'd go into detail kind of frankly. Early in certain ways gave a full report attorneys at the white house and gave a slightly watered down version to to my colleagues on the things that they needed to know in order to take action on him But that's what you do normally and then you have a record. This transcript doesn't become public just gets kind of it gets generated almost instantly comes back to me or whoever the director is a kind of fix it up. Make sure that there's nothing missing. Then it goes you know goes into the president presidential records and you actually go about the business of implementing. Whatever it was discussed. The the difference here is that the president also typically being own worst enemy released the transcript of his wrongdoing which It doesn't seem like a savviest moves. Help counter move the the impeachment Did seem to be To hold impeachment hearings along. So i reported it because i wanted i. It was an element of showing their first report. I told a senior officials including i pulled my twin brother to this kind of a jerk. Move us is ethics official by probably. Didn't even have to drag in there. I just want him as a witness. Yes sorry eugene with me to get my come on so that was the kind of the damage control. It was that. Because what i perceived the president do something you know certainly awful but potentially legal the rest of it was really policy coordination. The stuff i would do on a daily basis Be alert aware for of this. We need understand how the ukrainians respond to this. You know talking to the right folks. And then i also talked about that you know goofball jim morrison's like what do we do with this. Is this a change in policy news. He looks at me. He's like no. We're not taking any action and you. You got to understand that this is like a political appointee in certain ways like minded with the president but there were a lot of these things like the president would just be erratic offer considered tweets. And we would then wait. We would have to determine whether this policy change at president. Wouldn't follow through on it. You wouldn't say. Actually i do want to do this. Be like you'd move onto the next stupid thing to do. Damage control policy actually. Had not changed was just you just saying doesn't ask if you scared because you know. Trump is a vindictive bitch and he fires everyone at the drop of a hat. Were you expecting to be fired from the white house. I knew that there were there. Were risks and certainly very quickly. I you know i I Experienced retaliation so i knew eventually like the vindictive Work would you call them. So i do that. There was a good risk of big risk there. But i thought frankly I didn't necessarily perceive the dangerous from a military kind of thought a little bit of wishful thinking that you know i could. It's not the army because the army's filled with awesome individuals. Same thing with the department events. These are honorable individuals like me. It's army leadership That we have now. Some bloom works elected by donald. Trump in by twin brother was fired from the white house. So fire to. He's still suffering retaliation and at the same time. Michael flynn brother was elevated in his time at the pentagon from legacy to start a four star. Telling me that there is not. They didn't think that they were occurring favourite. The president in and putting us out to pasture. They didn't think they were like there. Were doing something that was gonna be. You know careers in advance their own interests. So that's the that's my issue with the leadership you in while at the same time. I completely grateful to the army. For everything i learned from a from and all the benefits i I got over over pretty successful. Really quick in your book. You say that your dad he at this time you say in your book. He was a trump supporter earlier. A at this time meaning like you know when when all the stuff went down with the phone call. Yes but by the time you know. The president started criticizing me and he got a better understanding. Because i i just couldn't share like all the details with him but when he got a better understanding of all the president's wrongdoing and my mom forbade fox news in the house you know between those two things he started to get deprogrammed and said wait. Doesn't sound like he's delivering unlike drain. The swamp bring his making this country. Great again or anything like that when he parted ways with them he didn't appreciate Trump attacking his kid on. We were gonna ask you a few how you want to know how you deal with the trauma of this. If you put trump's face on like a boxing thing. I need to know i mean. I don't pay that much. He doesn't i have no respect for him War his his acolytes. So i really don't spend a huge amount of time. What i do spend a lot of time on is working with non-governmental organisation. I'm on the board of the renew democracy initiative figuring out how to undo the damage that there are these folks are creating In thinking about how to bring this country together instead of tearing it apart accountability a understanding all of the the damage that the previous administration has done and hardening government against these kinds of abuses So that's that's where i energy and do you have a desire to work with russia or ukraine anymore. Work with or work on work on work on. I mean i've been. I've been actually fortunately for Writing a number of articles about other the threats be faced with regards to in russia. china what we need. What kind of support. We offer ukraine There's a famous zig new brzezinski Former national security vice ardor and he says i said something To the extent of it should not be underestimated that russia without ukraine ceases to become an empire but russia with ukraine subordinated suborned automatically becomes an empire so it just becomes a much more. It's more capable houghton adversary So keeping russia I'm keeping russia's grubby mitts. Which is where they wanna be right. It's something we should be helping him. Now we're going to ask you again to tell us about your new book. We like to imagine that. It's an auto biographical fantasy.
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"Just fox on me. It'd be nets kind of the way. I imagine it. Yeah early He's got his wife beater. Tee shirts got. He's got he's got his lounge on the same ones that he that he then wears a suit coat over him several pictures of with or early chance that the fans there bigly lounge fans. I gotta tell you you could tell i. Don't hold back on this guy and there's a reason for it. It's just that. I perceive to be an enormous risks of his country and my awe and reverence for the office of the president which was extremely high in the head initially probably inhibited me like exercising good judgment and believing that the president was actually behind this. I thought it was a bunch of like nefarious. Kind of like Sidekicks link trying to do this initially or at least convince myself with that that there's no way that the president would corrupt his office to do. This went from there to to now. Basically every opportunity dog guy because entry. And there's such a misconception about him he is you. I think you guys have a good freedom. You'll get done a whole like you know. Tens of millions of people. I think that he's like actually the men and he's not he's Resembles what any american would any american male or female. Frankly for that matter would assess to be like a tough american men of somebody. That's like you know Has a bit of squad swagger to him maybe smart more virtuous empathetic kind samaritan created the office for everyone which was a tunnel in utter bummer. Yesterday your i hate cong- president trump front for trump. His he does he. I mean he. He sat in that position. He was elected by. He's okay so tell us who else was on the call. You're in the situation room. Who else is in the room with you and are there other people in other rooms on this. When we had more people in the room we had the vice president's national security adviser Got named keith kellogg. Who is kind of like damn. I don't know how. I got into that position but He was a retired three star. General that seem to generally clueless. Frankly you had the you had my counterpart on the vice president's staff you had a press officer Oh my boss. Tim morrison is everyone. Like what the what i mean is. You're listening to the thing and you are like can't this is not happening. And he saying do me a favor and everybody can hear it and do you look at each other and go what the people new new right. But the people that didn't know and understand like you know national security or foreign policy kellogg. Didn't think there was anything i mean. He was a guy that kinda got the impression. He didn't think anything was wrong. Break but a of the professional staff. They're the folks that were no years. A service are working at a department agencies You know even even even tim morrison knew that there was something wrong with this thing. I think you know it's possible. Trump didn't know. I mean i don't know i. I'm on the fence of esa. Whether he knew what he was doing was wrong. I think he probably did because he has this funny way of talking like where he's he just thinks he's skirting around words when he actually steps writing enemy So that was in my room in the situation room. Those that handful of folks the practice president in his underwear Residents malania rave been giving them a backup or something i resent. I resent that. I would never touch him now. I never touch him now. Alexander never now. No i've i've walked away. I have my boyfriend. I don't touch him no murat okay. Okay secretary pompeo was taking your from From overtaken senior national security advisor was some old bolton with the mustache. Did you have anyone else i. I was there entirely under. Bolton's tenure until this guy. O'brien like the c team or team. Guy came in to replace bulking okay. Who is even more of a. it's hard to believe. His claim to fame is that he framed or he freed rocky from the sweets. That's right asep rocky. I forgot about that rocky from the swedes. And that's how he became medical skirting. God horrified what happened after after the call so you knew it instantly when it came out his mouth through like okay. That's not gonna cut it. How long did you have to go and like meditate go. Should i tell anyone as long as it took me to walk across the street up to the third floor office. I really i mean i knew where i was going as soon as i was going to report this with the intent of You know having more senior officials that have far greater contact with the president on a habitual basis saying hey prize is gonna this is gonna blow back. You don't want to do this. And that's what i was. My intent is to try to see if i could fix this in in the proper channels and at the same time. This is in our Mentioned like fourteen hour days twelve fourteen hour days. I didn't have time to really dwell on this thing. I made the report. I certainly was bothering me. But i also had to figure out how to undo the damage of this hold on security systems because that was going on simultaneously and the very next day i was putting together a meeting finishing a paper and putting together meeting not for my level not from the level above me for the level above that the deputy the deputy national security adviser with deputies of all the so the cabinet one. Step down that meeting trying to figure out. How do we fix this thing. In the whole idea of doing a phone call in part was to get back on track because of all the noise that was coming in the president told on security systems. I thought they were. you know. there's a chance that we could get relationship back on track. And now i realize while we haven't even more report to undo this damage you can't across the street and you knew you were going to go report that he said this bullshit but would you have always had to just report on the call in general like. Here's what was said. Here's what went on. There was like kind of a more habitual process in which a normal phone call you in in certain ways. I treated this like normal phone call after reporting it after after that just because the chief executive had a phone call doesn't mean stuff starts automatically happen. You actually have to have the staff to like take action on it. So when i get criticized for like you know telling a couple people about it. It's because there was. There was a discussion that there needed to be. Follow through on and that happens at our level. Yeah so if you take that totally state department would they need to know our tell you know whatever in defense tell defense or intel community what they need to know side. I treated it in a lot of ways like a normal phone call said..
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"Is to basically get kind of a lay of the land understand what was going on Get a understanding of what the defense department does immerse yourself at the culture and stuff like that gaining a lot of expertise and then straight off the set me to moscow for three years to be attention touch which is like straight to the world series or something. It was pretty watson three years in moscow. Though what's the day to day like there. I mean if i tell you have to kill you. Aren't there by the defense intelligence agency. Wow but the The job was observing before on what was going on. So you could. You could have figured out how okay so what were what were your day-to-day duties as the eastern on to the national security council for trump. Were very quickly on ukraine. I mean on on on. Russia your diplomat. So you're interacting with that other diplomats traveling throughout the country getting the land land especially after the russians decided to wage war against their ukrainian cousins I spent a lot of time on the russian ukrainian border watching them in Kind of poke holes in this idea that it was it was just a simple kind of civil war internal and all that stuff so that was my job and then Based on on those skills you the progression I went to to the pentagon and was the chairman of the joint chiefs. Russia affairs officer. So cancelling them on what the russians were doing. I wrote the authoritative documents. So like what the armies and the apartment defense uses now to meet the challenge of russia. I wrote those documents. And i was kind of broke new ground because we were besides the fact that we were fighting a fifteen year campaign against terrorists. We had forgotten that they're actually countries that are are enduring actors that we got. They're going to be there after The terrorist go away. So i i wrote these things and then based on that i was asked to join the national security council. So you're it's one of those things you're asked to join right and it's pretty awesome. Because i had it in my mind you know all the way back in about two thousand thirteen that this would be something i wanted to do. And then i was on the national security council for about a year before things all went haywire. Roughly and now real quick you have an identical twin brother who also worked for the trump national security council. Right now house. The fuck does that happen. I mean getting twins. we're in anomaly. Where we or the nfc twins actually only ns wins. If there isn't a cw show we the only ones that have the twins ever served. They're probably the last ones to ever serve on the national security and he was an ethics lawyer. Is that correct. He was an attorney. He national security lower an ethics attorney and he kind of mean. I have a good theory on this. When he disputes. They hired me about eight months before him directorships which is a pretty pretty prestigious and then like a week before they asked. If i asked if you'd be interested in joining the national security council and his interviews went well he's he's a sharp guy but i think what is paper came across the nfc. They're like wait. We already hired. This guy really really do any screening naturally. Oh yeah this. Why are they set. Why is the od setting paper him. They were hiring you exactly. But he's he's like me but he's nine minutes younger so he's a little He's not he's immature. He's a mature and your identical. But that's kind of a long minutes is a long time difference. Because he was a surprise he was. They did not know there are two of us know. Sometimes i tell him he's an unwanted sir now. Do you guys report to the white house. Was that your day to day like eight. Am gotta go to the white house now to my job so it's not it's more like six. Am till like ten or eleven. But yeah i'm glad at the nfc you buy get shortchanged by some other departments and agencies but you get your your money's worth out of the nfc. It's pretty odds firing walking in their everyday. I bet it doesn't wear off. You're like yeah. damn. I'm writing this thing you i know. Yeah yeah it is so cool. It's so crazy. I supposedly shared the same office. That henry kissinger had back in the day. And even if you didn't just go ahead. And he was there around waft was there that was office. So i'm gonna i'm gonna ride. Hey take it own the okay. So walk us through the infamous call with trump and ukraine ukraine dude. Is this something you did all the time you on these you did you got to do with the accident do did you. Did you like trump off. I mean i certainly was was I was concerned about the direction he was taking this country And the the way. He was breaking relationships with our allies. But that doesn't really make a difference. Frankly because good thing about the military is that we have a chain of command and as long as the president issues lawful orders. Brings you go you. Shut up and color It's not that hard. You you work for bosses in the military sometimes that you disagree with your superiors and you shut up and color. You give them the best advice you can. They make the decisions losses period. Yeah i would say boss my boss. He's a dish. I mean you saw them. Or i mean did you. What was your impression just on a personal level with him. We just imagine being around him and thinking like wow he does. He is interesting but he's horrified. I didn't have any interaction with him..
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"We are so excited because today we are adding another name to our dumb gay politics. Bob ross icon series since the inception of this show. We have talked to quite a few influential people. but today is only the fifth time. In four years that we're talking to an actual literal icon. Yes but our guest. Today is not just an icon. He's a god damn american hero and an everyday woman served in the army for over twenty years and he has like nine hundred different medals and honours. Now this on its own would normally make him an icon to us because one we don't know shit about how the military works and to the only army medal you've ever heard of is the purple heart but there's so much more to this guy than just his military honors. In the history of the white house. There have only been a handful of people who have worked directly for the president that we're willing to sacrifice their own reputation and career in the name of protecting democracy and our guest. Today just happens to be one of them and not for nothing. He does have a motherfucker he sure does but unfortunately he did end up losing his career in the white house and in the military all because he spoke up and told the truth about his boss the then president donald trump who had tried to use a foreign government to sabotage joe biden and thus manipulate a free and fair election. Which by the way is an impeachable offense which is why our guest today felt the need to speak up and which ultimately did lead to trump getting partially impeached. But since then there's been a pandemic and insurrection and another impeachment so we're going to take our fourteen listeners. Back to the summer of two thousand nineteen to refresh their memories. Trump was in a full-blown paranoia. About the possibility of joe biden. Becoming the democratic nominee and rudy giuliani was strutting around washington like some weird eastern european kingpin. Who thought he was pulling all the strings. A sitcom actor had just become the president of ukraine and even though putin wasn't happy about it and putin and trump were but buddies trump scheduled to call anyway with the new president zielinski to congratulate him during that call presidents alinsky. Ask trump for some aid money. That congress had preapproved for ukraine. But trump said he wouldn't send the money unless the new president agreed to help him with the election. By digging up dirt on joe biden and his son hunter and all the shit they were getting into in the ukraine. That's exactly and of course trump tonight everything but our guest today was on that call heard the whole damn thing and he testified in front of congress to approve it and in doing so he changed the course of history forever and if it wasn't for his bravery integrity even in the face of losing everything that he worked for his whole life. We'd probably be stuck with trump as president right now grosso so without further ado we are humbled and honored to welcome to the show. Our newest bob ross icon. Who without his sacrifice. There would be no joe. Joe and kiki retired lieutenant. Colonel alexander vitamin hi. Alex low alec. Wow that was quite introduction. I i don't know what to say. I think you guys set it off for me. Oh my god thank you for coming by the ninety s. You think if your service okay. So listen we're going to talk about your new book and get all your hot takes on the cunanan and the capital insurrection. Shit show in afghanistan but first we need t- on trump and that freakin ukraine. Call so let's start at the beginning. We know you've told the story in the meantime but probably not like how you're going to tell it today. Okay so start and tell us exactly what your position was in. The trump administration is sitting the fucking. Oh my god she doing so okay. I was the director for. I was the director for european affairs on the national security council which might not make a lot of sense to people. But because they know me as lieutenant colonel which is kind of like you know middle middle management promoted. I didn't like a sexy army title. Lieutenant kirtadze i mean. It's it's where you get to if you've been successful About sixteen years old sixteen seventeen years. Now he's about to get promoted to colonel. That's like a real cool on the rank. Looks like it looks like it's an eagle so it's the coolest looking bother in the white house. I was serving at position. Mean depending on who at how you assess it anywhere from two to three ranks above that grade. So i don't wear a uniform. Your carry that title of director for the national security council and your chairing meetings with deputies secretaries and For the department of defense is actually like three ranks because they elevated. The deputy system secretaries took restart butlin started serving as ten colonel in three star general equivalent position ensuring meetings with these these folks and ours response before Eastern europe had russia. Ukraine moldova belarus. And the cops considered asia right. I liked we. I like the way you think. That's a good slap across the face. The russian consider themselves european too bad. They're not even like to point out to them that they're really kind of more eurasian their asian and that kind of gets gets under their skin me certainly ukraine moldova and belarus follow into traditionally. What's been considered europe eastern europe but europe. Russia is a massive country with eleven time zones so it straddles europe and asia. I never do that now. How did you get this job. And how long did you have it. Got this job By because i served successfully over the preceding twenty years to get to that point. But really if i on the national security council. That can't be easy. it's pretty awesome. It's i figures roughly. I was an infantry troop leader. That's you know. I had platoon as branding lieutenant in forty guys then a company about one hundred seventy four guys on seventy six. I think actually And then you had to do all these kind of developmental things like your basic entry level troop leader type stuff and then about the eight or ten year mark. You're able to compete for these really niche assignments including becoming a diplomat in the department. You have foreign service officers in the department defense. You have foreign area officers. And i was selected to be A it's pretty kind of a it's not the easiest thing to do I was trained in. I ready spoke. Russian training ukrainian. I went to harvard graduate school. They paid they paid for it. They gave me a large chunk of money to travel all throughout russia and the former Eurasia i went to china went to Turkey poland ukraine everywhere..
Capt. Hunter's Podcast
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"It was grant. Funded and we had. I think it was something between eight and ten motor officers for population of sixty two thousand in our city and the reason we did it was because we got grants and the minute the grant stop. They were gone but as part of those grants in order to justify the money. We had a pile on those tickets. Yeah yeah yeah. And it's the same thing with narcotics. I mean we don't find the federal government does not fun. Violence reduction task forces that look at everything from not. Just enforcement shoe you know. A prevention rehabilitation they fund narcotics task forces very specifically and then then go and the reason why we're taking this money because it will help reduce violence in our community because these drug dealers or shooting and killing people without understanding kind of back vicious cycle but that task force is geared on the number of arrests not convictions. You know in any grant. I i never saw what was your conviction rate. It was how many people did you churn through the system. More meat for the grinder right Talk about one more thing. I'm gonna go back a little bit. The history of policing This this idea that we want to change the future of it. I'm going to give a shameless plug. I just finished a book. He's perform retired police captain perspective evolution law enforcement americanheart improve the criminal justice system. Long subtitle there but So i talked a little bit about this. The history of policing when i was in the police kademi You know it's not talked about on the slave catching trolls etc If we're going to change the future police in doing really how to reconcile the history of policing where we came from. How how we got here. Essentially right we talk about Not only the history of policing but also as we just talked about We're were just defending corporate interest. Which is really the that the history of policing inspect particularly in the north end and assault. Right officers or slave catchers were the in north either. They were making sure that businesses weren't being broken into in assam obviously catching runaway property. Right so we have to really do reconcile reconciliation with that in move through the move to the decades and centuries to we get to here to where we are today with How how we got here. And we're still protecting the corporate interests of the rich right again. We talk about all these traffic tickets in low level crimes. Were supposed to be getting the jail chapels and and all this kind of stuff. But we're getting people with dying bags in their pockets I i so agree with you that there is a complete lack of historical education for the modern day policing professional. Hey and for me. I think this is probably the clearest example is it was not until i started becoming active in in really in this police reform movement. Where i it forced me to go back to school. Get a master's degree in Finish off my bachelor's degrees get a masters degree but really delved into historical legislation in history around our drug laws in. I think in academy said he if you had forty hours minimum dedicated to the history policing the history of drug laws. You know the history of of where police actually came the good. The bad you know is we can look at sarah peel. And there's good there you know you know it's. This is the absence of crime. This is how we should be judged you know. The police are part of the community. If we actually did a forty hour block on that. I think it would start to transform policing because our younger police are action much more educated than we were in many aspects. I was so appalled when i first started doing my own on drug la history and looking at the historical legislative record. That was filled with racism. That's it period simple into story and you know i. I don't know if you know. But i was born in mexico city in came up as In the nineteen sixties historically law enforcement isn't talk the history of know opium inhere opium and heroin work because of the chinese because our legislators in california didn't want chinese men sleeping with white women. Marijuana is a mexican issue Is the legislators and harry and slinger and other people did a very good job of stigmatizing mexican immigrants. Who are coming up here during the depression to work cocaine with black men. You know you go and it's interesting when you start looking at and i'm not minimizing. Pcp because voltaire brennan's for people on pcp but if you think back to the pcp issue that we dealt with in how law enforcement portrayed it relative to black in using pvc key. The same way that it was described in early legislation on how it black men using cocaine would be able to overpower law enforcement. That gave him superhuman strength. You know and and so the parallels of how we create moral outrage or moral scares around a particular drug are not really about the dangers of the drug there about the perceived dangers of a ethnic Or or a demographic that we've been trying to control for a long time. Yeah absolutely. I agree with you but in education these come in. I believe that if if we got that education people would certainly think differently. I agree with that. When i was in instructor i talked about human behavior. Know basically basic psychology. I talked about The i always recommended that the new recruits read the book on christian williams our enemies and blue and interesting. I never read it. Oh yeah you gotta read that. He talks about Probably besides my book. I just probably the best book about. Please work about the history because he talks about the how police unions were formed How they fought against other unions. Correct union busting Even though they were members of the union themselves talk about how they try to suppress the women's movement of course the civil rights movement When blacks tried to join the unions in one thousand nine hundred twenty s police officers got them out of there. talked about their involvement in stopping the lgbt rights movement stonewall so really really great good book. Kristen williams our enemies and blue. I always i highly recommend highly recommend that you need to email me both the title of your book and that book so i'll follow up in in all them absolutely absolutely So we talked about the history talk about what's going on today. Let's talk about where we go tomorrow. Where's where's leap. Headed tomorrow onto your your to deliver leadership. There.
Short Storiess Podcast
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"After nearly half an hour gone by succeeded in making a small hole in the lid inserting my two fingers. I felt some rough uneven masses. I was now fearfully excited tearing at the opening like a madman. I enlarged it and extracted. What looked like a large piece of coal. I knew in an instant what it was. It was magnetic iron ore holding it down to my knife. the blade flew to it. Here's the mystery of the soul. I cried now. We can use it to open the door. I had known a great conjurer wants who had deceived in puzzled. His audience of the box trick on similar lines. The man opening the box from the inside by drawing down the walk with a magnet who this do the same. I felt that our lives hung on the next moment. Taking the mass. I pressed it against the door. Just of the ask and slithered up against the would. My heart leapt as i heard the half fly up outside and with the push the door opened we are saved. I shouted we are saved by a miracle bell. You are a genius gaffes clinton but now how about the stone. At the end of the passage we will soon see about that. I cried taking the lantern. Half the danger is over at any rate and the worst half to we rushed along the passage up the stairs until we reached the top white clinton. I cried holding up the ladder. The place was not shot at all nor was it in his terror. He had imagined it. I could not see in the dark. And i was nearly dead with fright. He said oh bell. Let us get out of this as quickly as we can we crush through the aperture and once more stood in the chapel and then pushed the stone back into place. Dawn was just breaking one. We escaped from the chapel to cross the house in the hall. The clock pointed to five. Well we have had an awful time. I said as we stood in the hall together but at least clinton the end was worth the ghastly terror. I have knocked the bottom out of your family legend forever. I don't even now quite understand. He said don't you but it is so easy that the coffin never contained a body at all but was filled as you perceive with fragments of magnetic iron or for what diabolical purposes. The cell was intended. It is of course impossible to say but that it must have been meant. That's a human trap. There is little doubt the inventor certainly exercise no small ingenuity when he devised his diabolical plot for was obvious that the door which was made of iron would swing towards the coffin wherever it happened to be placed. Thus the door would shut if the coffin. Were inside the cell and would remain open if the coffin were brought out a cleverer method for simulating a spiritual. It would be hard to find. Of course the mon- must have known well that the magnetic iron or never loses its quality and would ensure the deception remaining potent for ages. But how did.
Short Storiess Podcast
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"I went out and flinging back the door which clinton had been holding open stood aside to watch slowly very slowly as we both stood in the passage slowly as if pushed by some invisible hand the door commenced to swing round and with increasing velocity. Shut with a noisy clanging. Seizing it once again. I dragged it open and while clinton held it in that position made a careful examination up to the president. I saw nothing to be much alarmed about. There were fifty ways in which door might shut of. Its own accord. There might be a hidden. Spring or tilted hinges draft of course was out of the question. I looked at the hinges. They were iron and set in solid masonry. Nor could i discover any spring or hidden contrivance. As when the door was wide open there was an interval of several inches between it and the wall. We tried it again and again with the same result and it last as it was closing. I seized it to prevent it. I now very odd sensation. I certainly felt as if i were resisting. An unseen person who was pressing hard against the door at the other side directly it was released continued. Its course i allow. I was quite unable to understand the mystery. Suddenly in idea struck me. What does the legend say. I asked turning to clinton that the soul is to guard the door to close it upon the coffin. Those are the words answered allen speaking with some difficulty now. if that's true. I continued and we take the coffin out. The spirit won't shut the door. If it does shut it disproves the whole thing at once and shows it to be merely a clever mechanical contrivance. Come clinton helped me get the coffin out. I dare not bill. He whispered horsely. I dare and go inside. Nonsense man. I said feeling now a little annoyed at the whole thing here. Put the land down and hold the door back. I stepped in and getting behind the coffin. Who out all my strength in shoved it into the passage. Now then i cried. I'll bet you fifty pounds to five. The door will shut just the same. I drag the coughing clear of the door and told him to let go clinton had scarcely done so before stepping back key clutched my arm. Look he whispered. Do you see that it will not now. My father is waiting for the coffin to be back. This is awful. I gazed at the door in horror. It was perfectly true. A remained wide open and quite still. I sprang forward seized it and now endeavoured to close it it was as if someone was trying to hold it open it required considerable force to stir it and it was only with difficulty. I could move it at all. At last i managed to shut it. But the moment i let go it swung back open of its own accord and struck against the wall where it remained just as before in the dead silence followed. I could hear clinton breathing quickly behind me. And i knew he was holding himself for all he was worth at that moment. There suddenly came over me a sensation which i had once experienced before and which i was twice destined to experience again. It is impossible to describe. It seized me laying siege to my brain till i felt like a child in its power. It was as if i were slowly drowning in the great potion of silence. That enveloped us. Time itself seemed to have disappeared at my feet way. The misshapen thing and the lantern behind it cast a fantastic shadow of its distorted outline on the cell wall. Before me speak say something i cried to clinton the sharp sound of my voice broke the spell. I felt myself again in at the trick my nerves had played on me..
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
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"I think six this range maybe 4536. That's not a team you want to see opposite. I think they're pretty well, principled, pretty decent, too pretty decent talent. We just named some of their players. What do we expect that there's a ceiling and it's visible more so than the Celtics and the Nets in By anyone. They get their act together. But Philly Of course they're They're a tough team. They're good franchise. Times of the blessed is over for another day. Have a question for you. And I don't think I have enough time to stuff it in. Should I try? Yes, Somebody has to be real quick, they said Is Aaron Donald Maura. Impactful for Lawrence Taylor that then lt was it? Mm. Everybody's like, no way. Lt. Lt. I said you're looking at the splash element. When you factor in what Aaron Donald does snap to snap double team interior line changes everything. Can you make the assertion that it's close? If not yet favorite? Here's Here's why. BT Um, and in your right, You know, You can't really say that publicly. Aaron Donald's more impactful player than Lawrence Taylor. But Aaron Donald is a is a gap plus defender. So you know, they don't to gap out there. What they do is they take one gap. Everybody has accountability. It's why they're able to stop the run. Um, and also play the past with these coverages behind right, But the reason they can do that is because Aaron Donald takes 1.5 sometimes two gaps. And if it's a pass rush, you can't single block. You gotta double him and then with freeze up Leonard Floyd or someone else on the outside, so He's impactful, but not necessarily statistically, like.