Denver Riggleman
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NPR News Now
NPR News: 11-24-2024 8PM EST
Many current and former high-profile Republicans publicly opposed Trump and threw their weight behind Harris. Former Congressman Denver Riggleman was a technical advisor to the House January 6th Committee and chair of Republicans for Harris in Virginia. He thinks those efforts won over some conservative voters for Harris, but clearly not enough to make a difference.
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Riggleman says some high-profile anti-Trump Republicans now worry about facing retribution given Trump's repeated threats to go after his political rivals. Sarah McCammon, NPR News.
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You're looking at the order of battle of the specific threat country and the type of missile systems that they have from tactical to strategic. Through all those multiple machinations, as you're talking, Amy, it's a much different missile trying to shoot you down than an ICBM. Completely different. It's a... It's even a different TTP, tactics, techniques, and procedures. Right.
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It's different in how they actually engage the target. I think the plausible portion of this is indications and warning, INW. And that with the advent of the ability to process multiple types of data that might not be in the same formats, right? And I'm not going to go into all the weird technical terms for AI or graphical networks because that's what my company does now.
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When you're looking at that, I think the one plausible thing is tracking where or how those missiles will be released, right, based on an I&W AI or advanced technology look at how these countries are actually deploying, for example. I don't know how far I can go. Okay. There's different things that happen before there's a missile launch, right?
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We talk about people are moving things into place to launch something, right? If it's a mobile missile, it's going to be moving. We can track those movements, right? And we have different systems to do that.
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But if our AI says that this movement happened or we're looking at historical precedent because past performance is based on future performance and there's Russian ways of doing business, we look at tactics, you know, Russian tactics, we look at Chinese tactics, which are the same. We can tell by past tactics what they're getting ready to do.
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What if we could do an automatic INW without having thousands of analysts? We can take analysts out of the simplest part of the room. What is INW? So indications and warning. So that you're looking way left of boom, right? You're saying, oh my gosh, they just did it. You know what? When they did that announcement 10 years ago, they launched something. That's interesting.
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You know, they might be launching something.
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Taylor, I don't know if people know this, why this is so cool. E.H. Taylor was one of the first people to lobby for bottled and bond to ensure that distillers had tax breaks.
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Well, retasking can. So when you can pre-position assets, so, you know, for me, right, if you're going into harm's way, right, and I already saw, and so say I'm doing, you know, a mission plan, right, and we have tactical operational strategic assets. So I got national data coming from NSA, right? I have data coming in from our combatant command, right?
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That's looking at past historic data for order of battle. And I'm getting tactical inputs from aircraft or other areas or other prepositioned ISR assets. Say I'm getting all that data, right? And I have three things up, right? This is what I did. So I got three things up. And all of a sudden, I see a very specific system pop. right?
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And that specific system based on microns or infrared might tell me that it's the Bob's your uncle system that we didn't know was there beforehand. We can pre-position assets quickly to mitigate the threat. So if we have indications and warning that say that Djibouti is already moving TELs, transport erector launchers, and I'm making this up, right, because I can't talk about the other stuff.
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They're moving TELs into position, and we know that Djibouti is getting ready to launch, and we know that those specific systems are only meant for the U.S.,
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and we're getting SIGINT, ELINT, or COMMINT, and then we pre-direct or we direct our resources and realign our resources into a collection right posture that goes directly for the threat based on the left of boom INW line we're getting on past performance or past tactics, we might be able to hit them right in the womb. Right? Boom.
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What does that mean? Yeah, bottled and bond is a four-year whiskey that you're already paying the taxes on it, but it has to be at 100 proof, right? It has to be bottled at 100 proof. So when you have a bottled and bond, you have a straight whiskey, right?
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over four years old that's bottled at 100 proof that's already been taxed it's been bottled in bond or in a bonded warehouse so pretty cool right yeah so in each taylor this is a bottled and bond this is very very traditional and if people know the history they're gonna love it each taylor started multiple distilleries around the around the country well in kentucky but but his stuff is everywhere and by the way this used to be a like a jim beam product do you know who bought this
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Right. So, well, man, that's a lot to unpack. So first part. Bring it. First part. So when you're looking at missile defense systems being shot down in a strategic way, I'm going to humbly submit this, Amy. You know who's worse at ICBM missile defense? China and Russia.
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So if we invest in INW, indications and warning, or left a boom on Golden Dome and not specifically the weapon systems themselves, what we can do is actually affect an offensive posture before they're really ready for it. Because the advantage that we have is superior naval and air technologies. So it's great, right?
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When you look at even combined spending, but what we have now, we're still absolutely dominant when it comes to our ISR assets and our ability to pre-position assets based on how they're working. So I would... I would say as far as building an architecture or infrastructure to shoot down every ICBM, it seems almost impossible at this point in current technology.
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But what doesn't seem impossible is use of advanced technology to go offensive before they have a chance to actually react. Because if we know in advance it allows us to either back channel or preposition assets, well, we're now like, okay, MFers, you guys want to start testing?
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You want to start looking, North Korea, at doing long-range tests, and you think you have a missile that flies 9,500 nautical miles or so? If you're going to do that, we can see it.
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Love this. Love this. And, you know, today, before we get into the incredible story of Golden Dome, which, you know, it sounds sort of like one of the kids books, like everybody poos, you know, it's just sort of weird.
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What does that mean? If you guys are going to do this, we're going to go ahead and we're going to go ahead and make sure that our weaponized assets are a little bit closer to you. And we're going to mobilize ourselves. And they're like, well, how do they even know? And that's the thing, that's the scary part about the United States.
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The more we know in advance on intel, specifically if they're doing any type of increased production. And by the way, we have a lot of, a lot of ints out there, a lot of intelligence disciplines that the Chinese and the Russians aren't very good at. And I'm not trying to make people feel better just by blowing smoke.
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But I can tell you, and Amy, I mean, I've done some war games or some tabletops and some exercises. And, you know, I mean, you've been to Red Flag and Ellis and all that. where us going offensive earlier or seeing them in specific modes scares the shit out of them. Like, holy shit, if they can see this, what else can they do?
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So it's sort of a, like, what other technologies do they have in their back pocket? So it's a little bit of a perception game based on how we react.
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I think if Golden Gnome was relegated to indications and warning left to boom for ICBMs, for any other type of possible prioritized targeting and terminal phase, and you can build the requirements for that, I think that's worthwhile.
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I don't think it's worthwhile to go right into building a Constellation because your other question about the boondoggle is that there's two people that are really, really going to benefit from this because I think we've lost all competitive nature in contracts, and I think that's Musk and Bezos.
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Buffalo Trace. This is now distilled at Buffalo Trace's distillery, which I know, Amy, you're a Buffalo Trace fan. So we're looking at a bottled and bond E.H. Taylor. If people go look up E.H. Taylor, incredible, the distilleries he started. The distillery that he started today is actually Castle and Key. I don't know if you know that, Amy. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Been there. Castle and Key, right?
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Um, so, and I also think, you know, the big boys, you know, you have the other competitors with the Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, sort of all the JVs, the joint ventures that are out there also building missile equipment and rocket equipment and satellite equipment for, you know, NASA and for NSA and for NRO and for our DoD services and all the other things we could go into on another, if we want to talk about satellite constellations, um,
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I forgot more about that, I think. I don't even want to remember everything that I was taught in special access programs. So the thing that scares me here, looking at what the rational portion of this would be, which is a requirements-based appropriations process for looking at strategic threats in the nuclear space and strategic space. Wow, that's a good way to put it, right?
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And we had a requirements-driven the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on Intelligence, if all of them actually had a requirements-based way of doing this with real individuals and professionals coming in and shaping this, Amy, I'd have some confidence.
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But we have incompetence and ridiculousness with people like Hegseth and Waltz and all these people who are sort of just firing from the hip. So it's interesting. that we have that going on.
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So my mind is blown because the people that are really lobbying for this are going to be the must, the Bezos, the Teals, everybody who has direct access with direct contract lines to take away any competition from anybody else based on the fact of where they're at in the hierarchy as Trump's boys. We have a really bad situation here. Big picture.
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So Castle and Key rebuilt the original distillery. By the way... Gosh, I'm trying to remember the distillery's name. Two of the distilleries that E.H. Taylor started are now the baseline for Buffalo Trace Distilleries. So incredible history. E.H. Taylor is just an amazing person. And how does it taste? Well, we're going to do it now. I'm going to pop the cork.
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Well, I mean, for me, I had to name a lot of stuff when I was in the military and when I was a program manager in the Pentagon and United Air Force, United States Air Force Special Projects. Like for one, one of the major programs I named DAISY, Digital Attack Surface Execution Environment, right? The other one was the Network Modeling and Exploitation System, NEMESIS. Right.
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Golden Dome is such an awful name. I see if it was me in a naming convention, it would be something like the ICBM. Let's see the ICBM Constellation Execution Space System, ISIS. Right. Or something like that where you have a real acronym to go with the name that's not specifically linked to the word gold because Donald Trump loves a gold toilet seat. Right. And things like that.
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Or, you know, he likes the gilded stuff all around his frickin house. Right. It's just ludicrous. So I think you're naming conventions matter and the seriousness of it matters. And I think, Amy, your point is so well taken. Are we going to bankrupt our nation for something called Golden Dome? And what is that going to do to our deficit and debt?
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What's that going to do to our appropriations process? You know what's so amazing, Amy? Me and you have already gone all over this in our prior shows, and people need to watch it. And that's the thing that you're saying, I think, Amy, that I agree with wholeheartedly. There's an unseriousness that could actually destroy the real foundations of what we call the United States of America.
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And here's my hope. Talked about Russia and China responding. They could see this as a boondoggle. I wonder if they're like, let's let them spin into oblivion. You know, we'll just improve our ICBMs. Right. We'll just make more of them. We'll expand our blue water navies. Right. We're going to make them even better. We're going to make sure our subs are better. Yeah.
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We're going to make sure our triad capabilities are on par. Holy shit. Now it's but on the other hand. We have to continue to increase our capability too. And I think that's the thing I always go back to is, what is the prioritization of our military capabilities when it comes to seeing the threat systems that are coming at us?
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So I always get caught up, Amy, based on my background, your background, and what I've done. I have really seen the benefit of advanced technology development over the 25 years I've done it and having my own companies and even having an AI company today and what it can do. But it's a very limited target based on very defined requirements.
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If we're just blowing money to make sure that people get money and become richer and stronger while the rest of America suffers, I think that's the worst thing we can do. So I think why I love doing this show with you is what we're telling people right now. You have to have serious people in charge to have serious things happen. We don't have that right now. And if I had to make a huge...
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I don't know if you could hear that, but I'm going to do a little, Ooh, a nice little pour. So here we go. So let's see, you know, let me get the nose real quick, but okay. I have a Glencairn class today for the nose. I haven't had my small batch in a while. This is special for you, Amy, as always. Oh, you know what the nose is? You know, I have an awful palate.
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The overarching summary for me, Denver personally, my opinion, there are certain sections of indications and warning and looking at how they're going to come at us helps with our technology development. But the entirety of Golden Dome and building 1,000 to 2,000 systems that are space-borne with a terrestrial environment, you know, compatibility.
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I don't know if that's actually anything that could work. It's a boondoggle.
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And so I appreciate all y'all. Cheers. Cheers. And thanks for another Truth in the Barrel, ma'am. All right.
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Like my wife's, like I like it or don't, right? But, you know, my wife could tell you, but it's almost like a little cherry. Okay. Like with mint. Okay, cherry mint. But then you have this sweetness, but you have this little sweetness underneath. It's almost, to me, it's almost more peanut buttery than butterscotch. Okay. So anyhow, that's what, and I love anything at Bottled and Bond. So cheers.
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Here's to you, Amy McGrath. Mm-hmm. All right. Oh, my God. It's easier than a Monday morning. Man, this is nice. This is really nice.
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Well, if you're looking at missile defense systems, there's pretty cool stuff, right? And, you know, my training and Amy, you know, me and you've talked about this, you know, based on your background being in the jet, my background mission planning for the jet.
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So when you're looking at a missile defense system, you're looking at something that's almost an integrated air defense system that goes all the way from early warning to executing against a target. So that means seeing something coming as soon as it's actually launched to shooting it down with a variety of methodologies or a variety of warheads or weaponry.
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Even when you're talking missile defense, you have different types of missile defense, which is interesting because we've talked nuclear in one of our shows and we talked about ICBMs. But missile defense could be anything from ICBMs to rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel, right? Or even different kinds of specific types of surface-to-air missile systems, even MAN pads, MAN portables, right?
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from your little shoulder here, all the way to very advanced mobile SAM systems like the Russian SA-15s, right, or even up to very advanced systems like strategic surface-to-air missile systems like the S-400, right, that can actually reach out and touch aircraft from a long way away, which you can put our intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets in harm's way.
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That's exactly right. And I think when you look at Iron Dome as a tactical system, I think people need to know, first of all, I've got to feel and touch it in Israel, right? And the fact that... You know, I was trained, you know, you think about intelligence training and then go into mission planning, right?
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Like, for instance, if you were going into harm's way, Amy, what would I need to tell you, right? When you're looking at your initial points, when you're looking at your altitudes, what's your threats, right? Yeah, what are the threats? What are the threats? Because you want to know.
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You're like, Dan, I don't know if I want to go in at 8,000 AGL, if there's an SA-8 on the ground, right? That's 8,000 feet up. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Yes. So, right. You'd be like, Dan, I don't know. Do I want to go right over that? Sam, what other assets do I have? CJ's there with me. Do I have, you know, do I got prowlers or turkeys pods? What do I got looking at?
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Are we going to target that before I actually fly over it? Don't send me over, you know, an actual envelope where I'm going to get shot down. Right. Amy, you'd be like, I hate you as an intelligence officer. If I do that, that's stupid. Right. When you look at an iron dome as a tactical system, it can fire between 60 or 80 missiles per battery.
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So, right, so say, you know, say you got 10 batteries that are active at a time, that's 800 missiles, right, that are shooting down the lobbying that's coming from either Gaza or Lebanon. I'm talking Israel specifically. That's really different, really different from protecting the United States. And you made me laugh. I don't think Canada or Mexico are going to be shooting tactical rockets.
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That's right. That's right. You know, it's like John Candy and Canadian bacon. You know, we're actually going to go to war with Canada. But Golden Dome, when they put it out there, was almost this, well, we're going to shoot down every threat from everywhere, almost in an ICBM scenario, right? Or missiles that are coming into America. Iron Dome is not the exact corollary.
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Maybe that's why they use Golden Dome. But it's really not it, right? We're actually sort of expanding or improving. If I had to build the requirements, we're expanding or improving our strategic missile defense, which is very different from tactical and operational. Right.
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It's really tough. And, you know, of course, spaceborne lasers, obviously, there's sort of an umbrella of defense, right? We do have a system that, you know, has a certain number of missiles in the dozens to shoot down ICBMs. I can't go into it much, you know. Amy, me and you have talked about this, right? I've always been absolutely impressed by what you've done.
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My background has been very diverse in even space-based weapon systems. You know, I've worked the NSA, NRO, combined the joint angle. for specific programs in this area. You know, I've been to Cheyenne Mountain. I've been to Peterson. I've worked in Cheyenne Mountain, I mean, and in Peterson Air Force Base.
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You know, Fort Belvoir, been all around there, but really worked a lot at Buckley ADF, right? Aerospace Defense Facility, which is now, I think they changed its National Guard base, but it's still, it's an NRO, NSA joint area that I can't talk too much about. But that's where I cut my teeth, right?
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Um, and I think when we're talking about this golden dome thing, and it's interesting, I think they might've named the golden dome cause they had a trademark issue with iron dome in Israel. Um, I think what you're looking at is a- Yeah, because Trump loves gold, right? Well, not only that, but it's weird.
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I think based on the rumors of him and golden things happening in Russia, like golden showers and stuff, maybe Golden Dome isn't the appropriate name for this, but you talked about how big this would have to be, trillions, right? Do you know that they're already running lines for funding through the appropriations process for Golden Dome now? Think about that.
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without really a defined way of going about it. What's the first requirement? And it was like, Denver, it's a boondoggle. And Amy, why don't you define boondoggle for people? I think this is, I loved it when you said it. Yeah. Would you define boondoggle?
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I mean, we're pretty brave. We've been on True Social, on X, we're on Blue Sky, just everywhere that you can find Truth in a Barrel, look us up. And then you get to hear things like Golden Dome and also Whiskey Tastings. And today, Amy, I have E.H. Taylor's Small Batch bottled in Bond, which is very interesting because Now, people are like, what is bottled and bond? And so E.H.
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I don't know. It's a weird thing because I don't know if that's exactly correct. Depending on what we can do left of boom, that might change everything. So what's left of boom? So left of boom is all the mission plane that goes in before the actual missile is launched, which is called you have intelligence preparation of the battlefield or intelligence preparation of the battle space.
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Ja, die Partei hat das wirklich nicht getan. Was unglaublich ist an der Finanzierung ist, dass ich mit 0 Dollar angefangen habe, als ich die Konvention gewonnen habe. Und mein Gegner war bereits, glaube ich, bei 3 Millionen, wenn das passiert ist. Und übrigens, ich habe gegen Olivia Wildes' Mutter gespielt. Weißt du, was ich meine? Also Leslie Coburn. Also es war nicht das beste Gefühl der Welt.
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Und ich weiß, wir werden zu Bigfoot, Erotica, den Nazis und Tullow, dem Antichrist, kommen. Aber was verrückt ist, ich musste zuerst beweisen, dass ich sogar finanzieren kann, um die Aufmerksamkeit des Nationalen Partei oder des Nationalen Republikanischen Kongresskommitees zu bekommen, der damals von Kevin McCarthy geführt wurde, wie Sie wissen.
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Nun, die NRCC wurde geführt von bestimmten Leuten, die tatsächlich die NRCC führen, aber McCarthy war der Parteileiter. So I had to impress McCarthy, right? That's what you have to do. And she had to say, okay, I can fundraise and do all that. But my fundraising, most of my fundraising came from special interest groups, right?
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You have the general people who actually fundraise, but you have other people that come in, these massive groups that are for you, like the Freedom Fund. Now, the Freedom Fund was actually backed by the Freedom Caucus, but they didn't give quite as much as the NRCC Fund. Now, this is after I did all my fundraising. I would say...
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Die Nationale Partei hat für mich wahrscheinlich 20-30% meines Rennens finanziert. Der Rest war ich. Aber was sie gemacht haben, war, dass sie mich manchmal in anderen Gruppen vorstellen, die helfen würden, zu finanzieren. Aber was es wirklich dazu kam, war, für Dollar zu zahlen.
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Aber ich habe nationalen Presseverläufe veröffentlicht, um Aufmerksamkeit zu bekommen, weil ich so weit hinter der Kurve war, Amy. Ich war so weit hinter der Kurve. Dieser Neue, den niemand wusste. Ja. This, you know, chubby white cat out of the hills of Appalachia, you know, rolling in heavy, you know, full guns a blazing, you know, me trying to rock and roll to get as much money as I can.
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I mean, that's really what it came down to. And then, you know, of course, I've never been a stranger, as you know, Amy, right? So I was sort of a natural with calling people and talking to people. So eventually I raised a couple million bucks in four months. And that's really what got me over the hump. I think in my last month I raised 1.1 million dollars.
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To make sure that I could at least match, you know, something that's going on. And, you know, Amy, you raised massive money. Right. I mean, you had to raise money on levels that even I look at. And I'm like, holy cow. Right. On your Senate race. And I'm like, how did you do that?
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But, you know, 5th District of Virginia, this race got a lot of press because, you know, of the things that happened to me, which I know we're going to get into because the questions that we're going to ask back and forth.
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No, you never want to miss what we're doing, Amy, because we're such badasses and I cannot wait again for this show. This is going to be fun.
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Ich glaube, was die Leute wissen müssen, ist, dass du Andy Barr von vier Punkten verloren hast.
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Die Leute müssen wissen, dass das bedeutet, dass Amy von sieben zu acht auf der PBI-Skala überbeformt wurde. Ich lasse die Leute einfach wissen, dass das eine Überbeformung ist, richtig? Also für mich, während einer blauen Wende, habe ich an der PBI überbeformt. Ich war einer der einzigen Kandidaten, die an der PBI überbeformt wurde, was bedeutet, dass ich von etwa sieben Punkten gewonnen habe.
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But I think people need to understand with the fundraise, you know, Amy is able to, you were able to go out and really swing the baseball bat. But here's what happens when you have the National Party come in for an incumbent like they came in for Andy Barr, is that if you have that kind of money that flows in, you're completely at the whim of the party leader, then you have to do what they say.
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So money also, there's this really evil, flippy thing that happens. Amy forced the NRCC to drop money out of parties and to come in for Andy. Now Andy is now literally part of the party system. He has to be under McCarthy. Because McCarthy has to go to the CLF Das ist das, was mit McConnell passiert, wenn man wahrscheinlich 100 Millionen Dollar erhöht hat.
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Das ist das, was ich dem Publikum wissen möchte. What Amy did was she forced the NRCC to intervene, but she also highlights or she forced Andy, right, to toe the line and become absolutely part of the system up on the hill where he has to vote the way he has to vote, because they own him. So there's all that that's happening simultaneously. So it's incredible that you overperformed.
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It also made you a national figure. And I think at this point, the fact that you've overperformed, you've gone against the people like that, people need to understand, you're now a national figure that could probably run for a larger office in the future. Listen, it's amazing what you did. And I think that's what, again, I just, as we're talking about what it's like to run, yeah, Amy McGrath lost
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Yeah, and here's another thing that people ought to know, Denver.
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Nun, hör mal. Manchmal, und ich versuche hier leise zu sein, bin ich ein bisschen ein Arschloch, richtig? Also, als ich eigentlich fuhr, erinnere ich mich, ich habe meine Frau angerufen. Und das ist aufgrund eines Unfalls, übrigens. Ich meine, es ist, weil ich sozusagen ADD bin, wie du weißt, manchmal mit dieser Sache.
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But when I ran, my wife and I, I just got asked, I was in the distillery, and I said, hey, I got a meeting tonight. They asked me to run. They were at the distillery asking me, and I was going to go to a dinner. She goes, well, honey, make sure you call me. Let's have a family discussion before you announce. And I'm like, absolutely. Well, I was only halfway paying attention, Amy, you know.
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So when we actually got to the point where... I bet the debtor, the consultant goes, hey, let's announce right now on Facebook that you're running. I'm like, yeah, sure. So my wife found out I was running for Congress on Facebook.
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It was awful. I don't even have the words. Like, even my kids were like, Dad, why are you such a jerk? You suck, you know? And so, I mean, that's really what happened. So when I got home, my wife was sort of waiting at the door, you know, like the old movies where you come in after a late night drunk and, you know, your friends are carrying you to the door. Well, she had that look.
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Even though I wasn't drunk and they weren't carrying me to the door, the look was like... I should kill you right now with a knife to the throat. But as the run happened, it was actually brutal for my family. I don't have the words. Als ich nach den Todesstürzen mit QAnon und den Verschwörungstheorien ausgewählt wurde, war das ziemlich schlecht.
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Aber was ich verurteilt wurde, die Lüge, das Verrückte, die Menge von Geld, die gegen mich geschlagen wurde, um mich persönlich zu zerstören, hat meine Familie sehr beeinflusst, auch in den Ärzten, alles. Dein Vater ist derjenige. So pretty crazy, even to the point there were really awful pictures of me put out publicly in my district. It was pretty brutal.
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Yeah, you're still here. And, you know, I remember, Amy, it was 11 p.m. And my phone rings. I had just released, I was on top of the world, right? Our polling had come out. They're like, Denver, we cannot believe it. Your name recognition has more than quintupled. Your positives outweigh your negatives. You know, I'm like, that's right.
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I just got done writing an actual op-ed about white supremacy based on what happened in Charlottesville, remember, in August with Unite the Right rally. So I'm like, I'm unbeatable. Well, 11 p.m. that night, I get a call from my consultant. He goes, Denver, do not turn on the TV. Do not look at Twitter.
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My life was ruined, or they tried to ruin my life with one tweet, which actually was another warning I had for my oldest daughter. When I was about to run, Amy, I just won that stupid convention by one vote. She said, hey, Dad, on your Instagram for your birthday, a lot of people sent you stuff with Bigfoot stuff.
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Obviously, I wouldn't write, you know, with your head on a Bigfoot body and the penis blacked out. You should take that down. And I'm like, honey, everybody knows that stuff's a joke. You can see that it was sent to me, right? And I put it on Instagram because it was my military buddies. Nobody's going to care. I mean, how ridiculous. What do you know about politics, oldest daughter? Oh, come on.
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It's ridiculous, right? Let me guess, you didn't take it down. I didn't take it down. So I guess the defense, you know, the Democrats, APO Research found it. And all of a sudden there was a tweet saying that I was a Bigfoot erotica devotee and Nazi. Now, let me tell you, When I got that call, I said, well, that's ridiculous. First of all, a Nazi? What are they even talking about?
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And a Bigfoot erotica? This is crazy. Nobody's going to believe it. By that time, I didn't know it was trending number one worldwide on Twitter. And the reason why is because Olivia Wilde, Leslie Cockburn's daughter, Coburn's daughter, had actually retweeted it. And so then all of a sudden... I was the most pilloried Bigfoot eroticist, made up completely.
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I wrote a book called Bigfoot It's Complicated about disinformation and belief systems that ruin people's lives. People know it if they read the book, but nobody cared. What they cared about was this story. And so I had 40 interviews, four zero over three days, the first one in New York Times.
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But you know, there was part of me that was so angry, so enraged, so embarrassed, but also it was a little bit funny. Das war ein bisschen lustig. Also, in meiner ersten Interview mit den New York Times, Amy, haben sie mich direkt gefragt, sie haben gesagt, Herr Riggleman, sind Sie tatsächlich ein Bigfoot-Erotiker, ein Devotee? Sind Sie in der Bigfoot-Pornografie?
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Und ich habe gesagt, na gut, ich würde diese Frage beantworten, aber ich möchte keine meiner Bigfoot-Voteure verletzen. So there was this silence on the end and then they just started laughing. They're like, wait a minute, you're not taking this seriously. Well, I should have. Because I was pilloried on Saturday Night Live. Cobert, Fallon, Kimmel zerstörten mich.
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Cobert machte eigentlich Spaß auf meinen Namen, aber er machte auch Spaß darauf, wie ich geträumt wurde. Ich meine, wenn ich heute mit Stephen Cobert zusammengehen könnte, würde ich literally seinen Arsch zerstören. Also, ich bin immer noch da, richtig? Aber es gibt noch eine andere Seite von mir, die es nutzen konnte. Weil es zeigte, wer ich als Mensch war.
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Und ich würde immer noch die Kampagne runtern. Und ich könnte immer noch über sie lachen. Und das ist das, was ich gewonnen habe. Aber weißt du, was mich wirklich über den Humpf gebracht hat, Amy? Bist du bereit für das? The Democrats turned against their own candidate for what she did to me. And you would think it's because she lied. You would think it's because she made it up.
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She was an awful human being. We can go all down the line, but you know why they really came to my defense? Because they thought she was kink-shaming me. I can't even... Es ist sehr ludisch, ludisch, richtig? Also das ist, was passiert. Und das ist die Nudelheit. Du sagst, dass man gedrückt wird. Aber dann habe ich angefangen.
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Dann ist es so, dass du diesen Downstream-Effekt bekommst, wo Leute sagen, dass du ein Pädophil bist, weil du in der Bigfoot-Pornografie bist. Never was, right? Or I get death threats, right? And things like that, that I must be some kind of pervert, right? And it was... That's the thing, right? People don't understand that it's a human being on the other end of that.
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But also people don't understand the power of the disinformation complex or the power of how people portray you based on money or that most political consultants are pieces of shit. That is what it's like out there.
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I think, Amy, if I may, I think it's your DNA. You know, I think military service imprints DNA. I think we're born with certain DNA, but in this one, I think it's DNA that's grown out of duty, service, an integrity that other people, I don't think, have. Listen, narcissists and sociopaths run for political office. We've seen it. You know, people who don't care, right?
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But I think, you know, even now... At our young ages, I think that we are ready maybe to run again, not because we want to. I'd almost rather set myself on fire than run again. But I definitely think that it's in your DNA. I don't think you're done.
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You know, the way that you present, and I know you're like, gosh, and I don't think people realize we're doing this right now, doing these questions in real time. Yeah, it's going to be on the Devil's Cut episode, but Amy and I are talking right now real, and the real thing is this. People like Amy McGrath should run for office and be of service. I should probably run again and be of service.
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I don't know if I should be like John Wick, be of service, but I feel like that in politics sometimes. But I think right now, you know, with where you're at, I think you have a cultivated DNA of integrity and goodness that comes through when you talk to people. And I think that's important. But I think it's very difficult for good people to run because of what happens.
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And I know I was sort of being glib about consultants, but the people that attacked you, they don't care. The people that attacked me, they don't care. What they care about is winning. We have this awful bipolar world. We have this two sides, this tribal sides that only care about winning, regardless of what they do to others. And that's an issue.
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And I think, you know, if I go back in time, George Washington was right about the party system. I think... Ich denke, wir sind gerade in diesem Raum, wo du dich nie um dein Shirt interessiert hast, Amy. Du hast dich um das Recht interessiert. Und das sind die Leute, die laufen müssen. Und verdammt, es tut mir leid, dass ich fühle, dass ich wieder durchgehen muss. Dass ich wieder laufen werde.
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Und Amy, ich weiß, du hattest eine völlig positive Kampagne gegen Andy Barr, ist das richtig? Ich weiß nicht, ob du negativ gegen McConnell warst. Ich habe meine Lektion nach der ersten Kampagne gelernt. Ich möchte, dass ihr euch über das denkt, was Amy gerade gesagt hat. Also hier ist, was ich gemacht habe. Ich werde von Bigfoot Erotica verurteilt.
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Als ich die Kampagne begann, sagte ich meinen Jungs, ich will versuchen, so positiv wie möglich zu sein. Sie sagten, es wird passieren, wo man nicht sein kann. Ich sagte, nein. Ich bin so viel besser als alle anderen, charismatisch, gutaussehbar, natürlich, wie jeder sehen kann. Also, ich kann damit wegkommen, richtig? Nein.
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Als das mir passiert ist, die Nacht der Bigfoot-Erotica-Twitter-Fiasco und all das, habe ich meine Konsultanten angerufen. Ich glaube, wir haben um zwei Uhr gesprochen. Und weißt du, was ich ihm, Amy, gesagt habe? Geh auf die Erde. Was sie gesagt hat, twiste sie. Was wir tun müssen, schmutz sie. Und wir haben es gemacht.
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Gosh, Amy, I mean, you just said a lot there, right? I mean, I think people need to listen to what you said about you being a change agent, you know, what you wanted to be, what you thought, you know, politics should be, what you thought service should be. For me, it boiled down to one word, rage. You know, I was never involved with politics.
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Und ich denke, wenn ich zurückblicke, bin ich das, was ich verraten habe, um zu gewinnen. Und ich denke, ich vergesse es. Ich meine, ich war so enttäuscht. Ich bin wie, du weißt, jeder sagt, oh, es ist nur Politik. Du musst dünn sein. Ja. Aber du musst auch zurückgreifen. Und dann denkst du, was bin ich als Mensch, wenn ich das mache, was ich mache? Nun, ja, sie schreiten zuerst. Hell ja.
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Wenn ich in einer Bar kämpfe und du kommst, um den Bottle zu wehren. Richtig. Du kommst, um den Bottle zu wehren. Ich komme, um dich als Schuh zu wehren. I mean, that's just the way I'm wired. And so that's the thing I think that scares me.
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So, I mean, you would think from the time you ran for the House to the Senate, and people need to understand how big a difference that is. A House district might be 750,000 max. Statewide is a whole different ball of wax, Amy. We both did it. You did it at a much longer and protracted and incredible pace than I did.
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But I think what people are hearing too, Amy, and I'd love your take on this, is that Deine Evolution, wenn du eine staatliche Rasse anschaust, musst du deine Taktiken ändern, basierend auf dem, wem du anrufen musst. Aber es ist interessant, dass du gelernt hast, dass du das Bad mit Barbedecker ein bisschen aufhören musste, oder?
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And when I saw some of the things happening to my wife and I back as early as 2014, when we were opening our distilleries with some of the regulatory issues, I'd already had this sort of long line of real disappointments when I was supporting the DOD as a CEO. But also when I was a contractor, some of the things I thought were really wrong sort of structurally with our government.
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Hell, you inspired me, Amy, even beyond the fact that I feel no inspiration for running at all. I think it's brutal. I think it's meant for people that sometimes aren't doing it for the right reasons. But I want to flip it a bit. The inspirational part... is when you actually get to the other side. When you said courage, Amy, what people need to understand is courage is not having any fear, right?
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Courage is working through fear. But it's also working through a brutality of awfulness that you're going to do if you run for office. But there's only three words I want to tell you right now. Everybody listening to this is what Amy McGrath did and what I did. Und diese Worte, denke ich, überwinden die Inspiration zum Rennen, die Ehre des Dienstes.
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Ich denke, es überwindet alles, was man sagen kann, was es ist, wenn man eine Kampagne läuft, oder was es ist, wenn man in einer Kampagne läuft. Und es sind diese drei Worte. Versteckte den Schmuck. Because it's going to suck. It's going to be awful. People are going to hate you. But if you can't embrace the suck, don't run.
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But if you can and you care about this country, get your ass out there, drag an axe and do what needs to be done to win. Or to do the best you can against a candidate you don't like. Yeah, there's a two-party system. Have integrity in the way that you run.
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But know that it's going to be a knockdown, drag out, swing the bat, blood off your forehead, nights where you're laying awake, looking at the ceiling, wondering if you're doing the right thing. All the doubts, all the evil fears are coming. But guess what? Your job as an American is to participate. Und du musst es tun. Also verabschiede dich. Geh da raus.
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So it was sort of an evolution. I mean, never thinking politics would be the answer, Amy. Honestly, I ran for governor for 10 weeks in 2016. And, you know, I was to politics like a pig looking at a wristwatch, right? I didn't even know what was happening.
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Hör auf, was Amy McGrath gesagt hat, was es ist, zu servieren. Hör auf, was es ist, zu servieren. Hör auf, was es ist, zu servieren. Hör auf, was es ist, zu servieren. Hör auf, was es ist, zu servieren.
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Let's get going. You know what? And like Amy McGrath says, if you're not going to step up, step out. Remember, if you want to listen to great content and inspirational words like this, you need to subscribe to our YouTube and download all the podcast channels you listen to us on and follow us on all the social media.
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The only people you should be following are Amy McGrath and myself and Truth in the Barrel on social media. So thank you, Amy. Thank you for everything you've done. This was awesome. I love these conversations. You're the best. And everybody needs to tune into Truth in the Barrel every damn time we're on. We're out.
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And you would think with me being an intelligence guy, I would have done preparation to battle space and sort of did my research on what I could expect. But instead, Amy, I just got very angry at how people were being treated.
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Ja, da war es tatsächlich. Und ich weiß, es ist ein bisschen eine kontextuell seltsame Geschichte. Aber, du weißt, als ich unsere 50 Äcker auf dem Rockfish-River gekauft habe, war es ein bisschen der Traum. Du weißt, Christine und ich haben wirklich hart gespielt. Ich habe endlich eine Firma verkauft. Du weißt, wir haben von dem Essen an McDonalds gegründet.
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Jetzt können wir an Outback Steakhouse essen, du weißt. Also, du weißt, wir haben 50 Äcker auf dem River gekauft und wir wollten eine Distillerie für sie starten, weil das ist, was sie machen wollte. And I remember, I didn't know at the time that Dominion Power was trying to run a pipeline and taking property through eminent domain and through all these properties.
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I'd already been in a fight with the alcoholic beverage control in Virginia and all that. And all of a sudden, one day, people just show up on our property and they walk on our property and start surveying. And I walk out there and said, who the hell are you guys? Well, we're Dominion Power and we have a right to be on your property. And at that point...
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Amy, direkt nach diesem riesigen Argument mit ihnen, nach allem, was ich durchgegangen habe, mit dem Versuch, die Firma zu starten, meine zehn Jahre in der DOD, meinem Weisens Traum, und ihnen zu sagen, dass sie direkt durchgehen werden, wo wir unsere Barrelhäuser und unsere Distillerie einbauen werden, dass sie eine Pipeline einbauen werden, eine riesige Pipeline.
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Es war dann, als ich genug hatte, und ich erinnere mich, dass es ein Tripwire war, zu mir zu sagen, all die Leute, die sagten, Denver, vielleicht solltest du an einem Punkt servieren. Da dachte ich mir, vielleicht ist es an der Zeit. Also habe ich mich wirklich in einer Bar-Fight befasst, Amy. Das ist wirklich so, wie ich angefangen habe.
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When was the time? When was the time for you?
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Schön, dich zu sehen, wieder von wunderschönen und unglaublichen Orten weltweit.
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Wow, I mean, there's still some anger though, right? When you're talking about Trump as a leader, I mean, you still had a, it seems to me, you still had a bit of anger. You know, it was a bit of, it can't be this way.
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I'm glad to be here. And I don't know, Amy, you know, this is going to be the most, I think it's going to be an incredible show. I've been looking forward to this. I know if people want to listen to us, though, they better be subscribing to us. And, you know, better be downloading the podcast, subscribing to YouTube and following us on channels, because this show is going to be fire. Yeah.
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You know, it's an incredible story, right? The evolution. Because I guess I should tell people, the first time I decided to run, I was in my late 40s, I only ran for 10 weeks, right? As I told you, for Governor of Virginia, like an idiot. But it wasn't until almost after a year later, I was asked to run. When people saw the only the 10 weeks, I never run for federal office, Amy.
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They came to my distillery. The person who preceded me, Tom Garrett, actually resigned because of alcoholism. Miller. to run after an alcoholic leaves office. But that one, when I decided that, I actually decided to run knowing I was going to lose because of the crazies that were running for his spot. So what's interesting is the first time was rage.
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The second time, I guess it was anger, but I thought I was trying to protect the district and maybe me, I could change the votes of a few. So maybe somebody less crazy would win. That was it. That's what I was asked to do. And I ended up winning.
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Ja, es heißt der Cook-PVI, der Politische Verteidigungsindex. Es ist ziemlich erstaunlich, es war R plus 7, aber manchmal war es R plus 5. Es flotierte in der. Aber ja, ich meine, die Sache war, es war während einer blauen Wave. Du weißt, wenn du dich an die Wahl in 2018 erinnerst, war es nicht viel, die Republikaner gewonnen haben und ich habe die PVI-Nummer gewonnen. So, which is sort of crazy.
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But yeah, I only had four days to prepare for a convention with only 37 people to choose. And it was like wired for sound for the furthest white candidates, right candidates. And that was Freudian.
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Yeah, I think partly Virginia changed the law just a couple years ago, probably based on what happened to me on two fronts. Number one, I won in a convention by one vote. And during COVID, I lost in a convention when they limited a primary because they thought I might win. And they hated a Republican that officiated a gay wedding.
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So, yeah, my primaries were both conventions and they were tooth and nail awfulness. And that's how I got through.
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Absolut. Und, du weißt, es ist wie, es ist nur die erste Partie des Rennens, richtig? Es ist herauszufinden, was für eine Art von, du weißt, Knack-down-Drag-out-Bar-Fight du bist, ob es eine geschlossene Prämie in Kentucky ist oder es ist eine Konvention in Virginia oder in Virginia, weil es komplett anders ist als Kentucky. Es gibt keine Registrierung für Demokraten und Republikaner.
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Sie sind in den Prämien gegangen. Also es ist ziemlich erstaunlich, die Unterschiede in jedem Staat, die We can have an incredible conversation later about why the election wasn't stolen in 2020. Because of the 50 different states and all the ways that they do things. So there you go, Amy. So now you know, I ran out of rage and then out of hoping to stop crazies.
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And you ran out of, I think, integrity. But also, I think, an anger about the person who was elected president. I'm going to stick with that.
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of the public debt is now of gdp is actually owned by us it's on us a hundred percent amy where do we go that's not counting intra-governmental spending that's just the public spending side so there's two parts to debt too and amy that's why i love this conversation with you is that is this sustainable Where do we go? But then how does it keep getting so high?
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And that's where I want to go next after you're talking about, is it sustainable? Because I want to talk about why it's so pathetic and ridiculous.
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Well, here's the thing. Ich glaube, das, was ich mit dem Wiederentdecken des Vergangenen von dem Bundeskanzlergerichtshof wollte sagen, das ist ein majority written document, richtig, Amy? Ja. Sie haben die Kommitee.
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Das, was ich den Leuten sage, ist, dass man muss schauen, wo man seine Zahlen bekommt, weil die Argumente werden in einer partisanen Weise kommen, so wie die GOP-Line jetzt versucht, die Spenden zu schützen. Es ist absolut wahr, dass die Infrastrukturbillen Dinge erhielten. Es ist fantastisch, richtig?
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But we also have to look at the inflationary measures, which are part of the deficit and debt additions, right? But we also have to, what people don't understand too, is that there is spending that's frivolous and there's spending that actually equals something as a long-term payoff.
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So, what we're seeing right now, though, is we're seeing a tax cuts. Listen, I hate taxes. God dang. I love tax cuts. I love them. I run companies if I went to the taxes on my company.
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Yeah, you can, yeah. Amy, I'm sure you're up there in the debaters like, Amy, what do you think? Mitch McConnell wants tax cuts. What do you want, Amy? Amy goes, well, I really want tax increases across the board to balance the budget.
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Interest on the debt. You know, it's amazing, you know, you talk, I hope people understand, mandatory spending is something that's, it's very difficult to run on that. When you see people, why people are up in arms, right?
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The Republicans were going after some of the mandatory spending lines, and this was the whole fantasy of Doge, right, on how to cut the discretionary portion of civilian agencies or DOD agencies, but also the mandatory portion of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Und das war das, was mich überrascht hat. Doge hatte nicht nur einen diskretionären oder mandatorischen Spenden-Mandat.
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Sie hatten einen Mandat, nur damit zu gehen und keine Expertise zu haben, wie das Budget funktionieren würde oder was diese Flöten oder Kaskaden-Effekte aussehen würden. Das andere, was die Leute in der Budget-Prozesse verstehen müssen, ist, dass es von der White House entsteht. And it has to go through multiple processes, right?
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The Senate and the House both have their own take on what their budget resolutions are going to be. And they actually have to come to some sort of, sometimes some sort of agreement. The Budget and the House actually do their own separate sort of budget lines. And I know people are like, what? But yeah, that's how our government works, right? In that way.
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But what's interesting... It's not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing. By April 15th, there has to be a budget vote. And by the way, the budget vote, I think, happened April 10th this year. Do you know what the vote was, Amy? 216 bis 214. Wow. Um die Budgetregeln zu ermöglichen. Das ist, wie nah es war. Ja. Das ist ziemlich interessant, richtig? Du siehst diese große Budgetlinie.
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Das, was die Leute müssen verstehen, ist, dass, wenn das Budget geht, richtig, und sie haben bereits gewählt, wird es bereits eine Beurteilung geben, richtig? Also, jetzt, dass sie zu einem Meeting zwischen dem Senate und dem Budget gekommen sind, gibt es eine Menge Regeln und jeder muss schauen, dass die, ähm, äh, die, ähm, CBA, der, ähm, Kongressional Budget Act of 1974, richtig?
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right go and look at that and you can see how reconciling works it's technical it's ridiculous that would be a whole nother deep dive with me and amy if i went through the reconciliation process because i've been there and it sucks here's what's weird here's where people go what do you know that their earmarks are back did you know this amy you know when i was on the hill as a congressional fellow earmarks were like a no-no so i'm not surprised they're back it's here's what they're called though
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Well, I'm going to pop it for the first time right here. Took off the label, right? So I'm going to pop it, the cork. Oh, that's a pop. That means it's bottled perfectly. And I'm going to pour it.
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In the Senate, it's called congressionally directed spending. Lovely. In the House, it's called community project funding.
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Okay. So let me tell you what's happening here. So you have the appropriations process. So once the budget outline is actually done, it goes to the appropriations committee. At that point, do you know who actually puts the bill on the floor? Amy knows this. I'm just asking our listeners. It is appropriations. They're the ones who actually submit the bill. Now, what is appropriations?
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Well, you have your budget outline bill, but appropriations is all 535 offices getting lobbied, getting lobbied, Für Dinge wie die Verteidigungsbillen. Weißt du, dass Leute für die Verteidigungsbillen lobbyieren?
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Die Dinge, die in deinem Distrikt passieren. Absolut, die machen sie. Aber schau, was sie lobbyieren für. Gemeinsames Projektfunding und kongressionell direktes Spenden. Und du denkst dir, dann, wenn das E-Marks sind, warum sagen sie nicht einfach E-Marks? Weißt du, warum? Die GOP hat die Namen verändert. Weil sie diejenigen sind, die gegen E-Marks rannten.
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Schau, welche Distrikte am meisten von E-Marks profitieren. Wer möchte einen guess? Sie. Hallo. Their districts. Red districts. So, now in the approach process, you have different times to submit your appropriations. So for our office, we had a date with our own way of doing it, right? So lobbyists, the descent of the lobbyists, the lobbyist locusts descend on Congress.
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And they go to every single office for their pet projects. Denver, how do they get in there? They go through your staff. That's great, but how do they get in there? Usually the staff is having dinners with people who want to actually get into your office. So the staff has pre-ordered relationships that they've had because they're professional staff and they've lived in the swamp for so long.
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They already know who you need to go to to manipulate and get the right lobbyists in front of their boss. So the staff is also lobbying you. But they're lobbying you based on sort of a loose vision. But here's what's really weird, folks. Every single office has a different time to actually input their appropriations requests in different formats.
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So why are you paying so much money to lobbyists from people and companies and everybody like that? Because they have to go into each office, wine and dine, go in with their specific format, the way that they ask for it, and their briefing schedules. This is what's happening during the approves process.
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So I guess what I'm trying to tell people is that White House, the Senate and the House, reconciliation, right? Budget voted on, says here's the limits on mandatory and discretionary. Here's the left-right boundaries. Some of those left-right boundaries can actually be bounced one way or the other. Then you go into the approves process.
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Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Yes, that's right. That's right. So, hey, so this is a, oh my God, the nose. Remember, you know, we've had this a while back, but I'm just smelling it. It's 93 proof. Just to let people know. So that's 46.5% ABV. Um,
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The approves committee or budget committee is sort of done a little bit. Approves takes over. They're very powerful.
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And all the other committees have their own lanes in the road, like Ways and Means, Financial Services Committee, Science and Technology, the HASS, heck yeah, the House Armed Services Committee, and the subcommittees that actually feed up, like the HIPC, like the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Intelligence, or you have the Senate Intelligence Committees, or the subcommittees on each specific committee.
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And there's lots of committees. Every subcommittee then has their own hearings for approves, and that actually rack and stacks.
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Man, the nose, you know, a lot of people come up with the nose like, the nose is cherry with a hint of butterscotch, a little bit of leather and spaceship metal. Unbelievable. But this really just has a nose of beauty. So here's to old Forrester Whiskey in the 1910 Whiskey Rose Series. Beautiful. Cheers.
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Yeah, I mean... You know what? Nobody has the answer.
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Her story. Amy, have you ever been on Medicaid?
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I have. So, my daughter was born with Medicaid in 1997 when I was an ROTC at University of Virginia. Think about how I got through life, you know? Yeah. Military. ROTC, GI-Bill, Medicaid. Das sind literally alle Regierungsprogramme, die regierungspflichtig sind. Das bringt mich in einen seltsamen Ort. Als Republikaner, wie sage ich das? Es ist sehr schwierig.
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Und Teil der Sache ist, ich war einer der acht und ich frage nicht, weil ich viele schlechte Vote hatte. But I was one of the eight to vote to keep pre-existing conditions. Why? You said something about senior citizens having medical care because my district had the most federally funded health centers in the whole Commonwealth of Virginia. Think about that, Amy. There's 11 districts.
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I think we had 7 of the 17. Everybody voting Republican were actually leaning on the ACA to get healthcare. And the laws codifying pre-existing conditions. Happens all the time. I hope listeners are listening to this. The thing though is, do we have an inordinate amount of mandatory spending? Yes. How do we fix it?
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So, as somebody who is burdened by about four layers of different taxes, which is absolutely debilitating, you know the taxes that hurt me the worst in the liquor business, not even the AI business. I mean, we'll have that talk another day on tech and stuff like that. In manufacturing, the worst taxes do not come from the federal government. They come from the state. State, okay. So...
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I am a hawk when it comes to cutting taxes on specific types of industries in manufacturing. Which tariffs are not, by the way. Tariffs are awful.
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But on the federal side, I don't think people realize how low the overall tax burden is federally compared to state taxes like in Virginia with property tax, receipts taxes, business personal property tax, personal property tax, profit transfer tax, state excise tax. I can keep going. That's the issue. Do payroll taxes suck on the federal side? Absolutely payroll taxes suck.
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The thing is though, we have this sort of tax regime from top to bottom that doesn't understand the interlocking effects of stacked taxation. But that is different from the issues that we have on mandatory and discretionary spending when it comes to government specifically. And I don't think politicians actually understand enough
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um diesen Unterschied zu machen, wenn sie zu ihren Angehörigen sprechen. Am föderalen Niveau ist mein Job, nicht nur zu beachten, was meine Angehörigen wollen, weil Sie für mich gewählt haben.
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Mein Job ist es, zu beachten, dass dieses Umfeld nicht nur für das Bilden von Businessen verbindlich ist, sondern auch für das Schutz derjenigen, die sich nicht schützen können, und um in irgendeiner Art und Weise für die meisten derjenigen zu helfen, die sich nicht schützen können. Es ist ein verdammter Balance, um zu wählen. Und es ist ein verdammter Balance, um zu machen.
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The thing is, there's no nuance. And I think at some point there has to be a restructuring of our mandatory programs. The thing is, I'm pretty good at this. And I am not, I don't have the big enough head.
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Oh, that is sweet. Butterscotch love right there.
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Also hier wäre die erste Sache, die ich machen würde. Es scheint fast so zu sein, dass wir Spenden reduzieren und Revenue erhöhen müssen. Wow, okay, das ist Mathematik, richtig? Also, okay, wie machen wir das? Würde es nicht etwas sein, wenn es etwas gäbe, dieses Ding, das Mathematik 2 gäbe?
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Where you get together and say, hey, what does it look like on the discretionary side and the mandatory side? Well, we have to cut percentage-wise from each side or restructure for longer-term payouts or pay-ins, like you said, with the age. And Amy, can you imagine running on, hey, we're going to increase the social security age.
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People will be like, ah, boom, boom, boom, you know, get out of here, you're done. But it has to happen now. And like you said, though, you're going to need adults in the room. You can't have, you saw what the DOD budget submission is. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, where are they going to get their revenues when they cut the IRS staff? I don't know. Right? And they're thinking, before the tariffs... And before, right, all this churn in the stock market, do you know what the projection was for revenues next year? Or this year? I think it was 5.2 trillion. I don't know if it was this year, 4.9 trillion. It's a lot.
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The thing was, the CBO put that report out in January of 2025. It was. They put it out in January of 2025. I wonder what a revised CBO...
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So, Amy, are you saying we need serious people in office to address serious problems? I mean, that's insane.
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you know things like that can be done you know what the hell with your common sense amy i swear jesus christ what are we doing here you know i here's the thing too you know as as again wrapping up an incredible show i wish you were in office amy um and and you know i would almost rather set myself on fire than run again
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But it's almost as if, when you're looking at how unserious and how irresponsible this administration is specifically today, and the fact that a center-right and center-left person can come to an agreement that cutting spending and increasing revenue have to happen with some kind of restructuring of mandatory programs for long-term outcomes based on smart decisions in a common sense way.
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And restructuring of tax revenue. And restructuring of tax revenue. Absolutely. It can be done. We're America, for God's sakes. But it has to be smart people in the room and not people who believe aliens are in the Bible. And that's where I'm at with it. And I think as we're rolling into this year, here's what I would like our listeners to do. Go look at all the projections.
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And here's what I really wanted to do. Look at the spending. from the beginning of the Obama years, even with the actual bailout in 2008, right, Amy? To today. Hell, go back further. Amy was right. You can go back and look at the percentage of deficit to debt for each president, which is absolutely mind-boggling, because it's there for listeners to look at and voters.
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Und schau, was passiert und was die Projekte für die nächsten zwei Jahre sind. Und schau dir einfach den Mund an, was wir jetzt mit einer Administration, die gesagt hat, dass sie es kontrollieren werden, an den Defizitspenden schauen. Es ist eine Lüge. But we don't have smart people in government.
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And I think as people look at the budget process, I absolutely want you to go to videos, look at how the budget process works, breaks it down, especially from the time it drops all the way to the appropriations portion of our budget timeline and the mandatory and deficit spending. Aber versuche, deine Ressourcen zu schauen und wo du deine Informationen bekommst.
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Und verstehe, dass es Leute gibt, die sich um dich kümmern, wie Amy und ich. Wir sprechen nicht über seltsame Dinge wie Donald Trump und seinen goldenen Dome. Und wir können später über all das diskretionäre Spenden sprechen. Wir haben eine ernsthafte Diskussion. Aber wir werden darüber sprechen in der Zukunft.
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So all that, because I'd love to talk Golden Dome approach. Next week, in fact. Next week, let's go, because I'm ready. As you know, I got a picture of me and my wife here with the Iron Dome in Israel, which we can put up if Doug would love to do that. So anyway, for us, Amy, I'm going to leave you the last words, and then we can roll and rock instead of rock and roll.
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We don't want to turn fantasy into fact, do we? We don't want to be literally eating cats when nobody can afford anything anymore. And with that, I want to thank all of you for being here with Truth in a Barrel with me and Amy McGrath, the wonderful Amy McGrath. Remember too, if you're not downloading us on your favorite pod, you're a bit of a loser.
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And you better go subscribe on YouTube because we look so good on camera and spend a lot of money on these studios. Thank you, Amy McGrath. Cheers. Cheers to everyone.
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Excellent. I'm ready, as you know. Right. You know what's going to be interesting about this, Amy? Your vast knowledge of the budget. It's going to be interesting with your knowledge of the budget and what I know now after being in Congress and going through the budget and the approach process.
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This should be a fascinating conversation because I think you can give strokes where people are going to really understand it. And if I may, I want to scare the hell out of people if you let me do that during the show, Amy, just on really how it works.
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We do. I have a shocking number here. And I know that as people are listening to us, Amy, they better be listening to us on our podcasts. And on our YouTube, right? You know, as we're going forward on this, because I want to remind people, while Amy is talking these incredible numbers, you better be going on our podcast or our YouTube channel and downloading our socials.
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And you better be knowing this. We're on true social too, because we're that brave. Anyway, it's not brave to be on social media, but people think so. I think true socialists. But it's funny, you talk about the deficit. You know, I was reading a bipartisan report today. Und ich weiß, dass Leute sagen, oh mein Gott, Denver Reads. Ich mache das, Amy, ich mache das.
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Okay, als ich gesagt habe, dass ich Leute erschrecken werde, lass mich die Leute wirklich schnell erschrecken. Der initiale, nonpartisanen Blick, was sie dachten, dass der Defizit gleich da sein wird, Amy war fast direkt dran. Das ist das Wahnsinnige. Hörer, etwa 1,9 Trillionen. Also es geht auf. Also es geht auf. But what's amazing is that they are not counting.
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They had, when the budget resolution, and I don't know if we want to go over the whole hierarchy of this beforehand, but when they submitted the budget, you know, and the budget is actually generated from the White House, and then it goes to, it's actually a budget process that starts with that actually specific asks based on mandatory funding and discretionary funding and all that.
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But what Amy was talking about is that what's the Gazintas and the Gazaltas, right? And for a long time, our Gazintas ain't matching our Gazaltas. So right now though, with the new rules from budget, which is pretty interesting, they didn't count the tax cut, Amy. So based on maneuvering through the rules, do you know what the real deficit could be this year? Do you want to take a guess?
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I would say over 2 trillion. 5.7 trillion. Oh my God, that's insane. So it's going to be, based on accounting or magic numbers, it's going to be between probably 1.9 and 5.7 trillion.
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I wasn't there when that happened, Amy.
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Ja, wenn, du weißt, ich habe die Zahlen geschaut. Offensichtlich hat Biden mit dem Infrastrukturgesetz und so etwas, da gab es Kostenspenden, richtig? Wir haben definitiv den Kostenspenden und den Kostenspenden erhöht. In einer Rente, die etwas niedriger war als in den Trump-Jahren, wo ich weiß, dass Leute sagen würden, was meinst du?
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Ein Demokrat hatte einen niedrigeren Defizit und eine erhöhte Spende als die Republikaner. Das ist so die Art und Weise, wie es geht. Und es ist so lustig, dass die Republikaner darüber sprechen. Ich war da, ich habe es gesagt. Wir sind diejenigen, die sich um Taxen kümmern und um das Spenden, um den Budget zu balancieren.
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Aber wenn man sich die Zahlen dieses Jahr aus den nonpartisanen Berichten anschaut, ist es ziemlich interessant. Also, du weißt, ich habe einige der Budgetberichte von der CBO geschaut. Und sie haben viel von ihrem Ding im Januar 2025 gemacht, wo sie einen etwas niedrigeren Defizit vorgesehen haben.
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Ich glaube, es war etwa 1,3 Trillionen, Amy, bevor all das Riggumaroll und verrückt war mit der Terrorstuffe und den schrecklichen Policien. Aber hier ist das Problem. Und das ist das Problem, das wir jetzt haben. Also, hier ist, was passieren wird. Ich werde es dir sagen. I think we're going to have one of the single biggest deficit spending years this year and maybe even into next year.
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Whiskey. Truth always comes out of the barrel. Right, Amy? So again, I know it's been back-to-back days and a whole week for me of being sick. So as we go through all this, I apologize to Amy and to our listeners for my husky voice. So, 1910. Love it. From 1910. Pretty sweet, huh? Look at this. Beautiful.
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I'm going to make a guess. And Amy, I know you're going to be like, Denver, you've got to be shitting me. I'm going to think we're going to hit the 3 to 3.5 trillion mark in deficit spending this year. That's what I'm thinking. Now, it's going to depend on math. The Republicans are going to say... dass sie nicht verkaufen.
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Sie werden das Spenden rationalisieren, um zu sagen, dass Biden schlechter war, weil sie nie für Biden-Inflation verkauft haben, was sie es nennen. Das sind irgendwelche arbitrarischen Zahlen, wo sie versuchen, das Spendenjahr von Trump zu dem Spendenjahr von Biden zu rationalisieren. Also, hier ist, was passieren wird.
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Sie werden Republikaner sagen, dass das Spenden-Defizit ungefähr gleich ist wie von Biden. Sie denken, das sei ein Wettbewerb, Amy. Ich will es nur noch einmal sagen. Sie werden sagen, dass es ungefähr gleich ist wie von Biden. I'm going to guess the CBO and nonpartisan groups are going to say it's higher than Biden by 30 to 40 percent.
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I'm going to say the far left partisan reports are going to say it's higher from 60 to 70 percent. That's the first thing the American people are going to have to actually get their arms around. What we're really seeing, though, is this sort of irresponsible way of looking at the ledger. Amy, you just put it so perfectly right. It's the deficit every year.
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is how much more or less we spend based on revenues. And now there's other things there too. And by the way, what's really interesting right now with the debt, and I just want to make sure everybody knows this, Amy, and we can go into how the budget process works. Right now, 100% us, taxpayers, own 100%
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zehn Jahren gehabt, schön, richtig, du kannst immer noch das Liquid da drin sehen, richtig, das ist eine sehr besondere Flasche, du weißt, ich bringe die guten Sachen für dich, Amy, ähm, das ist ein einziger Barrel Willett, richtig, das war ein 13-jähriger Bourbon, Das war Barrelproof, 125,6.
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probably some old guy in the north of greenland in a hut and he found some of this material and he's like you know what's weird i never have to pay for electricity my hut is always lit yeah a little radioactivity i know we laugh but they weren't super happy about that and the last thing i'll tell you because you were talking about c-141s earlier um do you know the first
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aircraft that i jumped out of when i did airborne training was a c-141 please isn't that cool 141 that is so cool 141 i don't even think they're flying those things anymore no i remember i was at pope air force base no hope pope right uh you know adjacent to fort bragg right um fort liberty come fort bragg well fort bragg come fort liberty and then fort bragg again now fort other different bragg yeah right okay
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Ich erinnere mich, ich war bei der NSC 141 und ich war der Avionics-Mann, der mit den Armeecats auf den 141-Bereich kam. Und ich sitze da, weißt du, bei der Brems-Area. Einer der Armeecats sagt, schau dir an, Mann, die Air Force kann sich zurückhalten, während wir das echte Arbeit machen. Ich erinnere mich, ich weiß nicht, warum ihr Idioten aus einem perfekten Flugzeug fliegen würden.
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Ich erinnere mich, wir lachen und trinken mit ihnen nachher. Aber das sind wir, richtig, Amy? Und ich denke, als wir weitergehen, reden wir darüber, was du gemacht hast, was ich gemacht habe. Das eine, was wir immer liebten über die Seele von Amerika oder die Idee von Amerika, war Selbstdeterminierung, war, dass wir frei sind.
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Wir valuieren Freiheit und Menschen, die ihre eigenen Entscheidungen über alle anderen machen können. And now we have a complete Republican Party that believes we should take away the self-determination of a country based on the whims of somebody who, frankly, could be mentally non-composementous.
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And I think that's the thing that really gets me right now, is there's no American, Republican or Democrat, any American in the world that lives, you know, whether they're expats or whatever, that would think,
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that the United States of America should be trying to take by force or to manipulate or to persuade a country into giving up their own independence to become part of what we believe is the United States of America. Because then indeed, I think we are the baddies.
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And there is no way I'm going to ever support an administration where I think we're the baddies and we're acting like the very countries we fought against over our history. And I think that's what really makes me angry.
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Also denkt daran, 62,8 Prozent Alkohol in diesem Bad Boy, was nach 13 Jahren bedeutet, dass man sich fragt, Denver, das ist wirklich interessant, oder? Warum ist es so hochwertig? Nun, ich will Leuten sagen, dass wenn man etwas in einen Barrel setzt, wie wir tatsächlich mit 105 Barrelproof hier in Silberback, man bekommt ca. 2-5 Prozent Evaporation pro Jahr, das heißt Angelshare.
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Natürlich. Yes, and you're transmitting from Copenhagen, I think you told me, right, Siri? That's right. Oh my gosh. Well, thanks for coming on. And we're going to get right into it, because I want to ask you a question. I was watching the 60 Minutes interview on Greenland, and I watched the whole thing, right, with everybody that they were talking to. And they had a pretty interesting statistic.
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They said that they polled, and they said about 6%...
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of greenlanders who are interested in belonging to the united states and what i wanted to ask you based on your background you know your extensive you know knowledge of the area do you think that number is about right do you think it's six percent do you think there's some people that are sort of you know uh not quite sure whether they they would want to belong to america but when you're looking at the number six percent and the real sentiment that's happening in greenland right now what is your take do you think that number is about right
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Und mit deinem Wissen über die Gegend, glaubst du, dass diese Zahl jemals erhöht wird?
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Nach einem bestimmten Anzahl von Jahren beginnt der Beweis wirklich zu steigen. Unser höchster Beweis aus einem Barrel bis jetzt ist 128. Wir hätten vielleicht bis zu 130 getroffen. Aber es hängt von der Evaporation des bestimmten Barrels ab.
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Also nur, um alle unserer Zuschauer zu wissen, in einem Bourbon-Barrel, wenn du das Distillat in den Barrel nimmst, kommt die Farbe aus dem Barrel, aber es prüft tatsächlich auf. Based on evaporation. So this might have been in the barrel at 105 to 110. Now it's higher. 13 years. Now it's much higher.
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Und Siri, es ist unglaublich, wenn du über die Geschichte von Greenland und den Leuten da sprichst. Ich habe eine Frage. Was war es, 2009? Ich glaube, Greenland, ich glaube, da gab es eine Wahl oder irgendeine Art von Resolution, wo sie die Freiheit von Dänemark beurteilen könnten, wenn ich das richtig weiß, 2009. So I just saw where the King of Denmark visited just lately.
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I don't know if it was yesterday, the day before, I'm not quite sure. But I saw where he just visited. And the question for you, based on what you've seen in America, based on the dialogue of Trump, und was er gerade gesagt hat, mit dem König von Dänemark zu besuchen, mit dem Bundespräsidenten, glaube ich, von Grönland zu treffen.
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Glaubst du, dass es tatsächlich den Rückwärts-Effekt hatte, mit Trump rauszukommen, wo Grönland und Dänemark jetzt näher zusammengekommen sind? Glaubst du jemals, dass es ein Referendum geben wird, wo Grönland eigentlich für sich selbst Independence bezeichnet, basierend auf dem, was du sagst, mit diesen historischen Flüssen, was Trump sagt und so weiter, an diesem Punkt?
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Es gibt ja immer die Hypothetik, richtig? Ich wundere mich, wenn jemand, wenn es einen Threat von außen gibt, oder jemand, der verbal Greenland als Ziel identifiziert, den Trump tatsächlich gemacht hat. Hast du das Gefühl, dass mit der Besuch von dem König, dass es mehr eine staying closer to Denmark and things of that nature moving forward.
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And that's based on the evaporation in the barrel, the way that it transfers, the ester transfer and the sugar transfer. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pop it. I'm going to pour it. Now this is high proof, right? I feel like, was it Bobby Boucher? This is some high proof H2O, right? Or whatever. But this is some high proof whiskey, right?
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I got it in the silverback glass because of course we've done Christine's whiskeys. So I'm going to give it a little taste right now.
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Oh my goodness. I keep forgetting. Oh, I keep forgetting. By the way, there was only 125 bottles of this in the world. So we got bottle number 35. So, number bottle 35, 13-year-old Willett. It's an estate-bottled single-barrel bourbon, aged 13 years. And so that is how we're starting today. And bottled Willett Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky. Cheers to you, Amy. Excellent. Cheers. All right. Well.
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That's a profound answer, Siri. I mean, it's a heavy discussion when you talk about another country saying they want to take over another country, when you're talking about the different traditions, when you're talking about even the different political beliefs, right, Siri? And when you're looking at Greenland, you know, what's interesting to me and looking at the pictures of Greenland,
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Nun, ich bin, Amy und ich sind glücklich, auf der Welt zu reisen, aber ich bin noch nicht in Greenland, also habe ich ein bisschen eine lustigere Frage, weil ich weiß, dass wir gerade ziemlich schwer sind mit einigen der Dinge, die wir diskutiert haben. Also, ich war auf die Stadt von Nook, glaube ich, ist das die richtige Sprache? Nook. Nuke. So Nuke.
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Und, you know, the only thing I knew about Greenland, Siri, was when I was Air Force back in 94, I would have to make high frequency radio calls to Thule Air Base. That was my that was the thing that I knew about Greenland, is that I could actually call from the state of New Jersey all the way to Thule with a high frequency radio and on our aircraft. And this is 1994. So that ages me totally right.
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That ages me. So, I want to ask you this question about Greenland. You're talking about Nuuk and you're talking about Thule and your air base, which has now changed, obviously. What is your favorite place in Greenland? Amy and I wanted to say, Siri, we want to go to Greenland.
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Is there one place we need to stand, one place we need to go that people don't know about, that you're like, this really captures our landscape, our people, our heritage. Where do we go when Amy and I go to visit Greenland next year? Where would we go?
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Natürlich, das ist großartig. Es ist unglaublich. Es ist fast so, als ob Amy und ich uns über das fragen. Zuerst einmal möchte ich besuchen. Ich meine, das ist jetzt wahrscheinlich auf meiner Liste, dass ich nach Greenland kommen kann, wenn ich es kann. Wenn sie mich jetzt erlauben würden, Siri.
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Es ist fast wie die Landschaft, die Topografie, die Herkunft, die Leute definieren, wer sie sind. Sirius, du sprichst über deine Herkunft, wie du gewachsen bist, die 37 Sätze besuchen, die Schönheit davon. Und du hast nur 7, 8 verschiedene Dinge ausgesprochen. Ich wollte sie aufschreiben, aber du hättest mir die Sprache von all den Orten helfen können, die du in deiner Sprache sprichst.
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Ich denke, das ist das, was so unglaublich ist, dass du zu uns kommen und zu uns sprechen kommst. Ich finde es unglaublich, dass die Vereinigten Staaten, die aufgrund ihrer Selbstdeterminierung basieren, auf dem Fakt, dass wir uns identifizieren können und von Leuten, die wir depressiv finden, wegbrechen können.
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dass unser Land jetzt das zu einem Land tun würde, das es so sieht, dass es seine Independence wert ist, oder die Art und Weise, wie sie sich strukturieren und wie sie ihre Leben leben, oder wie wir das als etwas identifizieren, das wir nehmen können.
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Und ich denke, das ist es, was mich über das Reden mit dir, Siri, gefühlt hat, ist, dass es mit dir durchläuft, in der Art und Weise, wie du dein Land liebst, dein Lieblingsland von Greenland. Und ich denke, das ist das, worüber ich in meiner ersten Frage über die Wahl fragte. Und ich glaube, das ist mein Nachfolger. Und ich weiß, dass Amy die letzte Frage hier für alles haben wird.
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Ich sehe nicht, basierend auf der Politik von Greenland, wo es wirklich mit Donald-Trump-Politik oder der Rechten hier in den Vereinigten Staaten fallen würde. Und ich denke, das ist das, was mir interessant ist. I don't think there's been any long term thinking about what it means to if the United States actually were to somehow take Greenland, which Amy and I are very much against, by the way.
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This is ludicrous that a president of the United States would say this. But do you see that also that the politics of Greenland don't match with Trump at all? I mean, would you think that's a fair question or it's a fair, I would say, perspective on how you presented Greenland right now?
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Siri, your perspective is so refreshing. And thank you. And thanks for taking your time. It means the world to me and Amy. And thank you again.
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Holy cow, Amy, what an incredible interview. She was so perceptive. But her perspective on the people, the fact that she's there, she's been everywhere. I couldn't, she's been everywhere. She knows the native history of the country. But again, kudos to the team actually for bringing her in and to talk to somebody from Greenland with that type of knowledge was pretty cool. And Amy, well done.
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Well done to you and the team, you know, to find Siri. I just think it's amazing. And as we go forward, if people want to continue with these amazing shows and what we put together, and today, like you and the team, finding Siri and us being able to interview her, you better be signing up on every single podcast that we do. You can go anywhere. You better be subscribing to YouTube.
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You better be following on our socials, because if you're not, you won't find out about places like Greenland and the best places to go. And I hope everybody can spell all the places she said to go, because... I don't think I could, but Amy, well done. It was so great to be on another Truth in a Barrel with you. Awesome. Cheers. Cheers. You're awesome. Cheers to Greenland.
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You know, it goes back to, Amy, really our backgrounds. You know, people might tune in this as a political show. But if they looked at our bios, they would understand that before we were in the politics, we had real jobs with real service to the United States of America. I was first introduced to Greenland in 1993. I was 23 years old. And I worked on C-141. So I was a Mustang.
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I was prior enlisted and then an officer. Und ich war ein Avionics- und Radarspezialist bei C-141-Airliftern, die wir Rubber-Dog-Vomit-Hallers genannt haben. Aber wir haben einige unglaubliche Dinge gemacht und sind überall in der Welt in diesen C-141s gegangen. Und wir konnten diese Geschichten über einen unserer Bourbons später erzählen.
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Aber was ich tun musste, seitdem ich bei Avionics gearbeitet habe, war, dass ich unsere HF-Radios testen musste, unsere langfristigen HFs. Also, wie Sie wissen, 1993, das war ein Backup-Kommunikationssystem, also checkten wir Dinge, wie die Ionisierung-Balancen, oder wie weit wir eigentlich reichen konnten. Also, schau mal, was ich tun musste. Tuli, Tuli, Tuli. Hmm. This is this is right.
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This is tail number one. Right. Coms check. Coms check. Right. And on Thule.
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Und Thule antwortete zurück, wir haben dich 5x5, richtig? Schön, heute mit dir zu sprechen. Und es kam zu dem Punkt, ich wusste eigentlich die Person auf der anderen Seite, nach zwei bis drei Jahren von diesem Thema. Weißt du, Amy, das ist ein bisschen cool. Ich bete. Du weißt, ich spreche mit Thule.
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Ich glaube nicht, dass die Leute realisieren, wenn du über Thule und wo es geografisch ist, ist es, und der Grund, warum wir die Air Force Base hatten, warum es so wichtig war in World War II, Es ist basiert auf seiner Proximität nicht nur an bestimmten Bereichen in Europa und unseren Feinden, sondern auch an Flächen.
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Und der Fakt ist, dass wenn man bestimmte Art von Flugzeugen und Armamenten dort hat, macht es es viel einfacher für uns, strategisch zu treffen, spezielle Targete, aber auch für... Hier ist das große Ding für uns, es war die Versupplung, richtig? Es ist ein so wichtiges Bereich, wenn du über Greenland sprichst, wenn du über den Norden sprichst. Jetzt, Pause, Pause.
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Wir haben eine unglaubliche Beziehung zu Greenland. Wie du weißt, haben wir eine lange, lange Zeit. Wir haben andere Bereiche da, die irgendwie, du weißt, die gleiche Funktion beitragen. Also ist Greenland wichtig, aber es ist bereits ein Alli. It's already somewhere that we actually leverage.
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So it's been sort of interesting to hear Donald Trump talking about maybe even taking a country by force, especially with America based on self-determination. It does feel like we're a bit of the baddies when he talks like that, when we already have this great relationship. We already know the strategic importance. I'm very familiar with it.
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But it is a little bit interesting since we already have it that we're having these type of discussions.
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You know, it's interesting. This almost goes back to Ukraine also, right, and their Rare Earth Minerals, especially when you're talking about Uranium. But the importance, when you're looking at the importance of a specific area, doesn't automatically preclude that we already have areas like Alaska, Iceland and other areas that sort of serve some of those functions.
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And I think, you know, when you look at Thule slash Patuffik, I always say Thule right off the bat, because that's all I dealt with when I was Air Force. You know what I mean, Amy? It was Thule. Wenn du auf Patuffik Air Base schaust. Nun, da ist eine Sache, die ich dir erzählen möchte. Die amerikanischen Menschen, mit denen wir reden, Amy, und ich weiß, dass das ziemlich tief ist.
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Ich hoffe, du bist bereit für das, Amy. Wir sind bereits da. Ich weiß. Ja. Das ist schrecklich. Wir sind schon da.
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Well, I mean, if you're smart, right? Yeah, I think it's the squirrel-like brain of Trump, right? It's the shiny object that he's looking at, Amy, right now. It's a distraction based on the real issues that we're having geopolitically, right, across this globe right now. Russia, Ukraine, Iran... Yemen, Israel, Palästina.
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I have to share what I'm drinking, but I tell you, Amy, it's so good. I don't know why it just feels good today. It feels really good today. And I want to applaud you for everything you've done to prepare for our Greenland show. And I know we're going to get to that. I can't wait as we talk about it. It's so cool. So in honor of Greenland, I don't even know what Greenland Whiskey would be.
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Es ist einfach eine verrückte Vorstellung von uns, einem Land, das auf Selbstdeterminierung gebaut wurde, das wir militärisch und alliierlich übernehmen würden. Ja. Ja. Ja.
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Gott, das Größte, was wir über Amy sprechen, sind die kaskadenden Auswirkungen der Entscheidung, die sie auf einem politischen Niveau machen, besonders wenn es auf der Fantasie basiert, wie es die Trump-Administration lebt.
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I have Willett. oh mein Gott, also richtig, also habe ich einen Willett und das ist ein sehr rarer, also was du von dem Willett Family Estate sprichst, das ist etwas, das ist eine Flasche, Amy, ich weiß, du wirst wirklich überrascht werden, ich habe das auf meiner Schale seit ca.
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Amy, you know, both of us are military officers. Or were. There does come a time when you have to do what's right. Where integrity trumps just about everything. And I think she showed incredible integrity and courage to do that. I also think we do have a rule of law. We do have codes. We do have things that all of us live by, whether it's legally, ethically, morally.
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It's a compass that we sort of all hold internally. But as military officers and as military people, enlisted and officers, we give away some of those freedoms based on the fact that we took the oath. Right? To follow the laws of those who are dutifully appointed above us. As you know, we've taken those oaths multiple times. I think what she did showed incredible courage.
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And she paid a price for it, Amy. Yeah. Right? You know? Yeah. Paid a real price for it. So I think right now, I feel that that person right now, if I'm in a bar, she would never buy a drink if I'm there. Absolutely.
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I would humbly submit that our isolationist policies, this nativism that somehow has infected the United States with the 77 million people that voted for Trump, and I'm going to be straight up, as somebody who served as a Republican in Congress, isolationist policies in this global, I would say, environment that we're in, sind absolut die Amerikaner in Risiko.
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Und wenn du über andere Länder sprichst, die unser Verhalten sehen, wie Polen und Südkorea, und sie klammern für ihren eigenen Nuklear-Arsenal oder Deterrence-Fähigkeit, basierend auf dem, wie sie China und Russland sehen, denke ich, wir sind für eine wirklich lange Zeit über den nächsten Dezember.
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Und ich weiß einfach nicht, wie wir diese Vertrauen mit unseren Allies auf dieser Stelle wiederentwickeln.
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Well, you know, Poland, we know why Poland has a pucker factor of 10 right now, looking at, you know, the American administration is playing naked twister with Putin right now. I mean, that's really what it comes down to. You know, we really look like we're friends of Putin. And I think that Poland's going, wait a second, we're NATO, for God's sake. And if we capitulate...
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Even if we finalize, you know, what's going on in the Crimea, and I know we can talk about Ukraine in another show, but there's a reason Poland has a pucker factor. How about South Korea? They're always going to have a pucker factor because of North Korea. And when you look at Donald Trump saying that Kim Jong-un, the guy with the bowl haircut, is one of his good friends, right? A murderous
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Honestly, piece of ass, right? Piece of shit, right? That's over North Korea. No wonder South Korea, Poland, South Korea is like, for the love of God, give us Dukes. We don't need to rely on those buffoons over there. I don't want J.D. Vance coming over here, right? Or Stephen Miller.
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I mean, Amy, how could other countries not take us serious when we want to build Golden Dome? It actually sounds like a bad bathroom song. This is really what we're going to do, right? Protect our country with Golden Dome. Or it sounds like a bad Austin Powers movie. And I think that's what people are looking at. We're just completely unserious. And I think that unserious equals dangerous.
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It is dangerous. I mean, is South Korea gonna be the first one that says, okay, we've had it. We're going nuclear. You know, is it somebody? Is it the ball pits?
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Ich meine, du und ich, als vorherer Militär, denke ich, dass wir viel über Kaskadeneffekte denken. Ja. Ja, das stimmt.
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Du weißt, wenn du einen Bullen hast, der immer alle Milchmoney nimmt und einen Bazooka benutzt, um das zu tun. Ich fühle mich, als wäre ich der Herausforderungste, der in der Schule einen Bazooka benutzt, um die Leute Milchmoney zu nehmen. Ein Idiot, der nur rumklammert, um Kinder zu suchen. Aber ich denke, wir sind das. Und ich denke, wenn du an einem Punkt verurteilt wirst,
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Oder du siehst einen Bullen, der dich verteidigen sollte, der jetzt das Bazooka auf dich schießt. Du wirst dich schießen. Du wirst kämpfen. Und ich blöde diese Länder nicht dafür, dass sie das tun. Und ich denke, das ist der Weg, den wir gehen.
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Und ich wundere, Amy, ich wundere, und ich hoffe, dass die Leute das anschauen, was das erste Land ist, außer der neun, das eine nukleare Waffe weppen wird.
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Ich habe gesagt, wir sind beide militärisch, Amy. Das ist eine Blue Falcon-Administration. Und ich denke, das ist, was wir jetzt haben. Sie werden auf jeden, wenn sie glauben, dass es ihre eigenen Selbstinteressen verbessert, in dieser Art von MAG-Administration, die Leute, die kommen. Wie du gesagt hast, es ist nicht nur Trump. Wenn J.D.
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Vance gewinnt, oder die nächste Sekteff ist Vivek Ramaswamy. Oh, mein Gott. Ich brauche einen Kaffee für das. Du brauchst ihn. Und dann mit der nächsten Administration. Steven Miller läuft für den Vizepräsidenten unter J.D. Vance. Oder ein Tulsi Gabbert. Oder RFK Junior bekommt eigentlich einen Vizepräsidenten-Nod. Denk daran. Es gibt nichts, das so verrückt stoppt.
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Denn wenn du auf jede einzelne Person in der Administration schaust, wir sprechen von D&I. Du sprichst von dem FBI-Direktor, du sprichst von der Nationalen Sicherheitsanwaltschaft, du sprichst von der SekDef. Keiner dieser Menschen ist möglich, ältere Entscheidungen zu machen. Und ich denke, das ist, was der Rest der Welt sagt.
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Und ich denke, nukleare Proliferation ist eigentlich ein Blumen aus dieser Blume. Und wir können nicht das Genie zurück in die Flasche bringen. Wir können es nicht. Das Two-Face ist gespeichert.
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Amy, every time we talk, I learn. And I think I like to impart some of what I know, too. But even I learned something today on your knowledge on security assurances, on nuclear assurances, but on the countries that have nukes and who could get nukes.
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You know, I was thinking about, you know, I was B1s, right? I was an intelligence officer on F-15s and F-16s, but B1s. And Amy, you know, even with scramjets, things like that, we look at something that can be launched, you know, from the belly of a bomber, right? It just absolutely, it overshadows what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on a level that's hard to comprehend.
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And just pure numbers, right, Amy? I mean, when you're looking at nuclear proliferation, and you probably know these numbers, I mean, you're talking about thousands of warheads, right? Weaponized warheads. Das kann an jedem Moment veröffentlicht werden.
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Und ich denke, das ist das, was so interessant ist an dieser Administration, Amy, und warum du dachtest, ich denke, warum du dachtest, dass dies einer der wichtigsten Themen ist, die wir diskutieren, ist, dass diese Administration als eine Art von Fantasie-basierter oder eine Administration, die sogar letztlich wie Buffons aussieht, richtig, sie verabschieden sich tatsächlich.
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Our influence from Europe, from Asia, right? And when we specifically talk about China and Russia, those are very big influential countries that we're withdrawing from and withdrawing from the world stage with many countries having these nuclear warheads.
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Wir sprechen über den Nuklear-Triad, wir sprechen darüber, wie Waffen erzeugt werden. Als ich in der Intelligenzschule trainiert wurde, und ich weiß, ich bin ein bisschen älter als du, aber unsere ganze Sache waren russische Threatsysteme.
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Und ich bin mir sicher, in deiner Training als Marine in den F-18s, sprichst du von Luft-zu-Luft-Taktiken gegen einen russischen Krieger, egal ob es ein MIG oder ein SU ist oder was auch immer du gegen sie gehst. Es ist also ziemlich interessant für mich, als ich in den Ende der 90er-Jahre in der Technik-Schule ging, hatten wir immer noch diesen Cold War Stink.
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Ich meine, ich weiß, dass wir darüber sprechen, dass Gorbatschow diesen Wall zerstört hat. Wir schauen in die frühen 80er-Jahre bis in die frühen 90er-Jahre. Ich bin 1992 eingeladen worden und dann war ich 98er-Jahre-Kommissionier. Aber es gab immer noch diesen Cold War Stink. Es war Russland und die USA. Und du hattest immer noch dieses Nuklearproblem. Welche Person würde es tun?
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Wer würde den Knopf drücken? All das. Nun, in diesem neuen asymmetrischen Welt, du hast neun Länder mit Nuken, jetzt haben wir es, weißt du, ein bisschen stabil gemacht. Was passiert, wenn die Vereinigten Staaten entscheiden, dass sie von Star-Treaties zurückgehen wollen? Sie wollen keine brüdernden Länder mit Nuken behandeln. Wir werden Nativist und Isolationist.
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Wir zurückgehen von unseren NATO-Alliierten. Und ich weiß, dass das etwas ist, über das du wirklich sprechen willst, richtig? And we withdraw from our secondary allies, right? Because we have NATO, but there's allies all over the world. Because you were talking about what, nine countries have nukes? How many countries are in the world?
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Between 193 to 196, whoever identifies, self-identifies as a country. So what happens, Amy? And what are your thoughts? Because, I mean, you teach this. And for me, I obviously have my thoughts based on being in Congress and things like that. What happens? If we withdraw our support from NATO and the EU thinks that we're not there for them, what does that look like?
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That whiskey looks really good. I tell you what, I wish I was drinking that with you right now. But Amy, you know, we're going to have some time to do that.
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I mean, if I'm looking at a Pete Hegseth or a Mike Waltz or a Tulsi Gabbard on a chat channel that adds in Jeff Goldberg, and then you have the conspiracy theories coming out now by Waltz and them that somehow Jeff Goldberg, the Atlantic journalist, hacked Signal, which is ludicrous, because they actually have the Signal screenshot of Mike Waltz inviting Jeff Goldberg onto the chat, right?
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I know this is, it seems maybe small. Maybe to some people it's like, ah, It's a signal chat. It's one phone number. Accidental ad. It's just sloppy. Well, it's really tough to be sloppy in a nuclear world. Because one number off is catastrophic.
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Es geht um Vertrauen. Und wenn es keine Vertrauen von unseren Alliierten gibt, dass diese Regierung sogar fähige oder kompetente Individuen hat, dann macht es es sehr, sehr schwierig, für jedes Land zu denken, dass wir unsere Verträge vertreten werden. Und das ist, weshalb ich es liebe, das den Teufelskreis zu nennen.
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Denn was Sie reden, was die Zuhörer gerade tun sollten, ist, dass sie die nukleare und Sicherheitsversicherungen anschauen sollten, die neun Länder anschauen, die nukleare Waffen haben. They should be looking up any of the treaties that have happened over the last, let's be honest, over the last, what, 60 years, 70 years, right, when it comes to nuclear treaties. But you said something, Amy.
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You said something about what the U.S. had for decades that I think we've completely lost as trust with our allies. And how do we gain that back? Quickly, story about just numbers being off. Amy, you probably pickle GPS weapons, right? You know how GPS works probably better than anybody. Well, I got the mission plan for GPS weapons. And I remember we were working with Ford Air Controllers in 2001.
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And we got a set of coordinates to drop. And by the way, and Amy knows a lot of this, B1s hold 24 2,000-pound JDAMs, GPS-guided, on rotary launchers. So we're going over, and guess what we noticed? We're in Trigger Ops, we're doing close air support with B1s. I know that's nuts, but that's really, really where it started. It was 9-11. That is nuts, by the way. Es ist.
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Also schauen wir uns diesen Ziel an und schau, was wir gefunden haben. Seine Koordinaten waren weg. Schau, was sie gemacht haben. Sie haben ihre Kontrollkoordinaten und ihre Targeting-Koordinaten transposiert, wo sie direkt auf sie droppen.
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That's a sloppy number input. So when you're talking about Mike Waltz just being sloppy, adding somebody, we're not 10-year-olds. We're not just adding somebody for a chat on accident or on Discord or on Slack. We're actually supposed to be the adults in the room.
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And I think what you're talking about with trust is I think this cascading effect on what we call this devil's cut episode is what people need to be looking into right now.
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Die ganze EU-Block. Total. Skandinavien, gib mir, du weißt, STEM ist so stark, du weißt, Bildung in diesen Bereichen auch. Und wiederum, ich glaube, ich bin überrascht, als wir durch das durchgehen, dass wir keine Administration haben, die sich außerhalb ihrer Isolationspolicy sehen kann. Und hier ist, wo ich heimlich anbieten werde, Amy.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
I know Amy and you have probably talked about this before, but that's why I was excited. So, Marianne, I apologize for embarrassing you. I don't want to, but I mean what I say. And it's just what an honor to meet you. Thanks.
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We always ask the easy questions on here, Mary Ann.
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Wir haben eine Geschichte mit dem amerikanischen Honey Whisky. Also hat meine Frau tatsächlich ein paar der Honey Whisky probiert. Und du weißt, sie ist ein Whisky Trinker, wie du weißt, Amy, sie mag das Schwierige. Aber ich habe sie gedauert, ein Honey zu machen, das tatsächlich mit realem Whisky war.
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So, Marianne, how do you feel then, you know, the biggest fear, you know, is superstition, you know, sort of winning back over science. And, you know, when you talked about swimming pools, right, closing the swimming pools because they weren't sure how polio was transmitted, it has to shock you.
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Mit deinem Hintergrund, deiner Erfahrung, übrigens bin ich auch der Älteste von acht, also verstehe ich es, richtig? Unglaublich. Ja. Also nur, um es dir zu wissen, was hast du über die Funding-Line gedacht? Und du weißt, Forschung und Entwicklung, Experimentierung ist das, was diese wissenschaftlichen Durchbrüche zu retten macht. Es ist unglaublich, Wissenschaft in unseren Leben zu haben.
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Also wenn du massive Kutsche zu der Gesundheit und den Menschenrechten, HHS, aber auch der NIH siehst,
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Wenn du die riesigen Billionen von Dollar siehst, die von diesen Programmen entfernt werden, dann muss es dir einfach die Schmerzen in deinem Gehirn geben, um zu wissen, dass wir vielleicht zurückgehen können zu mehr einer Ereignis von Überstürzung, weil wir einen HHS-Sekretär haben, der glaubt, dass Zellsignale Eierverlust verursachen. Und ich denke, das ist nicht eine tolle Sache, richtig?
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Es ist wie nicht in den Swimmingpool zu gehen. Wenn du Eierverlust hast, wirst du nicht versuchen, ein Telefon zu nutzen. Das ist wahrscheinlich nicht das, was es verursacht. Du hast wahrscheinlich eine echte medizinische Krankheit. So what is your thought really, Marianne, on the lack of funding that's happening with HHS and NIH and where we're going?
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Because I think with your background, I think you can actually speak to this better than just about anyone.
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Und so hat sie Blackback Honey Rye gemacht, der beste Whisky gewonnen hat, best blended, oder ich denke, irgendeine Kategorie wie das, das New Orleans Bourbon Festival, hat das unglaubliche Whisky, das du hast, ziemlich schlecht gewonnen, wirklich schlecht gewonnen. But I will tell you, it was because of those whiskeys that gave us the inspiration to go with our Blackback Honey Rye.
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And it really is a gateway whiskey. And what Amy's talking about, you know, if you're going to do the hard stuff, like if you're like a hard druggie, you want to start with marijuana first, right? So our Honey Rye Whiskey is sort of like a gateway whiskey too. But what Amy has is a gateway whiskey. So everybody should go out there.
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If you want to go to the hard stuff, the good stuff, start with the honey stuff. And I promise you, you will graduate to better and better whiskeys.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Marianne, I mean, I usually get to end with a question and I don't want to start with a really hard question like your daughter, you know, as she tried to come up so hard. I mean, it's just really, really concerned me. But I have this, Marianne, I have to say this. Listening to you, your background, your expertise, I always tell people that stupidity is terminal.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
But what you're saying, too, is that stupidity, personal stupidity of people in charge is terminal for others now and long term. And you wonder about how many people are going to be affected long term. So I didn't want to end with an awful question, but with your knowledge and if you're like Denver, how dare you? And then, you know, Amy can, you know, fire me off the show.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
But here's what I want to ask. Here's what I want to ask. Looking into the future and when you're seeing the stupidity of this administration, a fantasist and conspiracy theorist is the HHS secretary. You see the funding cuts to NIH and HHS. You see the fact that we're going down this road regardless, right? And we have superstition, like you said.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
We probably shouldn't be ingesting or injecting bleach. Probably ivermectin wasn't the number one cure for COVID, right? Or hydroxychloroquine, right? So here it is. Are we ready, Amy? Please don't be mad at me. Here we go. Are we ready? What do you think, as an illness class, or something that you see with your vast knowledge of illnesses and what you went through,
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Is there something, a specific illness or a type of illness that scares you in the future? And I know this is an awful question to end on, but is there an illness or type of illness that scares you that in the future that you think this funding could really harm children or harm people going forward? Wow.
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I wanted to ask a simple one to end it.
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Oh, fantastic. Yeah, that's stupid. Well, that's interesting you say it. You know what? That's why you're brilliant. You know, here's the illness and serious thing about stupidity, right? When we're looking at You know, continuing to go after, you know, the class of what bird flues, right, that we see starting to pop up.
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And you see, right, the fact that we're looking at measles exploding again, right, based on the fact that we don't believe in any type of, you know, I guess inoculation for measles now for some reason. I think it's just vitamin D and maybe you rub baby oil on yourself to stop measles. But I think stupidity might be the thing that scares me the most, Marianne, is that
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Wenn wir keine Menschen haben, die auf Wissenschaft und auf eine Art und Weise von wissenschaftlicher Theorie basiert sind, wie man experimentieren kann, in die Zukunft blicken, die Finanzierung, um das tun zu können, ohne auf verrückte Menschen zu blicken, die eigentlich eine fantasiebasierte Politik kreieren, schmerzt es mich, dass wir, als wir weitergehen, mehr und mehr Menschen haben, anstatt wie du.
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And like Amy, right? That you're pushing forward. You do incredible things in the educational system. You're forward leaning. You do experimentation. You break barriers. We have people that are going to go back and rely on superstition and fantasy. And I see that in my own family. You're very impressive. And the fact that you said stupidity might be the one thing I think you're right.
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You shocked me with the answer. It's dead on. Thank you. See, I told you it was easy, Amy.
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Ich kann das nicht bewegen, Amy.
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Well, you know, your kids make you hopeful and grandkids, it's amazing. I would tell you, you make me hopeful, Marianne. That's all I got. I can't top what you just said about your incredible children and what you've done in your life. I'm out. That was too good. Thank you. It was awesome to meet you. What an honor. Nice to meet you, too.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Es ist ein tolles Show. Also, Amy, ich bin so glücklich, dass deine Mutter auf diesem Show war. Es war unglaublich. Deine Mutter, auch ein technischer Begriff, den ich gerne benutze, über Leute, die so unglaublich sind, wie Badass. Das ist mein wissenschaftlicher Begriff. Deine Mutter ist sicherlich das.
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Dr. McGrath, was für mich, um ein Arzt zu sein, unglaublich, und wenn sie es gemacht hat, um diese Behörden zu brechen. Aber ich sage dir das, wenn du von mehr unglaublichen Menschen wie Amy's Mutter hören willst, musst du sicher sein, dass du uns auf deinen Lieblingspodcasts downloadest. Du musst uns auf YouTube abonnieren. Du musst uns auf unseren Socials folgen, was alles ist, richtig, Amy?
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Wir haben Blue Sky, wir haben X. We even are on True Social. Amy, you're killing it on Instagram. We're doing that. I mean, we're everywhere. So people need to download us and need to follow us. Because if you want to get content like the incredible stuff you just heard, make sure you sign up for Truth in the Barrel. Thank you, Amy, for this incredible day.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
We can go back to conspiracy theories. The fact that I've been looking at this since 2004, belief systems that overwhelm people's sort of rational way of thinking. He is that. You know, we make these jokes, right? Oh, there's people who believe that 5G cell signals cause ear leakage. That's Robert F. Kennedy Jr., He believes that, guys.
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As far as anti-vax, think about what he says about measles, the fact that we should be doing about vitamin D. I don't even have the words. There's so many layers of crazy. I think everybody should follow Amy's advice and go look at all his belief systems, what he's done, what he's been responsible for. But now we have this person making policy, Amy. We have this person directing cuts.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
We have this person injecting his thoughts, no pun intended, injecting his thoughts right into the policy. ... of the actual budget process, which everybody should go see our show on the budget process so they know how it works through approach. The president's budget is...
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Based on inputs from his cabinet and those he's appointed, and one of those is RFK Jr., it's insane to have superstition actually ruling the day right now in the American government.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Well, it's, you know, we had this Make America Great Again. This is ma-ba-wa-la. This is a Make America Bleed with Leeches again.
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Und wenn man sich all diese Überzeugungen anschaut und all die Leute, die verantwortlich sind und wer ausgelassen wurde, und man spricht von jemandem, der sechs Jahre gedauert hat, um einen Degree von der American University in den Karibik zu bekommen, und hatte zu machen, wo sie ihren medizinischen Degree bekommen hat. Du hast Dr. Oz.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Und übrigens, Amy, ich meine, wir müssen, ich denke, wir müssen wirklich etwas über Oprah Winfrey tun, und wen sie eigentlich dem Publikum vorgibt. Du weißt, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, wirklich erstaunlich. Und dann, wenn du hochgehst, ich habe diese Theorie, Amy, es sind die kleinen Stalins.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Diejenigen, die unter dem bestimmten Leiter sind, sind meistens schlimmer, weil sie versuchen, ihren Leiter zu lieben. Sie versuchen, diese Person für die Upward Mobility zu lieben, ihre eigene Cynicism, ihre eigene echte Glauben, ihre eigene Fantasie, ihre eigene Art der Leben.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Amy, was du gerade gesagt hast, es gibt eine gelegene Idiotik, die die Politik für Gesundheitsanlagen weltweit orientiert und koordiniert. And we are going to be worse than third world countries as far as healthcare. It is hard to believe that right now we don't even know what the reaction is to bird flu, which is starting to jump to human beings right now, or what we're supposed to do.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
We don't even have a policy about how to really tackle measles based on the fact that people don't believe in inoculations or vaccinations anymore. Think about this. There was a family, Amy. who had five or six kids. People need to look this up. One of their children died from measles and they were still okay. They said that's just the way it is and it's because of their religious beliefs.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
I'm gobsmacked. I don't know how to get in front of this superstition tidal wave that's hitting us, Amy. I just don't.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
I am so excited about this topic today. I hope people understand how committed we are, Amy, because I'm doing this from Dubai, as you can see with the skyline behind me and my nice, brightly colored shirt. But with this incredible content like Devil's Cut and everything that we're doing, people have to sign up. So you have to get on our podcast.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
There's a scientific term that I like to use for people that can't seem to grasp science. They can't seem to grasp facts. They seem to cling to superstition. I think if you look in I think there's a psychology manual. What is it? The DSM 5 TR, I believe. I have no idea. Yeah, the DSM, it's called a f***ing idiot. And I think that's the issue that we have right now, is that
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Mit der DSM, die diese Art von Individuen definiert, gehen wir in der Zeit zurück.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
You got to download it wherever your favorite podcast station is. You have to subscribe on YouTube, you know, be there, be square and make sure you follow us on all our socials. I mean, we're everywhere, aren't we, Amy? We're even on True Social. We're brave. We don't care. We're here to, you know, push facts and truth. The TIB, baby. That's where we're at.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Yeah, you know what? Me and you don't want people to die because of stupidity, Amy. That's why we're doing this show. We want people to be facts-based and truth-based. That's why we're doing Truth in the Barrel. That's why I'm excited about this guest. That's why I'm honored to do this show, because of topics like this.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
And I am, yes, we can try to make light of some of this, but I don't think, listen, if we're not laughing, we're crying. Das ist das, was gerade in diesem Land passiert. Und wiederum, das ist das, was mich über die Gäste interessiert. Und ich bin bereit, es zu machen, Amy.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
I am so excited about this guest. I think it's the best guest we've had, Amy. I really do. And when you sent me what your mother had done, I want to say a couple of things. And it's not to flatter you. It's not to... You know, just just to come off the top rope with exuberant types of praise. But the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
I think there's a toughness to your mom reading about her going through polio, the barriers that you broke. I'm excited about this interview, especially one I saw that was your mom with the incredible background that she has. I'm really excited about this.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
And that's why I'm doing it from Dubai, because it's that important to talk about what we're going to talk about today.
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Hey, it's embarrassing. Oh, well. Oh, I didn't mean to embarrass you, Marianne. I'm just excited to meet you.
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Hi, Dr. McGrath. It's great to meet you.
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Ich wollte nur kurz sagen, und du weißt, Amy und ich haben uns jetzt schon lange kennengelernt. Und du weißt, wenn wir uns an Amy kümmern, was sie getan hat, die Barrieren, die sie gebrochen hat, ihre Schwierigkeit, ihre Fähigkeit, nach vorne zu lehnen, um jemanden wie Amy zu kennen, ist eine Ehre.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Und ich möchte dich nicht beschleunigen, ich versuche das nicht zu übernehmen, aber schau dir das an, was du durchgegangen bist, um ein Arzt zu werden, dein Wissen über das Gesundheitssystem, aber es geht wirklich um deine Schwierigkeit und deine Möglichkeit, Dinge durchzuführen, die andere Menschen, glaube ich, virtuell unmöglich finden.
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Devil's Cut | Mother's Day w. Dr. Marianne McGrath
Also, ich war mehr gespannt auf dieses Interview, als ich es in irgendwelchen Gästen gesehen habe. Ich glaube nicht, dass es einen besseren wird, weil du auch Amys Mutter bist. And the way I feel about Amy and how awesome she is, I can see where she got a lot of her traits, Marianne. So that's why I was so excited to meet you and to talk about this topic.
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Right. It's so big. Annie, it's hard to have a coup plan, a continuity of operations plan, right, when everybody's dead. You know, it's really difficult to do that.
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
If there was one thing, I don't know if this is a fair question, Annie, but You have interviewed so many people. You've looked at this process. Amy and I know a little bit about it. If there was one function that knocked your socks off, Or one thing, not even like, oh my God, it's all over. Amy's question was amazing.
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
Was there one function in DefSmack or Stratcom or on Sibbers when you're looking at Sibbers high and low? Is there something where you're like, my God, we can do this. This function just knocks me out. Are you kidding me? Was there ever a time where you're like, holy shite, that is incredible.
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
And, Annie, I tell you, you know, reading the book, you brought me back. I'll tell you that because, you know, my background, United States Air Force to NSA, then I did joint special projects.
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
So when you're talking about DeafSmack, talking about Global Strike at STRATCOM, when you're talking about Cheyenne Mountain, when you're talking about Peterson, when you're talking about Fort Belvoir, when you're talking about the ADF in Denver at Buckley,
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I've been to all those places, and your research, the way that you actually threaded it, and how those multiple commands and multiple lines of communications work, Annie, well done. Well done, you know. And so my first question, I want to throw out a question so that you can go where you want to go, but I hope you're excited about this. So, you know, Amy and I have both written books.
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
I'll tell you this. I don't know. It's almost like a knuckle-dragging attempt, Annie, to recreate Reagan's STI initiative and the pressure he wanted to put on the Russians in a way that, you know, for me, and Annie, it's just a weird thing about me. I do think that competence matters. I don't know if this administration has that ability to affect competence on this type of decision-making.
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
And that being said, I don't want to... make this too political, to be honest, even though it is to me, because I've been in the room with the guy and there's no nuance in his thinking. It's just not there. And I think that's what, when Amy and I were discussing this with Golden Dome, the one thing that I want to discuss with you at some point
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
based on sleeping at night, which we can too, based knowledge is power, right? It really is. And it also gives you hope, right? It was pretty amazing, you know, that you were able to speak to the Vatican. You know, I still think we try to keep a sliver of hope, but I think your book actually says that hope is not a viable course of action.
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
which is what that is the bottom line that I get from your book. Hope is not a viable course of action. There has to be real things that happen, right? There's real issues, right? With if there's a nuclear attack, what would happen? And there's a point, there is a point of no return because there's a point that we cannot affect what happens at that time.
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In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
So try not to give you ideas for your next book. Cause now you gave me an idea. Um, is left of boom non-kinetic deterrence and how we use cyber warfare and other things like that down the road. And if that's part of, I don't even know that's part of the Golden Dome thing at this point, but I would suspect it should be.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
But do you see more and more of a cyber warfare, more of a computer-based warfare effects? on nuclear weaponry and things like that and trying to stop it left a boom before things even get off the ground. And for me to say that, people need to know how difficult that is. I'm not talking about something that is not complex. We're talking about something that's awful. Just try to affect even...
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
One cell tower, right? But that was my background was telephony and comms. But do you see, as we're going in, I know we don't want to take all your time. Do you see non-kinetic options, right, that could stop some of this, that maybe can get in the way of some of these awful, you know, stepping stones towards a nuclear attack or, you know, something like an ICBM hitting the United States?
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
We know it's a bit of a timeline. So I have a bit of a question after looking at everything you did in your book, you know, fog of war, chain of command issues, when you're going to confusion, right, in your actual lines of communication or how your orders are processed, all the things that me and Amy have done on tabletops, you know, our whole life.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
If you wrote the book and started it today, which you've already seen in the first four and a half months of the Trump administration, I don't know if you have been asked this yet, Annie, but if you wrote the book today, Do you think it would even have more elements of chaos? Do you think you would still structure it the same?
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
Absolutely. Amy called me about the book. There you go. So I just want to let you know. And I don't think hope is a bad message to end on. So as pessimistic as I am, Annie, Amy, I don't think this is a bad message to end on. I want to say I appreciate the amount of research, the ability to turn this into a narrative that's exciting when you're talking about left of launch to launch.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
The fact that you can talk to individuals who've been in it. And the fact that you have this amazing knowledge to talk to people who are at the ops level like Amy and myself, whether it's on the intel or execution side, it's just, it's frankly amazing. It's a public service too. And Annie, we just want to cheers to you. And thank you for coming on our show.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
This is why we did Truth in the Barrel, to have these type of conversations without hyperbole, without going crazy, without weird memes, you know, or crazy stuff happening. It's the fact is you're a sober individual with amazing research and writing skills. It's trying to warn the American public about something that could happen through a scenario.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
that shows how the command and control system in the United States nuclear system works. And thank you. And I just want to, again, thank you for coming on our show. It was just such a pleasure and an honor to meet you.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
Or have you seen things since you've written the book during the Trump administration that lead you to believe that maybe you were on to something in some of the things that you were actually identifying in your book?
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
And I mean, it's sort of brilliant to put it that way. You know, I deployed in a moment of chaos right after 9-11, right, Annie? Which is chaos. And reading the book, I thought of 9-11. I also thought of, and Annie, I'd love to talk to you sometime about the incompetence, chaos, and comms of January 6th and just National Guard issues, trying to get them to the Capitol that day.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
Um, so I have another question and I think I sort of know, uh, as, as I'm reading through this, but I think, I think people who haven't read your book yet, which they absolutely need to read, would love to know when you're looking at the redundancies and systems and the redundancies and personnel, um,
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
and the way that they carve up the mission sets when it comes to not only intercepting nuclear weapons, but looking at weapons options or offensive options. As you were writing your book, you're like, my goodness, did you have any ideas where, you know what, maybe we don't need this many redundancies? Or were you sort of like, maybe we need more?
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
And, you know, I know that's an incredible question with somebody. Me and Amy have been in chaos. And trust me, we've been in chaos, both of us. And sometimes you're like, my God, there's so many stupid things happening right now that there's no way we need this many freaking, you know, cooks in the kitchen. There's just too much going on in the soup. We just need a directed order.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
We need a directed line. This is ridiculous. But I've also had times when I got the wrong control coordinates. And if we didn't have redundancies, I would have actually killed somebody on the ground with a GPS weapon if we didn't have a redundant way of actually doing targeting. So when you look at this, I know this isn't the easiest question, but I'd love to know your opinion.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
More or less redundancies and the context in that. And I know there's complexities there. But did you see places you writing the book with everybody you talked to or somebody said, you know what, Annie? we need to cut this. This is ludicrous. There's just too many cooks in the kitchen, or are there not enough, or is it somewhere in between?
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
Yeah, you're right about redundancies going away in a nuclear winter. And I think it's so interesting when you're talking about systems of systems and you automatically went to the differences between left of boom, boom and post boom. Right. And, you know, and I think that's what's amazing about that is that.
Truth in the Barrel
In Conversation With Annie Jacobsen
Your left of boom commentary, I think, really sets up what happens, you know, when boom is coming and there's nothing we can do about it. And I think I'm going to let Amy go to the next one because I could go and I love that topic, but it's fantastic.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Is Jay cleared? You know, the other thing, too, is it's better that he was also doing official business over Gmail, the very classified and secure Gmail account.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Not a government account with a .gov, and you know what I'm talking about, or a .ic.gov, right? Or any of our stuff, right? Our SIPR accounts or our GWIX accounts or our NSAnet accounts or any of our specialty accounts. You know, when we were doing liaison work with SOCOM and things like that,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
It's amazing to me that not only is he setting up a random signal chat, but he's doing official business over Gmail. I wonder if there's a training issue for security in the NSC, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, it's contradictory to the Federal Records Act, right? And even if me and you had an accidental disclosure and we were using the wrong comms path, We're also subject to the Espionage Act. So now you have two things going on here, right? You have the Federal Records Act and the Espionage Act that both can co-mingle, right? They can cross.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Those streams can cross based on if you're using a wrong comms channel or unauthorized channel. And then you're, oh, it was an accident. I didn't mean to leak time over target. I'm sorry. Oh, okay, bullshit. You're using an unauthorized channel. You already have issues with the Espionage Act and the Federal Records Act.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
The Federal Records Act is that you can't store any of this data, as you're talking about, right, Amy? And that's the thing that gets me, is that there's no way to look at even doing, as we know, a post-mission debrief. Right. You can't even look at the mistakes that you might have made based on the data.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Not to mention that the taxpayers are paying for this, and there should be records that are kept based on official government business. The other thing, too... when you're looking at this is there's so much arrogance and there's arrogance through ignorance. And we, and that's the thing that gets me too, is that people are trying to defend this. It is under, there is no defense.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
There's, there's no legal defense. There's no moral defense. There's no ethical defense. The only defense is just deal with it because that's who we are. And that's the thing. Again, I know this all wraps back into rule of law, constitutionality and what we think as public servants, but how in the hell, How in the hell do you rationalize this? You can't rationalize it.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
More damaging information from a higher echelon in government. There's layers of awfulness. But you know what we can do, Amy? We can deport Pete Hegseth because of his tattoo, his white nationalist tattoo. Because we can say he's a domestic terrorist and we don't need any due process. So I think we need to start to deport Pete Hegseth. Frigging chance, you know, based on his tattoos, you know.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, you know, yesterday was just tragic, right? When you have Laura Loomer, who's a 9-11 truther, a racist, just an awful human being, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And I think, you know, when she goes in and talks about loyalty tests with Trump, God, we're all the way back to people rationalize behavior for deportations and due process and Signalgate and misuse of government resources and the Espionage Act and everybody making excuses for that because we have the most ignorant people
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I would say, executive branch level appointees, directors and secretaries in the history of the United States. And now Laura Loomer is going to Trump, actually presenting the litmus test where he's firing NSA individuals. And then last night, a person I have met, I was introduced to long ago by a former general buddy of mine, Tim Hawke.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
who's Dern's director of the National Security Agency, was fired late last night. I got calls from inside NSA, and my guess is I wonder, Amy, if there's a cascading effect from her applying that loyalty test and directing who should be fired. I mean, if people look up Laura Loomer, it's like the Joker determining who should be fired in Gotham. Right.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
The head of NSA has to be a military individual. That's Derns. That's a four-star general. People that initially had been Derns, you're talking about people like Mike Hayden, correct, who I briefed in the early 2000s over and over, actually on the eighth floor at NSA. The D-Der, the deputy director, is a civilian, right? And a civilian was also released on fire.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And I think she was redirected maybe to the Undersecretary of Defense, USDI. I'm trying to remember. So you have, you know, these two individuals, the two top performers, right, the leaders in NSA that run everything. They run the whole SIGINT Confederation. That's the best way to put it. So what is SIGINT?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Yes, signals intelligence. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. That's broken into two major subdivisions of comment, which is communications intelligence, and ELINT, which is electronics intelligence. Underneath that umbrella, you have people who are comment or ELINT or joint, who can collect signals, make sense of those signals, which helps in targeting situational awareness.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Looking at what everybody has in their environment electronically, not only for targeting, but for deconfliction of signals in that battle space for people who might be flying an F-18 into combat on 89 combat missions or on that aircraft, executing that mission. You want to know what that environment looks like, what you can target, what you can hit. So NSA has all of that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
NSA is a combat service element under the DoD. A lot of people don't know that. It's under the DoD funding lines. But what it does is so crucial to our defense, right, that if you have people who don't know what they're doing directing the mission, it can get very confusing because of SIGINT authorities. SIGINT authorities are very, very defined by the U.S.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
government and by the intelligence community. So if you have two yahoos, that are going in there to replace these types of professionals. Again, we have loyalists in charge where we should have competent professionals, and that could create real issues in the National Security Agency.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, Tim Hawk would never sign a loyalty pledge, number one. He wouldn't do that as a military member or public servant. Number two, my guess is he has some of the same attributes as General Milley, where he's very honest and blunt about what's happening.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And also, I would say, what if NSA—and, you know, the thing about conjecture and theoreticals and hypotheticals is you don't want it to go out there, but if NSA was aware of Signalgate without it being released by Jeff Goldberg, was that actually identified? Ooh. That causes issues.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
The other thing, too, what if he refused to do a specific mission criteria that didn't match his signals intelligence directors? There's that, too, right? So you have this effect, like, why? Or was it simply this? Was it simply that there was somebody who was in Trump's ear saying, you need to go with this guy because he's just simply not that guy?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
because he's not a Trump guy, Biden put him in there. So he's got, and listen, you're talking about conspiracy theorists. You're talking about fantasists. You're talking about people who probably believe that Lord of the Rings is a documentary, right? These are the people that are making decisions in the United States government complex, Amy. And I think all of those things could be possible
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
But it's usually Occam's razor. I think the probable and the reason they pushed him out of there, he's a Biden appointee and he refused to profess loyalty to Trump. I think it's probably that simple. And I know Tim and he's probably like, I'm just not doing that. And probably the writing has been on the wall for a week. We just didn't know about it.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And they pulled the trigger last night and got him on a plane and sent him back to D.C.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
You've got to be referring. Is it Victoria Sparks?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Oh, Indianapolis. So Indiana – I think it's Indiana's fifth. I'm trying to remember the district. I bet I'm close. My guess is – and I'm going to do this as a Republican, right, as a former Republican, Amy – I bet people cheered. I didn't see that, right? But I bet people cheered. I did see some of the, I saw that it was her that had did that, you know, the statement. I read about it.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Yeah. He's talking about Nina Jankowicz's digital government's board, if you remember that, right, which – The DGB probably isn't the best frickin' name for a, I would say, an entity that goes after disinformation. I actually, when it happened, I'm like, that's not going to last. However, that's not what it was at all.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And, you know, when you're talking about self, right, we're talking about the congressman's self, you know, not the brightest bull, but the Home Depot, Amy. Yeah. And somebody who's using Goebbels as a quote to go after the Biden administration is actually a Goebbels technique. And that technique is to accuse that which you're guilty to create confusion.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Good day, good night, every day is a new adventure. And today, as we get started, Amy, I'd like to say, I know that this show is called Truth in the Barrel. Last week was the single barrel silverback. Today is the Christine Riggleman Reserve, which just got gold. Single barrel at the New Orleans Bourbon Festival. So I'm going to take a little bit of sip of that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
So now you have a guy using a Goebbels quote, trying to apply that to the Democrats, when we know, right, that this sort of, this tamping down of free speech in our government space is based on the firings, hirings, all based on loyalty, based on what people are going, and the attack that we're having on the First Amendment right now from the right,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And that you're allowed to be fantastical and go into disinformation and spread conspiracy theories. That's the First Amendment. That's great. But you have a guy actually quoting Goebbels against the Democrats when they're doing the very thing he's accusing them of, and he's using a Goebbels technique to quote Goebbels to go after that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
It seems like the whole party is the pointing Spider-Man meme, right? So it's like projection?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
So there's multiple stupids here. First of all, you're exactly right about the State Department. The other thing people forget, I know it's just incredible memory of mine. You know, it's that Air Force IQ I have. But I think that people forget the Global Engagement Center was shut down by the Trump administration. The GEC was the one who's supposed to identify and suppress foreign disinformation.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
They could go after our elections and things like that. They also cut people out of CISA, if you remember that, right? The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency. So underneath of DHS. So what they're doing, what he's talking about is multiple layers of stupids. First of all, yes, the State Department doesn't do that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
But the State Department was closed down for doing that by the Trump administration, right? And when you look at when the Biden administration was severely underfunded, this was actually started by Obama, I believe, back in his 2008 administration.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
But I think it's pretty amazing that you would pick up on that because, you know, the Republicans always said they were the party of, you know, the Constitution. You know, the guy here in the 6th District, Ben Klein, one of my former colleagues in the 116th, he carries a pocket Constitution and waves it during committee meetings.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, that's what he thinks he might be talking about, but he's confused. When I said there's multiple stupids, he's talking about the Hunter Biden laptop and the 51 signers also. That's what he's referring to. And the suppression of election disinformation in the January 2019. 21, January 6th, 2021, or the November 2020 election, he's also referring to that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And the other thing that he's talking to his constituents, because that's what he's hoping for as a clip, is COVID, that obviously COVID was faked, or there was an overreaction, or that Dr. Fauci is evil. So this is the whole bag of crap that Congressman Self dumps into a speech so he can replay it for fundraising to his constituency. This is what's happened.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
When I say multiple levels of stupid, stupid translates to money for congressional Republicans right now. And I think that's why he mixes everything. He doesn't even know how the government works. Um, that's really, really the bottom line, I guess.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I wonder what memorabilia he has hanging on his wall.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Oh, yeah. I mean, how do you cheer that on? You know, people don't deserve due process. It's sort of the bedrock of what makes us Americans is our justice system and the fact that we give people due process. And I can see I can see where people will be horrified, right, that that would be said unless you're a Republican in a town hall with somebody cheering that stuff on.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
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This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
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Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
We might actually touch on this throughout the show, but I think that cult behavior seems to dominate when it comes to constitutional discussions through a certain constituency. That's a lot of Cs. That's alarming alliteration right there. But I do think that that's what we have right now, right, is that cult behavior – overcomes any constitutional qualms based on the constituency that you have.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
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Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Drink responsibly, but also value truth over idiots. Cheers.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And I think that's what we're seeing right now is that you have people just screaming for blood, right? Or going against what they say they're voting for or how they believe based on their belief in a certain individual or human being. It's just unbelievable what they bought into right now. And it's hard for me to even get my arms around when people are cheering for stuff like that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I know we're going to need that later, right? We will. I cannot wait to talk to you about the things that have happened over the last week or so.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well, yeah, I mean, there's going to be it almost feels like they don't care that they throw the baby out with the bathwater. There could be innocent individuals or legal immigrants or people who are misidentified that are rounded up. Right. And that's something that we've always sort of said, oh, gosh, that's that's like some of these awful dictators and authoritarians.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
But isn't it sort of easy where you can wrap nativism, xenophobia and racism into a neat wrapper thing? of illegal immigration and throw them out without due process. And there should be a rationalization or validation for me as a God-fearing American living in Indiana that we should be throwing these people out. You know what? And if we wrap up a few questions
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
you know, that are innocent or just have families, you know, or maybe are misidentified. You know what? That's just the way it is. And I think that's the thing that absolutely blows my mind. If you claim to be a conservative, if you claim to be somebody who's a constitutionally minded individual, that would be, yes, we hate criminals. okay, especially violent criminals. You're right, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I want them to go back. Get out of here. You don't belong here. You're a criminal. However, it can be that justice is where we should be going, right? Without automatically saying, let's just throw everybody out based on the color of their skin. That's really what we're... I don't want it to come to that. That scares the hell out of me. And I do believe that...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Deportations and justice don't have to be mutually exclusive. I mean, that's just a belief that I have.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Well – Amy, I haven't seen any crime statistics where there's a gay makeup artist crime wave happening. I don't know if you've seen this. I've looked everywhere. I can't see a gay makeup artist with tattoo crime wave happening across the United States. I don't know even what to tell. I mean, the story is so outlandish, what you just told me.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I'm sort of, I know this is your thing, but if I remember correctly, I think even Joe Rogan weighed in on this story. saying it was horrific. I mean, when Joe Rogan weighs in on something against the Trump administration, you know it's got to be bad because that guy's a homer.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
Yeah, it is. And again, I think, I don't want to put words in the mouth of the esteemed Amy McGrath, but I think, and what you're trying to say is due process and securing the border don't have to be mutually exclusive. And the story you just told me also is that just because the color of your skin or you have a crown tattoo doesn't necessarily mean you're a gang member.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
True Social, YouTube. Gosh, we're everywhere. We're like a conglomerate of awesomeness that is spreading over the entire globe. That's why I love this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And that's the importance of due process and the constitutional protections that we have. And Amy, you are an instructor on the constitution for these individuals. And I think that's probably why it hits so close to home for you. And I'm, you know, and I think that's why this show today
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And like every day, we're looking at this unserious government that can't seem to do anything that seems to follow what Americans think Americans should be unless you're sort of this bizarre cult follower of the whole Trump administration.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I guess over the last 10 years, I think there's a permission structure for people on the right to allow these type of awful feelings to come out and then try to rationalize it or validate it through arguments that don't make sense in a lawful or constitutional way. And that's why, I mean, the party sort of left me, Amy. That's why, you know, me and you talking about this, right? How do you...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
If you say you're a conservative, constitution-loving, due process, law and order constituent, and you let a tattoo, right, that's sort of a cultural signifier, automatically tell you that you're part of a gang, and you're not even looking at the big picture, you don't even have the nuance or the critical thinking to think that maybe that's just a tattoo.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
What I'm worried about, Amy, is that my wife has tattoos, right? I mean, she could be part of the white distiller gang that's going around, you know, knocking over liquor stores, right? Because she has a copper tattoo because she likes to do copper distillation. It's just so ludicrous that it's hard to wrap your arms around the ignorance of this type of targeting.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
And I think, I don't want to get too far because then I get angry and I start being directed, targeted attacks at people that are stupid, right? Because stupid is a terminal disease, as you know, you've heard me say, Amy. So, I'm worried that that stupidity will be terminal for us. But you said something pretty interesting. You talked about this administration.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
I don't think we have adults in the room. I mean, if you look at how they're acting on everything that they've been doing lately, from passing classified information on to this lack of due process, it seems to me that it's very difficult for us to have any faith that they're making any good decisions right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.06.25
You know what's amazing, Amy, is you talked about the one signal chat. It's now 20 times worse, right? He had 20 signal chats. Can you imagine, first of all, you're running ops through creating signal checks manually? Hey, let's add Bob. Who else might be cleared?
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Small Batch | SignalGate
Guess what, ma'am? I know you're flying into harm's way, but I was happy. You know, I'm on a signal chat or I'm on this other chat. I'm going to think I want to say, tell some of my buddies. It's only an hour before, you know, when time over target is, what your specific target is and the platform's actually flying.
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Small Batch | SignalGate
What would you do to an intelligence officer helping you train who is even suggesting that maybe you're I would say publishing your times over target, your IPs, what you're flying, and who your specific target is about an hour before you went out over a non-secure channel. How would you think about that there?
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Small Batch | SignalGate
Because you flew a Nellis. You flew out of Red Flag, right?
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Small Batch | SignalGate
It's not an approved comms channel. They had people on there that shouldn't have been on there because they're so dumb. They invited people onto a signal chat that shouldn't have been there. They're talking about things that should be on approved comms channels at a security classification level. Was there a CAO on that signal chat?
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Was there a classification authority that was actually on that signal chat that allowed that to happen pre-chat? Of course not. And was he copy-pasting from an actual op plan?
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You know, I was thinking about military speak and thinking about the language that we use, Amy. Whether it's our call signs, which I don't know if you want me to tell your call sign on a national show like this. But, you know, I'm Chunk, she's Krusty, and we're here for you. And, but here's the thing, when you said WTF, you know what popped in my mind?
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We did WTF on a SecDef who foobarred an ATO with a TOT, right? And that actually makes complete sense to us. I know. That's actually what went through my head, right? And I feel like everybody's got to look up all this. But the thing is, is that, you know what that all equals? A blue falcon. So if you WTF the SecDef who foobarred an ATO over a TOT, he's a blue falcon.
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Amy, you know, the reason I think we're paired so well together is you were a pilot. You know, I was an intelligence officer who cut my teeth on briefing pilots doing threats as an ops I.N., right, in a fighter squadron, then a bomber squadron, right? So pretty exciting. So great. I have all this experience.
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And I think that's really what people need to take out of this whole conversation as we're going forward.
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It is, and I think that's why when we do Truth in a Barrel, whether we're doing truth or bullshit or we're doing the devil's cut or our small bat shorts like this, that's why you have to listen to us because we hate liars. We'll call out people who are full of shit, and that's why you have to subscribe. So you need to go to YouTube. You need to subscribe. You need to look at the comments.
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You can comment if you want. We're going to actually might even say you might even get something from Chunk or Krusty. We might even respond. But also go to your pod. Make sure of your choice. You can pick. We're not picky. Go to any pod. Make sure you subscribe there, too, so you can listen to us, whether in your car or you're sitting at home. Thank you, Amy. You're awesome.
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Thanks for everything you did for our country. And look at us next time when we come in hot on a small batch truth in the barrel.
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But you have this special, right, sort of thing that I want to tell people about is that you're the first woman, Marine, who flew in an F-18 in combat, correct? That is correct. What's amazing when you're flying into combat, and for me, I've debriefed hundreds of missions, right, whether it's in training or real world.
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So the first thing I would ask you, because, you know, me and you both know what air tasking orders are, ATOs. Both of us have done mission planning from using computers all the way to acetate and grease pencils or wet markers. I don't know if you remember those old days, right? Whatever you got in the tent. Whatever you got in the tent, right? We did it. So if I'm asking him, like, you know what?
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She goes, honey, I got to tell you something. I'm like, oh, because we just got a retroactive tariff charge. What? Yeah. Yeah, our bottle prices went from $1.01 a bottle to $1.55 a bottle.
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I think when you see instability... Ja, genau. So that's interesting, right? And we're really angry about it. The issue is, you can't accept, they won't let you accept the bottles unless you pay. It's not like we can just say, oh no, we want the original price. It doesn't work that way. And you're like, well, why is that so bad?
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Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
When you're working on small margins, there's a cascading effect to employees. You got a budget. So there's a couple things I can do. Number one, Right. We try to. There's three things. We just we try to go with existing inventory until we think things are going to go better. It's really hard, really hard. Maybe we can make it through. The second thing is you decrease labor. Right.
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Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
You fire people. Yeah. Right. Good job. Third thing is, you pass the cost on the consumer. Now, we're not even to tariffs yet, but people are like, oh, wait a minute, tariffs haven't happened, retail Denver and Christine. How dare you? We're already getting charged on supply chains, just not bottles. It's corks. It's shrink wrap. People have no idea, right?
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What's he going to do the next day though, Amy? He's going to change his mind again? This is a guy who doesn't pay his vendors. A guy who I don't actually think understands supply chains. You know, people think car building, oh God, complex. You know, you think about Ford.
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Ford, the day that he came out with the tariffs, they had their stupid thing where they came out and said, oh, you could buy our vehicles at employee prices. Guess what Ford just announced yesterday? We're going to have to up our prices. We knew that was coming. We're building stuff like the, oh, come on, right? The reason they could do that at that second is they were hoping to dump inventory.
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Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
Yeah. Yeah, they're working alright. I actually saw, I think it was ABC Morning News, Amy, talk about Ford doing that because of the terrorist look. But are they reporting as heavy and as propagandity, you know, as ridiculously, you know, why did I just think, I don't know why I just thought of Zoolander. But anyway, so I just, I don't understand, you know, the ridiculously good looking.
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But I don't understand, you know, now the news isn't blaring out the negative news from all this as hard as it was like, oh, look what happened there. So it's just interesting to me, but Personally, Christy and I had to talk about who to cut if this continues. And people we love, they don't get it.
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Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
And if I told Christy, okay, to make up 54 cents on a bottle and the small pennies, maybe it's 90 cents to a dollar five more we're paying on wholesale gross for a bottle, corks, wraps, all that. Do you know how much I have to charge more for a bottle in order to make just that money back? $4. Und jetzt startest du, das über deinen ganzen Inventarschedule zu multiplizieren.
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Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
Und ich denke, das ist, was die Leute verstehen müssen, dass es kleine Unternehmen sind. Und unsere Unternehmen sind wahrscheinlich wertvoll, ich will es nicht sagen, aber ich meine, es sind in den wenigen Millionen, right? Kleinere Unternehmen, die für uns zwischen 20 und 25 vollzeitige und part-zeitige Mitarbeiter sind, die in der Produktion mit der Supply Chain Line arbeiten.
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Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
Absolutely devastating. And it's because of economic uncertainty. And when the tariffs hit, we're going to get more charges. And then the cascading effect is an absolute nuke.
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Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
Well, maybe the Tickle Me Elmo Congress shouldn't roll over and show their belly to Trump and give away all of their article on responsibilities to somebody who doesn't know what he's doing. And I think that's where we're at. And Amy, I want to say one thing. Thank you for caring.
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Small Batch | Tariffs Hit Home
for doing this small batch for me to show people how tariffs affect real businesses and real people and how it can affect people's lives in a way that people cannot understand unless they're running a business with a supply chain issue and tariffs that affect it. And for that, ma'am, cheers to you. Amazing. Thank you.
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Amy, I'm not happy. Du sprichst von kleinen Unternehmen und wie sie beeinflusst werden. Wie du weißt, haben meine Frau und ich eine Silberbackstellerie hier in Afton, Virginia. Und wir haben mit vielen seltsamen Dingen zu tun gehabt. Wenn Covid-19 passiert ist, hatten wir alle diese Covid-19-Zulassungen und alle unsere Flöten und alle unsere Verbraucherschäden.
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And I tell you what, if people aren't actually subscribing to this show on YouTube or they're not downloading us on their favorite pod, they don't get to drink with us anymore.
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We got a lot more coming. Amy, it's good to see you. Thanks. Cheers.
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Das hat uns fast während Covid-19 beendet. Ja, genau. So anyhow, I get a call from my wife about three days ago. Now we're still paying on many of our, I know, Amy, this is going to shock you. We're actually still paying COVID surcharges from 2021 and 2020 today. So she calls me and she's beside herself. And we had just gotten two pallets delivered to us of bottles.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Well, I think they need to give medals to the women for sleeping with anybody that belongs to MAGA. I think they're getting confused, you know, because... I think that's first of all, like, who does that? Like, okay, Amy, I have to ask you a question, all right? Now, I'm not a woman, so I have to ask you this.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I mean, would metals incentivize you for a more robust posture in creating younglings for the nation? Like...
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Well, the other thing, too, is cutting public education, right? That's sort of nuts. I was thinking after every six kids, though, Amy, I think you should get something like on the seventh kid, like a Klondike bar. And then I think on the eighth kid, I think you should get like a year supply of Crest toothpaste.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And then I think like if you go to nine kids, I think you should get like the smallest version of like a Toyota, like the Versa. And then, fuck, I don't understand it. With the 10th kid, I think you should get a year's supply of rock candy. I think that is incentivization.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I don't want to go here, but I'm going to go there, Amy. And I know that sometimes me and you might say some things that are controversial, but you have to... Okay, I'm being incredibly serious here to say this. This is a Christian nationalist evangelical push, right?
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And if I remember correctly, and I could be wrong, I think medals were given by Russia, right, for childbirth, for how many kids you had. So now we're back almost into the Russia side. But there is a longer-term effect here. When you're talking about, you know, my brother has ten children. So one of my brothers has ten, the other one I think has seven.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
One has three, I think the other one has five. But they, my brother with ten kids, I love them, but they homeschool. And so what I think you're seeing is the dissolution of public education and sort of this push towards evangelical teaching in a homeschool way. where you do teach some weird things, like dinosaur bones were actually just put here from other planets to mold the Earth, right?
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
They were part of the packing material to make the Earth 6,000 years ago. That's something that I've actually had to have arguments with on people that have been homeschooled, is this creationist push. So I think what you're looking at, Amy, and what makes me really angry, is that we're basing policy, which is my biggest thing, on fantasy. And if you have Russia...
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
You know, if Hitler and Stalin both gave out medals for childbirth, you still have Hungary doing it. Now you're going back to Orban. Now you're going back to these things where we're actually sort of worshipping these dictator figures and this bizarre sort of mix of Christian nationalism. I've never seen this.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
It's like a it's like new wave autocratic Christian Evangelicalism with this homeschool twist. based on the fact that nobody's having enough kids in a traditional way as based on biblical principles. And I think that's really the baseline of all these policy issues.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And what you pointed out, Amy, which is the technical flow down of bad policy and the lack of realization on what this would actually do. And I think when you combine that, I think we do have a fantasy-based policy right now.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
My mom was 17. She had just turned 17. My sister passed away three or four years ago. And you know, I'm the oldest of eight. We have a huge family, right? The oldest of eight that I know of, Amy. But I think there's another reason for the decline in women having children. And I think that there's a huge population that are incels and voted for Donald Trump.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
tell you because i'm not a super connoisseur of you know the smell and the taste but i i this is absolutely the best i have ever tasted so so that's what i'm drinking today i can i can i talk about our bicky a little bit for you amy why it's so unique so i'll drink you talk well okay that's oh by the way i i wish there was some whiskey in here there might be i'm not quite sure it's just a water bottle but who knows what's in this water bottle amy
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And I think there's not a lot of women who are out there scoping bars for people who look like Charlie Kirk. oder Matt Walsh oder J.D. Vance. Ich meine, J.D. sieht aus, als hätte er seine Haare zu seinem Babygewebe gefiltert, um ihn älter zu machen. Und wenn man sich diese neuen Evangelikanten anschaut, wie Walsh und Vance, haben sie alle Haare, die sie schwarzfarben haben.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Und es ist fast so, als würden sie sich wie alte Propheten aussehen. Es ist dieses neue, wir haben eine Haare, die wie Jeremiah aussehen. And I think I'm not even kidding right now, guys. I'm I'm so freaking angry. And because you're getting to a point now that you're demeaning a whole part of our population. That is everything to me. Right. With my wife, my daughters, my granddaughters, Amy.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I'm going to make this guess and I'm not trying to stereotype at all. But I think you're probably the glue that holds your family together. You take care of the kids. Right. Your husband. Awesome. Has to go to work. But you're there. Right. And you're a professional. And you're doing this podcast and you're raising money for people and you're trying to help people.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
You know, my wife the other day yelled at me because I'm such a loser. Right. She's like, you know what? I work, I do the dishes, I come home, I feed the dogs, I do this, I do that. And honey, I know you're on the phone and you're working all the time, but I'm also a CEO. And you know what? She was right. And I told her, honey, it's because you're a woman.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
You've got to work harder than me because I'm a white male and I'm privileged. And you don't have, I don't have to do anything. You need to understand that's the way. I'm kidding. I'd never said that, Amy. I would have been killed in my house. But I think that that's where we're at right now. And here's the last thing. We're cheap.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
We're the richest country in the world and we're offering only $5,000 for six kids. Where's the graduated payment scale? Russia does it. Russia, what, $16,000 to women with 10 kids? How about 15 kids, baby? We should be giving freaking coupons. The thing is, Denver, it's not about the money.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Why do you think that is? I'm going to say it's because of legal immigration.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
So, Arviki, so as you know, most traditional Scottish and Irish whiskeys are malt, right? A combination like, for instance, Scottish whiskeys really like to stay 100% malt, whether even if they're blends or they're single malt. When you're looking at Irish whiskeys, right, it's a combination of malted and unmalted rye when you talk about their Irish whiskey.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Weißt du, es gibt etwas, wenn Menschen darüber sprechen, wie erfreulich Amerika ist. And we talk about immigration in the past. And we come from the awful, from awful, you know, slavery all the way through to how other immigrants were treated, whether you're talking to Irish, the Italians, right? We're all immigrants to this country, all of us. There's just no way around it.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But the thing about when I talk to first and second generation immigrants is their pride in being Americans. I believe that immigration, new blood into what America used to stand for,
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
is the only thing that keeps us going amy it's it listen america is is is not about a specific ethnicity or race it's not about a shared heritage all the way back thousands of years it's values it's values it's shared values and a shared idea that we're all equal based on how we work what we do and the freedom to do what we want to do and that's the country i love amy and you know i just think that
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
We're just shooting ourselves in the foot so many different ways and destroying the real bedrock of what makes our country great.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
It would be exactly the same as holding hearings on alien abductions, Bigfoot breeding populations in the Northwest. interdimensional energy beings as part of the voting population. It's about the exact same thing. The other thing, too, what really bothers me, you know, what was Ben and Jennifer Lopez? They were Bennifer, right? When you put them together, right?
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
So this is Ron Johnson and Laura Loomer. It's rumor, right? Same exact belief systems. And Laura Loomer is firing people in the NSC, but now we're starting to see that we have a sitting senator who believes in the same absolute horseshit. Das ist das, was Laura Loomer macht. Hier ist die andere Sache über die 9-11-Konspiratoren. Ich habe die 9-11-Konspiratoren geflüchtet. Das macht mich verrückt.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
So what's really special about your whiskey, Amy? ist, dass es eine grüne schottische Whisky ist, oder es ist eine Rye Whisky, die nicht so unangenehm ist. Ich meine, es ist sehr unangenehm und nicht so üblich wie die anderen Whiskys, die in Skotland und Irland sein werden. Das ist der Grund, warum wir, wenn Christine und ich in Irland und in Skotland waren, wir haben ihre Rye Whiskys probiert.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Das erregt mich tatsächlich. Dass wir belitteln würden oder dass wir die Todesfälle all dieser Leute verringern würden, basierend nur auf ludikalen, gemachten Fantasien. Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um. I think we're to a point that we can't trust anybody in the GOP to make solid decisions if something like this were to happen. But I don't even have the words.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Amy, I'm not actually, I'm not presenting to you my rage. I don't know if I have the vocabulary for that kind of batshittery and nuttery.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I have a question for you though, Amy, and I know that this is near and dear to your heart, right? Okay. Signalgate 1, pretty bad. But I want to ask you, do you believe or why would you believe that Signalgate 2 would be worse than Signalgate 1?
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Und ich erinnere mich auf einige Rye-Tastings. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich die Arbicci hatte. Aber Amy, der Grund, warum das Whisky so speziell ist, ist, dass mein Wunsch ist, dass es ein bisschen Toast auf dem Rye gibt. Sie toasten wahrscheinlich den Rye, wie sie den Malz machen. Und das gibt dir wahrscheinlich ein wenig, nicht nicht gepeatet,
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
It is. Right? It's worse, though. You're right. It's awful. You're right. You nailed it. But also we have a nepotism issue. Didn't Hegseth put his brother, his name is Phil Hegseth, right, into a high government position? We don't know if he was vetted for the clearance for that high government position. His wife has no government position. I almost said something very inappropriate about medals.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But I think we have nepotism mixed with the passing of classified information, mixed with using the exact same methods Das sollte absolut nicht genutzt werden. Und Amy, ich denke, ich bin mit dir, dass Signalgate 2 schlimmer ist als Signalgate 1. Ich bin mit dir.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
So, great question. Tim Pool was actually... Although he denied he knew, though it was proven, is a far right wing propagandist who was proven to be taking funds funneled through Russia, a specific individual. There was a hub and spoke of Russian directed funds that were going to far right propagandists and media types. He's also a person who wears a stocking cap sometimes to cover his bald head.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Not peated, but probably a toasted rye or bicky, which gives you a little spice. And it's probably a little bit sweeter on the end than a lot of American whiskeys. I bet you it is.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But he's specifically a propagandist. And he's somebody sort of in the lane. And I'm not trying to... He's sort of this... You know, in science, I learned this term called asexual budding, right? Where things can actually sort of bud off of things without any type of mating, right? It could actually reproduce singularly.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Tim Poole ist wie ein asexuelles Arschloch von Jordan Peterson, vielleicht von Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson ist ein Art dieser weitrechte Philosoph, der sehr bizarr geworden ist. Aber ich kann sogar besser als das. Er ist, was fast in Ordnung ist mit den J.D. Vance. Er könnte ein asexuelles Arschloch von J.D. Vance sein. off Matt Walsh, who's another far-right commentator.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
He was part of that whole hub and spoke of Russian payment systems that were actually going to all these influencers, these far-right influencers. So that's why, Amy, this question gets to me, is that we're not allowing the Associated Press, but we're allowing some slimeball Russian Schill, who monetizes lies and conspiracies, to be in the White House briefing room.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I don't even know where to go from there. I'm just to a point.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
No pun intended, Amy, of money. Es ist traurig. Es ist sehr traurig. Okay. Now, Amy, you know, we've had a lot of talk about women's issues today. Right. And it's been profound. But I have to ask you this question. And I'm always laughing before I ask it, because I love I can't wait to hear your answer. What do you think about the Pentagon's new powder room?
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
There's no wrong way to drink whiskey, Amy. And, you know, there isn't. And people are like, I put Coke in my whiskey. You drink whiskey any way you want it. I don't do that. Amy McGrath doesn't do that mostly, but... You know, there's no wrong way to drink whiskey. Awesome. I can't wait to try the.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Amy, can I footstomp something you said real quick? What you said about using green energy to clean up the supply and logistics lines is so profound. And I think it goes beyond just climate change. We're talking about saving lives.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And by the way, with the advent of technology, if you're looking at battery-operated vehicles, you're looking at self-driving vehicles, but you're looking at solar, you're looking at wind power, you're looking at water power, you're looking at much more efficient ways of powering equipment, especially if it's like auxiliary power, right, Amy, when you're talking about water treatment, stuff like that.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Yeah. Why not use green energy so that we do have less logistics issues and and less people in harm's way based on resupply. I mean, it's a brilliant... For me, it's brilliant. It's not just about climate change. It's about saving lives. It's about military readiness and operational readiness. So I wanted to footstop that for the listeners. That's a really brilliant point. Second thing.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
When you talk about powder rooms... Shit. More Republican men carry makeup kits than the Democratic women. Und ich möchte dir sagen, warum. Also, wirklich schnell. Es gab einen Kongressmann aus Tennis, der noch da ist. Und er kam rein und er wurde wunderschön entdeckt und in riesigen Mengen von Kekton-Make-up. Und ich komme hoch, du weißt, die Eile, und ich gucke auf ihn und ich bin so, Alter.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Ich bin so, hast du das nur aus einem Hits gekommen? Ich meine, das ist viel Make-up. Du weißt, Matt Gates hat seine eigene Make-up-Tasche überall. I mean, listen, if this guy got medals for the number of cameras that he had costed, he'd have so many medals, right? Yeah. That's Matt Gaetz, right? So, Mark Green. Oh, I'm sorry, I just said his name. So sorry, Amy.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But he said, well, you know, we have to wear makeup because if I get hit with cameras or interviews, why? So when you leave the house floor and you go towards the Rotunda, the statutory hall, you have camera banks on each side. So that's where you can actually peel off and get interviewed. Me, I'm like, eh, you know, every now and then.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But a lot of those, they would just go straight for the interviews, right, as quickly as they could. And that's because, you know, they wanted to get those medals for how many cameras they were on top of. So I think that's, so I want to tell people this, that This is not a big, Hegseth certainly needs a makeup studio, because that's how these guys think.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
They got as much makeup as the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I'm telling you, when they're behind closed doors... That's what's happening.
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Rest in peace. Cheers to Pope Francis. That is beautiful. Yeah, I don't know how to beat that, Amy. There's no way. So here's what I want to say. If everybody wants to join us,
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
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The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Amy, I don't even know what to say to this. I mean, we went from, you know, Ronald Reagan and his look at the Soviet Union to So where we have Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. They're like the magic duo rolling over and showing their belly to Putin.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And I think I was listening to Zelensky, you know, being in Ukraine, going back, you know, Zelensky was talking about the Constitution of Ukraine and they actually can't sign it. There's no way they're going to sign a 20 percent give of territory taken by force and say they're never going to join NATO. And I'm wondering if there's some secret, you know, sort of monetary damages in there.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But also it's lifting off sanctions. I'm absolutely convinced at this point that if Trump isn't a Russian stooge, he's so idiotic that he doesn't even realize what he's doing. But I think it goes to the incompetence and this authoritarian bent in the administration right now, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
No, Amy, as you can see with my shades, I am now in San Diego and I have to look completely California for you today. So I wanted people to see how cool I am while we're doing Truth in the Barrel when I'm in San Diego. So I know I have the Tom Cruise look. I know it's hard. I'm not going to take away from the whole show though, Amy. Yeah, please don't. We have a lot to get through. I know.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
You know, past performance is indicative of future performance, right? It's not like we thought that Trump would be any different with Putin. I think another thing, too, when you're talking about Witkoff, you know, I literally call him Witless Koff. I mean, the guy is absolutely witless. But you said something about Marco Rubio, and I want people to look something up. Do you know, Amy?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
dass Marco Rubio als Untersekretär einen Jungen namens Darren Beatty verabschiedet hat. Habt ihr jemals diesen Namen gehört? Darren Beatty? Nein. Er war ein Far-Right-Writer, der für einen Revolver arbeitete. Darren Beatty ist derjenige, der die FED-Surrection begonnen hat, oder tatsächlich die FED-Surrection-Konspirationstheorien am 6. Januar geblieben hat, dass Ray Epps und die FBI am 6.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Januar hinter sich waren. Das ist derjenige, der sein Untersekretär ist. Also, ja, 2019, der gleiche Darren Beatty wurde aus der Trump-Administration ausgewählt. Amy, weißt du, warum? Beziehungen zu weißen Nationalisten. Nun, wenn du dich an Putin anschaust, richtig, die weißen Nationalisten, christliche Nationalisten lieben Putin.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Sie denken, er ist ein Art Avatar für die neue, starke westliche Christentum, und er ist im Osten. But that's what's happening right now. You know, you are the people you surround yourself with. As you know, me and you, Amy, personnel is policy.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And if you're surrounding yourself with such awful human beings, what other type of judgment are you making downstream on huge policy decisions like Russia? So I think where we're at right now is we have an administration that's pro-Putin. And I think that I'm hoping that that people like me and you can bring that to light. We're doing that.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
But I do think the midterms, I think that's something that people need to really look at as we're going into 2026.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I'm gonna be pretty hawkish here. And Amy, I mean, this is where I love having our conversations. So here's what it is to me. If I'm president, Amy, the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually increase spending Right. For specific types of airframes and armaments to go directly against Russia.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I think the only thing that actually works against Putin, because I've always said sociopaths only feel pain, I think is to drive him out of the entire territory. We cannot capitulate on NATO inclusion. Like that's not something that we should probably do. Right. So here's here's what I would do right now. If it was me.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
First of all, I would increase spending to a point where Russia knows we're incredibly serious. Not only that. I would involve all the NATO. I would actually be going to NATO, actually asking for increased funding across the board to arm Ukraine completely. I would do this, however. I think what I would do is say, listen, you have a choice, Vladimir, right? We already know you're depleted, right?
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I want to make sure it's content-driven and not looks-driven with my sunglasses. So, yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
We already know that one of our tanks are going to take out 10 of yours. And, you know, I had to study 1090s, T90s and all that stuff. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to destroy your army in Russia and Ich glaube, wenn Sie das tun, wenn Sie das Captured Territory zurückgeben, werden wir 5-7 Jahre Zeit geben, Right.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
To negotiate what a NATO type of relationship would look like with Ukraine. But we are going to include them. We're going to continue in PFP, Partnership for Peace. We're going to make them a PFP country in perpetuity. Right. We want them to be an ally. I think that's the only thing that would actually stop this right now. Again, Putin is only going to react if he feels massive pain.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
That's the only way you win this. That's how I would actually approach it. Peace with a sociopath and a dictator, especially a Russian one, who believes that his historical drive is to take back lost Soviet lands. That's the only way you've got to deal with him, is absolutely overwhelming force and a destruction of everything he holds dear in Ukraine.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
I think it's a 50-50 chance we withdraw completely as an American delegation. I think there's a chance that the EU takes over all funding of Ukraine and I think we lose our global partnerships and trust for decades, whether it's NATO or our EU allies, Amy, at this point. I just don't see any way around it. Even what we're talking about with J.D.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
Vance or what they're actually releasing as far as what's happening right now, I think we've already lost the trust of our allies. I think that bridge has been burned. I really don't know how to gain it back unless we have decades of bridge building, right, with us actually going back in and saying, hey, we have a responsible administration, responsible foreign policy.
Truth in the Barrel
The Week Unfiltered 04.25.25
And we don't have a coward like Donald Trump, who just wants to be with authoritarians. We do have the Neville Chamberlain of presidents when it comes to Putin, but it's the Neville Chamberlain that probably sniffed too much glue as a child. And I think that's what we have right now in America.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ich habe nicht mal... Okay. every single person in a natural disaster zone. Say it's one of the big hurricanes and you have tens of thousands of houses. Okay, let's look at the LA wildfires, right? So are we going to have tens of thousands of people trying to crowdfund their own relief? It's so ludicrous. It's so absolutely mind-boggling.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
You were talking about the conspiracy theories about money being stolen and sent to immigrants. We already talked about the HAARP conspiracy theories. How about the FEMA concentration camps? Now you're talking about the same people who believe in this nonsense are saying we should crowdfund, right? Crowdfund relief? Are you kidding me?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Fraude würde überall sein, weil du nicht kannst. Okay, also du hast 47.000 Menschen, die betroffen sind. Und jede einzelne Person, wenn sie sagt, hey, wir setzen einen neuen Crowdfunding-Bereich auf, um zu helfen. Hey, ich bin Bob Smith. Ich lebe auf dieser Straße. Ich weiß, dass ich herausfinden kann, wo jeder lebt. Wie du weißt, in meinem Hintergrund, in meiner Firma, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Amy, wenn es du warst, würde ich dich vertreten. Ich würde so viel Geld verdienen. It's mind-boggling, the stupidity that you'd have to have in your brain to think that that would work or that's something that even makes sense in any way. So I don't even really have the words.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
What a smooth intro. You're incredible at this. And I do want to say, though, that if people want to listen to these smooth intros, which are incredibly done by Amy McGrath and our incredible show, you have to actually sign in. You got to subscribe. You got to get on YouTube and push the little button. You got to make sure we're on your favorite pod and you have to follow us on all the socials.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Amy, es ist wie der JV-Football-Coach, der endlich der Varsity-Coach wird, seinen ersten Tag, und er schreit und weint und versucht, seine Autorität zu beurteilen. Und er konnte nicht glauben, dass er tatsächlich promotiert wurde.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Aber der Grund, warum er von JV zum Varsity-Football-Coach ging, weil es eine Schule mit 14 Leuten war und er war der einzige, der in der Stadt war, das ist das, was wir mit Leuten wie diesem haben. Sie sind so schwach. Sie sind so verletzt als Menschen, dass sie nicht verstehen, was Leadership bedeutet, aber sie verstehen nicht, wie man mit Menschen interagieren kann.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Und wenn es eine Person ist, die sich schon gezeigt hat, dass es Stämme und Misogynie gibt, dann weißt du bereits, mit wem du dich handelst, richtig? Du handelst dich mit, weißt du, einem von diesen selbstbeschriebenen Alphas, richtig, der denkt, sie seien unglaublich und dass sie mehr Kreatin nehmen müssen, weißt du, während ihrer Workouts, weißt du, und für ihre 135 Benchpress, richtig?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Das sind die Art von Menschen, mit denen wir uns handeln. Aber wiederum, der Fakt ist, das ist eine tolle Forschung auf dem Buch da, Amy, dass wenn er bereits ein Misogynist ist, dann weißt du, mit wem du dich als Mensch und als Führer handelst.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Climate change, it's been dictated by the government. That's a deep state globalist ploy to take over the United States. And by the way, you can control weather within the borders, Amy, because we can seed those clouds using HAARP. There are special weapons systems and seeds and we can drop them right in there.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
And if you can do that, you can listen to this great show. But guess what I got to do, Amy, before we get started? I have to look at some whiskey and drink it. Are we ready for this? So here's the whiskey. Yeah, I mean, I hope you're ready. Here's the whiskey of the day. It's our own Silverback Distillery Blackback Honey Rye. And, you know, I got to tell you a little bit of history on this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Cryptocurrency will save us. Don't worry about that, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Also, Kryptowährung ist eine Währung, die auf digitalen Einsen und Zerren oder Elektronen basiert. Oder es ist auf einer elektronischen Währung basiert, die auf mehrere verschiedene Arten von Dingen basiert. Du hast von Meme-Coin gehört, richtig, Amy?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Du hast von spezifischen Krypto-Coin gehört, wie Bitcoin und Ethereum. Dann hast du secure Coins, die wie Stable-Coin sind, und ich kann dazu eingehen. Also, du hast echte Coins, die nur auf Popularität basiert. Sie sind auf eine Menschheit belegt, wie Trump-Coin. Are they real coins, Denver?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Diese sind nur Ein-und-Zero-Repräsentationen einer Art von Währung oder Ding mit einer Identifizierung für diese Karte. Das ist entweder in einer Blockchain, wenn du über Bitcoin sprichst, oder es wird digital verteilt. Es ist ein digitales Asset, das aufgrund von etwas basiert. Und diese Werte können arbitrarisch sein.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Diese Werte können aufgrund von Schwierigkeiten oder aufgrund von Sicherheiten basiert sein. die Werte können arbitrarisch sein. Sie können aufgrund von Schwierigkeiten basiert sein. Sie können aufgrund von Sicherheiten basiert sein. So those are really the three things that I, that's the best way I can do it in a simple way, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Because a Trump coin is different from Bitcoin, is different from a stable coin. So if you're looking at a meme coin or something like the Melania coin or... Wenn man sich die Let's Go Brandon-Coin anschaut, die von Steve Bannon gebaut wurde, sind all diese eigentlich aufgrund von Nicht-Skarzität oder Nicht-Scharzität oder Nicht-Sicherheit verwendet. Also, boom, gehen wir zu etwas anderem.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Gehen wir zu Bitcoin. Bitcoin ist aufgrund von Skarzität, weil es nur so viele Bitcoins gibt. So that's a digital transaction. What's Bitcoin now? About $100,000 per Bitcoin. And I don't remember the exact maximum. I remember if it's 200 million is going to be the maximum of Bitcoins. It's something like that. People can check it out. But at some point it's going to be limited.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
So it's based on scarcity and on that specific blockchain protected asset. Now when you're talking about stablecoin, you're talking about something that's hooked to securities or other crypto. So here's what's crazy. You can hook coins, right, to, you know, secure coins, right, which is what Calibri wanted to do under Facebook, under Mark Zuckerberg.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I actually questioned them on this during a House hearing. People can go look it up. So the issue, though, that you have with secure coins is those securities can be based on a bucket of securities, multiple securities, one security, or it can be a coin like stablecoin that's based on securities and also trying to stabilize crypto. So what you have is a stablecoin, maybe built on other securities,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Dinge, die Geld und echten Wert haben, oder es könnte aufgrund von Krypto basiert sein, das scheint einen Wert zu haben, aber diese Krypto könnte tatsächlich sehr flexibel sein. Was du also mit Stablecoin hast, ist es, als ob du eine stabile Krypto für andere Dinge kreierst, die aufgrund anderer Dinge hergestellt werden. Ich hoffe, das hilft mit den Kryptodefinitionen des Tages.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
We had tried some of the Jack Daniels and the other types of honey whiskeys out there that I think are just sort of color. Those are good. Ja, sie sind gut, aber sie benutzen eigentlich Geschäfte-Häuser. Viele von ihnen sind chemisch geflavt oder sie geben Farben hinzu. Also habe ich meine Frau gedauert. Ich sagte, sie benutzen alle diese Art von kornbasierter, fast ein Bourbon-basierter Whisky.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
That's a great question. Because literally if I was POTUS, I would make a play to disengage all crypto in the American financial system. That would be the first thing that I would do. Die Sache ist, dass es sehr schwierig ist.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Krypto wird von vielen Leuten genutzt, aber ist es unser Job, sie zu schützen, von etwas, das von einer Art und Weise gebaut wurde, um die Wimsen von unbeschädigten Inseln, die im Wohnzimmer leben, zu erfüllen? Wenn du an Krypto schaust, ist Stablecoin ein Fieberdrehen, das sie gewartet haben, um das durch den Kongress zu bekommen.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I've always thought when I was on the Financial Services Committee, maybe we could peg a secure coin or a secure digital asset to the American dollar or to securities in the United States government, maybe. Maybe something I would consider down the line as long as it could be regulated. The issue even with Stablecoin, did you see why the Democrats came around and 16 of them voted for it?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Könntest du einen Honey mit Rye machen? Wie wäre das? Rye ist ein bisschen spärer. Also habe ich sie gedauert. Ich sagte, kannst du einen Honey-Rye-Whisky machen, der nicht fake ist? Und sie sagt, lass mich dir einen Schuss geben. Also, was sie gemacht hat, war nicht nur ist das unser gewonnener Rye Whisky, sie hat ihr eigenes Honey-Liquor, Amy. Also mit unserer Vodka.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Oh, there were more assurances that there would be integrity in the process or there's some protections so that the people like Elon Musk can't actually benefit from their role in government as it pertains to crypto. Are you kidding me? Really what happened behind the door, Amy, is that lobbyists got to them. That's it. There's something that's good that's going to happen for them.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
That's what would happen for me, right? If I'm like, I'm a no on the stablecoin bill, immediately I would be besieged by every lobbyist on earth saying how great it is. Well, we got to, you know what, cryptos, you know, it's still the wild west, as you said, Amy. We got to use it. The United States could benefit from it. Do you think normal Americans are going to benefit from stablecoin?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
That's ludicrous. Stablecoin is a regulated coin or security coin built to regulate things that are made up already. Now, everything in life is made up. I've had this argument, Amy, people are like, well, the dollar bill is made up. God dang. Es ist zurückgegangen. Es gibt verschiedene Arten von gemacht, richtig, Amy? Es gibt sehr verschiedene Arten von gemacht.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Es gibt mich, die Geschichte eines Monster in der Klause zu machen, und dann mich, die ganze Währung zu machen, die sortiert wird, die wirklich für verletzte kriminelle Organisationen genutzt wird, um sicherzustellen, dass sie zurück und fort passen und für Pump-and-Dump-Schemen. Es ist ein Mythos. Es ist ein Mythos.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Es ist nur ein digitaler Mythos, der von Leuten geschaffen wurde, die wirklich zu zerstören wollten, happens in regulated economic countries like ours bitcoin and all this was to get away from the regulated industries that's why crypto started crypto was for individuals who didn't want to participate the libertarian strain right of coders that need to build their own so Stablecoin, yes.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
It's nuanced for me. Yes, there's got to be a way in order to maneuver through the vast morass of crypto. But for me, instead of a stablecoin bill, this is actually, this is a gift to all the people who help Trump. Stablecoin bill, this is bullshit. It's just...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Es ist nur ein Scheiß, in dem sie sagen, dass es die amerikanischen Leute schützen wird, wenn es wirklich nur ein Geschenk ist für alle Krypto-Geeks, die das schon lieben, seit Bitcoin auf der Szene explodierte und dann Ethereum und all das.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Für mich, wenn ich wieder in einer Position der Macht war oder wenn ich tatsächlich auf einem exekutiven Niveau war, würde ich versuchen, Krypto von der amerikanischen Ökosysteme zu entdecken.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Also mit unserer Vodka, wir sind und haben Drammen von einem lokalen Farmer genannt, Hungry Hill Farms. Und wir haben diese riesigen 55-Gallon-Drums bekommen. Wir haben unsere eigenen Warmers. Wir haben unsere eigenen Sedimentation-Filter. Wir gehen bis zu Submicron-Filtration, von 40 Microns bis zu Submicron. Und unsere eigene Kocher.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Es erinnert mich an eine meiner Lieblingssongs. Ich bin nur ein Gigolo und überall, wo ich gehe, wissen die Leute, was ich spiele. Das ist wirklich das, was wir mit Donald Trump haben. Hör auf. Weißt du was? Wenn es ich wäre, würde ich nicht auf diesem Show kommen und uns in Probleme stellen. Ich möchte sagen, wie ich den Denver-Meme-Coin benutzen würde.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Würdest du wissen, wie ich ihn benutzen würde? Ich denke, wir können einen Truth in the Barrel-Meme-Coin machen. Ja, ja, ich denke, wir sollten ein TIB-Meme-Coin machen. Das ist eigentlich cool. Lass uns das machen. Und wir können es an die Sicherheiten machen, wie cool wir sind, was Billionen wäre. Also, hier ist die Sache. Hier ist, wie ich ein Meme-Coin, Amy, benutzen würde.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ich würde es für Geldlaunderung benutzen. Das ist so, wie ich es machen würde. Ich würde es für Transaktionen verwenden. Dinge, die ich als Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten nie tun könnte, für die Bedeutung. Das wäre das, was ich dafür verwenden würde, wenn ich Präsident war. Ich sage nicht, dass jemand anderes das tut, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Das wäre so, wie ich es machen würde, wenn ich ein Krimineller wäre, richtig? Das andere tolle an Krypto, besonders wenn du Meme-Coin machst, ist, wer der reguläre Körper ist. Anybody know? So, say there's a U.S. government entity that's a regulatory body. Who controls those regulatory bodies at the executive branch? That goes up to the president.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
And by the way, who is he putting in these positions? Loyalists. Stupid people like the person he's put in charge of FEMA. Boy, look at this. It's come full circle now. So now you have crypto as a way to launder money.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
That's I mean, I'm saying if I were to do it as a criminal and thinking as a criminal would be a way to launder money and to secure favors from foreign nations, to procure things you can never procure as president and to set up your kids in a way right where they can actually continue.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Das ist eine Art Trump-Dynastie, weil gerade jetzt habt ihr die Gerüchte von Erich Trump im Jahr 2028 gehört, für Präsidenten. Also was er tut, ist, dass er diese massive Wealth-Bloom setzt. Ich meine, ich würde diese massive Wealth-Bloom setzen.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Also was wir tun, ist, wir bauen unsere eigene Liqueur, dann machen wir unsere eigene Blende. Unsere Liqueur kommt aus etwa 28 Proof. Dann blenden wir es mit unserem Rye Whiskey, was, wie Sie sehen, ein wunderschöner Rye ist. Es gibt keine artifiziellen Farben oder Farben. Das ist, ja. Also wie schmeckt es? Oh mein Gott. Also, wenn du es tatsächlich trinkst und ich mache es jetzt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ich nutze all diese Ressourcen, um meine Kinder aufzusetzen, um sicherzustellen, dass jeder auf unserem Team ist, Geld aufzubauen, um sicherzustellen, dass ich meine Grundlage verbessern kann, weil ich denke, ich weiß nicht, wie Trump seine Netto-Werte von Billionen erhöht hat, seit er Präsident geworden ist, glaube ich.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Aber ich denke, das ist der Art von Dingen, für die man Meme-Coin nutzen kann, um Geld aufzubauen, genau wie man irgendeinen typischen digitalen Asset benutzen würde.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I just don't think people care. I think once corruption is just out in the open, once you have a Trump meme coin as a president, and think about Amy just us saying that, that's corrupt. There's not a line, there's not a fine line. Accepting a $400 million aircraft, well, that's corrupt. There's no argument, but people don't care. They just don't care.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
And I'm wondering, you know, if we're going down a road where people want this strong man, authoritarian, no matter what he does, as long as our life is even sort of improved, which it's not, they're completely just, you know, the wool has been pulled over their eyes. You know, we're going to vote for this guy. Look, guys, it's pennies. Pennies.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ich setze den Bottle runter. Das ist sehr, sehr aufregend. Ich nehme diesen Honey-Rye. Der Nase ist unglaublich, weil du denkst, du kriegst das Honey zuerst, aber es ist mit der Spice und dem Rye verbunden, weil wir einen Pumpernickel-Rye für unseren Rye Whiskey benutzen. Oh, so, just so delightful. And also the legs on it, it's so sticky.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I don't know. Like, Amy, it's so Zuerst einmal, die Familie oder die Partei, die individuelle und Familienrechte verurteilt, scheint nicht wirklich individuelle und Familienrechte zu verurteilen. Ich weiß nicht, wie ich meine Arme um mich herum machen kann. Das war meine Tochter, die da lag. Ich bin 55 Jahre alt. Oder ich würde sagen, das war meine Frau an dem Zeitpunkt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ich war kein nicht konfrontierter junger Mann. Ich kann es nicht vorstellen, wenn meine Frau tot ist, mit dem Gehirn tot, und sie ist auf Life Support und sie ist neun Wochen verheiratet. I mean, what decision do you make, number one? What is your decision to make, right? It's the decision of the family to make.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
But I don't know how you even get your arms around the fact that the government is determining that you keep her on life support for a fetus that might or might not die. Now, listen. Wir könnten moralische Relativisten hier den ganzen Tag haben. Wir könnten darüber sprechen, ob die Familie wählen sollte. Hatte sie vorher etwas gesagt, wo sie das Baby geboren haben wollte? Ich weiß es nicht.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ich denke, was mich schreckt, ist, dass es komplett aus den Händen der Familie selbst genommen werden könnte. based on this lack of respect for not just the family, but for the woman, for her life, for her suffering.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Es ist... Es ist schwer für mich zu verstehen. Was würdest du tun, Amy? Und die Sache ist, für mich, wenn es meine Frau oder meine Tochter wäre, würde ich unglaublich gewaltig sein. Ich wäre im Gefängnis. Wenn die Regierung uns fordert, sie lebendig zu halten, wenn wir wissen, dass sie tot ist. Es werden schlechte Dinge passieren.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Und das ist die Sache, dass ich Angst habe, was meine Reaktion als Mensch auf eine Art oder andere Weise sein würde. And how does the family every day... Every part of this, there's an effect on every part of this that's so awful and horrific. But it also gives you this other horrific feeling, Amy, is how far can the government go? If we're allowing this, what's the next step?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
The legs are sticky on the glass actually, so you can see the honey streaks with the whiskey. Oh, my goodness. I'm going to do a little taste. Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Absolut. Es sollte es nicht sein. Und du weißt, du kommst zu einem Punkt, wo du einfach nicht weißt, wie du die Regierung ermöglichen kannst, diese Wahl zu machen. Und ich denke, all deine Punkte sind gut genommen. Wir haben über den Kaskadeneffekt gesprochen und das ist mein größter Worry, wo es von hier her kommt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Nach dem Gespräch über etwas Schreckliches, über das wir hierhin gehen, weiß ich, dass das etwas ist, das wir vorher bringen werden. Aber ich glaube, dass wir, ich weiß, wir haben noch einige andere Themen zu besprechen, aber ich denke, Amy, wir sollten uns vielleicht ein bisschen mehr daran konzentrieren, diesen kaskadierenden Effekt in jedem Staat, der diese Regeln und diese Regeln hat.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Und mein Gott, du bekommst das Honig mit dem Reis und der Spice. Also anstatt dieses überwältigende Süßes von den anderen Honig-Whiskys, hast du eine echte Reis-Base mit einem Honig-Liquor. Also ist es nicht sehr süß. Also auch wenn es süß ist, ist es nicht sehr süß. Und du bekommst den Whisky und das kleine bisschen Schmerz, weil wir einen 70-Profen haben.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
But I think we need to talk about the country as a whole and why we are failing.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
And I think part of that is that our country itself, you know, we're talking about these awful things, you know, that's happening in Georgia, but our country itself, right, we're in a predicament where financially, based on our own credit agencies, we could be going down a path where this deficit and debt absolutely destroys us.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ja, weil für sie, sie gehen diesen Weg, wo sie sich nicht interessieren. Und übrigens, ich habe ein bisschen Trivia. Weißt du, dass Moody's, S&P und Fitch, die drei Kreditagenturen, eigentlich Kompetenzen sind? Und du kannst eigentlich eine Kreditrate basieren auf dem, wenn du zu einem bestimmten Ort oder anderen gehst, ist ihre größte Angst, das Geschäft zu verlieren.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Und wir können dazu noch mal eingehen. Aber was ich interessant finde, ist, dass die Administration sich nicht interessiert. I think as we're forcing our way down this line where they're looking at cuts just to benefit them and to go against the American people directly, I think they think they can manipulate the market. And I think it's sort of this... And I don't want to lose this uselessly.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I mean, it's almost this fascistic way of looking at it, this autocratic top-down, we can manipulate the government any way we want. You know, they talked about, you know, firing Jerome Powell, right? They've talked about all these different types of things where they can control the economy themselves. They can artificially, you know, really maneuver the interest rates too.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
So I think it's just part of their mindset is this sort of authoritarian mindset that they have.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Well, we'll just invest in Stablecoin. We'll be fine, Amy. We'll just invest in... You know what's pretty crazy is you talk about stable and unstable. Let's talk about unstable Trump and him going after Bruce Springsteen, because I guess Bruce, the boss, had some bad things to say about him in a UK tour. Und ich finde es interessant, er hat so eine dünne Haut.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
This is 70, but we also sell a 90 proof honey alpha, which is delicious. So that is that is the whiskey of the day.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Aber als Teil dessen, was wir in unserem ersten kleinen Segment darüber gesprochen haben, was mit Moody und der Auswertung und unserer Kreditrate passiert, ist, dass sie denken, dass sie einfach nur deliberate und persönlich jemanden zerstören können, indem sie sagen, dass sie gehen wollen.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Und ich denke, das ist ein bisschen, wiederum, ich denke, es ist eindeutig für unsere Regierung, wenn man jemanden hat, der einen YouTube-Snippet oder einen echten sozialen Snippet ausübt, ich verzeihe, wo er schießt, wir hatten einen Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten, wo er schießt, You know, Bruce Springsteen with a golf ball, the same thing he did to Biden.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I mean, it's so juvenile and thin skinned and ridiculous. But it also sort of, I think, looks at how unstable this guy is.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I feel like, yeah, I feel like we need a PSA. Don't eat your own hair extensions, right? Because you get habeas corpus confused. I mean, she is just so ridiculous and so idiotic. But can you imagine that the DHS Secretary, Amy...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Well, you know, she thinks habeas corpus is one of those new watches like a Rolex. Hello, have you seen my new habeas corpus watch? $40,000 with jewels. And I like to show it in front of prisoners in El Salvador.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Yes, and you better subscribe. You better actually subscribe to our YouTube. Go to your favorite podcast and follow us on socials. If you're not, you're a loser and we're going to suspend habeas corpus and we're going to come in your house.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Yeah, I am back right now and I might be headed back to Ukraine here very soon. But I am back. But you know, I had this dream, Amy, that we were going to be on the stage at Madison Square Garden doing Truth in the Barrel.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I think once this live show kicks off, I think after two or three live shows, I think we're going to have producers and directors and Hollywood types and people around the world contacting us to have us go into these massive venues and selling them out quickly.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
The thing that I've been fighting for so long when I was in Congress and things like that was actually having fact-based policy discussions, right, Amy? And we're going to need a drink for this one as I go into this. As we're looking right now, we're looking at cutting programs that have been proven to be effective.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
When you're looking at FEMA, when you're looking at programs that help individuals and help groups and organizations to recover from, the best thing we say is acts of God, right? That's what we put that in quotes, right? These massive horrific things that happen to people based on weather patterns and things of that nature. However, what's interesting is that you're still seeing this
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
diese seltsame Aktivität, dass all diese Dinge passieren, weil die Regierung es tatsächlich kreiert. Das ist die Konsequenz-Theorie-Seite davon. Und das heißt HAARP, richtig? Das ist das hohe Frequenz-Akt eines ruralen Forschungsprogramms.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Also gibt es viele Konsequenzen-Theorien, die tatsächlich glauben, dass das schlechte Wetter, das wir sehen, eine Funktion der gouvernementlichen Intervention ist. Es ist also interessant für mich, dass wir eine Legislaturperiode haben, die die Frauen auslöst. Oder du hast Doge, die Leute sagen, dass wir sie nicht brauchen, oder sie sollten zurück in die Staaten gehen, richtig, Amy?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Was Trump gesagt hat, richtig? Dass die Staaten sich darum kümmern sollten.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
When you have so much transaction of economics across all 50 states, I don't think people realize that one state falling, if the state is actually creating or trying to prop up what's happening in real time with monies to save themselves from these natural disasters, how that ripple effect happens across all 50 states and even in international finance and international economics.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Wir haben also diese seltsame Zusammenfassung, Amy, wo Leute gegen Dinge kämpfen, die funktionieren, aber sie sind auf Webseiten und reden über verrückte Dinge, wie diese Verschwörungstheorie über HAARP und dass HAARP tatsächlich diese schrecklichen Dinge in den roten Staaten kreiert, um die roten Staaten zu zerstören, weil es die Globalisten oder die bösen Leute darunter sind.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Und so, Amy, als wir diese Diskussionen haben, als wir die Wahrheit auf dem Pfeil wieder und wieder machen, als ich die unglaubliche Forschung lesen konnte und unser Hintergrund und unser Forschungsteam, die einen unglaublichen Job gemacht haben, habe ich angefangen zu denken, was passiert, Amy, wenn wir nicht mal solidare Entscheidungen auf Dinge wie FEMA machen können,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
And we have things being said about FEMA that are patently false. Yet we have people who are actually enacting these policies, believe in things like the HAARP conspiracy theories, that the high-frequency active oral research program is creating the bad weather in the first place. So here's what I think is going to happen, Amy, and I'd love to have your opinion on this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ich denke, dass mehr und mehr Menschen Investitionen in HAARP und HAARP und Investitionen in FEMA machen wollen und wie sie zusammenarbeiten, um die amerikanischen Menschen zu zerstören. Und das sind die Dinge, die ich wieder in diesen Konspirationsrunden sehe. Und Amy, das ist der Grund, warum ich denke, dass dieses Show wichtig ist. Ich habe es wieder und wieder gesagt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Aber wiederum, dieses ganze Thema FEMA und was mir jetzt passiert, ist nur noch ein Rieck von dieser fantasiebasierten Politik, die von Konspirationstheorien kommt, die unser Regierung runtern.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Ja, das ist es absolut. Außerdem gibt es die Möglichkeit, rassistische Ressourcen über die Staaten-Boundare, wenn es ein föderaler Niveau ist. Aber hier ist das andere Ding, auch du hast es einfach genutzt und ich sage nicht, dass du mein Wunder genommen hast, Amy, du hast es nicht gemacht.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
Aber hier ist das Ding, wenn du die roten Staaten siehst, wenn du die roten Staaten siehst, die tatsächlich in der Roten sind, wie werden sie diesen Art von... I don't know, outlay financially when you see things that happen that awful. Like, you know, Kentucky, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
I was just remembering, and I hate when I remember something after I've read so much, but I just remembered, you know, Kentucky has had issues, right? And when you're looking at, I think if I remember correctly, it was Kentucky or one of the other states. Because of the cuts from Doge, they were having a tough time doing 24-hour coverage for tornado warnings, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.22.25
And, you know, I'm just like, we're the United States of America, right? Und wir können nicht ein Vorwarnungssystem für Naturverletzungen anbieten? Was passiert da? Und was passiert mit Blödsinn?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
So now we have the court saying that he's here legally. I could hate MSF 13, Amy, and I'd love to hear your opinion on this. I could hate criminals. I could say that illegal aliens that don't have any disposition here Based on where they're at or who they are, right? Maybe should be deported back. Yeah, I'm a big proponent of a strong border. I think that's part of us having a country.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
But being in a rural district like the same, you're in Kentucky, I'm a big proponent of legal immigration based on the fact that we have such a lack of a labor force. for actual seasonal work and also farm work. It's absolutely brutal here in the 5th District. There's a farm here, a beach farm, Amy. Over 100 employees, 100% are H2As or H2Bs, are actual immigrants. So here's the thing.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
If we allow somebody to be deported after a court has ruled he's here legally, without due process, It's not about the fact if he was or was not MS-13, which the evidence is incredibly shaky, or the fact that he might have been accused of domestic violence, which is awful. I hate domestic violence people. I hate them. I despise them. Right? Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, I think this was a bit of a drug deal, too, as we would say in our parlance, you know, whether it's government contracting or a real drug deal or somebody wired for sound or a quid pro quo. Because if you think about it, El Salvador, this guy, I think, is Naib Bukele, I believe, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
The president, first of all, you know, don't go to the White House dressed like an extra narcos. You know what I mean? Unless you're at war with Vladimir Putin. Yeah, yeah, unless, that's right. No, but what's interesting, you know, I'm like, oh, come on, man, what are you, a motto? Are you the number one trafficker for Mexican cocaine from the Colombians?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Dress like you respect the president since you're not at war But you are at war with your people. I mean, some of the allegations on this guy and some of the stuff sort of proven based on the fact, you know, building fake social media accounts to to go after his opponents. Right. A guy who's built the Supermax prison. Right. We're somehow in the last five years.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Oh, yeah. That's what he's been accused of. But do you know what happened right before he came to the White House? El Salvador wurde von der Staatsbibliothek verbessert. Ich glaube, es ist wie ein Tier-1-Staat, jetzt einer der sichersten Länder, um zu reisen. Weil in fünf Jahren die Mordrate von 107 pro 100.000 zu 1,9 gegangen ist. Aber die Menschenrechte-Mitglieder sagten, das sei unmöglich.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Right? What is this? Mayberry? Yeah. We got Don Knotts walking around. Right? So it's ludicrous. So you have a guy who's been accused of actually making deals with gangs, payoffs, all that kind of stuff. A guy who has this authoritarian bent, who builds this huge prison to intimidate the population of El Salvador. Right. All of a sudden. Oh, of course he loves any strong man. Trump loves.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
I mean, he wants to spoon with the guy. Right. So, I mean, that's what's going on here. And so there's a quid pro quo going on here with money and favor changing hands. And then we have an El Salvadoran president again dressed like he just came out of a movie, you know, like Narcos saying he wouldn't return a person, a judge to be here legally. Ja, genau.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
It's so out of bounds. It's hard to get your arms around it. You know, our constitution and due process is what separates us from the animals and the autocrats. And if we let that go, we're screwed. You know, I keep saying, it's not a slippery slope anymore. We're not going there.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
They let in the mouth-breathing MAGA representatives, but they wouldn't let in the Maryland senator. And right then, the president, if we had a real president, Und nicht ein Typ... Weißt du, was ich mir fast denke, Amy? Oh Gott, das ist altartig. Und ich weiß nicht... Ich weiß nicht, ob das... Erinnerst du dich an The Naked Gun? Die Filme The Naked Gun?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Ich denke fast... Erinnerst du dich an die Montagen, die so verrückt waren? Ja. You know, with Leslie Nielsen running along the shore with Priscilla Presley and all the stupid stuff they were doing together. I almost feel like we need a montage with Trump with all the dictators in the world and how much fun he has with them.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know, I feel like we need a naked gun montage of Trump, you know, skipping through the tulips with all these fricking dictators and autocrats, because that's where we're at.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
It's shameful because, Amy, people might listen to this. Here's what we're going to be accused of, Amy, if there was GOP messaging against you right now, right, Amy or me?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
We support terrorists and wife beaters. We support gang members. We support everybody here illegally. Because we don't support the President of the United States. Right? And it shows this evil strain within us, this globalist strain to destroy America within. From destroying our American values by allowing these murderers and killers into our countries. And by protecting them.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Lake and Riley didn't have any due process. All these people who have been killed by illegal immigrants didn't have due process. Well, hey, hey motherfuckers, here's the other people who don't have due process. It's everybody killed. It doesn't have due process whether they're American citizens or not.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And by the way, you have to have due process and constitutional rights for people who are judged to be here legally. But Amy, the messaging doesn't work. There's not that nuance. And I think that's why we're in such troubles, because we don't own the media, which is why you called me to start this show. This was your idea.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And I'm going back to truth in the barrel, that you wanted another media stream independently, where we could get sort of this common sense, facts-based stuff out there. So there you go.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
We should still have an official whiskey for the NIH. We should. We were just at the New Orleans Bourbon Festival and Green River was there. What great folks, right? Yeah, cheers to Green River. What did you say before we got on air here, Amy? The frog in my throat?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, you know, I think he is like Trump's new Jared Kushner, right? I think he's, you know, tasked with everything, qualified for nothing. And that's why I want to call him Witless Koff. I think that's his new name from us, Amy. So JCPOA. So when I came in.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Here's the thing. When we were in Congress and I was part of trying to dismantle the JCPOA. There were some things there that we got. We had the partisan talking points. We had nonpartisan talking points. We had my staff. We had to strip it all back. We were looking at what the JCPOA actually meant. I remember the Brennan Center coming. I talked to everybody, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Like, what is this really about? It came down to the fact why we were actually dealing with the JCPOA between 2019 and 2021. You remember that's when Soleimani was killed, right, Amy? Yes. I was there when that happened.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Das ist so, wie viele der großen Distillerien durch die Prohibition gingen. Sie haben sich als medizinisches Whisky identifiziert. So haben sie es gemacht. Und das ist das, was so cool ist mit Green River. Es ist eine unglaubliche Tagline auf deiner Romance, Whisky ohne Regret zu sagen. Aber wir alle wissen, dass zu viel Whisky meistens Regret bedeutet, egal was.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Ja, und jemand, der, wenn er getötet wurde, und übrigens, der Person, die mit ihm getötet wurde, war eigentlich genauso mächtig. Wir können das in einem anderen Show machen, wenn wir über iranische Führung und die RGC sprechen. Sie haben Terrorismus im Irak von Iran und das Schiassuni-Issue sponsoriert. Ich liebe es, darüber zu sprechen.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Das ist mein Bailiwick, einer meiner Bailiwicks, wie es deiner ist. So when we were looking at it, we were looking at these massive money flows for state-sponsored terrorism, but also looking at the long-term effects of the JCPOA, which a lot of us thought we needed something. Some of the more moderate Republicans, we needed an agreement. But enriched uranium was still allowed long-term.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Plus, you know, with the sanctions that were being lifted and a lot of the money that was flowing into Iran, we were seeing increases in state-sponsored terrorism as the JCPOA was actually being executed. And We had to give them notice before we actually went in and did actual inspections. So there was things that were good and things that were really bad.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And me as being somewhat versed on counterterrorism, I'm like, this sucks. We would need a whole new structure. Therefore, the JCPOA is no longer in existence. So me and you can have a long talk about that. I think, yeah. And, you know, when we started the show, we're going to disagree on some things. However, the issue is we do need some kind of agreement that is enforceable.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Und das ist das, was das Leben spannend macht. Genau.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, the White House has consulted experts on this, Amy, like Bill Maher. How could they not know what they're doing, number one? Number two, here's the other thing. What I would want people to go see. This is almost a 50-50 thing. When you're looking at the JCPOA and now you're looking at the evolution of where Iran is today.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
We couldn't really say they didn't already have those agreements still happening with Russia and China, even after the JCPOA. We also knew that enriched uranium was going to be allowed long term based on the treaty, which was where that's where, you know, sometimes when people look at like even the titles of bills, it really is going into the nuance and where you're at.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And it's just like people like, well, Timber, why did you vote for that when you agreed with these parts and disagreed? Wasn't it 51-49 that you should have voted this way? I'm like, actually it was 51-49 the other way. I only have a yes or no vote. And I'm not going to be a coward and vote present. Right? Yeah. Like Massey and Justin Amash like to do all the time.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
So, you know, I'm going to vote because that's my job for my constituents to make the best decision possible. Based on where I am and where my constituents are to vote for down the line and my expertise, which maybe they voted me in or not. The flip to that is, as you said, there has to be expert negotiations. If we're going to scrap the JCPOA,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Bill Maher und Witkoff sollten nicht die intellektuellen Giants sein, auf die wir für diese Art von Negotiativen leiten. Und ich würde sagen, dass die Leute sollten rausgehen und die langfristigen Effekte des JCPOA anschauen und sich ein paar Entscheidungen selbst machen. Reden Sie einen demokratischen Blick auf den JCPOA.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Die Republikaner schauen sich die JCPOA an, aber sie schauen sich auch andere Orte an, wie das Brennan Center oder andere Bereiche, Universitätsstudien, die die absoluten Sprachen unterbrechen und sagen, wo waren Sie? Das Wichtigste an diesem Show ist, dass wir nicht, und warum ich es liebte und warum ich es akzeptiere, ist, weil ich glaube, dass Sie es nicht erlauben.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Wir werden nicht hyperbolic sein, eine Art oder andere, worauf wir gehen sollten, worauf wir wütend sein werden. ist, dass wenn wir mit etwas wie nuklearer Proliferation und ihren Linken zum iranischen staatlich gesponserten Terrorismus handeln, vielleicht sollten wir echten Professionellen haben,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Maybe consecutive miracles with a penetrating jade dam with a 40 millimeter fuse, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Yeah, that's probably a bad thing. I meant to say 40 millisecond fuse, by the way. I don't know what a 40 millimeter fuse, but I've had the flu. Yeah, I don't know if immediately going to the bombing as an effect of not coming to the negotiating table is really smart. And again, you're right. I mean, just the mission planning alone. But you know what, Amy? It's all okay. You know why?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Absolutely. If we must. If we must, Amy, we will sacrifice to try everybody's bourbon.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Fair. And you know what? I think a lot of people say, oh gosh, Jen, she was there to help her constituents. Yeah, it's fine. That's great. But if you're such a smart politician, why are you trusting whatever Trump is going to say in a press conference? Why are you walking in there, number one?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Number two, if he starts with that bullshit, instead of hiding in the corner and cowering, you're the governor of Michigan, you walk out the door and you try to mouth something like bullshit. Listen, here's the thing about Gretchen Whitmer while it's warranted. You know why she went to the White House? She wanted to look like she was crossing lanes.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
She was crossing over to do what's best for her constituents. You know why? Because she wants to run for president in 2028. Great. I love that. You care about your constituents, but you're always at the White House because you want to run for president. So let's not be an idiot here. You're a politician. I know you pretty well. Also, wenn sie etwas Blödes sagen, steh nicht da und versteck dich.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Das ist nicht ein guter Blick. Geh raus. Great. You're going to help your constituents. You're trying to set up your political future. Sweet. We all get it. However, if you're going to do that and you're going to go all the way, then go all the way. Because now you're done. You're done.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, maybe. Maybe so. But there you go. That's my opinion of the day.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Our boy, CIA Director. He deleted his Signalgate messages. Does this even matter?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, I think, I don't know, Amy, it sounds like, I don't know, with you being a former military officer and decorated combat veteran, I almost feel like you're saying that there should be accountability and rule of law in a constitutional democracy and republic?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know what? To me it is. And I know it was like, you know, Dan, I have some perverse, I think, some really perverse thoughts on this. Not like weird perverse, by the way. I think what it shows that when you hire incompetence, incompetence follows. I know that's a that's incredibly profound.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Aber ich denke, das andere ist auch, dass du siehst, dass diese Menschen von den Individuen selbst ausgewählt wurden. Wenn du über Hegseth sprichst, erinnere dich daran, dass Waltz' Leute auch auf der Straße waren, Mike Waltz, der nationalen Sicherheitsanwalt. Es ist also interessant für mich. Ich denke, das Gute ist, dass wir anfangen, die ersten echten, echten Kinks im Prozess zu sehen.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Really the bricks being taken out of the wall of crazy, right? When you have so much incompetence, when you have everybody wanting to be famous, everybody wanting to be the journalist's best friends, instead of worrying about the country, they worry about themselves. Plus you have this unadulterated incompetence, right? It's almost pure in the beauty of its insanity and bad shittery, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And now you have three people walked out that were really close to Hegseth, handpicked. I think it's positive because it's showing. And I hope And I could be wrong, because there still could be 77 million people who will never watch us, Amy, but I hope they do. You have to have competent people to do competent things. You have to have professional people to do professional things.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And I think when you see people being walked out like that, I think you're starting to see that maybe there's a realization that stupid is not the best thing to have at the highest levels of government.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
But that's okay, Amy. I understand what's your problem. I mean, what's the hypocrisy? Well, I got a question for you. Really quick. Why in the hell did the United States tell our G7 allies that it won't back a statement condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine there in Sumy?
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
I can't argue. I don't understand, you know, how we are supporting Russia right now, especially, you said something about service, right, earlier. How in the hell in our past, in our service, are we here right now as military veterans looking at the insanity that's going on with this ridiculousness? Obviously we should condemn an attack of innocents. Es ist verrückt. Es ist verrückt.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Cheers. Cheers. Amy, that rocks. I think everybody should be out there cheering old Jimmy B. Right? Judge Jimmy B. is what I call him, Amy. True American. True American is old Jimmy B. Well, holy hell. What a show. I have to say, I enjoyed this one. I don't know why I enjoyed it so much. I think I just enjoy being with you, Amy. Especially when my voice sounds like this.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
But again, people need to tune in. Right. I know, you know, in military briefings, what do we say? I mean, we always said, tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them and then tell them what you told them. Remember that? All that stuff. So I'm going to tell you. Be bold and be gone. And that is us. We were brief. We were bold and now we're gone.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
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And one more time, cheers to our listeners and cheers to you, Amy, for another great show.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Well, you know, it's funny. In Congress and the military, we had some of the same sayings, right? We always, sometimes we're a solution looking for a problem or, you know, real solutions for phantom problems. This is it. But I know Chip pretty well. And here's part of the political portion of this, Amy.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know, he has to burnish his conservative credentials a little bit more because he actually voted for um die Wahl im Jahr 2021 zu zertifizieren. Und Chip wird als dieser feierliche, konstitutionelle Kerl herauskommen. Aber das hat ihn wirklich verletzt. Und als er weiterging, muss er immer noch darauf achten, dass er die richtige Anzahl an, ich würde sagen, Knie-Behörden zu Donald Trump zeigt.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Und ich denke, das ist, was du gerade mit dem SAVE-Akt siehst. Wenn du über Phantom-Probleme sprichst, was ist das eine große Phantom-Probleme? Das Phantom Problem war, dass die November 2020-Elektion verloren wurde, die Trump gedrückt hat, die wir alle kennen. Ich war am 6. Januar-Komitee. Wir müssen nicht mehr all das relitigieren, weil ich es sehr gut bin.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Aber ich denke, was wir gerade sehen, ist Legislation, basierend auf Fantasie und Konspirationstheorien. Das wird in den amerikanischen Publikum gepusht. Das ist etwas, das uns von etwas, das nicht passiert, rettet. Und ich denke, das ist, wo Menschen in unserem Regierungsteil die komplette Glauben verlieren. Wenn wir über Legislationen sprechen, die eigentlich nichts anbelangt.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Hier ist das andere Ding. I will say, though, that 77 million voters who voted for Trump would probably think that this is great legislation, Amy. And that's the thing that really bothers me. And I think, again, why we're doing this show, Truth in the Barrel, is to show people that Chip Roy is not putting in this to save America.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Chip Roy is not putting in this bill for some kind of constitutional, you know, brass shining for him. He's putting in this bill to show that he's still part of Team Trump. And he's putting in this bill to support conspiratorial notions of a stolen election.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
That's a good question. This is stupid. Is it a polling place? Is it your local election input area where you actually go in to actually sign up? That's the thing. Are we in the show me your papers? United States right now? Show me your papers. What are you doing on the street? Why does your birth certificate not match your passport? Well, I was married for 37 years. That is no excuse.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
In 15 Jahren bin ich 13-mal gewechselt worden. Starten wir mit Basic, bis hin zu ROTC. Ich war aktiv 9 Jahre, 11 Jahre, dann inaktiv bei NSA. Wenn ich nur die 11 Jahre anschaue, dann wahrscheinlich 9-mal, Amy.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Also, international man of the flu that I'm getting over. So, I apologize for my voice. I sound like Clint Eastwood after a long night, you know, on the desert or something. But also, don't forget everybody. We're on about every social media platform, including True Social, which I know people think is nuts. But X, Blue Sky, you can go to YouTube and also on all our pods, right?
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Ich sehe es nicht, die notwendigen Votes in den Senate zu bekommen. Hoffentlich. Ich denke, was wir sagen, ist, dass die GOP wirklich ernsthaft ist, dass sie so viele Voter wie möglich verhindern. Die einzige Möglichkeit, dass die GOP gewinnen kann, jetzt hatte ich diese interessante Gesprächsparty.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know, I lost in a convention with only 2,500 voters because they had to narrow the voting pool to just evangelicals for me to be beat in the convention and obviously because of the gay wedding and stuff. The GOP believes you have to win by subtraction. And the very thing they accuse people of, of stealing elections, is they're trying to throttle elections.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And I've tried to talk to people about this, like, oh, Denver, you can't say January 6th was stolen if you're worried about your convention when you say that that was taken from you. Well, of course it was. They didn't even have a primary because they were afraid. They were absolutely terrified.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
dass jemand wie ich, der mehr sozial-liberal ist, auf dem Republikanischen Partei brechen könnte, besonders mit dem Nativismus und dem christlichen Nationalismus, den wir gerade sehen in der GOP, Amy. Und ich denke, das ist wirklich etwas, dass jede Verurteilung eine Verurteilung ist. Und du siehst das besonders mit Verschwörungstheorien.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Es gibt auch diese andere verrückte Sache, dass die Unkonsistenz in diesen Arten von Policien eine Fähigkeit ist, nicht ein Bug, wenn es um Verschwörungstheorien geht, aber besonders für die MAGAs, dass sie nicht interessieren, dass das nicht Sinn macht. Amy, was du mir gerade gesagt hast, ist nonsensisch. Es ist... It's as if nine-year-olds, right, reading Mein Kampf, wrote this thing.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
I bet Jared Golden was one of them. And you know, I'm thinking this. Do I think American citizens should be the only ones voting in elections? Yes. Amy, sure. Of course. But when you're talking about real service to people, legislation should be serious. And it should be addressing a problem that is real. Das ist ziemlich lustig.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Ich muss es sagen, weil manchmal unser Produzent Amy und Dinge da oben stellt, er sagt, es ist wie der echte He-Man-Women-Haters-Club. Das ist ziemlich wahr. Und was ich auch sagen wollte, ist, dass dieses unseriöse Gesetz, das ich gesagt habe, kam von Konspiratoren, Fantasisten, ist eine Weiterentwicklung.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Wir gehen zurück zu Chip Roy, der wollte, dass er in dem Trump-Club ist, der, ich glaube, der He-Man-Club ist. My biggest worry is that as our legislation gets more and more unserious, how does that affect real people? And if there's people serious, Amy, we're serious people.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
We like to have fun and joke around, but when it comes to service, there has to be a serious element to this in some place when we're talking about this legislation. And Amy, when you're talking about women, There seems to be this massive misogynistic vein of crazy that's sort of buttressing all of this.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Any of your favorite podcasts, you need to look at us because... We love having these discussions. And also, you know, we still have bourbon as part of this, right, Amy? I mean, not only talking truth, right? We got bourbon as part of this.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And it's almost like it's the misogyny ridden, I color my beard group, you know, like at times Ben Shapiro or Matt Walsh or J.D. Vance, right? Or some of these other crazies out there. If you go look at some of these Christian white nationalists who think that women shouldn't vote or they're against suffrage, they all color their beards with really black coloring stuff.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
And I'm not quite sure of maybe that that's infecting their brains, because I'm to the point that when you see this type of unserious legislation, you have to wonder where we go from here. And so for anybody to listen to this and say, oh, Denver and Amy, you guys don't understand. You don't understand that only Americans should vote.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Okay, guys, if you want to show your papers and your passport, you know who this hurts? This is my whole rant. You know who this really hurts? Rural voters who vote for Trump.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Let's be honest. Well, and married women, obviously. And I apologize, I should put that first. But married women, but then the rural voters out there. So are their wives not voting? Where are they going? Bob's Farm? Where are you actually turning your passport in? Stupid.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
Yes, ma'am. So, you know, I want to talk about somebody that we've heard a lot about in the news, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. And about his deportation to El Salvador with what was, you know, presumably a bunch of MS-13 gang members and sent away. And this whole argument about whether he should have been sent away or not based on his alleged affiliation with MS-13.
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This Week Unfiltered 04.17.25
You know, you talk about lack of nuance and speaking to the most stupid of our population. You know, individuals going, hey, Den, we don't want criminals here. He was already a criminal. He was an illegal alien. He should have gone anyway. Well, okay, here's the issue. In 2019, a court ruled that he could stay here based on real physical danger to himself.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Hey, right now I'm sitting in a country ruled by an absolute monarchy. If you're looking at Saudi, it's the same. Looking at Qatar, it's the same. And that's why I'm I just don't think Americans realize what's happening or what we're dealing with or how this works. Amy, you just nailed it. I just don't know what else to say.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
You never thought you'd see something like this in the history of our country.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Well, you know, if you look at what's happening in the UAE, everybody needs to look up Dubai and Trump Tower. Also, if you want to, you know, really put this into perspective, I don't see Germany giving him a free plane and for fun just building Berlin Trump Tower. I just don't see that happening. So that's where we're at, guys. That's why I didn't go see our allies.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Ich habe es. Wenn man sich zurückblickt, denke ich, wenn man sich zurückzieht zu 2010, 2011, sieht man es tatsächlich. Der Genesis davon, denke ich, war ein französischer Schriftsteller, der über die große Verwendungstheorie oder so etwas gesprochen hat, wo es seine Gründe hatte, soweit der Name.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Aber soweit eine Verwendungstheorie, soweit das Basis-Belief-System, weißt du, das geht gut vor 2011 zurück, richtig, Amy? Das ist gut vor dem. Aber die aktuelle Iteration ist etwa 15 Jahre alt.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
The Great Replacement Theory also was part of the fabric of QAnon, that it was part of this deep state or globalist way of actually replacing the white population with people of color to destroy our civilization, right? Great Western civilization. A lot of this is linked to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and their Western Chauvinism ideal.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Now, Western Chauvinism is just another word for white supremacy, right, Amy? So what you have is you have this sort of interlocking way of trying to identify or define the
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
what the great replacement theory is, which is the replacement of whites by a certain set of the population, usually globalists or the deep state, through immigration and through streamlining immigration, so that we change our very way of life by destroying the white population. Here's what's scarier.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
A lot of the shooters that you see, school shooters or even the shooters overseas, are captured by the white replacement theory. Many of these shooters become saints. SAI NTS Saints and the great replacement or the white supremacy group chats or in the belief or these sort of these belief packages on 4chan or other types of encrypted chat areas.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Right now I'm sitting in Dubai, but yesterday I was in Abu Dhabi. So I've been all around, Amy. I've been in Sharjah. I've been in Ajman. But I've also been in something called RAK, which is Ras Al Khaimah. I met with the ruler there, the Sheikh, which was unbelievable, in his palace.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
So when people talk great replacement, oh, it's just this great replacement theory sparks murder and violence. There's a following. It has its own tradition of sainthood. It comes from almost the baseline of Ja, genau. Charlottesville, 2017. Jews will not replace us. Those were great replacement theory individuals.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
By the way, white supremacists, led in part by Richard Spencer, sadly a University of Virginia graduate. Why do I know so much about it? As you know, Charlottesville was in my district, in Virginia's 5th district. So Amy, I hope that helps with the great replacement theory, the genesis of it, and why it's so dangerous.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Well, I don't think Pam Bondi is taking vacations in Afghanistan, if it's so safe, Amy. My guess is she's probably not going to summer in Tora Bora. I just find it incredible, and both me and you know a little bit about Afghanistan, understating it, But if they send individuals back there who helped US troops back into Taliban-held towns and cities in the entire country, they're dead.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
But I've been able to do some incredible work here in artificial intelligence, talk to some really credible individuals when it comes to business. But it's been very weird. As the guy who is the J6 technical advisor is here doing business in AI while we have Donald Trump just landed not too long ago in Abu Dhabi, not far from me.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
It's just that simple. And the fact is, we're turning our back on the very people that helped us in these horrible wars of attrition. It's hard again for me. We're thinking about 59 Africaners. Now listen, I don't want to automatically make the judgment, it could be mutually exclusive, that we have a racist administration bringing in Africaners who might have actually been somehow... In danger.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
I don't know. Right, Amy? But I do know this. It does look odd. It looks a little weird. It looks a little maybe not on the up and up that the people who helped us in conflict or people that were here under temporary protected status are being sent back in the thousands. While we think that 59 Africanas are somehow worthy of protection. It's against everything we should believe as Americans.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Being run by the families of Elon Musk, right? To come over as Afrikaners. I'm to a point. It's such crazy towns. Think about what we talked about. Qatar giving us an aircraft. $115,000 a month from Pam Bondi. Donald Trump getting a golf course. The fact that it's bribery and corruption.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Now we're sending back the people that helped us while we're bringing over people that somehow are under some systemic racism as white folks from South Africa. It's like we're taking crazy pills.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
What has been the gold standard for Republican presidents, Amy? Ronald Reagan, right? And people can fact check this. Who was the president that provided amnesty for illegal immigrants? Does anybody know? Anyone? Buehler, Buehler? Not to you, Amy, you already know this. That's Ronald Reagan. So when I was running for Congress in 2018, I was in a dairy farm somewhere near Halifax County, Virginia.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
So that is the questions I've gotten, Amy, here in the UAE have been insane. And, you know, people sort of know me. But, yeah, it's been pretty crazy for a guy doing business over here with businesses opening up by the very guy that I investigated in January 6th.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And we're talking about immigration. So, by the way, if people don't know this, in rural districts, most of the workers are H2A and H2B migrant workers. When you're looking at dairy farms or you're looking at peach farms and things like that, people that pick crops, people that milk cows, people that tend cattle, all this stuff, right?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Listen, peach growers in my district, in the county in my district, one peach grower with over 100 employees, 100% of his employees were immigrants, legal migrants for workers. So I'm in a meeting with about 14 or 15 dairy workers, Amy. And so they're saying, oh, we got to get the immigrants out of here. I'm like, okay. I said, well, you guys need H2A and H2B workers, right?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And they're like, well, yeah. So on my right, there's this older gentleman. He's probably 80 years old. He goes, you know what, Congress or Denver? I wasn't a Congressman yet. He goes, you know what? There is a person here who's voted Republican for every year he's been in America, 39 years. And I said, well, who's that? They said the person that was actually provided amnesty by Ronald Reagan.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
What? Yeah. So then an argument happened between the farmers that what is the real Republican? If you look into the 80s, what is really Republican? It's accepting all immigrants. Ronald Reagan did that. And so when you're saying this, Amy, I want to go back to where we have a Republican Party. It's not perfect. There's always going to be people who hate Reagan, love Reagan, whatever.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
But how about a party that welcomes immigrants and understands the value of immigration and the party that provided amnesty for illegal immigrants across the entire country? That was Ronald Reagan, everybody. Look it up.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Damn it, I wish I had a whole bottle with me right now.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
No tiny screwdrivers turning screws at iPhones, Amy. Remember that shit? Oh. Sorry. But you know, here's the thing. I've always talked about these bar fight analogies, right? But it's almost like you're in a fight. You beat the person where they're in traction in the hospital. And they're in the hospital. And they have, you know, their arm is up in a cast. Their leg is up in a cast.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Their face has a cast. You know, just like the movies. You just see their eye holes. And you go in there like, hey man, listen. Listen. I'm sorry about the fight, but you probably shouldn't have picked the fight. I told you not to do it. And the person in traction says this. Wait till I get out of traction. I'll get you next time. That's Donald Trump.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And the capitulation that he did to China was such a rollover move. It's incredible. China is the one who said, hey, We're going to retaliate and told America based on their actions, if you retaliate, it's going to get worse. And Trump just simply was like, oh, oh, my God. Oh, I started this war and I started this fight. Now I'm getting my ass kicked. Okay, what am I gonna do?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And that's exactly what Trump did. He capitulated. That is exactly what Trump was thinking in bed late at night. That exact voice that you just heard on this incredible show. And so I'm to a point now, if anybody tells me that, or they come up like they did to you, Amy, it's simply this, is that we enacted pain on ourselves. We shot ourselves in the face.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And we're claiming a victory on the fact that we finally stopped shooting ourselves in the face and allowed it to heal. That's the victory.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Ami, du und Doug werden sagen, mein Gott, hier ist eine andere Sache. Hier ist, was ich mit ihm denke, die Houthis kapitulieren. Hast du jemals das Leben von Brian gesehen? Der Film, der Monty Python-Film, Ami. Ja, ja. Wenn die Suizidsquad aufhört, Brian zu helfen, als er auf der Kresse ist und sie sich töten, richtig?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
tuesday june 10th 7 30 to 8 30 pm eastern time that's eastern time in the united states all right so denver you need to come back here and i will be back i'll be back and by the way you know me and you are whiskey aficionados right we know our bourbons we know our whiskeys and what i think the live version is like amy is when we thief whiskey right out of the barrel and there's still char in it so you get that taste that pure char unfiltered cash strength
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Ich fühle mich, ich fühle mich, wir sind zu einem Punkt, dass wir lachen, weil wir würden. If we weren't laughing, we'd be crying right now. Because there has been no capitulation. The Houthis are still militarily active. We haven't done anything with Iran. And that's the thing. We haven't even gotten there, right, Amy? We haven't even gotten to Iran yet and how they're related to the Houthis.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And now we're talking about doing things with Iran, but we still have military action happening in Yemen, right? We still have China not capitulating. We still have all these happening. And it seems like we have Americans who can't even see the forest for the trees. You know why, though? They're listening to propaganda sources that me and you can't control.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Anyway, I know I sound exasperated, but I guess it's being over here in the Middle East, being over in the UAE, listening to this and watching people, you know, the Emiratis shaking their head like, your president just likes to get free planes. You know, it's incredible.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Did you say May 10th, Amy? Yeah. May 10th. That seems a long time after that bombing we did. And I know our listeners are getting it, right?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Wenn man versucht, Menschen von Schiffshändlern und Schiffshändlern zu stoppen und auf unsere Alliierten zu stoppen, wir können über Israel als Alliierte in einem anderen Show sprechen, und sie sind es nicht, bedeutet das literally, dass es nicht funktioniert hat. Das bedeutet, dass es nicht funktioniert hat. Also weiß ich nicht, was noch zu sagen ist.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Es ist nicht so, dass ich aus Worten ausgehen würde. Ich und Sie würden gerne diese Gespräche haben. Es ist so, dass für das, für die Leute zu gehen und nicht zu suchen, oder einfach Dinge zu nehmen, die sich anwenden, etwas, worauf wir gewohnt sind. Aber wiederum, ich versuche nicht, uns zu überraschen, aber ich denke, das ist, weshalb wir angefangen haben, das zu zeigen. Richtig, Amy?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Yep. And let me give an example, if I may. The Saudis pledged to buy $182 billion worth of military equipment from us. I don't know if you saw that, Amy, also. So, you know, from Saudi. So I'm over here. And I love having these stories personally. I am here, guys, right? Amy, I am here. So this is pretty neat, right, as this is happening.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
In your face. Burn your throat, baby. Feel hot. That's the kind of stuff we're going to do on the live show. That's how I think about it.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
So I'm with some very high-ranking members of certain governments over here. And we're having a dinner. And we talked about the 182 million dollar deal and the person next to me hiring as well. We'll see if he actually does it. That is what everybody says here.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
It's not just the massive amount of regulatory issues and the massive amount of process we have to go through in order to transfer this equipment after sales. It's huge. There's nothing to talk about the operations and maintenance table, which is, Amy, that's what you're saying, right? There's O&M. After you actually put it over, you have a sustainability issue. How are they going to sustain it?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
What does that look like? The other thing, too, is, though, is that when he came over here, he shortcutted all the CFIUS restrictions. So there's something else going on here that the American people need to know about. When you're talking about foreign sales, and people need to look this up, right?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
When you're talking about foreign sales, there's a process we have to go through to make sure we actually adjudicate those foreign sales so that we're not sending it to terrorist countries. That has been short-circuited. But what we're seeing right now when he's promising all of this is, are we actually going to deliver? What's going to happen before the time that they deliver?
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And as Amy said, folks, a lot of this was already in the pipeline. It has to be in the pipeline. It's years. It's years. And it's going to take years for this. Just like with the aircraft that he got gifted, he's going to make an Air Force One, I guess. But I think he's just going to keep it the same way it is and just use it as soon as he's out. Right, Amy? That's what's going to happen.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
People need to realize that first, the stuff has to be delivered. It has to be paid for. It has to be maintained. It has to be put in a certain configuration. All this has to happen, as they say over here in the Middle East. And my good friends over here in the UAE Well, let's see if it actually happens.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
First of all, may I translate what that is really quickly? When you say E. coli and human waste and animal waste? Yeah, that's shit. It's called sewage. It's shit and urine and grotesqueness. So what I really like about this, he's so he's so secure in his immune system and his children that he's willing to swim in shit water just to show what a man he is.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And I got to tell you what he gets, he gets, Amy. What he gets, he gets.
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This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
I got to laughing about that when I saw it. Actually, what is happening, right? Yeah, oh, hold on a second. Yeah, I have all these doctors working for me and I'm the HHS secretary and I said that I'm actually, here's the thing that's really odd about this, Amy. He's the guy who says he's an anti-vax or a vaccination expert based on autism or all the things that he says, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Fluoride and water bleeding out of the ears and 5G. He's an expert in everything because he's RFK Jr. and he's a Fucking nutbag, right? And I think what we have right now is we have crazies in charge. But I am to a point, if we have an HHS secretary that likes to swim in shit water, I say we get what we get, right? He gets what he gets. That's just the way, that's where we're at, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Well, she also butchers her own name because of her alcoholism. So don't, yeah, it's...
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Seriously. It's D.E.I. for alcoholics. 23 Fox-Personalitäten. Du sprichst von, zuerst einmal, Fox ist keine echte News, es ist nur Unterhaltung, richtig? Also sprechen wir von Unterhaltungspersonalitäten, die in Positionen der Macht der Vereinigten Staaten der Regierung gestellt werden. Auch von einer Organisation, die für über 780 Millionen Dollar für Lügen über die Stolz-Elektion gesucht wurde.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Das ist, das ist, das ist, das ist, das ist, das ist, das ist, So, yeah, she is not quite all there. And the fact is, she's such a conspiracy theorist and so insanely out there Especially with her love of wine. I think we will have a really interesting run with her.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
I would love it, because the first question I'd ask her if I was in national TV is, do you believe the January 6th election was stolen? That would be my first question. I would, oh, I wish I was a guest questioner.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
I would call it the Inquisition of the Stupid, you know, and just have it like in flashing lights, you know, as we're going forward. Oh my gosh, it would be so much fun.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Here's the thing, Charlie Hustle, right? Me and you were alive, Amy, right? We saw Pete Rose play. I did, right? So I love Charlie Hustle. And yeah, he was a degenerate gambler, as they said, right? Yeah, but you know what? He didn't bet on his team to lose. He bet on his team to win. And, you know, that means Charlie Hustle, I don't think would ever throw a game.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
People might disagree with me and things like that. Here's the thing. Here's what's sad. They had to wait till he's dead. You don't know, right? It's a cheers, but you're doing this now. It just seems sort of ludicrous. If I were to talk to somebody like, why does it matter now to save face for you? Really, Foxtrot Oscar, right? Get out of here, right? You're saving face somehow.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Oh, he's eligible for the Hall of Fame. Yeah, he's dead. He's dead. So it's just, it's incredible. Yeah, of course. Listen, he should have been punished, but he also... literally is the most prolific hitter in baseball history and was.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Und, weißt du, ich möchte nicht auf die Schuhe hinweisen, aber wie ist das? Nach dem, was wir in der letzten Geschichte durchgegangen sind, auch wenn er ein Gambler war und schlechte Dinge gemacht hat, scheint es fast relativ klein zu sein, basierend auf dem, was wir heute befinden. Ich meine, wir haben einen sexuellen Verbrecher für den Präsidenten.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Wir sind froh über jemanden, der im Fußball gambelt.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Well, you know, I feel bad because, Amy, you have taken really the reins that I've been gone, made sure it was prepared. You and the team have been incredible while I'm out here. You know, it was tough. Last night I was dining on the 123rd floor of the Burj Khalifa, drinking smoked old fashions, thinking, man, I wonder what Amy's doing right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And, you know, you know, I just want you to know, I was really mentally preparing for the show as I was drinking my second old fashion. And I just want to let you know that I've been working hard, making sure that I'm here to support you as you're back in the States and my very hard travels out here in the UAE.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Yes, ma'am. Thank you. It was great to be here. And as far as everybody else, if you want to listen to this incredible show. Bye everyone. Love you.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
of nearest green the first master distiller for jack daniels cheers with me here in the uae but i do not uh amy um but i have this so my wife knows her i've been on panels with her right so christine is very familiar with uncle nearest right and near screen which is pretty cool but you know what amy i was just thinking about your kids you know they get back from school break
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And they're asking all the kids what they did over break. Our parents took us to Disney World. Oh, that's great, Johnny. Okay, Becky, where did your parents take you? Oh, our parents took us to the beach. Oh, that's great, Becky. Okay, McGrath kids, where did your mom and dad take you? Oh, our mom and dad took us to a distillery. Crickets. Silence in the classroom.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Amy, where are you taking your kids next year? Well, to the first marijuana farm in Kentucky.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Well, ma'am, I'm here. And when you were talking, I was thinking about that Boeing at 400 million, but I was also thinking, and you know, we have great researchers, right? And a great research team. And I was looking at that. But what really struck me here, we can talk about maybe it's going to be a billion dollars to retrofit it. Upwards of that, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Tens of millions or hundreds of millions to retrofit it. We don't know exactly what's in the plane. It's from a foreign government. And also when you look at his trip, you know, he's done Saudi, Qatar, right? And now he's in the UAE, landing in Abu Dhabi, probably coming over into Dubai. Who knows if he's going to see any of the other five Emirates right here in UAE.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
But what strikes me about this is that even the people here, now these are people that do business, they're not in our news cycle, Amy, right? They're not, you know, consuming this 24-7. It's a different place here, different culture. They actually have lives, things like that. Here's what they're saying. I was at a meeting today.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Like, well, you know what, if we do, maybe we just give him a plane so we can get some good, more business. I mean, that's the... A lot of people here said, now, as far as they're concerned, as far as America, it's pay to play. You know, Amy, it sounds very innocent when people say pay to play.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
But they're saying that to Americans and to an American as they're watching Trump on every TV now, because he's doing this trip. And they're trying to parse every word to where they can get advantage, just like Americans are doing right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And when you think about what's happening with sort of this relaxation of competitive contract language, this ridiculous everything's a service policy that's coming out, which really is just a definition or a play or an opaque overview of people can actually just get business by giving the business, except they don't have to go through the competitive process.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
I find it embarrassing, but I also find it a bit chilling. And, you know, UAE, they understand what's happening. Saudi understands what's happening. Qatar certainly does, because there's also a golf course going in over there. You know, Amy, it's just really hard with me as an American being here, having these type of comments, having to somehow try to navigate through that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
I don't want a used plane if I'm president, Amy. Free or not. You know, it's like, hey, you know, you're in the United States of America. We have Boeing here. We have all these huge places to build jets. Let's get a used one. It's like, you know, you know what? I really want a 2008 Jaguar. That's what I want for Air Force One. And the other thing, too, you're right about countermeasures.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
I love it. And by the way, Amy, I love the fact that you said Whiskey Rebellion. It makes me happy, as you know, since we make whiskey. But if anybody wants to continue to hear everything that we're doing, Amy, you know what they gotta do? They gotta subscribe to their favorite podcasts. They have to make sure that they click on us on YouTube and subscribe there.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
Um counter measures on aircraft aren't cheap. You know, I worked on C 141s, you know, there's some special missions C 141s and chaff and flair C 141s with all the counter measures are much more expensive than the base models, plus even the maintenance. But you think about the president of the United States, Amy, I can't imagine wanting a used plane. Uh, I, I just, I, I, I don't even know anymore.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
You almost get to the point, there's only curse words that sort of run through my brain when I'm thinking about how ridiculous this is. But when you talk about Pam Bondi, how much she made from Cutter, when you're talking about the fact that there is quid pro quo, when you're talking about him having a golf course being built in Cutter now, the fact is, is that this is pay to play.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 05.15.25
And everybody in the world, everybody in the world understands it's a bribe. We know it's a bribe. Das ist es. Es ist ein Verbrechen. Und ich weiß nicht mehr, was ich sagen soll, Amy. Du hast einfach das intellektuelle Argument da, warum das ludisch ist. Ich sage nur, dass ich denke, dass wir müssen schauen, was es ist. Und wir haben ein Land mit einem Präsidenten, der verbreitet werden kann.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
No, I mean, I thought the Biden plan was doing what he could do coming out of COVID. It was very difficult, right, to find the stimulus, right, based on the COVID policies, really, to start with Trump. You know, so Biden was doing, is it perfect? Absolutely not. There's nothing perfect in an administration, but there's still the rule of law.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And here's what I would suggest to people, Amy, that are listening. You might have really hated some of the things that Biden did or the administration did, or you thought that the CHIPS Act was too far, the Infrastructure Act was inflationary. There are things that you can say in stats, statistics, and numbers that might look that way. Okay. Yeah, we can have policy differences.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
But if you're looking at an administration that's enriching themselves, destroying the rule of law, making autocratic decisions, ruling by fiat and going after enemies, I think we're looking at something that is so dire that even if you didn't appreciate some of Biden's policies, at least you could appreciate we were still America.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And I think when we see the difference in wealth when Trump goes into the presidency and when he leaves or whenever that happens, I think you're going to see a massive increase in his wealth based on the fact that he's mining the American people, right? At this point, he's mining the wealthy United States to line his own pockets. And I think we need to consider that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Well, I think me and you are. You know, Amy, we are saying crazy. If we can get personal here, when you have over 77 million people vote for this guy, they're not paying attention to the fact that his failed policies are creating massive debt and deficit loads on the American public as he's bailing out whole sections of our economy based on awful policy. It's incredible to me.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And you look at Republicans who say they're fiscally responsible.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
right we just you know we've had everybody talk about what is our debt and deficit going to look like heading into 2026 after this crazy year we're going through the approach now and i know that because you know amy i get phone calls like and i have a company and i'm looking at the approach lines and where that money's going for ai and where that's money going for all the dod and government stuff and what's happening in the insurance markets and all the things that i got to pay attention to correct and i think that when you're looking at farmers
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
and the cascading effect of what's happening to them, they're getting hit insies and outies. They're getting hit with stuff coming in, and they're getting tagged on stuff going out because of the reciprocal tariffs or the tariff retaliation that's coming from the countries that buy their goods.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And, right, you have a cascading effect where when your equipment goes up, and Amy, you know this, right? Listen, I am such a small-time player when it comes to equipment, but one tractor of mine, okay, Amy, one tractor that I bought, right, an Avant 755, right, the tractor with all the implements we had to have, right, from barrel tippers, right, to forks as a forklift, right, to grapples.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It's a cascading effect of brutal, you know, when you're talking about tariffs, taxes, supply chain issues, because all that actually sort of is bundled up in one bad thing that happened to Buffalo Trace. So let's go through everything they're going through. You know, floodwaters. They're losing whiskey. They have insurance, obviously, millions and millions of dollars of insurance.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
All the stuff that we had to have was over $100,000 for that one tractor.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
A hundred thousand bucks. Now think about a farmer that's buying a million dollar. A lot of that equipment is much more expensive than that. Oh, it's hugely more expensive in the millions, right? And we're like, oh crap, we got to pay a payment on that and our forklifts and our roofers. You know, when you're looking at them, their payment systems, then if you get hit hard, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Now you're paying more for equipment. Your monthly outlays go up. You're getting hit on your exports and your imports based on retaliatory tariffs. What do you do? You have to start scaling back labor, scaling back production, or you're dumping crops into the system, losing money. It was funny. You sent me an article, Amy, and it was brilliant.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
At the end, the farmer's like, well, maybe we'll have lower taxes because we're not making any money.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It is. And if you up the prices on my elote, we're fighting. You know, I love a piece of corn cheese. I know. Don't take away my elote.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It is. Just because there's a manufacturing plant in North America, like for a John Deere or any of the other tractor factories or automobile factories, doesn't mean that all your parts are coming from the U.S. It's ludicrous to think that. And you think about a Ford product, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Let me just give you an idea. For me, on my distillery, my barrel house, we have about probably $5 million in insurance just in our barrel house. Now, not counting our distillery and all that kind of stuff. Their insurance has to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, right? And if you look at me, my insurance costs are $24,000 per year just on my barrel house.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
There's certain vehicles, 30% to 40% of the actual products might come from Mexico and other countries that are in that vehicle. So again, it goes back. You have to have people. that have nuance in their thinking when it comes to the economy, but they also have to realize, right, like Republicans of the past is that the more free the trade, right, the better the offsets.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And, you know, all these libertarians talk about Milton Friedman and, you know, and Republicans and he is the economist everybody should follow. Do you know what Milton Friedman said? He goes, it's ridiculous for a large country with the economic might that we have to do tit for tat on tariffs because we're so much more powerful and it's demeaning.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And we have to be the ones that lead in free trade. Obviously, there's countries that do bad things. We can target those tariffs and go after them specifically for unfair practices in the global space. That's fine. It's cool.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
But if you're not smart enough to realize who your target is, you're just hurting and shooting at everybody with this ready, fire, aim policy that doesn't make any sense to anybody that has half a brain. And I think when you have morons in charge, you have moron outcomes. And I think that's where we're at right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
As somebody that's literally in the agricultural business, Christine, my wife, she has to go through the prices on white corn and pumpernickel rye and soft red winter wheat and malt. We have to look at all this. And the fact is, is that
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Looking at what farmers have to go through, looking at me at this micro level of what we had to do with supply chain disruptions and tariffs and COVID surcharges and everything that matters right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
farmers need to rise up and step up and look at what's actually happening because what we're seeing is that right now the gop isn't about people who work for a living the gop is about people who leverage for a living and that is absolutely destructive to farmers and people that are actually producers yeah well Well, that's what you get with autocratic decision making.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And, you know, there's something that happened, Amy, and I want to just transition to this because we've been talking about this sort of unilateral decision making is what happened to a couple of friends of mine yesterday and people that, you know, and Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor. Right. And I'd love to get your take on this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
You know, I fortunately I have a preemptive pardon based on January 6th. Now he wants to nullify that pardon. And my wife's like, you know, honey, do you need to go back? But but the thing is, is that I know Miles and Chris and I think an executive order asking for an investigation because they came out against this stolen election buffoonery and QAnon conspiratorial thinking.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
is we got a nutbag demanding the FBI investigate two people because he's mad that his fantasy was busted, and it looks like some retaliatory measure on how he thought he was treated. I think we got to look at this. I don't have the words, Amy. I don't know if you have the words to encapsulate what happened yesterday, but I'd love to get your take on that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Now, I want you to think about that, people out there. That's just a small craft distillery. So first, Buffalo Trace gets hit with a flood. Um, they've lost, probably lost product. Uh, the insurance is going to be, you know, going through the insurance claim stack. But there's another thing that happened to FEMA, right? As FEMA gets defunded, what happens with any help there?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Yeah, it's it should be one of the most chilling things that has happened since this all began, since he was, you know, actually sworn in. So let's talk about why he's really mad at Chris Krebs.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
So in the cybersecurity infrastructure, what is it, the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency in CISA, Chris Krebs set up an area or a way to debunk conspiracy theories that were coming out about the stolen election, right? So when you're debunking that, who are you debunking? Well, you're debunking Rudy Giuliani. You're debunking Peter Navarro.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Some of the, it's always the same names, isn't it, Amy? Yeah. You're debunking some of the people that people don't know about, like Colonel Phil Waldron, who's the one who sent the briefings to Giuliani and Trump about the stolen election in the swing states, or Seth Ketchell, or the cyber ninjas, right? Or Andy Biggs, all the congressional representatives from Arizona.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Jenny Thomas, Clarence Thomas, Rick Perry, you know, and everyone around Trump. Right. But there are no sane people around Trump anymore. You know, now you have just a bunch of crazy. But back then you had a few sane people that were pushing back like Chris Krebs. But he also is a data expert. And when you look at Miles Taylor, Miles Taylor wrote the anonymous letter in the book. Right.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And then there's that other whammy you talked about, Amy, which are tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on everything, right? That you're actually utilizing if it's coming from other countries. So let me just give you an idea of this, Amy, and I think you'll really love this. When we were looking for glass,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
So about what was happening inside the agency and with the insanity of the Trump presidency. So this is literally just a retaliatory autocratic measure to go after people that did their job and are truth tellers. And I think when we have a madman in charge, it's almost like Amy Lake Joffrey from Game of Thrones is the president now. That's really what it's like. Right. That's that's where we're at.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
wrong and outraged is the way to put it but at what point what is the boa point and that's what that's what frightens me about other folks not not me and you here but there is going to be a boa point where people like the the government's coming after us for real right the very thing the very conspiracy theories that the gop has pushed in maga that there's a deep state globalist weaponization of the federal government is exactly what they're doing
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It's a, it's, it's a Goebbels rift. It is, they accuse people of exactly what they're going to do. And the accusations are so wild and so insane, but they're doing exactly what's so wild and so insane about their accusations.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And that's the incredible thing about information warfare and information operations is that you have these individuals affecting this by accusing other people that which they're doing in real time. Right. And I think that's what's, and there's people like me and you that are sane. And by the way, I want to say, I don't think this is a fricking war between the left and the right anymore.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I think the right is in a hold my beer moment. We can't hardly identify it. You know, the left, there's some crazy people on the left as, as we both know. However, it seems like most of the left is like, maybe there should be a rule of law, right? That would be cool. We're not willing to throw that away yet. Right. Yeah. Right. Cool. But there's a sane against insane thing. on this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
when we first started our distillery, there was only one real glass company called OI that was an American-owned company. All the other companies, right, were actually sourcing glass from China, Mexico. I think we looked at one, I think, in Portugal. So we're looking everywhere for glass. I think we even looked for glass in France.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It's insane what Trump did. Everybody in the GOP, every human being should say that's nuts. He should be impeached. Or the 25th Amendment should be invoked because he's sniffing glue or he's non-compostmentous. Something's happening, right? And it's so insane. It's so nuts. It's hard for me and you to have the language to encapsulate right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
The mental bat shittery that this guy is going through to go after Chris and Miles. But that's that autocratic decision-making on tariffs. It's all the EOs. It's going after the law firms. Who's going to actually defend these guys? Who's going to be brave enough to do this, Amy? Because there are a bunch of Lima Deltas. Right. The law firm's bent over right there. Lima Delta's out there. Right.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
They don't know what's going on. And, you know, they just want to just protect us. You frickin cowards, you pieces of shit. And that's where we're at right now. And that's how I'm feeling is that I can tell when and start a bar fight. Right. I'm ready. Right. I know there's seven of them and one of me, but maybe I'll get one in. You know, but that's where I'm at, because this is insane.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Cheers. You know what? You're so right. here's to good people. There's to people who are patriots, people who are willing to stand up against tyranny Right. And this is like it's like we're having our own whiskey rebellion here, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
so amy now that we've done our toast to the patriots of the united states um last topic and i want to ask you about this we had a general come out talking about his disagreement with the trump team that the united states should be pulling troops out of europe right now you know we're talking germany we're talking some of our allies that we've had for decades Thank you
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I mean, this is, you know, even cheaper than OI glass here in America. So what we found was, is that American glass was so much more expensive. So we actually got our glass out of Shanghai initially. Well, when COVID hit, they put on COVID surcharges, which were sort of applicable to tariffs, which actually upped our supply chain costs to a point that were ridiculous.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
The problem you have with tariffs, which is sort of shooting yourself in the face for maybe one of the biggest, right? When you're looking at bourbon, you're looking at whiskeys, it's so beautiful. You're shooting yourself in the face by adding cost to every single part of your supply chain. And you're like, well, Denver, what would that be? Stupid things like corks. Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
You're like, what if it's only 8 cents more per cork? If you're selling, right, say 500,000 cases a year, and say one of your cases are six bottles, right? So you're looking at what, 3 million bottles. I'm just doing this, right? Do 3 million times 8 cents. And what if your glass also goes up 10%? What if your shipping cartons go up 10%? What happens then?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Well, you have to pass the cost on too. So now you have sort of an artificial inflationary measure based on tariffs that sometimes are unilateral. So I guess, Amy, what I'm trying to say, and I didn't want to make this too long, is that when you talked about the double whammy, right, that's going on with Buffalo Trace in Kentucky specifically, where you're sitting right now,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
It's also the defunding of FEMA, the lack of monies for real support for infrastructure rebuild. When you're talking about roads and everything else that happens with Buffalo Trace, you're talking about their insurance loads. And now you're talking about tariff loads on top of that. This is how you destroy businesses through bad policy and the cascading effect of stupid decisions.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Now that's a hell of a question, Amy. First of all, we're on truth in the barrel. I do think Liberation Day created inebriation day for a lot of traders. I think that's the first thing, right? I think the other thing too, when you're looking at shooting yourself in the face, which is something this administration seems to be really good at, I find it amazing, right, Amy, that the day before
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Well, truth in the barrel, right, Amy? Truth in the barrel. That's right. That's what this is all about.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I think it was the day before, they said there was no way there was gonna be a 90-day pause. It was fake news that people were talking about a 90-day pause, then he does it. Also, how many people got rich by buying the dip? And if people knew about the, there's that. But the other thing is this, and this is what is incredible to me. So we lose $10 trillion in market cap, right? Gone, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Then the press – once he lifts these tariffs, the press reports yesterday. I mean they report, oh my gosh, it's the biggest single-day gain in history, which still needs to make up 2,000 more points to make up for the declines and losses over the past five days. It's insane. Amy, I don't know if we're to a point that the press is stupid. or they're culpable, or they're only looking for access.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
But what they're doing is they're not reporting fairly on what's happening. It wasn't everybody around Trump that got yippy, whatever that means, right? I think it was Trump himself who saw there was a bad policy, or there was so much insider bullshit going on
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And there were so many things where people knew what was happening that people were able to buy the dip, people were able to short stocks, and then people were able to write cash in on the back end because he was bragging in the White House how two billionaires made a lot of money in the stock market that day.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And I got to tell you, I just wish there was another alternative media that told the truth and fact. Oh, wait a minute. It's called Truth in the Barrel. Oh, I forgot. It's us, right? We're the ones doing this, Amy, but it's insane what happened.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I mean, that's what this really is. I love it when you curse and I think you need to drink more.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I don't think a lot of people know this about you, Amy. I hope that I know that. And I thank you for the amazing introduction. But that means I get to say something about you that I don't think people know is you're an amazing college athlete. Right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Division I athlete, right? Yeah. Four years. Four years. And you played what sport? Soccer, of course. Okay. Played soccer. So let me ask you a question. If your team was 0-10, based on really bad decisions from the coaches, and you're already out of the play, you're out of any kind of postseason, any type of tournament play, but you win a game, now you're 1-10. Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
Do you say, oh my God, what a success we were this year. We're great. We're great. Look at us. Look at us. All those coaching decisions paid off. We're now one in 10. That's what happened.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
No, because, I mean, listen, they're maniacally insane. I mean, I don't think Laura Loomer is going to have any, you know, insightful ideas about trade practices or Peter Navarro, right, who was in jail. But if you look at Besant, and I know that you love talking about this stuff, you look at somebody who changes the story every day and just keeps saying Trump's a genius. right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And it's just ludicrous, right? That we have something that failed. You said something, Amy, that was, you know, pretty insightful where, you know, you're talking about, Hey, He said that he was going to force other countries to come to the table. The reason he had to change his policy is because he didn't, because the EU was about to blast us. Everybody was about to blast us.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And he knew that because we're not as big as we used to be. He doesn't understand the globalization effects that happen within our economy and the fact that that downstream could be absolutely devastating, which was proven. And so he had to reverse course because he made really bad policy based on the crazies around him and his inability to think critically.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
and or for him to enrich himself and his family and the people around him by ensuring that people knew when those tariff calls were going to happen. And all of that, whether it's stupid or on purpose, hurt the American people and shows that we don't have a stable policy going forward.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
rewarding companies for being loyal to him i mean this is authoritarian type of activities it's a bit fashy right we're starting to start to hit that little bit of that fascist button um and the thing is you know now we have companies that are being exempted that treat him right i mean it gets to the point other companies are gonna have to sue we're gonna have massive legal issues going on and it's also gonna again it's gonna actually it's going to i think diminish
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
America in the eyes of the global world that we're actually, we're a country where rule of law actually matters, especially in our economic institutions and policies. And if that happens, you know, I think a lot of people are going to be investing in Australia.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
I actually got a message this morning, Amy, like Denver, we see that you're going hard against, you know, it looks like the corruption in the markets and the fact that people were buying the dips and what's going on there. Invest in Australia. We still have the rule of law. You know, I think before you know it, Djibouti is going to have more rule of law in their markets than we are. Right.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered 04.10.25
And I think that's really where we're going right now is we're just looking at this bizarre winners and losers authoritarian way of doing business. And I think I think people need to react to that and we need to fight back.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
And Amy, you're like, well, Denver, why would you be so knowledgeable on how Medicaid works, right? And first of all, I was in Congress, people say that. But do you know what? I'm going to raise my hand, Amy. My wife and I were on Medicaid. When I was going through the University of Virginia, I was on grant money for ROTC scholarship. That grant money was $150 a month.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
You know what it is, Amy? It's like the whiskey thief. When you put it in the barrel and draw it out, it still has the char in it. It tastes so good, but you still got that black char from the barrel. That is what it's going to be like on Cascas Anything.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
In order to get through college, I had to bounce at a local bar because you can see with my physique people were terrified because I was sort of like a smaller version of Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know, just strong, good-looking, you know, very handsome. But the other thing, too, is I also had to— Hard to picture. Hard to picture. Yeah. Well, you know what?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I'll send you some of my younger pictures. But, you know, and the other thing, too, though, is with I put in doors for Hechinger. So, Amy, if you ever need a entry door or a sliding door, I'm your guy or even a storm door. But we made about with all that I made about four to five hundred a month. I can only work certain hours. And in order to have our child, we had to be on Medicaid. So I I.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I don't think people understand that so many red world districts are Medicaid dependent. As you know, I know that with the fifth district of Virginia, many of those are actually relying on Medicaid or the ACA. So I think it's sort of incredible to me that we're looking at an $880 billion cut on Medicaid. But we have seen a little bit of pushback, Amy. I don't know if you saw this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Congressman Don Bacon from Nebraska, who is a friend of mine,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
is saying he's not voting for this which could really throw this into a turmoil because now he said there's about another two dozen republic republicans that are secretly against this now what that translates to who knows amy but again medicaid is for underprivileged individuals you know some of them income challenged that need the type of medical assistance or aid and specific health activities that they couldn't otherwise afford or have the insurance for
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
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Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I don't know if there's enough truth and facts that we can throw out on this show. Here's the thing. Virginia's fifth district before it was redistricted. Seven out of the 17 federally funded health centers were in my district. There's 11 congressional districts, Amy. Think about that stat.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
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Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Also, if you look at Cook PBI, the political voting index, the more you get an R plus and allow these districts, R plus seven to R plus 10, and you're going to R plus 20, there's a direct correlation between that at times between Medicaid or federal assistance to the actual Republican population or how big that PBI is.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
So the thing about common sense and about facts and truth, which you're spitting like fire and we like to do this on here, is that a Republican who was brought up to be against this type of federal funding, which that's how Republicans were brought up, right, Amy? No, we don't want federal funding, right? That's a tax thing. We're not here for that. That's not how it works.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
The hell with the ACA, the heck with Medicaid funding. Do you know what Republicans, when they open their eyes, do you know when they're actually for Medicaid funding? When they go to their district, when they talk to the people that are sick, the ones that are dying, the ones that rely on fairly funded health centers, but also hospitals. Because if they don't have that hospital, they freaking die.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
And that's why you see Republicans like Don Bacon's like, wait a minute, I won by two points. In my district. Can't take Medicaid away. So I think that's what you're saying.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Yeah, I think too, Amy, right? If they're under a certain poverty line, right, or you have a special needs child, that cost balloons over the life of that child. That's what Medicaid is for. So now you're looking at an exponential cost increase after your $5,000. You know, you're running a baby mill, right? Like a puppy mill, right? You're like, I'm just going to get $5,000 a baby.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
The issue is, if you have any issues financially and you don't have Medicaid, I... It's an exponential cost factor.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Part of what my company does is health tech. We're building technologies in order to streamline insurance verification and claim adjudication to help outcomes for patients and doctors. We're using some very complex tech, which seems like a very simple notion. When I was in Congress... I sponsored an act called the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act, ELSA. I was accused of being a communist.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
What ELSA did was it provided dental coverage to kids with congenital diseases or were dying. It was not covered. So when you're talking about dental coverage and how important it is, I remember there was about 100 kids around me with parents, and they were in tears as they were trying to push. We finally got ELSA through. Um, the one 16th, we almost had it.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I turned that bill over and it got passed in the one 17th. And even today, parents and their children send me pictures. Uh, sorry, you're a little emotional.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Um, uh, I think that, you know, as I've become a little bit more mature in my age, Amy, as you can tell, you know, um, it's almost when I ran for Congress, I was like, there's no way we should have government healthcare on any level, not even understanding that there's already government healthcare with Medicaid, Medicare, right? We already have that, Amy.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Um, I think, I think I have absolutely evolved in the notion that we need private and government options. I think we need to expand our footprint, our healthcare footprint. I think if we do that, it actually provides more of an economic base of healthy individuals who could be more productive for society. But there's another thing.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
If we take away that it's about care and compassion in the richest country in the world. And I think as I've gotten older and I've seen the issues, not only in Congress, but in my own district and with my own family. I think there's empathy that can be combined with responsible maintenance of these programs and responsible funding. So that's where I'm at now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
when you're talking about uh... individuals that take medicaid i don't think the states understand the people in the states understand how wide ranging the authorities are for states to spend that money to fill in gaps within medicaid that's why virginia eventually accepted that money because and amy i don't think uh... people realize when you're talking in the hundreds of billions or tens of billions of medicaid aid that money is well spent for individuals that are in bad shape you know and i don't remember uh... i know virginia did i remember if kentucky took the money
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Expanded Medicaid. So I remember expansion of Medicaid. As you remember, that was huge. Like I told you before in the show, it was a huge political issue. And everybody in the GOP was like, you can't do it or you're not going to get elected. Expanding Medicaid is evil. It's awful. It shouldn't be on the taxpayers.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
People don't understand that there's a cascading effect if health care is limited at the beginning. Like you said, Amy, I'm just sort of piggybacking off your point. If it's limited at the beginning, there is a cascading effect of bad that happens when there's people have to go to the hospitals and things like that. It's exponential. I just don't think people grasp that it's already there.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
It's already being done. And if you're talking about an $880 billion cut, that is going to put so much pressure on the health system, even down the road, outside of even the initial issues that happen with that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
It isn't. And it's funny, again, if I was running for office right now on the GOP ticket, I couldn't even say any of the things that we're talking about, Amy, any of the true statistics, any of those facts. I just have to say that $880 billion needs to go away because we need to cut the deficit. And we're looking at equal and awesome spending. And I say awesome, not like it's great.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Just a massive amount of spending on defense. And when you're looking again, people need to listen to our old shows about the deficit and the debt and what that does. So there you go.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I wish I was in a place where I could do the bourbon thing or the whiskey thing with you, Amy. And by the way, if the whiskey from Peru is anything like its people, it's going to be beautiful and awesome. It's great. Yeah. Because I love Perot.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
You have awful management with Sean Duffy and a competent administration that fired FAA individuals don't understand technology or how modernization works. When you have actual reality TV show hosts that are in charge, you might get these kind of issues. It's like having the Kardashians run DHS. So I think that's where we're at right now.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I think you have a Sean Duffy, you have idiots that cut their staff. We don't have the funding to actually support it because we had Elon Musk and Doge, some weird 20-year-old kids with weird names and weird handles behind their names. And then you have Sean Duffy, a reality show host, by the way, was on the financial committee with me, financial services committee with me.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I think, again, it's that when you have that many factors going into decision making, you have fantasy, idiocy and ignorance. I think when you put those three things together, you have issues like that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Why let the truth get in the way of a good story, Amy?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
No, I haven't. I haven't been arrested yet, Amy, but I'm looking to just so I can get to Alcatraz. No, I've never been there. It's just, it's so dumb. It reminds me of the Clint Eastwood movie, right? Where escape from Alcatraz, we're escaping to Alcatraz. But you know what we could use that money for? I wonder how much it would take to refurbish Alcatraz. It'd be the tens of millions, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Oh, for sure. You know, they'd have to put in new sewers. You know, I would think, right, there's all kinds of stuff that you would have to do in order to get that done. Plus his friends would be doing it. I'm sure it'd be a sole source contract, one of his contracting buddies. So it'd be complete grab. Did Doge approve this? Maybe we should call Elon. So, but here's what I think. I think it's,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I'm gonna try to come up with a really good term for this. I think it's dumb.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Really? Okay. You get to a point. where you wonder if he's being deliberately obtuse, if he has mental issues, if his IQ has always been that low, or honestly and cynically, he's talking to his base.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Because when you look at some of the interviews that are going on with MAGA Trump supporters, and something that I've been warning about for a long time, they don't seem to care about the Constitution as long as Trump wills it, or as long as he says it. So Amy- There is a little part of me. The other three things could absolutely be true about deliberately obtuse, right? Low IQ, mentally deranged.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
But I do also believe it's a messaging tactic in some ways to a base that doesn't understand the Constitution anyway. And when you hear some of the interviews, like you just have to get all immigrants out or, you know, a lot of them want to use the military. They want to suspend basic rights, constitutional rights to do this.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I think it scares me that there's voters who actually support those statements from Donald Trump.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
We warned them. People need to go back and look at the Nuclear Proliferation Show. They need to look at our interviews. They need to subscribe to YouTube. You need to go look at what we just talked about with the impact stand being nuclear powers. You need to look, so when you have something that, and I'm gonna be very blunt when you talk about the definition. So why is India really mad?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
You had Muslims killing mostly non-Muslims. So you automatically have this religious conflict, this cultural conflict. But India and Pakistan haven't been friends for a long time. And when you look at the disputed territories in Kashmir, That's something that we've always worried about, Amy, even the military 20 years ago, right?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
I mean, that's something that's always bothered the United States, but also we had to learn about the India-Pakistan conflict for a few reasons. Number one, we always thought it could go kinetic. We always were worried about the fact that we had two nuclear powers that might, I think they might have over 300 nuclear warheads between the two of them. could actually come to blows.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
And then you have to worry about the geopolitical sort of escalation or cascading effect towards who supports India, who supports Pakistan, and what that does to state actors and how they respond in other terrorist organizations around the globe. Amy, that's what I think. This worries me. I've always been worried about it, but it's so odd that we just had this discussion a couple weeks ago.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
And here we are talking about two nuclear powers after we talked about nuclear issues just and proliferation. What, two weeks ago, Amy? That's what I think.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
First of all, just talk about national sovereignty. The fact that they don't really work for us. All of the countries and governments. But here's the thing that would make me laugh. I would say, okay, you're telling me that I have to stop DEI stuff. Who the hell have you hired? RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, Mike Waltz, already fired, right? All these other, wait a second.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
You have hired the least competent, lowest IQ individuals in the world, and you're telling us who to hire and how to do business? You're hiring these idiots, and we're trying to tell people what to do. And I just don't know. Again, I've said this before. You almost lack the words for the hubris and the lack of respect of our country's government towards other governments that have been our allies.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
And I think the long-lasting effects last for decades.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Before you go off, Amy. Well, first of all, to have somebody who constitutionally is a commander in chief is true. But we also have somebody who's constitutionally challenged. So I think that's part of the thing that makes me very angry.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
That's a Foxtrot Oscar right there, if people want to phonetically think what that means.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Cheers to everybody who fights back against conspiracy theories, stupid stop the steal bullshit. I appreciate people like that, Amy. Well, it's a great show. Oh, my God. You know what, though, Amy? You know, people aren't going to be able to listen to this show unless they subscribe. And if they're not going to subscribe, I'm not really happy with them.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
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Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
But you better follow us on the social media channels, all of them. on X, on Blue Sky, and on True Social. So go get them. Amy, this is the best show ever. Thank you. And it's so great to see you here from Dubai.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
But the fact that we're having a parade like that thrown for Kim Jong-un or thrown for Putin or thrown for Xi is completely out of bounds of what we believe as Americans. We don't have dictators. But the fact that he's using resources, military resources to do this, when we're at a time where Doge,
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
is cutting all this federal funding, Amy, and all of a sudden we're spending, what, tens of millions, maybe $100 million?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
How about D.C. 's infrastructure, Amy? I don't know. Some of those roads, I don't know if you want tanks going down DC roads. What's gonna happen? Are they gonna blow off sewer lids hitting people? I mean, what's gonna happen up? I mean, it's just so ludicrous. It's hard to get your arms around that we're in America where you have idiots that wanna parade in their honor, a military parade.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
It's just so ludicrous. It is anti-American, Amy, I'm with you. I don't even know what to say about it. It's so ludicrous. I don't know if I had the proper words to convey How ridiculous it is.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Dubai is warm and sandy. But I tell you, the people are great. I was just in Abu Dhabi today. I'm back in Dubai. So thank you, Amy, for your patience with me broadcasting from the United Arab Emirates about what's going on. So I really appreciate that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
First of all, I mean, so which generals are he cutting, Amy? What are the metrics to say that we have too many generals? I'd like to see that. He also said something sort of ridiculous. Didn't he say that it would actually, we'd have more manpower if we got rid of the generals? Right, that is ridiculous. It's ludicrous.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
So first of all, let's look at the DOD combined budget, which is north of $800 billion. When you're talking about getting rid of 20% of generals, say that's only 44, that's the 20%. Is he talking about, and I don't know, is it one to four star? Is it specific generals and specific commands? If you actually knew how the military worked, that's a very difficult thing to say.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
If you're cutting 20% of generals across the board, did you forget we have new commands? We have- Space Force. Space Force adds a specific amount of generals. So, okay, that's pretty interesting. How about with the number of bases? Since World War II, bases have actually expanded.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
So now we're looking at a geographic expansion that takes more base commanders and more squadron commanders, if you're Air Force. Or in the Army, there's more companies, there's more battalions, there's more platoons, there's more Fifth Army or Tenth Army. You just keep going on and on and on. So I don't know if he's going to cut
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Again, it's just a statement without metrics based on a person who still doesn't know how to use Signal. So I'm not quite sure if we should take them seriously. But if they do it arbitrarily, I'm wondering if those generals are actually anti-Trump generals.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Ma'am, you said something. First of all, nine five-star generals, that's 11 four-star generals, plus a brigadier general, number one. Number two, I'm just going by total stars. If you're talking about 12 generals, what's their total salary plus basic allowance for housing, basic allowance for subsistence, say they lived off base.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
You're talking about, let's even talk fringe and medical, $3 to $3.5 million. So Per year, by the way, per year, Amy. So three to three and a half million dollars. Say it's all general. Say it's, oh my God, Amy, say it's $10 million a year. That's still only 10% of the projected cost of the parade that Donald Trump wants to throw at his honor. So what are we talking about here?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
So now we're talking about between three and 10% of the total cost, getting rid of those generals, right? So here's the thing, just don't have the parade and you've cut your costs. You've done it, Mike. That's why we're so genius. Here's the other thing. Back to the parade. You know what scares me is a picture of somebody standing in front of a tank like Tiananmen Square. Yeah.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
What scares me is people being tackled because they're getting in the way of a military parade. I think that would be some of the worst images we have coming out of the Capitol. So we have so much incompetence, crazy, narcissism. and psychopathy that's going on right now in the United States government and the DOD. So anyway, it's insane. It's insane.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
It is bullshit. I don't know what I can add to this except this. When you're talking about a quarter of Army recruits not making it through, part of that could be physical fitness standards. But I have another truth bomb. I would like people to go look at statistics of how many of those individuals that don't make it are men.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
You know, one of the I think the burrs you've had in your saddle a long time is this ridiculousness on DEI. And as I'm listening to you talk in your stellar decorated career, Amy, my wonder is total. I bet you a lot of that 25 percent are men that couldn't hack it, couldn't hack the standards and are out. And I would love to see those statistics repeated.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
But as far as gross numbers, that's why this DEI argument is ridiculous. That's why the lies about why they're enlisting is ridiculous. We know it is a function of the economy. All of us in the military know enlistment goes up when there's more fear about the economy because they want a stable paycheck. They want to get health benefits. How do I know this?
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
In 1992, I enlisted in the United States Air Force, Amy, because I needed health benefits. My wife was pregnant. I needed to do something with my life. That's really largely why people enlist. And again, that's why I love the show right there. That's all I got to add in. You already crushed that.
Truth in the Barrel
This Week Unfiltered | 05.08.25
Okay, first of all, Medicaid is something that most districts rely on when you're talking about individuals who need help. They're below a certain level of income. And they need assistance for certain medical activities, whether they be checkups, whether they be pregnancies, women's health, all of that.