WEBVTT - The Nightcap with Gary Jeff Walker -- 12/2/25 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.119 But you l w Gary Jeff Walker sitting down checking 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.920 in reporting for duty on this Tuesday night. How about 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.840 that snow this morning. That'll test your metal and your 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:15.400 driving skills, and people's driving skills were on full display 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.600 during morning rush hour and really not that bad. It'll 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:25.959 test the brush, the scraper brush in your back seat too, anyway. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.160 I mean, the toughest part of this is cleaning off 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.960 your car. And please, when you clean off your car 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.919 from the snow, get the mountain that's on top of 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.640 your car too, so it doesn't pile into somebody else's windshield. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.159 On the interstate, we still see people driving around in 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.760 these ig loose It's insane, not just your windows, the 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:52.080 whole car. It takes a little bit longer, but it's 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:56.960 damn well worth it. As we get into things tonight. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.680 What a mess in the state of Minnesota. It's been 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.880 a mess for a long long time. The land of 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.400 ten Thousand Lakes and at least a couple million idiots 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.440 who keep on voting for people like Ilan Omar and 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:17.039 Tim Walls. That scandal, the fraud scandal in Minnesota, that 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:23.200 Tim tampon. Tim says he's grabbing by both horns and 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.960 throwing people in jail. It's all happened under his watch, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:32.080 even with warnings from other lawmakers in that state that 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.600 it was going on, and nothing was done. How about 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:42.160 a billion dollars funding Somali terrorist Uh huh, that's what 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.280 they're finding out. And even the Democrats are starting to 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:49.480 jump on Governor Waltz now as well as the mainstream 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:54.080 news because nobody wants him on that debate stage in 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.560 twenty twenty eight. Can you imagine if that man had 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:01.920 been elected vice president? On tonight show, we have Corin Clifford, 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:06.320 who is an independent journalist works for SAT one two three, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.720 and we'll get her take on the Tim Waltz Minnesota 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.320 scandal and everything else that's going on. On President Trump's 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:19.200 new immigration halts, not just to nineteen countries, He's talked 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.400 about expanding it and kicking some people out of the 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.240 country who don't love our country, and we'll find out 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.640 what she knows and thinks about that. Adam Hartage a 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.160 former CIA operative who has a brand new book called 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:38.200 The Alpha Blueprint, and it's about how to teach your 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:43.560 kids in the next generation about AI and what is 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.120 real and what really matters looking forward, to that, Dave 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.040 Hatter with some tech talk before we're done, and the 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.480 fur Ball Andy Furman. Plus at the top of next hour. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.400 We'll be repeating Saturday Mornings Rock and Roll Archaeology with 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.440 myself and the music professor Jim Lebarber. For those who 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:06.519 missed it, we can't podcast it because of the licensing 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.880 rules for podcasts as opposed to our rules for broadcast. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.680 But if you didn't get it up at the crack 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.400 of seven thirty five on Saturday, a chance to hear 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.919 Rock and Roll Archaeology, the stories behind the great songs 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:28.200 one more time tonight. The Nightcap continues in Moments with 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.640 Adam Hartage here on seven hundred WLW, The Apple with 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:37.240 Adam here on this show on seven hundred WLW. And 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:43.200 Adam is a former CIAOP officer, and he has written 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.840 a brand new book called The Alpha Blueprint, which is 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.680 meant to teach the next generation how to cope with 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:57.160 AI artificial intelligence because in many cases, I mean they 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.880 are the generation of AI. They are the generation that 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:06.920 has only known the social media and cell phones and 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.600 connectivity like we never imagined when we were kids. And 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:18.240 there are some daunting issues there obviously, and it's important 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:23.719 for the next generation, your children, your grandchildren to understand 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.919 what's real and what's fake. His name is Adam Hartage 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.479 and he is back author of The Alpha Blueprint. Adam Hartige. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:32.200 How are you, sir? 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:35.080 Thanks so much for having me back. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.000 Really appreciate it. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.480 Yeah, let's let's talk about the book before we get 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.560 into anything else. Adam, And we kind of kind of 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.120 thumbnail covered it the last time you were on. But 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.640 why do you feel like this is an important book 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:52.520 for any parent to have in their possession and to 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:58.800 have this information in dealing with the realities of the 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:00.560 technology you today? 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.720 Yeah, well, I appreciate the question, and I will put 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:10.160 it this way. I think the conversation that parents need 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:15.000 to be having with their kids today like before any others. Frankly, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.680 I think there's this conversation about AI and what it 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.839 means for their future. So, I mean, I've got a 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.480 ten year old daughter and I've got a seven year 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.800 old son. You know, I looked at them one day 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.640 and I thought, well, as a parent, what do I 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.839 tell them in ten years? Do I say, Hey, kids, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.600 go to college, you know, get a four year degree, 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.440 go work for a fortune. Five hundred company for thirty 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.599 years and don't worry, your rop IRA and social Security 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.479 will be there for you at the end of the day. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.200 You know, it occurred to me that that world is 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.160 frankly dead and gone and buried. And you've now got 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:52.080 companies that are replacing jobs with robots, and you've got 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.159 companies that are shying away from humans in preference of 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:00.279 AI tools, and these are going to be real major 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.520 issues that this next generation and the Gen Z generation 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.960 who's out there now, so there's years are the kids 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.120 who are around twentieth year or so, and you know 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.080 the alphas are you know, the age of my kids 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.240 now the newborns call them the ten or so years 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.560 old And uh, I mean it's I think that if 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.960 a parent is not sitting down, you know, just hoping 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.080 hoping that this that this passes em buyer, they think 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:27.719 they can keep their head in the sand, you know, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.880 if they're not willing to sit down and have these 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.000 very challenging conversations with their kids about like, Okay, what 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.200 does the future look like for us as a family. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.479 You know, how am I going to teach my kids 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:44.320 to to be able to stay relevant, stay solvent financially solvent, mentally. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.279 Healthy, and all these other things. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.560 So I looked at that and I said, well, I 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.880 think I think the answers to these things, and I 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.200 tend to view the world through a Christian lenz and 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.120 so I said, I think the answers to these things 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.000 kind of tend to go back to more timeless principles 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:02.360 like faith, freedom, fitness, family, you know, foundational principles. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:02.719 Yeah. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.560 And then one of the bigger things I harp on 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.920 with my kids all the time is I tell them, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.120 you guys are growing up in a world where you 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.760 cannot afford to be a liar. So not necessarily even 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.600 because your dad doesn't want you to be a liar, 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.560 or it's you know, you know wrong, or for moral 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.400 reasons or whatever. I said, you cannot be a liar 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.480 because people in your time, when your adults, will crave 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:36.160 truth so much, because the world is completely you know, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.160 meant to pull the wool over their eyes and see them. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.360 I mean, if you look at everything now we have 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.840 from you know, the competitive advertising, the government bureaucracies constantly 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.880 lie too, I mean, endless conspiracy theories which all turn 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.400 out to be true, you know. I mean, it's how 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.920 do you discern truth, and how do you teach your 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.520 children how to discern truth and understand fact from fiction? 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.320 And so I, you know, to go into some of 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.840 the some of the practical stuff. I'm hey, you know 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.760 your dad was CIA. I can tell you what to 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.160 look for. Here's what the lies, Here's what the mapulation, 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.080 here's here's how you can tell when you're being targeted 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.680 or deceived or manipulated. And so I go into some 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.440 it's it's really a series of practical field guide type 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.600 letters from a concerned father to his kids in the 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.600 next generation, saying, you know, these are the things you're 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.120 going to have to deal with. So let's get ahead 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.000 of this now, because we can't just keep our head 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.200 in the sand and expect it. You know, it's not 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.520 going to become reality, because it's already here today. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:39.600 I think there is a growing skepticism among teenagers any way. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.599 A recent study by the News Literacy Project revealed that 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:47.040 eighty four percent eighty four percent of American teenagers between 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.680 the ages of thirteen and eighteen view the news media 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:55.960 negatively describing it as fake and biased. So there are 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.640 there are kids do have a radar about what's real 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.280 and it's fake, but it's good to inform them to 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.000 be vigilant, as you're doing in the Alpha Blueprint. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.280 Would you agree with that? 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:08.520 Yeah? 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.080 Absolutely, And not only that, I mean, I'm I'm very 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.280 hopeful or for this next for these next two generations, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.000 both the Ziers and the Alpha kids. I think they're strong. 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.120 I think as a group, their ability to sniff out 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:27.440 bs is better than really any group probably in history. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:32.240 Because like my kids, this was so telling. When my 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.560 daughter was I don't know, three years old or whatever 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.040 it was, and she walked up to the television and 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.040 she started putting her fingers on it, trying to scroll 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.680 scroll the TV, you know, And I'm thinking to myself, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.920 you know, we live out in the country. Our kids 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.520 don't have a lot of technology, you know. They they 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:54.480 have an iPad. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:54.680 Kind of thing. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.680 Yeah, but but that's that's really about it. They spend 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.239 a lot of time playing with their friends, playing outdoors, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.320 playing with the dog, you know, down at the lake, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:04.439 and all that kind of stuff. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:05.600 Supposed to do. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.240 Yeah, exactly. But but I thought, wow, if even my 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.360 daughter only three years old, already looks at the world 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.880 and what she sees is the scrollable screen and she 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:20.640 doesn't understand, you know, even even really how to speak 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.320 very much yet at the age of three, but she 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.320 knows technology. And so these kids are, you know, growing 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.640 up on you know, their fluency level with technology is 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.880 far beyond anything that that people our age, you know, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.760 can can speak to. But what they don't have necessarily 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.880 is the moral fiber, the grit, the character, the worldly experience, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:49.080 the good compass and guideposts to send them, you know, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.880 in the right directions. And that's kind of what the 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.760 book Little More focuses on, is how to build those 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.240 kind of core foundational things in your children. So and 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.320 a lot of it, you know, comes back to common sense, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:04.440 good parenting, you know, understanding your place in the world, 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.280 and you know, as it relates to the almighty and 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:12.400 high purpose here and turn into you know, some of 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:16.720 the sort of more timeless, ancient principles that are all 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.760 you know, encapsulated in the Big Book. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.600 Yeah, I was, I was going to mention Adam that 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.760 my wife and I at church this past Sunday. It's 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.000 a couple of days ago. It was testimony Sunday, and 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.320 one of the people that got up and talked was 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:39.400 a local youth leader and he said and he's in 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.319 schools with middle schoolers and high schoolers all the time, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:47.800 and he said, it's amazing how many kids are thirsty 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.480 for the gospel, how many kids are going back to church, 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:56.199 are interested in learning about Jesus and going to church. 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.360 It it really is happening, not only locally, but all 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.319 over the country free. And it's not just a reflex 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.080 response to Charlie Kirk. It has been going on for 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.120 a while. And you've got to be heartened about that, 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.600 because when you want them to be able to distinguish 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:18.240 between what is real and true and what's fake, there's 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.640 a few better places to find that out than that absolutely. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.920 Well, you know, and they're so used to being manipulated 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.200 and lied to by the media, buy social media. I mean, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:35.160 you know, it's like a good example is my business 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:40.160 partner recently single was you know, met a girl on 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:45.240 Instagram or whatever. They went on a date and afterwards 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.520 she was like, man, He's like, I can't do this. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:53.240 He's like, because physically this person looks nothing like you know, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.760 the Instagram profile with all the filters and everything else, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.880 you know, And I'm like, yeah, I mean I get. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.720 That's just one small example, though, but when you're constantly, 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:08.360 you know, when you constantly have that reality shoved at you, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.720 it makes it so that you can't really trust anything. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.160 And that's why I tell my kids, you know, you 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:20.040 don't have the luxury of becoming a liar, because you 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:25.400 need your kids, your your co cohorts, your colleagues. You know, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.720 as you grow up, will need to know that you 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.120 are a person of character and backbone that they can 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.360 turn to and rely on, because you guys aren't going 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.760 to have much reality other than physical close human contact 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:38.480 as your community. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:44.079 As an EXCIA operative Adam Hartage, what did you make 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:50.720 of the six elected lawmakers, all with intelligence and military ties, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.840 telling troops that they can disobey a commander in chief's 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.600 orders if they find that they are illegal. That, I mean, 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.640 this is classics. See I am manipulation in other countries. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:02.600 Is it not? 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:03.880 Yeah? 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:08.240 But well also it's so disingenuous, all of it, because so, 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.880 I mean, these people aren't idiots, and so first of all, 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.120 I found it reprehensible, I feeling it completely unprofessional. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:20.280 I found it, uh disgusting and you know, wrong. But 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.120 I mean, these people aren't idiots, and so they use 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.480 words like okay, you know, it's your duty to to uh, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.920 you know, to refuse an illegal order. Yeah, but then 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.360 they kind of imply that Trump's already giving these illegal orders, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.480 and I'm like, well, what is the illegal order? This 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.440 is why you have to unpack all these things. So 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:43.480 because first off, any military officer or any government oath 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.920 of office officer, so like I was a CIA operations officer, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.760 there is a federal you know, I take an oath 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.280 of office for that. When I was a military officer, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.600 I took an oath of office for that. And anyone 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.920 who is an officer in the government knows that they 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.880 has not just the right, but a moral obligation and 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:09.800 a duty to refuse unlawful illegal orders. Everybody knows that right. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:15.520 But what we're doing is so dishonest because they they 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.200 say that, but they're trying to make it seem like 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.400 Trump has already issued all of these illegal orders and 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.960 they're going way outside of you know, Uniform Code of 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.640 Military Justice or Title fifty year, Title ten or any 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.840 of the other you know, legalistic stuff. But it's just 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.600 bs and it's designed to manipulate you, pull the wall 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.200 over your eyes and get you going. It's rage bait. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.000 It's designed to get people going Trump bad, Orange Man bad. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.280 You know, he's doing illegal things and constitutions under threat. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:45.920 All this other stuff. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:52.120 It's disingenuous, it's deceitful, and it's frankly reprehensible. I'm so 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:57.360 tired of the Left constantly putting politics and party over 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.280 duty and you know, the right. I'm just I'm sick 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:02.600 of it. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:03.800 Yeah, me too. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.720 The book is The Alpha Blueprint, Preparing the Next Generation 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.640 for an AI Future. The author is Adam Hardage, and 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.360 I loved what you said. Is the first thing you 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:18.320 tell your kids is make sure you're not a liar, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.560 because liars abound everywhere and you don't want to be 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:25.320 known that way. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:27.280 Adam, Thank you very much. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.800 Go ahead, No, no, I was just yeah, yeah, I 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.160 mean that way. You keep your keep your keep your 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.080 fund family, keep them close. You know, I'll always be honest. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:38.200 Leave from the front. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.680 So yeah, all right, pick up the book, The Alpha Blueprint. Adam, 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:43.600 Thank you very much. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.480 Oh, thank you so much. Having wonderful have a wonderful week. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.440 God bless all right, Uh, we'll switch gears and Danny 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:56.640 was my second amendment friend will join us right afternoons, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.440 which is next on the Nightcap on seven under W 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.040 l W. He is again first time after a long time, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.720 and it's been too long in my opinion, but that's 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.960 probably my fault. Is the guy who has been shining 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.680 a beacon of light on American freedom and liberty and 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:18.320 the Second Amendment, the blessed Second Amendment of our United 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.720 States Constitution in the Bill of Rights for over a decade. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.280 He is the author of the Good Gun, Bad Guy 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:27.560 series of books. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.240 He is a. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:34.480 Former well a former non gun owner kind of guy 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.040 who got hip to the truth and has been leading 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.920 the charge for our freedom ever since. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.520 Dan was is back on the Nightcap. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.440 How you doing, Danny, Gary Jeff Hey, great, Great to 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.359 be on your show as always and doing good. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:52.119 Thanks for having me. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:53.040 Great to have you back. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.760 Thanksgiving Okay, everything go well with the family and everything. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.720 Yeah, I ate way too much and now this whole 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.080 week it's nothing but salad. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.480 I don't know if I've gone that dramatically, you know, 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.160 backwards in my diet since Thanksgiving, but I will tell 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.800 you this, I did not want another bite to eat. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.239 We ate at noon and we didn't eat anything the 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.600 rest of the day because dude, I was stuffed. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:23.760 It was great. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.159 So here we are, And I kind of ask you 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.240 this every year. But if you've got somebody on your 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:36.160 Christmas list first and foremost who was interested in being 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.200 a first time gun owner, or you have a gun 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.960 owner on your list, do you have any recommendations? 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.440 Well, you know, this is a tough one because everybody 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.640 is a little bit different. You know, when I started out, 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.919 I started with an LCP three eighty, which was, in 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.120 my opinion, not a good gun to carry if you're 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.480 new to carry. There's there's the shield, and there's some 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.560 other smaller, you know, compact nine milimeters guns that are 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.359 usually pretty pretty good. But I hate to do a 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:12.440 recommendation because you know, it depends on how you're gonna 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.040 carry and carry in your waistband, you're gonna carry in 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.639 your ankle, you're gonna carry in your purse. You know, 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.800 a lot of things are different. So I would recommend 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:23.960 go to your local gun shop. 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:27.600 And just testing out handle them. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.240 Yeah, you know what I mean, check them out and 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.720 see which ones you like and do you want a 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:37.200 mechanical safety or not. You know, a lot of different variables, 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.399 so it's hard to really make a recommendation. But there 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.960 are a lot. I mean, there's no limit on the 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.600 models out right now. It's just unbelievable. You have your 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.399 your choice of all sorts of stuff. It's really a 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.080 great time for handguns. 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.760 I know that in your work with a Good Gunbadguy 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.639 dot Com with amal Land that you do some writing 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.720 for them and you do all kinds of stuff on 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:02.640 video on YouTube. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.000 The Loaded Mic show, is that still going on? 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.280 Yeah, we're doing Loaded Mic every week. We're getting ready 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.680 for a big Christmas special, which is a lot of fun. 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.159 We bring in Charlie Cook and John Pech you know, 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.680 good friends of ours also in the Second Amendment world, 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:20.439 so they come down, they come up to our studio 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.560 in New York and we have a blast. But Loaded 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:26.080 Mike is still going. It's actually we just got on 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.320 a new network called Spreely, the Spreely Network, which is 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:32.680 bringing us tons and tons of new fans and viewers. 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.640 So if you want, go to Loadedmike dot com. 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:36.200 And check that out. 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:37.960 But yeah, the show is great. We're having a blast 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:38.159 with it. 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.440 Good deal, good deal. Did you see the news story? 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.960 I saw this somewhere on late night news and I 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.040 thought it was a joke at first, but then I 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:52.080 realized that we're dealing with a country that's barely a 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:56.280 country anymore, England. This guy was on vacation in the 0:20:56.359 --> 0:21:01.359 United States, this brit and he was in Florida and 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:05.240 he posted a picture on social media of him holding 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.000 a rifle and he was arrested when he got back 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:16.800 home for inspiring fear, for holding an illegal firearm. He 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.320 wasn't even in country. He was in the United States. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:22.880 And did you hear about this? 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:24.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah I did. 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.359 And you know what's interesting if you look at this 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:34.560 conceptually or you know, ideologically, the Brits they are deadly 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:39.359 afraid of their citizens having firearms because they remember what 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:45.320 happened in the Revolutionary War. They tried, they tried to 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:50.639 take control, but it was the people over here who decided, no, 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:53.160 we're not going to let you do it, and we 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.399 kicked their ass. And the reason we did it was 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:01.040 because we had firearms. So they will do everything they 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:10.320 can deter positive any positive, you know, thing about about 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.960 firearms or guns or anything. So I'm not surprised that 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:16.159 they did it. I mean, it's it is shocking on 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:18.400 one level. It's like, how the heck are we, where 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:21.239 do we? How do we do this? This is just 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:25.280 so controlling and so but over there, I'm not surprised 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:28.040 because they The worst thing that could happen to them 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:33.000 right now, the government that is, is their people get power, 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.560 because what's happening right now is are getting overloaded with 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.960 it with Islam, yes, radical Islamist, and they're taking over 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.919 and and they they desperately want their the citizens, the 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.120 good people, to be disarmed so they can have more 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:49.000 control over them. 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:49.479 Uh. 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:51.680 It's it's turning into a hell hole over there from 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:55.840 what I can see, and it's just a it's a 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.680 sad place when you can't defend yourself. 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:03.360 It's that unfettered open border kind of mentality. Immigration that's 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:07.480 been going on in the UK for quite some time now. 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:13.960 You know, the mayor of London is is is Islamic 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.280 and has you know, talked about Sharia law. 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:20.240 Being the law of the land. 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.840 And you have all these Islamis that are now have 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:28.760 migrated and they want complete control over the population. And 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:33.280 you know what, that's that's part of the disarmament move 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:36.199