1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: So if you're thirty five years old, the CEO of 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Teal Capital, you're working for a billionaire. You're probably making 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: bank yourself as a result of that. Why run for Senate? 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: We're gonna ask my next guest that question. His name 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: is Blake Masters. He is running for Senate in Arizona. 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: This is a guy who has lived his life in 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: in a lot of the startup world. He's running as 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: a disruptor. I mean, he's raised a ton of campaign 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: cash off of things like n f T s and 10 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: so I want to ask him and really get to 11 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: the heart of how do you want to disrupt Congress? 12 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 1: What do you want to do? This is also someone 13 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: who's really made waves with a lot of the things 14 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: he said, like this, add the Second Amendment is not 15 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: about duck hunting. It's about protecting your family and your country. 16 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: What's the first thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden 17 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: handed an Afghanistan? They took away people's guns. That's how 18 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: it works. Isn't it weird to hear someone actually just 19 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: speak the truth? Is that the whole point of the 20 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: Second Amendment to protect us from tyranny and look at 21 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: authoritarian regimes. You look at when communism takes over, what 22 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: do they do? They shut down the press, they shut 23 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: down free speech, and they take away your guns. So 24 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: honesty is refreshing, and that's what Blake Masters does. He's 25 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: really honest. He recently came under attack for saying that 26 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: the gender pay gap was a left wing narrative. Also true, 27 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: but so many Republicans are afraid to say things like that. 28 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: Why It's a really fascinating interview with someone who has 29 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,199 Speaker 1: already done a lot in his life. He's an author 30 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: as well, who's already accomplished a lot and wants to 31 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: do more, possibly as a United States Senator. I think 32 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: you're really going to enjoy this conversation with a fascinating person. 33 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: So stay tuned for my interview with Blake Masters. Blake Masters, 34 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining the show. My pleasure. Thank 35 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: you for having me so Blake, you are through? Do 36 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: you five years old? You're the president of the Peter 37 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: Teel Foundation, CEO of Teal Capital. I assume you were 38 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,959 Speaker 1: making bank and crushing it. Why run for Senate? It's 39 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: a good question. A lot of my friends ask that, 40 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: they're like, dude, what's wrong with you? But you know 41 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: what it. It just seems like the most important thing 42 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: I could be doing. You know, I don't mean that 43 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: to sound cliche. I literally think we are losing this country. 44 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: Um I just said yesterday. Uh. It pains me to 45 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: say it. But at this rate, America is on track 46 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 1: to become a third world country by the time my boys, 47 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: who were eight and six and two years old and 48 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: heart high school. And that's not okay with me. You know, 49 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: Arizona is not a purple state, it's not a blue state. 50 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: But somehow we have two Democrats editors. And uh, I 51 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: just thought, let me let me hit pause on this 52 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: business career because I can go in. I can beat 53 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: Mark Kelly. Uh and I can make a change. I 54 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: can I can actually show the kind of new leadership 55 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: that we need. So it feels important. I thought I'd 56 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: be good at it. I think I'm showing I'm the 57 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: guy who could beat Mark Kelly. And uh and here 58 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: I am. You know. And so you got involved in 59 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: Peter Chiel's world. Well, obviously everyone knows he's been involved 60 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: in politics. He's a billionaire, co founded PayPal. When you 61 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: were attending class and he was teaching about startups and 62 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: you were a student at Stanford, and you started posting 63 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: these detailed notes on the line, which ended up leading 64 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: the groundwork for a book that you co authored with 65 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: Peter TiO called zero to One Notes on Startup or 66 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: How to Build the Future. What was he saying that 67 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: you found so interesting in terms of, you know, posting 68 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: it online and sharing it with everyone else. Honestly, it 69 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: was just fresh and original content. You know, I've been 70 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: to a lot of classes up until that point, all 71 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: of high school, all of undergrad most of law school, 72 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: and you know, the professors, they're smart people, but mainly 73 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: they're just telling you about what's in some book, you know, 74 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: and it's very formulaic, and all of a sudden, here's 75 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: Peter Kiel. You know, this was I guessleven when when 76 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: I met him, when he first saught a class, and 77 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: you know, all I knew was he was successful. He 78 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: founded PayPal, you know, billionaire. Congratulations. That's great. But he 79 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: wasn't just like telling wars stories from PayPal. There was 80 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: some of that. But you know, one class we're talking 81 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: about peak oil and what the future of energy was 82 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: going to look like. Uh, and then the next class 83 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: session we'd be doing some you know, textual exegesis from 84 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: obscure Abraham Lincoln's speech, you know, and then the next 85 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: section we're talking about nuclear energy and and and this 86 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: is just he was kind of all over the place. 87 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: But after three or four class sessions, I realized, no, 88 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: it wasn't all over the place. He had formulated you know, 89 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: these different cuts, these different angles uh of looking at 90 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: the world, and all this stuff was tying together, and 91 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: it was fascinating to see sort of fresh and original 92 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: content uh from somebody. It stuck out and I knew, man, 93 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: this guy, he's he's thinking about things, uh in a 94 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 1: different way, in the next level way. This is exciting. 95 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: I better take notes. I mean, I'm not gonna lie Blake. 96 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind being a billionaire. But but you know, so, 97 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: you know, if you look at Congress, it's it's mostly 98 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: you know, old and and boring people. And you're sort 99 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: of talking about how you know, Peter was disruptive and 100 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: that sort of intrigued you. I mean, you're kind of 101 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: running as this disruptive force running for Senate. I mean 102 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: you've fundraised off of n f T S, which is 103 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: entirely different than you know, most people running for Senate. 104 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: Do how do you think someone as young as you 105 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: was sort of this smart, this startup mentality, how do 106 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: you plan on disrupting Congress? Well, it's really interesting because 107 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: I think the same old playbook just so obviously doesn't 108 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: work anymore. Right, It's like you, you have some good 109 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: people in Congress, but not most of them, and I 110 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 1: just it's so it's so borring. It's just follow the process. 111 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: Follow the process. Nobody wants to debate substance anymore, nobody 112 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 1: wants to try anything new. Um and And you know, 113 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: on the one hand, I'm very conservative. I believe in 114 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: the timeless principles that this country was founded on. I 115 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: believe in our original design, in our in our constitution, 116 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: um and so there's something very old about that obviously. 117 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: But we've got to get back to that. And I 118 00:05:57,839 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: don't think you get back to that just by following 119 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: where politics has been going, as if on autopilot. You know, 120 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: I'm tired of zombie Republicans. They just want to get 121 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: in line and listen to whatever ship, whatever leadership says, 122 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 1: and who don't want to innovate. I think we need 123 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: fresh thinking. I think we need new thinking. And so 124 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to run a bold campaign. UM, trying 125 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: to be as bold as possible, say the truth as 126 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: I see it. Methodologically, we're trying to innovate, right. I 127 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: had to get creative with fund grazing UM and so yeah, 128 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: we sold some n f T s and you know, 129 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: I offered some some dinners just right on Twitter. I said, Hey, 130 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 1: if you want to donate the maximum MOP to my campaign, 131 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: you can come have dinner with me and Peter Tiele, 132 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: you know, And that got a good uptake. We've had 133 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: some fantastic dinner conversations UM as an innovative way to 134 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: raise money, and so I'm just trying to do new things. Uh. 135 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: And I think once I get there, you know, I'm 136 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: going to continue. That's when the real work begins. I 137 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: don't think to sort of go along to get along 138 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: Republicanism makes sense anymore. I'm tired of Republicans who just 139 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: want to play defense while they left the left set 140 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: the agenda. Well, I totally agree with you, and that's 141 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: why I wanted to have you on this podcast and 142 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: why I'm interested in your candidacy. I mean, we're sort 143 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: of we're entering into this post truth world. Where boys 144 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: can be girls, girls can be boy boys. Were you know, 145 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: nothing is truth anymore, right, And so what I appreciate 146 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: about what you're doing is you say the truth, which 147 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: is almost sadly controversial these days. You know, for instance, 148 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: you just came under attack for talking about the gender 149 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: pay gap and saying it's a left wing narrative, it's 150 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: not real. Were you surprised by the reaction that those 151 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: comments got. I mean, not really. I guess I'm surprised that, 152 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: you know, they acted like it was this gotcha. This 153 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: was a public forum that we had all the Senate 154 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: candidates except Bard of it. She doesn't show up to 155 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: these things, but most of us are there. And uh, 156 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: you know, we got asked this question about the Equal 157 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: Rights Amendment. UM sort of idiots incredit question. It's not 158 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: like I'm going out and campaigning on the gender pay 159 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: gap myth every day. But you know, when I'm asked 160 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: a question, I don't just hipot too safe talking points. 161 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: I just again, I say the truth as I see it. 162 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: And so I got asked this question and back in February, 163 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: and it was the public form, right, I knew it 164 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: was being recorded, and it's in front of hundreds of people. 165 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: But I just said the truth, which is that in 166 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: this country, men and women they're not paid different amounts 167 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: for equal work. If you actually know how to measure 168 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: this stuff and you can get it, you can get 169 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: the statistics from you know, the government's website. UM, women 170 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: are paid about the same as men when you control, uh, 171 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: for for choices, When you control for um, you know 172 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 1: who's doing the jobs and what their relative skill levels are. 173 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: And so it's just a myth. And I said that, 174 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: And so what happened clearly was this is the week 175 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: where all the left wing media just started to attack me. 176 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: And so this was in some Democrat Operats AFO file. 177 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: They fed it to MSNBC. MSNBC published the video. They 178 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: thought it would be this huge gotcha, and it turns 179 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: out everybody, you know, in the in the Twitter comments, 180 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: everybody on social media is just like, actually, Blake sort 181 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: of write about that. You know, they haven't updated their 182 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 1: talking points from fifteen months ago, and so I think 183 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: the fifteen years ago, and so I think this whole 184 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: thing was actually net positive for me. They're giving me attention, 185 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: pretending like the truth that I'm saying is is, you know, 186 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: some horrible thing. Actually it's just true. Well and it 187 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: was hilarious because I can't remember which article was, but 188 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: they're trying to dispute you, and they're like, well some 189 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: say this, but like there's also you know, like it 190 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: wasn't really outright disputing you. I mean, they're almost proving 191 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: your point that you know it's not an apples to 192 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: apples or you know there's other variants involved, which is 193 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: essentially what you're saying is when you look at all variants, 194 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: it's not a true narrative. But it was funny because 195 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: they didn't really dispute your case, but you know, and 196 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: you sort of made waves. I mean, you had a 197 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: campaign at about the Second Amendment, which I played in 198 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: the intro for our audience. And what you're saying is 199 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: that you said the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting. 200 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: It's about preventing or protecting your family and country. You know, 201 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: what's the first thing the Taoiband did when Joe Biden 202 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: handed them Afghanistan? They took away people's guns. I mean, 203 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: you're right about the Second Amendment is a defense against tyranny. 204 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: Do you think more people unders and that now having 205 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: gone through yeah. Absolutely. It's like, you know, the Republicans 206 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: already had guns. I think conservatives, especially in Arizona, we 207 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: already had guns if you look at who bought guns 208 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: for the first time during the COVID pandemic. You know, 209 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: when people are tuning into CNN and CNN is saying, hey, 210 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: these protests are mostly peaceful. Meanwhile, you know, in the 211 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: back of the reporter there's just like police precincts being 212 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: lit on fire. I think a lot of independence and 213 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: even a lot of Democrats are like, oh, the police 214 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,079 Speaker 1: are coming under attack. Doesn't feel so good. Maybe I'll 215 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: go out and buy a gun. And so I think 216 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: the gun control thing is is completely dead. Um. Obviously 217 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: the left still wants to disarm normal, law abiding American citizens, 218 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: but I don't think that's gonna happen anymore. And then 219 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: we can't let up. We have to prosecute the case. 220 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: But the Second Amendment, it's not about hunting, you know. 221 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: And I'm tired of Republicans just making ads, you know 222 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: TV commercials where they put on the camouflage and the 223 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: and the orange safety vests and they're going out and shooting, 224 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: you know, uh, some some trap or something I'm fine 225 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: with hunting, I'm fine for sporting use of firearms obviously, 226 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 1: But the real point of the Second Amendment is political. 227 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: It's to defend yourself against threats ultimately against government maurity 228 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: and pitches the left off when you say that to them, 229 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: it's like nails on a chalkboard. But again, it's simply true. 230 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: It's bold, it is provocative, and I think that's the 231 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: sweet spot. That's where Republican messaging needs to be well. 232 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: And I think that's what a lot of Republicans don't 233 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: understand is and what you know, you've understood, what President 234 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: Trump understood, what Governor to Santa's understands, is that when 235 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: you go on offense, Republicans can win on a lot 236 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: of these issues. But for far too long, Republicans kind 237 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: of coward to the media and you know, bought into 238 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: these fake premises and we're so afraid of their own shadows. 239 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: And I think Republicans are finally starting to get it. 240 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: But we need more people like you. We need more 241 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: people like Governor to Santas and Trump who are are 242 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: fighting back and you know, going on off and ultimately, 243 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: I think that's the path forward for Republicans agree. And 244 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: you know, I always like to contrast the presidential election 245 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: with the election, you know, Mitt Romney, I think when 246 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: he lost in twelve, one reason was because he was 247 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: too damned nice, you know. And I'm not saying you 248 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: should go out of your way to be mean to 249 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: people for no reason, but you can't. Can't be so nice, 250 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: so obsessed with your own niceness that you crave the 251 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: attention and the adoration and the respect of the media. 252 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: Because most of the corporate media at this point it's 253 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: just really bad, most of his left wing um you 254 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: could best think of these people as like extensions of 255 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: the modern Democratic Party. And so when Mitt Romney was 256 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: terrified inelve about being called a racist, right and he 257 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: was running gast Obama, he was just so nice. It 258 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: was like, oh, Mr Obama is a good man, and 259 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: I'm a good man, and we have some good faith 260 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: policy disagreements, and that was just he misread what was 261 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: happening that was to save the country election, and and 262 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 1: so he lost, and you and they called him racist anyway, 263 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: by the way, right like they call him literally hitler, 264 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: and and he just he just caved. And then four 265 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: years later along comes President Trump. Right then candidate Trump. 266 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: He came down the escalator and he knew that they 267 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: were going to hit him with everything, and he didn't care. 268 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: I don't think Romney's racist, to be clear, I know 269 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: Trump's not racist, but Trump knew that they were going 270 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: to call him that, and he let it beat off 271 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: him like water, right, because they're gonna say this. You 272 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: just gotta go forward. You gotta go right through it. 273 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: You've got to prosecute that bold agenda. You can't care 274 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: about seeking the adoration of the modern media. And when 275 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: you play offense, not only do voters reward you, but 276 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 1: then you can actually get stuff done, and that is 277 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: just so important. Well, and to your point, I think 278 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: that the difference between Mitt Romney and President Trump is 279 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: you know when Mitt Romney and he was also accused 280 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: of being sexist, and his response was, well, I had 281 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: binders full of women, which then kind of makes you 282 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: feel like, well maybe you are so like I don't know, 283 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: you're sort of buying you know, yeah, yeah, it's you're 284 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: playing defense. No. Actually, I have lots of black friends. 285 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: You know, it's weird, you know, it's you can't can't 286 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: accept the left wing friend, you can't be caught on 287 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: your heels well, and like Trump I remember, I think 288 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: it was like one of his first interviews after he 289 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: had won, when he was president, and it was with 290 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: a crap I'm blanking on the dude's name from I 291 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: can see his face ABC David Muir and um, I'm 292 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: glad I got that because I would have bothered me 293 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: if I can't remember. And he was asking Trump about 294 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: the Women's March, and then President Trump's response was like, yeah, 295 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: well March for Life is coming up, but you never 296 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: cover that, and his face like dropped because they're not 297 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: used to that kind of response where you're just like 298 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: blatantly not buying into this BS narrative that they're pushing. So, 299 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: you know, that was a game changer, and I'm glad 300 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: to see. You know, Republicans have have sort of changed that. 301 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: But you've also made waves on you know, a lot 302 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: of other issues as well. We've seen recently with this 303 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: Roverse Wade fight. Uh, you would say that you actually 304 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: don't believe states should have the right to permit abortions, 305 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: you know, talk about that, stay on a little bit 306 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: more in depth for for the audience. Yeah, well, you 307 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: hear so many Republicans saying, I think just the bare 308 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: minimum on this issue because it can be controversial and 309 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: they want to play it safe, and so I think 310 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: the safe course what political consultants would encourage people to 311 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: say is like, you know, let's help the Supreme Court 312 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: overturns Roe v. Wade, which obviously it should, and and 313 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: then let's return the issue to the states. You know, 314 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: they use this sort of federalist language, federalism, uh, to 315 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: try to just get off the hook. And to be clear, 316 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: I hope that the Supreme Court case Um in Jobs. 317 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: I hope it comes down like that League opinion suggested 318 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: it what. I hope they reverse her every way. But 319 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: I don't think you can simply return the issue to 320 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: the states, because I don't think that California or Oregon 321 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: should allow planned parenthood to go in at seven or 322 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: eight months in euro and you know, kill babies several 323 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: spinal cords and dismember babies. Um. And that's what the 324 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: left really does want to do, to be clear, right 325 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: just with it. Two days ago, every single Democrat senator 326 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: except Joe Manson, but all the rest of them voted 327 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: to legalize abortion. They said they were codifying Roby Wade, right, 328 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: but that's not what it did. It when so much 329 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: further than that, that bill would have legalized abortion nationwide 330 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: up until the moment of birth, which is just something 331 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: that eight Americans. No, it's horrible, it's murderous. It is 332 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: basically like you know, delivery room execution. And so they're 333 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: just radical on this issue, and I think at some 334 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: point the federal government's got to step in and protect life. 335 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: I know there's going to be debate in Congress about 336 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: worship that worshould that be um, but let's have that debate, 337 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: because the Fortune Amendment to the Constitution, like it says, 338 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: you know, all Americans have the right to life and 339 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: liberty and you can't deprive them of that without due process. Well, 340 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: to me, it's harder to imagine a greater deprivation of 341 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: due process than basically being dismembered before you have the 342 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: chance to take your first breath. And so at least 343 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: when we're talking about like late term and partial birth abortion, no, 344 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: I think the several government needs to step in and 345 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: band that. They have these bogus talking points like my body, 346 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: my choice, but that doesn't apply when you're talking about 347 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: another life that is involved in this situation. Like when 348 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: I didn't get the vaccine, that is truly my body, 349 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: my choice. When you're talking about another child being involved, 350 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,719 Speaker 1: that that just that's not a true narrative. I mean, 351 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: that's just a blatant lie. But you know, we we 352 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: look at this league, this unprecedented league out of the 353 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, we see in the left really just try 354 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: to take down institutions, really burned these pillars that hold 355 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 1: a civilized society up to the ground. What does that 356 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: mean for the Supreme Court moving forward? I believe this 357 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: has never ever happened before, right, Like, this is truly unprecedented, 358 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: and you know, you look at public polling, the Supreme 359 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: Court is more trusted than almost any other institution in 360 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: the country. And so the left is just chipping away 361 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: at all the institutions. Now they're they're really hacking away 362 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 1: at the legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself. Um, this 363 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: is really an attempt to intimidate the more conservative justices 364 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court, and we have to pray that 365 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: it doesn't work. But then again, Jen Psaki is inviting 366 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: people to break federal law and go protest outside of 367 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: these judges homes to intimidate them, trying get them to 368 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: to cow and you know, retract that that reversal of 369 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: grow and so this is really dangerous. I mean, we 370 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: are r out on the precipice of all out sort 371 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: of mob rule and it's two tier justice system, right, 372 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: This erosion of the rule of law that we see 373 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: under democratic rule, it's really dangerous. Like how crazy is 374 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: it that in the summer of if you were a 375 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 1: DLM or Antifa activist in Minneapolis, you could burn down buildings, 376 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: you could burn down a police precinct and nothing bad 377 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: would happen to you. And if you did happen to 378 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: get handcuffed, Kamala Harris's bail fund would bail you out, 379 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: you know, And can contrast that to uh, I mean, 380 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: obviously if any conservative did it did that, if anybody 381 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: protested that side of Sonya Soda Mayor's house wearing a 382 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: Maga hat, you know, they'd be prosecuted by this Biden 383 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: DJ they wouldn't see the the sun for twenty years, 384 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: they'd be thrown in a federal prison. And so this 385 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: erosion of the rule law is really dangerous. But again 386 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 1: Biden doesn't care. They wanted that to leak. For all 387 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: I know they had a hand in it. You know, 388 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: this is just really crazy, uncharted waters. I mean, for 389 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: all we know, a Supreme Court justice you know how 390 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 1: to hand in it, or at least knew about. I mean, 391 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: it would I mean, I think it would be somewhat 392 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: hard to imagine that there wasn't some sort of tacit 393 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: approval in the lead gang. That would be so bad. 394 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: I mean, that would be grounds for for impeaching the justice. 395 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: I even have a hard time believing that a justice 396 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: would sign off on that, even one of the hyper 397 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: liberal ones. But but I think the Supreme Court clerk 398 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: at a minimum, right like the the best theory is 399 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: that a super liberal, super super pro abortion Supreme Court 400 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: clerk who had access to this you know, draft opinion, 401 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: leaked it in order to intimidate and change the results. 402 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: Um Man, I hope a justice wasn't involved. If so, 403 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 1: that would just be a really really bad sign to 404 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: this country. Quick commercial break more with Blake Masters, who's 405 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:13,239 Speaker 1: running for Senate in Arizona. Well, you know, when we're 406 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: talking about the rule of law and you mentioned Kamala Harris, 407 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: I mean, this is someone as you pointed out, encouraging, 408 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: you know, bailing out rioters. But on top of that, 409 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: she told Jacob Blake she was proud of him. This 410 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: is a guy who pulled a knife on a police officer, 411 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: resisted arrest, showed up at the house of a of 412 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: a woman he had previously sexually assaulted. Uh, and she 413 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: said she was proud of him. I mean, if that 414 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: doesn't really tell you everything about today's left, I don't 415 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 1: really know what does. Yeah, exactly right, it's always it's 416 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: always um the left against the average law abiding American 417 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 1: and and the left in favor of anything that's going 418 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: to disrupt public order, whether it's uh, you know, criminals 419 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: in Chicago. They don't want to do anything about people 420 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: shooting each other in Chicago, but they do want to 421 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: just arm you and me. You know, they don't want 422 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: to do anything about the lawlessness at our southern border. 423 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: You can cross that line with impunity. But if you 424 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 1: step over the line and become a mere trespasser in Washington, 425 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: d C. At the Capitol in January six, non know, 426 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: the FBI is going to hunt you down and treat 427 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: you as a domestic terrorist. Right, you can't get any 428 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 1: breast milk, or you can't get excuse me, you can't 429 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: get any formula baby formula in this country. The shelves 430 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: are bare and most grocery stores. But about the only 431 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: people who do have access to baby formula are illegal 432 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: aliens at these well stocked facilities along the southern border. 433 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: It's always just Americans last, and people are sick of it, 434 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: you know. But we don't have a right to defender borders, 435 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: but Ukraine does. And you said this recently about the 436 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: forty billion dollars an aid that Congress is trying to 437 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: provide Ukraine. You said, no cease fire. It means another 438 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: foreign war where we are paying for everything. Why do 439 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: you think our do your leaders want this to continue 440 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: in Ukraine? And if so, why I think they do? 441 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: You know, I think it's you know, a lot of 442 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: it is just lazy deference to the foreign policy blob, 443 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: which never saw a word, and like, you know, a 444 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,719 Speaker 1: lot of it. Um. You know, maybe if you can 445 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: focus on problems abroad that have no chance of getting solved, 446 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: and it's just distracts from all the problems at home 447 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 1: that they're actually responsible for. I don't know, but I 448 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: think a lot of the people in charge. Of course, 449 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: are are more of a globalist orientation, that they have 450 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: this internationalist view. They want to run the world. They're 451 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: not content to just you know, try to make America 452 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: a better place. And so to them it's very logical. 453 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: Forty billions of Ukraine, why not? Um? But I think 454 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 1: to normal people, people who see that we've got our 455 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 1: own problems to deal with in America, people who have 456 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: become rightfully very skeptical of US involvement in foreign worse 457 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 1: after the Iraq experience, after the Afghanistanic year, it's going 458 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: and on after Libya, right. Um. I think Washington, d C. 459 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: Is just so out of step with what normal people 460 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: want here and everybody, you know, nobody thinks the invasion 461 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: was good. I think Putin is a thug. Um. I 462 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: think the invasion is murderous. And Dad and I don't 463 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 1: progress to the Ukrainian people for wanting to fight back, 464 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: it's like good for them. Um. Any intervention we make 465 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: should be narrowly tailored to get to a ceasefire. Right, 466 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: we want that war to stop. The risk is if 467 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: we just fund of proxy war, it's gonna escalate into 468 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: a possible all out war between nuclear powers, but they 469 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 1: call you a pro putin stooge. You know, if you say, hey, 470 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't just rush into World War three. Um, 471 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: but now just on the raw financial contributional loan. And 472 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: this isn't the first time. Right back in March, Congress 473 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: already gave thirteen point six billion dollars to Ukraine, and 474 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,439 Speaker 1: now it's just forty billion dollars more. But then they 475 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: wanted to say that eight billion for a border wall 476 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: to secure our own border with Mexico. No, no no, no, 477 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: that was too expensive. And so again it's just America last, 478 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: and I think people are getting tired of it. Do 479 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 1: you think Republicans need changes in leadership? I do. I 480 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 1: think we need new leadership. Uh, basically across the board. 481 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: I mean, it's one huge reason why I'm running for office. Um. 482 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: Obviously I can't run for majority leader my first term 483 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: in the Senate. You know, you've got to know how 484 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 1: the place works before you can do that. But people say, Blake, 485 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: we vote for miss McConnell. I'm honest with people. I 486 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: say he might get another term. He probably will, if 487 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: I had to guess, I'm not sure anyone's gonna run 488 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: against him. But I hope to be able to vote 489 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: for a viable alternative. UM. I'd love to see majority 490 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 1: Leader Josh Holly, majority Leader Tom Cotton. UM. You know, 491 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: I do think we need new leadership. I don't think 492 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 1: Miss McConnell's bad at everything. He's good at judges, he's 493 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: good at blocking Democrats occasionally. UM, but that's not enough, 494 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: you know. I when we inaugurated President Trump January, it's like, boom, okay, 495 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: this guy was elected as a change agent. Now it's 496 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: time to implement that awesome MAGA America First agenda. And 497 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: we mostly couldn't do it right because you had Paul 498 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: Ryan in the House, you had Mitch McConnell in the Senate, 499 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 1: and they didn't want to implement that agenda. That's so 500 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: what did we get? We got a tax cut. Now. 501 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: I like the tax cut. I'm happy we got the 502 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: tax cut. I like low taxes. But while we should 503 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: be the party of low taxes, we can't just be 504 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 1: the party of low taxes. You know. If that's all 505 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 1: we have to offer, well, the progressive left is just 506 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: gonna crush us and they're gonna take over and pretty soon, 507 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: not only will we not have low taxes because they're 508 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: gonna just raise the sky high. We're not even gonna 509 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: have a country, and so we need new leadership. I 510 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: only want to vote for a majority leader. This series 511 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: about implementing in America first Agenda, and I don't mind 512 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 1: saying that straight to Mitch McConnell. Well, it's ultra Maga. Now. 513 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw. There is a report 514 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: in the Washington Post apparently reappropriating Maga to Ultra Maga 515 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: was the result of a six month research effort by 516 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: liberal groups. Uh, that's what they came up with after 517 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 1: six months. Evidently they're just doing our favors, right, And 518 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: Biden is calling President Trump the Great Maga King. They're 519 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: coming up with some pretty good branding ideas. Yeah, it 520 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 1: sounds like some sort of delicious beer or something very 521 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: cool that you like, Ultra Maga. I mean I think 522 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: there should be hats, and I mean it sounds like 523 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 1: it's it's a you know, something interesting you want to 524 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: be a part of. We'll take it. We'll take it. 525 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: And Biden said, Biden said one correct thing recently, one 526 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: correct thing only. He said, this is not your father's 527 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: Republican Party anymore, and it's like, yeah, dude, it's not. 528 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: You know, you can call us whatever you want to 529 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: call us, ultra maga. Well, where it is a badge 530 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,959 Speaker 1: of pride, but we're serious about putting America first and 531 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: where we acknowledge I think the progressive left drives the dysfunction. 532 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: To be clear, I mostly blame them, but I'm also 533 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: happy to blame establishment Republicans who have lost touch with 534 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 1: the people who are no longer delivering for everyday Americans. 535 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: And so if you want to call that ultra maga, 536 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: if you want to call that populist, like, call it 537 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: whatever you want. But we're serious and we are remaking 538 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: the Republican Party and this more uh pro Trump, pro 539 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: America first direction. Well, we also can't use old school 540 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: tactics when we're dealing with the radical left that we're 541 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 1: saying now that is perfectly willing to burn things to 542 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: the ground like we're seeing them outside of Supreme Court 543 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,679 Speaker 1: Justices House. I mean, we're just dealing with a different 544 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: it's a different fight, you know, so it has to change. Yeah, 545 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw MSNBC host Are Milburgh was talking 546 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: about Elon Musk taking over Twitter, and he was talking 547 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: about how Musk could secretly banned people are turned down 548 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: the reach of a major's party or major major parties candidate, 549 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,679 Speaker 1: which is completely ironic because that's exactly what happened heading 550 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: into and what they did to President Trump and Republicans. 551 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: You know, I know, taking on big tech has been 552 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: one of your signature issues beyond just what we saw 553 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: with the Hunter Biden story. You know, talk about what 554 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 1: big tech does to manipulate what we see and read, 555 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: and you know what needs to be done well, the 556 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 1: amount of control that these companies have, these huge uh 557 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: and they're all left wing, networked monopolies. The amount of 558 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: control that they have over the flow of information in 559 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 1: our society is staggering, right. I think just with the 560 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden laptop story alone, with that corporate censorship, that 561 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 1: probably swung the election from President Trump to President Biden. 562 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: That was just one of many ways I think in 563 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: which we had an unfree and unfair election. Um, you know, 564 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: but they banned President Trump, they banned Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor 565 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 1: Green from Twitter, and of course she's in the House, 566 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: so she's a public official, but she's always running for 567 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: re election because the terms are just two years and 568 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: so that's election interference. And how have we gotten to 569 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,640 Speaker 1: this point where we're gonna let a handful of left 570 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: wing multinational corporations put their thumb on the scale and 571 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: decide who are elected representatives are going to be. If 572 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,919 Speaker 1: you let that happen, you can fix every other problem 573 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: we had. You could imagine securing the border and tightening 574 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: up inflation, getting it back under control. You can fix everything. 575 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: But if you don't have free and fair elections, if 576 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: if Google is just going to choose who the next 577 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: president is going to be, if you don't have a 578 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: free country, and so I think we need to restrain 579 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: these companies. You hear a lot about Section two thirty, 580 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: you know, and people ask me, should we uh, should 581 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: we radically reform it or or eliminate those protections? And 582 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: the answers, yes, absolutely right. If you are putting your 583 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: thumb on the scale and censoring conservatives, you're acting like 584 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: a publisher. Congratulations, We're gonna treat you like a publisher. 585 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: We're not going to give you platform immunity from lawsuits. 586 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: The problem is, I don't think that goes nearly far enough. 587 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: I think that solves like five percent of the problem. 588 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: I think you've got to treat companies like Facebook and 589 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,239 Speaker 1: Twitter as common carriers. You know, Um, you basically just 590 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: banned them from discriminating based on politics. I think we 591 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 1: should treat them more like the phone company. That phone 592 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: company would probably love to listen in to you and 593 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: I having this conversation right now and say, oh, this 594 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: is too conservative. Uh, we don't like it. Let's shut 595 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: them down. They'd probably love to do that, but we 596 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: don't allow them to do that. We ban that kind 597 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: of political discrimination by law. And so why on earth 598 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: would we not hold Facebook and Twitter to the same 599 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: standard that we hold the phone company. Right, So that's 600 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: what playing offense looks like. I also think we need 601 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: to embed software engineers. Are Com needs to convene an 602 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: investigative team and I can personally oversee it. And we 603 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: need to embed software engineers in Google weeks before an 604 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: election to make sure that the Google engineers aren't tweaking 605 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: their search engine algorithms in ways that are going to 606 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: bring the election for the for the Democrats. I think 607 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: if you don't do this kind of stuff, um, you're 608 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: just gonna let these left wing multinational big tech companies 609 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: dominate everything and we know which way they swing. We 610 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: won't have any free speech at all in this country 611 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: if we don't get a handle on it now. Well, 612 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: and the online censorship really started when President Trump won 613 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: the election, because I can't remember the Facebook guy's name, 614 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: but one of the exacts is basically attributing Trump's went 615 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: to his use of Facebook and being able to use 616 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: these tools effectively. And that was when the left got 617 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: really interested in trying to shut those kinds of accounts 618 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 1: down and shutting down that reach. That's right. I think 619 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: they got caught. They got caught sleeping, you know. They 620 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: they thought they were just so smug, and so many 621 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: of those liberals were smugged, right, They thought Hillary Clinton 622 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: was gonna win. They made fun of Trump, they said 623 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: Trump had no chance, and in boom he was. It 624 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: wasn't Russia, it wasn't any of that bs. But yeah, 625 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: they knew how to effectively use Facebook ads, and they 626 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: got their message out and it was a better message, 627 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: and and Trump won in and then you saw the 628 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: whole machine, right, the mainstream media, big tech, um, they 629 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: all just went into hyper hyper drives and and it 630 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 1: was this crazy sort of information warfare for many years 631 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 1: they were screaming about Russia, Russia, Russia, screaming about collusion. 632 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: I think as late as Nancy Pelosi was saying that 633 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,719 Speaker 1: the election was rigged in favor of President Trump, I mean, 634 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: completely delusional stuff. But I think that big tech didn't 635 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: want to let that happen again. You know, the Google. 636 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: I think they got caught asleep at the wheel in 637 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: they didn't want it to happen again, in which is 638 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: why I'm pretty sure they got involved with manipulating search results. Zuckerberg, right, 639 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: he was very sensitive after the whole left was criticizing 640 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: Zuckerberg for allowing Trump to run those Facebook ats. They 641 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: blamed Zuckerberg for Trump's win, And so I think he 642 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: massively overcorrected, probably in very illegal ways. Right. He spent 643 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: four and twenty million dollars of personal cash on so 644 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: called neutral election administration, Right, but he basically went into 645 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: this giant left wing get out to vote ballot harvesting 646 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: operation run through these you know, fake nonprofits that we 647 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 1: need to investigate. And so they massively overcorrected. And I 648 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: think that it was just kind of obvious what they 649 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: did well. And you also saw how difficult it is 650 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: when you look at some of these issues when he 651 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: was asked point blank how he defines hate speech and 652 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: when he was in front of Congress and he couldn't 653 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: define it right. So it's like, how do you how 654 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: do you try to you know, regulate or cracked on 655 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: on something that you can't even define yourself. So you know, 656 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: their on lies the problem, which is why we should 657 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: just go towards free speech and you know, just allow 658 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: people to say, you know, more things without retribution. You know, 659 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, so you and your wife 660 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: homeschool your children. I think a lot of parents now, 661 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: especially saying how the d o J is quite literally 662 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: targeting parents who are standing up for their kids. We're 663 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: seeing how schools are indoctrinating children. So I think a 664 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 1: lot of parents agree with you know, you and your 665 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: wife homeschooling children, sort of seeing how the public school 666 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: systems work. You walk us through how you and your 667 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: wife came to that decision and why you came to 668 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: that decision. Well, we've always been super pro homeschooling. You know, 669 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: I wrote my uh over the law school equivalent of 670 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: a big thesis paper. I wrote that on homeschooling and 671 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: why I thought homeschooling. It was a constitutional right protected 672 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: by our constitution, or certainly ought to be. And you know, 673 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: we when you have kids, you know, you start looking 674 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: around at this, at the world, and and uh, man, 675 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: what's the what's happening in the schools? And it just 676 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: got so bad so fast that we felt like, hey, 677 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 1: we have to try this. You know, we look, we're 678 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 1: you equally blessed. Um. I've had a successful business career, 679 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: so we could literally afford to homeschool the kids. My wife, 680 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: you know, stays at home with the kids, and and 681 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: we can afford to do that, which is something I'd wish. 682 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: It's a choice that I wish for every single parent 683 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 1: because we get to feel in charge right at. Homeschooling 684 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 1: is not for everybody. Catherine was a preschool teacher before 685 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: we had kids, so she feels well suited to it. 686 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 1: But whether you homeschool or whether you just find the 687 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,720 Speaker 1: right you know, charter school or or or parochial school, 688 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: whatever it is, we just want parents to feel in 689 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: charge because it's so easy. Right now. You look at 690 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,959 Speaker 1: this curriculum, the toxic left wing curriculum that you see. 691 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: It's not in every single school, but man, it's in 692 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: so many of them, and the pattern is clear. This 693 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 1: woke ideology has inspected so many k through twelve institutions, 694 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: and it's metastasizing like cancer. You know, we don't we 695 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: We found out that the public school near us doesn't 696 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,240 Speaker 1: even say the Pledge of Allegiance. And I just remember 697 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 1: I went to public school until sixth grade, and man, 698 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: we said the Pledge of allegiance every day, you know. 699 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,400 Speaker 1: And I remember it must have been in first or 700 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,240 Speaker 1: second grade. I was learning about MLK and it's supposed 701 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: to be about the content of your character, not the 702 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 1: color of your skin. Right, Well, fast forward thirty years later. 703 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: Apparently the left is teaching kids the opposite, right there, 704 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: teaching uh, you know, various forms of critical race theory, 705 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes they call it diversity, equity and inclusion, 706 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,440 Speaker 1: but whatever it is, they're teaching kids to identify with 707 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: each other in racial terms. Right, you're a victim and 708 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,439 Speaker 1: and you're an oppressor based on the color of your skin. 709 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 1: That's the opposite of what we should be teaching them, right, 710 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: they're teaching them uh stak history, the sixteen nineteen history curriculum, 711 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: which is trying to tell kids that this country is 712 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,839 Speaker 1: somehow ridingly evil or irridumably racist. Um and you can 713 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 1: throw out the Declaration of Independence in the constitution, you know, 714 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 1: because Thomas Jefferson own slaves or whatever. And if you 715 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: teach a generation of young people to hate their country, 716 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: like that's gonna take and it's gonna ruin that whole 717 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: generation is going to ruin the country. And now I 718 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 1: think the final stroppers many parents is this perverse gender 719 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 1: or sexual ideology that so many of these so called 720 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 1: educators are pushing on our kids. You know, it's not 721 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: an overstatement to say in the progressive left wants to 722 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: teach your five year old that he or she can 723 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: choose their gender and that indeed maybe they should choose 724 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: to become transgender. I mean, this is ludicrous. They're coming 725 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: after our kids, and so yeah, we home school. You know, 726 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 1: it's not an easy thing to do, but it's just 727 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: such a blessing to make sure that our boys actually 728 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 1: get educated and not indoctrinated. Quit commercial break more with 729 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: Blake Masters. When you look at the fact like we're 730 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,720 Speaker 1: one of seven countries that allows abortion on demand after 731 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 1: twenty weeks, we look at what happened during children with 732 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,320 Speaker 1: forcing them to wear masks when adults are taking pictures 733 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,160 Speaker 1: of them without it, of punishing kids to not be 734 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: able to go back to schools. Then you look at 735 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: teachers teaching young children to hate themselves because of things 736 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: that are outside of their control, like they you know, 737 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,360 Speaker 1: their their race or whatever, you know. And then and 738 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: then you look at this where they're actively sort of 739 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,440 Speaker 1: grooming child. It's it's just sort of like, what does 740 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: it say about a society that doesn't protect the most 741 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,319 Speaker 1: vulnerable and the most innocent? Exactly? It says it's the 742 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 1: sixth society. I think this is modern liberalism, right. The 743 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,320 Speaker 1: whole project is to tou to liberate every individual. Obviously, 744 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: we believe in individual rights. Okay, it's conservatives, um, but 745 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: but we also believe in families. We also believe in 746 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 1: the nuclear family, and and and and what a special 747 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,279 Speaker 1: human arrangement that was, right. I literally think that's that's 748 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 1: the divine design. Okay, uh uh. You know, husband and 749 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,800 Speaker 1: wife get together and they make children, they have this stamily, 750 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,239 Speaker 1: and that's what a healthy society should support. But if 751 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,239 Speaker 1: you say that today and then the leftist comes after 752 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 1: you because they want it's this divide and conquer strategy. 753 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: I really believe the modern progressive left they want to 754 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: upbend everything that we hold dear, starting with the nuclear family. Uh. 755 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 1: That's why they make it hard to raise a family 756 00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 1: on one single income. It's it's why you know they 757 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,400 Speaker 1: criticize you if you have this normative ideal of the 758 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,840 Speaker 1: strong family. They want to pull every individual apart because 759 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,280 Speaker 1: individuals are easier to control. If you can weaken the family, 760 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,239 Speaker 1: you can really make a population do whatever you want. 761 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,319 Speaker 1: And I think that's the left plan. We have to 762 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,240 Speaker 1: resist it. I totally agree. You know, I've really enjoyed 763 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 1: this conversation. I appreciate. I think what you're doing is 764 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,239 Speaker 1: really important. You know, before we leave, and I've worked 765 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 1: on campaign, so I know how busy are before before 766 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,279 Speaker 1: we go. Is there anything you want to leave the 767 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: audience with. Yeah, maybe just a note of optimism. I 768 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 1: think so much optimistic language from politicians usually rings hollow. 769 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 1: You know, I've got competitors that do the TV ads 770 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 1: that have the electric guitars blaring, and they're like America's 771 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: days You're you know, America's best days are right around 772 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 1: the quarter, And I think that stuff fault hollow. I think, um, 773 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 1: I think we have to acknowledge that we're in a 774 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,879 Speaker 1: tough spot right now. Like truly, I think that we're 775 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,680 Speaker 1: living in a period of American decline. It's uncomfortable to admit. 776 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: I think it's uncomfortable to admit how close we are 777 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,200 Speaker 1: to really losing this country. I think after decades of 778 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:09,399 Speaker 1: playing defense Republicans, you know, we've unfortunately kind of let 779 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: the left take over and they they own almost every 780 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,839 Speaker 1: single institution in this country. But my optimistic note is 781 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: now it's just clear what we have to do. Right 782 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 1: Our backs are against the wall. There's no more room 783 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 1: to play defense. Yeah, that's terrifying, but you know that 784 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,680 Speaker 1: the stakes are high, and this is the best country 785 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 1: that's ever existed in the history of the world. We 786 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 1: have to fight for it. And and because we can't 787 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 1: play defense anymore, there's only one option, and that's to 788 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 1: put a smile on your face, be a happy worder 789 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 1: and play offense. Let's just be bold. Let's play offense. 790 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,360 Speaker 1: Let's fight like. Hell, let's fight like the future of 791 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: this country depends on it. And uh, it does. And 792 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,360 Speaker 1: so that's what I'm doing in Arizona. That's why I 793 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,360 Speaker 1: know I'm on track to win this primary and to 794 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,200 Speaker 1: beat Mark Kelly in November. And I think if we 795 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,319 Speaker 1: all get together and and use our talents and just 796 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,280 Speaker 1: work really hard, and we can take back this country. 797 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,680 Speaker 1: I know we can. It's almost too late, but it's 798 00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: not too late, and I think that's the sweet spot. 799 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: So let me leave you with that note. And uh, 800 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,919 Speaker 1: it's been a real pleasure chatting with you, Lisa. Blake 801 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,919 Speaker 1: Masters running for Senate in Arizona. Go check them out, Blake, 802 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 1: it's been an honor. I really appreciate your time, and 803 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,279 Speaker 1: keep up the good work. Good luck. Thank you, we'll 804 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:24,600 Speaker 1: do so. I found that interview fascinating. I hope you 805 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 1: did as well. We need more Blake Masters out there. 806 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,160 Speaker 1: In my own personal opinion, I really enjoyed hearing his 807 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,360 Speaker 1: thoughts and I so appreciate you guys at home for 808 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,760 Speaker 1: listening to this podcast. If you enjoy it, tell your friends, 809 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,560 Speaker 1: spread the message, you know, posted on social media. If 810 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,960 Speaker 1: you don't mind, leave us a review. You can do 811 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,440 Speaker 1: that on Apple Podcasts. 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