WEBVTT - Part One: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade' 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:03.800 Also media. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:11.560 Ah, thanks very thanks for coming in with me on 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.120 that one, Jamie's that was really helpful. I think we really, 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:15.800 I think we knocked it out of the park. Yeah, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.640 that wouldn't have worked without you, you know, just one 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.400 person kind of a tonally going ah nothing. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.360 Yeah, one of you was great. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.880 One of us is great. And you know what's not great. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.600 Sophie has a dying squirrel on her property. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.839 We're gonna know, this is like ruined my entire Nay, Cannon. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.200 It's cannon. Now, Sophie, it's cannon. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.839 You're going to give it a name so it feels worse. No, sorry, 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:41.520 I'm sorry. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.960 How about Elizabeth Elizabeth the squirrel? Oh no, Elizabeth the 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:47.360 terminally ill squirrel. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.240 I'm not one hundred per centuries dying, but he's stuff 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.960 really not moving very much. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.640 Yeah, that's usually not a good sign for something like 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:56.240 a squirrel. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.400 Elizabeth has a lot of unfinished business. This is really sad. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.520 Yeah, she didn't get her will prepared. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.320 Robert, I just need you to come. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.319 I just need you to come over here and do 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.160 the humane thing because I'm a wolf. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.560 I mean, kill it with a rock alleged. Yeah, I 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.480 mean I don't know what else to do with, you know, 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.760 suffering little animals. But yeah, when I lived, when I 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.560 lived in the middle of nowhere, there would be lots 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.840 of dead animals by or dying animals by the side 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.480 of the road when I was on my runs, so 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.160 I would have to be like usually, if I was 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.679 doing a long enough run, I'd have to do at 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.360 least one euthanasia on the way. It's like a fucking 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.080 rabbit with its back legs crushed, should probably take care 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:32.479 of this. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.120 Okay, Yeah, that's an important part of her daily exercise regime. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.600 Take a life is yeah, euthanasia. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.440 When I was little, I had an outdoor cat, which 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.520 we shouldn't have had. And here's why. There was one 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.480 day I was like, something smelled weird in my yard 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.640 and I found that my cat had like a massive 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.520 like corpse pile, like he had symbol. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.680 He was making his own a bone temple like in 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.920 the New twenty eight Years Later movie. 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.520 I didn't understand at the time, but I was like, Wow, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.760 he just did that because he loved me so much. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:10.720 Yeah, he loves you so much. He wanted you to 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.640 have all of the corpses you need, you know, And 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.960 that's not you know how many how many, how many 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.520 guys will do that for you, right, you know that's why, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:19.640 that's why we have pets. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:24.160 That's the main problem. I haven't seen the movie yet. 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.640 Is it like all I've seen is like clickbait about 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.040 it being like zombies with their cocks out? 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:30.840 Is that actually there's a lot of dicks? You know? 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.119 When I heard that, I was like, we're probably gonna 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.400 get one brief glimpse of a huge fucking monster hog. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.440 But no, they really there's a lot of cock in 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.399 the New twenty eight movie. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.280 I appreciate that they didn't undersell it. Okay, no, well. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.160 No, no, there's there's a there's more more dick than 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.359 you're expecting. That maybe less dick than I would have preferred, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:53.959 but more than you're expecting for sure. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.720 Okay, I will I will go. I haven't seen the 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.919 first two, but I love coming in at movie three 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:01.320 or four. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.680 It's okay, you're not gonna you know what a zombie 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.800 movie is. It's set after a zombie apocalypse in England. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:07.760 That's all you need to know. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.840 Right, there's there's enough like a need for context in 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.720 our day to day work. I'm like, I'm not trying 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.960 to learn more for fun. No, I'm not. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.760 Showing other than I guess. In the twenty eight movies, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.920 the zombies aren't dead. They're just like people who have 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.200 like a weird blood borne illness, so they're still alive. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.160 So there are people with their cocks out. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.240 Yeah, they're people with their cocks out, but it's okay. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.040 They had a child on set, so all the dicks 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:34.400 are fake photo realistic with their fake I know, I 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.760 don't know, but that's the way. That's the way movie 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.240 law works. Apparently I was reading it because they were like, yeah, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.120 we had the main characters a kid, so there's always 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.839 a kid on set, so we can't have any real 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.520 dicks hag it out. But we can't have everyone wearing 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.440 full time photorealistic penises that are faked. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.280 Why child stardom should be illegal? 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:52.720 That is. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.920 Ever heard. Look, they're like, no, you can't, you can't. Actually, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.440 that can't have been a traumatizing thing for you. The 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:02.520 dicks weren't real. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.600 Kids, dix weren't real. Didn't you guess that they were fake? 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.400 Cot Like, it's so funny. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.320 It's just so like an actor try to like comfort 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.360 a child actor to be like no, no, no, it's 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.960 not real, and then pulling the fake dick off of 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.840 your body, like how is it? 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:18.640 It's so fad? 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:19.680 How did we get here? 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.279 I know I'm distracted by the dying squirrel, but what 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:23.120 is happening? 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.640 People were just talking about movies, Sophie, because we really 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.320 don't want to talk about the subject of today's episodes. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.360 Oh no, okay. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.400 Peter he Seth, Okay, I could. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.040 Have taken a worse turn, a worse turn. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.480 Yeah, I'd rather talk about zombie dicks than Pete egg Seth. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.480 That's true. I mean Pete had the keg Seth is bad. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.560 I was. I was worried that we were heading Teal. 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.360 But uh no, no, we've done Teal, We've done. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.640 Yeah. I was like, I was like, is there more? 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:59.400 You're good at the Peter Teel addendum episode? Okay, yeah, okay, yeah, 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.640 uh so yeah, let's let's let's get into it. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.279 I guess that's the cold open done. You're welcome for 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:05.040 all the dick talk. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.160 We're back, okay, And well now I'm nice and warm 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.520 to be made less horny than I've ever been in 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.840 my entire life. Right, and a guy give any war 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.520 crimes in real time. What a thrill. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.240 I'm going to give you me a kolpi here. I 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.680 had initially planned for this to just be a book episode, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:29.640 reading Pete Hegseth's terrible fascist book American Crusade, which unfortunately 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.480 people do need to be aware of because he's the 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.440 Secretary of Defense now. But then I wound up needing 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.799 to give extra context, and so there is My initial 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.560 thing was like, he's not really interesting enough for two 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.280 episodes on the Motherfucker just as a person. He's not 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.280 that interesting. But anyway, I wound up it's kind of 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.480 a hybrid book bTB episode, so you know, there's there's 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.160 research here. There's also just a lot of chunks of 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.159 his book that we'll be talking about because they matter. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.240 It's just a little bit of a weird episode, but 0:05:58.279 --> 0:05:58.720 I did it. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.840 Okay, when did the book come out? 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:07.520 Twenty twenty? Okay, yeah, yeah, American Crusade was his like 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.719 election tie in book. So one of the funny things 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.359 that you repeatedly come across is his dire warnings that like, 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.320 if the Republicans don't win in twenty twenty, the whole 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:22.039 country's over, which like, yeah, I some of this is 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.800 like not aged well, but it also it's also a 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.440 very like fascist Christian nationalist book that makes it very 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.760 clear what kind of country Pete Hegseeth wants to use 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.360 his powers to his Secretary of Defense to further right, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:36.240 because that's. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.360 Published like about midway through his his run on Fox News. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.919 Right, yeah, he starts in twenty fourteen, but he's just 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.880 initially kind of a commentator. We'll talk about all that. So, okay, 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:52.480 Pete Hegseth, our current secretary of Defense? Is it, you know, embarrassing? Yeah? Yeah. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.560 And he writes in twenty twenty a manifesto slash book 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.039 called American Crusade, which is one of those both like 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.120 tie in, I'm trying to get more into politics. This 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.080 is back when he was really fishing in the first 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.560 Trump ad men to be made sec deaf and there 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.560 were still too many adults in the room at that 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.960 point for him to get made Secretary of Defense. Because 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.920 as his backstory that I'm gonna give briefly will make clear, 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.680 this is not a man who's ever been reliable in 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:18.760 a position of power. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.760 Right, I guess it never occurred to me that he 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.160 could be No, I guess he's held down a job technically, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:26.280 not even. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.640 Really, No, not even really actually unless you count Fox 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.640 News as a job, but even that not really Okay. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.040 So Peter heg Seth was born on June sixth, nineteen 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.000 eighty in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dad, Yes, yeah, he's. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.520 Already like old fascists. He's aging terribly. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.440 Oh yeah, no, he looks like shit. Yes, that's kind 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.400 of what happens when you drink the way Pete Hegseth drinks. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.200 Yeah, fair enough. Wow, I would have guessed he's at 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.800 least ten years older. Yeah, I was like Jamie shocked 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.640 at the video, but all. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.280 The Yeah, I mean, it doesn't it's not. He's not 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.120 like the most obvious Minneapolis guy. But I'm not shocked 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.360 to hear that he's from Minneapolis, right that. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.200 That was not the shock. It was that he's under fifty. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.520 Yeah, he's under fifty, much younger than you'd expect. His 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.600 dad was a basketball coach for high school, which you know, 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.960 he's got son of a fucking high school coach energy 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:25.400 for sure. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.560 Yeah, Mom, how many crimes could be prevented if you're 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.840 if daddy didn't bench you, Daddy. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.000 Didn't bench you. Well, here's the other thing. What's the 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.000 only thing that a parent could be that's worse than 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.800 a high school sports coach? And it's his mom was 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:43.200 an executive business coach even worse. Somehow they found a 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:44.360 worst kind of coach to be. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.920 What does that even mean? That's like a made up That. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.800 Means that you get paid like a mid six figure 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.680 income for sitting in a room and going, oh, that's 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.520 a good idea. Uh, that's that's it. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.120 Basically does boss whom is girl off? 0:08:59.200 --> 0:08:59.560 I don't know. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:01.920 It's a consultant, that's what she does. 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.840 I love. Yeah, it's like the job we're at. Like 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.680 at the turn of this century, you'd be like, hey, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.640 have you considered firing people and replacing more people? 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.640 What if we outsourced? And now they're all saying what 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.960 if AI? Right, Like it's it's just it's just people 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.600 who come from good families that have connections but don't 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.920 have any skills. That's the executive business coach community position, 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:28.320 the consultant community. Right. So his family, they have money 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.560 and they have very strong conservative bonafidees, right Like his 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:36.800 mom and dad are both very strong Republicans and politically involved. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.640 Pete graduates from the Forest Lake Area High School in 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:45.199 nineteen ninety nine, is valedictorian. He is good at something. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.760 At one point in his life as an adult, he 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.520 goes to Princeton where he helps to run and again 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.120 family Money, where he helps to run the school's conservative newspaper. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.560 He becomes editor eventually of like the right wing paper 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:03.120 on campus. As editor, he like publishes a promise that 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.280 he will defend Western civilization from quote the distractions of diversity. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.840 So like, I know that they're everywhere, I'm aware that 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:16.200 they're but I'm still so disturbed by like just the 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.720 idea of a young, like a teenage Republican is such 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.400 a bizarre image to me. It's like seeing a twin 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.520 at age sixty. Yeah, you don't want to imagine them 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:26.160 that young. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.280 Yeah, you don't want to, but you have to because 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.640 they're there. And it's what Pete's going to He's going 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.480 to try a couple of things later in life, Like 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.520 he's initially kind of more on the Republican mainstream side 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.120 of things that gets eaten up by Trump. So he 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.839 has to a big part of this book we're going 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.440 to read is him like giving his mea culpa of like, oh, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.080 you know, I was a rhino. I was lost, and 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.240 then I realized, you know, Donald Trump really was, you know, 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.640 our brilliant savior and stuff. And one of the points 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.560 that I think his backstory makes is that he was 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.679 always pretty extreme conservative. Like the whole reason why he 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.959 wouldn't have gotten behind Trump is that he didn't believe 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.920 Trump was really a conservative until it became clear that 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.640 Trump was going to win. But like the weird right 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.960 wing stuff, the hatred of diversity that's been there his 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.319 whole life. Like he talks about himself as if he'd 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.160 been a political as a young man, but he never 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:18.640 really was. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.720 Well no, yeah, if he's he's the editor of the 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.880 conservative Princeton papers. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.800 Sure is, and yeah, that's just a bad group of 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.800 people to exist under his guidance. The paper attacked halle 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.160 Berry for accepting an oscar over her performance in Monsters 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.600 Ball because it was racist, oh, against white people. I 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.640 think I don't know, I didn't need to feel the 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.240 need to go and read that article, but yeah, that's 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.120 the kind of like conservative paper. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:47.520 This is. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.720 It's like it's time to go to war with halle 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:50.920 Berry for her oscar. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.920 Yeah, I imagine conservative papers there like that are just 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.720 like ninety percent vaguely racist editorials. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.600 Yes, yes, yeah. During his time as editor, Hegseth published 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.040 another student's commentary mocking the school's policy that sex with 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.360 an unconscious partner should count as rape. An article for 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.280 The New Yorkers cites jud Leghum's newsletter Popular Information when 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.560 he summarized the article, and hegcest paper this way. The 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.680 commentary claim that rape required both a failure to consent 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:25.840 and duress, which a passed how woman couldn't experience So great, guy, Pete, Yeah, 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:27.920 put a pin in that because we'll talk about some 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:28.800 sex crimesies. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.440 Yeah no, I mean really he really walks the walk 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:32.280 in that regard. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.760 Yeah, allegedly. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.680 Yeah sure. It's so like, I don't know, the fact 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.960 that you're thinking about doing that so much that you 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.439 publish like essentially intent is just like it's mind. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.560 Blowing, Yeah, the whole like, yeah, well, they can't be 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.080 sad if they're unconscious. It's just like the darkest, evilest 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.120 way to make that argument. It's somehow worse than like 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.520 arguing like oh no, they they they wanted it secretly. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.319 It's just like they, oh, because they're unconscious. It doesn't. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.760 What the fuck man, how do you write that and 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.719 not burst into flames? I mean, yeah, so I can 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.600 like tattoo you if you pass out drunk, and that's legal, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.280 right because you're not aware of it. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.360 Because you're not right. That's it's just like, well if 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.120 if you're quote unquote asleep, anything that happens, it's like 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.560 the international waters of consent, like it's fucking crazy sane. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.440 Yeah, if you if you try to extend that anywhere else, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.000 it just becomes increasing like it's it's just nuts. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.480 Oh yeah. And of course, like that rule wouldn't apply 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.480 to him. If yeah, if. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.600 If you drew a dick on Pete heg'sa's face when 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.840 he's passed out drunk in a Pentagon closet, you would 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:44.360 get in trouble. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.720 Drone strike you, Yeah, drone strike your house. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:51.360 He would try to. So Pete is, in short, exactly 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.360 the kind of right wing dipshit you'd expect him to 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.800 be as a kid based on his current trajectory. He 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.240 goes on to work in finance. He works for Bear 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.560 that's his first job out of college, Just fucking Bear Stern, 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.360 great stuff. And he volunteers for the National Guard because 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.640 nine to eleven, and he winds up well, he gets 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.480 into ROTC first when he's in college, but then he 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.280 joins the National Guard as he's starting his fintech career, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.920 and after a year or so, I think his fintech 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:24.760 career is interrupted when he deploys to Iraq, uh. So 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.800 he does a tour there, which we will talk about later. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.520 This comes up in the book, so i'll talk a little. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.360 I'll talk more about Hegsat's military career in that portion. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.800 But after doing his tour, he winds up back in 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.720 New York, where he's just kind of like, then, this 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.000 is not an uncommon thing. He does seek combat a 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.960 lot of combat vets when they come back, like the 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.640 things really get bad for them, you know, not when 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.200 they're over there and not when they're in the ship. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.440 When you wind up like just kind of locking yourself 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.760 alone in an apartment, and yeah, he starts drinking very heavily. Again, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.520 not an uncommon story. He feels aimless and eventually solves 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.160 this by taking a job. Initially, he's like volunteering as 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.360 an assistant director at Vets for Freedom, which is a 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.320 five oh one C four group that he ultimately comes 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.960 to lead as the paid director of the organization. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.320 It's no good because while he was in New York, 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.160 he could have just like gone to see Rent on Broadway. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.920 On Rent, he could have developed a fatal addiction to Heroin. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.680 You know, you you know, like he could have seen. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.280 Alone off Broadway, you know, just just finally slip away, 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:26.680 you know, Yeah, he just. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.600 Go see Billy Elliott, you know, have a wine spritzer 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:30.520 calling a day. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.280 Yeah, I mean yours is nicer than mine. But sure. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.120 So this is like a very political five oh one 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.400 C four in like a shitty way. They spend millions 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.800 of dollars doing a PR campaign to support the surge 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.720 in Iraq. They spend another several million attacking Barack Obama's candidacy. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.240 So this is like a right wing vets org. And 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.280 despite the fact that he winds up running it, he 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.880 is awful at this job. It is a disaster for 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.640 the VFF. He runs up massive debts, he takes them 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.280 into the red by well, part of it is, you know, 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.720 they're carrying out these massive PR campaigns, but part of 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.120 it is that he treats the organization's bank account allegedly 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.000 like a personal party fund, right like he's spending it, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.680 he's traveling, he's doing a lot of drinking, good partying. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.880 A lot of people are right. There's allegations and we'll 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.640 hear more allegations about the next org that he's involved in. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.400 But yeah, this does not go well and he's kind 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.720 of his tenure is disastrous for the VFF. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.040 Okay, So this is all in the mid two thousands. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.360 Yeah, the mid auts two thousand and eight is when 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.000 he got married. In like tas and four and two 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.480 thousand and eight, his first wife files for divorce after 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.240 he admits to cheating on her repeatedly, once with a 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:45.360 journalist he'd introduced to her. Yeah, so he gets left 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.960 a couple of years later or forced out of VFF. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.040 You'll hear both things, either that he left or that 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:51.880 he's forced out. Anyway, he's gone. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.480 From VFFA so sad. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.880 Yeah, and he attempts to run for Senate in Minnesota, 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.720 which we will talk about later. It doesn't work, right, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.840 He's bad at this. So since he's failed at everything else, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.000 he volunteers for another tour in Afghanistan. He does another 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.080 a tour in Afghanistan, he's promoted to major. He comes 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.119 back to the US, and in twenty twelve, he forms 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.679 a pack to help like minded conservative candidates. Per The 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.760 New Yorker. According to a report by American Public Media, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.960 a third of the funds in Hegseth's pack were spent 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.080 on parties for his friends and family, in less than 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:26.480 half was spent on candidates. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.879 So he sucks because it was like, like, I'm not 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.919 against this money being misused for parties. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.280 It's much better than if it's used appropriately, right, because 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.120 it's a shitty organization, they both are, right. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.160 Yeah, like it should you know, it should be spent 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.320 on fancy food and alcohol. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:50.920 But yeah, yeah, it's also it's just extremely funny to me, Like, yeah, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.199 he now has a pattern and it's either start or 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.080 get you know, promoted to leading a charitable organization and 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:03.000 then spend its money getting hammered. Cool as hell. Yeah, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:03.600 So is he. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.320 Like is he so twenty twelve? Is this like tea 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.480 party era? Like who is who is he running with? 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:09.280 Who's his crowd? 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.360 Yeah? Yeah, yeah the tea party. Tea party has started 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.600 a couple of years ago at this point. Yeah, so 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.040 this is like that's all happening at this stage and 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.760 he's when he loses his candidacy. It's to like the 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.560 Ron Paul Organization backed candidate because he's like he's still 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.440 too much establishment neocon. You know, he's a bush conservative 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.600 at this point, which we used to see is extreme. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.840 But oh how the turn have table. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.880 Now they're just wittle guys. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.800 Yeah, they're just widow guys. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.720 Yeah, he's got look at it. I mean, I don't know, 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.399 I feel like some people not to put him in 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:49.480 a box. Oh, but let's do it. Yeah, something about 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.080 like guys that have like there it looks like their 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:53.760 hair is just like welded to their head. 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.159 You're like, I don't trust there on there. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.400 Like whatever product not. I mean, I know he by 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.960 being a fascist honestly, but also you have to imagine 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.000 some chemicals are seeping into the scalp there with that, 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:07.879 what with the hair being welded directly. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.879 Oh yes, no, no, no, no, they're getting in. That's 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.600 that's what happened to Rudy Giuliani, Right, He had the 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.879 same haircare routine as Pete. Hegseth and a lot of 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.359 it leaked out of him, you know, and when he 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.640 lost his goo, that's when he started losing all those 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.480 lawsuits the goo was what was protecting him from the lawsuits. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.960 Yeah, the goo is protecting him from being tricked into 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.400 being in Borat two a loa in more ways than one. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.639