1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: The Michael Varry Show is on the air, Readings and salutations. 3 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: Keep your eye on the Jelhouse camera because I suspect 4 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: mister Ryan Roath may not make it. He knows too 5 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: many things and they don't add up. He would be 6 00:00:52,240 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: Trump assassin. Makes three thousand dollars a month. As Chad says, 7 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: it's just a guy living in Kaawa, Hawaii, right on 8 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: the ocean. Some of you've been to Hawaii. It is 9 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: surprisingly expensive because you think to yourself, I'm not leaving 10 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: the country. Well, you're passing a lot of other countries 11 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: on the way. You're going to a part of the 12 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: world that is highly desirable for a lot of people, 13 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: and there's a limited amount of space. How's he afford 14 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: to live there? Okay, it's a smaller rural community, Chad 15 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:57,279 Speaker 1: tells me. So maybe once he's got his place there, 16 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: he goes out and serves it's not an uncommon life. 17 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: He's right on the ocean. He said in court yesterday 18 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: that he could not afford a lawyer because he only 19 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: makes three thousand dollars a month and his only assets 20 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: are two trucks in Hawaii. Valued at one thousand dollars each. Okay, 21 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: all right, you have no money, you live on the beach, 22 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: you have no assets, you live in Hawaii. All right, Well, 23 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: maybe you scrounged out a living. He traveled to Ukraine 24 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. He has a website online offering 25 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: to pay twelve hundred dollars a month for fighters to 26 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: join in the war effort in Ukraine, and he claims 27 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: to have placed those folks. We've got pictures of him 28 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: with the White House chef in Washington, d C. We've 29 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: got multiple inner views of him while in Washington, d C. 30 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: On various trips. He somehow got to Palm Beach, Florida. 31 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: Presumably he didn't step off the plane and immediately goes 32 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: set up his sniper's nest, so he had to stay 33 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: there for a while. He goes back and forth to Ukraine. Wow, 34 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: who's paying for that? The Sheriff of Martin County, Florida, 35 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: William Snyder, talking about the would be assassin and asking 36 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: the questions that everyone should be asking. This would seem 37 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: rather obvious. Clip number eleven or a month. Did he 38 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: have any to your knowledge, any ties to Martin County 39 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: or a trader coast. 40 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 3: To my knowledge, is having to tie someone. Can I 41 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 3: think the answer to my knowledge answers no, I have 42 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 3: no knowledge. I think what we're fraying? Ye, he's not 43 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 3: from this area, which of course raises the bigger question 44 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 3: is how does a guy from not here it all 45 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 3: the way to Trump International realized that the president, former 46 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: president of United States is golfing and he's able to 47 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 3: get a rifle in that vicinity. I think that's the 48 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 3: question that BI secret Service or laser focused on today. 49 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 3: Is this guy part of a conspiracy? Is he a 50 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 3: lone government? If he's a lone government, President Trump is 51 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 3: that much safer because we have him. But if he's 52 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 3: probably of a conspiracy, then this whole thing really takes 53 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 3: on a very ominous tone. 54 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: Well, let's see, twenty years ago, he had a machine 55 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: gun arrested for that. He fled from police after first 56 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: making moves that he was going to fight them killed him. 57 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: He barricked cad himself for three hours into a building. 58 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: He's had multiple arrests over the years. He's not exactly hiding. 59 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: He's out in front of the White House on multiple occasions. 60 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: He's done multiple network interviews He's been interviewed by The 61 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: New York Times, and he's always interviewed in Ukraine or 62 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: in Washington, d c. There are pictures of him in 63 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: Ukraine moving around the Defense Ministry. This is not what 64 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: they would like you to believe it is. This doesn't 65 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: just happen. The Wall Street Journal reports it was Rod's 66 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: time in Ukraine, where he traveled shortly after the Russia 67 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: invasion in twenty twenty two, hoping to join the fight, 68 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: where his tumultuous life, full of failures and brushes with 69 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: the law, seemed to spiral further downward and to alarm 70 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: those who came in contact with him. Chelsea Walsh, a 71 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: nurse who had several encounters with Ruth in Kiev in 72 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, said his threats of violence worried her 73 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: so much that she conveyed her concerns to a Customs 74 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: and Border Protection officer in an hour long interview at 75 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: Washington's Dulles Airport in June of twenty two. Walsh told 76 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: the officer during the interview, which took place after she 77 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: returned to the US, that Roath was among the most 78 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 1: dangerous Americans she met during her month, and a half 79 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: long stint in Ukraine. She showed the officer a notebook 80 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: listing more than a dozen names of Americans and others 81 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: whose actions had alarmed her. She recounted under the heading 82 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: overall predatory behavior or antisocial traits were names. Roaths was 83 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: at the top. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately 84 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: respond to inquiries about the meeting. Of course they didn't. 85 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: Roath's behavior had been flagged to the FB in the past, 86 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: though not in connection to Ukraine. A tipster told the 87 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: FBI in twenty nineteen that Roth had a firearm despite 88 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: being a felon, but when question further, wouldn't verify providing 89 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: the information, an FBI official said Monday. The bureau passed 90 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: the information onto authorities in Honolulu, where Roath was living 91 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: at the time, and of course closed the investigation because 92 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: you see, we need gun control in this country. Except 93 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: when a felon has a gun, which gun control would 94 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: prevent our basic gun laws, we don't do anything about it, 95 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: especially not if he's a government asset. His activities related 96 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: to Ukraine brought him to the attention of a large 97 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: group of people, many of whom quickly grew suspicious. Roath 98 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: was well known among volunteer aid groups in Ukraine as 99 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: a fraudster and kind of a whacked job, said Sarah Adams, 100 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: a pharmacya officer who helped run a network that linked 101 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: fifty aid groups to share information and coordinate humanitarian and 102 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: volunteer efforts. You think they were aid groups, You think 103 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,559 Speaker 1: that's what they were doing. He claimed to be working 104 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: with the Ukrainian government to recruit foreign fighters, but he 105 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: was not. She said, So you were a humanitarian worker 106 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: and he was lying about working with the Ukrainian government. 107 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: I don't believe you. I don't believe anything about what 108 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: you say. How does this guy end up on the 109 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: golf course at that time set up to shoot the president, 110 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: because there's no way he did that on his own. 111 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans 112 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: are better off than they were four years ago? Michael Berry? 113 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 4: So, I was raised as a middle class kid, like. 114 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: Tom Petty. 115 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 3: Too. 116 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: It's kind of like Bob Seger to me. I think 117 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: I like him probably more than most people, and I 118 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: think he tends to be forgotten. I've always felt he 119 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 1: was a little more classic rock than pop can handle 120 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: and a little more pop than classic rock can handle, 121 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 1: and he comes at an odd time with his sound. 122 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: I think he hits in about seventy nine is where 123 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: he really crosses over, and it's a sound from about 124 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: seventy five. It's an interesting trajectory of his because he 125 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: just kind of keeps hanging around. When you figure that 126 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: that style of music, you know, music at that point 127 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: is given way a new wave and is beginning to 128 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: be you know, hairband and more of the GNR and 129 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: bon Jovi and that sort of stuff. And then there's 130 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: just there's Tom Pettio there just writing and performing good songs. 131 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: He did, I think, make a big stamp with the 132 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: Don't Come around Here No More video, which made him 133 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: maybe more culturally relevant than he would have been otherwise. 134 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: And then he stole Stevie Nix's song, and then What's that? 135 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: And then and then he does the duet. Interesting guy? 136 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 1: Interesting guy. But I do like his stuff, although I 137 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: consume a lot of music from that era in a 138 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: way that bothers people like you because I never bought 139 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: albums ever, and never bought albums because or anything else. 140 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: I bought greatest hits, and because I didn't listen to 141 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: music with anybody else, I didn't. I came to it 142 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: on my own. Honestly, if I liked it, I listened 143 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: to it. But since I didn't buy, so when I 144 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: did finally start purchasing music for myself was much later 145 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,839 Speaker 1: than most people in my life, well passed my teenage years. 146 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: Then I didn't. I didn't want to go dive into 147 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: the Eagles and buy all those albums, or Tom Petty 148 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: or whatever else. So I've got that. You know, there 149 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: are classic that there are greatest hits albums that everybody identifies, 150 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:46,199 Speaker 1: the Pink Floyd, the Steve Miller Band, the Eagles, the Stones, 151 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: you can eat what's that? Bob Marlee? 152 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 3: Yep? 153 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: Was that legend? And you can see in your mind's 154 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: eye the cover of that album. Back to Ryan Roath, 155 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: You'll never guess what the FBI said hated. Did you 156 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: guys know he was there? Uh? Uh yeah, tell me 157 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: he was on your radar? Uh he uh will tell 158 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: me he said he was on our radar. They're always 159 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: on the radar, aren't they. Gosh, it's almost as if. 160 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 5: The FBI should spend their time on the kinds of 161 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 5: people who shoot up the Pulse nightclub or schools or 162 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 5: the president and stop harassing January sixth. 163 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: But we've only got so much time, and we do 164 00:12:53,840 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: have priorities now, don't we. Scott Jennings, I don't know 165 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: where he came from. Maybe some of you do. I'd 166 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: never heard of him before, but he shows up on 167 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: CNN as kind of the loan conservative or even conservative, 168 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: the loan guy to give any pushback. But every clip 169 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: I see of his I really like what the guy's doing. 170 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: I think he's making a difference over there. I really 171 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 1: do clip number thirteen. But the rhetoric is on both sides. 172 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 6: It's coming from the right, rhetoric from the left. 173 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: The rhetoric. They have tried to kill this man twice. 174 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 6: Okay, he got shot in the ear, and this guy 175 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 6: was sitting up shop outside of a golf course to 176 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 6: try to kill him this weekend. And I know, after 177 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 6: something like this happens, it's very fashionable to, you know, 178 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 6: talk about rhetoric on both sides. 179 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:48,679 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the target. 180 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 6: Okay, he's the current target, and it's happening and it's 181 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 6: happened again, and I just honestly, we have to have 182 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 6: a conversation about elections. If you lose an election, the 183 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 6: country's not going to come to an okay. What I 184 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 6: want Democrats to do, honestly, is to say it's okay, 185 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 6: if Donald Trump wins, democracy will not end, the constitution 186 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 6: will not in We're not going to live in a dictatorship. 187 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 6: There will not be a blood bath. All the things 188 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 6: they say that are totally fabricated. To me, it would 189 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 6: be a good day to stop doing that. The most 190 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 6: important thing that could possibly happen, in my opinion, is 191 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 6: for everybody to agree, especially Democrats, that the country is 192 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 6: not going to be irreparably damaged if Democrats lose that 193 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 6: where constitution is not going to go away, Democracy is 194 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 6: not going to come to an end. There will be 195 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 6: no blood bath, there will be no dictatorship on day one, 196 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 6: which they all say all day long on this network 197 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 6: and others. If everyone could just agree that that kind 198 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 6: of hyperbolic statement will not take place anymore, and that 199 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 6: it's not been true every time it's been said, that 200 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 6: would be a step in the right direction. 201 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: He's absolutely right. There is also an op that there 202 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: were bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. Because remember this is Charlottesvielle, 203 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: this is January sixth. All this all goes back. They 204 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: need you to believe that Trump is dangerous. If you 205 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: start calling out the left for what they're doing, that's 206 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: dangerous and people get killed. What sure sounds like the 207 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: mainstream media is colluding with the Russians or some foreign entity. 208 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: I say the Russians because that's the joke to help 209 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: Kamala by pushing the bogus Springfield, Ohio threats talking points. 210 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: Remember we were told he's poor people in Springfield. Their 211 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: bomb's gonna go off and they can't go to school 212 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: and none of the business. Everybody's gonna die. It's all 213 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: because of Trump. Right. Ohio's Governor Mike Dwaine said that's 214 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: not true. 215 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 4: Least thirty three separate bomb threats, each one of which 216 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 4: UH has been responded to, and each one of whom 217 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 4: has been found uh T as a hoax. So thirty 218 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 4: three UH threats, thirty three hoax. I wanna make that 219 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 4: very very clear. None of these had any validity uh 220 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 4: at all. UH. We know UH that people are very 221 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 4: very concerned, UH, and we have taken some actions and 222 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 4: UH in a moment, I'll let uh Andy Wilson go 223 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 4: into more detail. UH, but we've moved resources uh into 224 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 4: into Springfield. So I wanna say to the parents in Springfield. Uh, 225 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 4: these hoaxes have these these threats uh have all been hoaxes. 226 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 4: None of them have panned out. 227 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 2: Uh. 228 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 4: We have people, unfortunately overseas uh who are taking these actions. 229 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: Uh. 230 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 4: Some of them are coming from one particular country. We 231 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,439 Speaker 4: think that this is one more opportunity to mess with 232 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 4: the United States, and they're continuing to do that. So 233 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 4: we cannot let the bad guys win. Our schools must 234 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 4: remain open. 235 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 3: Twenty eighteen. 236 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: We're talking about paper ballots, but that actually might be 237 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: one of the smartest systems the Michael Ferry Show, because 238 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: Russia cannot hack a piece of paper. Happy Constitution Day. 239 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,199 Speaker 1: It was on this day in seventeen eighty seven at 240 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: the United States Constitution was signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, 241 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: bringing the swelteringly hot and often very contentious Constitutional Convention 242 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: to an end. My senior year of college at the 243 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 1: University of Houston, I had a professor who I was 244 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: very fond of that there were a group of us 245 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:15,719 Speaker 1: who were his acolytes, and not just our year, but 246 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: every year he had a group of almost all young men, 247 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: although there was one female in our group who ended 248 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: up marrying one of the group who were students of 249 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: his who would take every course that he taught, and 250 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,719 Speaker 1: that was Ross Lentz, or as he was referred to, 251 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: the reasonable mister Lynz, and he taught there. I bet 252 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:50,719 Speaker 1: he taught there for forty years, maybe longer. And Ross 253 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: Lnz created a course because there was a group there 254 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: were a group of us. There was a group of 255 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: us who had taken everything he offered and there was 256 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: nothing else for us to take, and we talked him 257 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: into doing a course on the Constitutional Convention, and it 258 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: was there were maybe twelve of us. He did it 259 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: as a favor for us, and he didn't have time 260 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 1: in his regular schedule during the week, so it became 261 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: a one night a week, three hours, three hour course. 262 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: I didn't need the hours. I just just the nerdy 263 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 1: side of me. It appealed to me. And it's my 264 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: very last semester there. And it was like a Wednesday 265 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: night from seven to ten, and then we'd all go 266 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 1: for Taco bell or something afterwards. We were on a 267 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: student budget and each week we would meet for our 268 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: three hours. We picked a character. Everybody in the class 269 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: picked a character at the convention, but you couldn't pick 270 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,719 Speaker 1: the most obvious. You couldn't pick jeffersoner Madison, and I 271 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: picked Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania because I was interested in 272 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: him already. And my friend Earl Spencer chose Elbridge Gary, 273 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:16,719 Speaker 1: after whom gerry mandering is named, because Elbridge Gary designed 274 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: a voting district that would be favorable and it really 275 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: should have been Gary Mandering, but whatever, g r R. 276 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 1: It was such a fun class and it what it 277 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: really accomplished with me was understanding how tenuous this process was. 278 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: If you have ever tried to found anything, to create 279 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: anything where people have differing views and you gather people 280 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: together as to what the structure of this thing is 281 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: going to look like? Hell for people who do a prenup. 282 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: I've heard stories of these people who one or the 283 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: other has a lot of money before they start, and 284 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: they they fashion a prenup because everybody has this idea. 285 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: I've had some friends over the years who you know, 286 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,439 Speaker 1: they've got a fair amount of money and they're on 287 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: marriage number two or three, and tell you what, this 288 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: one's not going to clean me out like the others did. 289 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to do a prenup. Okay, isn't that the 290 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: first red flag? Really? Isn't that the first red flag? 291 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: That you're already prepared for the breakup? How about this? 292 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: How about I give you the advice no one else 293 00:21:55,760 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 1: will give you, and that is this. You really like 294 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: the chase, you do. You've enjoyed the chase since middle school. 295 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: You enjoy the chase like Savoa fare as she bounces alone. 296 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 1: You bounce along behind her and not Pepi laput. You 297 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: like to bounce around behind her. And then you like 298 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: her to be a little bit flirty but a little 299 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 1: bit distant, and you like to wow her, leaving aside 300 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: that that's your Bentley or Lamborghini or Ferrari, that they've 301 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: parked in the front spot at the restaurant, that's not accidental. 302 00:22:55,080 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: And then you suggest maybe I'll go for a in 303 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: this car, and she pretends to not be impressed because 304 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: the first time she's been in a car like this, 305 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,199 Speaker 1: and you ain't the first guy she's been in a 306 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: car like this with. But you want the wind, You 307 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: want her to be interested in you, and so in 308 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: time she plays her part, and she grows more and 309 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: more into and you want to woo her. You want 310 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: to impress her. Now, this is where the biggest part 311 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: of the relationship goes sour. And if I've seen it 312 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: one time, I have seen it. I don't want to exaggerate. 313 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 1: I've seen it dozens. I'll say I've seen it dozens 314 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: at the time. And this is what apparently the young 315 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 1: people call love bombing. And this is where he takes 316 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: her to Paris, and he takes her to all these 317 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: amazing places and spends all this money, and she's just 318 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 1: wrapped it and secs every day and romance every day 319 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: and having this arrive and having this arrive, and then 320 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: and they get married and she's not doing that anymore, 321 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 1: and he's not doing that anymore. And now they have 322 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: so all that trouble, all that trouble just for two 323 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: people to come together, imagine a constitutional convention, and damned 324 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: if they didn't do it. 325 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 4: Everybody needs to be woke. 326 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 6: I just say, more woke than left woke. 327 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: One guy said, I got so caught up in that romance. 328 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: I forgot you was talking about the constitutional convention hurting cats. 329 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 4: You know. 330 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 1: Oh somebody pointed out, And I know this, but I 331 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 1: don't mind being reminded because I was in error. Jefferson 332 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: was not at the convention. It is the case that 333 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 1: we tend to think of things ending exactly the way 334 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: they did, because that was the way they were supposed 335 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: to be. The Allies were supposed to win the World 336 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,959 Speaker 1: of War. Wasn't any other alternative it could be. The 337 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: Constitution was to be written because these were great men, 338 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: and we admire them, And here's the constitution a republic. 339 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: If you can keep it, ma'am, and we'll move on 340 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 1: about our business. Except that's not how it works. Every 341 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: single person at that convention, every single one of them was, 342 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: in his own way, a star, a king, a potentate, 343 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,880 Speaker 1: a powerful man, a rich man, an influential man, a 344 00:25:53,920 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 1: celebrity in his day. You try to bring together a 345 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: bunch of people like that, because you have to have 346 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: some degree of hierarchy, in the sense that someone's gonna 347 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: have to chair the meeting, someone's going to have to 348 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 1: call for a vote and record the vote, someone's going 349 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: to have to arbitrate the disputes. And these are men, 350 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: all men, These are men who are unaccustomed to not 351 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:33,959 Speaker 1: getting their way. When you're talking about men of incredible accomplishment, power, 352 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: influence wealth, and they each had their own idea. You 353 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: had at the time two schools of thought. And I 354 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: know you were assigned this in high school or college, 355 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,959 Speaker 1: and I know at the time it was the lasting 356 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 1: on your mind. You'd be surprised how many things that 357 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: were assigned to you when you were seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, 358 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one that now you would pick up and 359 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: you would see the relevance of it all. Pick up 360 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 1: the Federalist papers. Be a dork. Go sit on the 361 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: back porch, get yourself a good light, a coffee, a tea, 362 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: a beer, whatever it is. Turn the television off, and 363 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: sit down and start on the Federalist paper papers. Any 364 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: reading like this is going to feel inaccessible at first, 365 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: because it's not in the common vernacular that you're using 366 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: day to day. But it will take you no time. 367 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: Do what I do. Get yourself a pen, and as 368 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: you're reading, you see a word you don't understand, circle 369 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: it if you have an iPad or a phone or apparently, 370 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 1: they used to have books that had definitions of words 371 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: in them. I've heard story, I've heard tell stop for 372 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: a moment and read what does that word mean? I've 373 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: heard that word used a number of times. Really wonder 374 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: what that is? And then slowly, but surely, you'll, I 375 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: would argue, and let me not get carried away, and 376 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: I would I would argue for the average person to 377 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:34,479 Speaker 1: understand our government and our governance and our philosophy, that 378 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: reading the Federalist papers will be more enlightening to you 379 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: than the Constitution itself. The Constitution is a bit dry 380 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: and perhaps not as revealing at first read as the 381 00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: Federalist papers, which are arguments on behalf of certain governing styles, 382 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: governing philosophies. And they were arguing them that the same 383 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: way you would argue something today that is of great importance, 384 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: and you had people on both sides of the aisle. 385 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: But as you start reading the Federalist papers, then when 386 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: you're done, then you'll want to read the Constitution. Every 387 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: day I get emails from people who tell me that 388 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: I recommended a book that I only vaguely recall recommending 389 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: because whatever I'm reading at the time, I'll reference and 390 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: how much they enjoyed it, and now they've moved on 391 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: to this book or do I have another recommendation? They 392 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: go on, without being too tedious. Let me just take 393 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: a second to say, if you're not presently reading, I 394 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: can't tell you how much this point in your life 395 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: you would enjoy doing so. It may never have been 396 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: the case in your life that for enjoyment you sat 397 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: down with a book and began to read it. But 398 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: you're not at any point you were at in your 399 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: life before think about this. Did you ever think about 400 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: the FBI, the CIA, foreign assets January sixth, the United 401 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:45,479 Speaker 1: the electoral College, the influence of media on our minds, 402 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: the skewed perspective of the drive by media. Did you 403 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 1: ever think about things like that earlier in your life? 404 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: Because it's so easy to PLoP down and click on TV, 405 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: very passively observe and consume media. You've got the colors 406 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 1: and the scrolling, and hopefully some things that if they're 407 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: not entertaining, because very few people can do funny, Gutfeld can. 408 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: If they're not funny, well at least they'll get me 409 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: really mad, and that makes me feel alive. I'll post 410 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: a couple of books today just you'll be surprised, and 411 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: you will realize how different you are, how much you've 412 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: I don't want to say grown how much you've changed, 413 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,959 Speaker 1: because the writings are timeless, and you will feel so alive, 414 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: and then you'll be that obnoxious guy quote I'm everywhere, 415 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: well poork Chop. I was reading the Federalists paper today, 416 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: and you know what Hamilton said. I can't wait to 417 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: hear your workmates when you do that.