Speaker 1: What are your issues? What do you vote on? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you mine and show you an example of
Speaker 1: why tonight we have Michelle Tafoya here. Why isn't she
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Football anymore? That and so much more
Speaker 1: coming up? And I'm right, priorities we all have them.
Speaker 1: I mean we're all different. Everyone's priority is different. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna go said, We're gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about my priorities for the country and why they are
Speaker 1: what they are. But you have them in your own
Speaker 1: personal life too, right, I do too. You have an
Speaker 1: order of things you play some importance on food, shelter, water,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, basic human needs, life, husband, kids,
Speaker 1: whatever you got, job, that did you have? You have
Speaker 1: your life ordered priorities. I keep priorities in politics, you
Speaker 1: do too. This is human nature. You vote on certain issues. Now,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you don't or I don't have strong
Speaker 1: feelings about many issues you watch. I'm right every night,
Speaker 1: I have strong feelings about all of them. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to things like twenty twenty four, the choosing
Speaker 1: of the GOP nominee, the presidential primary, as you know,
Speaker 1: I am currently an undecided voter, as of this moment,
Speaker 1: not a single person has earned my vote. It's my vote,
Speaker 1: that's the only one I get. It's the only political
Speaker 1: power I have. I intend to use my political power
Speaker 1: to the max. So not that I think that they're
Speaker 1: going to sit and screaming, yell on wine over just
Speaker 1: me and my vote. But if you were a GOP
Speaker 1: presidential candidate for twenty twenty four, how would you earn
Speaker 1: my vote? What do I prioritize? Well, two things. One
Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns, the Land of the Free turning into a
Speaker 1: police state, governments actually telling people no, you can't go
Speaker 1: to work, people saying goodbye to their dying mother on
Speaker 1: a zoom call, children now who can't read COVID lockdowns,
Speaker 1: If you participated in them, and virtually every Republican candidate
Speaker 1: running for office did participate in them and push them
Speaker 1: all of them, did I need to hear how you
Speaker 1: will address that? If I get ownership, if I get apologies,
Speaker 1: if I get I don't know, some sort of contrition,
Speaker 1: I will consider giving you my vote. If I don't
Speaker 1: get those things, you can never earn my vote as
Speaker 1: a Republican nominee. You simply cannot, period. Don't care who
Speaker 1: you are. I don't live in a tyranny. I live
Speaker 1: in the land of the free. That's one. Two. This
Speaker 1: is actually my only other one, even though I have
Speaker 1: such strong feelings about a variety of issues. My other
Speaker 1: thing that I will vote on for the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four presidential nominee is I want to know about your
Speaker 1: plans for the administrative state in this country. More specifically,
Speaker 1: even though all of it's bad, More specifically, I want
Speaker 1: to know what you're going to do with the DOJ
Speaker 1: and the FBI. And before I elaborate on this and
Speaker 1: I go into what Merrick Garland said yesterday, I want
Speaker 1: to be clear about something. I've said this before, I'm
Speaker 1: going to say it again. Do you know how many
Speaker 1: people Hitler Mao, Stalin pol Pot. Do you know how
Speaker 1: many people those guys killed after they achieve total power?
Speaker 1: You know how many people they killed? None? Not, according
Speaker 1: to any records we have. They didn't personally kill anybody
Speaker 1: once they achieve power. So how did all those millions
Speaker 1: of people die? Well, their administrative states killed them. There's
Speaker 1: state beliefs. Did the killing in whatever form it took.
Speaker 1: If we have a federal Bureau of investigation that has
Speaker 1: become the weaponized arm of the Democratic Party, and that's
Speaker 1: very much what we do have. It will end the
Speaker 1: United States of America if it is not fixed. I
Speaker 1: want to know, as a candidate, I want you to
Speaker 1: tell me what you're going to do about it. I
Speaker 1: watched Merrick Garland yesterday. I watched him do something not
Speaker 1: that not that surprised me, but man, I already felt
Speaker 1: this way, but it just drove something home. Merrick Garland
Speaker 1: sitting in front of the United States Senate, that's a
Speaker 1: big deal, right, an intimidating deal. Merrick Garland sat in
Speaker 1: front of them and said something that is it's kind
Speaker 1: of funny on the surface, but it's so unbelievably sinister
Speaker 1: and a little bit intimidating when you actually think about it.
Speaker 1: Here's what he said. I will say, you are quite right.
Speaker 1: There are many more prosecutions with respect to the blocking
Speaker 1: of the of the abortion centers, but that is generally
Speaker 1: because they are those actions are taken with photography at
Speaker 1: the time during the daylight, and seeing the person who
Speaker 1: did it is quite easy. Those who are attacking the
Speaker 1: pregnancy Resources centers, which is a horrid thing to do,
Speaker 1: are doing this at night in the dark. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: mister producer, Maybe I got that wrong. Did he just
Speaker 1: say we can't find the people burning down pregnancy centers
Speaker 1: because they're doing it in the dark. Obviously, that's laugh
Speaker 1: out loud, idiotic. It's crazy, the top law enforcement officer
Speaker 1: in the United States of America claiming they can't seem
Speaker 1: to track down those street communists because it's dark out.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Song. It's surf, but it's so much more
Speaker 1: sinister when you think about it. It's so much more
Speaker 1: evil when you think about it. And you know what's
Speaker 1: sinister and evil about it, the level of disrespect that
Speaker 1: shows to the Senate and the American people. If I
Speaker 1: develop a drinking problem, Let's say I just decided to
Speaker 1: start hitting the bottle, and I want to hide it
Speaker 1: from the wife, So I start on the way o
Speaker 1: from the studio. Every single night, I decide I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stop at the bar and have me to have me
Speaker 1: about five or six drinks. But I don't want to
Speaker 1: tell her. So the first night when I show home late,
Speaker 1: When I show up at home late, I say, oh,
Speaker 1: I had a flat tire. She's gonna say, oh, that sucks.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, let's get it fixed. But then when I
Speaker 1: say that, the second night I do that, and the
Speaker 1: third night I do that, She's going to know right away. Okay,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a flat tire. He's been lying. But
Speaker 1: if I keep telling this blatant lie to her face
Speaker 1: over and over and over again, sorry, I'm like I
Speaker 1: had a flat tire. What does that tell you about
Speaker 1: my level of respect for her? The Attorney General of
Speaker 1: the United States of America set in front of the
Speaker 1: United States Senate and told them he couldn't arrest street
Speaker 1: communists because it's too dark outside. You GOP senators who
Speaker 1: watched this show in your staffers, what do you think
Speaker 1: that says about you and his thoughts on you? And
Speaker 1: this all comes, by the way, as the government, the
Speaker 1: administrative state, is embarking in pr campaign. There's no other
Speaker 1: way to put it. You've seen all these headlines come
Speaker 1: out bizarrely, in about the last week, there have been
Speaker 1: all these FBI headlines coming out that kind of kind
Speaker 1: of make the FBI look a little better to you,
Speaker 1: don't they. The FBI came out and said, hey, we
Speaker 1: always knew COVID came from a lab Wait, what hold on?
Speaker 1: What are you right wingers? Now? FBI's out there sitting
Speaker 1: down with Brett Byer. Hey, I'll just want to sit
Speaker 1: down and give an interview. Well, why is all that happening?
Speaker 1: Why is the why the pr campaign? Because they know
Speaker 1: they're about to have to give testimony the same way
Speaker 1: Merrit Garland just did in front of the United States
Speaker 1: House of Representatives and probably the Senate, and they're simply
Speaker 1: trying to soften their image. But back to what we're
Speaker 1: talking about priorities for twenty twenty four, why do I
Speaker 1: make that a priority? We don't have a country anymore
Speaker 1: if this continues, it's really that serious. I need to
Speaker 1: get this through to everybody. I've been shouting this at
Speaker 1: the GOP over and over again. This is not a
Speaker 1: small thing. This is not bias. These people possess the
Speaker 1: power to send thirty armed federal agents to your front
Speaker 1: door to arrest you for being pro life, and they're
Speaker 1: using that power and that's what they're doing. Now, what
Speaker 1: does that look like ten years from now, fifteen years
Speaker 1: from now, twenty years and now, Chuck Grassley, the whistleblowers
Speaker 1: listen to Chuck Grassley. Recent lawfully protective. Whistleblower disclosures to
Speaker 1: my office indicate that the Justice Department and the FBI
Speaker 1: had at one time over a dozen sources that provided
Speaker 1: potentially criminal information relating to Hunter Byte. I have a
Speaker 1: pledge not to interfere with that investigation, and I have
Speaker 1: carried through on my pledge. They covered up for the
Speaker 1: president for the Sun and the president of the United
Speaker 1: States of America so he could win an election and
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would lose an election. And they've continued that
Speaker 1: cover up ever since. We have dozens of whistleblowers coming
Speaker 1: forward to talk about that. We have now a praetorian guard.
Speaker 1: We have a checkup. Not in the future, it's right now.
Speaker 1: When I'm going into cast my vote in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: I want to hear the plan because you no longer
Speaker 1: live in the land of the free if this is
Speaker 1: what we have. And by the way, speaking of getting
Speaker 1: a little bit in your face and bold, it's time
Speaker 1: for us to embark on a mission. Get ready, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear me to talk about You're gonna hear
Speaker 1: me talk about this a lot on this show from
Speaker 1: now on. I have decided that we are going to
Speaker 1: start a you voted for this campaign in our personal lives.
Speaker 1: You see, this is what's happened in this country for
Speaker 1: years in years in years. Who has been the aggressive
Speaker 1: political person in your life? Who's the one who has
Speaker 1: to bring up politics no matter what? The Democrat. They
Speaker 1: show up at the family house, They show up at Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: ruining Thanksgiving. I love Hilary chop Sacks. They show up
Speaker 1: at the neighborhood parties, they show up at the school
Speaker 1: they're allowed at the school boards. They have been loud
Speaker 1: and bold for a long time about what they believe,
Speaker 1: and it is time to return the favor. I have
Speaker 1: had my fill of people who Democrat complaining about the
Speaker 1: destruction that has come their way. I actually laughed when
Speaker 1: I saw this yesterday. You know that New York City
Speaker 1: is going to pay twenty thousand dollars a piece to
Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter protesters who were burning down the
Speaker 1: city just because they arrested them. And then I had
Speaker 1: a New York friend of mine. This is what really
Speaker 1: set me off. I had a New York friend of
Speaker 1: mine telling me what idiocy. I can't believe this, And
Speaker 1: you know what I told him? It felt so good.
Speaker 1: I told him you voted for that. It's time to
Speaker 1: start getting more aggressive with friends, family, co workers. It's
Speaker 1: time to stop coddling crazy Aunt Peggy talking about Democrat again.
Speaker 1: This time, when crazy Aunt Peggy shows up at the
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner and she starts complaining about the price of gas,
Speaker 1: don't leave the room, don't hide, don't change the subject.
Speaker 1: Look at Aunt Peggy and say, you voted for that.
Speaker 1: The next time you see some drag filth. I just
Speaker 1: saw United Airlines. They just flew a flight from San
Speaker 1: Francis as good as Sydney, and they're bragging about the
Speaker 1: all LGBTQ plus crew, all kinds of trannies and everything
Speaker 1: else packed in there. And you talk to your buddy.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's even your dad or your uncle. He's been
Speaker 1: voting Democrat his whole life. While I was in a Union,
Speaker 1: I gotta vote for Joe. And then he looks at
Speaker 1: that out and he complains about it. Jesse. I don't
Speaker 1: like it, Jesse. It's crazy Dad. You voted for that.
Speaker 1: You voted for that, You voted for that. The time
Speaker 1: of being passive has passed us by the time to
Speaker 1: be aggressive is now. The next time you're a well
Speaker 1: meaning Democrat co worker, friend, family member complains about Democrat policies.
Speaker 1: No more coddling, No more mommy. This country has very
Speaker 1: clearly had way too much mommy time. It's time for
Speaker 1: daddy to step in from now on. You voted for that,
Speaker 1: normalize it all. That may have made you uncomfortable, but
Speaker 1: I am right now. Let's address the Ukraine thing briefly. Briefly,
Speaker 1: the whole Russia Ukraine thing. We're going to address that.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get to you know, let's get to something good.
Speaker 1: Let's get to something good. Coffee. Who doesn't love coffee.
Speaker 1: I am a two cup of day person. I used
Speaker 1: to be a four or five cup of day person,
Speaker 1: and then I realized that I do have to probably
Speaker 1: try to limit that a bit. The problem is this
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Speaker 1: They need more ammunition, more long range precision weapons and yes,
Speaker 1: fighter jets. Uh this and the and the issue really
Speaker 1: is that, um, you know right now, they're dying. Every
Speaker 1: day they're dying. So what what we are waiting for?
Speaker 1: Seems to still be attached to this. I would argue
Speaker 1: overcautious concern related to a nuclear weapon, overcautious related to
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. Joining me now my buddy b K Brian Kimber.
Speaker 1: He's hosted the World News with b K podcast, also
Speaker 1: former Air Force PJ. B K. I don't know why
Speaker 1: everyone's stressing about nuclear weapons. I don't see what the
Speaker 1: big deal is. Yeah, Jesse, I'll tell you what. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this with growing alarm. I'm watching what's going
Speaker 1: on in Bachmot. These are some of the worst casualties
Speaker 1: we've ever seen in the history of warfare. You know,
Speaker 1: you go back through the great battles of history and
Speaker 1: the psalm were done in World War One, Antietam, in
Speaker 1: the United States, Gettysburg. We're rapidly approaching that if something
Speaker 1: isn't done in that seat, and that's just in that
Speaker 1: one battle. This is a human tragedy. In my eyes,
Speaker 1: it doesn't and I don't care whose side you're on.
Speaker 1: I think Ukraine should be able to defend themselves. The
Speaker 1: essay can. But this is hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 1: dying a year, and in that city alone, Jesse, we're
Speaker 1: talking tens of thousands of casualties in a matter of weeks.
Speaker 1: And this is a whole new era of warfare. It's
Speaker 1: drone warfare. This has bogged down into an artillery bombardment
Speaker 1: and there's no end in sight. Zelenski is vowing to
Speaker 1: fight to the end. I've been seeing some of the
Speaker 1: chatter on telegram channels where various Ukrainian commanders are like,
Speaker 1: we are putting new recruits into these trenches and we're
Speaker 1: looking at a average of like sometimes four hours of
Speaker 1: a recruit lasting in bach Moot before they're killed one
Speaker 1: day at best, and they're just throwing these young kids
Speaker 1: into the meat grinder. RuSHA is doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: Vladimir Boutin is clearly out of his mind, Jesse, as
Speaker 1: I pulled you a long time ago. I don't think
Speaker 1: this ends unless something is done internally about Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 1: and overall, I don't even like watching the social media
Speaker 1: videos anymore. It's a it's a human tragedy. We're we're
Speaker 1: not We're not even talking like you know ices people
Speaker 1: factions killing each other, right, We're talking about Ukrainians like
Speaker 1: physics professors, teachers, electric you know, electricians, engineers. Those are
Speaker 1: the people now taking up arms to defend their country
Speaker 1: and they're all just getting obliterated. And it's it's it's
Speaker 1: shocking to see. Is a half Ukrainian myself, my people
Speaker 1: are from there, you know, one hundred years or so ago.
Speaker 1: It's it's devastating, it is, it's horrible. I think about
Speaker 1: the Russian troops too, because they're grabbing these guys and
Speaker 1: constricted them in there. You're right, the videos, I don't
Speaker 1: like them anymore. B K. I've gotten to the point
Speaker 1: in this whole thing where I hate Vladimir Putin, I
Speaker 1: hate Zelensky pretty much just as much. I only care
Speaker 1: about the people, and I want the thing to end.
Speaker 1: What I can't figure out is how it ends. We
Speaker 1: very clearly are not going to stop, and as long
Speaker 1: as we're pouring America's military equipment into their Ukraine can
Speaker 1: go on a while. Putin can't afford to stop or
Speaker 1: he's going to get murdered. So how does this end?
Speaker 1: It's unclear. You know, our Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln
Speaker 1: was just over at the G twenty meeting. He was
Speaker 1: able to not have an official meeting with their his counterpart,
Speaker 1: that's Seragei Lavrov, long time for Minister of Russia, and
Speaker 1: they basically had a little bit of an aside and
Speaker 1: Lincoln said basically, hey, we want you to stop, and
Speaker 1: Lavrov basically said, well, we're not going to and Lincoln said, well,
Speaker 1: neither are we. And then it was like okay, and
Speaker 1: I guess that's what we're doing. So everybody's dug in
Speaker 1: and I don't know what's going what it's going to
Speaker 1: take now. I you know, China is now posting basic summits,
Speaker 1: and they are looking at nations like Saudi Arabia, who
Speaker 1: has stayed neutral, but Saudi Arabia is now making significant
Speaker 1: contributions humanitarian but still and this is a geopolitical war
Speaker 1: that affects everything it touches. And I just don't see
Speaker 1: how it ends until and Jesse, even when it does end,
Speaker 1: who wins. Nobody's gonna win. If Russia prevails, they're going
Speaker 1: to inherit a giant waste land. If Ukraine prevails, they
Speaker 1: will have to deal with decades and decades of rebuilding
Speaker 1: that country. And there's there's just no winners here. No,
Speaker 1: that's true, bk' I'm not naive. I know Russian. There's
Speaker 1: not gonna be a couple of Russian divisions landing on
Speaker 1: the shores of California marching towards Washington anytime soon. But
Speaker 1: I also do know that this is a sophisticated power,
Speaker 1: clearly not on our level. But they do have the
Speaker 1: ability to touch us here. Is that something you think
Speaker 1: they would do in one way? And if so, what
Speaker 1: can they do to us? I would like to rule
Speaker 1: that out, Jesse. With this Vladimir Putin, you can't rule
Speaker 1: anything out as you and I have discussed on the
Speaker 1: radio show many times. He sees himself is the great,
Speaker 1: the great man who's going to bring back the Soviet
Speaker 1: Union without so much of the communism, Like that's what
Speaker 1: he really wants. He felt that Russia was wronged after
Speaker 1: the collapse of the Soviet Union, that they lost their
Speaker 1: power and influence of the world. And he sees himself
Speaker 1: as this great man who's going to reunite this country
Speaker 1: again and once again make it world power. But in
Speaker 1: while he's doing that, he's made himself and all of
Speaker 1: Russians complete varias on the world stage. And I don't
Speaker 1: you have to take this with a huge grain of salt,
Speaker 1: But you look at opinion polls out of Russia, and
Speaker 1: I've looked at many different sources, and the people there
Speaker 1: either have been brainwashed so much or just dranking so
Speaker 1: much propaganda that they really believe what Putin is saying
Speaker 1: about d nazifying Ukraine, and they really believe this crap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can understand the Russians being a little bit
Speaker 1: sensitive if there are Nazis on their border. Being is
Speaker 1: how that didn't work out very well for anyone. Last
Speaker 1: time there were Nazis on their borders. All right, b K.
Speaker 1: We have a serious recruiting crisis in this country, and
Speaker 1: this is actually more complicated than everyone makes it believe.
Speaker 1: Our population of young men is too fatten out of
Speaker 1: shape to make it. Many of them have been on
Speaker 1: too many medications to qualify. Already, you're shrinking the recruiting pool.
Speaker 1: But then you get to all the stuff that we've
Speaker 1: talked about a million times on this show. Young men
Speaker 1: in Louisiana who've been shooting where else since they were
Speaker 1: one and a half years old, don't want to join
Speaker 1: the US of Gay Army and learn how they're evil
Speaker 1: for being white. They simply won't. They'll go do something else. BK.
Speaker 1: And obviously I'm being kind of tongue in cheek, but
Speaker 1: it's true. We're losing warriors to college or create trade
Speaker 1: score wherever they're going. But that next Medal of honor
Speaker 1: winner is not going to win because he's not going
Speaker 1: to be in uniform. Yeah, you know, Jess, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a whole right, This topic has been debated endlessly, right,
Speaker 1: but I can definitely see right now, like you and I,
Speaker 1: we're post nine to eleven, right, and we felt that calling.
Speaker 1: I felt that calling, you know, I saw those towers
Speaker 1: come down. My brother was already an officer in the Marine,
Speaker 1: an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. He
Speaker 1: was gearing up right away. I'm living in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: thinking I need to be a part of this somehow,
Speaker 1: and I just felt the call. There is no call now.
Speaker 1: And it became clear, even like a few years in,
Speaker 1: that this was going to be a grinder as far
Speaker 1: as the global war and terror. But at least there
Speaker 1: was like a call. At least something happened to us,
Speaker 1: like World War Two when Pearl Harbor was attacked and
Speaker 1: young men line the streets saying, I have to be involved?
Speaker 1: How dare they? There's why would you sign up? Now?
Speaker 1: Did God forbid be sent over to Ukraine or NATO
Speaker 1: country where you could be vaporized before even seeing the
Speaker 1: front line or firing a weapon and anger? I just
Speaker 1: don't see it. It's you could not pay me enough
Speaker 1: to honestly be a military recruiter to these days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how are you talking into it? Hit? It's podcast, It's
Speaker 1: World News with BK. I love it, Thank you, brother,
Speaker 1: Thanks Jesse. Oh by God? All right, Michelle Tafoya is
Speaker 1: going to join us next, a former Sunday Night football fame,
Speaker 1: Michelle Tafoya, How about that. Before we get to that,
Speaker 1: let's get to something real quick here. Something that hit
Speaker 1: me hard. You probably heard me talk about this before,
Speaker 1: is talking to my buddies when we got back from
Speaker 1: my rack, and most of us, most of the guys
Speaker 1: I joined with about the time, it just kind of
Speaker 1: worked out this way. About the time my unit got
Speaker 1: back from my rack, we got out a matter of months.
Speaker 1: For me, I think it was two three months we
Speaker 1: got back to point was over my four year and
Speaker 1: list it was up. And I talked to a bunch
Speaker 1: of them today and a bunch of them are doing
Speaker 1: very well, and a bunch of them are not. And
Speaker 1: when we sit down and break bread, have beer, you
Speaker 1: find out that they just felt left alone when they
Speaker 1: got back, and they didn't they didn't know how to
Speaker 1: put themselves back together, angry, diving into the bottle, whatever.
Speaker 1: It's just no one helped them put themselves back together.
Speaker 1: I love what Bouldercrest does because that's what they do.
Speaker 1: They put veterans back together. They bring them back out
Speaker 1: of that world that you go to Look, you change
Speaker 1: when you go over there. You do. I did. I
Speaker 1: know I did. But they helped bring you back, help them,
Speaker 1: help them, help these veterans. I'm telling you you can
Speaker 1: take it from me. This is wonderful organization. All right.
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Speaker 1: It's called Operations Struggle. It's wonderful. Look, volunteer if you can,
Speaker 1: but give Bouldercrest dot org. We'll be back. For nearly
Speaker 1: three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. She
Speaker 1: started very young. She's covered the NBA, NFL Olympics, and
Speaker 1: the college football and basketball national championships. And now, during
Speaker 1: these insane times in our world, Michelle Tafoya thinks we
Speaker 1: need a serious dose of sanity. This is so wild
Speaker 1: to me that I get to talk to Michelle Tafoya.
Speaker 1: When I got out. Everyone knows I used to be
Speaker 1: the biggest football fan in the world. And when I
Speaker 1: got out of the Marines, I would sit there on
Speaker 1: Sunday and watch football for like eight nine hours a day.
Speaker 1: And Michelle Tafoya on my television meant that it was
Speaker 1: Sunday night ball time. And she joins, I mean, now
Speaker 1: she's the host of the Sideline Sanity podcast Michelle Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't watch football anymore. We'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a minute. But that had to be one of the
Speaker 1: coolest gigs, right. That had to feel big and huge,
Speaker 1: didn't it? It did. Every Sunday night felt massive. It
Speaker 1: was like every Sunday night was a rehearsal for a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. In fact, I would say that every Sunday
Speaker 1: night we prepared like it was the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: the production crew was second to none. You know, you're
Speaker 1: working with Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. After I got
Speaker 1: to work with John Madden on Monday night football. It
Speaker 1: was tremendous. I don't regret a single minute of it.
Speaker 1: I would either. Do you ever get nervous when you're
Speaker 1: sitting on the sidelines and you know about all ten
Speaker 1: thirteen million people are watching you? You know what? I
Speaker 1: tried to think about the one person that mattered the most,
Speaker 1: and that was my producer, Fred Goodelli and making him happy.
Speaker 1: I knew if I lived up to Fred's standards, I
Speaker 1: was living up to the only standard I needed to
Speaker 1: worry about. So I think there were a couple times
Speaker 1: super Bowls can be so kind of overwhelming. I especially
Speaker 1: remember the one in Arizona. I think that was my
Speaker 1: fourth of five, may have been my third, but anyway,
Speaker 1: I remember that the roof being opened, the place being packed,
Speaker 1: the light bulbs going on, the flash bowlbs going off
Speaker 1: on everyone's cameras, and it felt huge, and you know,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, you sort of once the kick happens,
Speaker 1: everything's fine. That's what a small world I was at
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl. Now, granted I was up in the
Speaker 1: noseweed sections and you were on the sideline, but it's
Speaker 1: basically the same thing. All right. We didn't see me
Speaker 1: wave to you. You know, I thought that was I thought.
Speaker 1: I told my wife that's what happened, and she didn't
Speaker 1: believe me. All Right, I don't. I don't watch the
Speaker 1: NFL anymore because I hold a grudge and I'm a
Speaker 1: pig headed person, and I haven't forgotten when professional sports,
Speaker 1: which I've loved my whole life, decided to just dump
Speaker 1: all over my country for an extended period of time.
Speaker 1: It just became the acceptable thing. I haven't let that go.
Speaker 1: Do you think the NFL regrets it? Probably not, from
Speaker 1: what I understand that TV ratings are still high. But
Speaker 1: did they look back on all that insanity and think, Wow,
Speaker 1: we did a good thing there. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they think they did a good thing. I
Speaker 1: think that the reactions were knee jerk. I think that
Speaker 1: the attention Colin Kaepernick received was one man impacted the
Speaker 1: entire league in a way that I'm not sure should
Speaker 1: have happened. But when you get down to topics like
Speaker 1: police brutality, racism, black lives matter, I think everyone's sort
Speaker 1: of cowers and everyone feels guilty for whatever reason, even
Speaker 1: if they have absolutely nothing to do with any of
Speaker 1: the issues of the day. It's interesting. I talked to
Speaker 1: Nate Boyer recently. He is a former Seahawk, had a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee with the Seahawks, but he actually met
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick before Kaepernick knelled for the first time. Nate
Speaker 1: Boyer's a former Green Beret, gave a lot of time
Speaker 1: and effort to his country, obviously risked his life for
Speaker 1: his country, and discovered that Colin Kaepernick was sitting on
Speaker 1: the bench during the anthem and wrote an open letter
Speaker 1: to Colin, and Colin said, come visit me. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be doing a preseason game down in San Diego,
Speaker 1: come visit me. Well, they sat down together along with
Speaker 1: Eric Reid, another guy who knelt, and Nate said, look,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. That anthem, that flag, those things matter
Speaker 1: to me. I've seen my friends come home with a
Speaker 1: flag over their coffins. And to his credit, Kaepernick said
Speaker 1: to him, is there a way you think I can
Speaker 1: do my protest because I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with
Speaker 1: this that would not hurt or offend the military. And
Speaker 1: he said, well, usually, you know, when we see a
Speaker 1: casket coming home, and you think of church, you think
Speaker 1: of God, you think of prayer, we kneel. And so
Speaker 1: he decided to kneel. So that was I think a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction, but it's still it just
Speaker 1: let's be honest about this, folks. People sitting down watching
Speaker 1: a football game want to unify. They want to hear
Speaker 1: that national anthem and sing it with pride. They want
Speaker 1: to love their neighbor next to them, whether they're rooting
Speaker 1: for the same team or not. They want to release
Speaker 1: from the everyday stresses. They want to enjoy that battle
Speaker 1: on the gridiron. And they don't want young men who
Speaker 1: have never gone to war to preach to them about
Speaker 1: how they should feel about the flag. Yeah, that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that, honestly that plums on about it,
Speaker 1: and I miss that about it. I think sports is
Speaker 1: important for every society. I don't think it's just a game.
Speaker 1: I realize it's a game. But there's a reason tiny
Speaker 1: tribes have sports they have It helps bring people together.
Speaker 1: It's part of what brings people together. And now I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe I'm maybe I'm old fashioned, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just stupid. I feel like we've lost that with the
Speaker 1: new version of America's athlete. This is not universal, obviously,
Speaker 1: I know there's a bunch of them, but there's so
Speaker 1: much of that now it's a turn off for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that you are not alone. I really do.
Speaker 1: This term woke that's going around, right, It's not just new,
Speaker 1: it's been going around, but it is. It is reaching
Speaker 1: into every aspect of our lives. Academia, even kindergarten, sports, film, television, news,
Speaker 1: you name it, and we are you know, we're looking
Speaker 1: at a new Peter Pan trailer, We're looking at roll
Speaker 1: doll books that are being rewritten to accommodate people. And
Speaker 1: so I think that I think that this is turning
Speaker 1: a lot of people off to a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And when you push that hard on something that people
Speaker 1: feel strongly about, they're bound to push back. And so
Speaker 1: in this venue, I think pushing back means turning off
Speaker 1: the television. I have a tough time watching the NBA anymore,
Speaker 1: I really do. So. I don't disagree with you on that,
Speaker 1: and it breaks my heart too. I can't help remember
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston singing the national anthem before the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: when we were started the Iraqi War, and I think
Speaker 1: we all had chills, we all had goose bumps. I
Speaker 1: remember nine to eleven how we all locked arms and
Speaker 1: said never again, and we're not going to forget and
Speaker 1: we love this country and Democrats, Republicans, independence can all
Speaker 1: stick together. And that seems to have just dissolved. It
Speaker 1: does seem to have dissolved. And I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: we get that back, and maybe we can't. But you're
Speaker 1: the sports expert. I'm not even doing this your whole life.
Speaker 1: Can we Is there a way to come back from that?
Speaker 1: Because it is very political now, people say, don't make
Speaker 1: it political. It's a political issue. It is, it's a
Speaker 1: cultural issue. I think one of the most troubling and
Speaker 1: I will take flak for saying this Jesse, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it anyway. I think one of the biggest
Speaker 1: mistakes mistake might be the wrong word. One decision that
Speaker 1: has really had a lot of impact on sport all
Speaker 1: over the country is when the NFL decided to play
Speaker 1: two national anthems. Now, there is one national anthem in
Speaker 1: this country because we are one nation, so we have
Speaker 1: one song. But they just you know, they discovered that
Speaker 1: this black national anthem spoke for a lot of black
Speaker 1: people in America. So lift every voice and sing is
Speaker 1: now part of the formula before every Super Bowl before Now.
Speaker 1: I was at a girl's high school basketball game recently,
Speaker 1: and to mark the beginning of Black History Month, they
Speaker 1: did not play the national anthem as they normally do.
Speaker 1: They played only the black national anthem. Some people cheered
Speaker 1: wildly about that. I felt like, why are we doing
Speaker 1: this to ourselves? Why are we dividing ourselves. We can
Speaker 1: all acknowledge we live in the same country. We have
Speaker 1: a national anthem, and that's the anthem that plays at
Speaker 1: the Olympic Games, and that's the anthem that represents our country.
Speaker 1: Why are we doing this? And I would posit that
Speaker 1: the NFL really is responsible for bringing that into now.
Speaker 1: For some people, they may think it's a great thing.
Speaker 1: I don't have any problem with the song. It's a
Speaker 1: beautiful song. But to suggest that it is the Black
Speaker 1: national anthem suggests that we have two nations here, not one,
Speaker 1: and I think that's quite divisive. It is. It is
Speaker 1: the Sideline Sanity Podcast. Recommend you go check it out. Michelle,
Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate you anytime. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All Right, a lot of anxiety going on out there
Speaker 1: right now. That sounds like a good time to bring
Speaker 1: in our boy Mike Slater. Huh. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: for a moment about dogs. And you know something that
Speaker 1: hits me. I talk about my dogs digestive problems. But
Speaker 1: my sister has dogs, she actually has bulldogs. They have
Speaker 1: problems too. My folks have labs. They each have they
Speaker 1: each they have two golden labs, yellow labs, and they
Speaker 1: have problems. They're always at the vet, always figuring something
Speaker 1: out and getting up there in years. Part of the
Speaker 1: reason I love rough greens is those aching joints on
Speaker 1: your old dog get better coat is better. Why now,
Speaker 1: why does this happen? Why is it? Why did it
Speaker 1: fix my dogs digestive issues? Because you're giving your dog
Speaker 1: actual nutrition. We think we are. We buy them food,
Speaker 1: we give them, we try to get them good food,
Speaker 1: but it's all dead. Dog food is dead food. Let's
Speaker 1: give them real nutrition. Pour some Rough Greens on their food.
Speaker 1: All right. They have a free Jumpstart trial bag right now.
Speaker 1: Go to rough Greens dot com slash jesse all you
Speaker 1: pay for us the shipping, we'll be back all right,
Speaker 1: about time to get some perspective? Huh? And where do
Speaker 1: you go for perspective around here? You go to the
Speaker 1: Politics by Faith podcast by my boy Mike Slater. Really
Speaker 1: just makes your day better, helps you understand a little
Speaker 1: bit more of why we're going through what we're going through,
Speaker 1: and that there are forces at work beyond just flesh
Speaker 1: and blood. No joining me now, my buddy, Mike. All right, Mike. First, anxiety,
Speaker 1: this is something people struggle with. I have people in
Speaker 1: my own family who struggle mightily with it. If I
Speaker 1: had any feelings to speak of whatsoever, I may struggle
Speaker 1: with it. But it is something real for people, and
Speaker 1: I am aware that it consumes people it does. It
Speaker 1: just owns your life. Talk to me about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One solution is to just be a psychopath and yeah,
Speaker 1: like talk to worry about it at all. It's Jesse
Speaker 1: Kelly approach. But if you're like a normal human being,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna it's gonna be an issue. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: that's our most recent podcasts about anxiety. We got a
Speaker 1: lot of things to be anxious about. We got well
Speaker 1: three all the time. You're just talking about that. We've
Speaker 1: got economic issues. It's just not stop. I was reading
Speaker 1: an article the other day about moms who are micro
Speaker 1: dosing mushrooms, what like psilocybin, magic mushrooms, Like what is
Speaker 1: going on? I mean in the sixties and seventies it
Speaker 1: was valium and then edible marijuana and wine moms, and
Speaker 1: now mushrooms Like holy cow. People will do anything to
Speaker 1: get away from their issues, as opposed to just being
Speaker 1: a psychopath like Jesse. But we're like, what is this,
Speaker 1: what is it? Like? Oh, there's a report from the
Speaker 1: Federal Reserve about where all the prime age working men are,
Speaker 1: and the Federal Reserve says, oh, well, they're just all
Speaker 1: taking drugs and playing video games. They're not being men.
Speaker 1: They're numbing out and not facing the realities of life.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to be anxious. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be taken out that there's people who hate you
Speaker 1: and forces at work, as you said, Jelly Jesse, that
Speaker 1: hate you, and they want you anxious, and they want
Speaker 1: you weak, and they want you scared, and they want
Speaker 1: you worried, and they want to divide your mind so
Speaker 1: that they can confuse you and divide you politically and socially.
Speaker 1: And I don't want them to get away with it anyway.
Speaker 1: Anxiety it's a Greek word. It's two Greek words combined
Speaker 1: that means divided mind. So when you focus on one thing,
Speaker 1: you have shalom, that's peace and wholeness. But when you're anxious,
Speaker 1: you have a divided mind, your attention chopped up into
Speaker 1: a million different pieces, and you're all over the place,
Speaker 1: and you're running through a different, million, million differ scenarios
Speaker 1: and it's just making you all anxious and it will
Speaker 1: mess you up. In the podcast, we read an excerpt
Speaker 1: from the Roman poet Ovid in Metamorphoses. He's writing about envy,
Speaker 1: but it's the same thing, envy anxiety. It's all like
Speaker 1: the root, and Athena goes to visit Envy, and Envy
Speaker 1: lives in this disgusting underground layer and it's filthy and
Speaker 1: covered with this slime that stinks. And Athena asks Envy
Speaker 1: to go and attack this princess, and Envy leaves her lair,
Speaker 1: and she leaves this path of destruction in her wake,
Speaker 1: and the fields are all withered behind her, and venom
Speaker 1: drips from her disgusting corpse, and it's unbelievable how Ovid
Speaker 1: writes this obviously, And then Envy touches the neck of
Speaker 1: this princess and instantly she becomes envious of her sister's marriage,
Speaker 1: and it just eats away at her life and rots
Speaker 1: away at her the rest of her life. And I
Speaker 1: share this and it's like jeez later, but I share
Speaker 1: it because we need to hate it. We need to
Speaker 1: hate envy, we need to hate anxiety, we need to
Speaker 1: hate the people who are trying to divide us with
Speaker 1: these things. And when you see it as something portrayed
Speaker 1: so vividly, it's like wow, Like the point is to
Speaker 1: smack you across the face of it and say, I
Speaker 1: don't want this anymore, and I want to get to
Speaker 1: the root of it and get it out of my life.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to run from it. I don't
Speaker 1: want to run from it with video games. I don't
Speaker 1: want to run from it with magic mushrooms. I don't
Speaker 1: want to run from it. I want to get to
Speaker 1: the root of it, root it out, get rid of
Speaker 1: it so I can be a shalone, single, focused minded
Speaker 1: person again and be effective in this life, not divided anymore.
Speaker 1: So that's a difference between me and Slater. He reads
Speaker 1: Roman poets named Ovid and I read Shells Superstein. That's
Speaker 1: just the difference. Betwe Hey, lots of wisdom in that Beard.
Speaker 1: Don't don't, don't pick down on Shell, beautiful Beard. I
Speaker 1: used to love Shell. I used to love Shell when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Mike, you have a special coming
Speaker 1: up on the first. What is it? What's it about? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this Friday, four o'clock, it's about taxes. Talk about anxiety, right,
Speaker 1: So we talk with Grover Norquist about the state of taxes.
Speaker 1: But then we also go into history. So, like I remember,
Speaker 1: there's a debate years ago and they said what tax
Speaker 1: rate should we have? And Ron Paul said the income
Speaker 1: tax should be what it's been for most of American
Speaker 1: history zero percent. So how did we fund the government
Speaker 1: before there was any income tax? How did they change
Speaker 1: it the Constitution the sixteenth Amendment to make an income
Speaker 1: does And then where are we going? You know, in
Speaker 1: California they're proposing a wealth tax. Where are they tax
Speaker 1: you for ten years even after you move out of
Speaker 1: the state. So what is the state of our taxes?
Speaker 1: And they'll never one of the principles is it will
Speaker 1: never be enough. They'll always want more. They'll always find
Speaker 1: new ways to take your money. And also my favorite
Speaker 1: part is they're never the greedy ones. You're greedy, Jesse,
Speaker 1: because you write a best selling book and make a
Speaker 1: lot of money, rightfully so, and you want to keep
Speaker 1: that money. They're never greedy, even though they're the ones
Speaker 1: who want to take your money and spend it on
Speaker 1: things that benefit them. They're not greedy. The only you
Speaker 1: are the greedy ones. So we'll get to the rid
Speaker 1: of all that as well. Mike, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: come on this show and turn it into an infomercial
Speaker 1: to buy the Anti Communist Manifesto, which could be purchased
Speaker 1: at Jesse kellybook dot com. So I appreciate the setup,
Speaker 1: but that's just not the kind of show we're gonna
Speaker 1: do here. He does the Politics my Faith podcast. I
Speaker 1: love you brother, come back soon, thanks man. I'm good
Speaker 1: to ridiculous. Ridiculous. This is not going to be a
Speaker 1: book selling show. I mean, is it the greatest book ever? No,
Speaker 1: there's the Bible, but it's up there. Jesse kellybook dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, quit focus. You know what you really ought
Speaker 1: to focus because you really want to be here when
Speaker 1: we get to lighten the mood. And you also really
Speaker 1: want to be here to find out how to protect
Speaker 1: your money. That's what we're all asking ourselves right now.
Speaker 1: I know you are, I am. You work hard for
Speaker 1: your money. You've saved, you've invested, and now the value
Speaker 1: of the dollar is being destroyed and you can't do
Speaker 1: anything about it. You were told to save dollars. You
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Speaker 1: to get serious for once, because it's Women's History Month
Speaker 1: and you didn't think Women's History Month was just going
Speaker 1: to come and go here on. I'm right without us
Speaker 1: paying it its due respect. So before we get to that,
Speaker 1: let's get to this really quickly. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to go too far when it comes to making preparations
Speaker 1: for the end of the world. And this is what
Speaker 1: I mean. I talk to you all the time about
Speaker 1: buying ammunition, about making sure you have a way to
Speaker 1: get some clean water if there's none coming out of
Speaker 1: the faucet, about getting yourself some gold and silver. I
Speaker 1: tell you all these things. These are necessary things. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to build a bunker in your backyard.
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Speaker 1: enough of that. Let's honor Women's History Month. First, this
Speaker 1: young lady at the gym. But it's not just that.
Speaker 1: It's more I, as a world famous author and respected journalist,
Speaker 1: I put out the word in I asked how you
Speaker 1: were celebrating Women's History Month, and here was some of
Speaker 1: the answers. One woman said that the oil light is
Speaker 1: on in her car, She's just going to ignore it.
Speaker 1: Another actor, Matthew Marsden, you've probably heard of him, said
Speaker 1: he's going to get him his wife to make him
Speaker 1: all kinds of sandwiches. Another gentleman, John, said he bought
Speaker 1: his wife a new vacuum cleaner. Chris said he'll be
Speaker 1: watching basketball who while his wife takes care of the
Speaker 1: kid and makes dinner. Francis said his wife is going
Speaker 1: to make him a world famous Jesse Kelly Burger another
Speaker 1: person another person said they unplugged the dishwasher. Either way,
Speaker 1: women have been newly honored. I'll see them all