1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Peter Schweizer, Eric Egers, we are filling in for Sean 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: Hannity a Day of Tragedy as we continue to hear 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: about the details of what happened in Minneapolis when mister Westman, 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: the transgender mass shooter, blindly fired over one hundred rifle 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: rounds and at least three shotgun blasts through the windows 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: of Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, leading to death. Children died, 7 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: children were injured, grandparents were injured. Eric, we want to 8 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: have a conversation with somebody who actually has experience with 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: these kinds of situations to figure out what we should 10 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: be looking for and what could be. 11 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 2: Done to prevent it now in what's unfortunate is that 12 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 2: the conversation almost immediately turned to a politicization about gun policy. 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: And you know, there's a lot of details that the 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: identity of the shooter has been elevated, and there's lots 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: of other circumstances that I think are worth kind of noticing, 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: But it's part of the larger conversation about, you know, 17 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: our trategies like this preventable. What we know now that 18 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, who, by the way, 19 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 2: when the left is decrying gun policy. Remember, Tim Waltz 20 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: was picked to be vice president last year by Kamala 21 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 2: Harris in part because of his appeal to alleged gun 22 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 2: owners and gun you know, people that wanted to use 23 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 2: those and we saw how poorly that went. And we 24 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: now know that Tim Waltz was part of the Minnesota 25 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 2: leadership that said no to requests by bishops to give 26 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: funding for more security measures in Minnesota schools to prevent 27 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 2: exactly these types of things from happening. We saw what 28 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 2: happened in the Nashville school shooting, we saw what happened 29 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 2: in Texas. They said, listen, we need more protection. Can 30 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 2: you give it to us? Tim Waltz said no. And 31 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: so you know, while people want to say it's about guns, 32 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 2: it's probably about more other factors and it's a little 33 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: bit more complicated discussion. 34 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. And we now know from the manifesto 35 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: that the Minneapolis shooter, by the way, said that he 36 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: picked schools precisely because they were unprotected. So let's bring 37 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: in Josh Cherrard. He's the director of law enforcement for Berna. 38 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: We want to bring him on in particular because he's 39 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: a law enforcement officer who's been on the scene of 40 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: mass shootings and tragic events. He was at the twenty 41 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: eighteen Santa Fe High School shooting, the tragedy there. Josh, 42 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: thanks for joining. 43 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 3: Us, Yeah, absolutely, thanks for having me. 44 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: So tell us, Josh, there's so much noise after these 45 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: tragedies occur. Tell us what should we be looking for 46 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: and what can we glean from these circumstances that will 47 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: give us methods to prevent these tragedies from happening in 48 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: the future. 49 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 3: You know, Peter, that's been the million dollar question, the 50 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 3: ten million, the billion dollar question for the last you know, 51 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 3: almost twenty five plus years of what are we looking for? How? 52 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 3: You know, how do we spot these shooters? How do 53 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 3: we root them out before they get to the point 54 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 3: of no return, whether they're they've made the decision to 55 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 3: go in and cause as much damage destruction of mayhem 56 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 3: as they can. And unfortunately we haven't gotten very far, 57 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 3: you know that in that realm, in that space, being 58 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 3: able to pick a handful of cues that are just 59 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 3: absolutely positively flagged identifiers of somebody that's going to go 60 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 3: in and shoot up a school or a building or 61 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 3: anything for that matter. We have done, you know, lots 62 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 3: of research and we've been able to garner some kind 63 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 3: of flags and some kind of of things to look for, 64 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, it's about how 65 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 3: much we're going to go in and violate somebody's privacy 66 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: and rights to say, hey, we think that you might 67 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 3: be inclined to commit these kinds of crimes in the future. 68 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 3: What we should really be focusing on and what our 69 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 3: efforts are dollers, you know, are our resources, the limited 70 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 3: ones that we have in assets, should be going in 71 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 3: to what can we do to harden ourselves as a target, 72 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 3: What can we do to protect our kids in schools 73 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 3: and to protect ourselves. So if we're not going to 74 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 3: be able to positively identify those that are going to 75 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 3: be somebody that might perpetrate that and cut that off, 76 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 3: we need to be able to no matter who comes in, 77 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 3: no matter where it comes from, internal external threat, we 78 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 3: need to be able to harden that target and protect 79 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 3: that target against whatever that threat may be. And that 80 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 3: is really where we need to focus a lot of 81 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 3: that time and resources on. And unfortunately, depending on the 82 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 3: part of the country that you're in, that is a 83 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 3: very difficult decision to have or a difficult conversation to have, 84 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 3: and a lot of decisions have to be made as 85 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 3: far as how far you're willing to go to protect 86 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 3: those that are most important to you in your life, 87 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 3: those children. 88 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: Wait, why is that a hard conversation to have or 89 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 2: a different decision to make based on what part of 90 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 2: the country you're in. 91 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 3: I would ask the same question, but unfortunately it is. 92 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 3: And when we go in to certain parts of the 93 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 3: country and we say, hey, you need to put armed 94 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 3: security in those schools. You need to have SROs that 95 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: are armed to be able to respond to that threat. 96 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 3: You need metal detectors in your school, you need to 97 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: take other measures to harden this target. Unfortunately, many school dishi, 98 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 3: many states, many cities say, well, we're not willing to 99 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 3: take those steps. We're not willing to do that for 100 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: one reason or another. Well, guns in schools are bad, 101 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 3: or we don't want our kids to feel, you know, 102 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 3: like they're unsafe, like to feel that we need to 103 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 3: put armed personnel in the school. Well I don't either, 104 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 3: and I would love to say that we didn't have to. 105 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 3: And it sucks that we have to sit here and say, 106 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 3: you know that this is a way of life. But 107 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 3: at the end of the day, this is the way 108 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 3: of life, and this is what we have to do 109 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 3: to take positive measures to protect those kids. But unfortunately, 110 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 3: there's a large part of this country that just does 111 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 3: not feel that that is necessary. 112 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's probably because they're hearing from people like this. 113 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 2: Listen to this cutup. You're gonna hear from Jensaki, former 114 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: Biden administration spokesperson. You're gonna hear from the Minneapolis mayor, 115 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: and then you can hear from Joe Scarborough. This is 116 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 2: their reaction the aftermath to the events of many of 117 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 2: the shooting. 118 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 4: Here's what matters. Today's shooter bought the Rafel handgun and 119 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 4: shotgun they used to do what they did today. Legally, 120 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 4: we live in a country with more guns than people, 121 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,679 Speaker 4: where they are not versaal background checks, they're not bands 122 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 4: on assault weapons, and it is far too easy to 123 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 4: buy a gun. It's the guns everyone, It's not really 124 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 4: a secret. 125 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 5: I'll speak generally, though, we have more guns in America 126 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 5: than people. I don't see a reason why people should 127 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 5: be able to buy a gun one month and then 128 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 5: buy a gun the next month, and then the next 129 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 5: month after that. People who say that this is not 130 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 5: about guns. You got to be kidding me. This is 131 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 5: about guns. We do need to take action. 132 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 6: How many school shootings, how many school shootings and churches? 133 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 6: How many shootings at concerts? How many shootings country music concerts? 134 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 6: How many shootings in street fairs? How many shootings and restaurants? 135 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 6: How many shootings everywhere are we going to have before 136 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 6: we can talk about common sense gun safety laws? 137 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 7: Yeah? 138 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: So, Josh, I want to ask you about that, because 139 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: I'm looking at study right in front of me by 140 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: the Crime Prevention Research Institute doctor John Lott, and he 141 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: points out that if you look at the actual the 142 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: death rates from mass public shootings comparing European countries in 143 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: the United States and Canada, the United States is number 144 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: eleven on the list. Those that have a more serious 145 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: problem with this include Switzerland and France. Those right behind 146 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: us we're number eleven, number fifteen and sixteen, or England 147 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: in Germany. So this myth that somehow mass shootings are 148 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: just this crazy American thing is simply not true, and 149 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: it becomes an excuse for an action, doesn't it. Oh, well, 150 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: we can't get gun control because people don't want to 151 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: give up their Seconmendment rights, so we can't do anything. 152 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: Isn't that really where we are today? 153 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 3: It absolutely is, And that's the issue, you know, we're 154 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 3: we always and mind you, Unfortunately, these people are just 155 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 3: absolutely politicizing a tragic event and trying to use it 156 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 3: to push a narrative. And I think we all understand that, 157 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 3: you know, all your listeners, I'm sure understand that as well. 158 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 3: But you know this, I equate this war on guns 159 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 3: is the same thing as as saying, well, we need 160 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 3: to have a war on forks to fight obesity, you know, 161 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 3: or we need to have of course, the classic you know, 162 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 3: the war on drugs, you know, over the course of 163 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 3: the eighties and the nineties that obviously didn't work because 164 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 3: it's not a war on drug it's war on drug 165 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 3: dealers wor war on criminals. That's the issue is the 166 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 3: accountability here. They want to sit here and assign accountability 167 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 3: to an inanimate object that has nothing to do with 168 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 3: the overall issues in order to push anarrative. And I 169 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 3: think that everyone understands that here at the end of 170 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 3: the day, unfortunately or fortunately how you look at it, 171 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 3: the only thing that the only way to stop a 172 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 3: bad guy with a gun is a good guy with 173 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 3: a gun, and we continue in this country to see 174 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 3: that over and over again. The ratio of of of 175 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 3: lives that are saved due to handguns is overwhelming compared 176 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 3: to the lots that are taken by handguns. So you know, 177 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 3: the statistics are all over the place on how much 178 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 3: the guns are actually saving lized every day, and especially 179 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 3: in these mass using that's the only thing that we have, 180 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 3: it's the only resource generally we have. It'll just stop 181 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 3: these shooters. And yet we're using it. Unfortunately, people are 182 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 3: using it to push an absolute false narrative. 183 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, I want to point out, Josh, 184 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: I mean you'ither director law enforcement for Berna. You produce 185 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: non lethal defense handguns, so they're not guns in the 186 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: traditional sense. So you would have all the incentive in 187 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 1: the world to want to have guns banned, but you don't. 188 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: You're speaking truth here. My question to you is clearly, 189 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: mister Westman, the shooter in Minneapolis was troubled. In this manifesto, 190 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: he wrote, he said he was tired of being transd 191 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: he wished he had never been brainwashed. Clearly, very troubled, 192 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: and I don't know in the Minneapolis case, But in 193 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: a lot of cases, it seems like these younger shooters 194 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: are on antidepressants. They're on a series of pharmaceutical drugs, 195 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: and you know when you read those labels, they would say, 196 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: in rare cases, taking this drug can lead to psychosis. Well, 197 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 1: if you have million people that are on SSRIs or 198 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: these other mood altering drugs in rare cases can mean 199 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: thousands of people. Do you think that's a problem. The medication, 200 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: the over medication, Could that be part of the problem. 201 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 3: I absolutely think it's part of the problem. I think 202 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,839 Speaker 3: that when you have a child of that age, you know, 203 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 3: when they're middle school, high school, young adults, their hormones 204 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 3: are already just absolutely obliterated, and then introducing these these 205 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 3: absolute hormone just changing drugs, especially when you're talking about 206 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 3: you know, transgender and the gender reassignment and all that. 207 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 3: The amount of hormones that are just absolutely raging through 208 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 3: there are are are such an issue when it comes 209 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 3: to their mental state and their ability to make good 210 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 3: decisions at a point in their life where they're already 211 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 3: troubled to make good decisions and now you know, there's 212 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,839 Speaker 3: so much material out there they're getting brainwashed from so 213 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 3: many different sources, especially if you're you know, kind of 214 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 3: in that lifestyle. So this is all going into the 215 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 3: overall issue that we're having. And then of course, you know, 216 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 3: what what is it? What are their parents' supervision? Like, 217 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 3: you know, a lot of these shooters, that's one of 218 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 3: the commonalities that we generally find is a lack of 219 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 3: parental supervision and then just letting them kind of do 220 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 3: whatever they want because they want to respect their products 221 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 3: here or whatnot as a child. But unfortunately, that's generally 222 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 3: where we find a lot of these shooters is is 223 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,319 Speaker 3: where their parents have no idea they'd go, you know, 224 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 3: they go missing for a few days, and that's not 225 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 3: abnormal for their parents not to know where they're at 226 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 3: for a few days or know what they're up to. 227 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 3: And so when you have you know, these kids on medication, 228 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 3: these kids that are just in a very changing environment 229 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 3: with zero supervision, that's where we start to see a 230 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 3: lot of these issues manifest and in a time where 231 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 3: they should be you know, overly supervised to make sure 232 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 3: that that you know, the drugs that they're on, the 233 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 3: medication that they're on is doing what it's supposed to 234 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 3: do so that they don't fall into that quote rare 235 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 3: case of of of those side effects. 236 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 2: So what's your reaction to the larger conversation that's happening. 237 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 2: I understand that one of your biggest customer bases in Chicago, 238 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 2: where they have the more restrictive gun laws. You know, 239 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 2: it's weird because you heard that, the left goes immediately 240 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 2: to we need to ban guns, and then we're having 241 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 2: this conversation about the need to potentially introduce more troops 242 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 2: to these blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore. Do you 243 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 2: feel like, not just with schools, but I mean, do 244 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 2: you consider the idea of adding more troops to or 245 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 2: just adding more resources some of these cities or crimes 246 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 2: a problem. Is that a good idea? And do you 247 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 2: see that that's the way to harden those targets as well? 248 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely. What we have to remember is, and this 249 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 3: is a lot of people don't understand this, but when 250 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 3: we talk about mass shootings active shooters, schools is not 251 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 3: the most frequent location. It's actually down the list. It's 252 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 3: actually number four on the list of active shooter frequency. 253 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 3: You've got public commercial spaces is number one. So malls 254 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 3: department stores, grocery stores, that's where active shooters, that's where 255 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 3: mass shootings and mass attacks are most likely to happen. 256 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 3: And then we have public spaces, parks, open spaces, you 257 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 3: know the one October Las Vegas Mandalay based shooting. And 258 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 3: then we have government buildings, and then we have schools. 259 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 3: So you know, when people think about active attacks and 260 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 3: they're you know, their likelihood of being involved in something 261 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 3: like that, they think, oh, well, I don't go to 262 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 3: a school, so it's not likely for me. But know 263 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 3: that their likelihood that it's going to happen in a 264 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 3: normal place that they probably traverse, you know, in a 265 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 3: day to day life, is actually much greater. So you 266 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 3: have to think in the manner of okay, well, how 267 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 3: can we harden all these targets. How can we make 268 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 3: sure that if there's somebody that's just bent on doing this, 269 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 3: that we can make it very very difficult for them 270 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 3: and curb that very quickly. So you know, look, I 271 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 3: was a cop on every street corner, that would be great, 272 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 3: and that's that's not a realistic thought. 273 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: Josh. We appreciate you joining us, thank you for your insights. 274 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: We'll be back with more after this. 275 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody. It is Eric Eggers here with Peter Schweitzer. 276 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 2: We're filling it for Sewan Handy on the Shawn Handy 277 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: Radio Show. It's a Thursday before a long weekend, and 278 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 2: I know that some people are taking tomorrow off. You know, 279 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 2: some people are gonna just get back to work. But 280 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 2: you know, we will continue to do what we do 281 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: here at the Government Accountability in Student provide information about 282 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 2: the ways in which members of Congress continue to like 283 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 2: break people's trust. We do a podcast called the Drill Down, 284 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 2: and on a recent episode we highlighted the level of 285 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 2: activity that Congress is having in terms of buying and 286 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 2: selling stocks, and we have some breaking news on that front. 287 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: Peter Schweitzer, Yeah, we might be taking a break this weekend, 288 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: but Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the congressrooms from southern Florida, is 289 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: not taking a break. She apparently bought stock in a 290 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: company called VSAT, which is a defense contract or. She 291 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: sits on the subcommittee that determines the funding for military construction, 292 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: including this company. She bought the stock and within a 293 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: month that skyrocketed three and forty five percent. 294 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 2: Well, that's a pretty good deal. 295 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 3: For her. 296 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 2: Then that's what happens when you buy stocks, right. 297 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: No, No, that's not what happens when I buy stock. 298 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 2: No, it's it's a shame. It's a shame to sham. 299 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 2: And actually, one of the more interesting things to pay 300 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 2: attention to next month when Congress comes back from their 301 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 2: vacation is you've got bills in the House and the 302 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 2: Senate that will attempt to do to ban exactly what 303 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 2: she did. They're trying to stop members of Congress and 304 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 2: being the buy and sell stock for exactly that reason. 305 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: That's an issue that we've chronicled. So we'd love for 306 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 2: you to find out more about what we do. Go 307 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 2: to the drill Down dot com. We be right back 308 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 2: after this. 309 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: When fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth. 310 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 6: Sean Hannity is on right now. 311 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: It's Peter Schwitz or Eric Eggers. And you hear that sound, 312 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: you hear that music. It is football season. College football 313 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: kicks off this weekend, the NFL next weekend. Very exciting time. 314 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: It is I think America's sport and we've got a 315 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: legend who is joining us. This is a guy who 316 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: not only it was incredible on the field, but has 317 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: always been a man of integrity, honesty, and values, and 318 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: I just excited that we're going to have him on 319 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: the show. 320 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 2: No, Mike Singletary is going to be joining us right now. 321 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: Mike Singletary an NFL Hall of Famer, a Super Bowl 322 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 2: champion with the Chicago Bears. A He's in Waco, Texas 323 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 2: this weekend to help out his alumni, the Baylor Bears, 324 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 2: and they're kicking off their season. But more importantly, you know, 325 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 2: he has a book out. It's called Visualize Your Greatness, 326 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: the Playbook for the seven Season Success. And we've spent 327 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 2: the last two and a half hours on this program. 328 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 2: We always love being able to fill in for Sean, 329 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 2: but it can be challenging because some of the stuff 330 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 2: you talk about, by definition, is in the news, is tragic, 331 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 2: it can be divisive, and I know that coach Singletary 332 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 2: has a heart to do the opposite. I know that 333 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons why he wrote this book, 334 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 2: because he wants to inspire people to help realize the 335 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 2: best version of themselves, because that's ultimate what's going to 336 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 2: make this country the best version it can be. So 337 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 2: I wanted to take a quick moment talk to Mike Singletary. 338 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 2: Coach Singletary, is the start of football season excite you 339 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 2: or do you have so much other stuff going on 340 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 2: in your life that it's kind of like, hey, you 341 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 2: know that that's not really what I'm about. 342 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 7: You know, It's it's kind of a two edged sword. 343 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 7: It really excites me. I love football season, but at 344 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 7: the same time, because of so many other things, you know, 345 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 7: family and and projects you're working on, they just continue 346 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 7: to go and so it's exciting a football season is happening, 347 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 7: but just keeping it in perspective, keeping it focused, and 348 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 7: it all work out well. 349 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: So, coach, why do you think it is Americans love football? 350 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: I mean, I know they call baseball America's game, but 351 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 1: I think the professional football is the sport that dominates Saul. 352 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: What is it that people love about it? And what 353 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: would you say, I mean, you've got an incredible life story. 354 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,719 Speaker 1: What would you say is that football brought you and 355 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: taught you in terms of values, integrity, and teamwork, those 356 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 1: qualities that unfortunately seem to be diminished these days. 357 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:12,719 Speaker 7: You know, for me, football was one of those things 358 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 7: where you just put everything else aside. It's kind of 359 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 7: like it's kind of like that movie Fill the Dreams, 360 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 7: and you know when you walked on the field, it's 361 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 7: like once you cross that line, everything else stayed outside 362 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 7: of it. And it is the pleasure of being able 363 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 7: to step inside of those lines. Even though you hear 364 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 7: the fans, they can't help you play the game. You're 365 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 7: inside of that game, and all that matters is the 366 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 7: work that you put into the preparation, the mindset, and 367 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 7: the character in which you play the game. And that's 368 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 7: what it really comes down to. 369 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 2: I'm talking to NFL Hall of Famer Mike Singletary. Football 370 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,479 Speaker 2: is back. You can feel it in the weather, at 371 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 2: least you can where we live in North Florida. Coach. 372 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,439 Speaker 2: One of the things that's been interesting, you talk about 373 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 2: things being divisive these days. The NFL, unfortunately, has had 374 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 2: a bit of a run of some less positive headlines recently. 375 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 2: They've had some stuff in terms of the slogans they're 376 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 2: going to allow in the end zone and some business 377 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 2: with these male cheerleaders on a couple of teams that 378 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 2: some people find to be culturally divisive. What do you 379 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 2: how do you react when you hear about this game 380 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: that's meant so much to you and the benefits. I 381 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 2: know you care deeply about not only the people you 382 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: played with, but the people the players like. I know 383 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 2: you're very involved in helping improve the lives of other 384 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 2: former players in a lot of different ways. What do 385 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 2: you think about the win you see less positive headlines 386 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 2: about the NFL today? 387 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 7: You know, I think that when I think of the NFL, 388 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,679 Speaker 7: just like everything else, well, there's an organization because when 389 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 7: you get right down to it, the NFL is a 390 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 7: business and at the end of the day, you you 391 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 7: have a culture that you develop, a vision that that 392 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,679 Speaker 7: you set in place, and this is what we're going 393 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 7: to do. This is how we're going to go about 394 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 7: doing our business. And whether you are an athletic business, 395 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 7: whether you are a banking whatever it might be, whatever 396 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 7: that culture is, you have to make sure that the 397 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 7: culture is good for everybody, that the culture serves everybody. 398 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 7: But once you walk inside of those lines, these other 399 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 7: rules that we play within, and every organization has to 400 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 7: decide how far do we go. Every organization has to 401 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 7: decide what are the rules of this game? And whatever 402 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 7: the those rules are, whatever the culture is, that's what 403 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 7: we stand too, that's what we're gonna hold everybody that 404 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,360 Speaker 7: crosses that line. That's what we're about. 405 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: Coach, So let me ask you. There's also a lot 406 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 1: of reports, I think encouraging reports in America that there 407 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 1: seems to be maybe a religious revival taking place, especially 408 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: among young people. You are certainly a man of faith. 409 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: You've talked about that really your entire career. Are you 410 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: encouraged by what you're seeing with young people, maybe particularly 411 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: with young players young athletes in this regard. We always 412 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: hear the bad news, right, but there's also some really exciting, 413 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: encouraging things that are taking place as well. Talk about 414 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: the role of faith that it plays in football and 415 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: whether you're encouraged or discouraged where things are going. 416 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 7: I think at the end of the day, it really 417 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 7: comes down to walking it out. You know. There's so 418 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 7: many things that you hear. You hear all man, you know, 419 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 7: you know this is a faith movement, this is happening 420 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 7: over here, that's happening over there, and the closer you 421 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 7: get to it, it's like, well, maybe not, maybe it's 422 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 7: a different version or whatever it is. But I think 423 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:23,719 Speaker 7: it's always encouraging when you hear young people because that 424 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 7: really is the future. You know, young people walking their 425 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 7: faith out, young people. 426 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:36,239 Speaker 8: Being willing to to really love and understand and and 427 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 8: bring that that that bit of thread that we need 428 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 8: in our country to overlap sometimes some of the misunderstandings 429 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 8: and and. 430 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 7: Whatever, some of those other things that are happening. It 431 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 7: always brings it back to you, know what, Our faith 432 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 7: is the thing that when when everything else fails, our 433 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 7: things in each other and the love that we have 434 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 7: for one another and the respect that we have to have. 435 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 7: I may disagree with you, but I need to learn 436 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 7: how to respect your thoughts. And if I disagree with them, 437 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 7: then so be it. I can pray about those things 438 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 7: and hope that one of us, if one of us 439 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 7: is wrong, we've got to figure out how to figure 440 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 7: it out. But I'm not. I can't walk around and 441 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 7: be mad at you because you have a thought and 442 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 7: you have an idea. I just have to make sure 443 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 7: that I continue to try and bring understanding to the 444 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 7: situation at all times. 445 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 2: And that's maybe one of the guyes we've lost the 446 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 2: most in this country right the ability to connect and 447 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 2: define common ground even if some of the other variables 448 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 2: are different. And I know that that's something that you 449 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 2: believe we need to improve on. I think that's one 450 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 2: of the reasons why you wrote this book. Coach, if 451 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 2: you want, if you can't, just kind of quickly give 452 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 2: everybody a quick overview of your story. 453 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 6: You know. 454 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 2: The website is Mike singletarybook dot com. The title is 455 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 2: Visualize Your Greatness, The Playbook for the Seven Seeds of Success. 456 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 2: A lot of people know that you were a Hall 457 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 2: of Fame player, but they don't know your background and 458 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 2: the role that having a vision and your commitment to 459 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 2: that vision played and allowing you to accomplish your goals. 460 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 7: Well, you know, I was very, very fortunate, I would say, 461 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 7: to be the last of ten kids and being raves 462 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 7: in a very tough neighborhood in Sunnyside in Houston, Texas, 463 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 7: and being the last of ten kids, and kind of 464 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 7: being invisible for most of that my young age. And 465 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 7: at twelve years old, everything really happened. My dad left, 466 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 7: who was a Proecostal pastor at that time, but the 467 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 7: pressures of family and work and everything else, he left, 468 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 7: you know, he left my mom and my brother Grady 469 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 7: was killed in an automobile accident about six months after that, 470 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 7: and I was pretty much distraught and trying to figure 471 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 7: out what in the world is happening to our home. 472 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 7: And at that time, I just remember thinking, you know what, 473 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 7: maybe there isn't a God. Maybe maybe I can't imagine 474 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 7: that God would allow us to happen. And my mom 475 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 7: came in and said, about two weeks after my brother's funeral, 476 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 7: the son, I know you you got a lot of 477 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 7: different thoughts in your head. I know you want to 478 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 7: give up, you want to quit, your frustrated, You're angry. 479 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 7: But I want you to know that greatness is in 480 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 7: you and I want you to know that I need you. 481 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 7: I need you to become the man at the house. 482 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 7: Can you do that? And at that moment, I, you know, 483 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 7: I thought you gotta be kidding me Man at house. 484 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 7: I'm the least talented of everyone, but no one listened 485 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 7: to me. But she really really believed in me. And 486 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 7: there were things that I had thought about, things that 487 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 7: I had read I'd normally been sent Peele. I was 488 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 7: listening to cassette tapes of him talking about closing your 489 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,959 Speaker 7: eyes and being able to visualize what it is that 490 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 7: you want in life, and man, more than anything, I 491 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 7: really wanted to play football. I loved football, but it 492 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 7: was against our religion up until I was twelve years 493 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 7: old and I begged my mom to let me play. Mom, 494 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 7: I gotta play. I mean, I mean, you want me 495 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 7: to be the man at the house. Let me play football, 496 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,199 Speaker 7: that's part of it. And she said, son, I'll let 497 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 7: you play as long as you tell me you won't 498 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 7: get hurt. You got to promise me you won't get hurt. 499 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 7: So that day, when she challenged me to be the 500 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 7: man at the house, I said, yes, Mom, I can 501 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 7: do that. And I walked in my room and I 502 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 7: got out sheet of paper and I wrote out my 503 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 7: vision statement, and it sounded like this, find a way 504 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 7: to get a scholarship to go to college, get my degree, 505 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 7: in which I'd be the first in my family to 506 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,439 Speaker 7: do so. Become an All American, get drafted and go 507 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 7: to the NFL. Buy my mom a house and take 508 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 7: care of her for the rest of her life. Become 509 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 7: an all pro, go to the Super Bowl, and own 510 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 7: my own business. At twelve years old, I wrote that 511 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 7: out and I put it on my wall, and I 512 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 7: thought about it was the last thing I looked at 513 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 7: at night, first thing I looked at in the morning, 514 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 7: and I begin I begin to walk that narrow road 515 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 7: to accomplishing those things with God's health, and. 516 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 2: That ultimately is the journey that you realized despite all 517 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 2: the odds. Is an amazing story, and it's a story 518 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 2: not just of faith perseverance, but it is also a 519 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 2: reminder as we sort of begin football season. As you said, Peter, 520 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 2: football is an America support football for all the different 521 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 2: controversial things, has meant a lot of people, and it's 522 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 2: a pathway of ascension culturally for a lot of people, 523 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 2: both you know, socially and economically. And so I think 524 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 2: you know your story and you've certainly lived that out 525 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways. So appreciate you taking 526 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 2: the time to join us today. Best of luck with 527 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 2: your new career as a broadcaster for the Baylor radio 528 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 2: team in the pregame, and best luck with sales of 529 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 2: the book. 530 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 7: Mike. 531 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 1: We appreciate it, Peter Schweizer and we're Eric Eggers and 532 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: we've been on with Mike Singletary. Get an opportunity to 533 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: work with Mike an amazing opportunity to do that. We 534 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: enjoy you and appreciate all you do, Mike, and you 535 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: the audience will be back right after this, Peter Schweizer 536 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: and Eric Eggers, we're filling in for Sean. We have 537 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: breaking news on the situation in Minneapolis to figure out 538 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: what exactly happened there. Eric, what is the news? 539 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, this has been a theme of the day. 540 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 2: We're talking about it. You know, what's happening in the alis, 541 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 2: What are the details, what are some of the circumstances. 542 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 2: Why has everyone pivoted to gun laws as opposed to 543 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 2: maybe some of the other details and circumstances. One person 544 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 2: who's focused not on the gun aspect but on other 545 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,959 Speaker 2: aspects of it, as RFK Junior. He's this announced he's 546 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 2: launched a full investigation into the medication that the shooter, 547 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 2: who does identify as trans was using. Quote, there's never 548 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 2: been a time in America, It's from RFK where people 549 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 2: walk into a crowd or a church, or a movie 550 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 2: theater or a school and just start randomly shooting. Something 551 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 2: changed and a dramatically changed human behavior. That's what's going 552 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 2: to be investigated by RFK Junior and apparently other aspects 553 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 2: of the Trump administration. 554 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: That's been a common thread with a lot of these 555 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: shootings tragically, So hopefully they'll find out more. We appreciate 556 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: you listening to us. We appreciate Sean letting us barrow 557 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: the microphone, and we appreciate Linda for putting up with 558 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: us and helping us guide us today as we've been 559 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: on this journey covering for Sean. 560 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an important detail too. It's great to be 561 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 2: able to have important conversations with you listening audience. We 562 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 2: appreciate you being here with us. And just to connect 563 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 2: what you said, you're the one that brought up early 564 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 2: this hour that when you have it's not the fact 565 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 2: that the shooter identified as trands, it's the fact that 566 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 2: the people that do that are on certain medications and 567 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 2: these SSRIs and they come with warning labels, and those 568 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 2: warning labels say can cause dramatic behavioral changes. And so 569 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 2: it's I think fair to wonder how big of a 570 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 2: role did those play in these types of behaviors here. 571 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Please look at our research. You can 572 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,719 Speaker 1: find it at the drilldown dot com. We hope you 573 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: have a wonderful, RESTful, enjoyable Labor Day weekend. God bless 574 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: you and God bless America. 575 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 2: Thanks so much for hanging out with us. He's Peter Schweizer. 576 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 2: I'meric Eggers. You can find all of our episodes at 577 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 2: the drilldown dot com. Have a great long weekend, everybody,