Speaker 1: Peter Schweizer, Eric Egers, we are filling in for Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity a Day of Tragedy as we continue to hear
Speaker 1: about the details of what happened in Minneapolis when mister Westman,
Speaker 1: the transgender mass shooter, blindly fired over one hundred rifle
Speaker 1: rounds and at least three shotgun blasts through the windows
Speaker 1: of Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, leading to death. Children died,
Speaker 1: children were injured, grandparents were injured. Eric, we want to
Speaker 1: have a conversation with somebody who actually has experience with
Speaker 1: these kinds of situations to figure out what we should
Speaker 1: be looking for and what could be.
Speaker 2: Done to prevent it now in what's unfortunate is that
Speaker 2: the conversation almost immediately turned to a politicization about gun policy.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's a lot of details that the
Speaker 2: identity of the shooter has been elevated, and there's lots
Speaker 2: of other circumstances that I think are worth kind of noticing,
Speaker 2: But it's part of the larger conversation about, you know,
Speaker 2: our trategies like this preventable. What we know now that
Speaker 2: Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, who, by the way,
Speaker 2: when the left is decrying gun policy. Remember, Tim Waltz
Speaker 2: was picked to be vice president last year by Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris in part because of his appeal to alleged gun
Speaker 2: owners and gun you know, people that wanted to use
Speaker 2: those and we saw how poorly that went. And we
Speaker 2: now know that Tim Waltz was part of the Minnesota
Speaker 2: leadership that said no to requests by bishops to give
Speaker 2: funding for more security measures in Minnesota schools to prevent
Speaker 2: exactly these types of things from happening. We saw what
Speaker 2: happened in the Nashville school shooting, we saw what happened
Speaker 2: in Texas. They said, listen, we need more protection. Can
Speaker 2: you give it to us? Tim Waltz said no. And
Speaker 2: so you know, while people want to say it's about guns,
Speaker 2: it's probably about more other factors and it's a little
Speaker 2: bit more complicated discussion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. And we now know from the manifesto
Speaker 1: that the Minneapolis shooter, by the way, said that he
Speaker 1: picked schools precisely because they were unprotected. So let's bring
Speaker 1: in Josh Cherrard. He's the director of law enforcement for Berna.
Speaker 1: We want to bring him on in particular because he's
Speaker 1: a law enforcement officer who's been on the scene of
Speaker 1: mass shootings and tragic events. He was at the twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen Santa Fe High School shooting, the tragedy there. Josh,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining.
Speaker 3: Us, Yeah, absolutely, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So tell us, Josh, there's so much noise after these
Speaker 1: tragedies occur. Tell us what should we be looking for
Speaker 1: and what can we glean from these circumstances that will
Speaker 1: give us methods to prevent these tragedies from happening in
Speaker 1: the future.
Speaker 3: You know, Peter, that's been the million dollar question, the
Speaker 3: ten million, the billion dollar question for the last you know,
Speaker 3: almost twenty five plus years of what are we looking for? How?
Speaker 3: You know, how do we spot these shooters? How do
Speaker 3: we root them out before they get to the point
Speaker 3: of no return, whether they're they've made the decision to
Speaker 3: go in and cause as much damage destruction of mayhem
Speaker 3: as they can. And unfortunately we haven't gotten very far,
Speaker 3: you know that in that realm, in that space, being
Speaker 3: able to pick a handful of cues that are just
Speaker 3: absolutely positively flagged identifiers of somebody that's going to go
Speaker 3: in and shoot up a school or a building or
Speaker 3: anything for that matter. We have done, you know, lots
Speaker 3: of research and we've been able to garner some kind
Speaker 3: of flags and some kind of of things to look for,
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, it's about how
Speaker 3: much we're going to go in and violate somebody's privacy
Speaker 3: and rights to say, hey, we think that you might
Speaker 3: be inclined to commit these kinds of crimes in the future.
Speaker 3: What we should really be focusing on and what our
Speaker 3: efforts are dollers, you know, are our resources, the limited
Speaker 3: ones that we have in assets, should be going in
Speaker 3: to what can we do to harden ourselves as a target,
Speaker 3: What can we do to protect our kids in schools
Speaker 3: and to protect ourselves. So if we're not going to
Speaker 3: be able to positively identify those that are going to
Speaker 3: be somebody that might perpetrate that and cut that off,
Speaker 3: we need to be able to no matter who comes in,
Speaker 3: no matter where it comes from, internal external threat, we
Speaker 3: need to be able to harden that target and protect
Speaker 3: that target against whatever that threat may be. And that
Speaker 3: is really where we need to focus a lot of
Speaker 3: that time and resources on. And unfortunately, depending on the
Speaker 3: part of the country that you're in, that is a
Speaker 3: very difficult decision to have or a difficult conversation to have,
Speaker 3: and a lot of decisions have to be made as
Speaker 3: far as how far you're willing to go to protect
Speaker 3: those that are most important to you in your life,
Speaker 3: those children.
Speaker 2: Wait, why is that a hard conversation to have or
Speaker 2: a different decision to make based on what part of
Speaker 2: the country you're in.
Speaker 3: I would ask the same question, but unfortunately it is.
Speaker 3: And when we go in to certain parts of the
Speaker 3: country and we say, hey, you need to put armed
Speaker 3: security in those schools. You need to have SROs that
Speaker 3: are armed to be able to respond to that threat.
Speaker 3: You need metal detectors in your school, you need to
Speaker 3: take other measures to harden this target. Unfortunately, many school dishi,
Speaker 3: many states, many cities say, well, we're not willing to
Speaker 3: take those steps. We're not willing to do that for
Speaker 3: one reason or another. Well, guns in schools are bad,
Speaker 3: or we don't want our kids to feel, you know,
Speaker 3: like they're unsafe, like to feel that we need to
Speaker 3: put armed personnel in the school. Well I don't either,
Speaker 3: and I would love to say that we didn't have to.
Speaker 3: And it sucks that we have to sit here and say,
Speaker 3: you know that this is a way of life. But
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, this is the way
Speaker 3: of life, and this is what we have to do
Speaker 3: to take positive measures to protect those kids. But unfortunately,
Speaker 3: there's a large part of this country that just does
Speaker 3: not feel that that is necessary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's probably because they're hearing from people like this.
Speaker 2: Listen to this cutup. You're gonna hear from Jensaki, former
Speaker 2: Biden administration spokesperson. You're gonna hear from the Minneapolis mayor,
Speaker 2: and then you can hear from Joe Scarborough. This is
Speaker 2: their reaction the aftermath to the events of many of
Speaker 2: the shooting.
Speaker 4: Here's what matters. Today's shooter bought the Rafel handgun and
Speaker 4: shotgun they used to do what they did today. Legally,
Speaker 4: we live in a country with more guns than people,
Speaker 4: where they are not versaal background checks, they're not bands
Speaker 4: on assault weapons, and it is far too easy to
Speaker 4: buy a gun. It's the guns everyone, It's not really
Speaker 4: a secret.
Speaker 5: I'll speak generally, though, we have more guns in America
Speaker 5: than people. I don't see a reason why people should
Speaker 5: be able to buy a gun one month and then
Speaker 5: buy a gun the next month, and then the next
Speaker 5: month after that. People who say that this is not
Speaker 5: about guns. You got to be kidding me. This is
Speaker 5: about guns. We do need to take action.
Speaker 6: How many school shootings, how many school shootings and churches?
Speaker 6: How many shootings at concerts? How many shootings country music concerts?
Speaker 6: How many shootings in street fairs? How many shootings and restaurants?
Speaker 6: How many shootings everywhere are we going to have before
Speaker 6: we can talk about common sense gun safety laws?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So, Josh, I want to ask you about that, because
Speaker 1: I'm looking at study right in front of me by
Speaker 1: the Crime Prevention Research Institute doctor John Lott, and he
Speaker 1: points out that if you look at the actual the
Speaker 1: death rates from mass public shootings comparing European countries in
Speaker 1: the United States and Canada, the United States is number
Speaker 1: eleven on the list. Those that have a more serious
Speaker 1: problem with this include Switzerland and France. Those right behind
Speaker 1: us we're number eleven, number fifteen and sixteen, or England
Speaker 1: in Germany. So this myth that somehow mass shootings are
Speaker 1: just this crazy American thing is simply not true, and
Speaker 1: it becomes an excuse for an action, doesn't it. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: we can't get gun control because people don't want to
Speaker 1: give up their Seconmendment rights, so we can't do anything.
Speaker 1: Isn't that really where we are today?
Speaker 3: It absolutely is, And that's the issue, you know, we're
Speaker 3: we always and mind you, Unfortunately, these people are just
Speaker 3: absolutely politicizing a tragic event and trying to use it
Speaker 3: to push a narrative. And I think we all understand that,
Speaker 3: you know, all your listeners, I'm sure understand that as well.
Speaker 3: But you know this, I equate this war on guns
Speaker 3: is the same thing as as saying, well, we need
Speaker 3: to have a war on forks to fight obesity, you know,
Speaker 3: or we need to have of course, the classic you know,
Speaker 3: the war on drugs, you know, over the course of
Speaker 3: the eighties and the nineties that obviously didn't work because
Speaker 3: it's not a war on drug it's war on drug
Speaker 3: dealers wor war on criminals. That's the issue is the
Speaker 3: accountability here. They want to sit here and assign accountability
Speaker 3: to an inanimate object that has nothing to do with
Speaker 3: the overall issues in order to push anarrative. And I
Speaker 3: think that everyone understands that here at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, unfortunately or fortunately how you look at it,
Speaker 3: the only thing that the only way to stop a
Speaker 3: bad guy with a gun is a good guy with
Speaker 3: a gun, and we continue in this country to see
Speaker 3: that over and over again. The ratio of of of
Speaker 3: lives that are saved due to handguns is overwhelming compared
Speaker 3: to the lots that are taken by handguns. So you know,
Speaker 3: the statistics are all over the place on how much
Speaker 3: the guns are actually saving lized every day, and especially
Speaker 3: in these mass using that's the only thing that we have,
Speaker 3: it's the only resource generally we have. It'll just stop
Speaker 3: these shooters. And yet we're using it. Unfortunately, people are
Speaker 3: using it to push an absolute false narrative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, I want to point out, Josh,
Speaker 1: I mean you'ither director law enforcement for Berna. You produce
Speaker 1: non lethal defense handguns, so they're not guns in the
Speaker 1: traditional sense. So you would have all the incentive in
Speaker 1: the world to want to have guns banned, but you don't.
Speaker 1: You're speaking truth here. My question to you is clearly,
Speaker 1: mister Westman, the shooter in Minneapolis was troubled. In this manifesto,
Speaker 1: he wrote, he said he was tired of being transd
Speaker 1: he wished he had never been brainwashed. Clearly, very troubled,
Speaker 1: and I don't know in the Minneapolis case, But in
Speaker 1: a lot of cases, it seems like these younger shooters
Speaker 1: are on antidepressants. They're on a series of pharmaceutical drugs,
Speaker 1: and you know when you read those labels, they would say,
Speaker 1: in rare cases, taking this drug can lead to psychosis. Well,
Speaker 1: if you have million people that are on SSRIs or
Speaker 1: these other mood altering drugs in rare cases can mean
Speaker 1: thousands of people. Do you think that's a problem. The medication,
Speaker 1: the over medication, Could that be part of the problem.
Speaker 3: I absolutely think it's part of the problem. I think
Speaker 3: that when you have a child of that age, you know,
Speaker 3: when they're middle school, high school, young adults, their hormones
Speaker 3: are already just absolutely obliterated, and then introducing these these
Speaker 3: absolute hormone just changing drugs, especially when you're talking about
Speaker 3: you know, transgender and the gender reassignment and all that.
Speaker 3: The amount of hormones that are just absolutely raging through
Speaker 3: there are are are such an issue when it comes
Speaker 3: to their mental state and their ability to make good
Speaker 3: decisions at a point in their life where they're already
Speaker 3: troubled to make good decisions and now you know, there's
Speaker 3: so much material out there they're getting brainwashed from so
Speaker 3: many different sources, especially if you're you know, kind of
Speaker 3: in that lifestyle. So this is all going into the
Speaker 3: overall issue that we're having. And then of course, you know,
Speaker 3: what what is it? What are their parents' supervision? Like,
Speaker 3: you know, a lot of these shooters, that's one of
Speaker 3: the commonalities that we generally find is a lack of
Speaker 3: parental supervision and then just letting them kind of do
Speaker 3: whatever they want because they want to respect their products
Speaker 3: here or whatnot as a child. But unfortunately, that's generally
Speaker 3: where we find a lot of these shooters is is
Speaker 3: where their parents have no idea they'd go, you know,
Speaker 3: they go missing for a few days, and that's not
Speaker 3: abnormal for their parents not to know where they're at
Speaker 3: for a few days or know what they're up to.
Speaker 3: And so when you have you know, these kids on medication,
Speaker 3: these kids that are just in a very changing environment
Speaker 3: with zero supervision, that's where we start to see a
Speaker 3: lot of these issues manifest and in a time where
Speaker 3: they should be you know, overly supervised to make sure
Speaker 3: that that you know, the drugs that they're on, the
Speaker 3: medication that they're on is doing what it's supposed to
Speaker 3: do so that they don't fall into that quote rare
Speaker 3: case of of of those side effects.
Speaker 2: So what's your reaction to the larger conversation that's happening.
Speaker 2: I understand that one of your biggest customer bases in Chicago,
Speaker 2: where they have the more restrictive gun laws. You know,
Speaker 2: it's weird because you heard that, the left goes immediately
Speaker 2: to we need to ban guns, and then we're having
Speaker 2: this conversation about the need to potentially introduce more troops
Speaker 2: to these blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore. Do you
Speaker 2: feel like, not just with schools, but I mean, do
Speaker 2: you consider the idea of adding more troops to or
Speaker 2: just adding more resources some of these cities or crimes
Speaker 2: a problem. Is that a good idea? And do you
Speaker 2: see that that's the way to harden those targets as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely. What we have to remember is, and this
Speaker 3: is a lot of people don't understand this, but when
Speaker 3: we talk about mass shootings active shooters, schools is not
Speaker 3: the most frequent location. It's actually down the list. It's
Speaker 3: actually number four on the list of active shooter frequency.
Speaker 3: You've got public commercial spaces is number one. So malls
Speaker 3: department stores, grocery stores, that's where active shooters, that's where
Speaker 3: mass shootings and mass attacks are most likely to happen.
Speaker 3: And then we have public spaces, parks, open spaces, you
Speaker 3: know the one October Las Vegas Mandalay based shooting. And
Speaker 3: then we have government buildings, and then we have schools.
Speaker 3: So you know, when people think about active attacks and
Speaker 3: they're you know, their likelihood of being involved in something
Speaker 3: like that, they think, oh, well, I don't go to
Speaker 3: a school, so it's not likely for me. But know
Speaker 3: that their likelihood that it's going to happen in a
Speaker 3: normal place that they probably traverse, you know, in a
Speaker 3: day to day life, is actually much greater. So you
Speaker 3: have to think in the manner of okay, well, how
Speaker 3: can we harden all these targets. How can we make
Speaker 3: sure that if there's somebody that's just bent on doing this,
Speaker 3: that we can make it very very difficult for them
Speaker 3: and curb that very quickly. So you know, look, I
Speaker 3: was a cop on every street corner, that would be great,
Speaker 3: and that's that's not a realistic thought.
Speaker 1: Josh. We appreciate you joining us, thank you for your insights.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with more after this.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody. It is Eric Eggers here with Peter Schweitzer.
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Speaker 1: Peter Schweitzer, Yeah, we might be taking a break this weekend,
Speaker 1: but Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the congressrooms from southern Florida, is
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Speaker 3: For her.
Speaker 2: Then that's what happens when you buy stocks, right.
Speaker 1: No, No, that's not what happens when I buy stock.
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Speaker 1: When fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth.
Speaker 6: Sean Hannity is on right now.
Speaker 1: It's Peter Schwitz or Eric Eggers. And you hear that sound,
Speaker 1: you hear that music. It is football season. College football
Speaker 1: kicks off this weekend, the NFL next weekend. Very exciting time.
Speaker 1: It is I think America's sport and we've got a
Speaker 1: legend who is joining us. This is a guy who
Speaker 1: not only it was incredible on the field, but has
Speaker 1: always been a man of integrity, honesty, and values, and
Speaker 1: I just excited that we're going to have him on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: No, Mike Singletary is going to be joining us right now.
Speaker 2: Mike Singletary an NFL Hall of Famer, a Super Bowl
Speaker 2: champion with the Chicago Bears. A He's in Waco, Texas
Speaker 2: this weekend to help out his alumni, the Baylor Bears,
Speaker 2: and they're kicking off their season. But more importantly, you know,
Speaker 2: he has a book out. It's called Visualize Your Greatness,
Speaker 2: the Playbook for the seven Season Success. And we've spent
Speaker 2: the last two and a half hours on this program.
Speaker 2: We always love being able to fill in for Sean,
Speaker 2: but it can be challenging because some of the stuff
Speaker 2: you talk about, by definition, is in the news, is tragic,
Speaker 2: it can be divisive, and I know that coach Singletary
Speaker 2: has a heart to do the opposite. I know that
Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons why he wrote this book,
Speaker 2: because he wants to inspire people to help realize the
Speaker 2: best version of themselves, because that's ultimate what's going to
Speaker 2: make this country the best version it can be. So
Speaker 2: I wanted to take a quick moment talk to Mike Singletary.
Speaker 2: Coach Singletary, is the start of football season excite you
Speaker 2: or do you have so much other stuff going on
Speaker 2: in your life that it's kind of like, hey, you
Speaker 2: know that that's not really what I'm about.
Speaker 7: You know, It's it's kind of a two edged sword.
Speaker 7: It really excites me. I love football season, but at
Speaker 7: the same time, because of so many other things, you know,
Speaker 7: family and and projects you're working on, they just continue
Speaker 7: to go and so it's exciting a football season is happening,
Speaker 7: but just keeping it in perspective, keeping it focused, and
Speaker 7: it all work out well.
Speaker 1: So, coach, why do you think it is Americans love football?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know they call baseball America's game, but
Speaker 1: I think the professional football is the sport that dominates Saul.
Speaker 1: What is it that people love about it? And what
Speaker 1: would you say, I mean, you've got an incredible life story.
Speaker 1: What would you say is that football brought you and
Speaker 1: taught you in terms of values, integrity, and teamwork, those
Speaker 1: qualities that unfortunately seem to be diminished these days.
Speaker 7: You know, for me, football was one of those things
Speaker 7: where you just put everything else aside. It's kind of
Speaker 7: like it's kind of like that movie Fill the Dreams,
Speaker 7: and you know when you walked on the field, it's
Speaker 7: like once you cross that line, everything else stayed outside
Speaker 7: of it. And it is the pleasure of being able
Speaker 7: to step inside of those lines. Even though you hear
Speaker 7: the fans, they can't help you play the game. You're
Speaker 7: inside of that game, and all that matters is the
Speaker 7: work that you put into the preparation, the mindset, and
Speaker 7: the character in which you play the game. And that's
Speaker 7: what it really comes down to.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to NFL Hall of Famer Mike Singletary. Football
Speaker 2: is back. You can feel it in the weather, at
Speaker 2: least you can where we live in North Florida. Coach.
Speaker 2: One of the things that's been interesting, you talk about
Speaker 2: things being divisive these days. The NFL, unfortunately, has had
Speaker 2: a bit of a run of some less positive headlines recently.
Speaker 2: They've had some stuff in terms of the slogans they're
Speaker 2: going to allow in the end zone and some business
Speaker 2: with these male cheerleaders on a couple of teams that
Speaker 2: some people find to be culturally divisive. What do you
Speaker 2: how do you react when you hear about this game
Speaker 2: that's meant so much to you and the benefits. I
Speaker 2: know you care deeply about not only the people you
Speaker 2: played with, but the people the players like. I know
Speaker 2: you're very involved in helping improve the lives of other
Speaker 2: former players in a lot of different ways. What do
Speaker 2: you think about the win you see less positive headlines
Speaker 2: about the NFL today?
Speaker 7: You know, I think that when I think of the NFL,
Speaker 7: just like everything else, well, there's an organization because when
Speaker 7: you get right down to it, the NFL is a
Speaker 7: business and at the end of the day, you you
Speaker 7: have a culture that you develop, a vision that that
Speaker 7: you set in place, and this is what we're going
Speaker 7: to do. This is how we're going to go about
Speaker 7: doing our business. And whether you are an athletic business,
Speaker 7: whether you are a banking whatever it might be, whatever
Speaker 7: that culture is, you have to make sure that the
Speaker 7: culture is good for everybody, that the culture serves everybody.
Speaker 7: But once you walk inside of those lines, these other
Speaker 7: rules that we play within, and every organization has to
Speaker 7: decide how far do we go. Every organization has to
Speaker 7: decide what are the rules of this game? And whatever
Speaker 7: the those rules are, whatever the culture is, that's what
Speaker 7: we stand too, that's what we're gonna hold everybody that
Speaker 7: crosses that line. That's what we're about.
Speaker 1: Coach, So let me ask you. There's also a lot
Speaker 1: of reports, I think encouraging reports in America that there
Speaker 1: seems to be maybe a religious revival taking place, especially
Speaker 1: among young people. You are certainly a man of faith.
Speaker 1: You've talked about that really your entire career. Are you
Speaker 1: encouraged by what you're seeing with young people, maybe particularly
Speaker 1: with young players young athletes in this regard. We always
Speaker 1: hear the bad news, right, but there's also some really exciting,
Speaker 1: encouraging things that are taking place as well. Talk about
Speaker 1: the role of faith that it plays in football and
Speaker 1: whether you're encouraged or discouraged where things are going.
Speaker 7: I think at the end of the day, it really
Speaker 7: comes down to walking it out. You know. There's so
Speaker 7: many things that you hear. You hear all man, you know,
Speaker 7: you know this is a faith movement, this is happening
Speaker 7: over here, that's happening over there, and the closer you
Speaker 7: get to it, it's like, well, maybe not, maybe it's
Speaker 7: a different version or whatever it is. But I think
Speaker 7: it's always encouraging when you hear young people because that
Speaker 7: really is the future. You know, young people walking their
Speaker 7: faith out, young people.
Speaker 8: Being willing to to really love and understand and and
Speaker 8: bring that that that bit of thread that we need
Speaker 8: in our country to overlap sometimes some of the misunderstandings
Speaker 8: and and.
Speaker 7: Whatever, some of those other things that are happening. It
Speaker 7: always brings it back to you, know what, Our faith
Speaker 7: is the thing that when when everything else fails, our
Speaker 7: things in each other and the love that we have
Speaker 7: for one another and the respect that we have to have.
Speaker 7: I may disagree with you, but I need to learn
Speaker 7: how to respect your thoughts. And if I disagree with them,
Speaker 7: then so be it. I can pray about those things
Speaker 7: and hope that one of us, if one of us
Speaker 7: is wrong, we've got to figure out how to figure
Speaker 7: it out. But I'm not. I can't walk around and
Speaker 7: be mad at you because you have a thought and
Speaker 7: you have an idea. I just have to make sure
Speaker 7: that I continue to try and bring understanding to the
Speaker 7: situation at all times.
Speaker 2: And that's maybe one of the guyes we've lost the
Speaker 2: most in this country right the ability to connect and
Speaker 2: define common ground even if some of the other variables
Speaker 2: are different. And I know that that's something that you
Speaker 2: believe we need to improve on. I think that's one
Speaker 2: of the reasons why you wrote this book. Coach, if
Speaker 2: you want, if you can't, just kind of quickly give
Speaker 2: everybody a quick overview of your story.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: The website is Mike singletarybook dot com. The title is
Speaker 2: Visualize Your Greatness, The Playbook for the Seven Seeds of Success.
Speaker 2: A lot of people know that you were a Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame player, but they don't know your background and
Speaker 2: the role that having a vision and your commitment to
Speaker 2: that vision played and allowing you to accomplish your goals.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, I was very, very fortunate, I would say,
Speaker 7: to be the last of ten kids and being raves
Speaker 7: in a very tough neighborhood in Sunnyside in Houston, Texas,
Speaker 7: and being the last of ten kids, and kind of
Speaker 7: being invisible for most of that my young age. And
Speaker 7: at twelve years old, everything really happened. My dad left,
Speaker 7: who was a Proecostal pastor at that time, but the
Speaker 7: pressures of family and work and everything else, he left,
Speaker 7: you know, he left my mom and my brother Grady
Speaker 7: was killed in an automobile accident about six months after that,
Speaker 7: and I was pretty much distraught and trying to figure
Speaker 7: out what in the world is happening to our home.
Speaker 7: And at that time, I just remember thinking, you know what,
Speaker 7: maybe there isn't a God. Maybe maybe I can't imagine
Speaker 7: that God would allow us to happen. And my mom
Speaker 7: came in and said, about two weeks after my brother's funeral,
Speaker 7: the son, I know you you got a lot of
Speaker 7: different thoughts in your head. I know you want to
Speaker 7: give up, you want to quit, your frustrated, You're angry.
Speaker 7: But I want you to know that greatness is in
Speaker 7: you and I want you to know that I need you.
Speaker 7: I need you to become the man at the house.
Speaker 7: Can you do that? And at that moment, I, you know,
Speaker 7: I thought you gotta be kidding me Man at house.
Speaker 7: I'm the least talented of everyone, but no one listened
Speaker 7: to me. But she really really believed in me. And
Speaker 7: there were things that I had thought about, things that
Speaker 7: I had read I'd normally been sent Peele. I was
Speaker 7: listening to cassette tapes of him talking about closing your
Speaker 7: eyes and being able to visualize what it is that
Speaker 7: you want in life, and man, more than anything, I
Speaker 7: really wanted to play football. I loved football, but it
Speaker 7: was against our religion up until I was twelve years
Speaker 7: old and I begged my mom to let me play. Mom,
Speaker 7: I gotta play. I mean, I mean, you want me
Speaker 7: to be the man at the house. Let me play football,
Speaker 7: that's part of it. And she said, son, I'll let
Speaker 7: you play as long as you tell me you won't
Speaker 7: get hurt. You got to promise me you won't get hurt.
Speaker 7: So that day, when she challenged me to be the
Speaker 7: man at the house, I said, yes, Mom, I can
Speaker 7: do that. And I walked in my room and I
Speaker 7: got out sheet of paper and I wrote out my
Speaker 7: vision statement, and it sounded like this, find a way
Speaker 7: to get a scholarship to go to college, get my degree,
Speaker 7: in which I'd be the first in my family to
Speaker 7: do so. Become an All American, get drafted and go
Speaker 7: to the NFL. Buy my mom a house and take
Speaker 7: care of her for the rest of her life. Become
Speaker 7: an all pro, go to the Super Bowl, and own
Speaker 7: my own business. At twelve years old, I wrote that
Speaker 7: out and I put it on my wall, and I
Speaker 7: thought about it was the last thing I looked at
Speaker 7: at night, first thing I looked at in the morning,
Speaker 7: and I begin I begin to walk that narrow road
Speaker 7: to accomplishing those things with God's health, and.
Speaker 2: That ultimately is the journey that you realized despite all
Speaker 2: the odds. Is an amazing story, and it's a story
Speaker 2: not just of faith perseverance, but it is also a
Speaker 2: reminder as we sort of begin football season. As you said, Peter,
Speaker 2: football is an America support football for all the different
Speaker 2: controversial things, has meant a lot of people, and it's
Speaker 2: a pathway of ascension culturally for a lot of people,
Speaker 2: both you know, socially and economically. And so I think
Speaker 2: you know your story and you've certainly lived that out
Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways. So appreciate you taking
Speaker 2: the time to join us today. Best of luck with
Speaker 2: your new career as a broadcaster for the Baylor radio
Speaker 2: team in the pregame, and best luck with sales of
Speaker 2: the book.
Speaker 7: Mike.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it, Peter Schweizer and we're Eric Eggers and
Speaker 1: we've been on with Mike Singletary. Get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: work with Mike an amazing opportunity to do that. We
Speaker 1: enjoy you and appreciate all you do, Mike, and you
Speaker 1: the audience will be back right after this, Peter Schweizer
Speaker 1: and Eric Eggers, we're filling in for Sean. We have
Speaker 1: breaking news on the situation in Minneapolis to figure out
Speaker 1: what exactly happened there. Eric, what is the news?
Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, this has been a theme of the day.
Speaker 2: We're talking about it. You know, what's happening in the alis,
Speaker 2: What are the details, what are some of the circumstances.
Speaker 2: Why has everyone pivoted to gun laws as opposed to
Speaker 2: maybe some of the other details and circumstances. One person
Speaker 2: who's focused not on the gun aspect but on other
Speaker 2: aspects of it, as RFK Junior. He's this announced he's
Speaker 2: launched a full investigation into the medication that the shooter,
Speaker 2: who does identify as trans was using. Quote, there's never
Speaker 2: been a time in America, It's from RFK where people
Speaker 2: walk into a crowd or a church, or a movie
Speaker 2: theater or a school and just start randomly shooting. Something
Speaker 2: changed and a dramatically changed human behavior. That's what's going
Speaker 2: to be investigated by RFK Junior and apparently other aspects
Speaker 2: of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: That's been a common thread with a lot of these
Speaker 1: shootings tragically, So hopefully they'll find out more. We appreciate
Speaker 1: you listening to us. We appreciate Sean letting us barrow
Speaker 1: the microphone, and we appreciate Linda for putting up with
Speaker 1: us and helping us guide us today as we've been
Speaker 1: on this journey covering for Sean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an important detail too. It's great to be
Speaker 2: able to have important conversations with you listening audience. We
Speaker 2: appreciate you being here with us. And just to connect
Speaker 2: what you said, you're the one that brought up early
Speaker 2: this hour that when you have it's not the fact
Speaker 2: that the shooter identified as trands, it's the fact that
Speaker 2: the people that do that are on certain medications and
Speaker 2: these SSRIs and they come with warning labels, and those
Speaker 2: warning labels say can cause dramatic behavioral changes. And so
Speaker 2: it's I think fair to wonder how big of a
Speaker 2: role did those play in these types of behaviors here.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Please look at our research. You can
Speaker 1: find it at the drilldown dot com. We hope you
Speaker 1: have a wonderful, RESTful, enjoyable Labor Day weekend. God bless
Speaker 1: you and God bless America.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for hanging out with us. He's Peter Schweizer.
Speaker 2: I'meric Eggers. You can find all of our episodes at
Speaker 2: the drilldown dot com. Have a great long weekend, everybody,