CLEARING THE FOG with Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt 6/4/26

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SPEAKER_43 0:00

Clearing the fog with Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Hart's hidden military narratives. On the Liz Calloway show with Nick Summers, Talk 94.5.

SPEAKER_39 0:12

Yes, and he is on his way in, actually. It asked for a little extra time. He's going to drop off his son at school. Usually he stops in by us and then takes him to school quick, but he's going to hang a little longer since I'm doing the solo thing. So yay! I'll have a uh a house guest. I better clean up. But I did wanted to find this. I didn't get a chance to play it last week. What let's see, when was this posted? I want to get the date right. It says breaking, but that's it's not breaking. I think this was last week Friday. So maybe it was posted on Thursday, but it's still relatively new news, and it's about the people a lot of people were talking about it. So was Heggseth. Secretary Heggs talking about the waste, fraud, and abuse, and they just starting with these uh DOD contracts for consulting, and maybe I can play this, and I know that Lieutenant Colonel's on his way in listening, so maybe he can listen and then react to it and all the other things that he wanted to talk about. So let's go ahead and do this. This is Secretary Hegeseth talking about cutting 5.1 billion that's a billion with a B. These wasteful Pentagon contracts, which is again money laundering for the ruling class. We know that's how it is. They say, oh yeah, it's gonna cost uh 500 million to do whatever it is. And then they skim the skim right off the top, it goes back into these people's pockets for campaigns, and you know, this is how the Democrats build their war chest. Some on the right, too, as well. Let's not forget that. Here you go.

SPEAKER_07 1:39

Right now, directing the termination of 5.1 billion in DOD contracts. Not a million, that's with a B. 5.1 billion in DOD contracts for ancillary things like consulting and other non-essential services. Here's a few uh examples. DHA contracts for consulting services from Accenture, Deloitte, Ooz Allen, and other firms, they're gonna save the department $1.8 billion. How about a software reseller contract uh for enterprise cloud IT services, saving the department $1.4 billion. A $500 million Navy contract for business process consulting. Again, process, lots of process, lots of consulting. Uh for administrative offices in the Bureau of Medicine. By the way, we need this money to spend on better health care for our warfighters and their families instead of $500 an hour business process consulting. That's a lot of consulting. How about this? A DARPA contract for IT help desk services that are completely duplicative with services already provided by our DISA workforce, saving the department another $500 million.

SPEAKER_39 2:53

All right, so he goes on there, just continuing to list. Now we bring in our guest who uh decided to come and hang out with us a little longer. Thank you, Lieutenant Colonel Chris O Park. Good morning. Uh U.S. Army retired. So uh how do you feel? Let's start there and then we'll get move on to some of the things you want to discuss. Do you agree with these ridiculous amounts of money he's throwing at us amounting to over 5.1 billion, not million, billion for these consulting things.

SPEAKER_18 3:17

So the worst kept secret at the Pentagon was during the Clinton administration, we did a downsize of the civilian of the military uniform personnel, and then at the beginning of the Bush administration.

SPEAKER_39 3:30

The base was closed because of that. Correct. Right here in Myrtle Beach.

SPEAKER_18 3:34

It'll come back to be the biggest strategic blunder, but that's a whole different conversation.

SPEAKER_39 3:37

I agree. And bad for and bad for the community.

SPEAKER_18 3:40

Yes, you can't have we we learned in Iraq very quickly, you can't have massive bases and actually do anything. Like you need to be out in the community. So we've created a military-civilian divide because you don't see people in your community anymore that are serving in the military. And they claimed it saved all this money, but really what it did was transitioning right to this, create big bases that then DOD contractors could come in who were friends of politicians to get bigger contracts. That's all. So with this is in the Bush administration there was a big push to cut the civilian payroll. Even while we were at war, we're gonna cut the civilian payroll, we're gonna cut civilian positions. And they did, and they did a really good job. However, as I I learned at the Pentagon, nothing at the Pentagon ever dies. It gets moved to a different bucket, it gets moved to a different floor, it gets moved to a different budgeting line, whatever it is. So what happened was as the war in Iraq ramped up in Afghanistan, they still needed some of these civilian positions. So they went and they decided to outsource. So they started doing consulting and contracting, and that's where Booze Allen Hamilton something like 90% of their business is DOD contractors. So they have this massive company that essentially they outsource. So all they did to save money is we're gonna cut the workforce, which means there's no retirement, pension, health care, anything else, and then we're gonna give it to Booze Allen Hamilton. And then the talking point was, well, you know, you can fire employees quicker. Well, you're right. You can go to Booze Allen Hamilton or any other contractor and say, This person sucks, I want them out, and they're gone.

SPEAKER_39 5:26

But they replace them with some identical looking jacket.

SPEAKER_18 5:29

Or but the biggest the even bigger issue was what if the contractor as a whole sucks? What if you want to get out of that actual contract because they keep sending you that idiot that comes back in and everything else? Well, now you got politicians calling, you've got the CEOs, you have corporate lawyers, you have it is impossible to get rid of a Pentagon contract. It'll be interesting to see the amount of lawsuits that come out of what Exeth just announced, and how many politicians are gonna get upset about it because this is where all the backroom dealing comes. Um all of them have people in their pockets, all of them have constituents, home. So, you know, Elizabeth Warren, crazy liberal from Massachusetts. Pocahontas. Pocahontas, that's absolutely right. Um but every time something comes up about Raytheon, she all of a sudden supports it for the DOD. Why? Raytheon's headquarters is in Boston. Right. She goes to the same parties. They do the so that that's where all this comes from. So yes, there is massive waste at the Pentagon, and contracts is part of it because they actually and they've done the analysis and they I think it was a couple of West Point professors did it and it got buried. Um because they did the analysis. It's more expensive in the long run to do these DOD contracts than it is to have the employee on the payroll long term. The difference comes into that pension and how you do the pension and everything else. So instead of changing the pension over to just you know 401k like everybody else, and then saving the Pentagon money and going that, they went to massive billion dollar contracts so that way everybody could make more money. Um so this is a great step. Like the and the fact that he read them off and explained it again, this is what it goes on for another three minutes. We get the point. And this is what frustrates me about the Secretary of War. Oh, okay because when he does things the right way and focuses himself, he does an amazing job. He can sell his policies, he can sell Trump's policies very well. Just like he did with this. I mean, you cannot argue his logic as as you go down there.

SPEAKER_39 7:44

Well, let's let's talk about it from a military perspective for a second. And and maybe not even just military, but any any specialized business. You know, the military is in the business of what? Protection and killing things. Right. Okay. Uh quite high.

SPEAKER_18 7:56

I like to blow stuff up.

SPEAKER_39 7:57

Yes, exactly. So when you have a group of people who are not military whatsoever telling military people how to do things and how to run their business, which is effectively what a consultant does, what happens? You water down the product, am I right?

SPEAKER_18 8:13

So partly, and you get watered down 20-year-olds that never did anything, but most of these contracts are oversaw by retired generals. And that's where the general mafia comes in that I like to describe. And if there's a general out there, I'm sure it's not you, but that listens to the show. But I mean, this they the number one job for a general after they get out is consulting. Right. Like when I was thinking about after when I hit my 10-year mark in the military, and you know, I was a major, and I'm like, do I really want to do this for another 10 years? All I looked at my friends and they were all getting military defense contract consulting jobs at lower levels and are starting to work their way up. And I'm like, I don't want to do that. I look at my friends now that I've retired, that most of them are cycling back into the DC consulting. Like that's that's what just so you're hiring people back at a much higher rate than you would as a civilian employee t to to tell you things that should be on your staff already, or do you really need them to begin with? I mean that that's where you know Deloitte, uh one of the things you read was Deloitte. Deloitte's a huge consulting company on strategy, which is what I do now for my civilian life. Why does the Pentagon who literally teaches strategy hiring an outside agency that large to then look at itself? Like you can't do it internally? Like your whole job like all these people get out and teach strategy around the country, yet you're hiring a civilian company that normally advises corporate five hundred you know, Fortune 500 companies to to do the Pentagon. And it's like, what are we doing? Money laundering. It is, it is. Well, you know, there's multiple examples. So one of the biggest, and I think I've mentioned it before, so the DOD during the Bush administration, and it's continued, they haven't changed. Last I heard it hadn't changed. They buy fuel at market price as a department of defense, department of war. They then sell it at market price to the services, the Army, Navy, Air Force. Well, if the price goes up, where's that extra money going? Because they've already bought the fuel at $3. Now they're selling it to the service at $3.50, whatever it is. They use that as a slush fund to then move because the Congress doesn't see it. So they then use it to move around to the special ops and other projects that they don't want Congress to necessarily have opinions about. And then they're like, Oh, oh, you know, we're we're saving you money by buying it early in bulk at learces, and we're like, No, you're creating a slush fund. And Congress kind of goes, Yeah, who's it going to? All they care about is who's it going to. So they look at the spread and they're like, Well, I know we're supposed to tell you what to do with that money, but we like who it's going to, so we're okay with it.

SPEAKER_39 10:54

So put it in simple terms, it's kind of like the clear and present danger.

SPEAKER_18 10:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_39 10:58

The movie.

SPEAKER_18 10:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_39 10:59

And you that scene where they hire these mercenaries who are off the books. Off the books. And it's paid for. They use the slush fund to pay for that operation.

SPEAKER_18 11:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_39 11:07

It does not come off the military books, it's the slush fund books. And now amplify that times however many times this goes on around the globe.

SPEAKER_18 11:15

I mean, this is what you know Reagan got in trouble with with Iran Contra, right? Is how how you moved funds around. And that's the whole point of why the budget is the way it is and the Pentagon is the way it is, is it's supposed to oversee and then you go to your top secret briefings and you go, hey, this is where all the money's going. Um I mean it translates right into the DNI with Bill Poulty getting uh put in there. I mean, this is Wall Street Journal did a great job this morning. This is Trump's middle finger at the disp the um the in national and national intelligence community because it is a worthless organization. It has never had a point, it's almost like Homeland Security, where we started something after 9-11 because there was failures. Instead of fixing the system, we just added another department of bureaucracy, right?

SPEAKER_39 12:02

That's government.

SPEAKER_18 12:03

It's like they didn't share. So we'll create a bureaucracy to make them share. And they still don't share. And they still don't share. Um, and then you've seen what is what is produced, and and it was it's been the Clinton files, um, or you know, the excuse me, the Trump collusion files of with Ukraine and Russia that were completely false and made up. Um, you know, they've got intelligence.

SPEAKER_39 12:27

Ignore the the Biden files with Ukraine, with Ukraine, right? Which is legit, and those are ignored. Still.

SPEAKER_18 12:34

It's still it's been a political office since it was created by under the Bush administration, and it shouldn't be there.

SPEAKER_39 12:40

So you like this move.

SPEAKER_18 12:43

100%. This was this was one of my celebratory.

SPEAKER_39 12:46

And we want more of this.

SPEAKER_18 12:47

More. And it needs deeper, and we need to start looking at the weapons programs.

SPEAKER_39 12:51

You know, in in radio, we we like to make jokes about consultants, and and I would imagine that no offense to you because you are a consultant. But in many cases, consultants are ones that could never do, so they teach people what to do.

SPEAKER_18 13:06

Well, there's that, and then there's the you come in and you give, you know, I've seen it. So, you know, I do things differently, me and my my strategic partner. We want you to come up with a solution so that way we don't have to rehire us again. Where most consultants come in and they make you feel like you need them so that you keep hiring them year after year at the end of the day. Job security. Job security, right? And that's where you have to decide as a boss, like, how much do I really need them? Like, hey, I got my ship organized.

SPEAKER_39 13:33

I had you for 15 years and I still need things fixed. What have you done?

SPEAKER_18 13:36

So why haven't you just hired me onto your staff at this point, right?

SPEAKER_39 13:40

Well, I like this move, and you have a couple other things you want to discuss. I have something else that I want to, it's not really breaking news. It was announced last night. I alluded to it earlier, but I wanted to talk about it with President Trump and the Bill Poulte thing. I like you just to reference that, I brought this up earlier. I had somebody uh who I don't know but had a pretty good assessment on it. He he's ticking off the right people, which I like. That tells me he is the right guy. And because he oversees, or at least his office or whatever, with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and all that, all of the financial transactions, including some of our elected officials, now he has access to phones, call, travel, which I hate the spying thing, but listen, if you're trying to scam the government and you're an elected official, that's a double no-no for me.

SPEAKER_18 14:24

Yep.

SPEAKER_39 14:25

So that's why a lot of these people are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And we already know.

SPEAKER_18 14:28

Everybody's worried because they're like, who's gonna use it on us? Well, no, he's gonna catch you doing illegal things.

SPEAKER_39 14:33

We already know that they play a little foot loose and fancy-free on their just, for example, mortgage you know, applications. We've seen many of them, they always skirt on procedural things, but you know they did it.

SPEAKER_18 14:44

Oh, a hundred percent. Right. Or it's the rules for mortgages are so ridiculous that you we all have violated it. I guarantee you. No, we have. My brother and I talked about this. Um if you do not get down to the penny, your income, you have now violated the law. When you put it, you've inflated your wealth or deflated, which apparently it's illegal to deflate your wealth to when you're putting mortgage allocations. I don't know. Some lawyer will tell me I'm wrong, but it's fine. Um, but like I've seen it because you know, when I go and when you do a loan application, you're like, how much do you make? Do you put you know, $1,272 per month? Or do you put $1,800? Right. Yeah, you hear what I mean?

SPEAKER_39 15:30

Like so Well and the government itself is full of hypocrisy because they have you round up after this, and so it's like do you know exactly, yeah.

SPEAKER_18 15:38

Well, and then of course, in anyone that's shot artillery before, um, knows we have something called artillery express. So if you were you know, everyone knows when you hit the point five, you round up, right? Not in the artillery. When you hit point five and it's an even number, you round up. If it's a negative number, you round down. Legitimate taught us. So you could always do things differently in any way, shape, or form.

SPEAKER_39 16:02

It was as such when you would fire the uh the tanks.

SPEAKER_18 16:05

Yeah, you you did the same thing.

SPEAKER_39 16:07

Same thing. Yeah. Yeah. We had the ballistic computer, and you had to see what it would tell you, and then you had to make adjustments, but it was like up, down. It's like, well, I guess it's close enough.

SPEAKER_18 16:15

Close enough.

SPEAKER_39 16:16

What did they say? Close enough for horseshoes and hangers. Hang grenades and artillery. All right. Yes, we gotta go. We'll be back. He's staying. Yay!

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Liz Callaway show with me. I am Nick Summers. List is off today. Keep the things rolling. Alright, before we get to our guest who uh joined us at his regular time, but he's gonna hang out with me a little longer. I wanted to just mention this here. Uh I I alluded to it earlier today, but President uh Trump said yesterday, last night rather, he plans to nominate acting attorney general Todd Blanch to permanently lead the Department of Justice. So uh we'll have to see where that turns out. Again, you've got all these rhinos that were voted out because Trump campaigned against them, and now they're trying to sabotage his presidency by voting like the War Powers Act, and we'll bring in perfect time to bring in this guy who is uh sticking around.

SPEAKER_43 28:57

Clearing the fog with Lieutenant Colonel Christophart's hidden military narratives. On the Liz Cameron show with Nick Summers, talk 94.5.

SPEAKER_39 29:08

Lieutenant Colonel, morning to you.

SPEAKER_18 29:10

Good morning. That never gets old. What? Your thing I made? I know. It's perfect, isn't it? It's amazing.

SPEAKER_39 29:15

That's what I thought of when I saw you. I was like, this is awesome. You're like a white B.A. Barackus.

SPEAKER_18 29:23

I don't have enough gold necklaces. That's true. He was a classic.

SPEAKER_39 29:26

I loved him. He's a great follow on X too, by the way. He is, yeah. He's a very religious man. Yep. Uh, but you know, he's fun. He makes fun of himself. He's a good guy. I mean, that's what you need to do. You need to take yourself too seriously. He does not. So started as a little known bouncer in Chicago.

SPEAKER_18 29:40

Yep.

SPEAKER_39 29:41

And then look at him. You know, goes on. Rocky Mary. Rocky, yeah. It's great. All right. So, uh what was I going to bring up to you?

SPEAKER_18 29:51

I just Well, I have this headline for you. You want me to read this to you? Because this is this is a curveball.

SPEAKER_39 29:56

Yes, but hold on. Okay. Real quick here, the War Powers Act, that's just a symbolic nonsense thing because Trump can veto it, right?

SPEAKER_18 30:02

So yes. Um and they're when you talk about timing. Like, come on, guys. Like, there's in the middle of negotiations. Like, what the heck's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_39 30:12

Exactly.

SPEAKER_18 30:12

Like you're just caving to the to the how do you do you not know how to negotiate? Obviously, they don't.

SPEAKER_40 30:18

No.

SPEAKER_18 30:19

So it's like the War Powers Act should be like, we authorize you to continue what you're doing and negotiate. Um and come brief us if you're gonna escalate. Boom. Yeah. Simple. There you go. You're authorized.

SPEAKER_39 30:31

And what people don't realize, and and Glenn Beck brought it up, is that everything that he says, it sounds like it's on again, off again, it's on again, it's off again, is it open? Is it cloping? The streets of horror moves. If you read the art of the deal, everything he's doing and signaling is not for our benefit.

SPEAKER_18 30:45

And it's any business deal. This is how business works.

SPEAKER_39 30:48

And it's not for us.

SPEAKER_18 30:48

No.

SPEAKER_39 30:49

And it looks like it's confusion, a ball of confusion, but it's not. It's all for whoever is in charge. Yes. You know, everybody calls him the gay Ayatollah. I don't know if he is. Well, whatever. That's what they say. So, you know, this guy. That it's for them.

SPEAKER_18 31:00

So Condoleezza Rice came out and wrote an amazingly supportive op-ed of the president, which I which I did not necessarily expect.

SPEAKER_39 31:09

Is this what one of the things you wanted to touch on? Yeah, this we can talk about this yet.

SPEAKER_18 31:13

Um and so I mean it basically about how we've achieved the we've done what are you she called the Europeans out. Did not expect that to come from her. Um said that they stood on the sidelines while a nuclear threat was growing and they wanted to whine about it. Um it's reset the balance with China. China now knows that uh well the two things we know. One that we won't tolerate a rogue state like Iran, and two, Iran and everybody else knows yeah, China's just all talk. They're not actually going to come and defend anything with anybody.

SPEAKER_39 31:46

Um their economy is not as good as they w want the world to think it is. Exactly. I mean it's really precarious. It's worse than us.

SPEAKER_18 31:54

This is exactly it's about to collapse too, and that's what we've been worried about for a long time. Economists have written the last six years about Gordon Chang's been saying that it's all propped up with government craziness and it's being undermined by government corruption because it is. It's a socialist communist. I mean, it's a communist state with socialist ideas. Um of course it's gonna collapse. This is exactly what happens to every communist socialist country. But we're we're gonna try it again.

SPEAKER_39 32:18

How many years of history to show you it doesn't work?

SPEAKER_18 32:21

It literally doesn't work.

SPEAKER_39 32:22

No, it's always corrupt. Anyway, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_18 32:26

Um but so so yeah, so she came out and just said we've achieved our objectives, like the they cannot in the next ten years do remote. And she was actually calling for releasing of no money. She said, You should never give them another dime. We know what happens when you release money and funds. It does not go to the people, it goes right to their to rebuilding their um rogue terrorist groups around the Middle East. So don't give them a damn dime. Yeah, they don't need it. They're not gonna use it for the right way, don't give it to them. And okay, deal with it. What else are you gonna do about it? So I was I was extremely surprised because she was always kind of an anti-Trump foreign policy type person. Yeah. And for her to come out that strong and talk about no, this is what we needed to do. I was that was to me, and this is where we go back to uh Secretary of War. If he had basically written slash used her op-ed there to justify the war, we'd be having a much different conversation today about the War Powers Act and everything else. Because it laid out all the objectives. I mean, you could always admire her for her A, she's extremely smart.

SPEAKER_39 33:32

She actually is.

SPEAKER_18 33:33

And I I always did think she was okay. And I thought well, and I th she also did what good people do, which is they follow their bosses, right? Yeah. So I mean Bush was setting the policy. And she followed it and she carried out just like Rubio is following the policy and doing a really good job as Secretary of State.

SPEAKER_39 33:50

Rubio. So it's I did not see that one coming.

SPEAKER_18 33:54

No, he really stepped up to the point.

SPEAKER_39 33:56

Rubio and Besson are like his best picks, I think, ever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 34:00

I mean, they're they're really good. I mean, and JD Vance is amazing too. He put all three of them together, and I'm just like, holy cow. Yeah. Um, but oh so building back to the Intel community, you're gonna love this headline. This is this is from the Wall Street Journal. Okay. The CIA, 300 gold bars, an arrest, and a Kennedy.

SPEAKER_39 34:21

Okay, Liz and I had this conversation when this story broke.

SPEAKER_18 34:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_39 34:24

And and I get it. You know, cops, just on a smaller scale, cops on the you know, undercover cops, drug bus, yeah, I need some front money. Right. But it's there's always accounting for it. Now, on a larger scale, global scale, which the CIA is supposed to be focused out, not in, not supposed to be spying on Americans. Let's not go there. But they're supposed to be doing operations around the globe that and many of them, many times are doing what they're not supposed to be doing. But anyway, so he's supposedly got this operation, and he needs these high dollar watches and these gold bars to do this affect this operation. Yep. And he takes it home.

SPEAKER_18 34:59

Who authorized this? Nobody. They just do whatever they want. I mean, it's just it's ridiculous. And it just goes back to that deep state uh intel community that everyone doesn't want to admit exists. And actually, when you the United States did not have an intelligence service till after World War II. Yes. Because they feared the Founding Fathers and everybody up to World War II feared what it could do because they saw what it did in Europe, what the kings had with their men and you know, all the different things with the dang Pope had with different priests and their intel apparatus that they don't want to miss and the Swiss guard and all that stuff. They saw what it can do and how it can rot and can undermine um your government as just a whole. Um and but after World War II, we were convinced that we needed it because of the you know the benefits that they saw from having intelligence during the war. And how are you gonna dictate you know global stuff, that globalization, it's the march. And the first crew that came in was really kind of like anti-government, like we're gonna do things the right way, and then they slowly got weeded out. And they slowly got replaced, and then some communists got in there, and then they got weeded out, and then they you know, so it's like again, it's just it's a self-perpetuating craziness. And weed they testified after the eighties. Our war on drugs was about the CIA. I mean, we were propping up these drug dealers in South America.

SPEAKER_39 36:26

I told you about that book and that former DEA agent who said that exactly that. It's a joke. It's it's the war on drugs is a joke.

SPEAKER_18 36:34

It was was was, yep. And now for the first time, we're actually like, no, we're just gonna kill them all. And but this comes from pretty much. Pretty much. I mean, we're blown up boats.

SPEAKER_40 36:44

Oh, you say you're fishing? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_18 36:47

Joint military operations with was it Purdue just or not Purdue, but not the University of Purdue. Um Peru just announced it. Another uh Latin American country, which is escape Honduras, I think, may have announced it as well. And then Mexico has been pushing back hard um because of the corruption of the levels that they're in with the drugs. Um but they this is why they didn't want Trump to be president, was because the CIA would now not be able to fund and do their slush funds. People wouldn't be able to do these things in the Intel community.

SPEAKER_39 37:18

The problem, like you pointed out, and history shows us, all the way back to the Vatican to everywhere, is you have these super secret societies that are run by these leaders of whatever country, and then you've got individuals within the secret societies or the secret agencies or what have you, who start formulating their own agendas. Right. And then you've got people going, yeah, yeah. And they start following those people. And that's what's happening in the F was certainly in the FBI, the what is the other one, the NSA, I believe it is, the CIA, all these alphabet you know, ages.

SPEAKER_18 37:51

Alphabet soups, as we call it.

SPEAKER_39 37:52

Right, they all have their own agenda because of the rogue supposed high-level people that think, no, I know better than the president. I've been here longer.

SPEAKER_18 38:02

Well, yeah, and that, and it's like the mission was to to you know, listen and then share, right? I mean that's what we we think make recommendations. Make recommendations. They've all turned into direct action strike teams, like straight out of the movies. Like I think they watched the movies and decided they should do that. Like honestly, I really think that's what kind of happened. Yeah. Um was like, how are we gonna do these strike teams and everything else? Like the the CIA was never designed to just do it. And honestly, under Kennedy was when it really got bad was that they're trying to hire the mafia to kill Castro and they're trying to do all this stuff in Cuba. And that's when they really got their direct action kind of chops underneath them, and it just kept going.

SPEAKER_39 38:43

And he called him out on it.

SPEAKER_18 38:45

And he did it. And then he was killed. And then he was killed, yes. And they Who killed him? So that was the the best part about the papers that they released was it showed that there is absolutely no doubt the CIA knew that somebody was trying to kill the president, and they purposely chose not to share it.

SPEAKER_39 39:02

That's it. Their biggest crime was ignoring it. Ignoring it.

SPEAKER_18 39:06

Now and then allowing the conspiracy to perpetuate because it was beneficial to them. Yes. And the Pentagon did the same thing with Area 51 and the UFOs, was they purposely planted things to get us all spinning and following the conspiracy and not following where the money was really going.

SPEAKER_39 39:23

Since you brought it up, let's just touch on that for a minute before we have to go to break here. If there was truly alien craft, let alone I mean alien bodies, or however you want to say that. The government is terrible at keeping secrets. Horrible. We would have heard and I know that they were great during the Manhattan Project with the the nuclear bomb because it was so compartmentalized they didn't know what they were working on as a whole.

SPEAKER_18 39:47

For an 18-month period.

SPEAKER_39 39:48

Right. That's what I mean. It was but a very that I was just gonna say a very short window. So, but this is going on decades. Right. You really I all we keep getting are these grainy little things, these weird little, you know, some of them can be naturally explained. I mean, there are some things the what is it, uh uh ball lightning in many cases. Some of these things cannot be explained. I get that, but I'm willing to bet, and you know as well as I do, and then not that I was ever privy to that information as a low-level idiot in the army, but you hear things and you have a brain, you probably were privy to certain things. You know as well as I do. Much of what we see is our own tech.

SPEAKER_18 40:29

Oh yeah. And if there's any memo at the Pentagon about it, it's got leaked. It would have been leaked within 2.5 seconds.

SPEAKER_39 40:35

There are no spaceships landed somewhere that we're that we have that we've built our new tech off of. It just, I'm sorry. I'm I hate to you know disillusion all the you know live long and prosper people that really want the aliens to land in their backyard. It's not happening.

SPEAKER_18 40:53

Well, and yeah, there's a whole bunch of to go off of that. But I mean, you know, we have a lot of the stuff is our tech, correct. Our classified tech.

SPEAKER_39 41:04

And the government was happy that people thought it was a UFO. Oh, good. We got you looking for little green men on Mars. Well, it's our stuff. Look at look I like to bring up the SR71 Blackbird. On paper, in theory, on paper, this thing was already started to be thought about being built in the 40s.

SPEAKER_18 41:21

1947.

SPEAKER_39 41:23

And they took their first flight in the early 50s. If you saw that thing in 1953 flying above your head, you thought it was a UFO. We are not that far removed from prop planes and the Red Baron. Right. I mean, at that point.

SPEAKER_18 41:38

In World War I throwing grenades out of hot air balloons. Thank you.

SPEAKER_39 41:41

And you've got the SR seventy one Blackbird, you know, in its experimental stages flying. Do you think they didn't take advantage of the fact, oh yeah, sure. It's an alien. Maybe. We'll go look. Well, we'll go look. I mean we do have stuff. Now, some of the things that they show, and I'm not gonna go off on a tangent because I'm gonna be late. Some of the things they show are making maneuvers that I I don't think that we have the capabilities of making that I'm aware of.

SPEAKER_18 42:05

That we're aware of.

SPEAKER_39 42:06

You know, and you've got these physicists saying, oh, the person inside of that craft, if there is a person, is dead.

SPEAKER_18 42:12

Right. Okay. But now we know about the advances in automation, so are they flying without pilots?

SPEAKER_39 42:18

There's that, or there's the anti-grav technology that may or may not exist.

SPEAKER_18 42:22

Right.

SPEAKER_39 42:22

Trump has said it, and other people have said it. We've got technology that you can't even imagine. No.

SPEAKER_18 42:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_39 42:29

That you can't even like, oh, I can imagine a lot. No, it's even more than that. That they're not releasing. Yeah. Those are your aliens, my friends.

SPEAKER_18 42:38

Those are your aliens.

SPEAKER_39 42:39

That's that's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_18 42:40

Until the alien shows up and then we're all wrong.

SPEAKER_39 42:42

Yeah. No, but if one shows up, that well, that's another thing. They're gonna come around and just fly here and look around and then crash. They can make it uh how many light years away and they come to our planet, oops, we don't know how to fly in this atmosphere, and they crash. Come on.

SPEAKER_18 42:58

We didn't crash onto the moon. Look at that.

SPEAKER_39 43:02

Some people say we didn't go to the moon.

SPEAKER_18 43:03

I mean, I've seen the set. It's amazing. Really? It's at Kennedy Space Center.

SPEAKER_39 43:08

I've seen the set, yeah. What was that movie with OJ Simpson, Capricorn One? Oh, yeah. They faked everything.

SPEAKER_18 43:15

They faked everything, yeah.

SPEAKER_39 43:16

And then you tell me that movie didn't start a whole Oh, of course. Of course it did. And the CIA is behind a lot of that stuff. 100% propaganda stuff, submitting scripts, you know, adding things to scripts. You know they are.

SPEAKER_18 43:27

Again, did NASA want to care? I mean, NASA cared, but did the intelligence community that was launching satellites using NASA care that people wanted to say we didn't land on the moon? So but you know, now it's got a purpose. Like it never had a purpose, that's why we didn't go back. Now Elon Musk has hey, we put data center, shipping, like he's talking about all these things up there. He goes, We save environmental stuff on the planet. He is shot on. I'm just like, holy cow, I mean, that's visionary, crazy talk.

SPEAKER_39 43:55

Yeah, I mean, it in retrospect, we may be. History may tell us a hundred years from now, Tesla was the modern day. I mean, Elon Musk is the modern day Tesla with just his ideas. Now, he's not necessarily an inventor, he's an ideas guy. Yes, he's a good idea. He has a great team around him that take his ideas.

SPEAKER_18 44:13

He's the guy that puts it on a napkin and he's like, let's make this work, and then they all do it for him.

SPEAKER_39 44:18

With a little input from him, I mean he's not. Yes, he's a good, he's a good marketer and he's a great ideas guy. Tesla was the actual inventor guy. So there is a difference there. But then speaking of Tesla, some of the stuff we're seeing are the stuff that we seized back when Tesla died on his papers.

SPEAKER_18 44:35

On his papers, yep.

SPEAKER_39 44:36

We're seeing that stuff because all you have to do is go back and look. You can look at old science articles and tech journals and all that stuff back in the day and the things that he was formulating.

SPEAKER_18 44:44

Da Vinci, I mean another one. He had drawings in his books that was like, I think this is possible, and people call them fanical. Oh my gosh, this is fantasy never gonna happen. Now they're all coming true.

SPEAKER_39 44:57

That's my point. So the aliens once again are just our tech that we haven't as normal people, you know. You think by watching sci-fi that, oh yeah, I can imagine that it's even more than that.

SPEAKER_18 45:11

99%.

SPEAKER_39 45:12

Thank you.

SPEAKER_18 45:13

I'll leave up one percent.

SPEAKER_39 45:14

Yeah, because there is that one percent, and it could be ego or it could be facts, we're not really sure. All right, more with Lieutenant Colonel Chris O'Part, army uh retired. Uh, we'll get to the rest of the stuff. Now that we don't have a time constraint, we can have fun and go off on these tangents. So we'll get to more of what you had planned to discuss coming up.

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SPEAKER_43 49:11

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SPEAKER_39 49:21

Ba ba ba ba. Seven Nation Army. Yeah, why not? Because you were in the army at one time. You like this song? I love this song. Do you? It's on my my son has it on his playlist. Really? This is the only one I like by them, to be honest.

SPEAKER_18 49:33

Yeah, it was their one-hit wonder. I mean, I know they have other stuff, but.

SPEAKER_39 49:37

Everyone says he's he's quite brilliant. I I don't hear it. I mean, it's a catchy song. And it's not guitar, it's not bass. I'll tell you. It's weird guitar through an effect pedal.

SPEAKER_18 49:47

My friend is way better into music than I am. Um and we went to Black Label Society. Oh my that guy can play. I have never, I mean, all three acts were because one of them was one of his backup guys was his band. The second one we saw the uh Zack Sabbath, which is amazing because it's essentially a tribute to Ozzy and Black Sabbath, which was phenomenal. And then to see Black Label Society, and I'm just like, oh, they can play guitar. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_39 50:22

Zach Wilde is one of my top favorite guitar players.

SPEAKER_18 50:26

It was House of Blues, it was actually a good concert.

SPEAKER_39 50:28

Funny it's a funny story. Um we went to our Christmas party. We're gonna go do a break right away, so I'll just end it with this. And then we'll get to your stuff because we got until then. We we just got done outside, and we were eating, and we all said, Goodbye, thanks. The company Christmas party just in December, last December. And uh we were at uh uh what's the place where it's like they serve you meat. All meat. I can't think of the name.

SPEAKER_18 50:55

Brazilian. Yeah, that one.

SPEAKER_39 50:58

And we get outside, and I see this guy kind of standing like he was either going in to eat or he just got done. And I look at him and I do a double take, and I'm like, So I walked up to him, I go, anybody ever tell you you look like Zach Wilde? He goes, I am I was like, yeah! And I said he goes, No, I don't before I could get it out, he's like, No, I don't mind. We took pictures and he gave us free tickets to his show. My wife was pregnant out to here, so we couldn't go.

SPEAKER_18 51:26

But it was it was just it was yeah, and I didn't realize how religious he is. He's actually, yeah, he's a hardcore Catholic religious like he prayed before the show started, he prayed at the end of the show, and of course I thought it was because as uh the Southern Baptists will know, he has a lot of imagery that may contradict that around his set and everything, but he literally has put it in interviews and said, Oh, it's to jab at people to get them to But he did. He took he took a kneel right at the beginning of the show and a kneel right at the end, and he did the the Catholic genuflex, you know, sign of the cross and everything else, and I was like, I had to go look it up because I thought it was part of his act. I looked it up and then read all his interviews, and I'm like, Yeah, he's a deeply religious man on top of it.

SPEAKER_39 52:07

Uh he's he quit drinking years ago. Um he has this crucifix that he has outside of his house in his backyard, and every Sunday he'll say, Have a blessed Sunday. Yep. And he stands you know with it behind him, silhouette. Yeah, and he's he's very serious about it, but he's a very serious musician, accomplished keyboardist as well. Yeah, he can play the heck out of the keyboards, piano.

SPEAKER_18 52:28

And he really amazing he loved Ozzy. Yes, he did. He and he gives him credit forever rightfully so. He's like, listen, he helped me become where I am today.

SPEAKER_39 52:38

He was a 19-year-old kid, and there he is playing with Ozzy.

SPEAKER_18 52:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_39 52:41

You know, he was just a 19-year-old hot shot guitar player in his hometown in New Jersey, and look at him. And yeah, he I I bought his latest album, Autographed. Paid an extra five bucks, got it autographed, you know. I've just I've always been a Zach Wilde fan.

SPEAKER_18 52:54

So there's your uh music for the week, uh fans out there. There we go.

SPEAKER_39 53:00

Uh what it wasn't Zach Wilde, it was a homeless guy. No.

SPEAKER_18 53:04

Well, he wasn't he wasn't a kilt and uh extremely long hair.

SPEAKER_39 53:07

So it was no, it was Zach Wilde who we met. I got pictures to prove it. He was great. And he had his homeless guy. He had his he had his assistant. I know that's funny. He did look like a homeless guy, but he wasn't. He had his assistant come out of the van right away and say, hey, put these guys in the guest list. Boom, boom, boom. Sure enough, we were on the guest list. I don't think a homeless guy has an assistant coming out of a big van, but maybe in Los Angeles. I was gonna say more of Lieutenant Colonel Chris O'Bart, U.S.

SPEAKER_43 53:31

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SPEAKER_39 1:00:12

Are you a Metallica fan? Yes. Alright, now before we go off on another tangent. Yes, we will start. And go way far away from music, Zach Wilde, aliens.

SPEAKER_18 1:00:23

Metallica while you're blowing stuff up in Iraq is very nice.

SPEAKER_39 1:00:32

Alright, I see. I was just gonna go somewhere music-wise and I'm not. Yep. Uh, because I want you to discuss what you had talked about. So we covered some of it, but what was the next topic that you had in mind? By the way, in case you're tuning again, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Elpart, uh, U.S. Army retired. Uh, used to work at the Pentagon, been in the military for what, 20? 20, 20. 20. You got it right at 20.

SPEAKER_18 1:00:52

22 months, seven days. I don't know.

SPEAKER_39 1:00:54

But yes. So uh you worked at the Pentagon for many years and and you know stuff. So it's great to have you on and put your perspective and spin on things, uh, that what you're seeing. We've already well established that you're not the greatest fan of Secretary Hegseth. I am. So that makes it for an interesting conversation. Uh of course. Uh, but that's totally fine.

SPEAKER_18 1:01:13

So for those that missed it, the last segment, I did praise him. So as we get into this next part, please, textures, remember, I did praise him. I really liked how he went after and finally started addressing some of the uh fraud, waste, and abuse with the contracts and everything else. We played a whole segment. What frustrates me about him, and we mentioned this as well, is that sometimes when he doesn't feel necessary to communicate what he's thinking or what he's doing, he kind of gets this arrogance to him that normally gets him in trouble. So he announced that they were canceling the Poland deployments. We've been rotating a combat brigade, um, which is about 4,000 soldiers through Poland uh every six months with a headquarters. In reality, in my opinion, Poland loves us and they treat our soldiers amazing. And when I visited, it was phenomenal. Um we should just station troops in Poland and be done with it and be great. Move everybody out of Germany. Germany's done. We were supposed to be out of there already.

SPEAKER_39 1:02:14

I agree with that. So I thought that was the plan.

SPEAKER_18 1:02:16

Well, you know, everybody wants to hem and haw and Russia gets all mad, and some for some reason we listen. So um we just put them in Poland and be good to go. Uh and you could probably reduce your presence too, because Poland picks up. They've paid for they've paid for the construction of a lot of the bases there, they pay for the logistics, they use their own military to help support and to to get supplies to our troops, where in Germany it's all oh defense contractors, right? So we're it's all defense contractors. We already had that conversation. We just had that conversation. Well, he canceled them. Everybody got in an uproar because it was kind of out of the blue. And then the president said, Oh, no, we're not gonna cancel that because there is a tendency from the Secretary of Ward not to communicate well to the White House, and he's gotten in trouble a couple times where he's made decisions that have then had to get pulled back by the president because either it wasn't briefed, most likely through uh Susan Wiles or whoever it was to be called completely thought out, and that's what that's what normally bothers me. Um because most presidents would get extremely upset and that person wouldn't be alone long, but he's doing a good enough job that that's why he's there. That's why he hasn't gone down the road of Pam Bondy and some of the other ones yet. Maybe because he is doing a good job.

SPEAKER_39 1:03:31

And that's just it. Maybe Trump looks at him as like, okay, he's a little bit of a loose cannon, a little bit of a whatever, but man, is he good in this role? And man, do the troops love him. So I'm willing to take a little of the here and there. 100%. I'll correct it. That's where he is, and we'll move on.

SPEAKER_18 1:03:44

Yep, and that's that's why what makes uh President Trump a unique boss in the sense that most bosses, I mean, especially the administrations I worked under, both Democrat and Republican, they would have fired them. You got out of step with the White House, you were automatically gone, you are done, you can't do anything unless you talk to us.

SPEAKER_39 1:04:01

So that tells me that Trump truly is a great leader because he recognizes that the strengths in Secretary Heggseth outweigh the weaknesses. Correct. And I can do more with his strengths than I will lose with his weaknesses.

SPEAKER_18 1:04:16

Well, and then it's who else does he trust to put into the position? I mean, that's the other the other part too, is because you can get eaten alive by the bureaucracy so fast. And to Secretary Heseth's credit, he's been fighting back against the bureaucracy for a while. Um and he's done a good job. I thought he was gonna drown, and it's a slow start, slow, rocky start, but he's really starting to hit his stride.

SPEAKER_39 1:04:36

Okay, I think that is a fair assessment, and I'm in agreement with you.

SPEAKER_18 1:04:40

So and then the the uh the latest one that I'm really interested to see how it was gonna play out, is uh he's blocked or at least held up the promotions from colonel to uh general for the Air Force and the Navy, the complete lists. And of course the initial headline in the New York Times was block black generals and women, but that was like five out of the fifteen, but of course, because it's the New York Times. Thank you. Oh my gosh. Um But it'll be interesting to see what his rationale is because hasn't he already alluded to what his rationale is?

SPEAKER_39 1:05:13

We have too many generals.

SPEAKER_18 1:05:14

Well, and that is and if that's the case, again, this is where he gets himself in trouble. If he had said why are we promoting this many people? We have too many generals, I'm blocking the list until we can figure this out. Everyone would go. They'd still criticize him, but we But they have a reason. We have a reason, right? Before it was that you just let people invent the reason, which is how you get in front of the news cycle, right? So the news cycle started with well, he's blocking generals, block he's blocking these people. That's because of DEI and he hates women and he hates black people and he hates this, and he hates that, he hates that. No, he doesn't. And so it's like again, you because you didn't feel necessary to communicate what your decision is as Secretary of War, you now let other people plant the narrative, and now you're combating it. It's unnecessary time and it's taking away from if it is truly we have too many generals, which we do. We have more generals now than World War II.

SPEAKER_39 1:06:09

I think we won that war with the few that we had.

SPEAKER_18 1:06:12

Um that now it's like, okay, so how are you going to reposition these? And oh, by the way, generals are authorizations come from Congress. So how are you gonna work with them to permanently reduce them? Because you cannot promote people and not put them in, but they sit on the books. And they sit until the next president comes in or the next Secretary of Defense comes in, and then they refill them all back up.

SPEAKER_39 1:06:36

Now, you know as well as I do that many of these high-ranking, high-level appointments within almost any bureaucracy, but certainly in military sec you know, uh as well, a lot of times they're favors.

SPEAKER_18 1:06:51

Oh, a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_39 1:06:53

That person really doesn't there's no need for that person to be at that rank. There's no need for another general or another I don't know if they it goes high. Does it go as high as Colonel? Is that do they use those sometimes as also favor advancements?

SPEAKER_18 1:07:06

So my position at West Point when I retired got moved up from a lieutenant colonel to a colonel. Why did they want you to say same same is that what it was? No, no, no, no, it was after I left. Okay, well why though? So it was because they said, well, you know, everybody else was a colonel, and this is a three-star general, so we should have a colonel too, even though it can be done by a lieutenant colonel and done well, in my opinion. Uh hopefully people agree with me who used to work there. Um there's no need to bring in a full bird colonel. So again again, it goes back to well, we want this because my prestige is I want this, I want this, I need this. We have all these duplicate commands um in the joint force because the army's like, well, I don't trust the staff, which is their own staff within the joint command. So we have to have an army command that has a three-star general because if it's a four-star, we have to be a three-star. So therefore, we you know, be uh and so we convent these we we literally invent this. That's my biggest problem with Space Force is the same way. Space Force is a great concept and 100% needed to be created. But again, how did we implement it? Nobody gave up their assets. Nobody, no service said, Oh yeah, here's my satellites, here's my people, here's this. We started another layer of bureaucracy. It's just another department, right? And it's just another department of the Air Force. And we've duplicate duplicated all of these things. So now we've got four people doing the same job, just like you was describing with the contractors. We have it with the active service. So because they should be in charge of all of our satellites, but nobody wants to say Oh, and why did the Air Force get fought and stay under the Army for so long after World War II?

SPEAKER_39 1:08:47

Right. It was the US Army Air Corps.

SPEAKER_18 1:08:50

Because the Army wanted control over the airplanes and wanted to tell them where to go. That was the only reason.

SPEAKER_39 1:08:56

And the Army still has its own airplanes. We do. So I flew on some of them. There you go. They're very nice. Some of them. Yeah. Some are bumpy.

SPEAKER_18 1:09:04

Some are very bumpy.

SPEAKER_39 1:09:05

Some are like, hold on, hold on, here we go. I've been in a couple of years.

SPEAKER_18 1:09:10

This uh running joke, although it's true. The United States Army has more boats than the Navy. And I use the word boat because boat counts. We have pontoon boats, we have landing craft, we have merchant marine shipping containers, everything else, but they have more ships. I mean, they have the bigger ones. Right. But we do have more boats as a whole in our inventory between all of our landing craft and all the other stuff.

SPEAKER_39 1:09:35

I wouldn't have known that. Okay, so let's go back a little bit to the whole, you know, we promote people because it's a favor, looking for prestige, looks good on paper, all of those things that we've discussed. What is the pay, and you don't have to to to tell us what you made, although it's public knowledge, I'm sure. What is the paid differential between or the difference between a lieutenant colonel and a Fulbert colonel?

SPEAKER_18 1:09:59

Big pay raise.

SPEAKER_39 1:10:00

It's a big pay raise.

SPEAKER_18 1:10:02

And then even more between colonel and general. Right. That's where the massive, massive increase comes.

SPEAKER_39 1:10:10

So they're also angling for that.

SPEAKER_18 1:10:12

They're also, yeah, they're angling for I mean, they of course you want to be CEO, you want to be one of the few.

SPEAKER_39 1:10:18

I want to be promoted, yes, agree.

SPEAKER_18 1:10:20

Well, and then it's all the perks that come with it. You mean you get free housing, you get your own personal security detachment, you get a cook, you get Is that necessary? And that's where, you know, when when f there's five hundred and thirty-five members of Congress, none of them get a personal security detail. Okay. Oh, but they could kidnap him and take him away. And I'm like, he doesn't have the nuclear codes. Like, uh and you're telling me the FBI is not going to do a job to be able to take a kidnap general? Like, I don't understand. Um so I mean you have all those things that go with it too.

SPEAKER_39 1:10:51

Now, some of them So when will Hegseth address that, just to throw that in there?

SPEAKER_18 1:10:56

That's uh that's a massive culture.

SPEAKER_39 1:10:59

I understand, but so what? I understand. Just because it's that way and it's always been that way, doesn't mean we need to continue it when we're broke.

SPEAKER_18 1:11:06

Well, and then the problem is that nothing is ever pinpointed because then you're targeting people, right? So it's all these blanketed things. Um so example, you know, I worked with Secretary of the Army. They have the Secretary of the Army, which he shares with the stuff, they have a private jet that is run by the by army pilots. Okay. I a lot of times I when I first got there, I'm like, this is ridiculous. Like, why for him to go visit the troops and go to the meetings and do all the things that we did, there was no way he could fly commercial and not get overworked and s i.e. like not be able to do it. So we mean the fact that we were able to fly to Fort Knox, Kentucky, get on the ground, look, talk to the soldiers, talk to this, and then fly back to the Pentagon in four hours. That's never gonna happen on a commercial jet. Now five levels below, should they have their own plane? Should a two-star general have his own plane? That's what we can talk about, but no one'll come in and say that. They'll come in and be like, we're gonna cut all planes. And it's like, well, okay, now you've cut everybody off, right? Because that's how they do the cuts. They do the same thing with true productions. It's like you need to cut five percent of your workforce. They don't say, Well, your public relations staff has exploded to be 30 people from five. Do you we probably should cut that? And oh, by the way, how many people do you need to be in this department? We just tell them cut five percent.

SPEAKER_39 1:12:28

So why don't people do this in a smart way instead of these blanket things for either a the press, like look at me, I made 10% cuts across the board.

SPEAKER_18 1:12:37

It's talking points. You don't have to upset Congress because you're not targeting certain things that Congress may want. Um, and then you don't target certain people. Because every general has their four-star retired and four-star above them. That's gonna be like, sir, can you believe they're gonna cut us? It's gonna end the world. You know, we're gonna lose national intelligence, something bad's gonna happen. You know, I mean, every time you go to cut the CIA or somebody, they're like, Oh, you're putting America at risk. You have to give our funding.

SPEAKER_39 1:13:03

When I was in basic training, we learned about ranks. You know, everybody everybody, every recruit does. And I remember we the you know, the be my little general. Remember that? That's how you remember with the two, one, two, three. It's never left my head. No.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:19

Brigadier General, Major General. Be Major General Lieutenant General.

SPEAKER_39 1:13:22

Right. And then we got the discussion came up about the five-star general of the army. And at that time we didn't have one.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:28

We still don't.

SPEAKER_39 1:13:29

Okay, that's what I was asked.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:30

It's a World War II, it's a wartime only rank.

SPEAKER_39 1:13:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:33

And that is so that way we can put a guy with five stars and tell the other countries what to do. That's why we made it up for World War II.

SPEAKER_39 1:13:40

See? It's more nonsense.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:41

So that way we didn't have to listen to Montgomery and some of the other World War II generals that were like, you're idiots.

SPEAKER_39 1:13:46

Uh Jeff Caroline Forrest on the Budget Blinds text line said bloat, and I said, Yeah, too much bloat. And he said, and once again, the taxpayers get screwed.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:54

Yep. I mean, two-thirds of our discretionary funding comes from for the goes to the Pentagon.

SPEAKER_39 1:14:00

I mean, it's can't we just find people that want to spend the money wisely? Run it like a bit Oh wait, we hired somebody to do that.

SPEAKER_18 1:14:09

It's it's just there's so much this is every time you start, like government doesn't cut. They say they cut, but they never do.

SPEAKER_39 1:14:16

Nope. Just like they will never rescind any tax. Nope. That we as taxpayers, okay, we'll agree to a penny tax. It never goes away. Okay, we finished that road project. We're good. Thanks. Get your penny back.

SPEAKER_18 1:14:27

I will say that's the only thing what I do like about South Carolina is at least you have to vote on it, and at least it has a list that comes with it. I understand. But think about New York. Like, indefinite will always be there and just morphs into the general budget.

SPEAKER_39 1:14:41

How how's that working for us now? Because our roads are pretty poopy. Well, I mean, they're not bad and basically they've already told us that if you don't vote for this penny tax, we'll just do it a different way. We'll just do it a different way. That's correct.

SPEAKER_18 1:14:52

But that's I understand. But again, concept, right? How do politicians implement the concept is the problem.

SPEAKER_39 1:14:59

Andy Hazel, speaking of money, coming up.

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Today's market report with Andy Hazel from Edward Jones, right now on Talk 94.5.

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Andy Hazel from Edward Jones. You know what's so funny, Andy, is I like to always start off by saying, Hi, Mom! And she already beat me. Like as soon as we went to commercial break, she goes, Good morning! Your mom is hilarious. She's quick. I know.

SPEAKER_13 1:18:31

She's ready every morning. I know.

SPEAKER_39 1:18:33

Andy Hazel, go ahead and give us that report.

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SPEAKER_39 1:19:38

Alright, Andy, go ahead. Quick, what you got for a joke?

SPEAKER_13 1:19:42

What did the baby chicken say when its mom laid an orange?

SPEAKER_39 1:19:47

I don't know.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:49

Look at the orange mama laid.

SPEAKER_39 1:19:51

Oh my gosh. What do you got, Lieutenant Colonel?

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SPEAKER_43 1:20:01

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SPEAKER_26 1:20:16

News this hour from Town Hall. I'm John Scott. President Trump says he remains optimistic about reaching a ceasefire with Iran.

SPEAKER_21 1:20:25

The negotiation itself is going very well, actually. Very well. It could happen. I mean, if it happens, and it might not happen, you know, who knows? But if it happens, it could happen like over the weekend. How do you find ceasefire? Uh, pretty much the way it is. It's a different part of the world. You know, I'd say that part of the world ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner.

SPEAKER_26 1:20:48

The House, for the first time, approving a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran. House Speaker Mike Johnson had tried to prevent an outcome that would show the mounting opposition to the war. The roll call Wednesday, 215 to 208. But the next steps are uncertain. President Trump likely will reject any measure from Congress to limit his authority. With more of that story, Washington correspondent Rich Thomason.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:23

America's economic engine cranked out more jobs last month. Payroll processor ADP says job creation hit a 16-month high, 122,000 jobs added in May. Wall Street expected to see just 110,000 new jobs.

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The United States looking to impose some new tariffs on dozens of trading partners around the world.

SPEAKER_45 1:23:22

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SPEAKER_26 1:24:01

The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA's Maven mission, has ended after more than 11 years in orbit. News at townhall.com. Controversy surrounding allegations that President Trump gets a little shut-eye when he's on the job.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:21

Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, California Democrat Ted Lew asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio about President Trump.

SPEAKER_50 1:24:28

Have you been at more than one meeting where President Trump has fallen asleep? That's false.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:34

The guy doesn't sleep.

SPEAKER_49 1:24:45

Rubio responded, I've never been at any meeting where and the things you're showing me now, he was not falling asleep.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:50

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SPEAKER_39 1:26:28

Well, it happened again. The thing just stopped on me. I don't understand what's going on. Lieutenant Colonel, are you there? I'm here. All right. Hold on.

SPEAKER_18 1:26:34

I got to things are just stopping, turning off. I know. Oh, it's because AOC just came on the screen behind. Oh. Therefore everything crashes. Oh. The computer is like, no, she's talking again.

SPEAKER_39 1:26:44

You know what? Why? I'm willing to bet that that's it. Hold on, let me turn off the TV, see if it works. Traffic and weather together on talk 94.5. We are an AOC free zone. How's that? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_18 1:26:57

New Jersey just put a terrorist. Yes, and terrorist ties, I know. I mean, I read that like three weeks ago. A front from Jersey, and he's like, that's that's where I just left. Like he's like, I am so glad I moved.

SPEAKER_39 1:27:07

And we're gonna we're gonna find out if Maine will elect a Nazi.

SPEAKER_18 1:27:10

Yeah, Nazi womanizing crazy person. Yeah, thank you. Who loves to, you know, bash Navy SEALs because he was a Marine observing them, killing people.

SPEAKER_39 1:27:19

Alright, your forecast here. Wow, that was a lot. Mostly Sunday, high near 81. We're gonna see the uh humidity, or feel it rather, creep up as we go through the rest of uh today and into tomorrow and the weekend. Or temperatures will kind of top out in the mid to upper 80s, and then certainly feeling much warmer than that with that humidity. Next chance for rain, we still need it. Monday.

SPEAKER_43 1:27:39

The Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers.

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SPEAKER_43 1:27:44

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SPEAKER_39 1:27:56

Alright, so it's no Liz today. Is me and thankfully Lieutenant Colonel Christophart has decided to uh our U.S. Army retired has decided to hang out with us, and I appreciate it. So let's play his thing because it brings him a lot of joy.

SPEAKER_43 1:28:12

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SPEAKER_18 1:28:25

There we go.

SPEAKER_39 1:28:26

You just love it, don't you? Yes. Uh, did you happen to hear let's talk a little bit about Iran? Okay. And uh, you know, a lot a lot of people Liz and I make fun of the people that say it because it's like, come on, really? You know, that's the Jews. You know, they blame the Jews for everything. And I've just I'm so fatigued over it that it's it's laughable at this point. And if that were the case, I don't think we would have had the phone call that was rumored to be pretty heated. And now through this interview with Miranda Devine, Trump basically kind of said it was heated. Yeah. So here's just that little clip here. Here we go. Not verbatim because there's some naughty words.

SPEAKER_34 1:29:05

Now Axios reported that you had a phone call with Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, in which you were angry with him. You said, Are you effing crazy? What are you effing doing? Um I helped you stay out of jail. Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms? I did.

SPEAKER_21 1:29:21

I don't want to say angry, I was a little bit perturbed at his uh perturbed, constantly fighting with Lebanon. You know, at some point I said, maybe we gotta stop this. We gotta stop it. We're gonna have a very good relationship. We've done it well done well together. He always says we could never have done it, but everybody knows that we could have never done it without the United States. But we've we've I've worked very well together. I like Bebe a lot, and I've worked very well with him. We had a you know where he I'm a wartime president, he's a wartime prime minister, very important part of the world. And I think we've done very you know very well. We've we've gotten along very well together.

SPEAKER_39 1:30:05

So the whole Trump is controlled by the J. Uh, can we put that narrative to bed? Why will they ignore this part? I mean, BB does what he wants to do.

SPEAKER_18 1:30:15

He's his own independent leader that wants has a 40 million people around him that want to wipe them off planet Earth. That's right. You know, I mean which again it goes back to it's biblical, it's been biblical, it's historical, and then they want to wipe the Jews off, etc. Right. Um but it's also a a world battle that we're starting to see. So you're seeing it across Europe with the migration from the Middle East, uh the the value structure is different when it comes to that, and the tolerance structure is different. Yet democratic leaders here in the United States keep saying and they did in Europe too, the establishment, the liberal establishment, it'll be fine, we can integrate, we can all coexist, we all can live together, which to an extent is true, except when you're putting a terrorist into Congress. I mean, he blew up the World Trade Center in 1993. He literally knew the Sheikh was sitting next to him when he was making the plans. Yet he's gonna be a member of Congress. Well uh so so you understand. So who are we attacking? We're gonna attack the Jews and say they control him? Well, that's to me fabricated. Um, but there is definite control of different people who believe in um Islam that are starting to permeate into these liberal and you know establishment leftist groups from Europe all the way over. And we see it in England all the time now, in Great Britain, we see it in France, Germany. You get any German to not get past their you know being German, and they'll sit and break and they'll break it down and be like, our country's worse off now because we keep placating. Um Britain, they just convicted the kid, the man who killed the 18-year-old kid. Yes. And when they showed up, he said, Oh, he said racial things to me. So they handcuffed the kid who had been stabbed. He they were interviewing him. Meanwhile, the kid's bleeding out, and they have the body cam footage of it. He's bleeding out on the sidewalk because the British police put him in handcuffs. They didn't give him first aid until he passed out and then he died.

SPEAKER_39 1:32:24

Yes. No walk, right?

SPEAKER_18 1:32:26

Yes, Noak, the Noak case.

SPEAKER_39 1:32:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_18 1:32:28

And it's like, wait a minute, is that where you want your country to be? To where you're so afraid? And they're exploiting it. I was just gonna say everybody's exp they're exploiting it.

SPEAKER_39 1:32:37

They and it's this is not a secret. This is not something they just casually kind of mention in passing. They in their own houses of worship will tell you this is how we are going to do it. They are playing the long game, they want to take over the world, first and foremost, kill the Jews. Yep. Second, kill all the infidels. What is an infidel? We have to tell people, because maybe you don't know. It sounds like a fun, catchy phrase out of a movie. What it really is is a non-believer in their religion.

SPEAKER_18 1:33:03

Correct.

SPEAKER_39 1:33:04

Anybody anybody who doesn't believe in what their religion is is an infidel. That's right. You don't belong on this, sharing the earth with them. That is in their religion. So I don't want no, I I have to add this, and I know I'm gonna get beat up when I say this, and you can disagree with me, Juan. I don't think you will, because you're knowledgeable and you read. I'm tired of people telling me, oh, but Nick, it's an it's it's a religion of peace. No. No, it is not.

SPEAKER_18 1:33:32

There's there's a big difference between Christianity and Jesus' teaching and Muhammad. Mohammed, as you said, we will kill all of the infidels. And Christianity, and with Jesus, he said, Well, if you don't believe, you're not gonna go to heaven.

SPEAKER_39 1:33:48

That's it.

SPEAKER_18 1:33:49

That's it. There's no we're gonna lead armies. You know, I said it in my sermon, you can find it on Facebook. Um that I think I was there. You you were there. That it said you know Jesus never stood up. There is not a single writing where he said, Grab your sword, let's go convert these people.

SPEAKER_39 1:34:06

Exactly. Where now man has perverted Christianity and done that. And done that, but that wasn't Jesus.

SPEAKER_18 1:34:12

That wasn't what he taught. Muhammad taught to go and kill people that don't believe in what we are preaching. That is fundamentally in the Quran, and it is what it is. You can't dispute those facts. And how you interpret them and how you want to use them, that's where things go wrong. And they those are two facts.

SPEAKER_39 1:34:30

Yes, and they tell the people in their houses of worship, otherwise known as mosques, that are all over this country and all over the countries you just mentioned.

SPEAKER_18 1:34:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_39 1:34:39

We allow that. They tell them that they're you said exploiting. They're taking advantage of our own weaknesses to strengthen their position because they will start with school boards.

SPEAKER_18 1:34:52

They will start with Dearborn Michigan, the Somali community out there, Minneapolis.

SPEAKER_39 1:34:56

And then move on to, you know, higher positions of leadership, whether it be, you know, uh, like I mentioned, with local governments, state governments, and then we get into federal governments. And then you have people like Elon Omar. And you have people like Rashida Talib, who by the way was called out on the floor. I don't know if you saw this. Did you see the clip?

SPEAKER_53 1:35:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_39 1:35:14

Yesterday. Uh you know, maybe I should play it as well. Just play it. It's not that long. It's not that long. And there's some inaudible stuff, and the things that you can't hear is Rashida Talib off mic, screaming, losing her freaking mind over this guy because he has the you know what to finally call it out. So here, I'll let it play.

SPEAKER_22 1:35:32

For my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, I do not appreciate their lack of education and understanding of what is really going on there. So let us be clear. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Yep. The gentleman lady from Michigan, and its members are butchers that you like to you know hang out with to a certain extent. No nation can be fully sovereign when an armed group operates outside the authority of its elected.

SPEAKER_36 1:35:58

She's screaming.

SPEAKER_22 1:35:59

Oh, I'm sorry. Are we getting a little emotional?

SPEAKER_36 1:36:01

Gentlemen will suspend.

SPEAKER_22 1:36:03

Oh, gentlemen will suspend.

SPEAKER_39 1:36:05

They shut him up.

SPEAKER_18 1:36:06

Yeah, of course they did.

SPEAKER_39 1:36:08

And they let her continue to talk off, Mike.

SPEAKER_24 1:36:10

Of course. I certainly believe you advocate for them. Yes. You advocate for terrorists on a daily basis.

SPEAKER_36 1:36:17

The house will be in order.

SPEAKER_18 1:36:23

The house will be in order. She does, and the house will be in order to be funding back to it. Like, it's like just own it. Colleagues. She's still screaming. What she's more angry about is that we call them terrorists, not that she actually funds them.

SPEAKER_36 1:36:36

This is a serious topic. We will debate it respectfully. Hold on. She does get to the money. Is the gentlewoman from Michigan making a motion to take down?

SPEAKER_09 1:36:44

Yes, Mr. Speaker. I am. That is a direct attack on my character.

SPEAKER_36 1:36:48

It is.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:49

Gentlemen from Ohio will be seated.

SPEAKER_36 1:36:52

Gentlemen from Ohio will be seated.

SPEAKER_18 1:36:55

You can't do that. Yeah. So I mean you can't do that. This is going on. I know. Please please don't tell me you can't stop talking.

SPEAKER_39 1:37:04

That's great. So this my point why I bring that up is because it goes on, it it fur perfectly meshes with the conversation we were having. This is what's happening and has happened to the degree in those other countries you mentioned.

SPEAKER_18 1:37:18

100%.

SPEAKER_39 1:37:19

And we're slowly letting it happen here.

SPEAKER_18 1:37:22

I mean, I've said before on the show, and I tell anybody that wants to listen, we are blessed with the fact that when our immigration policies collapsed, it was with like-minded Christian people from South America. When you look at a majority of them, yes, there was criminals mixed in there. Oh, yeah. But when you look at most Hispanics when they come over, it is a Christian kind of ideals more line up with them. Correct. And they which is why, you know, I I had a really old Italian guy, um, he's about 92, that came up to me in my neighbor my old neighborhood and told me, Chris, the the Mexicans are no different than the Italians. We're both Catholics, we both love to build stuff, and we came over. He goes, Now we came over legally, which was just a different part of the times, but this is this we are we are ha blessed to have had that. If it was gonna collapse, right, we still should put all those policies back into effect. But at least the group wasn't what Europe is experiencing, which is utter craziness. And it's gonna it's gonna collapse. It's gonna collapse the the Western democracies.

SPEAKER_39 1:38:23

And it kind of already is over in their countries. 100%. And thankfully we're we're listening they underestimate just like they did in other countries have underestimated the honest, true, and although it's eroded and you know it has, the American spirit.

SPEAKER_18 1:38:38

Right.

SPEAKER_39 1:38:39

We're not gonna stand for this. No. And this isn't I don't mean this in a violent way or as a threat, but you have certain sex of people S-E-C-T-S of people coming here telling us now and using our own laws against us, telling us that, oh no, no, no, that offends me. I don't like the fact that you have a pet dog. I don't like the fact that you are selling bacon on sale. Things like that. Yep. And they're making these little teeny tiny communities, you know, we better placate is the word of the morning. We better just go ahead and say, okay, so how about you don't advertise that you're selling bacon? How about you keep your dogs inside?

SPEAKER_18 1:39:18

That's that slow eventual Which is local, which which is fine if it stays local. I I wouldn't want to live there, but it's because you've but it's not. Well exactly. And that's where once you start putting people into Congress, because you're you know gerrymandering districts in order to get that type of stuff. Um, and then the fact that she's so fake and they're so fake that they won't just come out and say it because they know that then they won't be able to run for office. Right? So they lie. Oh, you're attacking my character. Well, you've said things that literally he is repeating. Yes. So how are you tear car attacking your character? Like it's who you are.

SPEAKER_49 1:39:53

What he said is it's factual.

SPEAKER_18 1:39:54

If you don't like it, then change who you are. Don't run for office. Get voted out of office.

SPEAKER_39 1:40:00

But it's Well, that's just it. The imported population supports her.

SPEAKER_18 1:40:05

Well, and but based on the gerrymander district.

SPEAKER_39 1:40:07

Right. There's that.

SPEAKER_18 1:40:09

We also have to remember if you drew the district normally, she would not have enough votes to be able to be able to get it.

SPEAKER_39 1:40:16

So when's Michigan and oh, that's all run by Democrats, they'll never change their maps.

SPEAKER_18 1:40:20

No, and it's you know, we did we're and people oh I love how they use the gerrymandering of South Carolina and everything else. No, we racially gerrymandered the South based on a federal law and and a court ruling. Now we're just going back to gerrymandering as a whole. Like everyone's doing the same thing. And you can do independent commissions, your state can decide what you want to do, but it's you know, it's you you draw based on the population sizes.

SPEAKER_39 1:40:45

You know, somebody says here on the budget blinds text line, uh, within ten years we'll be fighting these people in the streets. I don't feel it's gonna come to that. I really don't. I feel that there is a shift, and it may not seem like it because of the news that we're getting fed to us, which by the way has its own agenda.

SPEAKER_26 1:41:01

Right.

SPEAKER_39 1:41:02

But I really think that the average red-blooded American who believes in the American ideals, which is, you know, faith, family, freedom, all of that stuff that is cliched and used for campaign slogans, there is some truth to it. It has eroded, yes. With today's sum of today's youth, yes, you know, they're being they're being brainwashed.

SPEAKER_18 1:41:21

You're seeing a comeback though. That's my point. You're seeing a growth in young Christian men and women. Um you're seeing women starting to wake up and being realized that transgenders are crushing women's sports. Yes. That you know, a lot of Muslim do not believe in equal women rights. No, they're being y the left is being used as tools by tools, 100% by that and you're gonna see this generation that's trying to hold on to power right now, the Gavin Newsoms and the rest that will placate it to hold on to power, they're gonna disappear, and then what are you gonna have left? And so that's what the interesting part that we're gonna see. Well, and how how people are just getting tired of it.

SPEAKER_39 1:41:58

We had this Eamon, I had the audio, I played it months and months and months ago that Glenn Beck had actually shared on his uh X account, and it was a guy just sitting there, and he's you know, he's a leader of his his his religion and his hometown and his place of worship, the mosque, and said that you what people don't realize is you go ahead, we'll support you of killing your baby. You go ahead and we'll support you with your uh different views on sexual relations and and you know the trans thing and all that for now. But I can tell you this that no Muslim woman ever would be able to abort that baby. Nope. Ever engage in any kind of even though they do secretly behind doors, but publicly they don't engage in any same-sex situations. Nope. So they're using them, and they this guy admitted it, we're using these people to affect the change that we can't on our own do, and they side with us. They're useful idiots for our eventual takeover, which is their goal to take over the planet.

SPEAKER_18 1:42:58

Yeah, I mean, it's not even an organized like the caliphate and wherever it's doing, it's just uh built into the faith system.

SPEAKER_39 1:43:04

It's built into their religion. Yes. They don't have to be a part of Hezbollah or the Palestinian goofy crowd, or you know, the murderous thugs of name it, whoever, whatever, you know, country. It's just the fact that that's what they believe in wholeheartedly, and it completely contradicts our way of our Western way of life.

SPEAKER_18 1:43:23

I mean, that's the separation of church and state, which some people like to to kind of criticize that isn't important in the United States Constitution because it will prevent that takeover, it will prevent that that doing that.

SPEAKER_39 1:43:36

And Jaria law uh is completely against the Constitution.

SPEAKER_18 1:43:40

And so is the Hasidic Jew uh law that they have up in New York that's mind-boggling to me. Yes. Um and you know, we have the Mormon groups, the hardcore radical Mormon groups out in but that's also the beauty of America is that you can go find your own little community and you don't have to have the government come to tell you. No, I disagree with it hard wholeheartedly. Right, let's be real. But the state, once the state tries to dictate this is how you should believe, this is how you should this is how you should vote, that's when things start to to melt because then who knows who's in charge. You know, like you look at I mean what if what if a Catholic we had a Catholic state religion? I mean, that would look much different, would not allow us to have all of the religious freedoms that we have within Christianity. And you know, part of a byproduct that we have to watch for and be smarter than is when other religions that are hostile to our country come in, we have to call it out. Just like you did on the floor of the Senate. Yes. Or the House.

SPEAKER_39 1:44:39

The House. And and I agree, and this is why I don't feel that we'll be fighting any real wars in the streets with you know the other religion like some are speculating. I I I just I'm not buying into that. I think that we would put us. Europe well, they're already so far gone. Yeah, comparatively.

SPEAKER_18 1:44:58

Comparatively, and that's why, because the the the what's becoming the minority is going to get oppressed and they're going to rise up because they were in power for so long.

SPEAKER_39 1:45:07

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SPEAKER_39 1:50:19

Lieutenant Colonel Chris O'Park is hanging out with me for the rest of the show. I do appreciate it.

SPEAKER_18 1:50:24

My pleasure as always.

SPEAKER_39 1:50:25

Yes, thank you. And thanks, thanks for hanging out with my daughter. I think on our seventh anniversary part, the Seven Year Edge Party, you two sat in the corner for a good 20, 30 minutes and playing Django.

SPEAKER_18 1:50:35

She took me to the last piece.

SPEAKER_40 1:50:38

Is she pretty good?

SPEAKER_18 1:50:39

She's very good at Django. Which I thought, okay, this will be a short game because I watched her like knock over the tower with Nick. Oh no, that was just to get rid of dad so that she could then corner me.

SPEAKER_39 1:50:49

I know. I was like playing, like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_18 1:50:52

She got so excited as all the pieces kept coming out, and it was like, oh my goodness, this it's gonna wobble, it's gonna fall. And then she was strategically picking harder and harder ones as she learned. Gave me a run for my money.

SPEAKER_39 1:51:04

Not bad, huh? Alright. So uh I'm supposed to tell you uh from Mad Dog, tell Lieutenant Colonel I owe him a beer or two next time I see him.

SPEAKER_18 1:51:12

All right.

SPEAKER_39 1:51:14

So you and I were talking, and we gotta go to break here, but I just wanted to get your points of view on this because we were talking about the differences in religion, and we're not slamming the religion, but however, uh a protection mode kicks in when part of your religion, your creed, your code, and your religion is to kill non-believers, I draw the line. Right. Okay, so that and we're talking about they're dealing with that at a much more rapid pace because of how they let things progress there in the other countries and Europe and whatever. And we're experiencing a little bit of it. It's kind of starting to rear its ugly head here, and we've got some people in elected office that believe those things. They'll tell you to your face, no, we can all just get along. We know it's a lie. And this person was called out by Max Miller, I believe from Ohio, where she did to leave, and she lost it.

SPEAKER_18 1:52:04

Right. Yes.

SPEAKER_39 1:52:05

And it just makes me wonder is Nancy Mace right? I don't have the audio, so I'll just read her text. Here's her to her her tweet. If you were born in some hellhole country and moved to America, you have no right to tell us how to conduct our business. Your ideas didn't work back home, they won't work here. Foreign-born people do not belong in any public office, period. America first. How do you feel about that?

SPEAKER_18 1:52:35

I mean, we've had some really smart immigrants that have come over, so I I don't necessarily agree with it. Okay. Um is that too far? I think it's too far. Okay. Um but however, we should be more selective and think about where your allegiance are to. I mean, you think about like Einstein immigrated from Germany, etc., but they all came over and were like, our country sucked. Like they admitted it.

SPEAKER_37 1:52:56

That's the difference.

SPEAKER_18 1:52:58

I think that's the big difference of not trying to come. And I say the same thing of transplants that come down from the north here. I'll be sitting around the dinner table and they'll talk about well, I like South Carolina, but I don't necessarily like their politics. And I'm like, okay, then keep them to yourself. Well, what do you mean? Don't you want to make South Carolina better? Not in your vision, otherwise I wouldn't you'd be living back north still. So why do I want to take your policies down here? So I kind of see view it the same way. If you're immigrating to our country and you want to talk about how great America is and you want to kind of assimilate and then improve based on your intelligence and your personal experiences, that'd be great. But to come over and say, Well, we're gonna do things like I did back home, or I'm gonna support countries that you there's a reason why you are where you are. And it's not because of the oppressive corporations and the great American establishment above it's because your country never got its crap together. So guess what? Don't try to bring that over here. Just like I told Northerners, don't bring your stuff down here. Leave it back north. Like, okay, yeah, there's little things that I may want to tweak and little things, and you know, sometimes they talk about too much taxes in the Republican establishment, etc. etc., and how they do business. But it's definitely still better than what's happening in New York and New Jersey and where I came from.

SPEAKER_39 1:54:07

Let's not let it slide into the purple and then blue.

SPEAKER_18 1:54:10

And it's not because of personalities, it's because of their beliefs and how they believe government is supposed to help people.

SPEAKER_39 1:54:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_18 1:54:18

Government does not help people. No. Ever. Like the Pentagon can in the army can talk all the we take care of soldiers. In the end, you're a piece of equipment in a war machine. Yes. So I mean that that that that's in the end.

SPEAKER_39 1:54:30

That's evident by all of the veterans' programs that we need that are not connected to the government whatsoever.

SPEAKER_18 1:54:36

Hundred percent correct. So it's the same thing of don't tell me that the government that, you know, because I watched in the north and I watched in California and other places try to fix things, and it always gets worse and it always strangles, you know, all of our freedoms.

SPEAKER_39 1:54:49

I agree with you.

SPEAKER_18 1:54:51

I don't think that's we have laws to prevent highest offices. Right. So written into the Constitution, because they had the same issues, right? You know, you have to be born on U.S. soil to be a president. Right.

SPEAKER_39 1:55:03

I think birthright citizenship needs to be fixed. It it does need to be fixed. I think it is garbage. So it was because of the Chinese baby mills that are even in Texas.

SPEAKER_18 1:55:11

And it's it was needed be at the time of the Civil War in order to own. Well, that's and and of course to allow black Americans to become Americans because there was a prejudice. Well, fast forward 150 years later, guess what? We can revisit that. That wasn't an original thing of part of the Constitution. So we can revisit it. That's what makes our you know Constitution great, is we can revise it based on changing tame uh changing times.

SPEAKER_39 1:55:38

All right. I gotta take another break. I'm so sorry. Uh I've gotta make sure everything's here because this thing's playing game. No, I didn't.

SPEAKER_18 1:55:45

Oh. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_39 1:55:46

I took all my breaks.

SPEAKER_18 1:55:48

Wasn't that like the famous Howard Stern Don Imus morning shows? Like they basically their last 30 minutes was all commercials because they skipped so many breaks. Really? Oh, yeah, all the time. No. All the time. Like the last 15-20 minutes. You can't do that here. Oh. No. That's because that's a good program manager.

SPEAKER_43 1:56:03

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SPEAKER_39 2:03:23

Are you an Uncle Ted Newton fan?

SPEAKER_18 2:03:25

Yeah, I heard about uh giving gunright talks yesterday, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_39 2:03:30

Did he play that clip? Yeah, I did. Yeah. It's great. It's basically it's the same thing that Megadon, who frequents the show here once in a while. You know, we elect and we forget, and we can't do that.

SPEAKER_18 2:03:40

No, we gotta hold him accountable.

SPEAKER_39 2:03:42

That's right. So uh Lieutenant Colonel Chris Opart has uh decided to hang with me for the rest of the day. I do appreciate that very much.

SPEAKER_18 2:03:48

It's almost over.

SPEAKER_39 2:03:49

I know it is almost over. It's crazy. I know. Nobody's listening to it. Talk radio talking? I don't understand. No, no, we shouldn't be doing that. One more one more little clip that kind of goes along with what we were talking about on some of these people that come here and take advantage of our system and play the race card when it's convenient for them, play the victim card, and these lefty loonies roll over and go, Yeah, we gotta be nice and fair to everybody, and then they walk away with all the money in the house and they leave. That's kind of what Brandon Gill, congressman of Texas, not a lawyer, but boy, listen to him, and he sounds like a lawyer in other case, other uh uh clips that I played. The guy is really good. Here's this big revelation on the Hill, uh not yesterday, the day before, when they were talking about these Medicaid fraud companies that were being investigated. This is just again, on what we were talking about, what they're already doing in those European countries, they're doing it here and they're getting closer.

SPEAKER_08 2:04:46

You've identified multiple individuals and LLCs that that you believe engaged in fraud.

SPEAKER_39 2:04:51

People may not be able to hear this because it's in one channel. Oh, I can hear it in my Yeah, they might not be able to hear it. I'll keep playing until somebody tells me I can't hear it.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:01

You've identified multiple individuals and LLCs that that you believe engaged in fraud. Um how many of these had Somali or Bhutanese or other African origin names?

SPEAKER_28 2:05:11

100%.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:12

100%. And how many did you look through? I mean, that's 100% of how many, roughly.

SPEAKER_28 2:05:18

Um I looked at the names of hundreds of companies. I looked more deeply into maybe fifty.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:25

More deeply into fifty. You looked into hundreds of companies, and one hundred percent, you're telling me, had names that were Somali, bootnese, or other of other sort of African origin derivation.

SPEAKER_28 2:05:35

Correct. I thought I saw an American and I was very excited, but it turned out to be the teenage son of that money launderer who was actually just a proxy for this woman from Ghana.

SPEAKER_39 2:05:44

Okay, so there you go. Yeah. 100% of these Medicaid fraud companies were led by foreign-born people. They're stealing our money.

SPEAKER_18 2:05:56

They figured out how to game the system.

SPEAKER_39 2:05:58

Yeah. And thank you, by the way, folks, on the Budget Binds text line, for letting me know that uh you guys could hear that. Because sometimes when the audio comes in on one channel, it doesn't go through, it doesn't go through because we're a mono station. Talk radio, the mandated by the FCC. We must be mono. All right, so there's a big operation in Abbeyville, South Carolina. Do you know where that is? I don't.

SPEAKER_18 2:06:16

You don't? No.

SPEAKER_39 2:06:18

I am surprised at you, sir.

SPEAKER_18 2:06:20

Outside of Florence?

SPEAKER_39 2:06:21

No. I think it's in it's in uh it's in the upstate. I think. Somebody will correct me. I'm gonna look it up while you're huge operation. Listen to the report from Fox Carolina.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:32

And now to our top story tonight at 10, a massive law enforcement operation in Abbeville County. You're looking at video taken inside a business where you can see dozens of officers here outside, some people also appearing in handcuffs. Right now, Fox Carolina is still working to find out which law enforcement agencies were involved here.

SPEAKER_39 2:06:52

But here's what I want you to listen to how they do the story. The community's on edge. Listen.

SPEAKER_19 2:07:35

Officers and SUVs are gone from Bernstein, but the questions around this operation aren't going anywhere. Some locals and those with friends who work here are now responding.

SPEAKER_51 2:07:48

I just think it's a better way that they can do it.

SPEAKER_19 2:07:51

The first reaction is sadness, some worry, anxiety about the situation. Bernstein employees say this operation started early Wednesday and was done by noon. Officers and vests, many with their faces covered, moved through the facility. The Abbeville County Sheriff confirms his deputies were involved and is not saying anything more. But employees tell us people were taken into custody. Miles away at the Upper Abbeville County Recreation Association, dozens of SUVs were staged in the parking lot. Hours later, those officers gone. But parking cones remain. The ripple effect of this operation is already being felt. Maria's Mexican restaurant in downtown Abbeville is nearly empty. Owner Itzel Montalba says they've seen half their usual customers because people are scared to come out. People are scared to leave.

SPEAKER_39 2:08:47

Okay, we get the point. They never once tell us what the operation is. They never once tell us who they were arresting. They don't say anything, but they immediately cut to a Mexican restaurant and say everybody's scared to come out. Speaking to somebody who can't speak English, apparently.

SPEAKER_18 2:09:06

Lazy journalism.

SPEAKER_39 2:09:08

Why don't you just come on and say uh the people arrested look like they weren't from here.

SPEAKER_18 2:09:13

Well, that's it.

SPEAKER_39 2:09:15

Why did they skate around it? Why?

SPEAKER_18 2:09:16

Because they don't want to.

SPEAKER_39 2:09:18

It's obviously it was a nice operation.

SPEAKER_18 2:09:21

Pair that up with the last the last two Department of Justice convictions that have been published about illegal immigrant funneling drugs from from through to Ory County through South Carolina. Where do you think they stop at? They stop at places because I looked it up. Which is in the middle of nowhere, South Carolina, right along the Georgia border.

SPEAKER_39 2:09:43

Abbeville? Abbeville County?

SPEAKER_18 2:09:45

Upstate, all the way up by the Georgia border. Okay. Middle of nowhere. Like there's nothing. No, I can't even give you a.

SPEAKER_39 2:09:50

Apparently a Mexican restaurant and a business that makes things.

SPEAKER_18 2:09:53

Which uh again, it's like, where do you think this stuff funnels through? You think it's going through Columbia? Do you think it's through rural communities? That's why the drug problem's so bad in rural communities through places like this. So those and they're using those networks, they're using the illegal immigration. So the same people that are immigrating here illegally, what do you think they're sitting on? The crates. They're not parts and people's bags. It's illegal stuff that they're bringing into the country with immigrants sitting on top of it. It's all part of the same pipeline. And so of course. And again, I go back to we wouldn't have to do these raids if we had a good immigration policy. And the second thing is if we were putting people in jail and keeping them there the first time, but they broke the law. People wouldn't we wouldn't have as many criminals running around out there to then make us have to do raids to find them.

SPEAKER_39 2:10:45

You know, Trump's idea was to deputize all of the local law enforcement, you know, especially the sheriff's offices, across the nation. And he got beat up on that, and they refused. And so now we're dealing with what? This. And you imagine if they would have done that. What an efficient job they could have done. This situation probably could have taken place two years ago.

SPEAKER_18 2:11:05

Well, and this is there was um Hilton Head did a raid about two weeks ago. You have this one, you have the current stuff up here. So finally, South Carolina's getting into the game now that they've you know changed focus off of one city and moved focus to across the country. We got new leadership uh for immigration uh control. So again, now they've they're broadening and going after everybody. And oh, by the way, we've still if you look at it all, the self-deportion is worked. It was a great program. It worked. Millions of people were like, you know what, you're right, I'm here illegally, I'm out. I'm not I'm not doing this. Because they want to come back, because they want to be able to contribute. And they want to be an American citizen, they want to be an American citizen, they want to contribute, um, and and those types of things. So I again, yeah, you can I I would be scared, but at the same time, if you're here legally 99.99999% uh are gonna be fine. And and it is what it is. Like, don't come here illegally. You talk to any immigrant that came here illegally and they tell you the same thing. They are a hundred percent behind the crackdown. I paid the paperwork, I did my time, I took the test, I've worked my butt off. And oh by the way, when they came over, they didn't have government handouts, which is another big sticking point that they that they love to discuss of like I made it on my own. And that's also why immigrants that aren't successful up until the Biden administration, like fifty percent of immigrants went back home. They couldn't cut it, they they couldn't make it, they wanted to go back home, they missed home, they you know, they they did it on themselves because they didn't have the government handouts. But if you show up and you're just automatically getting government subsidies, it's like why am I gonna go back home? Even though I'm not contributing anything to society, I'm not gonna I'm not going back home because uh don't you remember the Obama phones? Oh yeah, they handed out the free cell phones.

SPEAKER_39 2:12:52

They're handing out those free cell phones with free net programs. I mean free uh what's the word, not program, uh uh weekly whatever they call that thing. What do they call that? Plan. Plan. Weekly plans, yeah. Or monthly plan, sorry. So I no, I agree with you, but to me, and I hate to hyper focus on this, but being the fact that we are sort of media, sorta, it was alarming that they went through three minutes of that story. I only cut off the last 20 seconds. Yeah. And not once did they tell us what you could kind of plainly see with your eyes if you watch the video, but you could also hear just by listening. Not once did they reference it. It was like they did this big raid and we don't know why.

SPEAKER_18 2:13:34

But they made sure to tell you that they used a rec center and put kids at danger. Oh, yeah. Allegedly. Yeah. They made sure to say it was near a high school.

SPEAKER_39 2:13:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 2:13:41

And then they went to the Mexican restaurant that said businesses is down 50%.

SPEAKER_39 2:13:44

Because people are afraid to come out.

SPEAKER_18 2:13:45

People are afraid to come out. Although that's complete speculation, it may or may not be true.

SPEAKER_39 2:13:49

Yeah, how do you know that they're afraid?

SPEAKER_18 2:13:50

Or 50% of your customers were here illegally and they got swept up.

SPEAKER_39 2:13:55

So also that is a broadcasting company right here.

SPEAKER_18 2:13:59

Yes. Well, in South Carolina. That's 20-year-olds that graduated University of South Carolina who got indoctrinated and they don't know how to write any different. They don't know how to write any better. They don't, I mean, these TV people are 25, 26, 27, just out of college, because they cut costs harder than anybody else cut costs.

SPEAKER_39 2:14:17

So political activists posing as journalists.

SPEAKER_18 2:14:20

Or just don't know any better. Like they really like you sometimes you see.

SPEAKER_39 2:14:27

Some of the officers had face coverings. Good. No, I mean, but the every the whole picture they were painting is there's this big mean police force, and we don't know why they were here. Yes. But then they go to a Mexican restaurant, it's kind of like nudge, nudge, wink, wink. We're not saying it, but they were illegals. I I don't understand what they were trying to tell me. I learned nothing from that. I have more questions.

SPEAKER_18 2:14:50

100% more questions. Tune in tomorrow. That's how they get the people to come back. We we give you incomplete stories, so you'll come back the next day. There is that.

SPEAKER_39 2:14:57

Yeah, there is that.

SPEAKER_18 2:15:01

It's amazing.

SPEAKER_39 2:15:02

Uh the person who just said, if I'm not mistaken, both broadcasters came from a local station. Yes, they did. Yep.

SPEAKER_18 2:15:07

That's and that's they emigrated up there. They immigrated up.

SPEAKER_39 2:15:13

I know.

SPEAKER_18 2:15:13

Well, I think they they all pull their stuff from across South Carolina.

SPEAKER_39 2:15:17

No, I know, but actually those two in the studio. They used to be here, they moved up there. Oh, wow. So it's funny to see. I looked, I was like, hey, she used to be here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 2:15:25

I didn't recognize the guy, but downgrade.

SPEAKER_39 2:15:28

I wouldn't well, it's a bigger market. In the upstate?

SPEAKER_18 2:15:32

Oh, because they're pulling out of Columbia?

SPEAKER_39 2:15:33

Probably. Probably Columbia or Greenville.

SPEAKER_18 2:15:35

Yeah, because we're Florence Myrtle Beach, Florence. Myrtle Beach, Florence, and Lumberton.

SPEAKER_39 2:15:39

It's a pretty small market. Yeah. I mean, I'm doing radio in Myrtle Main.

SPEAKER_18 2:15:44

Hidden gem, but you know.

SPEAKER_39 2:15:46

Yeah. All right. Thanks for your time today. It was great. Thanks, everybody. Maybe you'll do it again someday. If I give you advanced warning.

SPEAKER_18 2:15:53

Now that A, school's out, yes. I have much more flexible. Ah. And B, my son's about to get his driver's license and has a car. So therefore, much more flexible. Thank you. I can now come in and not have to worry about getting him to school.

SPEAKER_39 2:16:05

Chris Sopart, US Army retired, joined me for today from about seven thirty on. Thank you again, sir.

SPEAKER_18 2:16:10

All right. Listen out.

SPEAKER_39 2:16:11

Yep. Listen out. Put the band back together tomorrow. I'll see you then.