Lt. Col. Allen West - The Gauge #108

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of the most prominent political figures talking right now on the uh the republican side of the aisle he has served at every level military congress now he's running for governor in the state of texas he's got books out he seems to make a weekly appearance on fox news we are super lucky that he came in here and sat down with us i feel so much smarter i feel politically savvy and i encourage you to listen to it so you could feel the same check it out how long you guys had this platform uh so we started this i mean it was in plans for quite you know quite some time but uh it was kind of started march of 2020. right in the middle of it yeah strategically yeah yeah i had had the uh kind of the i don't know if you would call it a vision but the idea of doing it a couple years before and chickened out and finally decided that what better time to launch it than you know when everyone's locked in when everyone's locked in and boy did it pay dividends to to do that good good you had a captive audience very much and it's a very specific audience so this kind of uh you know discussion that we're going to have is really pandering to your audience but i think uh i'll never pander basing uh basing my beliefs and what yours are they're very similar and so i think it uh the best thing that we can do as conservative people if we have platforms is and young rally yeah i really appreciate it you know that's that's one of the key things we got to do better of minority communities and young communities you know getting them to understand those principles and values that are important you know i always say that we got to convince young people that free does not equal freedom yeah yeah and i think that uh and you know young is my my group um that's one of the things that i i speak on the most and what we discuss we talk about a lot of different things this is a very open free platform we'll get real goofy and that's why and silly on certain podcasts but when it's time to you know get serious about our freedoms and you know you're a constitutionalist which is the one thing that i like about you the most absolutely and it is the only document in my opinion that's keeping us grounded in this country and that's why and it's under assault it is terrifying yeah which is for me the platform that we have and the group that we speak to it's very clear like we're western folks right and you wear the cowboy boots and i love that and that's oh absolutely you know that's where i'm from it's so funny because you know i was born and raised in georgia went to tennessee and people all say well you just probably started wearing cowboy boots when you got to texas i said no i forgot my first pair of cowboy boots when i was a sophomore at university of tennessee yeah back in 1981 so yeah i don't know if people realize how similar tennessee and texas actually are well the one would not exist if it hadn't been for the other yeah and and that's that's a very important bond because like i say you know the university of tennessee we have a very unique nickname it's not you know anything as volunteers and how did we get that nickname because of what happened here yeah yeah tennessee is a uh is a very unique state for there's so many civil liberties that are there and it's you know it's like its own almost its own thing more than even a lot of people are moving to tennessee yeah out of control oh it is in knoxville too a lot of folks moving up into the uh the east tennessee uh mountains and everything land is cheap yeah and they love their way of life yeah yeah for now yeah the uh you know we we know a really great state senator there and and just the way that tennessee operates it operates like a a very well-oiled public company almost it is very unique yep and i think if more states operate like that you probably agree absolutely being a lot better and we got to get we got to get texas back on that track yeah which i'm assuming is is why you've kind of thrown your hat in in the race for the governorship which obviously you've got all the merits a guy would need to do that but uh you're very kind i'd be very interested and i've followed followed you quite a bit and obviously we've been in discussions with your team for quite a while about getting you on and uh that was that was very strategic it's not just because you're running for governor in texas but it's actually because i really really really believe in what you believe in and think that your your approach it makes it makes so much sense even even before so i've got family in florida and they've got businesses there and it was funny way before we talked about having you on they knew exactly who you were because of the you know the uh the the district that you were in so yeah it uh it would be really nice just to give our audience kind of the background on who you are and sure i'm really interested in your early upbringing in georgia and where you came from i think to have a discussion like we're going to have it's great to set the stage maybe you got it say when hey we're on yeah he's just fiddling with cameras to try to make to try to make me look at least halfway decent well you you that's an uphill battle with me well yeah me too but cool yeah but i would uh i know you you grew up in in georgia and atlanta and if you could just kind of give the overview of you know your childhood and things like that i think it would be really nice well it's very interesting uh because when i hear this discussion about how america is such a racist country i just laughed because i was born february 7th in 1961 in a blacks only hospital in the inner city of atlanta georgia and you know that was just 60 years ago that's one a long time ago and the things that i've enjoyed and the successes that i've had it doesn't happen in a country that looks at you and judges you by the color of your skin and i think that that was one of the things i grew up in the same neighborhood as dr martin luther king jr was born and raised then my elementary school was right across the street from ebenezer baptist church in his final wrestling spot and his dream for his children was that they could grow up in a country that judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin and so it's absolutely you know ironic that now all of a sudden we're going back and we're talking more about colored skin uh you just saw recently what the salvation army came out and saying that you know whites need to you know apologize for for all these things nobody needs to apologize for me for anything uh well all i ask is the equality of opportunity and that's what my parents taught me so i had a great dad my dad was a world war ii veteran united states army he was a corporal and if you recall i mean at that time the army was segregated but he never spoke an ill word about you know this country or being in the military my mother served 25 years civilian service with the sixth marine corps district headquarters in atlanta so i knew that i was either going to be a soldier or a dog gone marine that's just you know how i came up my older brother was a marine uh he did not get drafted he volunteered to go into the marine corps he served in vietnam as an infantryman and was wounded at a place called quesad pretty bad uh area and so at the age of 15 my dad challenged me to be the first officer in our family uh and he said there's no greater honor than to wear the uniform of the united states american so immediately i joined high school junior rotc and i had four great rotc instructors there in high school lieutenant colonel pogonis major heredia master sergeant buchanan and sergeant first class mcmichael i will never forget those men because it's one thing to have two great parents in the home but when you have people outside of the home that can keep you on the right path in the right direction and you know train you up with the right type of leadership skills discipline and focus that's what i had you know in my teachers and those rotc instructors so i went on to the university of tennessee which at the time had one of the best army rotc programs in the country and uh 31 july 1982 i was commissioned as a second lieutenant united states army there at stokley athletic center uh in the field artillery i spent 22 years in the united states military uh 13 different countries three different combat zones uh paratrooper and all of this stuff been married for 32 years my wife's dad was also a military guy retired 24 years in the army as a master sergeant he's buried at arlington national cemetery he did two tours of duty in vietnam himself so she understands you know the perspective of being in the military from that of being a dependent child that of also being a spouse and then of course raising two daughters who uh you know we have aubry and austin 28 and 24 well 25 now because she just had her birthday last week we got one grandson uh that was born six months ago jackson menard first one huh first grant how about that absolutely he's got me wrapped around his little daggum finger i bet so uh you know but it's and we all live right here in uh in the north texas area we live in garland our oldest star lives in carrollton and uh our youngest star would be moving into a house with her husband in garland as well sure life is good for us yeah yeah it's interesting right so you i mean you've obviously got a decorated military career and you threw your hat into congress and what i find is so admirable about just anybody who chooses that route right of civil service civil service and then now again you know military congress you know chairman of the republican committee here and now you want to go for the governorship i mean you've you've chosen a true life of service and the things that you say are actually the things that you stand by which that's not politics clearly that's not there's not a politician that i think anybody anybody with an ounce of sense would trust especially nowadays but well it's a difference you know you know and i often tell people that you know in the military we did not care for the politicians and and when you had a congressional visit or senatorial visit if you were selected to escort a member of congress or a senator that's because you're pissed off your boss it was not something where you were deemed to be you know we're gonna you know have one of our best uh go out with them but uh i never did like how you know the congressional inquiries and things of this nature where people would just come down and try to figure you had done something wrong in a military unit and they were going to try to uncover it you know there are things that go bad in the military is in any profession but we just really did not have a trust of people that were politicians and it's interesting in that when you look at the history politically in the united states of america there's once upon a time you couldn't be elected to an office unless you had served in the military unless you had been willing to put your life on the line for this country uh or even if you just want to run for something locally people that's what people look for and about 45 maybe 50 years ago you had 70 to 73 percent of the members of congress house and senate that had served in the military now that number's down to about 17 to 18 and i think that that's where you see a difference in what is happening because you know people in the military and not everyone i mean we got some issues with mark milley and the current secretary of defense but most people in the military understand that it's about selfless service it's about putting something greater than yourself above yourself and that's what you commit to the constitution of the united states of america is what you take a note to support and defend not a political party not a person not an ideology is the rule of law and so when you look at politicians the thing that i say the difference between politicians and statesmen and leaders is that politicians tell you what they think you want to hear because all they want you know vote for me and and that that has gotten us into a big problem in the united states america republican democrat doesn't matter it's still people saying what they they think you want to hear statesmen and leaders are going to tell you what you need to hear you know when i commanded you know like 600 troops over 2003 in iraq i didn't tell them that hey guys tomorrow we're going to cross the berm we're going to go into a rock it's going to be fun yeah we're going to we're going to get steaks there's going to be a b strip steaks every night you know everything's going to be good no i told them it's going to suck you got to embrace that suck and you know before we even deploy to go over there we trained hard at fort hood texas because in that battalion 600 there are only two of us that had ever been in combat before myself and my command sergeant major and and that was 30 years ago now and operation does show there's a storm but the thing is that that's what we need to have is people to remember what leadership is about not folks that want to do as it says in in the bible second timothy chapter four tickle people's ears and tell them what you think that they want to hear makes them feel all good and warm and fuzzy inside you know i'm gonna give you something you know you can stay at home and not work we're going to give you a check uh you know it's like the culture of the participation trophy yeah you know when adults decided you know maybe we can help little jane a little johnny uh because they're not getting into the game instead of pulling them off to the side like my dad did say boy you need to practice harder you need to do better i didn't come out here to see you sit on the bench and and i didn't want to have my dad say yeah that's my boy he's sitting there on the bench and everybody else is saying they say look at my son he just you know made a tackle score touchdown whatever but instead we decided to give kids something that would help their self-esteem and we're still doing that and and now we have a generation that sits and believes that they should get something for doing nothing which is absolutely abhorrent well and i think the thing that if you if you believe in personal responsibility which means you take the personal responsibility to actually try to figure out why these things are happening it's not because they want little timmy and sally to be safe and comfortable because if they give them enough things then what are they going to do on election day they're going to re-vote for the same party same person that gave them the control you can look at these certain communities across the country look at the black community yeah they destroyed the black community i mean i mean you know 60 years ago even though i'm born in a blacks only hospital you looked at our neighborhoods and you looked at our communities you had mommies and daddies in the home yes small businesses you know in the communities and everything you had safety and security and now look at what has happened uh i mean only 24 percent of black kids have a mother or father and father in the home look at the gang problem look at the lack of small business entrepreneurship look at all of those ills look at the lack of good quality education and so what are the second third and fourth order effects that you get from that and so again when you look at lyndon baines johnson you know president from texas in his great society programs what was it all about he called he called it a war on poverty well heck i mean we've been fighting that war for 60 years and i'll hear a lot of people you know almost 60 years i'll hear a lot of people talking about that and we're losing because we still have people in poverty and guess what we're doing we're extending and expanding poverty so when i hear people say you know we need to expand medicaid okay scratch your head what is medicaid medicaid is a healthcare program meant for people at or below the poverty level so why would you want to expand medicaid because if you're expanding medicaid that means you're expanding poverty yeah exactly and it originally wasn't designed to be a long-term solution just like welfare they're temporary things to help people get on their feet temporary assistance you know programs just like the the food stamp program but what happened with the food stamp program well it was embarrassing for people to be there in the grocery line and pulling out the food stamps so now we give them a credit card electronic benefits transfer card and guess what you can use the ebt card anywhere yep you can see it at convenience stores or whatever and so again the original intent of a lot of these things when all of a sudden people realize i can control people with this i can get people you know wedded to me and and and they'll like it because i'm giving them something for doing nothing and that has put us on this path that we're on today to transition a little bit because i agree 100 of what you're saying why is it that you think that societies like great societies like the united states they don't learn from history why is it as soon as we don't teach this one generation gets removed it's just it's a cycle that repeats you've seen every great every great dynasty country uh empire fall 200 years very reasons 200 years we're right at that point at 245 and that's what alexander fraser titler a scottish political philosopher said back in the i want to say 17th century he said a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government it can only exist to a point in time when the voters realize they can vote their own largesse out of the public treasury from that moment on voters will always vote for the person that promises them the most benefits with the ensuing result being the collapse of the democracy over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship he talks about that cycle and we are in that cycle right now apathy complacency uh and so how do we change it when you look at what is happening in our schools and that's why i tell people that the most important elected position in the united states of america is not president senator congressman not governor the school board yeah because look at what's happening in our education system absolutely what used to be one of the greatest education systems in the world is now just a system of indoctrination and now that you're challenging it how dare you you little cerse as terry mcauliffe said during his uh gubernatorial debate in virginia parents don't have a right to decide what their children are taught that's the mentality that we have out there with politicians with people that are you know socialist marxist status communists that want to have more control over the folks and so now what is happening even here in texas i'll be going down to round rock tomorrow you had two fathers that had the door kicked down of their homes because they went to a school board meeting and spoke out against what the school board was doing and so now we have how can that happen in this country that made that well that's my point most people wouldn't even believe you if you told them they would not believe that this they wouldn't believe is happening in texas i mean think about the reputation of texas and or you look over at south lake with the uh carroll isd the cultural competency action i live in keller there you go so you know exactly what i'm talking about and so they had to stand up and now they flipped uh three of those school board seats but guess what nbc put out a podcast against the families of south lake trying to demonize them and denigrate disparage them all because they want to determine what their children are taught not indoctrinated so this is an incredible fight and so that's where it comes out in that when the government which the first place you heard about state control of education was in karl marx communist manifesto most of these things that are happening right now come from the communist manifesto it was his plan you can get it at any public library absolutely you just read his planks and you can just see and say my gosh i mean our property tax system is a progressive tax that's what karl marx talked about karl marx talked about the elimination of private property that's what the property tax system that we have here you really don't own your home yeah no private property but personal property there's a distinctive line between the two yeah and so and that's why you go back and you read someone like frederick bastiat in the law and he talked about what government is supposed to do john locke and the second treatise of government said that your natural rights are your life of liberty and your property but we have stopped talking about these things we don't discuss and talk about civics the constitution the declaration they don't even teach it anymore they don't teach it and so that's how we get to the point where all of a sudden the generation will come up and say you know america sucks who cares about this constitution thing and then all of a sudden you can have someone that stands up as the president united states of america say no amendment to the constitution is absolute yeah uh really or you can have someone in the middle of the debacle in afghanistan stand up and say this is not about your freedom everyone in america has to get a jab in their arm yeah well show me in the constitution where it says mr president that government has a right to protect my public health my personal health that's my responsibility coming back to that personal responsibility thing you're supposed to protect my rights and my liberties and my freedoms yeah and so i think that right now we're at a point of a constitutional crisis that if we don't start to openly discuss these things and that's why i just applaud you for this platform that you have as especially as a young you know constitutional conservative because i want to be able to pass on a better america to my two daughters and to you than what my dad went through horrific conditions to pass on to me yeah well and then you think even farther than that like i've got really really young children you know i just turned 30 and i've got young children and uh oh man you make me feel old yeah i shouldn't have said that yeah because i'm i'm double his age yeah but the the thing is is my children this sucks to the age wait do you have to take glucosamine every day i'm gonna i'm gonna just really hope that my uh they come up with something to prevent that yeah some and they'll mandate it they'll mandate it they will yeah did you not a treadmill don't mandate a treadmill no i hate treadmills did you ever see the movie and it's so funny i was uh um tim poole yeah uh great time with him and you know they're all like you say 28 30 whatever and i said you know this is kind of like the movie logan's run yeah and they were like logan's run what is that yeah i actually do know that yeah well they didn't and then so they made you feel like that yeah they made me feel like that peter houston off i mean we go off and we found the old man yeah but but it's important that we do those type of things that i remember as a kid i used to sit down and listen to the old men in my neighborhood and the stories they had to tell and the experiences that that they had and that's where you gained wisdom and discernment from oh absolutely but guess what we're doing we're not doing that today we we take our future our older generations we just put them off into the you know senior citizens home and then next thing you know the government comes down and said you can't visit them yeah and then look what happened in new york with uh look what happened in new york and now and so we got to do a better job again passing on those lessons of history those experiences those insights and those perspectives yeah which which kind of brings me to like the point that where i'm at right so i i could sit here and i could drink whiskey and have a great time and do all those things and goof around and not talk about these things because i think it makes some people especially people in my age demographic who we all have an attention span of whatever the swipe through on instagram is i'm guilty of it too but there's something happening in our country that is so terrifying that i just i can't stomach it so i'm gonna go away from the things that we normally talk about we're gonna focus on what's happening in our world because i don't think and i would wonder if you agree with me that we're ever going to change the opposing party's mind whether it's a 20 year old person all the way up to the people who have been cashing in on those checks like joe biden for the last 50 years and changing every single position he's ever stood on like it's his underwear mm-hmm probably more than that because i don't want to picture that i don't either yeah because i'm starting to wonder probably not as often as maybe my joke yeah alluded to regardless what i think we have to do is scream at our base at the top of our lungs you know metaphorically speaking to stand up yeah i can't think of another way to save what's going on and and the fact that it feels like we're on the side of common sense but then you realize that they actually think that too well which means there is no middle ground so what do we do well i think the the thing is that you continue to stand on that common sense you continue to stand on those principles and values and you just say show me uh show me where this has been successful i mean you know i can show you venezuela i can show you cuba i can show you any place i mean i don't want to go to cuba and go get a surgical procedure do you uh yeah do you want to go to cuba for a cigar at this point yeah do you want to go to england to their you know health care system i don't yeah and and i remember um january 1985 i was young second lieutenant and we had just finished the training exercise over in west berlin they had a military operations in the urban terrain uh mock-up city and so two and a half weeks out there and then you got one day when you got to go to east berlin you know you put on your dress uniform spit shine jump boost your maroon beret and you went through checkpoint charlie and what i saw over there in east berlin the despair the despondency on people's faces i mean you know walking the streets with soviet officers east german officers east german stasi police following you around you knew they were um and this the shells on the stores you know hardly stocked only two types of cars one two door one four door three or four different colors the potholes in the streets the the bullet holes still in some of the buildings from world war ii i said i don't want to see that in the united states of america and you go see it right now in south side chicago absolutely or detroit places in detroit like 20 years in detroit yeah and so the thing is that again if we're not sharing those experiences we're not talking about this there are some people that for whatever reason they believe marxism socialism communism statism it works i i i don't get it i mean michael savage you know once said that this was a a mental illness a disease to think that uh albert einstein saying the pure definition of insanity is to continue to do the exact same thing i think you're gonna get different results but for whatever reason this has happened in our country because our colleges and universities have become indoctrination meals with socialism communism marxism these type of things and if that's all you hear you start to believe that it is possible it can work and what have you and and i find it very odd because you look at a place like china i mean why would our young people want to live like but they don't know anything about china well they you would think they did because you know back in the day i had to sit down and read encyclopedia britannica yeah but today you can pull out you know your ipad iphone whatever and you can send an email a a tweet or whatever a text message to someone halfway around the world when you when you sit there and you see young people in hong kong protesting saying we don't want you know hong kong to be taken over they're marching singing the national anthem with our flag our kids over here but they're not covering that on twitter well that's no there's nowhere for like somebody ty's 22 years old right i'm 30 there's nowhere that you're going to see that you're not going to see it on cnn msnbc or any of the local news fox may cover it newsmax might cover it but you know you're not no one's going to go out and search that right they're going to talk about how aaron rodgers stuck his foot up and you know when somebody look at his toenails and see that's why it's so important that you have this type of platform because you know the thing is it's not about trying to to get everybody win everybody over you're not you're never going to have that you can't and so what where's that fulcrum where's that sweet spot and so i believe that 55 to 65 percent of this country they have the shared principles and values i think that that 30 to 35 or whatever they're the outliers but what we have to do i don't even know if the far left is even that much though it could be as little as ten percent yeah you have a hard time finding in the real world yeah go to the grocery store see if you can find somebody who believes the crap that they're talking about on cnn it's not that easy no it's very interesting well they always and what's so funny is they dodge you and that's when they you know they throw the conniptions they start yelling and screaming at you because they know they can't defend it and what i always tell people is that when they're yelling and screaming at you when they're calling you the names or what have you you're winning the debate you shouldn't get discouraged you should be encouraged yeah because they're not able to stand up in the in the arena of ideas and combat you and confront you it's just like when you look at you know robert francis o'rourke wants to run for governor of texas really i mean you want open borders you want to be the the governor of texas wait his name's not beto he's not hispanic no if he's hispanic my nickname is finn and i'm norwegian okay so yeah yeah that's so good to pass me some fish oh my god he's so silly that guy but but that's the thing and so you look and say this character of a person now you know when he ran in 2018 he was all cool skateboarding all over the place and everything like that but now you can't take a guy like that serious especially with the type of issues that you see happening you know you want to defund the police and so in austin texas you have a 66 percent increase in violent crime 71 percent increasing they went back and said whoops i think we screwed up here yeah but he's saying you can't have a weapon to be able to protect yourself uh what planet are you from okay it's just you know the the the black lives matter activist who pointed an ak-47 and a an army sergeant and it called and got shot yeah shocker your real shocker you point an ak-47 at a soldier what do you think you're gonna get yeah and and so it's just absurdity after absurdity after absurdity so i think again that you do have that percentage that you look at what's happening in the hispanic community spanish community we don't identify with these guys we don't know where to come from look at the black community you are starting to see more people saying that you know i can't identify with these guys and there's young black people and young hispanics that are saying that so i think that there is something that is happening in this country but again we cannot sit back and rely upon 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january 30th whether you agree with us or disagree with us we want you to come everyone's welcome there's gonna be food probably gonna be a badger come on well and we're seeing something really amazing happen right private media like this like some of the other big some of the really huge ones out there they're the number one source that people are now getting their media from cnn can't hit can't hit a viewer who watches don lemon i mean give me a break no one wants to hear that aaron whatever name you know yeah no one wants to hear that because it's not it's it's nothing yeah whatever who cares like just they're just they're just talking heads they could be anybody no one cares because there's nothing about them that's objective there's nothing about them that is journalism it's just a joke yeah and we could sit here and have a conversation about star wars and be more entertaining than that and i don't want to do that but you know you could obi-wan yeah exactly luke i'm your father you see that all of a sudden that's better than an hour with don lemon that's all you had to do dude that's better than you know anything with donald trump yeah it's just a joke like but but but i think that more people are waking up and seeing that i mean i i had an interview recently and i don't know what i did but i did something to set joy reid off on msnbc but anything can set joy read off yeah and that's her character that's her character i mean just just a hateful person and you know somehow it got into my haircut and i'm thinking really your haircut yeah no i mean the person the person is asking me how do you respond to what joy reed said about you know you and your haircut whatever i said i don't yeah i mean that shows to someone that that's imbecillic and i'm not going to lower myself to the standards talk about it but again that's all they have and so i just think that right now the momentum and everything is on our side and we cannot blow this moment and and the key thing that i would just say to you and everyone out there listening don't ebb and flow you have to find a steady state because the left ain't going away and so we have to continue to keep the pressure on them and continue to expose them and and i will tell you the biggest thing that happened in 2020 with the shutdown was that parents finally started to realize my kid is being taught crap well so go to a place where you wouldn't think this would happen california the parents are out there i've got a business partner on a different business who lives and uh lives just north of san diego and then they everybody in those areas have pulled their children from school they're not going to tolerate it they're not and that's in california it's unbelievable in virginia virginia i mean junior west virginia all of them joe biden wins virginia a year ago by 11 percentage points and look what happens in that race in one race amazing yeah yeah and so i think that it is happening and the other side they just continue to drop grenades on themselves and napoleon had a great quote he said never interfere with your enemy when he's destroying himself yeah he had a lot of great quotes like if you're a businessman he's like wait three days to respond to anything it'll resolve itself yes it will there's a lot to learn from napoleon not to learn but yeah don't go into russia in the winter i mean and and talk about you know don't pay attention to history look what hitler did yeah the exact same thing he did yeah you don't go into russia in the winter yep you go in you you kick some button and go back home and wait for it to warm up again yeah yeah yeah there's a lot uh if you get into history that you can learn from napoleon what a unique character of course you know that type of power grab always ends the same you end up on an island all biceps yeah twice all by yourself yeah but still it's pretty unique and so i would ask you this right because one of the things that i've realized or in my mind whether or not it's right or wrong is i actually blame the right for a lot of these things because the one thing you can credit the left is that they're a part of their they take action right they take action they seize opportunities and they go they're relentless they're relentless and the right for whatever reason is a group of of passive you know passive rhinos that just let it happen you got to wonder why that is it's not everybody you're seeing a change like look at the santees and and governor nomi and in south dakota and a host of other people but for the most part i think a lot of the blame maybe falls on the right for not seizing opportunities look i'll be the first one to say you're 110 correct you know i came into congress uh in 2010 that whole tea party wave and everything 63 congressional seats that's what barack obama lost in his first midterm election the largest amount post i think world war ii or post-depression but we didn't seize on that opportunity and what ended up happening you had you know the same old ingrained uh gop establishment type of leadership that would say now we can't do this now we can't do that and what was the other side doing being just as relentless as as ever even though they were in the it's the same as it is now it's just the platforms the social media is the difference absolutely it's a difference and so i think that what we have to do is understand that people want you to stand up you know my mom taught me a man must stand for something else he'll fall for anything so this should not just be about campaign promises once you get in there do it because the other side they don't want a power share they they want to be empowered they want to be in control and so that brings me back to one of the things that frustrated the crap out of me as chairman of the republican party of texas where the left had their sights on texas they wanted to flip the texas state house they wanted to win congressional seats and everything and they nothing got nothing but what ended up happening with the speaker of the house for uh the texas state house he gave 15 committee chairmanship positions to democrats the same people that were you know you know talking all this crap and all this mess he gives them positions of power same 15 people were on three private jets that took off and abandoned their duties and responsibilities during a special session guess what they still earn committee chair positions yep and that's what frustrates people in that we work hard to make sure that we still have these majorities even in a place like texas but yet you want to give over positions of leadership and power and chairmanship to the other side the question is why that would be your average person who doesn't know the workings because you say something like that it doesn't make sense well i can tell you why it makes sense because they they wash each other's backs yeah you know because you know if i give you this what you're going to get me and and that's what has to happen you know has to end we don't have and understand how i say this because people say oh my god he's talking about killing people but on our side republicans don't have a killer instinct yeah so then when they win a political race this is a figurative it's very figurative absolutely but they don't have that instinct the left has that instinct when barack obama says you know you don't bring a knife to a gunfight or when barack obama says that you can get on the bus but you got to go to the back of the bus nobody look at all the things joe biden said in the last year and a half that he's gotten away with joe biden could care less about unity what joe biden cared about in his inauguration speech was conformity and if you don't conform to our ideological agenda we're going to demonize you we're going to call you white supremacists racist and even if you're black we're going to call you the black face of white supremacy which is what they call me and larry elder and candace owens yeah and so this is what everything comes back to and so we've got to understand you can't sit around say my friend from the other side of the aisle my colleague no this is an ideological war that we're in they are your opposition and in many ways shapes and forms they're an ideological enemy because when you are talking about undermining this constitutional republic when you have you know anarchist groups out there like you know antifa or when you have subversive groups like blm you cannot you know reach across the aisle with people that support and believe in you know organizations like that look at the difference i mean this is so glaring the difference in how the left reacted with the kyle rittenhouse decision in case and what happened the exact same weekend yep in wisconsin crickets yep no coverage no coverage in fact that guy got endorsed by some members of black lives matter i think there's something along the lines and black lives matter endorsed hamas and so what is a what is black lives matter doing endorsing an islamic terrorist organization that's on the terrorist list for you know the united nations many other countries what does that have to do with black lives matter and so what i always tell people which black lives matter yeah and and so that's what i want us to have that instinct where we go after these people we you don't win on defense you got to stay on offense and again that's why i applaud you because that's what you're doing here yeah i mean and we're we're in a very specific world and texas is is by far our biggest state for audience i mean millions of people in texas listen to this show because i mean look at this place it's texas but yeah totally texas i mean folks you walk in here you know you're in texas you do you're not you're not in fort worth yeah you're not in connecticut no you're not yeah but why would you want to be yeah that's true especially now it's cold yeah yuck yeah but uh there's not much you can get out of connecticut i don't even know what connecticut's like really known for what are they known for um something with you know back in revolutionary war clams maybe yeah no i don't know if people clams i mean that's like on rhode island that's i don't know i mean maine lobster i know that you get a decent lobster oil but i'm not in the clams i'm not either it's kind of gross yeah not my chosen food what is your chosen food i love grill hot dogs grilled hot dogs man you give me the most american american ass you give me a grill hot dog i'm i'm just like tickle pink so like the kind of hot dog you would go get at ranger stadium or you got to make it yourself i got to do it myself i like it on my own grill back there and you know you get a little bit dark kind of burnt that's just right and then you slap it in that bun you know a big nice bun uh you chow down on it with some sec college football there you go grill hot dog in scc so is that your saturday your saturday i love college football really i mean i was brought up on it i mean i can pretty much so uh you know either sing or hum along every college fight song in the sec really oh yeah my parents were big time you know two things you don't mess with down south you don't mess with sec college football on saturday you don't mess with the lord and save jesus christ on sunday you'll get a fight if you try to do something like that so that's how we just brought up and the thing that unifies us all is our hatred of alabama yeah and so i don't know if you know you know i had the little belt with covet 19. yeah and i had the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy which my wife and i it clearly did it yeah we both did how many days did it take for you to get over it oh four to five days but the thing is that i had some traces of pneumonia in my lungs so they released her to go home i had to go to the hospital and so that saturday was the texas a m alabama game and i tell everyone the reason why i you know recovered so quickly because texas a m beat alabama and i was just tickled pink yeah yeah yeah you have any lasting effects from the covert you had i still don't have a sense of taste or smell well you know the smell but but otherwise i'm good to go and i'm back to my normal workout running routine as a matter of fact i was released from the hospital on a monday morning on uh yeah monday no sunday release from hospital on sunday on tuesday i went out and ran a mile and a half really yeah and no issues with the lungs huh well you know it was tough because my oxygen saturation level had dropped down to like 82-83 so i had to you know get my lung strength back up and that's why i just did a mile and a half but by the weekend i was back up to uh four miles yeah yeah and you have if you're running four miles a day you you have a solid mind it must be the military because i just don't even if i could run for it i don't have the patience well but you know early in the morning when it's peaceful and quiet you get out there 5 30 6 o'clock and it's it's it's a spiritual thing it is a time for me to just sit lord you know talk to me and you just get out there and relax and you just enjoy life yeah so see i need the sound of the barbell hitting the ground at 5 30. i'm at 5 30 i'm at the gym every morning soon i've never been a gym rat but the running i'm just like i can't look at this payment anymore i can't think straight i have too much time in my own head well it's dark you don't have to look at the payment you're going to look up yeah you're going to look for skunks too you do that's true especially where i live you will run into a skunk or a coyote it is not fun well coyotes will kind of take off unless they're really bold where i'm at oh they're really they're real bold i don't know why because it's like it's half they're in keller it's an old ranch town so south lake that's a surprising thing for the most expensive area other than highland park in texas you know i know a few ranchers out there heard that you're not taking my land so you'll have you know an nba player someone from the rangers house and you have this little cattle ranch that's like 20 acres with this little 1200 square foot ranch house you're not taking my land well i can't imagine what his property taxes are but we're going to change that so i actually i really do want to hear some of your plan as far as your race for the governorship what you would change i we we have some serious issues here in texas we have very seriously the border being probably number one human sex trafficking is another one and number one state and the grid the power grid here i mean there's so many issues in texas i think people don't let's start out and talk about the border the borders is is very simple you the border should be broken down in the border control zone you've got several different sectors from the el paso sector big bend sector uh the del rio rio grande valley laredo and you break those sectors down and you know highway 90 should be the northern edge of your border control zone illegals don't get outside highway 90. you just shut that down and each one of those sectors you have to task organize a force between the sheriffs that are there the national guard that is there since we have a constitutional crisis and the federal government does not want to do their job then you take operational control of the border patrol agents and they want to do the right thing they're just not how does the state do that though the state does it by the constitution because right now you have a federal government that's violating the constitutional it's called the guarantee clause article four section four two things the federal government is supposed to guarantee to every state in the union a republican form of government not republican party but a republican form of government and then to protect every state from invasion and when the federal government doesn't do it founding fathers were brilliant article 1 section 10 clause number three which says it's like they knew they knew they they knew everything i mean these guys thought about how could they screw it up and they wrote something that okay the federal government gets out of control that the executive branch gets out of control legislation they had all these checks and balances and systems in there so they really believed in the sovereignty of states and so the federal government defaults on their guarantee then the states when actually invaded that's what it says when there's imminent danger you look at the drug trafficking crisis you look at the human and sex trafficking crisis texas is the number one state in america for human sex trafficking in dallas and houston top two cities in america for sex trafficking it's amazing living where i live and i come from a really really humble ranch background in colorado my parents real real humble the whole thing but i mean i've worked really hard to get to where i could live in a decent area for schools and things like that and even when you go there they just busted up a sex trafficking ring in the neighborhood that's next to where i live and you're talking an average home price in that neighborhood it's like eight hundred thousand so they had an eight hundred thousand dollar five thousand square foot house that they cut up and they just turned into uh the house i mean that's frankly what they did yeah with little kids and keller south lake yeah it's everywhere it is everywhere it's unbelievable and that's what we have to come to understand and we've got to if you're going to defeat sex trafficking first and foremost you got to defeat the demand uh and then you you you defeat the supply and the other thing we have to do once you establish that border control zone with task force you give our sheriffs the ability to arrest and deport not just you know arrest people for trespassing you deport people since the federal government's not going to do it you put your national guard on the border not 20 or 30 miles off of it you make sure that they have the right rules of engagement you know the cartels shoot across the border that's an act of war and we need to see it that way and that's the other thing the cartels are transnational narco criminal terrorist organizations and if you designate them that in the state of texas guess what you can do you go after their money there there's cartel money in banks all across texas you go after the property that they have here you freeze those assets you seize those assets and you use those assets for your own border uh security funds why would the federal government not want to do that because the basic human rights it's not the federal government it is the progressive socialists left their ideological agenda is open borders they don't see america as a sovereign place and furthermore what they want to do is flood the zone with people that eventually they want them to vote it all comes back to the vote it all comes back to the vote it all comes back to power and control and and it is absolutely hypocritical to say that you have to get a jab in the arm but someone coming across the border 200 000 a month you don't have to get anything done nothing's mandated as a matter of fact we'll give them thirteen hundred fourteen hundred dollars of taxpayer money put them on an airplane put them on a bus four hundred thousand until you get 400 000 absolutely you know for quote unquote separating families when you need to be able to verify that that is a mother or father a cousin or a relationship to this child so that it's not part of the sex trafficking but yet we have aiding and abetting of human and sex trafficking by our own government because we're not stopping it and that has to happen these uh non-governmental organizations down there catholic charities is the main one they should have their licenses revoked from operating here in the state of texas you cannot be a travel agency for illegal immigrants and so that's another thing we do and we got to tax remittances so many illegals here and in not just you know the country especially here in texas are sending wire transfers back to mexico nicaragua honduras guatemala el salvador you got to tax those from memphis oklahoma does it at one percent i say we do it at 10 and again that's generating fun for your border security and we've got to look at where it is smart to put a physical barrier or obstacle out there there are some places like in kennedy county you can't put it there because it's a flood zone for the rio grande but when you go out in the brewster county and in the alpine in the big bend maybe you can't have a physical barrier that is out there to prevent really a lot of single military-aged males so that's how you got to correct the situation with the border it's an insurgency this is not just your normal everyday thing uh and we've got to take the fight to the cartels you know with property taxes you got to be able to own your own home in texas you know you can pay off your land pay off your mortgage and you still can't own a home so first and foremost government at all levels has become a self-licking ice cream cone they continue to grow themselves and if they grow themselves they got to do what they got to increase the taxes and so property taxes keep increasing which comes back to the karl marx thing so we've got this you know trim down the the state government here we've got to get them on a zero-based budget system because instead of this baseline budget which says every budget cycle we're going to you know advance off of this baseline we're going to increase spending now we may cut the increase of this spending but we're always going to start this baseline it's got to start at zero and all of the savings that we could have we put it back toward reducing the property tax burden on the citizens from the state perspective but in the long term and when i say long term i mean a year or two we got a transition away from this and prior to 1917 when we implemented and instituted the personal income tax in america taxation was based upon what you bought yep consumption and now it's everything and that's everything and so i think that we need to just stop all of this and go right back to where we were previously it's based upon what you are going out there as the citizen as the consumer out there purchasing and that's what we call the fair tax and i think it may be hard to do that at a national level but it's a lot easier to do that state level yeah yeah and the issue like if you own property here your property tax is a second mortgage it is unbelievable yeah and the difference in like a state income tax and i had the benefit of of being in colorado before i moved to texas and your state income tax is far less than what the property tax in texas is you're talking even even on a six-figure income three four hundred dollars a month whereas here if you have a 500 000 house if you're in the county that i live in and the town that i live in you've got a 1200 dollar second mortgage yeah you're getting gauge and so we got to move away from that uh the the grid thing let me tell you without a doubt we have an over-reliance on renewables the wind and solar uh 23 to 26 percent that's where we had them and so on the uh valentine's day earlier this year that ercod operator saw go from 23 energy distribution output down to three because they froze up and so then all of a sudden you try to look at the backup systems natural gas since we have an abundance of it and no one had done the winterization and so a lot of those systems had froze up and we were just under five minutes away from a catastrophe in the state of texas that's that's unheard of so first and foremost we've got to look at ercot since we are on our own grid and for those who don't know the energy reliability centers of texas there need to be texans that are you know supervising ercot and the public utilities commission they need to have more uh of a hands-on approach with ercot and we cannot allow people to believe that they're promising us this amount of distribution output and then they don't meet it and there's no consequences we cannot have energy companies that are selling energy outside of the state of texas to include mexico but they're not taking care of the people inside texas in in their own which we all learned yeah yes everybody it it was absolutely brutal and then the other thing is that a lot of us saw an incredible increase in our utility bills afterwards to compensate for the things that they screwed up and so that should not be the case and so i think that number one we put renewables at the you know what really is a manageable energy distribution output three to six percent uh we need to make sure that we have backup systems we got to look at ercot break it down into whatever zones and regions and task organized the energy output we got to bring back some of these coal fire plants we shut down three we could do that you know uh and make sure that we're maintaining the right type of uh well it's a greenhouse gas affected all of that stuff and then we need to see do we need to look at bringing in another maybe one or two nuclear plants here in the state of texas so that's how we make sure that we don't end up freezing like we did again yeah it was it was horrible you hear stories from some people or even i happen to know some people because we got hit really hard where i was at 11 year old kid died in his bed in cairo texas yep it's i don't you know to for the life of me i can't understand that but yet you had an energy company made 2.3 billion in profit during that winter freeze yep an 11 year old kid froze to there can't happen no repercussions no repercussions whatsoever yeah because how how how and that's the biggest thing with these giant corporations how do you make anybody accountable at that upper upper level well that's people how do you make them accountable well i think without a doubt there have to be fines if you are not doing what we have said and they didn't pass the legislation to make sure that we are having you know winterization there are inspections for it you don't pass that on to the consumer you're responsible for doing that yourself and if you don't agree with that then we probably should not have you here in texas and we should put out a letter or notice that says that here's a company that's supposed to be an energy distribute distributor but these are the problems that we found so the texans can make the right decisions about who they want to select to be their energy provider here in the state yeah absolutely free market what's that well yeah yeah that's sad yeah i mean we're we're surely getting away from i mean when people can sit around say your business is not essential and it has to shut down yep that's that's cor that's crony capitalism and we got to get away from that yeah i mean from the top down it seems cronyism is just the model but so i'm going to do a complete and total 180 and take it somewhere totally different because i think it would be a complete like waste of having you here because of your military background not to ask you about afghanistan i spent two and a half years in afghanistan and i would tell you something it hurt yeah um there were many friends of mine that we had long conversations because they were close they were close because it's like why did i go over there why did i lose my friends why did i see the things that i saw um because the exact same people that they had worked so hard to get them off the battlefield right back there and then all the equipment that we left there you know people ask me what is the most memorable thing of your time in the military or you know right after the military when i was an advisor i tell them seeing little girls go to school in afghanistan because i understood me having two daughters that was an opportunity for them to have a better way of life but now to know that they've gone right back and and we have a government that put horrible people back in positions of leadership paid them i just uh american money i and china now is occupying going to be occupying bagram i i just can't reconcile myself to that and so you know if you had just had the courage of leadership to say that you know we're going to leave 2 500 3 000 troops still in afghanistan to keep this from ever becoming a terror sanctuary base i mean most people said okay i got it i understand and guess what the people in the military will say okay i gotta understand just give us the right rules of engagement task and purpose so that you're not putting us out there as targets but to just surrender like that i mean the message it sends to everyone is that we don't have staying power and uh and i'm not i'm not one for perpetual combat operations but i know that there's evil in the world and there's only one way that you deal with evil you eradicate it and you got to stand up against it yeah i mean that's the oldest lesson you know the first book and probably will be the last book says that time and time again it's interesting right because there's something about growing up in this country we're all so blessed to grow here but we just we grow up with just this soft plush skin that can handle nothing that doesn't understand anything and i don't think i don't think people especially in my age demographic and even older and certainly younger have any understanding what the world is actually like all you have to do even go go on vacation yeah to central europe or something like that go to spain or even italy or whatever and it's just even that's so much different you know it's amazing because when you have those young troops that you know they're in their first tour duty in the in in the military and they go into a combat zone the first thing they do when they get off that plane coming back to kiss the ground because they now have seen what is so great and what's so special about the united states of america as opposed to some of the other places that are out there and so you're right i believe that we don't do a good job of exposing young people uh to the rest of the world i just read a great uh op-ed piece from a chinese professor who is here he's an american citizen now and he talked about how when he lived in china you know his child and and the the regiment the discipline the the hard work i mean the homework the the focus on math and science but yet here in the united states of america you know they don't get homework every day the most important thing is make sure your kid comes with a healthy snack and so here we are you know again the culture of the participation trophy against the communist chinese and look at how they are raising their future generations well look at the military standards look what they're trying to do to the military in this country and china's going in the opposite direction yeah we're socially engineering our military while they're making their military tougher and harder and more prepared and so at some point in time when you look at the chinese one belt one road strategy and everyone please look that up china is all about global domination not just the regional hegemony there in the pacific realm they're looking to expand that out across the country and so right here in texas we got to be concerned i mean zte and huawei two ctp ccp controlled telecommunications firms have headquarters yeah over there in plano and richardson uh the chinese former chinese how interesting is that like you can't get a huawei phone here but they can have a headquarters in texas absolutely that doesn't even it doesn't compute nothing half the things we're talking about just don't make sense from a common sense or or the former member of the chinese people's liberation army who's brought up a large track of ranch land down there right in val verde county near laflin air base he wants to put up 700 foot tall wind turbines why do you need a 700 foot tall wind turbine right next to a major training facility where we train our f-35 f-22 pilots and what's he going to put in that absolutely yeah and all he has to do is write a check to the right politician and they'll let him do it that's the problem that we have is that we have people that are willing they're compromised and again this is this is not about r d it's it's this both sides it's both sides it's a sickness and so you look and you say well why aren't we tougher on china right now follow the money and how do you stop that like let's let's say let's say starting tomorrow lieutenant colonel alan west is all of a sudden making every every major decision for this country and how we progress over the next 20 years i just want to get involved in the governor of texas this is a great we're this is the opposite of the communist manifesto we're writing our own great well the thing is the thing is that we have something that was passed the uh form the texas infrastructure protection act and we've got to just enforce it i mean why would you allow the number one geopolitical foe of the united states of america to have telecommunications firms in your state every business in in china does that fall on the governor to make that decision absolutely it does i mean you're enforcing that law to texas infrastructure protection why would i want to have a chinese telecommunications firm with a headquarters in plano and richardson richardson being one of them when did they when did they establish that headquarters oh shoot it's been a while yeah because i've been here for almost you know going on eight years now and it's been there and richardson is one of the growing uh tech hubs and you can see it zte on the building right there going up central expressway in richardson i bet i bet nobody knew about that well you all do now yeah and let's do certainly but but why would you have that or you know these confusion academies that are being you know established in college and universities here in the state of texas you know just no you know if you are a a a state school getting funds from the texas taxpayer you're not going to have a confusion academy if you want to you know pay for it out of your own endowment funds you you're fine but we're not going to allow that to happen so there's so many things that we can be doing and we just got to stand up and say we're not going to allow the infiltration of entities that don't have our best interests at heart and we're going to hold their feet accountable i think another thing we need to do is get our manufacturing back here all those supply lines especially our health care supply lines we should not be dependent on a country like china what how do you think that you bring manufacturing back to united states right i've had a decent idea you know how they incentivize farmers in the u.s you know there's grants and moneys that paid out i think you should do something similar obviously you have to be on a larger scale for manufacturers in this country well get them started well i think that you don't take the path that you see this uh bite administration doing which you know raising you know the the corporate taxes and things of this nature if you want to raise the corporate taxes raise the corporate taxes on the people that want to depart america and take their businesses elsewhere but if you we want to open up the welcome map for people to come here and hire americans to work and and that filters down to your education system as well because not everybody has to go to college we need to stop telling those people shouldn't at this point absolutely it's a terrible idea yes because that's where you create the next generation of marks of socialists and little you know status well but even just from a personal standpoint like if you're let's say that you're going to be a a kindergarten teacher you're going to spend 140 000 on that career if you want to go to a good school and you're going to make 35 to 45 thousand dollars till you hit 10-year the max money you're ever going to make in that position maybe 70 grand maybe 80 if you're in like a south lake at 14 and a half percent you can't escape that even if you file bankruptcy you can't escape student debt it follows you no matter where you go they'll garnish your checks if you can't pay it it's inescapable and so why do you want to go to college and so why don't we in high school start developing career tracks for folks uh they used to absolutely i mean we had wood shop we had auto automobiles welding all of these type of things which are great paying jobs and so you right again i mean if you want to be a kindergarten teacher i mean aren't there things that you can do in high school curriculum that you can take and then you can have little internships over the summer at some local kindergarten or local elementary school it's not like they're allowing you a lot of uh creativity in your teaching you're following a curriculum you're following me absolutely you're following these you know set standards so again i think that we need to get where we're thinking outside of this you know progressive socialist box this state control of education type of box or you know this thing saying that everyone has to go along this this track here and look i pay for two college educations ain't paying for nobody else's kid go to college i'm sorry if you make that decision that that's your decision and your mommy and daddy uh they're the ones to pay for and so this whole thing about relieving their debt you know sorry if you know coming back to personal responsibility again if you made a decision say i want to go to harvard and i want to get a degree in philosophy yeah ain't a whole lot of people sitting around in togas anymore no yeah although there's a lot to learn from those guys there's a lot to learn from those guys certainly not going to pay your bills ain't gonna be paying your bills today yeah and so that's a nice minor yeah in fact i can not think of very many liberal arts that'll get you paid nowadays well it's tough and so i think again when you look at coming back to how do you bring manufacturing back when you look at what you want texas to be we should be developing educational tracks to get people into that productive be productive members of that economy that we want to have here one of the things that i talked about and made a press release about a couple weeks ago i want to see texas be the the gun manufacturing industry capital of the world yeah if you want to talk about making you know powder here in texas you want to talk about here in texas you want to talk about building rifles and pistols here in texas that is the one good thing about the united states we still build our guns here and that's why i want more people i want people coming out of blue states where they're getting you know penalized and everything like that paypal is going after them banking you fight you know everything come here to texas and we want to build up the private equity that can support you we want to make sure we have financial institutions that will support you and so that's another great thing and wouldn't it be great if if you know out in west texas or even here a kid learns how to build his own you know rifle now some people say oh colonel now you talking about you know someone going out and kill no i want you to think about the technical expertise that goes into machining parts in a rifle that's math that's physics science everything so why are we showing people what you can do with these things instead of just saying what's the pythagorean theorem yeah not what's the use of it but just you got to memorize it yeah so yep absolutely i agree 100 and and uh again this is why i was so excited to have you on because we're just talking you're just talking normal common sense stuff which generally the more more prominent political figures you talk to the more you realize not very many of them are capable of having a common sense conversation because they're just it's it's abcd rants repeat you know say it backwards maybe if you want a little bit throw a little wrench in the script it's just a scripted nearly inhuman process to talk to anybody who's in the political landscape and you're not that which is why i mean i will 100 endorse you for governor i think i think the best chance we have in this state to get it on track where people probably think it is and don't realize how messed up texas really is i mean you don't come to texas and you can see people are coming here 10 000 a month from california because they think it's the best i mean it's certainly better than that that place is gone l.a done never never going to change never san francisco i mean smashing grabs i mean who can believe that yeah yeah public defecation austin went there for a second kudos to their mayor they figured out how to fix their homeless problem but they only had what i heard this on joe rogan so this is not like yeah but the mayor got forced into it because the citizens you know had the petition drive and they voted against that homeless ordinance but the interesting thing was just you know earlier this month in the election november they voted down proposition a yeah which would be the refunding of their police you know it's just unconscionable to me but and so i think did you bring over a great point the people have to decide the people have to decide that we don't want this career politician thing we don't want to hear the talking points the scripted you know responses we want people that are going to be bold you know fortune favors the bold who dares wins that's what we need to have especially here in texas again when you think about almost 300 miles of border that we share with another country that really the president of mexico maybe he's the mayor of mexico city but he's not controlling this area in these states that are along our border here and so something has to be done and you cannot sit back and just use the same old scripted political optics and things that yeah okay we put a bunch of box cars down there along the border we lined up a bunch of vehicles in del rio to say look at here we have a wall of vehicles okay that's about 10 miles wide what about the other 1400 uh 44 miles 1 244 miles of the border what's going to happen there because now they're not coming so much in the del rio area they're going to la jolla they're going to a mcallen they're still you know flowing freely across the border out there in the big bend area where it's wide open so yeah it's crazy you hear stories of people camping in big bend and there's a caravan that walks through absolutely you imagine that or you think about you know i don't know if you you can share pictures of it but the trash the the littering i mean you know the clothing everything all throughout the area we're the environmentalists talking about you know how the the this natural park is being destroyed no they're not going to talk about that because that makes too much sense let's talk about the icebergs yeah well russia named gretavon schundenberg or whatever i great or something yeah a little whatever sad yeah well just she norwegian or something right yeah sven her dad's name's finn that's true yeah yeah it's salted fish it's a good thing it is a good thing yeah it's probably good for you too all those omegas okay keep you from getting coveted i have fish oil i take fish oil yeah smarter man 30 years from now i'm telling you man you're going to take it i'm trying to do some preventative stuff now to get myself there there's a lot of inflammation d3 calcium vitamin c yeah yeah zinc vitamin c and and vitamin d those are your keys to that not get sick from covid but regardless i think i think sitting here for 12 hours wouldn't be enough to to learn because my my number one thing that i've realized is the smartest thing you can do is listen to people who know things so that you can know more things and most people don't want to do that so i'm really glad that i got to sit here with you you took the time out of your busy day to come in and talk to us and we're going to do it again oh yes sir all right well and you're you're doing the the deal at uh double x equine in in january yes i am i'll be there introducing you well cool yeah we'll be there say this guy we found wandering on the streets we did yeah he was talking about this constitution yeah what is that that's antiquated yeah it doesn't make sense why is he got these buttons on his what are those well you know i always tell people this is so funny i remember i was at a speaking engagement and a young kid came up to me he said well colonel what did you fly in the air force i said well why do you think i flew it he said cause you got wings on your lapel i said i didn't fly anything i was in the army and i jumped out airplanes yeah and the little kid said that doesn't seem real smart colonel that's like from the mouth of babes yeah well you know some people can fly planes other people have to jump out of them we do absolutely and what kind of restrictions do we have zero language here zero well you know the the saying is is that there are two things that fall from the sky bird and fools it's a fact and i can assure you that that is the cleanest this is the cleanest podcast we've ever had if we have one drop i mean we can go to church right now there you go we're good awesome all right thanks a lot my pleasure this has been the gauge hosted by me chance conorado produced and edited by our guy ty jaeger shout out to the executive producers dustin pointer and cody denton marketing and content produced by riley chum make sure to rate and review this podcast as well as follow the gauge on twitter instagram and facebook and make sure to subscribe to the gage wherever you get 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Length: 76min 5sec (4565 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 03 2021