Take a look behind the curtain with the real whistleblower, an American patriot. Prepare to embrace the uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for comforting lies. Here is civil liberties enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI agent Kyle Serafin. Well, hello my friends. Welcome to the Kyle Serafin Show. We did this already. We did a live cold open.
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network maintenance. Let's just contribute to that or personal screw up. You never know, but we're really happy to have you here today. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Grateful for all of you joining us. We're not going to talk politics. We're going to bring out my buddy Garrett O'boyle. We're going to talk a couple things. I was just a middle middle of telling a story, which I will retell. It's not not difficult to do. But Garrett, go ahead and say
hey, welcome to the show, buddy. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody out there watching live, especially our live chatters joining us on on this blessed Thanksgiving we we hope you all have have a a good one and even when things are hard. There are plenty of good things to be thankful for, so glad to be here. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, buddy, it's a matter of
perspective. Obviously we did a whole shtick routine because you and I were talking earlier about whether or not your kids were chained to the basement, 'cause we heard them kind of making noise early and maybe they were chained to a sewing machine somewhere and stitching up hats or putting out shirts. I won't. I won't put you through that again. We know that your children are are are doing significant amounts of duties maintaining the sweatshop.
That keeps the suspendables merge rolling right. Indeed, as any good sweatshop manager you know would have it, the kids are hard at work, somewhere around 2022 hours a day. And you know 22 hours. That sounds like parents duty hours. That doesn't sound like kids duty hours. How much? How much? How much time do the managers have to handle these 22 hour a day working kids? I mean, we actually have shifts, so we're only at 12 hours a day each, You know, it's like, hey,
I'll take the night shift. I'm used to that type of thing and oh, it's so silly. So we're going to cover a couple things. We're going to talk a little bit about history. I got a couple of videos of you guys that'll just be kind of light hearted. I want to say thanks to our sponsor. We we started doing this earlier. Like I said, we ran this up, but this Catholic votes it, folks. The Catholic vote is our number one sponsor. They put out an e-mail called The Loop.
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keep us floating. Just for what it's worth, That's what that means, great people and the president of that company whose name is Brian Birch, is a really good guy. We have all these weird overlaps, which I covered a minute ago to myself. I was just talking to Garrett. Garrett heard him. But essentially we had so many strange, serendipitous overlaps when we lived in Dallas. His family lives in Phoenix, My family lives outside of Phoenix.
Just a bunch of these things. Of course we we, we used to go to the the same church when he was older than me and I was a kid. Just strange, strange kind of serendipitous moments. You never know what God's plan is until you look at it in the rear view. I think many of us can see it after the fact. You go, of course. Of course. That's what it was about. And I think many of us will see this time this way. But I I mentioned today's date, the 23rd. I was just about to tell Garrett
about this story. I had an experience two years ago where my life basically changed. I would say forever I would change. It changed in a way that we'll never go back to on the 23rd of 2021. In November, I got a phone call
3 in the morning. My boss calls me up and throw Garrett on the screen here because we'll we'll kind of just riff on on the ideas of this but I get this phone call from a boss he tells me hey we got a potential murder homicide down at the federal prison down in Otero County. New guys got the got the UPS he's he's the duty agent for the week and will you please go and join him because he doesn't know how to conduct a homicide investigation. He doesn't even know who to ask or what he.
I mean he's like 3 weeks out of Quantico. Five weeks out of Quantico. So I did. I drove down there. We met in the parking lot at the at the RA, at the resident agency, and he had a cup of coffee and I had a cup of coffee and we rolled down to the prison, which I'd been to a few times. I was already friends with a warden. Go figure. You can imagine Gary like I I made friends with a guy the first time I met him, and so I'm
not. Surprised by that, we we went in and we conducted our investigation. We were there for about 12 hours in the COVID isolation ward, which was ironic because I was. I was removed later that day because I wouldn't get COVID tests on a regular basis. Go. Figure right? Yeah, but they were happy to expose me because I didn't get the shots. And we did our investigation. We found out all kinds of weird stuff. Guy had died, but it looked like nobody had been involved.
No foul play was was evident. It was going to wait on the medical examiner. I move the body, which is not something that people in the FBI generally do. I help the medical examiner put them into a bag and roll them over. And we, you know, we conducted all the physical exams that you would do of a body when you're looking for evidence of foul play. It looked like this guy may have had a medical emergency that we
couldn't explain. So long and short of it is we finish all that up and then we go in and the warden sits us down and he starts talking about some other stuff they got going on and things that he might want to do, an investigation, maybe a corruption investigation. And then they served us a Thanksgiving dinner coming out of the prison. They brought it to the the warden's conference room and we sat around and we had some food and we had some Turkey and some
other stuff. And it was a very strange day. And I went back to the office and my boss told me that you can't come back into this office again until you get a COVID test. And I said, well, I'd love to take leave, 'cause I'm not going to do that. And I took leave and I didn't get back in until March 4th, and that was the last six weeks. And then they fired me or suspended me forever, which is wild. Yeah, because it's it's such a such a such an upright process.
Oh, we're just gonna suspend you for whatever reason we want and off you go. But let's not forget this is, this is a poignant story because it just goes to show they don't really care about the mission, the work. They just care about keeping you under their thumb. Just do what we say, Kyle. We don't care that we called you in the middle of the night and I get it.
That goes with the territory sometimes, but especially on the heels of that type of day, that type of investigation, holding the hand of the new guy and, you know, probably prompting his brain and asking certain questions or with your background as a paramedic. So we did, We did all the prison guards and all the inmates. We separated them off into individual interviews with each one of them and so that's why it
took 12 hours to be there. But the fun thing is that that was like peak FBI work for me. It's. Like, you're, you're a subject matter expert in your thing. You know enough. You've never done this type of investigation in this place. But you understand, 'cause I'm assigned to the Res, that I did criminal work and that was something I was, you know, theoretically trained for for a long time. A lot of it was just me figuring it out as I went, you know, and and then it's like, yeah, and
I'm taking on a new guy. We're doing the, we're doing the mentoring game and and you're the only one there. Everyone's looking to you because all the prison guards are prison guards and they don't have investigative backgrounds and they're and you're the one guy that's going to figure out what's going on there. Yeah, and you're you're the FBI agent, you know, representing the entirety of the Bureau. Right. Everybody is looking to you. Everybody there is looking to you.
Different scenario, different type of case. But I spent a lot of time in and out of a prison early on in my career for a for an investigation I was working on and. I ended up developing a a a really strong bond with the the two investigators who worked at the prison and you know, they had whatever they had. Yeah, they were like, I forget what they were called. I I could look. But, you know, they came up
through the ranks. They started off as prison guards and you know, they're one of them. I ended up going to his retirement. It was like one of the last things I did, it was, you know, maybe six months, eight months before I ended up getting suspended out. He he called me up and said,
hey, I'm retiring. But, but when you when you were saying like peak FBI, this is what you expected, you guys met in the parking lot early in the morning with coffee in my head, I was thinking like, yeah, that's what we thought we were signing up for. That's exactly what you thought you were signing up for. I had one other moment like that. I was in the desert in New Mexico and it was me and my partner Josh.
And he was a great guy. He's a former Federal Air Marshall and was a was a Marine Corps officer. Just like all the he had all the the qualities of the people that you thought he's he's this jacked black guy. And he would always make us mad because he was just like he was always ripped out of his mind and he would show up like wearing like a hoodie and kind of like dressed down because we
did surveillance work. I remember Josh showing up one day and and he was like, you know that feeling when you get up in the morning and you look at yourself in the mirror and you're like, Oh yeah, the apex rippling. And I was like, no, I'm a dad and I'm not gay. Like, I don't stare at my body and I'm not trying to get other dudes. Aren't you married? And his his wife was like, really thick. And he that was that was his thing.
And anyway, it was just great. He was like, he was one of those guys that he was the kind of teammate that you wanted to have. And the two of us were in the middle of New Mexico. We're following this bad guy a legit a legit terrorist subject armed enormous, swore allegiance to ISIS, radicalized wearing Islamic dress even though he was like he looked like he would have been like a like a you character except I think he was 69 and he was like 350.
So scaled up version of Garrett shaved head, you know white guy from America that had gone full radical you know and gone the and gone the other way and he drove himself out in the middle of the desert and he was working out there on this like Indian Reservation or something like that. It was like this weird Pueblo in New Mexico, and he's doing what I would call move to contact drills.
He was like shooting, dropping, moving like, you know, going from cover to cover and shooting it and and moving up on targets that were up against this dirt berm in the middle of nowhere. And we're watching him. We got a plane overhead, and me and Josh climb up this hill, you know, kind of like semi mountain
thing. And we just hike up this damn thing with our telephoto lenses and a rifle in the backpack and like, write radio, you know, it's just two dudes that are in earth tones crawling up this like, side of the thing. We're like sneaking around and we're taking pictures of him from three, 400 yards away. The stuff that you thought you were going to be doing. I got to do it a few. Times. And that is the opposite of what
it really is about. What it really is about is go get a COVID swab up your nose and we're going to kick you out the door. But I thought it was interesting because my boss didn't feel good about it and I found out later that he was that he, you know, he protected his career. There was something interesting that. He knew it was wrong. He knew it was wrong, of course.
What was interesting is the next day you and I had already put together a group of people in the Bureau that were in that same boat that we're going to be facing some sort of hardship about COVID, about eventually whistleblowers for some of them. And and we had a Thanksgiving. The next day was the first Thanksgiving that you and I knew each other. And I'm wondering if you kind of tell some of that story for
folks from your perspective. Yeah, it's, it's pretty vivid for me because it was shortly after I was brought into the group and it was shortly after, you know, it was all this COVID stuff. The the mandate to get the vaccine was in September. By early October, we had to put in our religious beliefs again. I still hold that that even that was illegal. And then, you know, by November, it's when they're starting to change around all the rules and
implement the testing. And so it was a stressful time for those of us who said, hey, I actually think part of the autonomy matters, and especially from a law enforcement context, shouldn't we all be thinking that? But you know, we banded together in this, in this little group and my in laws came down to Kansas and the weather was perfect. And you said, hey, today, we're not talking COVID, we're not talking mandate. We're just going to talk about what we're grateful for, what
we're thankful for. And throw up a picture of your family if you want, you know, in here. And I just remember checking in the group messages throughout the day, just thinking like this, this is actually a blessing. It's a blessing. I don't know any of these people. I think I knew maybe one or two of them. Like I had actually met in person at that point. And it just was like a very special day because. We are, we are. We should be focused.
We should be grateful every day. You know, and I think often times we. I know for me, I I I lean towards the glass being being half empty. And sometimes that prohibits me from from being grateful for things that I should be grateful for.
And I just remember that day, like, every time checking in, seeing a picture of somebody's family, seeing some Bible verse about being grateful, seeing just a. A heartfelt message to the group and what it had meant for them to to have found it and be a part of this group because in their office they feel so alone and I think we all we all felt like that. And I I I grilled up some Turkey that day. I grilled up some steak that
day. My you know my girls were were a couple years younger than they are. We only had three at the time but my in laws were down. We ended up putting up the Christmas tree. The weather wasn't as cold as it is here in Wisconsin. It's beautiful in Kansas this time of year. And like it. It just is a very stark memory for me and I don't think I will forget it anytime soon. Maybe once I'm demented like our president.
Hey, hey, hey, no politics. But yeah, man, it's a it's a really good it's a good fond memory in in a in a season of life. And I mean it's it's a few years now and it seems that again a lot of ways it's only been getting a little more difficult. But during this interesting season of life and our paths intersecting, it stands out as just a very bright spot that I can look back to and say, hey, you know, it's always darkest before the dawn, but that dawn
does come and last. I think last year was was probably dark for both of us in a big way. We had just got in public. I was exhausted. I know I was getting sick running around because we're we're doing this like marathon to like nobody plans on being in the media when you've never been in the media in your whole life and you're in your 40s or you're in your late 30s. And so you and I end up in this like thrust into this moment where the only basically treading water for survival.
I I would I would like in all those like sort of Fox interviews I started doing and just going on Dan's show which I'm really you know, of the things I'm grateful for. Dan Bongino is one of the people and one of the and his show is one of the things that I am so grateful for particularly today looking at where I am and where I was and what we needed to do. Because I don't think it was about me and never was about me.
It was really about this country and more importantly I think it was about my kids than anybody else. Like I like I love all these people that are that have joined us, that have joined our show that are part of the the sort of the experience everyday and and you know get involved with it and follow us on on all the social media. But when it comes down to the things that were most important for me to make a decision it wasn't like some faceless nameless American that I hadn't met yet.
It was looking my kids in the eye and knowing that one day that if they asked me, what did you do, what did you do when there was a possibility to resist tyranny? And the answer would be, I gave it everything I had. And that's why we don't live in New Mexico. And that's why we don't have the beautiful house we had. And that's why our life went on a totally different direction than what was planned. We had a dotted line that we were following, and we were given an option basically for
all of our chips. Will you do what you're told? Or will you do what you think is right? And by the way, you should do what you're told. And I said no. And you said no. And a few small others did. And I think that's going to end up making a big difference. Ryan made a funny comment the other day. To me, that just sits in my brain now. It's kind of bothers me.
He's like, do you ever think about how Paul Revere thought about himself when he was doing what he was doing and that they would tell stories about him in history? Do you ever think about them like you like that? And I'm like, no, of course not. That's absurd. I'm too busy doing what I'm doing. If they end up telling stories about what you and I did, that would be, that'd be incredibly bizarre and I don't and not even necessarily warranted. Agreed.
I think you took that text out of context. Did I what? Yeah. What I was meaning by that was like, do you think in general, like people like yourself, like maybe Garrett O Boyles, the Steve friends, the Carlos Arlianos. Like do you ever think about like, what this movement is doing that it might be looked back upon at one time like this might be, Yeah, it's the same. It's the same. Revere thought about that at the time. I don't think he did. And I don't think you can.
And I'll tell you why, because you got to just you got to be in the moment working on the problem. The problem is, is the history is written, written by the victor. And so we're going to talk about history in just a second year because there's some funny little things on Wikipedia about Thanksgiving that I find. But if you don't win, then they'll never talk about you. You're not going to hear about the people that tried to resist certain areas because it didn't happen.
As far as the the the winning regime, you know, was involved, they they can just blank you out. And so treading water to save your life is a really good example of it. You're holding some weight over your head of unknown weight. They could throw any more on at any time and you got to tread furiously to keep up. That was my experience of the last Thanksgiving, and this one is wildly different. We're in Texas, my family's all around the table. We're going to probably FaceTime
with my folks. We won't be able to be in in person with them because we're kind of doing a different game. And you guys, too. I know you guys had a really rough one last year and this year's a little bit brighter. Yeah, for sure. Like, you probably remember that picture I sent you when we got into the rental and I had? I had gotten gotten back from Virginia and pretty much the entire garage was filled with boxes of our stuff.
And then most places in the house had boxes strewn about and just a couple weeks later was Thanksgiving. And it was, yeah, it was rough. It was rough. I mean, yeah, it's been an interesting year. Definitely some very dark spots along the way, some very bright spots along the way too. So it's just it's interesting like you know, my my father-in-law told me the other
day that. He was just so grateful for me and people like me. He mentioned you and Steve both and said I just don't think I could do it. And I was like, I don't think that's true. When we took, when we decided to do what was right, it wasn't like we thought, man, I'm so courageous or that I have another choice. Yeah, and I told him that we're not wired to to do it another way. I think a lot of people have that same sense. Probably all the people who turned down the shots.
To be fair, which is a huge chunk of this country, it may not be everybody. There's an awful lot of people that said I don't think so this is, this doesn't feel right to me. And and now there's people too, who are coming out and admitting that they were duped, that they thought, oh, the government and the media are telling us that these things are safe and and good and not only are they going to help me and they're going to help my neighbor.
I mean, I so yeah, I'll take it. And now they're like, uh, oh, I wish I wouldn't have done that. And I don't know. You know what I don't know what where the difference is for somebody like you or me where right away we thought no this is something's off here. You know and I'm not I'm not doing it no matter what. And then look what it led to.
At first it was get your shot and you'll get a free doughnut from Krispy Kreme. And it turned into don't get your shot and your untermensch and you're getting cast out from the federal government if you. For for some reason that we'll just try to stick on you, man. They went from, they went from carrot to stick really fast, didn't they? Oh yeah, Yep, for sure. That's pretty wild. Let's let's say thanks to someone who's been with me basically since I started doing this.
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So we want to say we appreciate it here. So I want to do history. Can we do history for a little bit? Garrett? Can I bring some stuff up from some funny stuff? Let's. Do it. OK, let's do it. So first of all, and then we've got a clip from The History Channel that you're really going to appreciate. It's going to be some of the most educational piece. So folks, if you are, if you're watching, stay tuned. You're going to enjoy this.
First of all, Wikipedia tells us that according to some historians, the 1st celebration of Thanksgiving in North America actually heard happened in 1578 with a guy named Martin Fishbearer, who came in from England and happened in Canada. Wow. But there's also no compelling reason for anyone to believe that, and that the origins of the Canadian Thanksgiving are probably made-up. We thanks, thanks Wikipedia, but also thanks Canadians.
How how fun are you guys? It also says the annual tradition in North American colonies documented the first time in in 1619, which was now, which is what is is now Virginia. Now. I'd always heard it was 1621, and of course they end up saying that. And so there's some some sort of negotiations, whether it was 16211623 or 1631. But let me share a fun story about what it was not. A couple years back, I was quite a bit younger.
I'd probably just been somewhere between College in the military and I was sitting at the Thanksgiving table with my folks and we were, they were in Dallas, TX at the time in North Dallas. And so my mom was cooking and my dad was cooking and the kids were all busting around. I've got I have 6 total brothers and sisters combined, including me. So only five of us were there. My oldest brother was in Hawaii and we're all around the table
and some of them are younger. They might have been high school age or college age, something like that. And my mom sat down and she was teaching school at the time and she was a preschool teacher and she told us very proudly I might add. My mother, Diane Seraphin, said, I taught all of my students today about the first Thanksgiving and how the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
And they met up with Sakajuiya and made contact with the Indians and had the first Thanksgiving, which is one of the funniest things that I've ever heard. And we all burst out laughing and she had no idea why we were laughing. And my and my brothers and I are always kind of like turds like this.
And we said, Mom, did it. Ever wonder, like, did any of your kids ask why those English puritanical settlers who came to the New World were riding on Spanish ships that were piloted by an Italian guy in the person of Christopher Columbus? And she's like, what do you mean? I was like the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. Isn't that kind of a weird name for a set of English ships she had? No, she just. I said. You just made a smoothie of, like, about 150 years of American history.
And the sad thing is. Close enough. You told it to preschool kids, and you told it to preschool kids who are predominantly first generation Americans with immigrant parents, 'cause she had a lot of, like, Indian families that were, like, in the tech world. So none of them probably knew the real story of Thanksgiving anyway. And they went home and they're telling their parents that the parents are probably like, Oh
yeah, cool. And then they go to, they go to work the next day or they go on Black Friday and they start telling all their friends, yeah, you know, the name of the paint in the Santa Maria landing, all those pilgrims. It's just funny if you don't, if you don't look into history, I think so many of us don't have any concept of what it is. I'm ready for your reaction to this. I got a video for you. Are you prepared? I'm prepared steal yourself for some hard facts about Thanksgiving. Folks.
Speaking, speaking. There's a Kyle in this clip that you guys are going to really appreciate. But this is the real history of Thanksgiving. And Ryan, if you want to go ahead and run that video from The History Channel so people can be educated a little bit more, I think we should all know best about this day. You're watching The History Channel, where the truth is
history. A lot has been written about the first Thanksgiving between Pilgrims and Native Americans, But what really happened at that first historic dinner? Dude, See, I told you. Who needs to read a bunch of stupid books when we've got History Channel? We know the first Thanksgiving was in the fall of 1621, but new evidence suggests that the first exchanging of food between the Pilgrims and Native Americans may have been visited by aliens.
In every journal entry we research from those early Pilgrims, not one entry mentions anything about aliens not being there. And what about the food? Does the appearance of stuffing at the first Thanksgiving table suggest a kind of alien technology? What? This isn't history, dude. It is called History Channel and if we look in all the journals and all the history books, there is no reference to stuffing before 1621. So where did it come from? Did it come from space? We just don't know.
Did ancient aliens shape the first Thanksgiving? Is it mere coincidence that Cape Cod, when viewed from space, looks like an alien life form? What exactly did the Pilgrims experience? How exactly did those beings from another world shape the dinner we celebrate every November? What? How? Why are you being so grumpy? Are you in your period again? We are not basing research for our report on this crap. OK, let's take a vote.
Who thinks the possibility of ancient aliens at Thanksgiving makes for an interesting history report? You OK? And who wants to take a little pampering so their menstrual cramps stop bringing everyone down? Yeah, all right, fine. Let's just get this stupid report over with for me. That entire video clip is set up so that they could show an overhead shot at Cape Cod with the alien drawing, which looks like it was drawn by some guys. I was enlisted with 100.
Percent for sure. How many drawings like that did you see in a part of John, you know, like before you're heading out to the field or whatever. So the worst for me was I went and did this training one time as a paramedic training and it was with a bunch like some HRT medics, the hostage rescue team, pretty, pretty capable guys. They they do a lot of elite sort of training and so on. And so these guys are down there teaching and it's a bunch of FBI paramedics and EM TS that are
going to go through this. And we were going to go through what's called PHTLS pre hospital trauma life support which is the sort of standard for when you do gunshot wounds whatever. It's the military standard of it. And there's a PHTLS civilian book, and then there's a military book. And the difference is between the two books, I think it's just the cover. The military book has, like, a guy who's wearing, you know,
like, army clothes or whatever. And so I've got mine and I haven't opened it. I don't know if I've ever opened it. I've had it since I was in the Air Force. I had it.
This is probably 2017 or 2018. So I've had this book for six years, maybe or more seven years, and I've never really gone through it. And I and we're flipping through and we're talking about how, like, how to do intubations, which is where you open up somebody's mouth and you send out a tube and it goes down to the lungs and then you can breathe for them. You have a direct pathway in case they have a compromised airway.
And I open it up to this page, which is like halfway into the book and there's a picture of like a guy and he's like lean back like this and somebody just drew a Dick into his mouth. And on the next page it's signed Love Mark. And I remember Mark. I remember Mark. I remember serving with Mark. He was a turd. He's down in Florida now as far as I remember. And it was like that was the longest run up to a joke I've
ever seen in my life. It was a seven-year joke before I actually got it. I never even saw the thing. He probably was like, yeah, I'm going to get a good. Seven years later, I finally see that he drew a Dick in the mouth, this person. And of course, I'm sitting next to a female FBI medic who ended up being a good buddy. She was. She was a good person, but she looks over and she's like, she's like, why did you draw that? And I'm like. I didn't.
That wasn't me. That was Mark, apparently eight years ago. That's hilarious. That's such a that's such a typical like enlisted guy thing to do too. You know, like, oh, I'm gonna get him and you know, do whatever a drawing like that or man, always, always silly jokes like that and then you come across it and you're like, hey, what the eight years later. Yeah. And I knew exactly who had done it too, 'cause these devious turds, they would all, like open
up each other's books. They were always doing it to each other. I just, I usually kept my books in the shrink wrap, 'cause I didn't even use them for whatever reason. I guess ancient aliens may or may not be responsible for the first Thanksgiving and or the Nina, the paint in the Santa Maria, as is the Seraphin family tradition. So it's worth knowing your history, otherwise you're you're doomed to forgive it. It wasn't always about, like colonists coming off and killing
all the the Indians, right? It's just we used to know it was about aliens. Here's your blanket with smallpox on it. Have a nice life. And some people still trust the government, which is pretty amazing, right? I'm gonna. I'm gonna read you something. This is a kind of an interesting little plug, folks. If you see my pin, Twitter. I actually just got this yesterday. This is my father Charlie Serafin's book.
There it is. It's The Story of Your Life, Write Your Own Obituary by Charlie Surfin. And I wanted to read the opening of it, Speaking of history, because when I got it yesterday, the opening pages I thought were perfectly encapsulating the kind of childhood in the life that I grew up with with my my dad and kind of the quirky dude that he was. And I and you guys have never heard any of this stuff. So this is kind of interesting.
The The opening introduction says that it's important that that you write your obituaries is the most important and more important than all the selfies in your photo file. Your obituary is going to capture the essence of your life. Unfortunately, you don't get to write it yourself and it if you don't write it yourself, then it won't be properly done. This is what happened to my dad.
Here's my dad's obituary taken from the Rhinelander Daily News in April of 1962 when my grandfather died, long before I was born. And it says Joseph Serafin dies here today. Joseph Arthur Serafin, 68 years old, a lifelong resident of Rhinelander, died in Saint Mary's Hospital this morning after an extended illness. He lived at 35 Lake Creek Rd. And operated the Lake Creek grocery store for the last 10 years. Born here on January 20th, 1894, Mr. Serafin operated a Tavern
for many years. He survived by his wife Betty and four sons, John, Charles, Michael and Mark, all at home. And a daughter, Miss Mary Catherine Seraphin of Milwaukee and a sister misses Raymond Powers of Rhinelander.
The church service will be held at 9:00 AM Wednesday at Saint Joseph's Church. It's officiated by Reverend Joseph Miller. Burial will be in Saint Joseph's Cemetery after 2:00 PM. The body will be at the Hildebrand Funeral Home. A rosary will be said at 8:00 PM Monday. That was the story of my grandfather's life in his obituary. And Garrett, you want to hear the real story? Yep. So my dad wrote this. This is the opening pages of the book.
He said if you knew my dad, you'd laugh how little he resembled the person that was described here. My dad was a bootlegger, and he spent 18 months in federal penitentiary for operating an unlicensed still after Prohibition in 1932. He was still the largest. He his still was the largest ever confiscated by federal officials in those Northwoods. He took the fall for his crew operating the still because the others had children, and at the time he did not. He was also the operator of a
brothel and several speakeasies. He did run a grocery store, as described in the obituary, but he was also a boxer and an inventor and a farmer and an expert horse trainer. His published obituary says nothing about his character, his values, his beliefs, his idiosyncrasies, his hobbies, skills, or anything else that explains who he was. If you search the archives for my father's obituary, you'll still find it under Joseph. No one ever called him Joseph either. His name was Joe.
The obituary refers to me as Charles, and no one's ever called me Charles. My name is Charlie. That's the, that's my dad's opening lines to the book right there. If folks want to get this, this is a an evaluation of conscience, a examination of conscience in many ways. And it's, I think, an interesting sort of snapshot on the way that we don't get to tell our own life story except in many ways we may be able to
do that. You and I are are in a place where we're documenting a lot of our life story for people. But most of you I have probably never sat back and thought what happens when I die? How my kids going to know what the story is? How do I tell it? Everyone thought, oh, I should write a book or I should record this. I should put it down for prosperity. This book is kind of an interesting way to examine it. What are the most valuable things? What do you want to pass on?
So anyway, check out my dad's book on Amazon right now and write him a review if you like it, and I think you will. And he's the guy that kind of helped me become the person that I am. It's kind of interesting. What do you think about that that that obituary story? I think it's it's it's captivating because. We don't think of this very often, but think of any obituary
you've ever read. How many of them are like that, where it's just these these hollow statements about who the person was and how those who remain remember them? And then just a little bit, your dad added and said this is more like who he was. It's like, man, it's. It's a it's AI think it's a very captivating way to start that book because for me just listening it drew me in because it's like oh man that's a great point haven't really thought about it. Obituaries often times are that
way. They're not capturing very much of of people's character and you know, you know this Kyle, we've had some some deaths in in the family recently and it you know it was Heidi's grandpa on one side and grandma on the other and. So attending these funerals with with large numbers of family who were there and who knew these people well or you know even even Heidi she's the granddaughter you know of both of them and so she she's known that she knows she knew them both very well like it.
There's a different piece that we that we have, you know, with us of of the people we we have relationships with and the people we encounter in life and. Those obituaries, man, they ring hollow. I think your dad nailed it in, In that regard. I mean, the guy owned, what do they say? They didn't say any of the funny things. All the stories that I know about my grandfather, If you were to go, you know, tell me about him in a few words. It's like, yeah, bootlegger.
That's family lore. And it's a great story. And there's, there's some newspaper articles that were written about the time when he went out there. There's some wild stories about how after he got out of jail, apparently he just partied his face off for for like a year or two. And the story that made him get sober, which is also a really interesting story of Will.
I remember my dad telling me that he basically had these like poodles or these like very fancy dogs and he took them everywhere and and he was really into having these dogs because he didn't have kids. And and then at he was parting so hard that at some point he woke up and he'd given one of his dogs away to a stranger. Because he was so drunk. And it's like, that's a real story about a real person.
It's not. Rosary will be done at 8:00 PM on Monday and we're going to put his body in state and then that's the end of it. And and so many of us don't think of what that legacy looks like. And I think that I imagine what the the the first people that were there on that first Thanksgiving, you know they they were probably so grateful that they were live. I mean most of us are not in the food chain. But when people landed on this rock here and came to this country, everything was a threat.
Unknown people that spoke a language they couldn't understand. A threat the the a new form of winter that they hadn't experienced before. New foliage, new berries that could kill them, new animals that were moving in a different way than they did in the in the the woods in Europe. I mean, like think about coming from England, which is an island, it doesn't have any of
these things. Then think about the snakes that exist down in Florida. You know, it's like or the snake that was crapping on our show yesterday. There's there's so many things here that would be absolutely like an existential threat to your family's existence and and just to be able to have a few minutes to be grateful is still pretty incredible to carve out that time.
I think that's what Thanksgiving is about, that without thinking about all the chaos and the noise, you just take a minute and you go. I'm really grateful for people and all the good things that are going on. And it's it's a glass half full glass half empty thing. I'm tend to. I bet I'm like you. I I look at the the glass as being half empty all the time. Except except when I remind myself not to.
Which is so important for sure. It's like, OK, I got to remind myself, I look at it like it's half empty. If I want it to be full, I better fill it up. And that's I think where we all come in. We we have to do our part to make it. A full glass, especially for our kids like you mentioned earlier. You know, I've told, I don't know if I've told you this. I probably have. It's hard to remember
everything. But I've told Heidi before that if it was just me, I don't know, I I'd probably do do more like what your grandpa did and just you know party my face off. But one of the main probably the main reason I continue to to like I don't want to be public. You know me. I'm kind of shy. I'm kind of quiet and. It's kind of weird. And, you know, I I don't want this, but when I look at my kids, I, I, I really do think I have to do what I can to to make their country better than it is
today. And we're failing at that right now. So it's like, OK, well, I don't have another option. But if I was alone, I probably would have just quit, become a cop again and moved on with my life, like, OK, whatever. But it's like no that that's. Not even an option at least for now. And I I, I know I'm jumping all over but your grandpa up in Rhinelander, the Northwoods of Wisconsin. So if my history is correct and I I'm.
I'm pretty sure it is a lot of the the bootleggers up there they were they were running booze for Al Capone and and and the big mob down in Chicago which is where the speakeasies and and where the where the brothel was supposedly so. So yes, 100% he was running for the Capones. Yep. Yep.
I had it's, it's interesting. I have a similar story and on my mom's side going back a couple generations like that which is but over in a place called Shawna, which is over by Green Bay, kind of. But it's funny, you know, like even even that bizarre Wisconsin connection that we have, you know, is is kind of a fun part of the story. And I used to live in Kansas. Yeah, look at that. It's weird. It's weird how these things all tend to intersect at times, you know?
Yeah, one of the one of the things you just mentioned, and and it occurred to me as I was, as I was getting up this morning, I have, I I wash all the suspendable shirts separately. They're my, they're my work shirts, 'cause I put them on every day, and I have a different one for every day of the week. So today's Zelinski special, And I pull them out of the laundry. And what I was even thinking about is this.
If it was just me, like you were talking about no skin in the game, no kids, no requirements, no no wife, I'm responsible for, even with a wife, maybe not the same. I would probably live out of the dryer. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, I I wouldn't even clear the dryer and fold my clothes and put it away because, like, I I've got other things that are more important to me. I'm a dude. I care about dude stuff.
I'd much rather go and Polish my guns or make sure my bowl carrier is properly lubricated and that I've got my magazine stacked the way that I want. Far, far more important to me than going and making sure that my shirts are out of the dryer. But I have to get my shirts out of the dryer and I have to put them in a laundry basket. I have to go put them somewhere
else. At least they have to go into my closet where nobody can bother them because I've got kids that are going to be filling up the next load. And they are constantly my my son uses his entire body as a napkin, as a human napkin. And every single shirt he has has like stains here and stains across the belly and stains on the pant legs. Whatever angle his fingers are going to attack his clothes, there are stains that are finger shaped in all of it, right? And and and they have to be
washed all the time. And my wife spends all this time doing it. I probably would live out of the dryer if it wasn't for my kids, which would be a lower form of living in many ways. For sure, yeah. Like, I think of simple things like that too, where like I don't know what it what it could be a countless number of things and it's like, oh, OK, I got to pick up this blanket or pillow or whatever, just to show, just to be the example, to be like we don't leave things just laying around.
But if it was just me, like, I can sit there for another couple hours, I'll get it later. But it's, I think that's part of the point, you know, of like you have to rise. To to you. You have to bring yourself to a higher level to to help teach your kids how they should be living life. And yeah, we're not going to get right all the time or every time. But I do wonder, you know, I I had an ASAC who was also
unvaccinated. And I remember telling him on the phone when I decided to refuse to test as well because I had just recovered from COVID and at the time. The CD CS standard was if you recovered from COVID, you don't have to test for 90 days or something like that. I have the documentation for it all. And I said you guys continue to violate even what the CDC is putting out. So I'm not going to be playing
your shell game anymore. And he's like, you know, Garrett, you know, I'm doing it still. It's not a big deal. You were doing it like just trying to get me, get me back on board, you know, And it's like, no, I'm not, I'm not doing this. And I told him, what example would I be to my kids? If I did the wrong thing when I knew what was right, and like that'll stick with me too for for a long time because of how he tried to pitch it.
And as far as I know, he is still collecting his GS14 GS 15 salary and doing just fine complying with the dictates of a tyrannical regime. And it's like, dude, don't you know that they're still coming for you? Like, you're on their list, You're a Christian. That's, you know, he claimed to be and that's why he abstained from the vaccine because of his faith.
But it's like, but if he hadn't, but if he hadn't put you to a decision for your chips and giving you an opportunity to stand firm, you wouldn't have been there to help me move my stuff out of New Mexico. I would have been doing that all by myself. And so it's true. Even these weird little things that we don't understand at the moment that that pushed you, they they kind of radicalize you. I'm I'm grateful for them. Even though they they suck to live through.
They're they're so important. And just like when you look back at all the tough things you did, either basic training or going into combat or or training to go out, seeing friends lost and all those things, a lot of the stuff you look back is gilded now. It looks like the end of the day. In the past, when we see things, it's like the sun going down low and everything looks prettier because there's a there's a glow to it because it's the past and you're not actively feeling
those emotions. And as you get that time and distance in space, you can see the the best parts of it. I think so many of those things, that's what this this day is about for me, is like looking at the things that I could be grateful for in the past, things that I was probably pissed about even in the moment. I'm not.
I might have been frustrated about like that that Thanksgiving when my mom was telling the funny smoothie story about the all the all the things that were American history that were wrong, that were not correct. I was probably frustrated because, you know, family gatherings often have that thing. But later, given time, it's a beautiful and funny experience. It's one of those moments when we all laughed, even if it was at her expense, and even now she should laugh about it 'cause
it's funny. It's funny, yeah. And and and no feelings have to be hurt. It's just, it's important that we have that perspective, that today's pain and frustration and difficulties will be tomorrow's, you know, difficult memories and they will be 10 years from now. That story that you tell, that you learn the lesson from and you couldn't know about it now. You couldn't know about it in the moment, ever. Yeah, for sure.
Like, you know, I think back to last year, this time last year and the difficulties that were there and you know me, I I jumped heavily into my faith and I was, I was probably reading the Bible more every day than me perhaps ever before. And I was in Jonah a lot back then, as you know, but I was also reading in Job and in James a lot and. It's it's funny how things work. You know, not funny ha ha.
But just like oh, OK I see. I see in part what was going on because Heidi and I found ourselves in a in a Bible study more recently where every other week where we're going through sections of job again. So I'm. I'm getting to dive a little deeper into it. But what I was thinking about this morning, about about gratitude took me back to James. Chapter one. And if you don't mind, I'm just going to read a couple verses, verses 2 through 4I think that's a good way to wrap it.
Yep, let's. Do it, it says, count it all. Joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness, and let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. And I remember just going through that section a lot and and and referencing that verse a lot and thinking. How do I count this trial as joy? And I fail at that still a lot. Often times, probably even today, I did already.
You know, like, oh, it's cold and whatever, you know, like I do, I fail at it. But, you know, you mentioned coming to El Paso to help you move. And we can point to a litany of things just in this past year where I can see like, OK. I'm starting to see some glimmers of of the joy and why even through the pain and the difficulty I need to have the joy because it is producing that steadfastness and it's like I guess the big thing. I think it's relative to this part in James.
But the big thing I I've taken away from Job is because we think why God, why do you allow this suffering And the the answer I'm coming to and maybe it's not a great answer because. It really is hard to comprehend how and why we suffer and how and why Joel was allowed to suffer so much, why God permitted that for somebody like him. And it it really is a a struggle.
But I'm coming to the the answer that it's it's it's for his glory and and it's for our good and what we think is human good on earth is often times probably very different than than what God. Is using for good and for his glory and for his purpose and it is difficult to battle with. But I don't know, man. I, I, I know I'm being refined through this with my faith and with the Holy Spirit and how God is working and and using you and me and Steve and others.
And it's just it's interesting to only in this past year to to be able to look back and and start to draw some of these, some of these better. Conclusions or or outlooks on on why some of this is happening. You know, we may not ever know the full answer as as to why. You know why we made the decisions we made and we're so, so firm, so firmly rooted in them and what it is all led to. But I I really do believe that it is for his glory at the end of the day and for our good.
Even if that ends in in misery on earth, it'll be ultimate glory and good when he says you know. Well done, my good and faithful servant. When we when we enter heaven. So I guess that's a bit what I'm thinking about on this Thanksgiving. I think that's a great thing to be thinking about. I think it's a good thought to be leaving that. Even the tribe, the tribulations that we kind of face, they have meaning. We just don't know what they
are. And like I said that rearview mirror, sometimes we get to see it in our life. We're we're kind of blessed. I think in many ways we're seeing a lot of the meaning and why in a lot shorter time than many people have experienced. If you consider what's going on in history, some people die and and they don't decades later their family doesn't know what it meant. But we're, I think we actually are blessed to be in a time where we are seeing it happen so quickly and so strangely.
All that being said, I'm, I'm grateful for you, my friend. I'm grateful for you being here. I know people appreciate your voice. There's a lot of that going on in the chat right now. People would love to hear your reflections on these. Maybe I'll come and we'll do a guided meditations on these sort of biblical topics at some point and they're going to be is there going to be an American Radicals podcast for Saturday? The. Yes, the plan is yes, Episode 2 shall drop on Saturday.
OK, fantastic. So we're going to have people tune in for that. Folks, If you want to follow it's Am Rad Pod on rumble.com/am Rad Pod AM RADPOD. Check that out. Check out the suspendables.com, the Dash suspendables.com If you want to keep the sweatshop working, those kids fingers need to be calloused at all times so keep them moving. And Garrett, are they going to be sharing the Make Whistleblowers Great again, shirt or no? Oh yeah, I saw that some people
mentioning this in the chat. So this was actually one of the early shirts I made, but it it wasn't really selling very good. I know Eric who moderates in your chat, he got one, but there's only probably like two or three of these out there. So maybe maybe I'll bring it back again if there's a if there's enough outcry for it. I like it. I think it's pretty cool. It's got one of the suspendable logos on the basically the nape of the neck, which is kind of
cool on the back too. But, but yeah, maybe, maybe I'll bring it back. All right. I can. I can see that. So folks, if there's popular demand, we'll make it happen. Garrett, thanks for joining me, folks, Make sure you hit the
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We had a Leon let fumbling a football which was one of the famous memories I had from the Seraphin family childhood on Thanksgiving. Some of you guys remember this going back, it was a Cowboys game against the Dolphins way back in the day. I went and grabbed that for some reason to show it to you. And then we didn't. We just talked about things that we're grateful for and did the classic Seraphin, GOB, actual mission creep here. So blessings to all of you guys on Thanksgiving.
I hope you spend a wonderful time with your family. If you don't have family, make sure you're going out and talking to some neighbors and getting that human connection. Today is the day to do that and not to be afraid of anything else. So bless you all. We'll see you again tomorrow for Black Friday. For all you sitting in line that are trying to buy weird products for a slight discount, you can turn on your rumble.com/kyle Serif and do that. Let's throw up the the the Five
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Keep up the good work. Fight the fight. I got your back. Well, when I'm in Texas, America, I don't know if I guess I'm a goober. I'll take it. Those are. I knew this was going to be on a weird day. I knew I was going to get that and it was going to show up Just a magically on a strange day. And it did indeed. We appreciate you, Tim. We appreciate Chad Zodi throwing $5 out there saying happy Thanksgiving, thankful for the suspendables. We are really thankful for you
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Double O 7 asked that yesterday and the answer is, I think T-Mobile. This is something that came out in the chat yesterday. T-Mobile was always the worst about being subservient to the government when it came to government process. They were really good about notifying their customer base. My brother told me that people who use T-Mobile are thugs and gangsters. I've been using T-Mobile for a long time, so I guess that tells you what it is. I'm AG, Call it what it is and
check that out. Anyway, we'll see you guys again tomorrow. We really do appreciate you joining us here for the stream and for this Thanksgiving. And I hope you have a lovely steak and not Turkey. We didn't. We even missed our debate. We missed our debate carrot. We're going to talk about that and we didn't do it. I'm shameful. It's shameful. We'll do it another time.
Maybe we'll talk about it tomorrow, or you guys will talk about it on the Amrad Podcast. That seems like a good thing to do. Ladies and gentlemen, adios. Have a good Thanksgiving. Thanks for listening to the Kyle Serafin Show, streamed live weekdays on rubble.com/kyle Serafin. Follow Kyle on Twitter, Truth, Social and Instagram at Kyle Serafin.