The 300th w/ Steve Friend | EP 300

Take a look behind the curtain with a 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 Serif. Well, here I am and welcome to the Kyle Seraphin Show. Hello my friends.

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We're going to be talking about clear tactics at Columbia University. What happens when you do it wrong from a guy who used to carry a shield for an FBI SWAT team? It's going to be an interesting little perspective. We're going to talk about diversity hires. Yeah. And Donald Trump's reaction to the so-called Bombshell that was dropped by O'Keefe Media. Want to get into all that? Also, probably a little black pill going into the Friday, end of Friday afternoon and the weekend.

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Steve, you're going to have to unmute yourself. And there you are. How you doing, buddy? Good morning. I'm excited. Congratulations on the 300 You got me today. Not Garrett. Garrett would be making some sort of Gideon reference right to 300. I'm going to say that I'm excited to be here to Leonidas front. Kick the envoy into the black hole rhetorically, Secti. It's a rhetoric fighting anything. I certainly don't want to become the subject of an obstruction of justice investigation.

What black shirt are you wearing today? Are you wearing the same as me? Night OPS. OK, good. So we both have dark suspendables. Merch on. It's been an interesting journey since September of 2022 that we've stepped into and now 300 episodes deep on this one. Want to get right into the topics?

We'll talk a little bit about new stuff, then we'll have some reflections, and then maybe talk about the long term op that you and I have signed on for the CIA to pay us to run interference as former FBI agents or whatever the hell that is going on. This is the allegation I had that Laura, Laura Loomer come at me first. Then it was James O'Keefe, then it was Laura Logan. I'm just picking up all these

folks. Apparently you and I have been able to deceive like really big names like Dinesh D'souza, Dan Bongino and Seb Gorga. So that'll be fun. Let's stop. Start with actual information. I'm gonna pull it up here on the screen, folks. You guys probably heard about all these college protests. We've covered a little bit on this show. The An NYPD officer fired his gun while clearing protesters from Hamilton Hall at Columbia. That's what the DA office

confirms. This is being reported by CBS News. I'm gonna get Steve friends take on it as a guy who used to do this job, trained for it a lot. Let's get the specifics out here. So a NYPD officer fired his gun inside of Hamilton Hall. That was the the place where you saw police breaching through like a second story window coming in on a on a ladder truck during the Tuesday night operation to clear the

university. And that's something that is being claimed now by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. I guess that's Alvin Bragg. The day's office says students were not in the immediate vicinity of the gunfire and nobody was hurt. The incident is under review by the Police Accountability Unit, as you'd expect, It says that the NYPD sent in Emergency

Service Unit officers. ESU is their version of a SWAT team and they were using a firearm equipped with a flashlight to illuminate a barricade and accidentally fired one shot which struck a fame A-frame nearby in the wall. NYPD said that the investigation will be conducted immediately. There was just an accidental discharge and they're going to go further on with that. I want to go to you, Steve.

Let's talk about a DS versus N DS, you know, break out for people if there's ever such a thing as an accidental discharge. I would contend no. You got the cardinal safety rules that you have to stick to. Treat all weapons as if they're loaded. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you tend to press it. Never pull a weapon, anyone, unless you're justified. You don't even have to obey all three of them at the same time. It's really like two. You should, you should get you

good. You just want this good practice to obey all three. So I've never said accidental discharge. It's always a negligent discharge. You it seems like they were trying to illuminate, use the flashlight on the gun and send around down range. That that's not, oh, my bad. I mean, you put your finger on the trigger. You weren't intending to press it. You violated it. You're negligent. Yeah, and I think those are always stop signs. For me, it's like don't do this, don't do that.

If you run through all the stop signs, you might T-bone somebody in the intersection that's still actively going. There is one exception to that that I would say that there there's such a thing as an accidental discharge, and that is if you don't violate any of those safety rules and the gun goes off, that's the only real accidental discharge.

And the only guns that I'm aware of that have done that, I've seen people do that with Sig Sauer handguns, specifically the P320 when it was released for the Army. So it was this big fear that you could be rolling out there with this like 320 and there's videos all over the Internet. You guys can go find them yourself, but people will drop them and the drop safety fails or they will like holster up and then they'll have hands off and the thing will like, hang fire

and go off it's. What you're telling me is that like the scene from True Lies where she drops the the gun down the steps and just starts firing, killing terrorists, that that's that's not accurate, that's. Not accurate, although I don't. I've never shot. I've never spent enough time with it. It was an oozy. OK. Yeah, the classic like rolls down, right the way that the Uzi is set up. It's an open roller blowback

system if my memory serves. And so that means that it's actually like it's it's kind of like an AR and and such that it runs the bolt back based on the the power of the the actual round going off. But it actually is less than that because instead of so in an AR it goes down the barrel and

then the gas tube, right? So the gas goes up, the little gas tube, you've seen that little steel rod, it goes back and then that activates the bolt, which goes into a spring and then comes forward and grabs another round in the open blowback. What it actually does it uses the force of the round to send one forward and then like slightly afterwards that pressure pushes backwards and and sends the the bolt backwards to rechamber and so maybe you could do that, throw a Uzi down the steps.

Highly accurate? Not a Is it a highly accurate means of taking out terrorists? Probably not. Probably not Schwarzenegger. I mean that's that's what the the old action movies used to be. It was like heroes killing bad guys and we all felt good about it, right? Like I actually saw. So this is kind of an interesting topic and I didn't plan on going here. I watched Quigley, Quigley Down, Down Under, OK and there's a lot of points in that movie.

It's a cowboy movie, but it's set in in Australia. And of course the cowboy is defending the Indians. The Indians are the Aborigines, the the native inhabitants, right? But what was what I was struck by was that that Tom Selleck was a man's man. He always was. And Tom Selleck is a hero in that movie because he does the right thing for the right reason. Because it's right, not because it's convenient, not because it's easy. Like Tom Selleck in Quigley, Down Under is a suspendable Let

me think. I think that's fair. I mean, Tom Selleck, he's kind of taking chances. Also in his roles when he would, he was the first good guy in Magnum Pi that he shot the bad guy and it was not a imminent risk of danger to himself. Did that predate? Did that predate? Did it predate Han Solo doing the shoot first with? Greedo I don't think that you know you can. There's too much debate about that. Who shot first? I'm not sure. No, Han shot first.

That's not a good question. Come on dude, you shot first. That's the whole point. So. But here, here's the thing that that was interesting to me about I started looking into after watching quickly. I don't know why I watched it by the way. Oh, I know why I watched it because I bought a 4570.

I don't own a Sharps rifle, but like I actually know an FBI agent who did the right thing, was removed from the FBI and his family may or may not own the historical Sharps rifle company that's been building Sharps rifles for like 75 years. So they're the ones that put them out in the world. So that was part of the way I went down this little rabbit hole. At some point in time we'll bring them on whenever the the lawsuits are all done.

But the the story was I started looking into Magnum PII started looking into Tom Selleck as a person. My wife really loved Blue Bloods. It was like a family. Values like real Americana. Like the cops are the good guys. The cops. Families struggle, but they're trying to do the right thing. They don't always get it right. Right. That's the that's real life. And what I found out was, is that Tom Selleck was signed up to do Magnum Pi.

They were supposed to do the pilot and that was the same time when Raiders of the Lost Ark was being cast. Did you know this? Did I tell you this already? No, I did not know this. OK, so Tom Selleck apparently was already optioned on for the pilot to do Magnum Pi and they came to him, they said, hey, we'd love you to be in Indiana Jones. We want you to be doing Raiders of Lost Ark. We think it's going to be big

blockbuster movie. His previous experience had had been he'd been in a commercial with Farrah Fawcett, he'd done some Under Armour, you know, underarm, deodorant, stuff. Like it was nothing that was that was really blockbuster caliber. But they knew that he had the look and he had the kind of the ethos and he had the stash and he was the guy. He was definitely like alpha

male, masculine from that era. And so they came to him, they said let's let's do Raiders. And he said I'm contractually obligated to do Magnum. Pi And his buddies apparently started agitating and apparently there was a writer strike at the

same time. And they pushed back the pilot and the release and actually shooting and moving forward, 'cause you never know if a pilot's going to get greenlit into a full series, you know, So his buddies were like, dude, just take that Ferrari and run it into a brick wall and get injured and get out of your contract and go do Raiders.

That's where the money is and the story that is equipped, attributed to Tom Selleck. You can find it on the Wikipedia page, but I've seen it in other interviews. The statement was I'm still going to have to go be the kind of guy that goes and looks my parents in the eye. I'm still going to have to explain to people you know and explain to myself that I was obligated to do something and then I went and cheated out of it.

And I'm not going to do that. He's grow man he's complete suspendable and he's he did MPI Second Amendment advocate. I mean you ever watch Jesse Stone he incorporates like weapons tactics in there. There's an actual carve out scenes in there Will he'll give like an actual lesson to one of his subordinate officers, Like hey, you got to fire and get off the axe and it's completely tactical information, completely unnecessary to the plot. But it's by his insistence that

they do that. I think he's a pretty principled guy. I don't know too much about his politics. I know he likes guns though. And I mean that to me is pretty much sounds like we probably get along really well. Well, you don't hear about his politics, which usually tells me that he's probably on the conservative side. Because if you're conservative and you're in Hollywood, then you don't get to talk very much, right? You don't get to. Friends of Abe. Friends of Abe.

So end of the day, I just found it interesting that he that he looked at the opportunity in front of him and said I've committed to one thing and I'm going to stick with it. It turned into probably one of the greatest shows that you know that TV can can claim. Magnum was a cool guy, by the way. He was. I don't know if you knew this, but Tom Selleck served in the Army, so he. Had Vietnam is a bet. Yeah. So I think it was California National Guard from the way that I was reading it.

But he served as a as a a you know a guy in the Army and and then turned out and then famously played Magnum Pi who was supposedly a Navy SEAL And he kind of looks the part back in the day like you know in the UD TS coming in. If you've never gone back and watched the original pilot of Magnum Pi, it's so good. And I just he's just one of those dudes that's like a man just because that's what men are and he doesn't have to play it up. He doesn't have to go Jack Reacher and be steroidal.

He looks like a dude that could actually be built like someone you've met. The other thing I always see is that everybody was skinnier in the 70s. Yes, there's definitely an element of a wall-e going on right now. For those of you who have kids and seen that movie where people are just £400 and riding around in motorized scooters, you have been to a Walmart lately. I I yeah, we're just not getting fed the same food.

There was a there's a girl named Alex Clark who does a podcast called The Spillover. And my wife's a big fan. But one of the things that she said is like all these people that are like basically my age, I'm a little bit older than you. But like my age and older are looking down at the younger generations being like, stop being such wimps. Like you can eat McDonald's and have, you know, Moon Pies or whatever the garbage you're going to eat. You could do all that stuff like we did it.

We came out fine. And she's like, no, no, no, The food you were eating is different than the food that they are serving us today. McDonald's today is not the same as McDonald's 20 or 30 years ago or 40 years ago. So yeah, we're seeing like such a dramatic change. Anyway, none of that is has anything to do with Magnum Pi or the the fact that we had people at Columbia.

You want to talk about what goes on when somebody has to go and imagine taking a a ladder truck and breaching a second story window and rolling in there as a guy who's run a shield with a light and gone against, you know, whatever adversarial type of stuff. I know you guys do training on that. So maybe kind of tell people what that's about. Well, we don't train on taking a ladder truck. I imagine they probably do in New York because that is more likely to happen there with all

the high rises. So it's probably not something that they've never attempted before, but there's going to be a little bit of a gap between one guy coming into the next, which is kind of intimidating, especially being on a shield unit, because a SHIELD unit is 2 guys working as one. You. You represent one person and your actions have to be together simultaneously.

Because the new, the new ethos when it comes to carrying a shield is it used to be you had one hand on the shield and you could have your second hand up with a secondary weapon like a pistol in your hand. But then they were finding that, well, if you take a round of the shield, it will deflect off and you'll be out of the fight. So you have to put both hands on the shield, which means you only have two hands. You don't have a weapon up which it put makes you vulnerable.

So you have to have a second guy behind you with a rifle up and over your ear, which kind of is forbearing because you know if he starts sending rounds you're going to get rocked in the head, but you know it they got to do it. It's a must shoot situation, but it's there's a lot of coordination that has to happen. So if there's a a lag in time between shield comes in and he's got to wait for that gun, you're

extremely vulnerable. Now I don't know if the ESU, the the NYP DS SWAT unit if they're running the same New York triggers, but do you remember ever seeing, Do you ever see a Glock with a New York trigger in it the way that they set the trigger pack up? No, they they take the little safety off. No. They increase the poundage from whatever the normal break is, which is like 2 to 6 lbs to I think 12 1/2 lbs. It's somewhere between 8 and 12 lbs. It's this absurdly heavy trigger pull.

So you can imagine, like all those quals are probably shooting down and left pretty hard. Exactly. They're just yanking everything. Yeah, everything gets yanked and you have to actually overcome that by a lot, which means you have to be a lot stronger and you probably have to have a lot more support hand actually doing vertical because they're pulling that that heavy trigger down. So the just being able to fire it. As I recall they all shoot clocks out there.

I don't know that you can accidentally send around with a Glock. I've never heard of that happening. Maybe there's an example somebody can hit us in the comments, but yeah, when you're running that super heavy New York style trigger pack, they literally have a New York trigger spring and disconnector which are way heavier than a normal Glock.

And and a normal Glock is not always that light like people always in the high speed games that they'll do lighter and lighter triggers down to 3 1/2, you know two 2.75 inch pound polls and to do like 4 or 5X whatever the competition guys are shooting. It doesn't sound like you could send that accidentally. Is the logic that we just don't like guns in New York City, so we're going to make it really hard for police officers to do their job?

That's exactly right, Yeah. You voted for it, New York. Yeah, The sad thing is, is I know that the people that don't vote for it, the people that are conservative up there, I've, I've changed my perspective a little bit on New York. I'm going to actually add this to your life. I don't want to abandon people as long as they know that they are living behind enemy lines and they are operating like an

insurgent there. I think if you know that you're behind, if you are an island because you're a pro gun person, like a Dexter Taylor who's now sitting at Rikers Island. If you're one of those people that's pushing the envelope and saying America, Second Amendment, the Constitution still matters here and you're willing to go to the mat for it, you're actually in the fight too.

You're you're not just giving up ground and just hanging out in occupied territory and giving it to the communist, you're funding it. But I think reluctantly. If you're doing things like lying to get on jury so you can acquit people like Dexter, you have my respect. I mean, do you think you could be impartial? Oh, absolutely. I don't follow the news whatsoever. Not guilty. And then go do jury nullification on that guy. That's that's true citizenship, absolutely.

Yeah, by by. Actually resisting tyranny is your civic duty. Doesn't that say a lot about the way that our that our society has kind of collapsed though? Because we talk about the the sort of the anchors and the pillars of the institutions we used to be able to trust in 2020, just falling away, media people, you, you even told me that there's family members and friends of yours that have said if it's on TV, it must be true, right? Like, that mentality still exists for some people.

Oh, for for sure. I mean because that that credibility has been there or at least the perception of that credibility has been there for so long. To break out of that actual cookie cutter mindset is so hard for people because you know you go back to the assumption, well it's Walter Cronkite. It's got to be true and accurate. Walter Cronkite was a far

leftist. He was giving you a completely biased opinion that even back then but compared to today he was straight down the middle as far as delivering facts to people. So that that sort of experience that people have with even the Internet thinking like well, it's in print and and print equates to the newspaper and the newspaper would never steer me wrong that could. That sort of mindset is completely shattered and I think it's probably a good thing it's slower evolution that I would

prefer. I don't want people to fall into the trap. There's there's really, like, people went to two directions. 2020 broke everyone's brain. And I think that if you came out of that and you're like, I'm going to be skeptical of everything and I'm going to evaluate the facts and formulate my opinions and not just accept it because it's on TV or in the newspaper, I think that's healthy. But if you said, well, everything they told me before was wrong, so ergo, everything

opposite of that must be true. And I'm just going to buy into things that are ludicrous and absurd because of the opposite of what I was told. You're not in a healthy situation and unfortunately there's a not insignificant amount of people that fall into that category. Yeah, it's called the fallacy of the converse in the logical

sense. When you're doing mathematics, just because you know, it's like if A is less than B then B is less than A. It's like no, no no, it it doesn't mean that you know the equal then side you it. It depends on what that operator is in between the two different quantities. And as you said, just because everything that people told me is a lie doesn't mean the opposite is true. That's that's a.

Binary binary thinking too. It's very simple thinking and you didn't even listen to yesterday show did you? I haven't yet. No got to got to catch up. Steve Baker. I want to really like get it all absorbed and I didn't have an awful hour and a half yet in my time. Which means you didn't do like a longer run than your 12 miles you were. I went long today, but I had to do some Recon on what we were going to talk about today. I was listening to other things. I love it. Yeah.

No. And I'm not giving you a hard time. I just wanted to make the point that we independently have come to this conclusion. This is why you and me and Steve Baker, we all get along in this this front because we know the answer is not to just blindly trust things because you don't just give up one institution then trade it for another institution. The answer should always be, and I'm going to do it here. There it is, folks, right over the shoulder, The X-Files.

I want to believe, but also trust no one at the same exact time. You have to be knowing that you you have trust in some part of humanity, but everyone has to trust but verify. You have to go out there and evaluate people on the facts. If the facts on the ground do not align with the reality of it, then you're going to be in a lot of trouble. This is 1. Have you ever seen somebody plead the 5th amendment in

testimony? Have you ever been part of a trial where that happened or a deposition? I I've been in trials where they didn't testify because that's their constitution, right? That's the 5th Amendment right too. But I've never seen somebody get there and say I I invoked my Fifth Amendment right. OK I want to play this video. This is coming from Donald Trump's or this is coming from Mark Pomerance. He was a former investigator, I think for the for the DA's

office. And I believe this is Matt Gates who's questioning him. And just because you plead the 5th does not mean that you committed a crime. It just means that it may be slanted in such a way. Or the question is, you know, biased and it's not, It's not going to be helpful to you that you might implicate yourself in something else or you don't have the entirety of the information. So maybe somebody has a gotcha somewhere.

The the old perjury trap. The FBI says, well have you ever done this thing And you're like, I don't think so, no. And then they're like, but you did 1997, you did it, you know, you lie there. They have to actually prove if they were going to go after you for the for the false statements, the 1001 that you actually knew at the time that you were lying, which is why they don't actually prosecute that very often unless you're General Flynn. But this is kind of like the the trap.

So this doesn't mean this guy did the thing that they're saying in in the in the testimony. I'm going to just watch a little taste of it. It is kind of spicy, though, that somebody doesn't want to answer these types of questions because I feel like you and I could say pretty definitively, did you ever commit a crime when you were an FBI agent? Never knowingly committed a crime? No. Did you ever engage in investigative practices that were illegal, immoral or unethical?

No, which is why I no longer work for the FBI if you wanted me to. I feel the same way I used to always people be like, you used to spy at Americans. I'm like, no, I used to spy on mostly dirtbags, but some not dirtbags, definitely, Which I knew right away. You're like, oh, that's just a racist kid, you know, who's on Twitter or something. But we didn't violate, but we didn't violate any of his, his his protected liberties. We followed him around in public.

We didn't spy on him in his house. We didn't set up microphones or do anything illegal. We just sat there and watched him in public and and you know what? If somebody wants to watch you go to McDonald's and then go to Starbucks and then get on your phone and tweet, then so be it. That's what they're going to do. And it turns out that those are non incriminating. I would actually call that exculpatory information if anybody ever brought anything up.

It's like did you ever observe that guy commit a crime? And the answer would be no. I'd be happy to get on the stand and do that like you prepare yourself for that sort of thing. And actively say no, I I observed him not committing crimes, does does that give you any further evidence of you know what his character is? Exactly. I mean, I saw him on his phone. You guys are showing the text messages. I have no knowledge of that.

All I know is that this guy wears loafers, khakis and a polo shirt, and he's kind of a boring follow. He's not nearly as fun as like a bank robber or drug dealer, which I followed as well. And real terrorists. And Ms. 13 guys who, you know, trafficked women and we had to go arrest. That's a different animal. All right, here's a little video. On the advice of counsel, I'm not going to answer that question, Sir. Privilege. Privilege against self incrimination.

And did you knowingly break any laws when investigating president? Trump. Jackson Same. Response Did you break any laws when you worked at the Manhattan District Attorney's office? Jackson same response. Mr. Palmer Rance Did you violate any person's constitutional rights when you worked on the Trump investigation? Objection. I have the same response to your question. Mr. Palmer Rance, Did you violate any person's constitutional rights while you worked at the Manhattan DA's

office? Objection. Same answer. Did you misuse any federal funds while investigating President Trump? Same response. Did you misuse any federal funds while you were working in the Manhattan District Attorney's office? Same response. And did you violate any New York State bar rules while you're investigating President Trump? Objection. Same response. Did you violate any New York State bar rules while you were working in the Manhattan? District Attorney's Office objection.

Same response. And did you violate any canons of legal ethics when you're investigating President Trump? Protection. Same response. So that's not proof positive of anything. That's somebody refusing to answer the question. He might as well be doing the Jim the Jim comedy like I don't recall. It's the question. The premise of the question is tell us when you stop beating your wife, right. He's, he's a lawyer.

He knows that that's a trap and he has one eject button, one break glass in case of emergency. And that's just say like I'm just not going to answer that question because there's no good outcome for me on it, which is smart on him. And like you said, it doesn't indicate guilt. It just indicates that he's he's invoking his constitutional right.

I'm sorry, invoking your constitutional right is shouldn't be something that's punitive or derogatory information against you, even if you're involved in something that's nefarious. All right. That's the fair take. Let's talk about the optics of it. How does that thing look? Oh, it's bad. It looks bad, which is why Matt Gaetz is a bro. And Matt Gaetz knows it too. Matt Gaetz is an attorney, like very aggressive and he went after him probably expecting to get that.

And once he got it, that's why he kept going on. He he knew he was going to get that response to everything, but he wanted it all on tape, on the record so they could have this big dump. And then people who just see that and say, Oh well, clearly it affirms everything that I believed already before I saw this. It is dangerous sort of echo chamber type mentality, but I will say I agree with you. What Matt Gaetz did was he accidentally or intentionally tapped into the vein.

You know, you pop in there and you and you chip off a little bit of side of of mud and and dirt and and some rock and then you see that gold vein running through the rocks there. And then he just mined the hell out of it and he just got all of the sound bites necessary, captioned it, showed it. And that dude is just sitting there deadpanning saying I'm not going to play this game. But man, at some point he must have been like, this is going to look really, really bad.

When they play on Fox, We, We. Do got a live one. I caught a bleeder we're gonna just keep. Yeah, we just keep running on this and you just keep you just keep mining it. In any case, I I don't think that it's necessarily, it doesn't mean that that guy did the right thing based on the the criminal prosecution that's going on of Trump up there. They've had to bend all over themselves in order to justify this case.

So that kind of does give us a little bit more shade towards yeah, they probably had to break some ethics. They probably had to go down the line of that. But this guy's doing the hey, I'm, I can't remember anything or I'm not going to play your your game. And even that looks incriminating. If you wanted to, people in the political left will say the other thing, they'll be like, yeah, of course he shouldn't be, you know in trouble for invoking his constitutional liberties.

The The problem is those same people will say if Donald Trump doesn't get up and testify, then he's obviously guilty too. He'll put Peter Navarro in prison because he said, hey, I've got some concerns about the subpoena there. There might be some executive privilege here, so I I can't actually obey it. Why don't we adjudicate that properly? Nope. You're going to prison. Straight to prison, Supreme Court said. Oh oh Yep, put him in prison.

I put out a tweet this morning that basically said, you know, we've launched because of some of the work that we've done, a significant number of congressional investigations, also some state level investigations. We've got dozens of of state attorney generals popping in, whether it be about the Catholic memos or the fact that they were abusing, you know, FBI resources.

You know, you want to talk about since we're on the 300th episode here, what the outcome of all of the suspendables pain and suffering and the discomfort that we've experienced the the lack of pay, what was the end result like to America? Have we won? Well, Garrett O'boyle is still unpaid and definitely suspended forever. So I I think if you what define, how do you define victory?

I think we have a certainly a different definition of that than the people that are in charge of these hearings and in Congress. They view having a hearing itself as a victory. They view writing a letter as a as a victory or having a viral video clip that gets some on

cable news as a victory. As far as I know, the Daytona Beach resident agency of the FBI, which I worked for for over a year, has now broken ground on a brand new office building for 12 employees beachfront property in Daytona Beach, FL. So really, what significant difference do we make raising awareness? Maybe there I think there's more people. Do we move the needle on the opinion polls of the FBI? OK, but if it doesn't galvanized anything when our elected officials fully fund everything,

what was the point? Yeah, what was the point? And and we're still looking for the point that doesn't mean any of us have given up because this is the only way that we can put some meaning behind the sort of the the pain and stuff. We're Richard Gere and an officer and a gentleman. I have nowhere else to go. That's it. Yeah, This is it. This is the final stand for us.

And interestingly enough, like, you know, I I just mentioned on social media a minute ago, but it's like I pulled my kids away from their three best groups of friends that they still are upset about. And for what? You know, for what is, because that's what the right thing to do was we had to keep soldiering on in this sort of thing. But to to imagine that there's some sort of benefit.

And then the obviously, there's this accusation right now by people like Loomer and Laura Logan and James O'Keefe that I somehow work for the CIA, which is the saddest, stupidest thing as I sit here in Liberty Hill, TX, in a in a rented bedroom. You know, of this house that that's stacked in like cookie cutters that was built during COVID and they were so cheap when they built this damn house, they didn't even put a flipping doorbell in it. Steve, I've never seen that

before. I've been into a lot of houses. I've been in the most ghetto houses in America, in Pittsburgh doing search warrants or up in Baltimore and you know, in Southeast DC and they all had doorbells, at least if you want. To that just proves that you're a fed boy because there's not a doorbell. That means that they're definitely going to breach the door aggressively, which we know is never going to happen because you're fed boy working for the

CIA. It's. So hard to say stuff like that in a sarcastic way when it's so close to home. Let me do an ad read. We're on the episode 300 right now, folks. We're talking to Steve Friend at Real Steve Friend. If you want to follow him on Twitter if you guys are not already, then you are wrong. But let's go ahead and also thank our friends over at Patriot Coolers.

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jump on here. So this is an article that comes from The Blaze. Steve sent me this and said are you going to cover this on on TKSS, which is what we call the the Seraphin show. And yes, I am female Secret Service agent with troubling history. Allegedly becomes violent with colleagues, never should have been hired, came from I guess end of last week and we haven't really touched on it all that much.

But an erratic and apparently violent outburst from a female Secret Service agent earlier this week has sparked questions regarding agency hiring practices and recent initiatives to increase the number of female agents. They are really, really, really pushing to make that happen. This woman's name was Michelle Hertzag, apparently having a bad

day. On Monday. Last week, Secret Service agent arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for the 0900 shift change for the security detail for Vice President Kamala Harris, who was scheduled to depart the base later that morning, apparently began exhibiting strange behaviors. This one is my favorite. Gained access to another agent's phone and proceeded to delete apps on it. That's a thing you might do.

The man recovered, his phone, went about his business, and then Herzig decided to completely lose it, started throwing various items at people, including feminine napkins that sounds disgusting, and warning her colleagues that they were going to quote, UN quote, burn in hell and need to listen to God. Well, that may be the case. We can all agree that there's a possibility of burning in hell and we should listen to God. I don't disagree with that.

But the special agent in charge attempted to intervene. And then Herzik began allegedly screaming, insisting other female agents on the security detail would support her and that she needed to be able to continue to work. And then it reached a tipping point where some sort of mental health episode took over full bore. We've seen things like this happen. I've seen people break in training. I've never seen a break in the field like this apparently

tackled the SAIC. The special agent in charge of the detail tackled him to the ground, began punching him repeatedly, and they were scared because she still had a weapon in the holster. They managed to handcuff her, secure the weapon and escort her from the presidences. A source says she snapped entirely.

This goes back to a thing that happened in Dallas because she used to be a Dallas police officer and apparently filed a $1 million discrimination lawsuit that was thrown out by the by the local courts there, saying that she was targeted and treated less favorably because she's a woman. DPD didn't much care for that. Didn't like fraternization. Steve Friend, how do you feel about so-called diversity hires with mental illness? Protecting the Vice president,

Where are we at? Well, I think it's consistent with what we saw with the FAA, where they're gonna hire dwarfism and retard epileptic seizures. Yeah, and all that. I mean it's. Diversity is our strength here. You. Don't have. To say it terrifying. I I actually read that article and started laughing at it initially because it's it's absurd. And then scroll back to the top and read it again to my wife out loud and what? Just to watch her reaction Then

she started laughing. So it it's borders on the absurd. This is what happens with diversity, equity, inclusion being the highest priority. This is the death of merit whatsoever. There's there's an actual track record here of this person demonstrating at least a proclivity to be litigious and make false accusations. Because her lawsuit against the Dallas PD was dismissed immediately. Because it was completely absurd.

And yet, because we have the 30 by 30 initiative with the federal government where they want 30% female workforce by 20-30 by definition, then you're not getting the most qualified candidates and that's going to be up to and including the person who's a heartbeat away from the presidency, her protection. Let me tell you a little story about a a woman that was in the FBI lawsuit suing the FBI for

not hiring enough women. Would you say is it fair to say that women get a fair shake at the FBI Academy when you were there? I think they get more than a fair shake. That's what I'm going towards. But yeah, so they get at least as much leeway and latitude as men, but probably more. Can I tell you about the candidate who they tied her shoes for her? No. To make sure that they didn't come on tied, they had to do a double knot. It's a very super secret. Top secret secret clearance.

Sorry Sakti, giving away some methods and sources here they tied her shoes for. Her And then they tied double knot. So she didn't lose time if her shoes became united during the fitness test. OK, let me let me top that for you. OK, so this girl's name was Elena, and Elena was immediately the most ridiculous person in my Quantico class because she was smaller than my wife, and my wife is not quite 5 feet tall.

She tells PEOPLE she's 5 feet tall, but she's actually a little bit less than 5 feet tall, and she also wears. She'd be good for the FAA, right? She'd be outstanding. Yeah. My wife is a Midget. Not a retard, though. My wife is brilliant. So this lady, Elena, was in my class. She was a Marine Corps gunnery Sergeant, and she's the first Marine Corps gunnery Sergeant that I've ever met that couldn't just live on nails and anger, like eating raw steel and just spitting rage.

She was weak. She was frail. We did DT defensive tactics on the mat. And I remember, do you know what the hip up was? Do you remember the hip up? Did they do that? Yep. Can you? Describe it your Your kids are doing it right now doing so. Describe a hip up. It's when you're in a, you're when you're mounted, you're on the ground, you're on the your back and person's on top of you. You have to like propel your

hips upward. So that kind of throws their balance off and it gives you an opportunity because their balance is off. You can grab their arm, you can roll and reverse it and you can get on top and that's sort of situation. Have you ever had someone leave the mat from a hip up? I'm not that look, I'm not that strong. My biggest. How close were you to the edge? Not that close, like my head was firmly within the Blue Zone. OK.

Well, I mean, yeah, if you were not like half an inch away from the edge, then I think that that's you. You sent her at quite a distance. I sent her several feet in the air with a hip up. Now I've I've got inordinately large legs for my size. I have kind of like a frog build a much lower like built down there and that's I don't know this genetics but I did a hip up which is like you said she's mounted.

She's sitting basically right at my pelvic girdle, and I've got my knees bent, feet planted on the floor, and then I just thrust upward, belly button up to the the ceiling and she left. She didn't get off centered so that I could do whatever the move was. She left and I got yelled at. They're like, that's not the technique. Seraphin, like, you know, it's like they're they're going to come and yell at you no matter what. She left the ground and was propelled off the mat.

And I was like, it was like fighting a toddler. Like I could fight my daughter right now, who weighs 40 something pounds, and it would be, and she would have much more of a monkey grip and spider sense than this girl did who went flying. In any case, that's small. I mean, maybe did she get up and have, like great tenacity at that point? Or did she just cry in the corner and suck her thumb? No, she was just confused about, like, what happened because she didn't understand the exercise.

She was like, oh, she, you remember the the slalom course? Everybody does the slalom course with the it's the most fun thing in the world. The most fun is doing T VOC. You want to tell people about T VOC a little bit 'cause I got A and and what you remember of the slalom course. Tactical emergency vehicle something course, it's basically you just learn to drive up like a police car style because in order to be an FBI agent, you're technically law enforcement.

So they teach you to to do the different variations like how to brake, you know, drive if if maximum speed and then brake really quick, do their braking course and then you have to weave in and out of cones. And then there's this obstacle course sort of set up for you to like navigate through it and you can't do it too fast, You can't do it too slow.

You have no watch and you have to be able to do it, but you get so many reps that it just becomes sort of wrote But basically operating a vehicle, which for some people like they're from New York City, they didn't have a driver's license. That is this girl now. How long is the slalom course in minutes. Do you have any idea you've been on the outside of it? Man, was it like 2 1/2 minutes? OK, very good. So the passing time is somewhere like 2, 1/2, two 45. The Smokin studs were doing it

under 2 minutes. Yeah, the Marine helicopter pilot that we had was doing it in like a minute 15 just you know I. Because they're just freakish. They know where the vehicle is. They understand the left right balance and they're and and essentially you're driving through some some sharp turns. If you hit cones, you lose time. You're you're weaving backwards through a slalom course with the cones. You're driving forward through them and doing other things. You're doing some 3 point turns.

You're parking into like a a spot that's like a some kind of a laid out square or rectangle, an open face rectangle, pull into it, back out, spin around, J turn and stuff like that. OK, so you've got about 2 1/2 minutes. Do you want to take a guess how long it took this girl to to to do this course? I I think that I'll probably oversell it. I mean, if if it's anything under 12 minutes, I'll be disappointed. Kyle. Surfing. It was over 14 minutes and she hit all the effing cones.

She just all the cones she might. She wiped the course out in a 15 minutes. It was like watching what I imagine Stevie Wonder drives like it was a blind person who is also a Midget. Taking out every cone, not being able to see out the rear windshield, not being able to see out the front windshield, not being able to see out the mirrors has and just just slow motion car accident, destroying everything.

And you're watching this going dear God, that was her evaluation after the training, by the way. After she'd gone through the practice runs. Her evaluation was north of 14 minutes. I think it was in the 15 minute range. It was absurd she failed that she failed things that you couldn't even fail at the Academy. You remember we shot a shotgun, but it wasn't for for like a accuracy is familiarization. So there's weapons, there's weapons qualifications. That means you get to carry the

weapon. There's weapons familiarization, which means if you had to pick one up, you'd know how to use it. She failed that she was unable to hold on to a 12 gauge Remington 870. It almost killed my friend. She let it. She just let it fly. I've never seen this done before. Essentially.

Imagine if you held it with no hands, with one balancing that shotgun like on the front foregrip and then you pulled the trigger while it was loosely touching your shoulder and the shotgun just went wherever it went under its own power. She did that multiple times and they kept picking it up off the ground and giving it to her. Scared the shit out of

everybody. It's terrifying to watch a tiny person like my wife is tiny and I've watched her shoot my Benelli pump action and she's gone through with eight shells in the in the tube and knocked out eight out of eight clays in the sky with a tactical shotgun. That weighs way too much for her. She has to, like, keep it at low, ready right up-to-the-minute when she's like flings it up into the action and then pulls the trigger and she's

still able to do that. This girl couldn't even hold a short barreled 870. You. You don't have to be Annie Oakley. But if you're go entering a line of work, What? Coming from one line of work, like a gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps, and going into another one where you're expected to be able to handle a weapon that shouldn't be happening? Is she now? Like what, a section chief somewhere? No. No, no, this gets worse. So she did everything bad possible At one point in time.

She went into a tactical entry. She went in and she entered a room by herself and she covered down on the danger zone of a couch that was against a wall with no, with no thing behind it. Somebody had an armed altercation with We're playing with SIM guns, people. So you have to understand these are Glocks that have like SIM rounds and they shoot this like paint marking pellet. That really hurts. And so they're doing this guy goes in, does a tactical entry. He's a friend of mine.

He was also an Army helicopter pilot. He goes in and he like has some lady jump out of a closet with like a knife or whatever it is. Pop, pop, pop. He shoots her because that's a deadly force scenario. That's what these are all about. She has a sympathetic firing into a couch. She just shoots the couch, much like the ESU unit shot into a barricade, most likely finger on the trigger. Something happened around them.

When you get spooked, your your sympathetic nerves basically fire that trigger because you just clench. And so she clenched and she shot the couch. Now you know, the SIM guns at Quantico are very, very poorly maintained. They have no lubrication whatsoever and they jam up all the time, basically every other round. Yes, yes, they're her, and they blame you for it. But you're not allowed to actually disassemble it and clean it, right? Right. But it's your fault.

She fired into the couch. Her gun didn't go back into battery because it jammed. They said, did you fire your weapon? She says no. They're like we heard you, we heard you. That's a that's a yeah, that's a that's a lie. She didn't even know that. She fired the gun and they said, why is your weapon out of battery? And she said what is that this is? Do you think it was like a Tesla, like the battery was low? Bro, this is the end of the training.

They finally kicked her out because she shot. I went and told, oh, she also jumped up like a couple times and drew a weapon in like scenes where there was no reason to draw a weapon. In all this training, she was absolutely terrible. She failed fitness, had to do it the second time, barely made it through if she did it all. Or they cheated for her. She failed all the academic tests. You can fail without being locked out. She couldn't drive the car.

She couldn't hold on to a gun. She shot things that shouldn't be shot, like couches, like all kinds of crazy stuff. And they finally did that, like that video game where you're standing in front of the video and you draw the weapon and you shoot into the bad guy. The fat system where they have that really deep voice, that Steve Baker voice that that gives you the situation like you and your partner are going into

a situation. There's a there's a karate expert hanging out in a doorway and they live inside. They're inside. Of a warehouse. Quantico would do it. And then they hit then the the karate chopped lady. You know, whatever. Anyway, she has no idea how to do any of this stuff, so she

gets eventually removed. They pulled us all out onto a one of the the sports fields and they all made us say goodbye to her except me. You can imagine, like, I just don't have any tolerance for bullshit like that. So I just stood there And so she said goodbye and cried and everybody gave her hugs and all the girls were really sad for her to leave. I was like, thank God this woman is not getting a gun. She gets kicked out.

She filed A lawsuit against the FBI for not giving her a fair break, despite the fact that they should have. Like they should have sued her for some sort of lie that got her into the Academy because she could not have been honest about anything and whoever put her there, the applicant coordinator, was a joke. She got hired by the Secret Service after that and she went through Flexi. Is she on the Vice President's? I don't think so.

She's not. She's not Michelle Hertzig, but she was hired by Secret Service. Did make it through. And when I told some of these stories and by the way, there's like 10 or 12 more that are just insane how bad she was. The I told some Secret Service guys that were on our JTTF when I was at Washington Field and they called up their friends at Flexi like a year and a half, two years later and they're like, Oh my God, you can't let this girl through.

And they're like, OK, we've notified them, but it sounds like she's already passed Flexi. They've given her enough opportunities. She's going to the follow on training for Secret Service. Absolutely terrifying to know that's the diversity hire. I know that this stuff is happening because I watched it and then I watched the single least suitable person in federal law enforcement make it through over to US Secret Service. It's so disappointing and gross.

And he thought, this is yeah, this is my experience. Even just people that have made it through. Not at an agent level. Look, I we had the intern in my office in Daytona who I'm going to refer to as the intern because I can't gender this person. Because the intern was a girl one day And then the intern came in the next day and was a boy and using the men's room and the intern had blue hair and an active security clearance and that was supposed to be OK with everyone.

And then the intern immediately finished up the internship and got hired on full time to be in the some sort of tech analyst or something like to that effect and went immediately to work in headquarters city and I'm sure is well on the intern's way to a really lucrative career. Yeah, that's how it works. It turns out I'm going to pivot. First. I want to say thanks to another one of our sponsors over here. I'll talk to the guys over at Mad Hat Jerky, so we'll put that

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feud. I just hate people who have lacked they lack critical thinking. This is the CIA's response. I want you to put yourself in the press secretary's or the press officers shoes that gets the call from James O'Keefe about some dude who's a contractor that doesn't even work for the CIA as a as a blue badge employee. This is a temporary employee that's got long term temporary status and they're like we've exposed you. What do you say? And for me, and I'm going to cheat a little bit.

I'm going to tell you what I think. I imagine this is like a a real group of people, a real company or a real government agency getting a phone call from the editor of a high school newspaper in a medium sized town that is breaking a story that they don't quite understand. But I'm going to get your take on it here. Let's play this little video. This is James, I I chopped it down a little bit because there's like some prequel to it. That doesn't matter. OK, I am.

I just wanted to read you this statement and then I'm going to hit send on it to you and it'll probably just take a minute to populate in your inbox. Here you're going. To be sending it to my e-mail, correct? Yes, yes. I'll be responding all to your e-mail and so you can attribute it to a CIA spokesperson. And it'll say these claims about CIA are absolutely false and

ridiculous. CIA is resolutely a political institution that provides objective intelligence support to policy makers, including the President of the United States, irrespective of who occupies his office. Where a foreign intelligence focus agency do not monitor the former president, the individual making these allegations is a former contractor who does not represent CIA. Got it, got it. So he, he's a former contractor. When was he terminated? Was it after we gave the quotes

to you and Deloitte? I I I don't want to. I don't. I don't. Are we speaking? Can we speak off the record a moment? We would like to know, is this individual been terminated in the last 48 hours as a result of what we've uncovered? The only on the record that I have for you right now is is the statement that I I've provided. OK, I am. I just wanted to read you the statement and then I'm going to hit send on it to you. All right, so there you go. You've seen the videos.

Let's talk about what was uncovered. And Can you imagine if you went around telling people something stupid about what the FBI holds and showing off your badge and getting caught on camera with that? Or showing your credentials to some kind of a chick on a date you think you would be working there any longer. Probably not, regardless. Of what you said, by the way. You know, I I was thinking about everything that was exposed, you know the the the Piltdown man story.

So this was like from the early 1900s, they said, scientists said we found the missing link like to the CRO magneman to a mankind. And for like 40 years there was like his skeleton on display in museums. And then finally they went and analyzed it and found out it was like made of like paper mache and toothpaste and this information, this bombshell information, anyone who I don't know reads a book could pick up the plot against the president by Lee Smith, which was written in 2019.

This stuff was exposed by Devin Nunes when he was on the House Select Committee on Intelligence in 2018. Nothing new. Or it's prefaced with things by a guy, horny guy, on a date with a girl who's half his age saying things like, well, I believe that etcetera, etcetera. That qualifier itself says nothing that he is saying is concrete or fact, and apparently no one. What about the? Documents though. What about the the documents they showed? I don't. Even read their documents.

Oh, they didn't get any documents. OK, got it. OK, so. It's just a guy's opinion and and then they're so desperate. You know in that that video there and and side note the representative from the CIA with the uptalk. Yeah awful. Awful. But but she's reading an on record statement and they're going to expose her right. Because they're going to record all of it. They did expose all of. That, and they showed her e-mail and her name, and that's fine. And then she reads in the statement.

But then the point that he wants to get across is, well, because of our investigation, this person was terminated, right? We want to, we want to say that we had an impact. We want to see. You got a a program manager contract employee. Who works for Deloitte? OK, congratulations. Right. So green badge is a is a non temporary or is a non permanent employee. That's somebody who's temporary and they're usually paid through some kind of a contract. Somebody else gets money, pays them.

So they're an employee of Deloitte assigned to the FBICIA whatever it may be doing some kind of work and we'd have those and I'd see them every once in a while and various different things. Washington Field has a lot more contractors probably than you had in your building. And then and we actually had one that was really dude, we had, we had like a 400 LB fat lady that was a contractor. She was the one that always put CNN on in in Las Cruces.

Her name was Candy. There's like nothing more gross than a 400, a 400 LB Woman named Candy. I don't know why that was such a negative. She was also mad that Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted. Like if you that tells you how loony she was. Are there Looney Tunes people in the federal government? For sure. Are they leftist? Yeah. Is the CIA and a political organization. The agency is not the people who run it are political appointees. Those are all true.

But as you said, Lee Smith 2019, the the Horowitz Report, going back in 2019 as well the Durham report which came out in 2023, All of these things have pointed out that the FBI, the CIA, the intelligence agencies are all of these things. They are partisan agencies run by partisan hacks pushing down partisan agendas. That's not, that's not anything that is factual. What I would say is this, because I want to be really fair, that date, which I think

is shit journalism. I think it's a terrible way to go about it. Honeypot, grinder, Tinder. Journalism is garbage. You're going to get people that are thinking with their their lower member, especially dudes. That could be a starting point for your investigation. That could be the allegation or information that something is going on, and then you do an investigation. Does that sit well with you as an idea?

I think that that's fair. I mean you have to start at the starting point and you work your way up. But they're not doing an investigation like a law enforcement, which they'll be say quick to say, well, we're not a fed boy like you've Kyle. We don't do law enforcement. Investigation. We don't know how to do

investigations. We just find the lowest hanging fruit possible and put it out there because we've got a quarterly fundraising goal to hit and this is going to help us do it. So the guys at Project Veritas and the gals that I used to know refer to this as what's called

smash and grab. And they were trying to get away from those kind of stories as the as the agent or the entity broke up as as Project Veritas stopped being one of the things they were trying to do is more long form, long term. It's expensive. It takes time.

You have to actually build fact patterns and there has to be more than just a guy saying some things that are not you know anyway validated that don't have the position that that the authority, the access the placement to be able to evaluate that. I want you to play and don't take my word for it folks. You heard the CIA say it was utterly ridiculous. Now, I want you to listen to Donald Trump. This is the strongest point that you can make. Donald Trump is a man known for

hyperbole. Would that be fair, Steve? Well, he only hires the best people. Only the best people. We're only hiring the best. Like, we got the hugest thing right. Donald Trump is Mr. Over the Top exaggeration. That's his brand. His brand is gold toilets. His brand is saying everything is bigger, better, more beautiful, more incredible. The best that anyone's ever seen. No one's ever done anything like this. That's Donald Trump.

And I don't hate him for that because I understand what Donald Trump is, and I understand who Donald Trump is. And Donald Trump got that going way before I was even born. So Donald Trump gets to be able to do that just because he predates me. Donald Trump doesn't call this a bombshell revelation. He doesn't call this a massive reveal or exposure of the deep state. Listen to what he says. Listen to his own words, folks. We're going to break it down in one second because this is huge.

Mr. President, your reaction to this videotape of the CIA individual talking about how the CIA director has withheld information from you? What's shocking To see how stupid somebody can be. If this guy's for real, you ought to get rid of him. CIA, Central Intelligence Agency. This is not an intelligent guy to be openly talking to a woman that walks up and starts asking him questions and talking that way so he may be bragging or

showing off to some young lady. I have no idea the conditions under which he spoke, but I'd get rid of him real fast. If he's for real, get rid of him. He doesn't mention the fact that the CIA is obviously a partisan organization that's come after me aggressively. He doesn't. And that's not because he scared folks. It's because he knows what the CIA is. Because Donald Trump has run a bunch of companies and probably knows what an org chart looks

like. And also knows what a temporary contractor who works for Deloitte knows and doesn't know and has never seen one of them in the Presidential Daily briefing, which is the Intel report that the president receives every single day coming in from all the Intel agencies. He knows that no green badger has ever been part of those briefings. What do you think?

I also think that Devin Nunez is, I think the CEO of True Social. I would think that that information maybe, you know, through osmosis or was directly given to Donald Trump at some point in the last six years. Yeah, he nothing new, nothing, but he's just saying you have a problem people with your employees or your contractors. So I'm going to do The Apprentice thing and be like you're fired. You're fired. Yeah, you're dumb. You were trying to impress a

lady. I don't know the terms under which it was, but it sounds like he's not intelligent. We're talking about Central Intelligence. You got to get out. Very easy. Donald Trump is correct, by the way. Totally correct. Spot on, Nails it. IA 100% agree with Donald Trump in this particular evaluation. It's a fair assessment. And you'll notice he stays away from any of that hyperbolic language, which is kind of the brand of Donald Trump. That should tell you something,

folks. He's not going to go out there. They may be campaigning on it. They may be going out and getting some fundraisers because people do dumb things when they get emotionally triggered and they think they're supporting it. But his words are not going to be attributed to it. His campaign might try to get money out of it. I think they probably will. This is just the same cautionary tale of if you see a story, it's the same. Your brain's broken, right?

Be skeptical and don't just accept things because they affirm your narrative. If you see a story that affirms all of your predetermined biases ahead of time, you need to actually take a moment to consider the source. Does this person have the access? Is there a reason they would have this information? We know that he's a contractor for a program manager for a

cyber area. I don't think he's interfacing with Mike Pompeo very much, but because you want to believe, look at the sign over your shoulder. I want to believe. I will just believe. And the information he's saying is true but it's not new. It's not a bombshell it's not doesn't certainly warrant I'm going to throw a whole bunch of money at these guys for exposing

things that were already true. It's it's no different than like ADOD employee saying like they let me tell you about Operation Overlord. This thing we got going on, man we're going to storm the beaches in Normandy Like I I I know I I saw Saving Private Ryan. It's kind of been out there for a while. It's been in the in the space. The other thing is this. There's nothing I'm doing to quote, UN quote, discredit other than I think his methods are

poor and the guy is lazy. It's just laziness at this point. There is a possibility to do real things. The stuff that they did with Act Blue and some of the folks that had supposedly been giving donations and then they didn't go out there and follow on it. Like that's a five year story that you rundown political corruption the same way we showed Jennifer Jennifer Van Lauer over at Red State doing it. She's watching the money trails. Who is donating money?

Did they actually donate money? Did they know that they were actually supporting Stanford and some kids robotics team so they can get a scholarship? Did they know what they were doing when they gave money? O'Keefe actually ran that down.

That was like the last thing that he did that was of any value to me. But the reason why you don't take people out of context on a flippin date, Imagine trying to get your source like undercover, hooked up on that, where the person is going out there and getting statements. Those are going to be, they're going to be background

information only. Because unless you're getting that person representing information, knowing that they're representing information, and knowing that they are accountable for the things they're saying. This is a guy that's just talking about how cool he is and how he helped take down a president because he thinks the journo is a pretty girl who's obviously a leftist.

That's what you would be if you're a pretty girl in Washington, DC Favorable odds, you're dealing with somebody who sits on the political left, age, you know, and and looks and gender all kind of play into that. And so they're doing an assessment. Anyhow, you're you're on your best behavior on a date. You just are, I mean, and you're trying to put your best foot forward unless you have ill intentions, but he's courting this woman and he wants to puff himself up like that.

That's context that needs to have some sort of analysis. You also saw that he he he shows in the in the video he shows AM and IC badge and she's like it doesn't even say that you work at CIA and he's like that's the point. I'm like, no that's AIC badge, dude. Everybody gets AIC badge. It's the intelligence community badge and it gives you badge access to the doors at State Department and at Langley which I never went to Langley but I did go to State and use it one time.

You could use it at FBI headquarters. If you don't have a headquarters ID badge it'll get you into the basics. You probably can go over to NSA or NRO or any of these things. I had one and I had one and I had one right out of the gate. I had no reason to have one other than I worked on CI And they're like at some point you may need to go have a meeting somewhere. It'll. I don't think it gets you in the DoD. I still have to go through the gates at Pentagon. But you know I've worked with

all these people. I know what what bullshit looks like. And it's sad that so many people are uncritical about it because they're so excited to believe something. There's no critical thought going on. All right, I'm going to go into the the weekend with a red pill because it's funny and before we do that, I want to throw over to sponsor my pillow. You guys can check out mypillow.com/kyle. My wife just bought sheets at the same time. Bed sheets at the same time I did not.

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Well, maybe James is using some of that My Pillow promo code. What do you think? That could definitely take advantage of the 50% off if you find yourself with one of those, you know, Hamas supporting UCLA students. Yeah, you got to burn the sheet after that. Gross got people. People reacted to you saying that those girls couldn't, couldn't get anything like what it was 2. Weeks. It's always the things that you just never expected. People super passionate. Yeah, they got really

passionate. They said it would take a fatal amount of beer to get those girls laid. I thought that was really funny. So if you guys didn't see our show 2 weeks ago with Steve on it, you can check it out there. OK, let's get black pill here. Can we get black pill? That's the when we lose all hope. This is a little video I'm going to end with for the week.

His name is Jared Bernstein. Jared Bernstein was born December 26th, 1955. He's an economist in America and he's the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisors. He's a senior fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. He has been put as the 31st chair of the Council of Economic Advisors by Joe Biden. He was sworn in and assumed office July 10th of 2023. He is the chief, or at least one of the chief economic advisors of the president right now.

And here he is talking about money. Are you Steve or you've seen this already, right? Yes, I have, and it's very entertaining. Now, you know a little bit about money. You've got that accounting background in there. I want you to just go ahead and bite something wooden so you don't scream when you hear this guy do. Some descriptions, folks. These are the adults that are in charge. Remember DS and CS on the ballot? The Biden administration only hires the best adults to run things.

This is a man who's in charge of advising the president on the economy, which is probably why it's doing so well right now. The US government can't go bankrupt because we can print our own money. It obviously begs the question, why exactly are we borrowing in a currency that we print ourselves? I'm waiting for someone to stand up and say why don't we borrow our own currency in the first place? Like you said, they print the dollar, so why? Why does the government?

Even borrow. Well, the so. The, I mean, again some of this stuff gets some of the language that the MMM some of the language and concepts are just confusing. I mean the government definitely prints money and it definitely lends that money, which is why the government definitely prints money and then it lends that money by by selling bonds. Is that what they do? They they they, yeah, they they they sell bonds. Yeah. They sell bonds, right.

Since they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them the money. Yeah. So a lot of times, a lot of times, at least in my ear with with MMT the, the language and the concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing. But there is no question that the government prints money and then it uses that money to. So yeah, I I I guess I'm just I don't I can't really talk.

I don't I don't get it. I don't know what they're talking about like, because it's like the government clearly prints money, it does it all the time and it clearly borrows otherwise we wouldn't be having this debt and deficit conversation. So I don't think there's anything confusing there. There's nothing confusing about that, Steve. The government definitely prints the money, but it definitely borrows the money and it

definitely has the bonds. Would you agree that that man, he talks to the to the customers so the goddamn engineers don't have to? Is that what's going on in? There, Does he? Do you take the orders physically? No. The customers. I mean, sometimes what my secretary does. Maybe he could just leave the Biden White House and invent a mat that you could jump to conclusions. This is a horrible idea.

It's horrible, guys. If you don't watch, if you've never seen Office Space. That's what we're doing right now. This guy desperately needs a meeting with the Bobs. Would you agree? Yes, he does. He's been missing a lot of work lately too, I mean. Look, he he seems like he's got got his bleep together and he's got mid, mid, mid level management written all. Over he's. Super motivated Modern Monetary Theory. You can just print money for EVs.

That's that's where he's going to look down his nose. And let me tell you it's it's very complicated. It's above your head, which is why we can say things, you know, like slideshow. Bob KJP can go out there and when she's asked about inflation, she can deflect because she's clearly been told don't say the word inflation ever. So we're going to call it consumer confidence. Consumer. Confidence. Consumer confidence is up and people are like, oh, that sounds pretty good to me.

People are pretty confident in the economy. That's why they're spending all that extra money on the yellow tag beef. That's why. That's why the beef that expires today is still more expensive than the than the premium beef that was like, a year ago. It's still good, dude. I I've never that was the most circular. Like that was a man chasing his

own tail but doing it verbally. He was so caught off guard by the question that he hadn't even considered was a very basic question that he was going back to Macroeconomics 101 in his mind, like, all right, what was I taught? So the government prints money, right, right. And he was, you could see that process going out out loud. And these are the quote, UN quote experts. Make sure you trust the experts. They're not totally just flying

us into the side of a mountain. That was totally mysterious to him and he worked out that he didn't understand it. And he came back to the point that I can't understand it. I can't explain it to you. I actually don't even know why we're asking this question. That's where he landed. He landed it like basically it obviously makes sense because we do it. Just just trust the process, is that guy Q, do you think? If he's not not married to Lara, Logan is. He oh God.

We're not getting in there. We're not We're not doing. We're not we're not taking stabs at poor Laura Logan who I I actually do. Pity. Yeah. The hope is is that none of the serious people watch stuff like that. These are the real powers behind the throne. Now you want to do. You want to do in an interview with somebody and you want to follow down on who the evil doers are. How about we go find out why nobody in Congress has made any movements on FISA?

How about we find out why we have the Jacksonville RA Building, a brand new FBI building that's going to cost millions of dollars? It costs. Do they have a skiff in it? Do they have a skiff in your old one? Yes, they will. Millions of dollars to put a skiff into a building and to certify and brand new property and all this kind of craziness.

That's where we should be seeing like real investigative journalist going after and try to ask these hard questions and then when you get fools, that is not evidence, by the way. What we just showed. That's just a place to go. Oh my God, this guy doesn't know anything. Maybe we should dig into his dissertation for whatever advanced degrees he has. Does he know and did he ever

know anything? Is he just old and senile, or is he, like so many of these people that are DEI hires, completely out of his depth with his experience and his capabilities in the position that he's currently in? It's the Reagan quote that you like to play that. It's not that they don't know anything, it's that they know so many things that aren't true. This guy doesn't seem to know

anything for just the basic. He he actually good on him for actually admitting, Look, I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm doing it eloquently and articulately. So just believe me when I say that we're just going to print all the money. Let me all the money. Let me just interrupt. Seek you find, Q said. Gold and silver, our money. Everything else is a currency. I think that also brass and lead and other precious metals that make up ammo like copper are also money.

I'm just saying I I have an amount of of small 22 rounds all the way up to like big shells that we can do in various denominations handing over a box that's worth over 100 bucks. I think we could do that. We could do ammo as as our currency if we really need to. But anyway, that's a. That's just an aside. As long as you don't have a 12 LB trigger pull, you're good. That was a great little loop back. Sorry, NYPD. I'm sorry, you guys, that those people hate gun.

Steve, I'm going to give you the the last word on promoting the amrad whatever you guys have coming up tomorrow. And yeah, then we'll shut the sucker down for episode 300. Episode 300. Congratulations again on that. The American Radicals podcast will be on episode 61 tomorrow on Saturday, noon time, on rumblerumble.com/amrad Pod. We're doing an interview. We have Mark Crider, sheriff from Walla Walla, WA, former FBI agent and whistleblower. And he was an F-14 Naval aviator.

He was a backseater. He was Goose, so he came and joined us and told his story, which I think is worth telling and digging into because the more things change, the more they say the same as they were for him, as it was for all of us with our ex-girlfriend. Thanks for being on for this episode. Thanks for fighting the powers that be with me and also have a little bit of levity and humor. It was enjoyable. We'll shut this one down there.

Steve I've got I'm going to jump over to a five star review and then we will get out of here. But thanks for joining me and Fall Steve at Real Steve Friend personally. You can follow him at Real Steve Friend on Twitter also known as X. And then you can find him at Real under score Steve Friend on Truth. That was a weird appreciation I feel about. I feel weird about that. Well, it's all right. We'll all take any followers at this point, because, you know.

Steve is time for tough. Yes, Steve is search banned to the point where we look to see if he was shadow banned and it says this account doesn't exist. And then you click on the account and it shows 58,000 followers. You're like, good God, yeah. So Steve, sorry that you're being stifled right now. Maybe your sensors will take the break off for the weekend. People can follow you. Alright, but we'll do this again soon. You got it. All right, ladies and gentlemen,

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Love the show and all your content. I would love to see you keep an undefeated record by destroying James O'Keefe in a cage. Dana White, Let's get it on. Oh, let's get on this same idea. Cage fight. I'll do it. I don't care. I have AI have a 0 and 0 and 0 boxing record in amateur boxing and no professional record. But you know, I do know how to throw a punch and I have hip thrown a small FBI trainee off the mat, so I don't know, we could do full contact MMA.

That'd be interesting. I got a little bit of BJJ training. Whatever. Set it up. You guys set it up, I'll show up. Maybe we can raise some money for a good cause, like taking care of real whistleblowers that have done some good things. And I want to also call out just a really big rumble rant here that just popped up and this is from from Ute $200 thrown in saying Ephesians 612.

Folks, you can look that up. I don't have time to pull it right now and I don't have it off the top of my head, but I'll be reading that shortly. Thank you so much for that and we appreciate all of you. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I hope you are not too black pilled, knowing that the adults are not in charge and that our economy is run by morons. That's probably obvious at this

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