Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistle blower, an American patriot prepared 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 Seraphim. Hello my friends. Welcome to the Kyle Seraphin show. It's Friday, so you know it's friendly. Friday. We're going to be bringing on Steve friend in a short period
of time. Here our buddy who is the fellow for the Center for Renewing America, and we're going to be talking about the geriocracy. What is a geriocracy? Geriatrics is the science of the health of old people. Most callously stated as I can do it as a younger person, somewhat younger I guess. And we're going to get into the fact that maybe we are being ruled by the oldest rule of the agent. It used to be that there was a a
rule of ages. I think now we are we are dealing with something where the maybe the least fit are the ones that are in charge. And that's not going to surprise any of you. But there is an interesting trend there and I think Americans should know about who it is that they are electing. Before we get into bringing Steve on, I want to say thank you to our sponsors and most specifically, I want to say thanks to Catholic Vote.
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Let's get that muted, that mic unmuted. And if you're not looking on the Rumble channel, what you were missing is that there's the butt end of a scorpion that Steve Frant is wearing on a shirt. Steve, are you muted? Are you? Are you bringing it? To him. There you are. That was a silent laugh that was like a like a like an internal chuckle I just saw then. I, I mean, I'm trying to be professional. I'm letting you run the show
here on the Kyle Seraphin show. If it said the real Steve French show then I would just let her RIP. And you would be having your mom write all the ghostwritten reviews. Exactly. I've met. That's my my plan. I just fumble out this morning. I'm gonna have her write some five star reviews and compliment me on my Scorpion shirts and then pump us up for the weekend, which I make is extremely excited for. Sunday is National Whistleblower
Day, right? So we need to commemorate that with some sort of suspendables merch or flag or something like that. Then maybe the FBI can fly proudly outside all of its facilities for the month of July the remaining couple days. We are going to be doing a little whistleblower celebration, which is a clip that I grabbed from Tom Elliot. And if those of you watch Dan Bongino show, then you'll recognize this clip or actually you're gonna play the full thing.
I'll break it up since it more or less deals with both of us. Before we got on the show here, we were talking about vinegar runes. You've never seen a vinegar rune, is that correct? No, this is a foreign creature. To me, that sounds like something that belongs in a monster movie. All right, folks, so it's friendly Friday. We can go a little bit off topic
for a second here. If you've never been to the the brilliant, the beautiful state of New Mexico known as the Land of Enchantment. But some of us know it is the land of entrapment, but especially if you're a young man that moves there, you're likely to come out with like a female attached to you just said that was that was the briefing I got when I was in the Air Force. So they have these monsters.
My my wife and I used to actually call it monster season in April. Do you have monster season in Florida? I I don't think you. Do yeah. It's called Hurricane. Season. OK, those are different. Yeah. That's winds. Monsters. Winds. I'm talking about critters. And so you would walk outside and there'd be like a, you know, tarantula the size of your palm just walking around. I once saw tarantula up in my belfry 'cause we had like this big entryway.
You walk in and it was like, you know, 25 feet up and it looked like the tarantula was humping something, but it was eating a bat, a small bat, like the size of, you know, like a bigger than a golf ball but smaller than a tennis ball. It ate the whole bat over a period of a day. Did you point that out to your children in the circle of life? And they don't have to watch Lion King now. Well. We all watched it. It was horrifying and interesting at the same time.
And it was 15 feet above our head. So we were worried about the bat falling down when it was dead, but it ate the whole freaking bat. And so we would have these monsters pop up. There'd be bats, obviously big bats and small bats. They were tarantulas. They were scorpions, which are pretty standard. Those are in your shoes or they're running around on the wall and or they're in the pantry, like hanging out trying to blend into the floor.
And then there's these things called vinegar rooms. Vinegar rooms are like a hybrid of a man, like like a lobster or a crawdad, a a crab, like a land crab, a spider and a scorpion all mixed together in a blender. And like God's nastiest, you know, nightmares when he just was bored and was like, what if I gave huge arms with these crazy claws to this spidery looking scorpion thing? But we took off the tail and we put a whip on there that spits out acid.
That's a vinegar rune. Wow. And it's just like dangerous to like small children. Can they die or just like a bee sting? It doesn't even bother them like the acid is actually, it smells like vinegar, which is why they're named the way they are. And they just run around, spit out this little acid. Now Ryan's messing with us. Rumble Rick says send Matt a cup, Send him a muck. We'll we'll get him on. We'll get him there. I just I got to put together a
package. One thing that people don't know about me. Do you do you have any weird sort of like mental blocks that somebody asks you to do it? No matter how many times they ask you, you can't do it. Is there anything in your life? Yeah, I remember I had, I've still had this ongoing thing when I was a kid, my my mom, every morning I came out and I would just always forget to open the blinds in the kitchen and used to make her so mad. She would say, I want natural light being in here.
And I always just used to say like, well, I'm the only one here and I don't want natural light. So it just doesn't occur to me to open the blinds. And she would yell at me every single morning that I hadn't opened the blinds. There's like a mental block there, you just can't do it. Eventually just got to the point where I enjoyed making your upset in the morning. So I have that with mailing packages or letters. I don't want to ever go to the mailbox ever.
I don't know why. Maybe it's because I was broke at one point when I was in college and it was just a bad day. If I opened up anything in the mailbox and like, I can write things out, although I don't like to, I can put an address on things, I can put a stamp on them. But getting it from wherever I am to the mailbox or to a, you know, to a package shipment, it's like I have a strong block there. It, it's really, really like it's, it's debilitating.
It's like a phobia. It's, it's, it's a weird, I mean, we all kind of have these weird bugaboos where people are just odd in general. I mean, just it's a good thing that you're married because obviously, like, you probably wouldn't my wife. Loves stamps. She loves stamps. She loves like she'll pay bills that we don't even owe money on. Like you, you send her a bill, she's paying it. And then I'm, I'm looking around going like, why do we pay that twice?
Oh, because they sent it to us in the mail and I already paid it online. That's that's yeah, we're we're complimentary men and women turns out and, and just our friends. We all kind of complement each other. You talk about weird bugaboos. You've got some bugaboos that are going on right now. You see that pivot that was. Professional. That was professional broadcasting, Sir. Let's let's talk about this topic number one that we pulled
on here. This is your most recent article in The Federalist. I don't know if I told you we were going to talk about it, but I'd like you to, to discuss it. Yeah, Well, well, let's do the first one first, which is that you, this article you wrote in April about the top 10 systemic issues, You're you're doing videos, video to drop. Like just rock'n'roll with that if you would. Yeah. So we filmed many videos for each one of these top 10 systemic issues.
It's all derivative from this policy paper that we wrote for Center for Renewing America or #2 was this week. And it dealt with this growing, creeping national security branch issue that we find within the FBI, where it's something that you've talked about after 911, how mission creep set in when the military was using counterinsurgency to confront
enemies abroad. And the FBI had this domestic responsibility to sort of be the century on the wall, but there was just not a lot to do. So they started to look for homegrown violent extremists and that's when you started getting into the Liberty City 7 the entrapment of some Muslim Americans that still ongoing, but obviously that that is not as fruitful as they want it to be to justify the existence of the national security branch and its funding.
So now it's both focusing on the domestic violent extremism as they label it. And those are your anti government extremists and your white supremacists. And, and they're playing with the numbers on that with obviously January 6th and another domestic terrorism cases. And as a result, we're having innocent Americans who are getting roped into the the counterterrorism sphere that the FBI is putting out.
All right. And so this week we're doing topic #2 it sounds like from your list you did a video on that, which people can see on your Twitter profile, I'm guessing? Yeah, it's pinned actually on Center for Renewing America's Twitter page as well. So if you want to catch at the top, that's that's where it is right now. And every Thursday at noon, we'll be dropping a new video and it's on all streaming services, YouTube, Rumble, everything and and all the
social medias out there. So follow Center for Renewing America, whatever your social media platform of choice is, and you will get it. OK, And then Ryan will pull up the second one, which is going to be the Federalist article which you just wrote. I think we've got that one right there. Nope, not that one. There's one that just says that the FBI won't submit to the legislative authority. It's got a picture and this disarm all FBI agents if we can. Let's talk through it, Steve.
So you wrote this article for the Federalist. What was the what's the perspective here? And and where did, how did you come to it? It's sort of an idea that I've had percolating in my mind. And I threw it out to Seb Gorka on his show and he said I need to write a column about it because if I didn't, he would and he would take credit for it. So that sort of spurred, wait, what is the motivation to start typing?
And the the concept that I have is the 1811 criminal investigator position that the FBI refers to as a special agent. We can eliminate that position and return the FBI to its roots, which they neglected to mention in their celebration of their their birthday this week, that the FBI wasn't always an armed force. It was a Bureau of unarmed investigators. And I think through the budget appropriations, the Congress certainly has the power now the Republicans are have the power
of the purse strings currently. Presently, they can use them to defund armed investigators at the FBI and then also force the agency to partner with local sheriff's offices, tribal police, police departments, get their permission to do an investigation in their area. And then also work with officers from those agencies in the form of task force officers, which there's already a proof of concept because there are task force officers who do work for the FBI.
So we would just expand that through the US Marshall Service and basically make those guys the guns and have to get their consent to effect an arrest. And it's a final bulwark against an out of control, politicized FBI, because now you're sheriff who's more accountable to you, who you elect and can directly get a meeting with if you want. It will be more incentivized to protect you from the FBI should it become politicized. Now you just mentioned the FB is fake birthday.
You want to get into that a little bit deeper. Yeah, I was. They were celebrating. What was it, 115 years, 125 years? I can't remember the. Name. It's made-up, but 115. Yeah. And they the origin story of the FBI is that it was not always the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was a Bureau of Investigation. And for the first couple decades, those guys didn't carry firearms. So it's a little bit of a deception on their part that they've been around in, in their
current status. And certainly it's evolved over the years and then more so now into this intelligence agency rather than a law enforcement agency that we see before us. So I I think that there's definitely a historical route for disarming the FBI. It's not something like it's never been tried before. And we can go to that and then say, look, if the if the FBI wants to claim credit for its years of existence, then it should be willing to go return
to how it began. We, we've seen people online that have actually said, oh, the FBI gets back to its core mission. Well, it's core mission was Rob investigating like Interstate gangsters and bank robberies. That's how it came into existence. And that's the reason why they got guns, by the way, in 1935. Yeah, they had to confront the the Capone Tommy guns that were just blasting up Chicago. The Chicago typewriter, right?
So let me, let me ask you this. When you were sitting at the Academy, which would have been what, 9? Years ago, 2014. When you're sitting there and they do what's called the one week, I'm assuming you had a one week where they introduced you to being a federal employee. Did you have something? Yes, your intro week in the auditorium where you sit there with a suit on.
Right. And then they tell you about the history of the FBI and one of the things they tell you is that in 19 O 8, the Bureau of Investigation was founded and it was under attorney general, what was his name? Bonaparte, I think. And then it goes forward. And then at some point in time, Hoover gets involved in the 20s and then starts advocating, you know, starts handing out his own
guns, which I think is amazing. Was like literally handing out like like bags of guns to agents so that they had things that they could just grab whatever they were comfortable with. The most Kyle Seraphim move ever, by the way. It is kind of a gangster move, but I mean, Hoover was a gangster in addition to being a tranny, so that makes some sense. So you've got this guy doing
that move. And then in 1934, they passed the Bank Robbery Act, which allowed the FBI to go after bank robberies that federalized the crime. And 1935, the FBI changed its name to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When you heard that that, did you think that they were lying about the number of years the FBI had been in existence? Or was I the only one sitting in that auditorium going like, I don't get it.
Yeah. I mean, it's a completely different agency with different tools and a different name. I mean, it's not the same agency. You can evolve, at least say something to that effect, but it's not. It would be like the Army for the first few years, it was like, well, we were the Boy Scouts and we were doing camping and learning how to sew and tie knots and then we got tanks. So we're we're we're in the Army now and we've always been that. It's a little bit dishonest, I
think. And I think that the focus on like crime and deterring crime and combating crime rather than being this intelligence gathering agency is really the biggest evolution that we've seen and that's been in the last 20 to 25 years. And actually the other thing that that was put out this week that I was a part of was this budget recommendation that Center for New America did. They asked me to give them some historical background on national security, an intelligence gathering.
And our recommendation was to just pull all the funding from intelligence zero that out, but also beef up the criminal investigative side of the FBI. And actually, so you're not defunding police, you're providing additional funding. And then overall, the agency would be cut by about 25% of the of its funds. But this, you're putting the money where it actually belongs, where people expect it to go.
From a historical perspective, from a pop culture perspective, look, the FBI is supposed to be the the police, the federal police or investigative arm at least of that.
And that's not what it's doing. One of the recommendations you put in there is getting rid of what's called law enforcement availability pay, which we can do for armed federal agents, which is a 25% premium paid to all agents, 14,000 of them, many of whom who don't have to work outside of they're, they're not available per SE. Like do you think you could call your your sack at any given time or your ASAC and expect them to be there at 3:00 in the morning at a prison if you had a
somebody die? No, you certainly can't. And when it comes to Special Agent in Charge, Sherry Anks from the Jacksonville Field office, who lives 49 miles away from the office, That's one mile. Inside of the the outer arc you have to be within 50, don't you?
Yes, yes, be within 50, but certainly it's not keeping in the spirit with your commute is over an hour, which I'm sure if she was actually doing her 10 hour work day, she was devoting that hour plus drive each way towards reaching that 10 hour mark. She would never do that. That's. Not in policy.
She would never do that. I'm sure she didn't send an e-mail when she got into her car so that there's an actual digital record of her quote UN quote working and then driving for an hour, listening to the cough surfing podcast probably, and then going to work. Looking for for errors with Steve Friend's statement so she could try to file some sort of a
personal hatred with you. You mentioned the Army earlier, the Boy Scouts and the Army. There actually is a 1 to 1 analogy with what went on in the FBI changing names and and keeping the original birthday in 1926, the Army Institute of what was known as the Army Air Corps, where they started getting aviation units. They had some like, you know, some single planes, they had small planes, they had some balloons and some other things like that.
And that became a full blown Air Force, which at some point separated away. And that happened in 1947. I believe it's September 18th, if my Air Force history stands. So on September 18th, they dissolve the Army Air Corps and it became its own branch of the military known as the United States Air Force. And people celebrate the United States Air Force birthday not in 1926, but September 18th, 1947, the birth of the United States Air Force, the finest fighting
Air Force in the world. And so there is a 1 to 1 line up with that where you see, oh, OK, that's exactly what you do. You take a new name, you break off from your previous agency, you, you take on new responsibilities and tools. You put a new banner up. You don't say under new management, but we claim our original grand opening. You don't get to do that. And, and that's what's so funny
to me about the FBI. They should be claiming an 88 year history and they claim 115 'cause they think that's somehow, I don't know, more reputable. It's bizarre. Isn't it a little bit like a a sports franchise that picks up and moves to a different city and changes the name of its mascot, but then claiming like the Dodge won a Super Bowl back in the day when we were. When we were the Brooklyn Dodgers, we we won some World Series and and that's story franchise, it's.
Not logical. It's not really in keeping I think with what we expect from them. But I'm, I'm interested you, I don't, you know, when the Department of Defense originated, when it claims, does it claim to be the the War Department ever? I don't know. We should look into this. There's a couple things, folks. Put it down in the chat. Leave us a comment on the Rumble Channel if you in fact know if DoD claims its Department of Wartime, or if it it probably
does, to be fair. But yeah, they want to take Crest, the W for World War 2. They don't want to give that up. Nobody wants to give up the W for the WW2. Back-to-back World War champions. That's right. It's like the Dallas Cowboys of the early 90s. They were, you know, they were a franchise winner. It it's just, I don't know, I
saw that as the original lie. Some of my Quantico classmates and I, the ones who think the way that you and I do, we're looking at that going like, oh, if they're going to lie about their birthday, what are the things will they lie about? And you've been a street cop. When someone lies about their birthday and their name, what are the things are they lying about usually? Warrant. Things that they did wrong in a criminal way.
Yeah, exactly. I I actually in my take away from that week was the in the video presentation, the first thing they did about welcome to the FBI, they were touting that there was so much crime. It was rampant. It was like blood running through the streets. And then the arrow of progressivism came in and we were able to solve it with the FBI. And I remember thinking like that that's not something you should be taking credit for. That's not a that's not a
victory. Progressivism is is a cancer. Right. It's not the one and that you think it is, but we're talking about government employees here that basically suckle at the government teat. Many of them have never had a private sector job or worked in
another industry. So, yeah, I mean, or they're just going to roll right into big tech at the 17 year mark just before collecting that pension, they're going to roll in as some sort of advisor on election integrity at Facebook or Twitter and collect 5X what they were. Yeah, it's disgusting. All right, So Speaking of disgusting, Ryan, if you'll queue up video #8 I think Steve has already seen some of the stuff.
I don't know if you were able to get through the whole thing without pitching your lunch in between your shoes, but this is a video that comes from Tom Elliott's Twitter post. I think he did the Super cut or put it together. At least he was part of it. And Dan Bongino played a couple minutes of it. He played like the first, I don't know, 90 seconds of it. It's about 3 1/2 minutes long.
We'll probably break in the middle and get a response and then we'll finish it out so we don't have just uninterrupted, nauseating video coverage. But let's play this. I'll get your reaction to it 'cause I think it responds very well to the what we've experienced in this whistleblower space. So I'll let you play that whenever you're ready. Ryan, go and roll it. The attack on the whistleblower is is never wise, it's never lawful. It's never honorable.
It's everything you said. It's a travesty. And I'm not going to call them whistleblowers. They don't deserve whistleblower protection. Each and every one of them has a strange history, has guess what Russian connections they always do. These are not, as we would consider them, whistleblowers, people who are alleging wrongdoing. They weren't really whistleblowers at all. In fact, they weren't even credible witnesses. Two or three people who are political operatives.
But they're not. Whistleblowers. These guys are not whistleblowers. Period. Is a hard working patriotic person in the intelligence community who just wants to put the information out there and the President to call into question the credibility of this whistleblower. They're referring to this whistleblower as the so-called whistleblower. Can you pause it right there for me, Ryan? OK, so for those of you who are listening to this and you're going, what in the world am I
hearing? There is a a jump back and forth when you hear about the so-called whistleblowers. They're talking about guys like Steve Friend and me and Gerardo Boyle and Marcus Allen and Gary Shapley, who we just saw testify, and Joseph Ziegler, the the two guys from the IRS. When they talk about the credible whistleblower, they're talking about 2019, the plot to overthrow this president. Who was Trump at the time? Who was that whistleblower and and how credible was he? Eric Charamella.
I'm going to say the name. Don't say it. He's like. Voldemort. Voldemort that you must not be named. That was actually the largest temptation that I had when I testified. I wanted to say Eric Charamella so I could get the name on the Congressional Record and officially have that done by one person. Because he's he's never been mentioned by name on the record. No, that was the big thing where they were trying to protect his identity. Yeah, Adam Schiff lost his mind.
Paul was was trying to say it and they were screaming and then having it stricken from the records. And. And then have you ever looked into what happened to that guy afterwards? No, have you? I looked, I don't know, it was a while back, and I think he was probably doing the same thing I'm doing, probably being like a fellow at some big tank. He probably making way more money. Yeah, they made sure he landed comfortably. I'm sure. So he's the he's the credible
whistleblower. So that's that's the, the thing. That's the mid, the the what do you call it? Like the half court analysis. This is the, the half time piece of it. Let's finish this video out and we'll we'll just reflect in a minute. You want to roll that, Ryan? So-called whistleblower on the Biden family. Welcome back to so-called Whistleblower from the so-called Whistleblowers.
See so-called whistleblowers, so-called whistleblowers, so-called whistleblowers, so-called whistleblower, so-called whistleblower, so-called whistleblowers. Whistleblowers. That's what he's calling them. Whistleblower whistleblowers or alleged IRS whistleblower. The GOP is marketing as whistleblowers, quote UN quote whistleblowers. Jim Jordan, who's the chair of the oversight committee, is lauding them as brave Americans. Whistleblower, a true patriot coming forward with the
allegations. But that's why the whistleblower is a hero. In many ways, this whistleblower is a hero. The whistleblower is a public servant. And now to stay anonymous, the heroism is being kind of thrust on this person. They can't imply this person is partisan Person has been deemed credible and a patriot with great courage to do the right thing. The whistleblower did was really patriotic. Whistleblower was not alone spiritually a best composed, best written, best documented
such complaint I've ever seen. Thank you whistle blower. I consider your complaint to be credible and urgent. Do what Donald Trump was doing in going after or targeting the people who helped this. I would say very brave whistle blower, if you've got an allegation against the Biden family, then come on board because you too can be their next whistleblower. Hunter Biden's whistleblower.
This whistleblower who is going to just tell us all the horrible things he'd been up to, reappropriating the term whistleblower after doing everything they could endanger the life of the actual whistleblower that led to Donald Trump's first impeachment. The actual whistleblower. The actual whistleblower on these goose chases by Jim Jordan after these supposed whistleblowers. Been trying to undermine the institutions that holds the
powerful accountable. To try to come up with a whistleblower who is viable, Apple blower who is viable. I hope there are more whistleblowers out there. These folks are sophisticated. People inside the White House would say you're true patriots. Patriotic and dedicated Americans that this country has this whistleblower, This is another human being. It is a terrifying prospect to go and try to sound an alarm about the most powerful person
in the country. The major pillars that prop up the Republican fiction that President Joe Biden and his family are entangled in some sort of criminal enterprise. The first pillar? A so-called whistleblower. Well, thanks for that Ryan. Ryan's got a video up here of a visual up here rather, if you're not watching on our Rumble channel, go to about 22 minutes in and go watch that video for
yourself. Or you can find it on Tom Elliott's Twitter. And and obviously it was quoted by Dan Bongino either yesterday or the day before, but fantastic, fantastic little cut up. They all get the same talking points. Where do those come from there, Steve friend? I don't know. I I mean, apparently Ryan J Riley isn't on those conference calls because he's always like a week or two behind. But I I was really taken aback because that's actually probably the most cable news that I've
watched in a decade. Just Yeah, I never, I don't know if I told you this, but so untalented and airbrained and the uncomfortable where they were clearly told make sure you do the air quotes so-called whistleblower. Right, so you're missing this if you're not watching the videos, but literally four of them are doing air quotes, the hands in the air scare quotes when they say so-called whistleblowers or they quote UN quote whistleblowers. How how are whistleblowers defined?
I know you guys had that come up in the hearing. Yeah, Tristan Levitt to try to do a good job of explaining that, you know, he is a whistleblowing attorney who has devoted his life to that and is pretty familiar with the law. And the law is, and I think we've we've talked about it before and I know you've hammered it home. It's 5USC23O3. You have to be a government employee with a reasonable concern of waste, fraud, abuse or a risk to the public safety and bring those concerns forward
to list. I believe it's 7 potential places that you can bring your information to. Yeah, that sounds, that includes your frontline supervisor. So if you walk into the boss's office and you're like, hey, I'm, I'm worried about this. That isn't actually protected whistleblower disclosure. You don't have to be right. You just have to be reasonable. Yeah, but have you been even adjudicated to be a whistleblower? Is that a real thing? Like, you love that part that
makes me want to puke. By the way, All of that stuff makes me nauseated. Yeah, that was the big the big talking point during the the congressional hearing like. The FBI, you didn't say he's a whistleblower like the FBI somehow has. It's like the government investigated the. Government Stunner Stunner. The FBI investigated the FBI and found that the FBI did nothing wrong. That's the that is the entire headline for the last couple years. Pretty shocking. Also in real time, we got a Fact
Check from Ryan Madda, he said. The Department of Defense the DoD was established August 10th, 1949 as an executive agency under. The Secretary of Defense, I stand corrected. I let let it not be said that I will not admit that I was wrong. I'm surprised because I would think you'd want credit for the last actual military victory that's on record. Everything else has been that was under. The War Department, the war was exporting violence. The Department of Defense has
gone, got a new mission. They are going to pretend like they are not exporting violence and they are now sort of euphemistically named. Amusingly, I feel like the Department of Defense is what Homeland Security should be. Homeland Security should not exist. It should be called the Department of Defense and then we should have a Department of War. I think truth in naming would be a really good convention for this country. A little bit of honesty would go
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buddy. You too. Thanks Sir. All right, we'll say bye to Steve. Fran, we're going to pivot over to the Geriacre C and let's get into what kind of ugly stuff is going on. Ryan, if you want to bring up, let's see what topic this is. I think it's topic #2 Congress is old folks. And interestingly enough, we're seeing here from the Pew Research Center that the House has got a little bit younger. It's relative, I'm going to tell you that right up front. And the Senate got older.
This is going to be a look at the age and generation of lawmakers in the 118th Congress, which is where we are today. This article goes back to January of 2023. So we don't break news here. We want to make make the the understanding of the news available to you. And so when we look at this thing, it says the median voting age of House lawmakers is 57.9 years. And that's down one year essentially. So they are one year younger by median from the 117th Congress.
And that we it was 58. So roughly the same as it was in the 116th. It was just a slight uptick in 117th and it's a little bit lower than 115. So they've been hovering around this 5859 year median voting age for House lawmakers. We talked about the Senate, it's on, it's on the way up and it is 65.3 years is the median there, 65.3 years, the age of retirement for most people in America or at least used to be. And that is up a slight bit maybe 1/2 year from the previous, which was 64.8.
So again, just roughly in that age bracket. But the Senate always tends to be a little bit older by about five years on on average what we're seeing here. So those are the median ages. And, you know, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. You've got some experience. There's definitely something there. However, the bad thing, I think, in this country is that people stick around in these jobs forever. They stay there forever. We have lawmakers that have done 40 and 50 years.
This is actually not that incredible at this point, but it hasn't always been this way. If we'll pull up the the article, which is under topic #3 says, you know, essentially Congress is older than ever, but it hasn't been this way. This is from NPR, folks. NPR sees this as a strange thing. This was written in November of last year, November of 2022, talking about how Chuck Grassley is really old. He's going to be 95 when he's up for, quote, UN quote, re election.
If, if he makes it that far. And I think we have a little video that's going to show us that that's kind of crazy. The speaker of the House at that point in time was Nancy Pelosi, who is 82. She's 83 or close to 83 right now. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, which is what this all sparked from. Many of us saw him do a hard reboot on national television, on live television. And that's pretty troubling to
watch. So they're saying that essentially 25% of members of Congress on both houses are over the age of 70 years old, one in four. The congressman is over 70. And I'm going to tell you why I think that's a problem. First, I want to pull up one of the videos. Let's do a video of Dianne Feinstein. This is going to be video #1 Ryan, if you want to queue that sucker up. And what we're going to be seeing here is a hot mic of the aid sitting next to Feinstein talking.
Let's just run it. I think it speaks for itself. And you want to roll, roll that video. Senator Feinstein. You say aye. Pardon me. Aye, Yeah. I, I would like to support a yes vote on this. It provides 823 billion. That's an increase of 26 billion for the Department of Defense and it funds priorities submitted. Yeah, just say aye. OK. Just aye. Thank you. That is really hard to watch for some of us. So that was Dianne Feinstein, one of the oldest members of the of the Senate.
And she's being told over and over again that the thing that she is doing right now is voting. And that comes in the form of either an aye or a nay. That's how it goes. They've already given the speeches. They've already given the support. They've already spoken out. She had it written on her paper. She could not pivot to what was being asked of her and therefore she wanted to read her statement. Maybe again, I'd, I'd love to see if she wrote that, read that for a second time.
The thing that went viral was the fact that there's people next to her just telling her what to do. And she can't even take that direction because she's so confused about where she is because, you know, she's ancient. And, and that's the saddest thing about it for me. I think it's elderly abuse for me. I think it is abusive to the system. It's these people that cling on.
And, and, and this is not isolated with only people that are in Congress. There's a lot of people that cling to these federal jobs way longer than they ought to. I think Anthony Fauci is one of those people. They cannot let it go because it's the it's the identity that they have. And it also it gives them meaning in their life that they forgot to cultivate otherwise. And that's why I think that it's so important. That's why I love the the, the stuff that Catholic vote says.
Faith, family and freedom. What is it about? It's about those things. If you don't have faith, if you don't have family, who cares what you do with the rest of your time? You have nothing to to invest in. It's why I think that this country was built on families. It's built on the middle class dream. The American dream is basically finding a spouse, making children for the next generation, creating a home where you can raise them that is
safe. The white picket fence is all that that tells you about good and orderly homes. You know, you can look at a fence often times and decide a lot about what the house is that's going on. You can look at the exterior of the house and know what it looks like on the inside. Not every time, but you know,
judging a book by its cover. But many times you can drive up to a house, look at the yard, look at what's going on in it, and you can have a pretty good idea of how ordered or disordered that household is. And in the same way, we're seeing these people that have basically forgotten to tend the garden, have forgotten to mow the lawn, have forgotten to take care of the external house. And now they're sitting at
almost 90 years old or older. And they're sitting there in front of Congress having young people tell them what to do. They are a figurehead and they are holding the spot and they have no reason to be there. We had in the chat just a second ago Glitch McConnell with a rumble rant. So very funny and love that. I think that's a, that's a reasonable trend. I'm looking at this this, this web page called Fiscal Note, which I don't know if we put that up here or not. In fact, we did.
It's topic #4 you can pull up Fiscal Note and it's also talking about the age of members of Congress. There's some pretty interesting graphics. And what it says is that we have a very, very small number, the two smallest numbers in the House. In fact, the actual smallest distribution in the Senate is 30 to 39. And those are almost half as many as the people that are over the age of 80. That should absolutely be the strangest and least likely thing
that you ever find. The senator from Iowa, 89 years old, Dianne Feinstein, 89 years old, Vermont, Bernie Sanders, 81 years old. He's still out there, by the way, Bernie Sanders, Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, 80 years old. And I'm happy to dish it out to either side. I don't care if you're an independent, a Republican or a Democrat. If you were 80 years old, what in the in the world are you doing there?
You know, and, and the sad thing was, is that Ryan and I were having this conversation earlier. We were talking about the idea that if, if you're over that age and you hear these people talk all the time, they were like my grandmother made it to 90 years old or 96 years old. And she was still sharp as a whip and she was spot on. And the answer is always the same. Yes, compared to people her age, but not compared to a 25 year old or a 35 year old or somebody that is in the prime of what
they're doing. There's a reason why none of the best math, you know, best mathematicians in the world are cracking, cracking the the secrets to the universe in their 90s. And it's not because they're not smart. It's because we actually have a scientifically proven cognitive decline that happens after the age of 70. That's kind of the age of consensus. So we'll get into that in just a
second here. But it makes me really sad that we've given this country over to people that I, what I like to say is that their biological imperative is not there. They don't have young that they are trying to protect and cultivate this country better for. And that's why I think that we need to have. I don't care about term limits nearly as much as I care about age limits on the upper end. There is a time when you no
longer have skin in the game. And for the person themselves, if you don't have the wherewithal to walk away from the game of politics when you are at 70 years old and enjoy what's out there in the world, become an older statesman, become a font of of knowledge and wisdom. Give speeches if that's what you really want to do. If you still want to be involved in the game, you know, step out of it and help the people that are younger understand, become a
professor emeritus somewhere. Give lectures. I don't care. Share that experience in a way that's meaningful. Get off the front lines of the the horrific back and forth to congressional districts, the flying around. Like all of that has to degrade you and it doesn't sound like it's good for your family. And that makes it bad for the rest of America.
If it's bad for your family and it's bad for your for your livelihood as a human being, you are, you are literally just holding on for dear life to something that made you relevant. And these people, they need to cultivate their lives outside of it. It's bizarre. I just wish they would change that. I don't want to be ruled by people who are over the age of 70. And right now we definitely are. Let me look at our next piece here topic #5 what do we have here? That was the oldest. Oh, yeah.
So this is a great article. This comes from oldest.org, by the way. Very interesting. I'm going to read you the oldest members in the US Congress as updated in 2023. OK. And here it is the the 10th oldest is Danny K Davis. He was born in 1941. He's been serving since January of 97, OK. And he's a Democrat #9 Jim Clyburn. He's been serving since January of 93. He's 82 years, almost 83 years old, OK, born in 1940. Then we've got Nancy Pelosi. We all know she's been serving since 1987.
OK, so she's slightly young and she's actually older than those two, or she's 82, almost 83 years old in this thing and serving since 87. She's been there forever. My dad had a really great story, by the way. The other day we were talking on the phone and my dad tells me that she used to call into the radio station because he used to run a large news station in the, the Bay Area where she first, you know, she's been a a representative there for a very
long time. And they would, she would call in to make some sort of partisan statement and they would just not turn on the recorder. And so she would just ramble into the phone and they say thanks so much. And then they hang up and they'd never play it, which is kind of funny stuff. Steny Hoyer #7, born in 1939, older than any of these, yet elected in 1981. He has been in in Congress since before I was born, representing the state of Maryland as a Democrat.
Maxine Waters, we know her, been in since 91. She's almost 85 years old. Hal Rogers, never heard this name. Obviously, he's a Republican, but he's from Kentucky, kind of one of the guys who's flying on the back burner. Also been in since 81, and he's 85 years old. I just want you to have it in your head. He was born in 1937.
Just think about this. This guy for, you know, might be sharp as a tack for a guy who's in his 80s, but is he sharp as attack as a guy like Matt Gaetz, who's out there running it down? Like, maybe This is why we're seeing such weak hearings. And we do have a video to show some of that. We've got a Democrat here from New Jersey. I don't know how to pronounce his last name. Bill Pascrell looks like, and he's was born in 1937. He's 86. And we're just getting older and
older. Grace Napolitano, California Democrat, elected in 99, still going 23 years later, 24 years later. Chuck Grassley elected in January of 81 and he started in the House of Representative in 1975, S since 1975 and he's almost 90 years old. 89 and change. All right. And then the number one, oldest one is Dianne Feinstein, who we
just heard in that video. Brian, if you'll run, because we're equal opportunity here, if you'll run the video that I've got set up. And that is going to be the the McConnell video. I think this is the thing that kicked it all off. It's video #2 folks just watch this and you tell me if this is OK. If this is the people that you think should be running our
country, go ahead and run that. Bars and cooperation and a string of. That dead air is a video showing Mitch McConnell with his mouth closed. If you're listening right now, he's just swaying at a podium, OK? Mitch, anything else you want to say? I'm sure. Let's go back to Do you want to say anything else to the press? And now he just sort of waddles off and they're very, you know, you should be concerned about this.
This is the the same situation that you would find out if somebody had just literally collapsed on camera. I found, I found some videos of that. There was a governor that did that in in Minnesota five years ago, was talking, was slurring, got more and more confused and then just fell at the podium. So that's a possibility that can
happen. In this case, the likelihood of like ATIA or a transischemic attack, which is like what people always call a mini stroke, but it's a it's when blood is blocked to a certain part of your brain. I made a comment the other day on a Twitter space and I think it holds true the when you have people that are over the age of 70 and some of these people do not look like they are in, in great health. I always kind of brag about my
dad. I feel like it's an 80s claim to say like my dad could beat up your dad, but I think my dad could beat up many of your dad's. That's so Charlie, if you're listening, I, I, I have so much respect for my dad's physicality at the age that he's at. But my dad doesn't need to be, you know, fighting people in
their 40s. He goes out and fights brambles and bushes and he's, and he's incredibly tough and he goes out and runs a chainsaw for 8 hours in the desert and I don't even see him bring water out with him. A madman in many ways. But you look at these guys and they've been indoor dogs for as long as they have and they're, they're shiny skinned and they're, they're, you know, unexposed to the exterior. And they're not doing hard work like men historically did. And I'm specifically talking
about men here. But we had the same situation happen with Dianne Feinstein where she had a catastrophic accident of some kind. And we see her in a wheelchair walling around. She looks, she looks just absolutely destroyed as a human being. She's just wrecked. And, and so some of these people are 2030mm of Mercury away from not being on the planet. If you don't know how we measure blood pressure, that would be a, a difficult thing for you to understand.
But you know, you hear like, what's a good blood pressure 120 / 80? And, and that means those are 120mm of Mercury. It's a, it's a, a measure, a measure of pressure. You, you break it outside of their normal range, 2030mm of Mercury. And we could have a what would called either a hemorrhagic stroke or, you know, they start stroking out somewhere else and blood doesn't get up to the brain. You can break a blood vessel and that would be the end of them.
And all of our our systems are weaker and less capable at the ages over 70. So I'm going to bring up this next this next article. It's a scientific article written at the National Institute of Health. It's topic number six, if you would. And this is the impact of the age on cognition. Yeah. Step it back. Just one step. Step 2nd for me, if you would, Ryan, the, the, the age piece there. So there's the scientific articles that have been written
for a long time. This one was dated in 2015 that I'm looking at and we'll bring it up at some point here, but it doesn't matter too much. There's, there's this change that happens at about 50 years of age. And what they were doing is they were measuring crystallized abilities, which is known as vocabulary and then fluid abilities like your basic raw processing speed. And those things change at about 50 years old on the average. So crystallized abilities like vocabulary starts going hot.
There it is. Goes a little bit further north of the of the curve before 50 and it kind of tops and kind of breaks out. So the ability to speak certain words and, and have a, a larger vocabulary kind of peaks in the mid 40s and then kind of flat lines. But the ability to process information peaks in the 20s and slowly, slowly, slowly declines to an average of about 55 years old and drops precipitously between 60 and 70 years old.
And at 80, it is in a, in a free fall going at least one standard deviation below the mean. So that's what this particular graph was showing. That's what I'm looking at here. These scientific studies are being done. They're aggregate studies. They are large and large form studies to try to get an idea of when does that happen and why
does it happen? And so the next article that comes up here, which I think we have underneath a cognitive decline maybe topic #9 it, it, there's all these little like aggregate study. So they grab all these pieces that's perfect right there. And what this one that comes from what you're seeing on the screen right now comes from one. When does age-related cognitive decline begin? So there's this question about when do we stop having it?
It's a 2010 study. So again, not new, but it's multiple studies from O2, from 1988, from 1985, from 2005, from 1989. All these studies come together. I'm going to read you a couple of quotes. Cognitive decline may begin after midlife, but most often occurs at higher ages 70 or more. Relative decline in performance occurs in people until they are
about 50 years old. There's another thing here saying cognitive abilities generally remain stable throughout the adult life until about 60 years old. There's little or no drop off in performance before age 55. There's a reason why we retire when we do. Some of it is because people have been able to hopefully work long enough to put money away. And the other reason is because you are going to be run circles around by younger people in very high performing and demanding jobs.
And I would imagine being in charge of Congress has to be one of those things. Last little quote here from 89. This study says most abilities tend to peak early in midlife. They plateau until the late 50s or 60s and then show decline initially at a slow place, but the accelerating as late as the
late 70s are reached. So all these people that we are seeing that are falling apart and they are falling apart, there's no question about it. They're falling apart because of a natural progression of reduction in white matter, which starts happening around 70 years old. And it's nothing against them. I don't, I don't have any beef. Again, it's not a personal attack to cite that biology exists in the same way it's not a personal attack to say that
you could be a man or a woman. I just, it's, it's so bizarre. If you'll play the, the video here, which was, let's see, I think it is video #3 this is Mitch McConnell. I just want you to focus on not Mitch McConnell, Rather, this is this is Chuck Grassley. Look at what he's doing and then consider the way Matt Gaist handles things. If you want to roll that video right now, just watch his eyes. He's staring directly at a piece of paper, and he's reading it
verbatim. First question is a follow up to a line of questioning you had with Senator Cotton. You told this committee that, quote, the executive branch cannot simply decide based on policy disagreements that it will not enforce a law at all, end of quote. Then you released a December 16th, 22 memo instructing prosecutors to disregard the law that established sentencing differences between cocaine and cocaine base.
Your decision not to enforce the law ended congressional discussions at that particular point for a compromise. If a DOG claims that it will ignore the law by declining to prosecute a law that grew out of a bipartisan compromise forged in this committee, it's hard to see how members can trust the department about following any further bipartisan deals.
So I'm going to ask you, would you withdraw your memo so that a meaningful legislative discussion can resuming if you don't have a a agreement with me, why wouldn't you do that? So there you go. He finally looks up after he asked his question. That's all we've got. I see you in the chat. Are are are getting rowdy about whether or not you love Chuck Grassley. I don't care if you love Chuck Grassley. I don't want a 90 year old man from any party being out there.
He's in the he's in the seat. He's not going anywhere. He's going to be there for years. We need to stop electing people that are this old, whether they you think they're sharp or not, whether you think they're on our team or not. This has to be a bipartisan discussion and here's why. So we've got a graph up right now. I also hear that we have over 700 people that are watching in the live chat right now. So please, if you're sitting in there, hit that thumbs up, hit
that. Like that should turn green on Rumble and that it moves our videos up in the ranking, which we really do appreciate. So this graph right now shows us going back to 1950, maybe a little bit before 1950 and it shows us the average age of members of Congress. And this is going to be relevant for a reason. The younger it is, the better off we are able to tackle the problems we have. Like what we're looking at in our country right now. We have maximum inflation.
We are watching the interest rates going up to a level that are going to be probably clearing 8% for home loans. We have these inflated property prices where houses cost 150% more than they did just a couple of years ago. It is pricing people out of the market.
And we've done this all before. We did this in the in the 80s when Reagan came in. So if you're looking at the graph on the screen, what you're seeing is that the average age of Republicans, Democrats, hovered in the mid 50s starting in 1947. It started slightly climbing and it actually started declining in the early 60s and it went down and down and it continued to decline post JFK all the way to Reagan where we had 1980, the lowest number where we had the
average age of Republicans in Congress was below 50 years old. It looks like it's about 48 on the graph and the members of Democrats were only 50 or 51. Same story. Since that time, there's been a basically a straight line climbing upwards. It continues to climb up to where we have this, this over 60 years and over 55 years old. And, and this only it goes up to 202,013 in this particular graph. OK, so we're talking about a seven years ago, actually that's 10 years old now.
And that data continued to climb. We are now over 58 years old. And one, as we said in over 65 and the other the IT is not a good sign of health. And you can look at the way things looked in the early 80s and the way that we were able to take reforms and bite the bullet and handle things. When you have young people that are in office, they can be bold. And when you have old people, they cannot be because old people are by their very nature, like they have to be a little bit more cautious.
Everything is more dangerous. Look at our president, Joe Biden falling over a sandbag. The man is threatened by wind, stairs, sandbags. You know, anybody could fall over. But the difference for him and us, him falling over on a bicycle could end his life. We have to be very clear about that. That is not a position of strength. And I don't care what party he's in. I'm not real crazy about anybody that age. And that includes Donald Trump, although he seems awfully much
more virile than he was. Listen to him in the 90's. The guy is much sharper in the 90s. So that's a tough line for us to look at. And it doesn't matter if you love Trump, if you, if you hate Biden, that you know, they're both in that senior category. And there's a reason why we don't do that. I'm going to have one more thing pop up here. Let me look at what number we had the the age of the founding
fathers. If you go to topic #10 there is a an interesting website calledteachingamericanhistory.org. In 1787 during the Constitutional Convention, the Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia. The average age of the delegates was 42 years old. 42 years old was the average age. Now they had a couple of people that were outside of that span, but they were delegates there in their 20's. The delegates from New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina were all between
the ages of 26 and 29 years old. OK, that's pretty relevant. You had people that were in their 30s, which was a big block of it, and a huge block of it in their 40's. The number of people that were over 50 was like 1/3 or less. We had people like Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman. These guys were in their advanced age, but Benjamin Franklin actually dragged that number up dramatically. OK. He dragged it up so high because he was 81 years old and the next oldest person was 66.
Those were the two oldest people at the Constitutional Convention that broke away and created the document that we live under today. I think it's really, really important to note that most of people that were signing that document were under the age of 50. And the number of people that were even in their 50s is the bulk of the people that were over 50. We had less than, I can count them out right now, 12345.
There were eight people at the constitutional convention that were over the age of 60. OK, eight people. So that should tell you something about the age of boldness. And the age of boldness is significantly younger than what we're seeing right now. It bothers me. And then you end up with people that are trying to defend a legacy because they don't have enough time in their in their bucket that their legacy is going to be this political thing.
That's why we have people like Korean Kareem Jean Pierre out there lying to us about how everything is better off. We had some other stuff on here. I have some other videos. We've got Maddie Hassan who's out there trying to say that the Biden economy is brilliant and amazing with a cherry pick facts. They have to lie. That's what all politicians need to do in order to sell you the bill of goods, that they are the best.
But the real problem for me is that they are selling you a bill of goods because they don't have any other time to live out their days in something like this is the last hurrah and their last hurrah, sadly enough, is in politics. Geriacrecy is real. We need to all agree that this is not the people we need leading and let these people go home and live their golden years in places where they can be the senior statesman that used to exist.
They can be advisory only and that would be fantastic. So consider this, the expiration date is 2024. It's actually going to end up being 2026 for the Senate race. We're going to have the primary, some of these people that have been in there and anybody who comes out like John Corning did and say that Mitch McConnell is sharp as a tack and he's good to go when he had a hard reboot, a control alt delete moment on
national television. I don't know what they're thinking, but I'm not OK with it. I'm not OK with these people running the most powerful Republic that's ever existed. And they're a reason why we are declining right now, I think as they cognitively decline. Sad enough. All right, that's enough on the rant. Let me let me pivot over here and just say some thank you's. First of all, thank you for joining us today. If you've been doing it.
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