In this milestone 200th episode, I celebrate the journey so far with gratitude for our producing team and listeners. In hour one, renowned attorney Peter Ticktin returns for a wide-ranging conversation on lawfare, election integrity, January 6, and high-stakes cases involving Tina Peters and Stephanie Lambert. Peter shares insider perspectives on legal strategy, judicial fairness, alleged government weaponization, and why 2026 election safeguards are pivotal.
In hour two, podcaster and coach Rory Paquette joins to talk craft, consistency, and purpose—how he runs six podcasts, serves faith-driven audiences, and coaches men in leadership, accountability, and calling. We also swap stories on resilience, near-death wake-up calls, faith, masculinity, and the power of community in podcasting—all while marking 200 episodes and looking ahead to the next 200.
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(00:02:07) Cold open of poetry lines and oddities
(00:03:43) Live intro: Joe Ruse Show, episode 200 celebration
(00:06:45) Housekeeping and sponsors, production team shoutouts
(00:11:11) Guest intro: Attorney Peter Ticton joins the show
(00:13:56) Reading people in trials and critique of Todd Blanche interview
(00:21:00) Public perception of justice, WEF, BlackRock, and geopolitics
(00:26:32) On weaponization of law enforcement and expanded prosecutions
(00:40:46) Michigan case overview: Stephanie Lambert and election machines
(00:48:26) Machines, access claims, and 2026 election risks discussed
(00:59:42) January 6 narratives, videos, and committee evidence claims
(01:11:23) Filibuster, Senate dynamics, and election integrity strategy
(01:22:37) NYC politics, historical parallels, and segment wrap
(01:30:12) Hour two kickoff and local sponsor read
(01:32:10) Guest intro: Podcaster and coach Rory Paquette
(01:37:38) Bourbon talk and cigar pairings detour
(01:46:25) Tech crash woes, live production, and show growth
(01:54:37) Community support, GoFundMe, and podcaster camaraderie
(02:02:10) Rorys six podcasts: missions and formats
(02:12:36) Power of Man, Wake Up the Lions, and other shows in depth
(02:20:40) Faith and politics: Boiling Point and pushback online
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(02:35:38) Coaching men: purpose, accountability, and brotherhood
(02:50:41) Testimonies: Rorys journey and Joes salvation story
(03:07:55) Closing: website, socials, value-for-value, and sign-off
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That's an interesting twist. Mhmm. Transmitting live from the asylum studios deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas, It's the Joe Ruse show, the show where we talk about anything and everything, where nothing is sacred, nothing is watered down, and nothing is PC. Alrighty. Hey, folks. This is Joe Roos, and it is great to be with you once again, transmitting live from the asylum studios from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass, and doing the very, very best we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we can muster without all the bluster.
Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to the Joe Ruse show. Alrighty. Well, thanks to the non existent studio audience. We appreciate that. It's always great to have you guys here with us. Alright, folks. Hey. Guess what? It is Friday. That's it. The call has been made. It is Friday and you know, there's something really cooking here tonight. Really really cooking tonight because you know what today is? Not only is it Friday. Not only is it a beautiful, beautiful Friday here in Texas, but we have something very, very special that we gotta celebrate tonight because it is episode number 200.
Could you believe that? We made it to episode 200. Of course, the music didn't queue up right. That's perfect. It's alright though. But you know what, folks? 200 episodes. I can't believe we did 200 episodes, we're not even doing the show a year yet, and it's 200. And, we started the show 11/25/2024, and, man, we had a run. We were doing shows up almost six days a week for a little while there. I think that's what kind of pushed us to 200, and, it's great. I couldn't do this guy without you guys, and of course to our producing team, Wayne Rankin, Rosanna Rankin, Carolina Jimenez, Marissa Lee, and of course, I mean, how could you not say thank you to anonymous Angela? Angela, just like yeoman's work.
Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing person. Really, really do appreciate, Angela and all the stuff that she does. And, like all of our, producers, we appreciate every single one of them, and, we look forward to doing 200 more episodes by this point next year. That's the target. I'm setting it right now, so we'll be doing episode 400 at this time next year. Alright. I think that sounds like a good plan. Alrighty, folks. Well, let's let's get rid of, Cool and the Gang here. Get rid of them. Oh, wow. It's been a busy week. Been a very busy week. And as always, you know, we have we have two spectacular guests lined up tonight. The my our first guest, I cannot wait to get to. I've been waiting for an opportunity to have him back on the show, so he's a recurring guest.
So he must have enjoyed his last time here. We'll find out when he comes on. We'll ask him. But, looking forward to having Peter Chichton with us here shortly. Very, very excited about that. Like, one of my favorite guys. I I I love talking to him. So look really looking forward to having him on here. And then, of course, we have, Rory Paquette. And in the second hour, I'm gonna talk about some podcasting stuff. It's gonna be a lot of fun to do that as well. Now first, of course, before we do anything, we have some housekeeping we do. So, as we, go through this, let's get into that. First of all, tonight's show is brought to you by podholm.fm.
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Alright. Well, with all of that said and out of the way, I think that it's probably time for us to, introduce our illustrious guest. Folks, it's always a good night when Peter Ticton is on the show. No matter who no matter what show he's on, it's always a good night when he's on the show. Peter Ticton's been practicing law since 1972, and he's never backed down from a fight. He is the founder of the Ticton Law Group with offices across Florida known for their three c's, creativity, cost effectiveness, and communication. They often take on cases most lawyers shy away from. Peter's legal work has been featured everywhere from the New York Times to CNN and to Fox News. He's argued before the Supreme Court of Canada, shaped key areas of law in Florida and in California, and written the book, What Makes Trump Tick, inspired by his friendship that began back at the New York Military Academy, which we talked about about quite a bit last time he's on the show. He's been on the front lines from voter fraud and defamation to seeking justice for the J Six community. Through it all, he's remained one of the most compelling voices for truth, law, and common sense. Peter, it is great to have you back on the show, sir.
Thank you. Thank you for your kind words. Well, I you know, they're true words. I don't, you know, I don't make stuff up, buddy. I I keep I gotta live up to them. I don't mind, but I do. Alright. Alright. Well, I'm glad you got your color straightened out.
[00:12:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. I I don't know what I look like, but I I have this Kinda looks great. Program that allows me to change from, you know, tungsten to
[00:12:45] Unknown:
to daylight to yeah. I I the the thing that worked best now is fluorescent, believe it or not. Really? No. Yeah. Yeah. That's weird. That should be Well, but you look great. You look great, you sound great, and again, it is great to have you here. Now last time you were here, we had a great conversation. I mean, folks, if you didn't catch that show, you gotta go back and listen to it or watch it. We had a we had a blast, and it was a lot of fun, and I'm really glad that we were able to take that. We touched nothing of the subject matter for the night, really. I think I asked you one question at the very start, and it was just tell us a little bit of something about yourself that nobody knew, and that that was the whole show. That was the whole show. That was great though. That was a lot of fun.
So since we barely touched on anything that we covered that we wanted to cover last time, you know, your books, cases, insights, can you give us a brief rundown of the last few months for you and for your team? You know, what what's what have you been working on? What's keeping you busy?
[00:13:48] Unknown:
Oh, a lot.
[00:13:49] Unknown:
Okay. The pregnant pause. What are you? You watching Alex Jones?
[00:13:57] Unknown:
No. No. I, I was on his show Mhmm. A couple weeks ago. I know. I watched it. Maybe three, four weeks ago. Yeah. Because, I was very concerned about Todd Blanch. Mhmm. I still am.
[00:14:11] Unknown:
As are a lot of us.
[00:14:14] Unknown:
Well, you know, look, he's a very capable man. Mhmm. You know? His his winning rate is something like 84% for all of his clients if you leave out Donald Trump. Okay. Or he struck out every time. He's got a zero in success with Donald Trump. And I, frankly, I don't think that he believes that Donald Trump is innocent. Really? Of the bullshit. I can I say these words? Yeah. Absolutely.
[00:14:47] Unknown:
Say what you gotta say.
[00:14:49] Unknown:
Some some shows are not allowed to say it. No. I say what you gotta say. But okay. Alright. I mean, we know that the charges in New York were were completely BS. Okay. I mean, they've just been overturned. They're they're garbage. And, then the after the verdict, he went to the interview on CNN. And, you know, you'd think that he'd be saying, this is horrible. My client's innocent.
[00:15:22] Unknown:
But he never said that. Yeah. I remember. I I remember seeing that. Yeah.
[00:15:28] Unknown:
Yeah. And instead, he he he said, well, this conduct occurred seven or eight years ago. So that sounds to me I mean, you know, like, I'm a trial lawyer. That's what I do. That's what I've done for over fifty years. Yeah. And and I'm good at what I do. And what makes you good is you gotta be able to read people. You you can't you know how they say that that for you know, you've probably heard the the the saying that a lawyer should never ask a question that he doesn't know what the answer is going to be. Yeah. Right? And that doesn't mean that you met with the witness, you talked to the witness, and you rehearsed, and you found out what the answers to your questions are. Because very often, you're cross examining people you've never seen before.
But in your initial questions or in the direct examination, you kinda figure out what the person's frames of reference are, you know, like who he is. Is he a liar? Mhmm. Is he somebody that's motivated to bend, in quotes, bend the truth? Is he somebody who just never strays from the truth? Those those are the people you can't succeed with, by the way, in cross examination. Okay. They're few and far between, but you cannot get them a cross examination because they're being truthful. So you'd know by the facts of the case and couple that with the consistency of the person you're examining, that's how you're able to ask questions that you know the answers to.
Okay? Not be not because you've prepared with that person. So you get to understand, you know, little nuances, things that people say. What do they really mean? What do they really feel? You know? What are they saying? So when somebody says to me, that the conduct occurred seven or eight years ago, that sounds to me like a confession. That sounds to me like you're admitting that that conduct occurred.
[00:17:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Exactly.
[00:17:39] Unknown:
And then you're just saying, but it's not fair because it was so long ago that he should be able to get away with it. That's what that means. Yeah. And that's what he said. And then he he also referred to Donald Trump as a 77 year old first time offender in answering the question as to whether he thought he would get any jail time or not. And he was basically saying, no. He shouldn't get any jail time because, you know, if a 77 year old first time offender he didn't say this is an innocent man. Yeah. But even if the judge looks at him as though he's a first time offender or an offender, then he's a first time he would be seen as a first time offender. He didn't say it like that.
He basically said he was a first time offender, which means he's a guilty man. And then when he was asked whether he the trial judge was fair, he refused to say that he was unfair. Mhmm. Okay? Yeah. Yeah. I see I see that. Talking about. I mean, what what trial are we talking about? We all saw this judge being so unfair. It made us wanna vomit. And and he's Donald Trump's lawyer, and and he's afraid to say I mean, he could have said, well, you know, we objected to so many of his rulings, and we object because we know that they're not right in law, which means that they're not fair. Many of the things he said didn't appear to us to be unfair at the time, and we have no reason to change our mind now. He could have said that, but instead, he was revealing what his mind frame was.
Yeah. And when you think your client is guilty and you'd actually dislike your client because they're guilty, it's very hard to stand in front of a jury and and and and sincerely say that they're innocent.
[00:19:31] Unknown:
You know, because nobody's that good of a liar. Yeah. No. I agree with you. And, you know, it's interesting because, you know, words do mean things, and your choice of words say an awful lot about what your what your heart really is, or what your mind, like you said, your mind really is. And, I remember him making those comments, and I remember thinking very similar along that, well, you just represented this man, why are you not continuing on saying that, you know, he's an innocent man? I mean, he didn't do anything wrong. I
[00:20:00] Unknown:
mean, common sense tells you that. That. That it it's not just that he said the things I said. It's also that he never said Never. That it was innocent. It just got railroaded.
[00:20:10] Unknown:
Yeah. No. Never. Yeah. Never put never put up that argument. Never put up put up any kind of type of defense on that at all. It it's it was ridiculous. I remember that. I remember watching it. I was sick to my stomach. That says a lot right there. The sigh says a lot, my friend. The sigh says a lot. So let me let me ask you this. So so so people are watching the courts a lot right now, and then probably a little bit more closely than they ever did before. Because of things like these these, show trials and these shams that that took place up in New York with the with the president. And And I and so I think that people are paying more attention to these things than ever before.
What do you think the public gets right, and and what do we tend to misunderstand about how the justice system really works?
[00:21:01] Unknown:
Well, when you're talking about the public, you're talking about two halves. You're talking about the half or, you know, each half has its own measurement, you know, extreme to not interested at all. And you've got your left and you've got your right. But it's no longer left and right. I mean, really, at this point, we're down to we're we're really in a war. Mhmm. And we're in a war against foreign nationals that and not foreign nationals, but, you know, foreign nations that are interfering with us and certain ideologies that are threatening us. And for that, you just need to look at WEF and BlackRock, because they're basically the they've joined forces. I mean, Pete, Larry Larry Fink. Fink is is the head of BlackRock which it I mean, it's the largest corporation in the world. I mean, it's it's as big as almost everything else put together. Yeah. And, I mean, it's $11,600,000,000,000 Jeez. Under management.
I mean, it I mean, it's it's amazing. You know? It used to be, like, four, five, and then I guess they took over, what you know, their their major competitors. And then Larry Fink then becomes the head of the World Economic Forum. So that's why I say they're they're they're they're joined at the hip. They're they've got the same guy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And so you know? And and that's what really wants to take over the world. Although I think that they're they're they're fools that are going to get caught in their own trap because they think that China's gonna work with them, but China is a dissident to them.
China will let them reduce their populations
[00:22:57] Unknown:
and then use their populations to basically take over. That, you know, that that's my theory. Okay? That's not I don't think it I don't think you're far off on that. I think I think you're you're you're you're hovering very close to the target, sir.
[00:23:11] Unknown:
It's very scary what's going on. It is. It is. But in terms of your question, what how does the general public so if you take the far left, that's why I'm saying the the left are completely they're zombies. Okay? They they they're not dealing with reality. They don't see what's really happening. They are living in a matrix, and it's, it's it's it's sad. It's scary, but it's true. I mean, they really are. They don't see once they wake up from the matrix, they'll be able to see reality. Yeah. But they're not waking up. And we have the what what I would call Donald Trump's base.
These are people that look at reality to a great extent. You know, they're not fooled by very much. They may be what seems like overly loyal to Donald Trump. But, you know, the fact of the matter is if you're not a 100% in favor of Donald Trump, if you're only 90% in favor of Donald Trump, that other 10% is on the left. That other 10% is China. There's no 10% to give here. You've got to be a 100% behind Donald Trump. I don't care if he disappoints you or if you don't don't like the fact that he said something in a way that he said it. He's the one that's standing in harm's way. You know, he he he used to say in his rallies when he had rallies. He used to say and I love this line because I I saw it as so true, that they're coming after us, but he just happens to be standing in the way.
Yeah. And and, you know, that's that's the reality of of Donald Trump. He's in their way. You know, when when he says or when other people say, you know, not everything Donald Trump says is exactly true. You know? And it took takes the left, you know, look at every word, and they think, oh, you know, hey. He lied about this. But we all know what's true and what's not true. When he says I could have had a good life, you know, I could be out there playing golf every day and doing business and making deals, and I didn't need to do this, and I didn't need to become the president of The United States and fight this fight. But that's not really true. He did need to. Yeah. I I agree. Yeah.
Because they're coming for us, and he would have just been one of us that they're coming for. His money wouldn't make any difference. Yeah. You know, I've I'm doing a lot of pardon work lately. And, because of that, I'm hearing from people all over The United States. How you know, I charge a lot. So, you know, you know, it it's helpful. It keeps my office alive. It lets me do the things that I'm doing, and frankly, I'm fighting the war. Yeah. I'm not getting rich on it. Okay? But I'm,
[00:26:05] Unknown:
I'm You're in the trenches.
[00:26:07] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm in the trenches. And when it comes to cops that have been weaponized against and when it comes to the j sixers that have been weaponized against, which obviously is always we you know, I do all those for free anyway. Okay? I don't charge at all. So some are some are free and some are expensive, and there's sometimes I fall in the middle a little bit. But, you know, the fact of the matter is is that I'm here you know, I I I've learned through this. I've learned because I've heard from all these people, and I found out that they weaponized. So let me tell you my theory about weaponization.
Okay?
[00:26:42] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:26:44] Unknown:
And I don't know if anybody else has this theory, but maybe I'm the only one. The legalization of marijuana has put us in a bad situation in a sense. Okay? That's just marijuana, but, you know and I shouldn't say the legalization, but the decriminalization.
[00:27:07] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:27:08] Unknown:
So we've had, okay. Because because in 1999, thirty two percent of all crimes were drug related. Mainly possession of marijuana or trafficking in marijuana or importing marijuana. Marijuana was the biggie, and that's probably 25. I don't know for sure, but I'm just from my own observations, I would say it's about two thirds of the 32%. And then there's the crystal meth and the heroin and the cocaine and so on, but that that's a much smaller deal than than the number of people that were illegally using marijuana than it was being enforced.
Okay. So let's just say for the sake of discussion, 25% of all crime just disappeared. Well, they didn't decrease the police force by 25%. They didn't tell 25% of all the FBI it's time to, you know, to leave. Thank you very much, but you gotta do something else because we just don't have enough crime right now to have all of you there earning money. They had to rationalize their existence. Right. And they just weren't enough bank robberies to go around. You know? So so, you know Makes sense. So we have people that went into new areas of crime.
And it ended up basically expanding crime, decreasing tolerance. It's sort of like if you have too many cops on your local police force, all of a sudden you find they're not tolerating you stopping at a rolling stop at a stop sign. Now you gotta come to a full stop at the stop sign because otherwise, you're gonna get a ticket. Yeah. Okay. And so the things that used to be tolerated in terms of finance, not real lies, but, you know, slight exaggerations, people being a little bit hyped when they would say something. Now all of a sudden, they're getting jail sentences for it. And when 2020 came along and Merrick Garland came along, now, you know, this guy is a pretty sharp guy.
You know, that he almost became a Supreme Court judge. This is no dummy. Right. And he was able to take this excessive amount of policing and and and and, weaponize it, basically channel it, funnel it, and put it in certain directions. So where did they go? You know, what were they they they had aims. Of course, we know about Jan we know about Donald Trump, and we know about the people around Donald Trump, such as, Michael Flynn or, what's his name? Is it it's escaping, but Peter Navarro.
[00:30:03] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:30:04] Unknown:
Peep people like that that got persecuted. Bannon. Yeah. Donald Trump himself. Yeah. Bannon. And then we saw and and we saw this their their their means. Okay? So when Michael Flynn was never gonna give in, he's never gonna give in. He's never gonna give in, and then they threatened his son. Okay? Well, you know, how do you get around that? How do you deal with that? You say, okay. I'll put in my time. I don't want my son being brought into this thing and Right. Yeah. And going to prison. Right? And so they they learn the pressure points. They learn how to get people to plead guilty to crimes for which they're not guilty.
And, you know, this is this has gone on in The United States to a great ex extent. So they went after cyber currency people. If it wasn't Bitcoin or Ethereum, they were on the hit list. They went after, doctors who either prescribed ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or or were against the jab. They went after mothers and fathers of children that went to board of education meetings, to complain about, you know, these woke crazy ideas that were implemented. Yeah. They went after you know? So they but the and the the worst group that they went after were the upper middle class.
If you liked MAGA and you were making 10,000,000 a year or you had a $100,000,000 in the bank, that didn't worry them at all. That was that was juicy for them because not only could they put your behind behind bars,
[00:31:56] Unknown:
but they also would take your money. Yeah. They have access to all of that.
[00:32:01] Unknown:
Right. Right. And, I mean, you know, to get a phone call from a man, you know, who had a $115,000,000 in his bank accounts, They seized it all. Jeez. The man ended up having to plead guilty to a crime for which he got prison time because he didn't have any money for a lawyer because they took it all. And it's amazing how your friends disappear, and nobody's got money for you when these kinds of things happen. Nobody helps you. Oh. Not all the time that, you know, some there are some decent people, but it it wasn't known. It's still not known. I'm telling you. I'm telling your audience.
But I don't have the time for most shows that I'm on to get into this because I'm talking about my cases,
[00:32:43] Unknown:
you know, you know, which we can talk about too if you want to, like, Tina. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. I wanna I wanna get it to yeah. I wanna get it to Tina, and I also wanna talk to you a little bit about, this, this this hearing you had in Michigan on, the third.
[00:33:00] Unknown:
Okay. Alright. At some point. Yeah. Alright. I'll be happy to. Yeah. Yeah. That's an I'm I'm so honored to be part of these people's cases that they trust me with, being the, you know, lead counsel on their cases. Because I I can't get on a case if I'm not the lead. It's it you know?
[00:33:21] Unknown:
No. I don't blame you. I don't blame you. You you like to be in the center of it all, which is great.
[00:33:26] Unknown:
That it it's not bad. It's just that people make mistakes. And and I can't sit there and be part of a team that's going in the wrong direction. Yeah. I get you. And Yeah. You know,
[00:33:37] Unknown:
so it it
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not that it's happened, but it it's happened in my past. You know? I mean, I had a case once with theft in a bank at at in my early years in the nineteen seventies. And, and, you know, this is at a time you know, people don't realize it. But, yeah, if you watch an old movie like to kill a mockingbird or something like that, or you watch these Perry Mason shows, You notice the courtrooms are filled with people. They're filled with spectators. They're filled. There's all kinds of cases. Well, that's the way it used to be because, in in my early years in the nineteen seventies, well, we're there two, three channels on TV.
You know? And so people would, you know, if they weren't going to a matinee for a movie or something, they wanted something to do, they'd go to the courthouse and they'd watch a trial. And it was great because you're not only playing to the jury, but you're playing to a whole courtroom full full of people. And I remember this case really well because, the you know, those early cases with those kinds of audiences, for those jury trials were were were kind of they're exciting. This I still love doing trials, and they're still exciting, but they're different right now.
And, anyway, throughout the trial and I wasn't the lead lawyer on the case. But throughout the trial, I was the lead player. I was doing all the examinations and so on. Throughout the trial, I'm pointing out that it wasn't my client, missus Hines. It was mister Lambert or something like that. And, anyway, I and I kept showing how it could be him. It could be him. As much as she had access, he had access. She's there early in the morning. He's there early in the morning. Showing that there's another person who not only could have done it, but who did it. Alright. Alright?
But the guy that actually had the final authority on the case, who was the lead, said I wanna do the closing. Right? And he got up to do the closing. We had gone over everything. He knew exactly what he had to do and what he had to say, and he went out. He didn't have the the the the cojones to basically get up and say, it's mister so and so. He was there. He did this. He did he was afraid he he didn't even know the law, that he wouldn't be able to be sued for saying that in court. So he got afraid while he was up there, and it was too late to do anything about it, and he lost the case. But, fortunately, the judge had been watching all of these examinations, and he knew she was innocent.
And so he he didn't he didn't reverse what the jury did, but he gave her six months probation for something that would have easily given her five to ten years. Oh, wow. So, you know, it it it but after that, I just
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I can't let somebody else call the shots. Yeah. No. I I I can I can understand that? I mean, but thank god, though, that the judge was actually paying attention to the actual presentation of the case so you could that the that the judge was actually able to I'm sorry?
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We we used to have we used to have better judges. We used to have really good judges. I mean, yeah, I can't say that entirely because my main place where I practice is in Southeast Florida. Mhmm. And, you know, Broward County and Palm Beach County, we have really good judges. You know? I can't can't complain about them. On the federal level, it's much more political. But on the state level, you just don't get that. It it it it's much more fair, these days.
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Do you prefer do you prefer, arguing cases before us at the state level or the federal?
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Yes.
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Both. Okay. Good. Very good. Very good.
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Excuse me. Alright. No. They they're different. You know, when it's funny, but my level of arguing got to be a lot better when my daughter became a judge. You know? Okay. Because, you know, there are judges and there are lawyers. And lawyers are just not at the same level as judges.
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How come how come you never went to become a judge? Did it ever cross your mind?
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Yeah. Except that it it it it I'd have to listen all day long to other people's arguments and so on. I it really wasn't what I you know, I I like I'm a I'm a fighter. I I I I I gotcha.
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Yeah. It's not exciting enough for you. That that doesn't give you enough of of of something that it gets kinda boring actually when you think about it. You're just sitting there listening to other people talk all day.
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Yeah. You know, it it it's it's it's exciting in its own way, and you've got power and, people have to listen to you. But if you exercise that power rudely, then you get criticized. You know? But, you know, what what I found in my the jurisdictions where I've where where I practice, where my daughter was especially, you know, one judge is never gonna criticize another judge in the same circuit where they're practicing. True. Because they're gonna have to live with that judge. Okay? They they, you know, when you become a judge, you don't make any new friends. You you're stuck with the friends you've got, and some of them disappear.
And you the the new friends you're making are the other judges in your circuit. It's just the way life works. Yeah. And there's only one thing worse than criticizing another judge, and that's criticizing another judge's father. Oh. So I was in a very different kind of position, and I became on a you know? And and and so I became like one of the judges.
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I see. Okay. Yeah. Basis.
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I I would be asked, for advice on this issue or that issue. What do I think about this and that from time to time? And and I was accepted in a different kind of a way, you know, once that that had occurred. So, so that did change Alright. The the the way I practice and what I do and how I do it to some extent. I don't know how I took how I I went off on this, this this particular
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Trail. Path. I'm not talking about myself. That's okay. That that that's fine. I I love when you talk tell stories. No. But I love when you tell stories about your experiences. I mean, that that's that's that's that's brought you to where you are. So so, you know, to learn more about your background, just it it to me, it's great. I like it. So I don't the audience is like, I don't care, but I like it. So and I'm not and I'm not and I'm not like Alex Jones who's gonna step all over you while you're trying to explain something either. So I'm gonna let you talk. I'm gonna let you go. I tasted it. He was great. On the show that I was on, I thought he was great.
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He had me laughing. I mean, he Oh, he oh, he's fantastic. Yeah.
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I I love watching Alex Jones. I I really do. I don't agree with everything he says. Of course, you know, you can. If you if you did, then you're just sycophantic and you don't wanna, you know, you know, that's not that's not the right way to go. Yeah. Yeah. But big difference between,
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between great minds think alike and fools rarely
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differ. Yeah. There there you go. Yeah. So what tell us a little bit about this case that you're dealing with in Michigan, that you're involved with. And and for the people who who may not be familiar with it, can you just kinda break down what's really at stake in this Michigan hearing and and and and why these jury instructions that we've heard matter so much?
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Oh, okay. Alright. Well, they they there are two aspects to that case in Michigan. Okay. Okay. It it's keeping America. Okay? I mean, it's on that level. Okay. And it's making sure my client doesn't have adverse consequences like going to prison. Okay? Now my client is Stephanie Lampert. Okay? Stephanie Lampert is actually a really good trial attorney. She she had I think she reached something like the the the 2,000 level of cases. I mean, she's Wow. As a public security, it was case after case. She would be trying. And you you get your best practice, doing those things. So she's an accomplished caregiver.
And, you know, she I've let I've let her talk for herself when the time comes in terms of how she got involved with all the things that we're involved with in terms of election fraud. But she became one of the pivotal pivotal people on it. Now you've heard about, you know, Sydney Powell. Right. Yeah. Did I lose it? So on people have gotten involved with the election for it. But it most people don't know who's who who Stephanie Lambert is, but, ultimately, people will because she deserves to be recognized because as I you know, she's in the war, and she's she's fighting it with everything she's got. I mean, you know, here she's a single mother to three young three children and, at the same time managing all of these things, some sometimes with no compensation, but because it just has to be done. Right.
So she in in Antrim County, Michigan, there was a civil case that was brought, where she was one of the lawyers involved. And it it was just after the two thousand twenty election. And in that case, the trial judge made it very clear that she could have access to the the the machines. Okay. Okay? She painted them, and she wanted to have access to them. There was no reason not to give them. And this is at the beginning, right, before judges realized, oh my god. I don't wanna get in trouble with the cabal. You know? So she she actually had an order that gave her permission to use the machines, to to to deal with them. She never touched them herself, but she did have experts that came to to examine the machines.
And that's what she's basically charged with. It's like another another Tina Peters. I was gonna say that. It sounds wanna take somebody yeah. They wanna take somebody who's preserving the truth, somebody who's basically, you know, making sure that hard drives or tabulators, election equipment is is is saved. And she went to the next level of actually having experts examine the machines. Right. And you won't believe what's in these machines. I mean
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As you could share. They they have
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what's that? Anything you could share? Oh oh, am I gonna share? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Do tell.
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Okay. Well, she one of the charges against her is for destroying an election election property. Okay. Okay? And what that is based on is that when the experts had the machines I mean, she's not telling them what to do. She's not the expert. You know, they're these are people who know what they're doing, and they they needed to take a look at what's inside the machine. But these machines are sealed. They're not like normal desktops. I mean, they're we use a screwdriver and open the thing up. So they had to break the seal in order to get into the in into the apparatus and look at the the motherboard.
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Right. Okay? Yeah. You know what I'm talking about with the motherboard? Oh, yeah. No. I I know exactly what you're talking about.
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Yeah. For sure. Okay. So on the motherboard, what do you think they found? They found extra chips. They found phone chips. Wow. They found chips in the dominion machine, in the dominion equipment that allowed access by telephone to the machine. Jeez. So these machines that are supposed to be air gapped, you know, no wires going into them, it it makes no difference. It's built in. Jeez. And on election night of two thousand twenty, the machines were actually accessed twice. Yeah. And and who made the chips? Who made the phone chips?
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Yeah. I'm I'm assuming China. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, I can tell you it's China. Okay? No assumptions to that. And so so we know the election was fixed. We know they accessed the machines, and and and then they took the tabulators, and it didn't matter which combination they put the the the ballots in on. And they put in these experts put in 40,000, ballots through these machines. And every single time, it it it didn't matter if it was all Donald Trump or whether it was all, for Biden or a mixture of half and half, didn't make any difference how they fed it. The outcome each time were, like, two for Trump, four for Biden.
So we we know that the election was fixed. We've got evidence of how these machines are all corrupted. We cannot have another election with with machines, or we know what the results are gonna be, especially in 2026. So one of the things that I've made it really clear to people that need to know, you know, including the president, is that, you know, we have a lot of issues that are really important. I mean, I can't think of anything more important on a personal level than getting Tina Peters out of prison, or winning the cases that I have coming up or, making sure that, that, people that were the the patriots that were imprisoned,
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the hostages from January 6, are compensated. I am so glad you referred to them as hostages. Get done. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you. I'm sorry. But but I am so glad you said hostages. I mean, that's exactly what these people were. They were held hostage, and it's it was just it was disgusting what our government did to to its own citizens who who were within their legal right to voice their disapproval at an election process. I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt you. I'm sorry.
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Right. No. No. No. This is really good. Let me come back to this. But but but let me let me first Mhmm. Say that my point is that there are so many things that are really critical, that they're really important, but there's only one thing that's pivotal, where we either keep America or we lose America. And that point is that we need fair elections in 2026. Absolutely. If the machines are allowed to be used, we will lose the house by a large, large margin, and we will lose the senate by a large margin with with the, with these rhinos or whatever you wanna call them, establishment, senators.
It it could even lead to the removal of Donald Trump.
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Yeah. That's something, yeah, that's that's something I'm I'm very concerned about.
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Yeah. It's it's one of their their chanting points at this point. The that they're not worried about Donald Trump because in two years, he won't exist. Yeah. That's what they're saying. And I'm hoping that by that, they're not talking about his demise. Oh, yeah. No. They're still about his political demise at least. And and, and that they will get him out of out of there. At least with the recent decision that we have in New York, it's not gonna be ship shipping them up to New York for sentencing. That's not ever gonna happen. Please, god. That's not gonna happen. God for that. Yes.
But, Excuse me. Yeah. So, so going back to the j sixers in terms of them, you know, being hostage, you know, a lot of people don't know. I mean, it came out at one point when the the Gateway Pundit was starting to help me get evidence for of what happened on January 6. As Donald Trump asked me to I mean, he didn't ask me as a favor. I was paid well. But he asked me to marshal the evidence regarding January 6. So for nine months, I was marshaling that evidence when the Gateway Pundit put it out there that I needed help, anybody who's got videos and so on. When that happened, it was like kicking an ant Hill because nobody knew.
You know, I reported directly to the president. I mean, obviously, his staff and people there were paying me. But other than that, nobody knew that I was involved in them. So then all of a sudden, Peter Ticton is looking for this and the the, you know, other lawyers that knew who the other lawyers were that worked for him didn't know me and that, you know, it it it, you know, there was a bit of a blow up. It was like kicking an ant hill. Oh, yeah. Snowball. Around saying, who is this to? Who You know? You know? This fraud who says he's a lawyer for the president.
So, I mean, I was people didn't know at that time. Well, even then, though, they didn't know yet because we haven't filed the case against the against, Hillary because I was the lead local counsel on that one. There's a case where I wasn't the lead counsel. That was that was, Alina Hava. But I was the lead local counsel, so I had to file the the action in the first place, which was then used against me with other weaponizations that occurred. But, the things that I learned about January 6 from getting all this information and getting all this in, you know, it is not what people think it was. Now they're finally finding out to a great extent that, you know, certain things occurred. I mean, look, we had that what I think Donald Trump called the unselect committee. Yes.
You gotta love that one. Yeah. You do. I mean,
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I I I like I like him. I do. I I'd like like I I'd wanna hang out with him, you know, just to just to hang out, just to listen to him talk about things. I think he I think he's a great talk. I'm telling you, this much of his sense of humor, I swear, he gets from me. Yeah. Okay.
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I mean, look, we live together when when we're 17 years old. You know? That's true. Right? Yeah. Military academy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and that's that's twenty four hours a day. You know? That's no going no going out to restaurants either. You're there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he's even then, you know, what a wonderful person. I've I think I talked to you about him before I talked to but yeah.
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On my bucket list, sir, I'd like Just, on my bucket list one day just to get a chance to shake his hand. Without a doubt. Yeah. So can let me ask you
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anyway, I was just gonna tell you a little bit more about January 6 Yes. Go ahead. Most people don't know. Okay. It was planned in advance by the left and certain countries, including the Ukraine.
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Kind of figured it out.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, the the ones that group that ran around the building, and and you might have remembered if you've seen enough videos there's one guy knocking out a window with a two by four? Yeah. Yeah. That guy was Ukrainian army.
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Oh, really? Wow.
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And That, I didn't know. I didn't hear that. And the that was running around the building were one of the one of the TV, broadcasting companies from the Ukraine. Also, John Sullivan, who was the one that filmed the what seemed like the shooting of Ashley Babbitt. Mhmm. He because I've watched that. That that doesn't add up, that whole thing, and I can explain that if you want. But but he just happened to be there to shoot that scene, you know, which is if you saw the the pictures before and so on and the, what happened there, that's that's just impossible. He was there to shoot that before it happened. Yeah. I agree. And if you look at the gun, you know, see bullets that come out of guns usually go in the direction that the gun is pointing.
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Yeah. Common sense. Yeah. It's the basic basic physics.
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And if you look carefully at the gun, it's horizontal. It's pointing horizontally, and she's up towards the ceiling Yeah. Going through this window. And supposedly got shot in the upper, right shoulder. So how did that happen? I mean, you know, if you if you look at it carefully, you realize there's something wrong with this. And then and then you see this two, SWAT team members that are standing there against the partition. I I know some SWAT team members and some ex SWAT team members. And there's one word that comes to mind when you meet a SWAT team member. You know? And that word is steroids. Yeah. Okay?
The I've never met a SWAT team member that I thought I could take. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you mean. Yeah. Right. Yeah. They're they're they're they're they're alpha males, and they're and and they're strong, and they're they're they're ready for the task. And they're they're brave men throughout the country, but none of them are scorning little guys. And the two SWAT team members there are like a couple of actors because there's no way that they're SWAT SWAT team members. Yeah. And they're standing by the partition just looking, and then they told to move out of the way or whatever, and they end up walking away. And that's when she goes into the window and gets shot. And then, yeah, then there's a later video of those two guards changing into MAGA gear.
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Yes. I remember I remember that too. Yes. I do. I remember that. You know, it's just to me, it's just it's just I don't know. Just just to think of that that that our own government would would do something like this just for the sake of holding on to power. Well, they weren't our government. It it was I know that. But but behind it. Yeah. Yeah. For the most part.
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Anyway, so then where who is the first people to play this the the tape or the the video of Ashley Babbitt getting shot? The Ukrainian Broadcasting Company. It's one of them. And where did John Sullivan go to the Ukraine? Interesting. So there's a lot of things Ukraine did not want Donald Trump to win this elect that election because if if Biden won the election, they would get money. Now when we talk about the Ukraine, I'm not talking about the citizens of the Ukraine. I'm talking about the Azov battalion. Okay? The people that sent that fellow Ryan, what's his name to to shoot Donald Trump.
Yeah. The these are, the the Azov battalion is for those in your audience that don't know, they are Swastika flag carrying Nazis. Okay? They are the fourth Reich. Yeah. And we dump $3,350,000,000,000 into the Ukraine. Well, $350,000,000,000 is enough to not only do a lot of the things they needed with their armaments and so on, some of which they sold to the cartels and others. But, but that that much money is enough to really finance the forthright to get a good start. So that's also what was going on here. So January 6 was far more than a bunch of protesters where things got out of hand.
And we know what happened with the protesters. You start firing percussion bombs and, and, and tear gas into into these protesters that are standing there in prayer or singing god bless America and being peaceful and so on, it gets people outraged. And after the Metropolitan Police used up all of their all of the the the tear gas tear gas, all of their, percussion bombs and so on, Then they went to their c their CS, grenades, you know, rifle grenades. Yeah. That's a gas that's prohibited in in in, wartime. It's a war crime to use it. And, because it it not only is like tear gas, but it's a 100 times worse. It makes you so you can't breathe, causes you to panic, causes you to become, irrationally, angry and hostile, and it, it it it it just makes you feel like you're suffocating. There's nothing you can do.
And and the and the the this one idiot in the in the the Metropolitan Police that was really firing most of the stuff at two 02:24 in the afternoon, the same time that Donald Trump said that Mike Pear Pierce, Apansra is a coward. He fired a canister of that CS gas toward the scaffolding that was there, but it fell short, and it ended up going right to where the police line was. Oh. And that's what caused the police line to to dissipate. Okay? It it wasn't because all of the j sixes pushed them out of the way. They all retreated because they couldn't breathe. Yeah. Yeah. That that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. And that and that's the same time that Donald Trump said that. So then the select committee, basically, they have Evans up on a stage saying Donald Trump said that Pierce's response, you know, is a coward, doesn't have the, you know, whatever.
That and that's what caused everything to go wild. And for that, they had to change the entire reality because that didn't happen until 04:10 in the afternoon. And in the trial, they actually used I understand. I didn't see it myself, but my understanding is they actually use videotape that's that changed the time stamp on it, and it's it's saying 02:24 in the afternoon when it's the real time stamp would have been 04:10. So they doctored the evidence. After everything had started. Yeah. They doctored the evidence. Or they blamed Donald Trump.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. They use false evidence. I mean, you know, they're criminals in many, many ways that these these people are. Anyway, I'm sorry if I went too long. No. No. It's just it it's just it's disgusting that that our government would do something like this or be involved in something like this.
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I I we do have another guest coming in momentarily, but, before we get to that, I just wanted to ask you about the I saw an article on, on a social media site. It was Getter, Bannon's thing. And it it was talking about Tina Peters actually, being moved. The DOJ, wanted to move Tina Peters from from the state to the fed to federal custody. So what do you think about that? What could that do to her case? I've been working
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I've been working on that with with people in the DOJ. Okay. And it was all going to happen a couple of months ago or or so. And that was also one of the things that I was unhappy with Blanche about because it was all happening in with the people it was supposed to be happening with. Mhmm. But but he put a kibosh on him. It didn't happen because of him. And I think now he's cooperating and letting it happen because he he wants to show that he's actually on the team making thing make you know, honoring the president's wishes. Yeah. But he did it in such a way where he left something very important out of his letter, and I I I I I hope it won't make any difference, if if, you know, that he he needed to put the cause and the reason that she's a necessary witness for the federal government.
There's no explanation
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that's put into it. Yeah. Exactly. Thing, he made it public. Yes. He it in the article that I read, it it didn't it it didn't say anything about being a necessary witness or anything like that whatsoever. All it kept on referring to was that, you know, she's elderly and she has health issues, and that was really all that the explanation that they gave for some kind of I I figured there had to be more involved than that. I mean, to go from state to state custody to federal custody is a big difference.
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Yes. Well, it you know, there are investigations that are going on that I I don't want I'm not, you know, talking about Of course. Yeah. To talk about. And and hopefully, you know, we're gonna we're gonna see some justice come about from some of these things. You know, let's it's not just Todd Blanch, though, that's disappointing me. There's a number of people up there that are that that are very disappointing that aren't making the president's program go forward. And, you know, it's so disheartening to see, the Republican senators. I mean, what do we have? Nine of them that are willing to, to go nuclear? Yeah. That's nine of them.
You know, what what's what's going on? See that but You know, what what about the other 44?
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Yeah. But but see, going nuclear, as you're talking about the filibuster, I mean, that that concerns me because, I mean, I know the Democrats, as soon as they as soon as they get the chance and the opportunity to and and take and and take over the senate at some point is gonna happen. You know? They're gonna end up doing it anyway, and then you're gonna get all this far left stuff crammed in your throat.
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You're you're thinking about things, like, in times of old, you know, like twenty years ago. You're thinking about things even ten years ago, where it really seemed that we had Democrats against Republicans. And and government could go back and forth and back and forth. But I'm telling you, it's not that way now. These are communists. These are people that are never going to give up power if they get power again. Oh, and I agree with you. You look yeah. People are fooled in a way because they they think we still have a fair system because Donald Trump was able to beat Kamala Harris and get into office. But notice the the numbers.
What did Donald Trump have? Like, 77,000,000?
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Something like that. Yeah. And
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and, yeah, and and and Kamala Harris had what? Like, 74, something like that. But Biden had 81,000,000, and we know that Biden didn't have 81,000,000. But the machines can easily conjure up those extra millions of votes. Sure. Yeah. Those machines were taken out by a a certain very brave human being whose name I don't know. Mhmm. So somebody who deserves the medal of freedom, whoever that was. And that's why Donald Trump is in office now because they weren't able to steal it because those machines that that that basically organize how this whole thing works in in terms of using those modified duplicates that are in the voter rolls, those machines were fried.
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Mhmm.
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Okay? Somehow, the fans were cut off on them. That's what I understand. I don't know if that's the mechanism. But those machines in Serbia were not able to do what they were supposed to do. And that's why we don't have president Harris in office right now. That was a big shocker and a big mistake by the left. It's never gonna happen again. These people learn everything that they can every single time they go through an election exercise or anything. They're never ever gonna have their machines vulnerable, and they're not gonna have a lack of redundancy ever again. Okay? Yeah. So the only thing that we can do in 2036 is we we better not have any any machines in play.
Because if we do have machines in play, we will lose it, and we're gonna lose it forever. Yeah. Using the nuclear option right now isn't like using the nuclear option twenty years ago, which would be you know, we don't wanna turn our system into that. No. Right now, we we we should consider ourselves on life support. Support. We should consider ourselves having to do any heroic measures necessary in order to save our lives here. Because I'm telling you, what I saw and what I've been seeing with the weaponization of government under Biden is just what is the beginning. It's easy to see. It's just the beginning.
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Yes. And you're right. Tolerate
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any of this. Where our gooses are cooked if we need to you know? And and if we have it in our heads, oh, well, you know, our system, I don't wanna do that. We we're fighting for our lives now. And if if we have to be the first to pull out a certain kind of a gun to be able to make sure that we don't get killed. Because once we're done, we're done. Yeah. It doesn't matter. They don't they won't need the nuclear option. They're not gonna need to end the filibuster. Nothing will matter after this. They will have absolute power. Well, the left made it very clear,
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dollar store Obama, that's what I call him, Jeffries. He, he made it very clear that if if the if if and when the left does eventually take over again, they're they're going full bore. If you are a supporter of Donald Trump, if you are a conservative, you will be prosecuted. You will go to jail. Well,
[01:08:25] Unknown:
they could do it. They could they could do it with a military court. They they won't even have a prosecution. They'll just arrest you and put you aside. Yeah. Yeah. And and that's just for now until they decide that you're not worth keeping. Mhmm. You know, that's how it goes. It that that this is how these things come about. Yeah. You know, these aren't, you know, people that respect your light your life, your your your your rights, your ability to express yourself, your ability to to to continue to live, they are not the ones that are causing this takeover of The United States.
The these are people who will get you out of the way because you're an inconvenience Yeah. And they don't care about you. I mean, they they want you dead.
[01:09:17] Unknown:
And you're right. And you're absolutely I mean, you just look at look at the communist takeover in China when that took place and and and other communist governments, Cuba. I mean, it's, you know, just a violent takeover. And it it's it it creeps its way in. It's like it's what it's doing right now. I mean, it, with the the Fabian socialist, I mean, they're creeping their way in.
[01:09:37] Unknown:
They just did it in New York. You know? We need we need to get them out. We need to get them all out. We need to, you know, we need to we we need to change the course of things. Yeah. And and because these people are taking over, and The United States is the last country left. And I'm also representing a a a a fellow, you know, James Bowder who, led you know, organized the convoys in that went to Ottawa.
[01:10:03] Unknown:
Yes. I I knew I recognized the name when you said it. Yeah. Yeah. That that's the, the the Canadian truckers.
[01:10:09] Unknown:
Yeah. Canadian Canada's gone. They wanna put this guy in prison for a very long time because he dared to, and they've got people in in prison now just for speaking up against the government. Mhmm. So, you know, these these countries are no longer free countries. Well, look what hap look what's happening right now over in in in, in England. I mean, you you if you post something online,
[01:10:32] Unknown:
they they come knocking on your door, and they'll take you out. I saw I saw it, I didn't think to pull it out, but, I saw a a post on on x and a couple of other social media sites of right here in Texas. A guy was a guy had made made a post that that they did that that, somebody determined to be anti Israel, and Texas DPS, showed up at his door, wanted to talk to him, And he told him to go kiss off, but, you know,
[01:11:03] Unknown:
so so and he had the video. We could still have that here. We could still do that here. But not For now. Not these people take over. And and so these these mini minds, and I'm sorry to call them that because you agreed with them that, you know, there is a concern. So forgive me for that. No. No. No. It's fine. No. It's okay. It's but you but for these senators to all they don't understand what the heck's going on, that this is a do or die situation. And we can't say, oh, well, if they take over again, they'll behave themselves? They they tried to pass it last time. Mhmm. You know, they were down two votes. They we had, what's his name?
Joe Mershen, you know, from,
[01:11:45] Unknown:
West Virginia. Oh, what's his name?
[01:11:49] Unknown:
Manchin. Manchin. And and there and there was another senator as well, a female senator, who basically opposed them doing it. So they didn't they weren't able to do it. Right. But, otherwise, they would have gone nuclear last time, and they're gonna go nuclear if if if that's what they need to do. They're not gonna it's it's over if they ever come back in again. We'll never get another chance to beat the machines. No. And, you know, and no real knows. It's gonna be obvious, and there's not a damn thing anybody can do about it.
[01:12:19] Unknown:
We had a we just had a a an election here in in Texas. Not an election, but, voting on propositions. There were 17 amendments that we're looking to put into the Texas constitution. And, no machines here, where I well, where I am anyway. It was all paper ballot, and, it was one, two, three. I went in, I got my ballot, both sides, checked it all off, dropped it in the box, walked out, felt fine.
[01:12:46] Unknown:
You know, it's the machines that make you nervous. You know? And and It's the machines that yeah. You know? And most people don't understand what it is in the machines and how the machines actually work. You know? They think that we're dealing with dead voters, that somebody's voting for because they're still on the voter rolls. Or they think that there's somebody's going into the tenement buildings and the urban centers and getting giving everybody $10 and getting the signed ballots and then they're taking the ballots. And, yes, that's happening. But that's nothing next to what the machines are able to do because of the millions and millions of of of of, modified duplicates that are in the voter rolls.
And and most people have no idea about what I'm talking about. When they first discovered, they call them clones. Yes. And and then now we switched over to modified duplicate. And and I'm I'm happy about that because I coined that those two words. Okay. You know, I worked I worked with Jerome Corsi on that. You know? Good. We can't have clones. People hear clones, they think we're science fiction. You know? We've gotta get rid of that word. So, you know, Jerome, you know, what do you prefer? I said, you know, well, they're duplicates, but they're not really duplicates. They're they're modified. So, you know, that's why we came up with modified duplicates. Yes. And and that's what it is. You know? In other words, in your count in your county in Texas Mhmm.
There could be four Joe Russes, all with your Social Security number, your driver's license number, your telephone number, your address.
[01:14:22] Unknown:
Yes.
[01:14:23] Unknown:
That's very true. Your date of birth may have been changed slightly. And there's a formula for how they do that. But it has a different voter identification number. And you may find in the next election is one of you that voted for Donald Trump or, you know, they well, he can't run again, but let's just Yeah. Let's do it. One of you votes for Donald Trump, and the other three votes for Kamal. Okay? Well, the other three are the machines. Mhmm. And what those machines are doing is pulling up the the the the hidden ones that are in the archives. See, nobody ever gets canceled.
They call it getting canceled. Oh, this one's canceled because they're dead. This one's canceled because they moved to another state. But they're not canceled. They're in the archives, and all the modified duplicates are in the archives. So in a state like New York, at least Andrew Paquette estimates that there's as many as 2,000,000 of these modified duplicates that are in the state of the voter rolls of the state of New York. So, you know, when you start thinking about, well, what does this mean and where are we with all of this? That's where that's where they're taking over our country without firing a shot. Well, maybe there's a few shots that they fired. I mean, they did kill Seth Ridge Yes. And some others. And they took pot they they took shots at our president, and, you know, and yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:15:59] Unknown:
The one thing about They don't care about. No. And and that's the thing too. And then the scary thing is is that if you if you poll the left, the the they they are perfectly fine perfectly fine with political violence now, which which is is I know. Which is terrifying when you think about it. They have they have gone so far to the left. I know.
[01:16:20] Unknown:
But but not as many as you think. Those huge margins that voted for the left, those are the machines. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, probably, we would have lost those elections anyway, but but it never would have been to the margins that we did. They decided to make it by large margins. They have that ability. They can make sure every senate race that comes up in 2026 goes to the left. And everyone will know
[01:16:49] Unknown:
that the fix was in, that nobody will be able to do a damping about it. And that and that's what's incredibly frustrating with the whole thing. Yeah. It it and exactly. It's frustrating, yeah, of course. But if it happens again to the extent that we're talking about right now, there is no recourse. We could you could you could you could complain about it as much as you want. You could do anything you want, but it will not change. Because they will have such a grip on power that they will silence you and eliminate you, if if they had to, which they probably would.
It's it's terrifying. It really is. It's it's Without without hesitation? Yeah. Yeah. It's it's terrifying to think about that. And and it's it's I don't wanna think about that. You know, I have you I have grandchildren. I wanna see them growing up in in an America that's free, that has liberty, that can that that they can still do the same things that I did when I was growing up. They can but that's not the world we live in anymore at all. And and I'm I'm just I am terrified at at to at the direction this country is going. You know, that's why I'm I mean, I know some people think that I'm crazy when I talk about the possibility of, of states seceding from the the the union of states, you know, like Texas. Like, I know California is trying to do it and, you know, I don't know how serious it all is, but I know Texas is serious about it and they're they're they're they're working their way through the legislative process on it. And, you know, it it's maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't, I don't know. But, you know, sometimes I think that that's what's gonna end up happening. If there is a takeover like like we're talking about here, say they do rig the twenty sixth to the twenty sixth and the twenty eighth elections, and they force a far left government upon us. I mean, what other recourse is there? I I can see easily how states might
[01:18:48] Unknown:
pull out or try to pull out at least. Yeah. But when you join the states, you know, you're part of the agreement is that, you're you're in the hotel California. You know? You know, you you can check out, but you can never leave. And and, you know, they're not gonna tolerate, you know Oh, of course not. They take over. They got they've got our armed forces. I'm not sure what Donald Trump's gonna do. I don't know how he's gonna handle all of this. But, you know, there's just too many people around him that are disappointing him and not doing what he needs, and he needs to learn to get rid of people quickly if they're not gonna be doing what he needs them to do. I agree. I agree. And there there there are so many people that love Donald Trump and would would you know, like, for me, if he says jump, I say from what floor? Uh-huh.
And there's so many people that understand that our country is at risk. I would bet that you would do whatever you were asked to do if he would ask you to do it. Absolutely. Meant saving the country. Absolutely.
[01:19:57] Unknown:
Yeah. Absolutely. You know, I'm I'm not happy with we did. You know, we we don't have
[01:20:03] Unknown:
I mean, there were so few troops that we had. They had 26,000 men altogether. 3% of the population Yeah. Participated in the revolutionary war. Yes, sir. But look at what those men did. Defeat freezing while they're going across the Delaware and then marching across the, you know, frozen land with hardly any shoes on. You know? You know? Look at what they they they they did and what they needed to do. Why? Because they weren't gonna be ruled by the king. Yeah.
[01:20:30] Unknown:
You know? I I read an account They're not taught they were There's I know there's a little bit of a delay, but, I I read an account. I I did I I taught a, I taught a a a course on on my Sunday show on, the the American Revolution. And because I love I love studying that period of of our history. I think as much as I I I get a lot of flack for this, so but I'm gonna say it anyway. You know, I I know that people say that the the generation that fought World War two was the greatest generation. I great generation, yes, but I think our greatest generation was our founding generation. And, you know, I read I read accounts of these men leaving bloody trails in the snow, you know, because they're marching barefoot and and across this across these snow filled, ice filled fields, you know, and, you know, ice ice is incredibly sharp. It cuts you like a knife.
And they're marching across these fields to fight for the freedoms and the liberties that we have today, and look and and where we are now. Well, then they say that the the average lifespan of a of a republic is about two hundred fifty years. And look where we are. Look where we are. We are right at the precipice of of potentially losing our republic. And I have to say republic.
[01:21:52] Unknown:
Being invaded, you you know, by by the barbarians,
[01:21:56] Unknown:
so to speak. Yeah. The same thing like Rome. Rome was so spread out around the world, just like we are. You know, there wasn't enough manpower left at home to defend the home, and, wide open borders. You had all that stuff. It it it same the same thing that goes on here is is what is what took place in Rome before Rome fell. And it's it was terrible. So, I wanna ask you really quickly before we wrap up because, our next guest has has, checked in here. I wanna know what what do you think about what happened here in New York with, with Mamdani, winning the mayoral election? What the heck happened up to New York there?
[01:22:37] Unknown:
Again, there are foreign forces that are influencing everything. And even if he didn't have the votes, the machines would have given him the vote. I'm telling you, in the state of New York, there's 2,000,000 modified duplicates in the tax rolls. I don't know how many are in the city, but you gotta figure it's a good percentage of, you know, if there's 8,000,000 in the city and there's 18,000,000 altogether in the state or those about that. So, you know, about almost half of those numbers have to be in in the tax roll the the voting rolls of of the city. Yeah. So they can they can they could have manipulated that any way that they wanted to. And, of course, the you know, this guy is fantastic in terms of the way he's able to make things appear in the public like he's really being celebrated more more than reality would have have it be. But, you know, how did Hitler come to power?
[01:23:36] Unknown:
Yeah. No. Very true. It's the same.
[01:23:38] Unknown:
Same. It's the same tack. It's it's exactly the same tack. If it's tolerated if we don't have a very strong central government to stop it, it's exactly the same tack. January 6 was nothing different than burning the Reichstag.
[01:23:51] Unknown:
Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. It's so crazy. So it's very much the same. Well, Peter, thank you. Man, I appreciate this. I really I you know, I love having you on the show, and and I want you to come on more often. So, you know, anytime you have some free time, let's, let's do something. And I'd like to get you to book on a day where where we could just do a whole day, the whole show just to get just just the two of us. Because because there's so much that we have to talk about and we we never really get through it all. And, but I guess that's good because then I get to have you come back. So
[01:24:22] Unknown:
Right. Right. Right. And we've dealt with a lot. We've dealt with the voting. We've dealt with Stephanie Lambert's case. We've dealt with Tina Peters case a bit. We got more covered today than we did the last time.
[01:24:31] Unknown:
As far as far as the topic of conversation, the the subject we wanted to talk about. But Peter, thank you. Again, sir, thank you so much for being here. I really do appreciate you. You know, you are a scholar and a gentleman, sir. Thank you. Thank you so much. I I I I give it right back to you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. So where can the folks go and find more information about you?
[01:24:52] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well, legalbrains.com. That's, you know, our work is is the legal work in the legal world, and we've got brains.
[01:25:01] Unknown:
Alright. Legal brains.
[01:25:03] Unknown:
And my my email address is my initials, p t. So it's p t, you know, like [email protected].
[01:25:12] Unknown:
Outstanding. Thank you so much, sir. Peter Ticton, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much, sir. God bless you. Have a great one. And if I don't talk to you beforehand, have a have a great Thanksgiving, and the best of the family.
[01:25:21] Unknown:
Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Take care now.
[01:25:24] Unknown:
Alright, folks. Peter Ticton, man. That was that's awesome. That is absolutely you know, I I I really do I thought I really do enjoy having Peter on the show. I mean, I've learned so much from having him around, and it's it's just a it's a it's a real treat for me. So I hope it is for you, and I hope you like it. So drop a comment down below. Let me know what you think. We have Rory Paquette waiting for us in the, in the wings, but I need to use the restroom. So I'm gonna take a little break here, and when we come back, we'll jump right in here with Rory, and, we're gonna talk about some really interesting stuff there. So folks, don't forget, this is a Joe Russo. It's live show weeknights 7PM central time, and, don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Yeah. I'm still fighting the cold. I'm still fighting the cold. A week now. It's been a steady week. So, don't forget to like, subscribe, and share with your friends, your family, your followers.
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Alright. Joining us now is Rory Paquette Paquette. Rory is a professional podcaster, coach, author, and speaker. He currently hosts six diff six different podcasts. Right. He's written two books, The Lone Wolf Selling System and The 5% Diet, which we will talk about because I need to trim down here a little bit. With two more books in the works, he has decades of experience in public speaking, coaching management, and sales, and he has brought all of this together into his current coaching programs. Rory provides life coaching for men through this through his program Power of One. He works with men and women in becoming better, more profitable podcasters through his podcast coaching program, Wake Up the Mic. He also offers his own affiliate program to podcasters who are looking to monetize quickly called the Rising Tide System. Rory, hey. Welcome to the show, man. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate it, man. That was a great first segment you had going. Oh, pre yeah. I I love having Peter on excuse me.
I am fighting a cold since last Saturday. I heard. This thing just will not hear that, man. This thing will just not go away. It's, like, ridiculous. I feel you. But, but, yeah, Peter Ticton's great, man. He I, you know, I came I I got connected with him, and, it was hysterical. And as a podcast, you would appreciate this. So, so, you know, I do the live show, and that's I don't record the show, prerecorded anyway. Record it as I'm doing it, but but, he was he was supposed to be the guest on the show, and I was so excited to have him on because, you know, here, I'm I'm just building an audience, man. I don't have anybody really at that at the time he came on. And I'm like, here's a guy, he's personal friends with with president Trump. They went to military school together.
He's he's representing j six, people. He's representing Tina Peters in Colorado. He's representing this this the, the Lambert case out out in, forgot where it is, but you know what I'm talking about. I don't know what you're talking about though yet. So so, I'm like, he reached out to us? How is that possible? Do you know? So so he so he can't so he was supposed to come on the show, I sent him all the links and everything, and and like fifteen minutes before not even fifteen minutes, ten minutes before the show, his his publicist calls and she's like, we're having a problem getting connected.
And like, he was the only he was like the only guest I had for the show that night. I had nothing else prepped, and I'm like, okay. And so I'm we're we're so we're trying to troubleshoot this whole thing, get this thing working, couldn't get him on. His PR people were great though. I mean, they they found two people to replace him who jumped onto the stream, but of course, I don't know who these people are. I have no background on them. I have no bios. I have nothing. Don't know what we're gonna talk about. But it worked. It it it actually worked. And then he came on, a couple of about a week or so later, and I asked him one question.
One question, and that took up the whole show. And it's the same question I'm gonna ask you.
[01:35:13] Unknown:
Okay? Oh, boy. I'm a big shoes to fill here, man.
[01:35:16] Unknown:
Big shoes. Yes, sir. So and that question was very simply this. What is something most people don't know about you but should?
[01:35:27] Unknown:
Something that most people don't know about me. Mhmm. That's tough because I'm a very open book. I think Everybody says that, but they all find something. The biggest thing that people, don't know about me and they should is that I'm just a big teddy bear, man. You know? I mean, I look ferocious. Apparently, I'm scary to some people. Both of my daughter in law's, daughters in law, reported back to me at some point that, they were a little intimidated by me when they said that. You know, stuff like that. I'm just a big teddy bear, brother. And that I think that's probably the one thing that that nobody would guess about me. I'm kind of a large guy, you know, but, deep voice, you know, and so on. Yes. And I'm not really. I'm I'm I'm a pushover.
[01:36:09] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm the same way. People people get the the one thing now my background is I I, you know, my my career, I worked for New York City for twenty five years. I I worked in law enforcement. I did investigative work for the agency that I worked for, and I retired from department operations, and came down here to Texas. And, you know, I I I work in a local nursing facility here, and when I first got there, people were terrified of me. They they they thought that I was, like, coming to tear the place apart or something. They were like, oh, we thought you were with corporate. We thought you were no. I'm just why?
You look mean.
[01:36:45] Unknown:
I'm like Yeah. It's like, what what do you mean? What do you mean I look mean? I know. I get the same thing. So And, at the well, I had more
[01:36:54] Unknown:
black hair and all that stuff. So I I I wasn't as
[01:36:58] Unknown:
light and, you know, whatever. But Light and fluffy as we have now. Yeah.
[01:37:03] Unknown:
Yeah. Getting old stinks, man. I'm telling you, dude. You know, I'm gonna be 55 in two weeks, man. I can't I I cannot believe that. That that's just I'm 55 now, man. It hurts. You don't look fifty five now. Painful. Oh, well, thanks. I appreciate it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, thanks. I'm not there yet. That's why. So I got two more weeks. But, you know, it's it's it's crazy at people's perception until they get to know you, you know. And then and then they realize that, yeah, you're you're just a nice guy. That's all. Yeah. You know? Just give well, you know, give me the bourbon first, and then I'm I'm really nice guy. You're you're really, really preaching to the choir right now. Oh, you're a bourbon guy? Oh, absolutely. Go home with me. Beautiful. You know what? I don't and that's the thing too. Like, I I wanted I needed to pick up a bottle because I I'm running low. And, usually on my Friday and Saturday, that's what I do. I'll, you know, have after the show Friday night, I have I'd have a bourbon, and then usually on a Saturday afternoon, I'll I'll have maybe not a lot because I at one point, I was really bad with it, but so but now, like, on the weekend, I'll just have, like, one or two drinks on a on a Saturday. But I'll go out I'll go out to the backyard, I'll get a fire going in the fire pit, I'll sit there with a cigar and and some bourbon and just relax. You know? It's just one of those things is I I love to do it. So what what's your, what's what's your favorite bourbon?
[01:38:19] Unknown:
Oh, goodness. Or what's your go to bourbon? Like like, what's your everyday? Go to is is a real simple one because, you know, I'm I'm cheap. That's the problem. You know, if it's for somebody else, I mean, I'll buy my kids, my wife, anything that I could possibly buy them. I'll get them all the best. But for me, I I just don't splurge. Mhmm. The only time I do is when I'm with my son-in-law. And, you know, he, he's an aficionado. And he's been on the Bourbon Trails, and he knows it all. And Nice. He'll be like, you know, hey. Check this out. That's bucket list. And, I mean, there's there's some really nice ones over there. But, I mean, I'm a a a Jim Beam, devil's cut kinda guy at home because it's $20 and doesn't Alright. It's a nice relaxing one.
[01:38:58] Unknown:
Fair enough. Jim Beam is, I I like Jim Beam. I don't I don't have it often. My my go to has been of late, has been a bourbon. I I really I I didn't know about until maybe two years ago, three years ago. It's a bourbon called seventeen ninety two, and and, I I don't like like I said, I I I've never seen it anywhere. I I saw it here, and I was like, oh, let me try it. The bottle looks nice, you know. So let me let me let me see, you know, how how this thing is. And, it was a little pricey. It was like I think it was almost $70 for the average size bottle.
[01:39:37] Unknown:
Sure.
[01:39:38] Unknown:
But, dude, oh my gosh. That's smooth. It was amazing. It was absolutely amazing. So, of course, after mastering the small batch, I had to experiment with the foolproof that my my my local alcoholic place, you know, recommended. So the foolproof the foolproof was a 125 proof or something like that, 130 proof. And I'll I'll be very honest with you. I I I cracked the bottle, and something's told me don't just dive into this, you know. Let it breathe a little bit. Right. Crack this thing open, and as soon as I broke the seal, I got heartburn.
That's how strong this thing was. It was terrible. It took me it took me a month it took me a month to drink that bottle because you I couldn't do it. It was just I had to do small amounts, small amounts, and small amounts. But I I gained an appreciation for it that way. Yeah. I I love the old stuff, man. But
[01:40:43] Unknown:
Yeah. I I love the older stuff. I love the season stuff. You know, the age, that's great. But but the high proof stuff, I'm too old for that now. You know what? I I
[01:40:51] Unknown:
give me two more weeks, and I'll and I'll be too old for it. The I'm telling you, man. Yeah. Well, we'll we'll find out. But, that and also I I I I love Elijah Craig bourbons. Elijah Craig, it's it's it's it's I think it's I think it's considered the oldest bourbon in America. It's like one of the first original bourbons. And, it just it's just so nice, and it pairs so nice with a cigar, and depending on which one you do. Like I've said it many times on on the show, my favorite pairing of Elijah Craig is is Elijah Craig toasted barrel. And do you know much about cigars at all? Anything?
[01:41:31] Unknown:
I don't do the cigar part. No. But Okay. I do the bourbon on occasion, but the the cigar part I I stay away from. Well, the cigar that I I choose for the Elijah Craig, the toasted barrel,
[01:41:40] Unknown:
is a a a a a it's a Camacho Triple Maduro. So the Triple Maduro is is just remember, Maduro is a darker leaf Right. Darker wrapper, very strong. But it pairs so nice. And then you're talking about triple Midoriya. You're talking about leaf, filler, wrapper, all that stuff. That's all, you know, pairs so nice with the toasted barrel. Oh, my gosh. My do I have any? I know I have some You're gonna make it through the show? I know I have some to I might I know I have some toasted barrel. I don't know if I have any triple madoras, though. We'll see. But we'll see. But, Avo Heritage cigars are great. They're they're fantastic. I love those. That's what I have in the humidor right now. I have some I have some Rocky Patel's in there. I have some I have some really nice stuff. So which I probably shouldn't smoke because, you know, the cold and everything. But Yeah. I was gonna say, you have to exacerbate the windpipe thing. You have to exact you have yeah. I know. But you you have to make sacrifices. You know, if you're you know, you gotta do these things.
You know, you work hard all week, and and then, you know, you come to the weekend, you do a show like this on a weekend, on a Friday, and you gotta you gotta do your thing. You gotta relax. Amen, brother. I mean, absolutely. You gotta take care of yourself a little bit. Yes, sir. So we already covered your, your what do people know don't know about you. We got your beverage. So let me ask you, oh, man. Ever since I ever since I had to redo everything, I all these little notifications are popping up here. I don't know if you heard what I said before, but I, Wednesday, on Wednesday's show, I had everything lined up, everything was great. I came into the studio, I started turning everything on, and I would click open my browser to to load the studio, and Internet would crash.
Nightmare. And I'm like, what? Did it again, and I'm cursing my my my Internet provider. I'm like, you know, I'm paying all this freaking money for this thing with the all that stuff. And and I do it again, and I keep doing it, keep doing it, keep doing it. And I'm like, why is it why is what's wrong? I checked the router, router's fine, I restarted it, everything was fine, everything was great. And then I I noticed that I have a t I have a TV here and it's it's it's connected to the WiFi, but that was working. My phone was connected to the WiFi.
You know, my tablet was connected to the WiFi. Everything was connected. Everything was working. So, you know, I did the ultimate test. I I have, an Alexa. I asked her. I said, are you connected? And she said, yes, I'm connected. Then why isn't my computer connecting? Went through the whole thing, but it was so close to Showtime. I had I, you know, I I didn't know what else to do. So I tried I tried restarting and I tried, you know, resetting the drivers. All that stuff, nothing worked. And I ended up having to factory reset the whole thing and start from and start from scratch.
You know, thank God, I I have a I have I have a a a removable hard drive. So I I was able to back up all the show stuff, but I have to redo everything. And one of the things that I noticed that I didn't do is I didn't I didn't, reset the encoder for the audio. Because what I do is I I stream a show live on audio, and I and I do the show on the video. So I can't I'm not streaming live on the audio right now because I didn't reset the encoder. And when I was trying to do it, it took me an hour and it would it will not connect to the server. So tomorrow, I will be speaking with customer service and finding out what the hell is going on here. Sounds like sabotage to me, but I don't think somebody doesn't like what you're talking about. I don't I think, you know, you might be right. You might be right. I I do talk about a lot of controversial stuff like bourbons and cigars and things like that. Yeah. You know? January 6. Yeah. Yes. That too. Yeah. That that does creep in every now and then. You know? So, hey, here's a question for you. Stupid question. I know it's not even in my notes, but just a question for you.
When you started podcasting, how long ago about more or less did you start doing this? About seven years. Okay. Caretake. I start I started doing stuff like this back in when it was called Internet radio, before it was called podcasting. So you're talking twenty fifteen, 2016, somewhere around there. Alright. So, and on and off, you know, like most podcasters. But did did you ever notice, because somebody pointed this out to me, that whenever you go through a drive through, all of a sudden, podcast of voice comes out?
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Do you ever know? Yes. It happens to me all the time.
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It's it's crazy. Right? All of a sudden, it's like, hi.
[01:46:08] Unknown:
How are you? Exactly. I'll be talking to my wife and I look over and I'm like, yeah, I need, three Chick fil A sandwiches and I'd like a large fry with that, please. Yeah. Yeah. It's exactly what happens. You can't help it. It's it's it's You can't. No. It's it's it's it's a trip. It's a trip. So, so tell us a little bit about life before podcasting. What did that look like for you? Oh, goodness gracious. Life before podcasting, in a lot of ways was great. You know, I'm a a father and a husband, and, I have three of the best kids in the planet and, lived for them for decades. I have a wife who's, you know, way too good for me. Just way, way too good for me. Could do better than me on accident.
And I spent most of my time in sales. You know? So, I have always been that guy, going out there, going, alright. Hey. I don't wanna work for salary. I don't work for, you know, an hourly. I just wanna go out and eat what I kill type of thing. So, you know, I had a very successful sales career, entrepreneur, had my own real estate firm, you know, that kind of thing. So in short, you know, that was that was kinda life before podcasting.
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Raising kids mostly, coaching sports especially takes every minute of your day. Oh, yeah. I know. I I have I have two kids myself. And like yours, I'm sure they're probably my mine are older, and they're on their own. Like, my my my daughter is, she she's just turned 29. She's lives up in New York and, you know, married. She has three beautiful children. I have so I'm a granddad, you know. So Oh, congrats on that, man. I'm still waiting on that on that milestone. Yeah. You know, that's just too I'm not ready for it. But I'm not old enough. I'm not I'm not grandpa yet, you know. You will be in a couple weeks. Yes. Two more weeks, I will be grandpa. That's right. Yes. Absolutely. I will I will wear the mantle then proudly. But until then, I'm just that crazy guy who lives in Texas.
And then I got my son who's who's 26. He'll he'll be lucky if he makes it to 27 because he's just a lunatic, but I love him. He's a great kid. And then I have my other two. My my my my Frenchies. They're they're in the other room there. My, my boy Charlie, who momentarily, you well, he he already did actually, but you might hear him again. Because usually usually about thirty minutes before the end of the show, he somehow knows, and he's at the door howling. So, and I and I think I I I like to pat myself on the back that I train them to watch the show, because I put it on the TV in in the living room for them while they're out so they can watch the show, you know. And, so they're not by themselves out there for too long. And because they're by themselves all day, you know. Then I come home and I do a two hour show and then, you know, they, you know, so they're by themselves most of the time. So I put the show on for them. So I think he I think they learned, like, certain keywords that I say that they know it's time to wrap up, and so they I know the end is coming. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So,
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but, yeah. So those are my two. My boy, Charlie, he's four. My girl, Beanie, she's five. Wow. And so Oh, I gotta give you all the credit in the world. I couldn't I couldn't be doing another four year old right now. No. No. Well, yeah. I'll put and he's a four year old. Trust me. You you know? Wow. He's a four year old. Mine are very similar in age to yours. My daughter is, you know, like, 32. I got a son that's 25. My youngest son is 21, and and that's it. There's nothing after that. No more Paquettes after that. Football coaches have been asking for years. No. There's no more Paquettes after that until their grandkids. Nice. And and and then they'll we'll turn them over to the high school. But until then, no. No. Nice. How do you say so I know I I know I mangled your last I've I've been saying your last name all day today, so I knew I wouldn't make a mistake. And, of course, you know, the show starts, and I do. So so how do you did you pronounce it differently than I did? Very different. Oh, it's all good. Brother, I've heard it butchered so bad. And as as long as people don't add three or four letters, really, I don't bother correcting anybody. It's just Paquette. Paquette. That's simple, easy. Yeah. Yeah. So it's French. The rest of me is Italian. It just works out. Alright. Probably I see a paison. Okay. Yeah. So my my my full last name is Rusiello.
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So it's it's so it's a much, you know and I've heard unlike you, I don't I don't correct him. I I usually say, alright. It's close enough.
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That's that's all I do. I get parkette. I get parkette. I get parkette. I get but Parkette. I've gotten parquet. I got parquet so often. I went to football camp once when I was in high school, and I literally just wrote parquet. Like butter. P a r k a y on my helmet. So and they called me parquet for a whole week because I just didn't wanna hear the name get butchered every five
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seconds. Sometimes you just give up. A football. Yeah. Sometimes you just gotta give up and you just gotta do your thing. That's it. Sorry again. Now I was looking at your bio and, you talk about something that took place about a year or so ago, if the bio is up to date. And this was that you were lying on the floor in an emergency room. Can you do you wanna talk about that? Can you tell us about that, what that was all about?
[01:50:43] Unknown:
Yeah. Sure. I've had a a couple of really low points in my life, and that was one of them. That was the most recent and, hopefully, the last because, you know, whatever God's been trying to tell me in the message, I think I finally got it. You know? But, it took a while. Sometimes that was a You know, I was kinda like you, like, right now. I hate to say it, so be careful Okay. Alright, with what you got. I just figured it was, you know, being old, catching the funk, you know, fluid that wouldn't go away. Mhmm.
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And turns out I had pneumonia for over a year that I had been carrying around. I had no idea. Interesting. That's And my lungs got worse and worse and worse. Yeah. One of the nurses at my, at the nursing facility, you know, asked me about that. She was like, have you gotten have you gone to the doctor to get checked? I'm like, no. She said, don't you think you should? You've been you've been coughing and hacking for a week.
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I'm like, okay. Go. Alright. Yeah. Let them look at you. You know? There I mean, I don't like medication at all. Yeah. I mean And I hate the doctor. So I'll go Monday. If I would've gone ever to the doctor, maybe they would've caught it. But, you know, but over a year, we just built up and built up and built up. And, I finally got to a point where, I couldn't breathe anymore. And, it was, it was really horrible. Like, the week before that, I was visiting with my younger son and his, now wife. And, they were like, man, dad, you're really sick. What's going on? And I had no real idea. I just figured it was a really bad flu. You know? But by the end of that week, it was, really horrible. And it was kinda like timing my wife's contractions here. It gets smaller and smaller and smaller. It was time to go to the hospital. Yeah. Well, my breathing was doing that. And I said, you know, okay.
At this rate, I looked at my wife. I said, at this rate, twenty minutes from now, I'm not breathing anymore. And she goes, okay. That's not good. I said, no. We we gotta go to the hospital. So she turned me in the truck and broke about 18 laws to, you know, get me there. I mean, faster than any ambulance, I'm telling you right now. And, that's what a good woman does. Death and time. Yep. She, I pulled up. I jumped out of the car and tried to get in the emergency room and started blacking out as I went in. And, I don't even I don't know if I said anything or not, but I tried to and took what I thought was my last breath and hit the floor. Wow. That was it. I thought it was done. Gotta be honest with you. I was going down going, well, this is what it's like. Slam into the ground. But that was it. So the lung had completely filled up.
It was totally frozen, and the other one, had just given up. It was like, I can't carry this big guy and this broken lung anymore, and it just quit on me. Said forget it. So Wow. It was, you know, made it to the hospital. Oh, thank god. Up with tubes everywhere and the whole nine yards. And, you know, about three weeks later, almost a month later, we left the hospital after a whole bunch of procedures and one major surgery that should've killed me, to be honest. Wow. And, you know, here I am today, you know, health insurance.
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You know? But that but that's good, though. I mean, you know, all the joking around the side, you know, it it it's you know, thank god that you got you got taken care of the way when you did as fast as and and it it took you a while, but at least you got taken care of and you're still here and you and, you know, you have, you know, beautiful family to take care of and and I'm sure they appreciate you being around, you know, so that's that's that's great. I'm and I'm glad that I'm glad that you're on a better path right now. Now, Matt, how did all that lead to the life of a podcast host and and a coach?
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Well, I was podcast hosting and coaching prior to that. And, you know, it's funny because I was doing podcast host. I was hosting episodes of a couple of my podcasts, and I'm sitting here with, like, the tea and, you know, the, lozenge, you know, and I'm, like, sucking it out. I'm sucking on it in between takes and then sort of sticking it in my cheek so I can actually ask a question. You know? And you do it like you're doing now. You do what you gotta do to get through the the interview. Yeah. It had kinda gotten funny. Like, alright. I gotta get my tea. I gotta get my coffee. I gotta go back and forth because they only work in tandem. It was such a mess. But I was already doing that, for several years prior to, all this happening. So, when I went down, you know, the the communities that I had built through podcasting, responded like crazy. You know? They're all like, oh, man. You know? Rory, you know, what do you need? And I had people who were, you know, eight states away who I'd never even met in person, but were, like, sending stuff, you know, to my wife, you know, help us out and stuff like that. So it was a it was a really neat it was really neat in that I got to see what the podcaster community really was like, you know, firsthand like that. And, you know, it was it was cool. We built from there and and kinda took off. You know, it's interesting. The the the podcasting community,
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as big as it is, because there are millions of podcasts podcasters.
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Oh, yeah. You
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know, of the millions of podcasts, only is only a fraction really are active. I think I I I read something that was, like, 4,000,000 something podcasts that are registered, but barely 40,000 or 400,000 or something like that was is actually Yeah. Working Yeah. It's like doing things. Right about that. Yeah. Exactly. You know? And, one of the thing I said at the start of this show was, you know, what's really an accomplishment for us is that, you know, this this show, it's we hit episode 200 today. So That's awesome. Congrats. Well, thank you. You know, and and and, you know, people say, big deal. Right? You know, you talk to people outside of podcast and they're like, okay, and? Right. Well, you don't realize that most podcasts die at ten.
Right. You know? They don't come back. Yeah. So 20 is your first milestone. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. You hit 20, you celebrate. Exactly. And you know what? The funny thing is my, my audio host platform, Podholm, they, they they sponsor the show. They, they actually send you when you hit 10 episodes, 20 episodes, 50 episodes, a 100 episodes, one fifty. You get these little badges that they send you, you know, and and they give you, like Right. Like little perks. You'll get little discounts. You'll I owe something off your bill and whatever it is. It's it's it's pretty neat that they encourage you to go along and do that. And that's that's fantastic. So I'm I'm just curious, you know, what my little gift is gonna be for number 200 today. Well, hopefully, it's pretty good. We shall find out. Maybe at least a chicken chicken sandwich or something. Yeah. Chick fil A is good. Yeah. That that'd be fine. I'm fine. That'll work. But, but I did find out though how how how the podcasting community takes care of each other.
Like, I'm I'm dealing with something right now. I I I hate taxes, man. So Yeah. So, the the the the the county increased one of the taxes that we pay on the property. Okay? And, so much so that it sent us into a $3,000, escrow shortfall,
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which Oh my gosh. Yes. Which,
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which I could either pay upfront, which I don't have, or I could maybe if I didn't buy so much bourbon, I would. But, in retrospect. Right. But, it it so we pay it up in front or you you spread it out. And spreading it out increased my mortgage payment by over almost $400. Oh my goodness. So it's so everything is incredibly tight. Yeah. And the the first panel, I don't know if you hear Charlie, but he's howling at the door. So so the the first payment had to be this month. So that that was a that was a bittersweet bitter pill to swallow when I saw that payment come out. But, I but I set up a GoFundMe. And, I had two two people that I know that are that are in the podcasting community, donated quite a bit towards it. Wow. And I and I say okay. So one was one was a $100. Alright. Now, to me, that's quite a bit, you know. That's a lot. It is. And For one person. Right. And the the other one, donated 300 to it.
And, you know, greatly appreciated. I mean, that that's that's big. That's really cool. You know? So, of course, you know, I'm I'm I'm trying to get some more to send in, like, a in a lump payment so it actually affects the the mortgage. Right. So, you know, it's but but that's the that's the podcasting community. I just I just had a conversation. I was just saying, man, I I got screwed on this. And the next thing I know and I was like and I was like, I you know, I set up a GoFundMe, so I'll see what happens. Oh, what's the what's the link? I'll I'll share it around. Oh, okay. Yeah. Sure. Here it is. And boom. Next day. It's, you know, but that's the podcasting community, you know, if the we we do kinda look out for each other, you know.
Because it's not competition. It's not like I'm not trying to do better than you are, and I'm not trying to do better than anybody else, and I'm, you know, it's, you know, we we each have our individual little niche. We have our audience that we that we go to, and there's plenty of it to go around. So there it's so but that's the thing about podcasting that I love is that it's it's a big community, but yet everybody seems to have some kind of an interaction
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or connection somewhere along the way. And, like, I'm sure you know Dave Jackson. Right? Oh, yeah. I've had him on one yeah. I've interviewed him on my pod one of my podcasts. I had him on mine. And,
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I actually when I first started doing the the the the, not this podcast, the one right I did right before this one. Oh my gosh. It it just flipped out of my head. And you're only 54. Yes. Yes. Yes. Adam Curry. Oh, yeah. Adam Curry. I had him on the same podcast as Dave. Yeah. Okay. Adam Adam Curry referred me to Dave Mhmm. To to get the basics on. Because that was I had a bunch of questions. I had just bought a mixing board. I didn't know the first thing about it. You know. Because because the the the show I did back in New York, we had all that stuff. We had an engineer.
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Right. So When you have those assistants doing it for you Yeah. It's a different world.
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Exactly. Exactly. And so I I learned a I learned a hell of a lot from Dave and then had him on the show and it was great, you know, to have him on here. I picked up a lot from that. And, you know, but pod but that's the community. We all know each other somehow or some way. There's some kind of connection. Exactly. So now now you're hosting six shows Mhmm. Which is a struggle. Had for, you know, because most people struggle with one. I I struggle with one. How do you keep up with it? Like, how do you keep up with the creativity? The how do you keep the energy going, you know, keeping it fresh? You know, and especially, you have so many different formats you work with. So so how do you do it all?
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I, I love every minute of it. And, and I do it full time. You know, I'm not trying to work another job Mhmm. Or anything like that. This is what I do for a living. I'm incredibly fortunate. When I was in that hospital, you know, I just had a lot of long, long nights where I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep, and my wife was there every minute. And we talked about a lot of stuff. Mhmm. And, you know, you can only watch Welcome Back, Cutter reruns so many times before you go. Alright. I gotta turn the hospital TV off because it's just useless. But we did. We we had just to reconnect in a big way, and we talked a lot about, like, okay.
Kids are all grown. I'm not gonna die now for a little while anyway. So now what? You know? Yeah. And, we both just decided we needed to reinvent everything. And, you know, we decided to downsize and, you know, go minimalist and, like, why do we have this expense? I don't know. Forget it. And in doing that, it became, possible for me to, you know, with the help of of my wife and and our family, it was like, I can go pursue this now, you know, what I really wanna do. And I did. And, honestly, I I haven't looked back since. It's been just amazing to do it full time every day. And I'll be honest with you, Joe. I'm working more now, you know, working. Right? Yeah. Working more now than I than I ever did. I I start a day at three or 04:00 in the morning sometimes to talk to somebody over in Germany or Iceland or something. Yeah.
You're right? Yeah. And then I have, you know, interviews, you know, like tonight. It's 10:00 eastern time here. Yeah. Well, you signed on late. I had one what's that? You signed on late. Oh, no. I didn't. Yes. You did. Oh, no. I didn't. Yes. I was actually here ten minutes early, and I tried to come in and got kicked out. Kicked out. I didn't kick you out. It just it booted me out and it put me to the StreamYard sign up. And I went, alright. He must not want me on stage yet. So I know. I wouldn't I was watching you on YouTube because you had a break with the guy. No. I wouldn't do that. I I know. I I saw you pop up on the little on the on the little
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screen down there and, I was like, oh, I thought maybe you had a problem with the with the camera or something like that and I was waiting for you to come. And, because because when I saw you pop up, I said to I said to Peter, I said, well, you know, we're gonna next guest is ready to come to come on in. So then and he disappeared. And I was like, okay.
[02:03:21] Unknown:
I guess he didn't wanna be on the show. He probably he probably checked in, saw what was going on. I was like, oh, freak no. I'm out of here. No. I was just like, hey. He's in the middle of a really good conversation with this guy, and I know who he is. Mhmm. You know? He's he's been all over the headlines for his January 6 work alone. And so I'm like, alright. I'm not getting into the list. So I had I was watching your show for a few minutes, and I said, I'll check back in a few minutes. Okay. Before I know it, I mean, I'm enthralled in your show, and it's quarter after. And I'm like, oh, wait. I gotta try and get back. I'm supposed to be there. You know? And I'm like, yeah. So so I was here, man. Alright. Alright. Alright. Raise my hand. On a technicality, we'll we'll we'll let it pass on a technical. But go ahead. Could I I didn't mean to interrupt you. Elders. Okay? Come on. Yes, sir. Yep. For two weeks. Alright. Right on.
Yeah. So anyway, but, you know, and then we have nighttime meetings like this, like I talked about. So, I mean, I'll work nonstop. I'll do 12 interviews in a day, you know, sometimes. Between interviews and coaching calls, I'll take 12 meetings, you know, all day long, with maybe fifteen minute breaks in between. And I just love every minute of it. Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm just charged the whole day because it's yeah. You're meeting new people and you you're telling new stories. And I'm working on with six different podcasts. I'm not talking about the same thing either all day. Yeah. Yeah. Different subjects and, you know, different topics, and it's it's just amazing to be doing what I'm doing. I I it's surreal, to be honest. I can't believe it really is happening some some days. It is. And and that's that's a great thing. I'm glad you brought that up because,
[02:04:42] Unknown:
you you talk to people outside of podcasting, people who really don't do it, and they don't understand, what you get out of it. Since I've been doing this particular show, like I said, I did I did the Internet radio thing back back in the day, and it was great. It was me, three two other guys. We had a blast. It was a lot of fun. And then I did another another, podcast for almost three years I did it, and and it was it was a bible study podcast, and I I just taught the bible. And I did it twice a week, it was a lot of fun, I loved doing it, and then I I went to take a break, and then while I took the break, I was like, I kinda wanna I kinda wanna dip into something different.
And then this came. This was this was not supposed to be this. This this was when I first started doing this, my plan was very simple. I'm gonna do a a prerecorded show, audio only, whenever I feel like it. I am not doing anything scheduled or programmed or, whenever. If I find somebody I wanna talk to, I'll do that, you know. And I my first my first show was with with was was with the, the owner of Podholm, my audio platform. Mhmm. So he came on the show and, you know, it was it was a lot of fun. We did that and then and then I interviewed, the former city manager for Eagle Pass. He actually came to the studio. You know, we we did an in studio audio thing. We got hammered because we were sampling bourbons while we were doing the show. So it was it was a it was two hours of us sloshing our way through, you know, which was kind of fun.
But again, just recorded and didn't do it live. It was, you know, that type of thing. And then one day I don't know what made me do it, but I did a live audio show only. And then, like most government programs, you know, you start doing video and all of a sudden, you know, it just continues. You know, so but, but yeah. But then it went from it went from just, you know, doing it every so often to I had a stretch from, I think it was June up until the September, where I was doing shows every single night of the week. Every night. I had a guest every night.
And it was just it was, like, crazy. It was crazy. And I have I have somebody who helps me, Angela. She's she's, my producer. Producer. Yeah. Yeah. And she is fantastic. She donates see, I I work off the value for value model. I'm sure you know what that is. So she donates her time and her talent. And she does amazing work, and I really appreciate everything she I mean, she keeps me focused on what I'm doing, and it's it's fantastic. And I never met her face to face, you know. I've spoken to her on Zoom calls and stuff like that and phone calls and texts, but never met her face to face. I don't know where she gets the time to do this stuff because she's helping two other podcasts or three other podcasts. And she has three kids, and she homeschools the kids, and they they she her and her husband, live on a live and work a ranch. That's their that's their income and their their their profession and Wow. And she's involved in political action committees and and all that stuff. I don't know. Where do you find time for this? This is, like, insane. But then I realized when I get up in the morning and I see that the emails from her at like 04:00, 05:00 in the morning, that's why. There you go. So, I'm over here getting up at 07:00 to get to work for eight, you know.
But but but but it's it's grown so much. And one of the things that I was always try to set explain to people is, you know, I've met people in the course of doing this that I would never have met any other way. Right. You know? And I have learned so much from so many different people that I would never have been exposed to in a million years. Like, I've interviewed Nobel Peace Prize nominees. I have interviewed theologians and and and doctors and lawyers and and and and writers and podcasters and and, you know, coaches. I I I met so many paranormal investigators. I have I have interviewed so many people. I I I I interviewed a blue cartoon cat. Did you know that?
A blue cartoon cat? Yes. Yes. One of the first ones I did when I hooked up with PodMatch, which is
[02:09:06] Unknown:
that's the guy that does the Google thing now. Right? I he might be. Yeah. I was gonna say because I I think I interviewed that guy. You might have. Right? I remember him talking about this, how we used to do a blue cartoon cat. Yes. He's he's a blue cartoon cat. He can't I didn't think he was gonna come on the show. England or something. Right?
[02:09:22] Unknown:
Oh, no. No. I don't know. He's he's, he's here in The States. Alright. But Anyway, go ahead. At any at any rate Pretty sure. He he he's he's, I I wasn't expecting him to come on as the as the character. I you know, because Oh, he came on as the as the cat. As the blue cat. I wasn't expecting that. And so I'm sitting here and and I I bring him in and I see this blue cat pop in. And a friend of mine was watching the show back in New York and and he sent me a text. He goes, you should have seen your face when the cat popped up. He's like, you gotta work on I'm like, what is going on? You gotta work on your poker face. I'm like, yeah. I know. But so that's why I like audio because I can make the faces and nobody knows.
Right. Well, when you're live, I mean, you're you're stuck. You know? Oh, yeah. No. But it was a great poker face live, you're done. Yeah. But it was a great interview, you know? It really was. It was. We had a lot of fun, a lot of good conversation. But you'll you meet people, you learn things that you never do, and and people outside of podcasting don't understand that. Like, I look forward to this. Right. Every day. Like, I wish that I was in a position like your like your end where I could this could be the focal point of my day every day. Because I think I I I know that if I had more time to to put into it, the show would be bigger than what it is. Right. You know, I'm I'm very pleased with my with my, with my my my downloads, my plays on the audio. I'm very pleased with my, interactions with with the audience.
I know I only have, like, tens of people watching right now, but barely tens of people. But, you know, it's but, you know, I know that if I was able to to invest more time in promoting the show and hitting the social media, because I am terrible with social media because I don't have time for it, you know. Doing the newsletters like everybody does, I I I don't have time for it. I I I don't, you know. I hear you, man. So it's like, if if I if I didn't have the regular everyday job, that's eight to ten, twelve hours a day that I can invest in building this into something that I could do every day and love every minute of it.
[02:11:26] Unknown:
That's why I say it's surreal Yeah. To be able to do it. I don't know too many people who have been able to do this. Oh, no. It's it's it's rare. It's rare. They can't yet. And if you have kids at home Mhmm. You can forget it. I mean, I I don't think there's any way you could do it if you if I had my kids still at home and I was trying to be, you know, a dad, you know, first like I always was all those years, there'd be no way I could do this right now. I mean, you know, I would gladly, you know, take take care of my kids. But, they're all grown. They're all living their own lives. They're they're, you know, forging their own way and making their own adventures, and I'm just a, an on call life coach for all them. Right. You know? They need something, they call that. And, you know, hey, dad. You know, what do you think about this?
Tell them, okay. Great. Love you. Bye. I mean, there's not a whole lot of Yeah. Yeah. Fluff either. It's kinda like, got what I need? Gotta go. You know? But but I love that they still ask me questions and stuff about about that. So and I've kinda moved into that role. And, so now it's, wow. You know, what do I do with I got the whole day. Well, then let's fill it up. Let's interview everybody I can get my hands on. Yeah. You know, this type thing. It it's just amazing, man. It really, really is. So so what what are the types of shows that you do with your podcast? Thanks for asking. I appreciate that. I've got I've got two things, like I said.
The, the first one, that was my flagship podcast when I started, that I I'm still doing. It's called Power of Man. Mhmm. And, it's, you know, it was a masculinity podcast that also you know, we work with husbands and fathers. You talk about accountability, you know, that type of thing. The masculinity space is really crowded with, you know, throwing axes and, you know, hunting and everything else, and and that's great. All those shows and all those guys have, you know, great platforms. I'm literally just a dad who has been taught and a husband who's been talking about all the mistakes I made and all the scars I have and, letting other dads know, you know, whatever you're really is killing you right now, I get it because I've been there, and you're not alone. Yeah. That was kinda the whole point for the podcast.
We're, almost 350 episodes on that one and, been doing that a long time. Then the second one I started was The Podcaster Nation, which was just awesome. And I literally interview podcasters about being podcasters, and we kinda, you know, get their story as to why they became podcasters. And, I've gotten to know so many people through that. You know? We just hit episode 150 on that. And, you know, that community of podcasters really showed up when I got ill, you know, a year ago, and I had that whole thing happen. After that, I had a a real strong calling, to do something about the fact that everybody kept coming on my podcast and saying, is is it okay to talk about God here? Mhmm. And I was like, why are all these people? I had pastors coming on and were saying that to me. I'm like, listen. I don't care where you are. Why are you saying that right now?
And I was talking to my wife, and I got a real loud download that said, what are you doing about it? And I said, well, nothing. I'm complaining about it. So I started a podcast called Wake Up the Lions, which is a place for Christians to come, share the testimony, encourage others to do the same, talk about spiritual warfare, and, you know, developing discipleship, stuff like that. Right. And that podcast has taken off.
[02:14:42] Unknown:
That's really been hit. Which is interesting because because a lot I I one of the things that I studied was podcast growth, like subjects, topics of podcast. And Bible study or Bible related podcast really take a long time to to to get a hold and to grow. It it it struck like, the bible study podcast that I was doing, I have I I think when I stopped doing it, I had, like, maybe 60 people following on Rumble. You know? Yeah. And that's over three years. You know, I'm doing this, not even a year. I have over 500 right now. You know, it it's it's it's it's it's funny, but Bible studies do struggle or or those types of shows do struggle to to get to gain an audience, but but it's but it's important work though. I I I think so. I still do the Bible study show on Sundays. I still every Sunday I do it still do my Bible study show. It's under this show. It's not under the old one, but it's under this one.
And, you know, I love it. I I wasn't planning on doing it. I I just one day I just said, you know what? I I miss it and I need to do it. And so I started doing it again. And I look forward to it as much as I look forward to doing the the shows during the week. You know, I just feel like I I shows during the week are with the guests, and this is just me, the audience, and and and the Lord. And it's a it's I look forward to it. It's it's it's a lot of fun. Then I do a crypto show every other Saturday. This show, same show, but I do I have a I have a resident crypto psychic.
Now there you go. Yes. That's the job right there. Yes. And she's fantastic. She she's made, you know, people you know, people think I'm being sarcastic when I say it that way, my resident crypto psychic. No. But she is. She's, you know, she's that's what she does. She she uses her psychic abilities to to do crypto predictions and discussions, but it's not sticky. It's not It's serious conversation. We have some really good and she and she really knows her stuff, you know. And, so that's great. And those shows, I do fantastic on those. I get, like, between three and six thousand video views on that Right. In a day, you know, just on that. So that's that's a lot of fun. So I so I'm I'm starting to wonder if I should just change my subject matter, you know, because content is key. Right?
[02:17:06] Unknown:
You know, I I I would never give anybody advice on anything like that. But, you know, I Sure, coach. I really enjoy all the different content that I get to deal with. Mhmm. You know, Wake Up the Lines, I expected that, to be honest. I expected it would take a long time. Yeah. When I put it out, I I booked it as a once a week podcast. I knew I had four or five guys that would come on and, you know, share some testimony. Through Power of Man, I I figured I had probably 20 or 30 that I figured would step up, you know, come on over and, you know, be interviews for me. I had a whole bunch of, you know, solo stuff that I really wanted to do, you know, that kinda thing. So, but I really did think it was gonna take a while, and it didn't. It just I mean, it blew up more than the first two in terms of how quickly, you know, how they got there. And I was really surprised, and still am. You know? But, but, anyway, but, yeah, that one's going well.
Yeah. After that, I started, just kinda feeling a need for certain groups of people that I was working with. So the fourth one that I started is called Step Up to the Mic, and that's to help people who were trying to get into public speaking. Mhmm. I did a lot of that before COVID. And, so I know how to kinda help folks with that. And the podcast itself is designed so you come on the podcast, and I introduce you. And then my camera goes off, and you give your talk. Nice. And, you know, one of the biggest issues for people who are trying to go out and become speakers is they can't seem to find a way to get recorded doing their their speech. And it's like, well, just have someone you know do it, and that's just terrifying to everybody. Yeah. So I invite them on the show. They give they do the thing. You know? And then when it's over, I come back on. We do a maybe a four or five question q and a, and then they have a link to send off to, you know, planners and, schedulers and everything else to apply to jobs.
[02:18:52] Unknown:
Yeah. And so that's different. I I I don't think I've I've seen a show like that.
[02:18:56] Unknown:
I didn't see one at all. And and that's where Podcaster Nation came from. And, you know, I hadn't really seen a lot of that where a podcast for podcasters to highlight the folks that are on this side of the mic. Yeah. I mean, where you and I always are. And so I put the same, sort of, you know, thinking into that. Well and then I went, you know, I know there's a lot of podcasts out there that are for authors. And I said, so what if I did a little different? And, yeah, we're gonna talk about your book. And I know you wanna come out here to talk about your book and try to sell your book and everything else, but I wanna know what's inside the book. I wanna know what is inside you that you put into the book. Why'd you write the book? You know what I mean? What what actually happened in your life that led to the book? It's really about the author. Yeah. And, and it's also kind of a an anti chat GPT, you know, feel and move to the podcast. You know, one of the lines in the opening is, you know, where authors actual authors still matter. You know? Nice. Yeah. I like that. That's good.
That's gone crazy. We've I mean, I put out three episodes so far, and I think we broke, 3,000 downloads, like, within three days. Oh, that's awesome. It was like, how? I, you know, I don't even know what that secret sauce was, but and people just kinda love it. And then the last one, I did with a cohost. So for the first time, I'm working with a cohost. She's been a friend of mine for ten years, and, you know, she's a podcaster also. And we were just I I've interviewed her. She's interviewed me back and forth. And we both, were really moved by what happened with Charlie Kirk. Mhmm. And we were talking about that a lot. And she said, you know, I really wanna do a podcast like a Charlie Kirk type thing, but I wanna make sure it's rooted in faith. And so we're gonna talk about politics, but from a faith based standpoint. That's good. And I was like, wow. That's a cool idea. And she goes, do you know anybody? And I was like, do I know anybody? She goes, well, I'd ask you, but you got five podcasts.
You know? And I was like, well, I would do it with you. And she just was like, wait a minute. What? You'll do it with me? And so we started, Boiling Point. Faith and Fire is the name of that podcast. And that has not only taken off, but gotten more hate than I ever dreamed of getting in such a short amount of time.
[02:21:07] Unknown:
Yeah. I I've I've yeah. I know what you're saying. I've been called a heretic many times. I'm sure you do. I've I've heard your past episodes, man. I I looked you up. Oh, good. I'm glad. I'm glad. Yeah.
[02:21:19] Unknown:
So that's it, man. Long story. I apologize. But, six podcasts, that's kind of what they're all about, and that's what we do on each one. So I'm gonna ask you, like, so what what is what's the ingredient to a to a to to a podcast that actually lasts? Loving it. Honestly, just loving it. Because if you're the host and you love it and you love the podcast and you love the mission behind the podcast, you love the purpose. And every time you get on an episode, you love what you're doing and what you're talking about. You can do that forever. Yeah. You never get tired of that. You don't get burned out. I mean, you've probably, you know, gotten it too. But, I mean, I've gotten four death threats, man.
[02:21:58] Unknown:
It's like I I mean I I I haven't had that many. But but I did I did have You know what I mean? I did have one. I did have one, and I had a stalker. There you go. I did have a stalker, which was Wow. Kinda nice actually, you know. It made me feel like I accomplished something. It's it's you're somebody then. Right? Yeah. Exactly. You know? Yeah. I mean Joe Rogan, I'm out now. Like, talking about how I had three death threats. And it was like, I'm kinda stuck at three.
[02:22:23] Unknown:
You know? And then we got the fourth and I went, oh, well, I'm I'm back in the game. What's your target? Apparently, the masculinity thing and the father thing is what really trips everybody out. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's that's true. Yeah. Yeah. And that that's where all the hate really has come from, with everything I've done. You know, I put up a post for Wicket the Lions the day before it came out. I put out a reel just with the cover. And I said, hey. For Christians to share their testimony, you know, blah blah blah. I got 300 comments on it in twenty four hours, and 225 plus were horrible. Just telling me, you better not, and you miserable, and you racist, and you this, and you that. And I was like, wow. I didn't say any other religion was bad. I just Yeah. I know. Yeah. Said, hey. Let's celebrate this one. No. I mean, mean, you know how it does in social media, man. Oh, yeah. There's there's no reason. Just part of the reason why I'm glad I'm really not that involved in it because I'll get myself in more trouble. You know? But, but I have found though that that
[02:23:23] Unknown:
with the Bible study podcast, at least on the Bible study shows that I've done, that the the the quote unquote brethren are the are the ones that are the most vicious.
[02:23:34] Unknown:
Yeah. That's
[02:23:36] Unknown:
Yeah. You know, I wish I could say I'm surprised. Yeah. No. You you can't. Like like, I I have a I have a very, strict view of scripture. Alright? And I'm not we're not gonna get into all that stuff right now, but just just as a point because we'll be here until tomorrow morning. Right. But, but I have a very strict view of scripture, and, and I I believe and I only use the King James Bible. Okay? And I I'm very firm on that one. As a matter of fact, I have done shows where I have pointed out where the modern translations are grossly deficient, and how they've changed things, changed verses, took taken out words, changed things around, and when you and in some cases, in a lot of cases actually, it when you if you when you change one word to make it more readable, it changes the whole point of the verse, or if or if you take a word out.
And, like, just just one example is that I I use a lot is in in the book of Colossians, it it says, in in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Right? The King James version. The modern versions take the blood out. They just say, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Well, what as a Christian, what saves you? It's the blood of Christ. Blood of Christ. So why would you take why would you take that out? You know? So I I I pose questions like that, and I'll point those things out. And I'll I did a show one time where I just went through I I had like 30 verses that I pulled from the old and new testament and showed how it was changed, and the impact of the change.
You know, on doctrine, which is important. I I think doctrine is very important. You need to you need to have solid doctrine. So I've got I got emails from people saying, you know, crawl out, you know, crawl back under the rock that you came out from, you know, your k g your KGB only cult and, you know, called me, you know, a Ruckmanite and all that stuff because, you know, I did okay. Other Christians. Other Christians. Other Christians. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, okay. Well, you know what? Look, you're call me or whatever you want. I don't I don't really care. You know? All I know is that when I stand before the judgment seat of Christ and he says, would you do it with my book?
Mhmm. And I I can say, I I believed it. Right. You know, and other people gonna, well, you changed it. You did this. You did that. Well, you know, okay. But anyway, like I said, we can get into that for hours. Yeah. We get to that for hours. I I love this stuff. So, but, but loving it is important. I I agree with you. You have to love what you're doing, and it and it and it comes through. It's it's it's people see it. They'll the I I honestly I love to I love to watch or listen to a podcast where you could tell that the host is prepared, that is comfortable with the material, and it's and it's not robotic. There's an actual conversation.
That's what I that's the type of thing I like. That's why that's what I try to do with my show. It's like I keep it conversational. I'm I'm not looking to put somebody in a corner and and and chastise them for what they think and what they say what you gotta say, man. Just go ahead. Let it rip. You know, it's it's all good. Exactly. You're not gonna upset me like Peter like, when I we had Peter Tipton on earlier. He I I I was we were talking about the filibuster. I don't know if you heard that one. We were talking about the filibuster and I said, well, I'm not so I don't know about that because and I didn't look at it from his perspective, you know, the the perspective he brought out. And and then he called he called those those people in the senate, small minded or something to that effect and then he he realized and he no. No. It's fine. Okay. I'm I'm okay. You know, I didn't think of it the way you presented it. So that's made me think and I I appreciate that. That's fine. Right. You know, I want people to be comfortable on the show. I want them to be able to come out, say what they gotta say, talk about their stuff, and do their thing.
[02:27:38] Unknown:
Absolutely. That's how I run my event. Yeah. I don't do any set questions. You know, it's all conversational. We may have a couple that we work in if we can, but, I mean, honestly, it's really just it's it's about the guest, and it's conversational. And those are the best ones. Because then, you know, whatever comes up I find that with guests, and, yeah, I'm sure you found this. With guests, they will very often tell you if you let them what they wanna talk about. Yes. You just have to let them. Yes. You know? And too many podcasters are, like, waiting for them to stop talking so they can ask, you know, the next question on the sheet of paper. Right. And it's like, just and listen,
[02:28:15] Unknown:
and you'll get what you where you need to go. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly right. Like, I have I have an outline. Right? That's one of the things that Angela does with me. So she'll send me an outline of things, and I'll make some I'll make some adjustments to the things. So I'm gonna talk about this, I wanna talk about that, and try to steer the conversation that way, and and so on and so forth. But on the whole, I don't really follow it. You know? I I I just let it I just let it flow. However it goes, it goes. Like, when when Peter was on the first time, you know, I asked him one question. I had I had 17 questions I wanted to ask him because I I and these were, like, thought out questions because it had to do with with Tina Peters and j six and all that stuff, and I wanted to really get into that. But I asked him that one question and I saw how much he enjoyed that one question.
And he just talked and talked and talked and people were commenting in the live chat, you know, that they love to hear him talk about things like this and nobody's ever asked him this kind of question before, you know. That's cool. And it's a very simple question I ask everybody. You know, so it's like but it worked, and it was great, and it took up a two hour conversation.
[02:29:19] Unknown:
Right. You know? You gotta love that too. The guy who comes on your show when you're not big yet. Yeah. You know? When you get big, then everybody wants to come on the show. Yeah. Right? And that's nice. And you still appreciate everybody. But it's the guy who comes on the show when you're really a nobody and nobody else is clamoring to get on your set. Yeah. You know, and you're asking people, and they're like, who are you? What's your following? How many downloads do you have? Don't stop bothering me, kid. Get away from me. Right? It's that guy, man, that you just it's priceless.
[02:29:46] Unknown:
Yeah. I I agree with you. Priceless. Absolutely agree with you. And, you know, and and the funny thing is too when you when you when you actually talk to these folks outside of the show, they're just normal everyday people, you know, just like anybody else, you know. It's like it's like I I had a great conversation with him. I I also interviewed a guy by the name of, David Shine, another another high profile lawyer. I mean, he's he's he teaches. I mean, historian. I mean, we had a great conversation on the show. We had a even better conversation after the show. I was like, I just need to be through the show. Record on. You know? And, so but it but it's great. It it's it's, again, like I said before, you meet people, you learn things, you talk to people that you've never you you would never really have an opportunity to do, and that's great.
Now, any any specific platforms, tools, or networks that that that you've used that that to really help you scale, like revenue streams? Because I know I know you you do you do revenues, monetizing, as as part of your, coaching. So, so what what do you what do you use for that?
[02:30:55] Unknown:
The, I mean, I use a, you know, a hosting platform different than yours, which I won't mention Okay. Since he's your sponsor. But, and that has helped me. But, I mean, I I don't buy into the bells and whistles a whole lot. I'm really a minimalist. I I had one of my one of my guests actually called me the Robin Hood of podcasting a while back, and it kinda stuck for a while. Nice. Because according to her, I was all about, you know, not buying into all the rich stuff and just running it, you know, for the poor. Like, how to do podcasting for the poor. So I I picture you now on your cover art with the Robin Hood hat, you know, with the clover. I was like, what an awesome name. I I was like, if that catches on, that's awesome. You know? And then I had to stop it because every time I went anywhere, it was, okay. So they call you the Robin Hood of podcasting. What's that about? I'm like, I got tired answering the questions.
So I took off everything. But, I just you know, for me, honestly, I monetize. I've got, you know, some sponsors, and that was great. I was in sales, so, you know, you reach out. You do it the old fashioned way. I don't worry about the advertising a whole lot. I monetize through coaching a lot and, you know, that kind of thing. And then I have my own, affiliate program where, you know, if somebody refers someone to me for coaching in any of my programs, then I I pay them a referral for referring the person to me. And so I've got podcasters all over the place, that are referring people to me for various types of coaching because they know that if that person buys the coaching, they're getting a check. You know? And I'm like, hey. If you're gonna be an affiliate of somebody, be an affiliate with another podcaster who's gonna, you know, Venmo you the money the day he gets paid. You know? There is no maybe they buy, maybe they don't thing. You know? And so that's been received really well. But, you know, in terms of the tools, and I hate to disappoint you on the question, but I don't I don't use any big fancy tools, really. I mean, I'm, you know, I started with the cardboard box underneath the computer. You know what I mean? And whatever works works. You know?
[02:32:48] Unknown:
So Alright. I'm a minimalist when it comes to it. No. That that's and sometimes that's the best way to do it. You know? I have a couple I have a couple of sponsors. Pod Home is one. TNE dot Energy is another one. And then, Pro HVAC Solutions, which is a local company. And, you know, it it we have a good we have a good relationship, and it's it's a lot of it's value for value stuff. So Sure. And and it That still counts, man. Oh, it does. Absolutely. And it it works. It works. But I do need I do wanna talk to you off the show about monetizing because I I I I have a need to do that. I I, you know, self funding a lot of this stuff is difficult and you know that. You know, it's it's it's hard.
Like, I I I'm I look around the room that I made it to a studio here and I'm like, well, that cost a bit and that cost a bit and this thing cost a bit and that thing cost a bit and, you know, it's like, if I had all that money in my pocket right now, it'd be alright. Oh, yeah. You know? Oh, yeah. But you do it again for the love of it. So We've we've all been there. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. But, I mean, I would like I would like to be able to to to increase my revenue stream with the show, you know. On Rumble, I'm I'm monetized on Rumble, so I I I get a little something every couple of months, not often. Yes. YouTube, I'm I'm I don't honestly, I don't I don't invest a lot of time in YouTube and promoting it or doing anything with them only because, I already have two strikes, and I refuse to go through their their sensitivity training for it to get them removed.
[02:34:22] Unknown:
So I was gonna say, I've heard some of your episodes, and I would imagine YouTube probably has a problem some of the things that Some of the things that you said. Just just a just a few. Just a couple. Just a couple.
[02:34:32] Unknown:
Yeah. So so anyway so I don't put I don't pro I don't do anything really with YouTube. If they shut me off, they shut me off. I don't really care, to be honest with you. Right. My my home base here is is Rumble. And and, as always, I have to make the statement because people say things. Yes. I have a vested interest in Rumble. I am a shareholder in Rumble. So yes. Okay? There you go. I am going to promote Rumble. Full disclosure. Right? Full disclosure. Full disclosure. And good for you, by the way. Oh, thank you. That's excellent. Thank you, sir. I I do try. You know, my my my little mini shackles that I throw to it.
It's, you know, but yeah. But I do wanna talk to you off the show about some of this stuff because I'm I'm very interested in seeing what you got and maybe partnering up with you in some ways. Now as far as coaching, right, I wanna talk to you about your coaching stuff. You you you basically you coach men to find purpose, accountability. I guess, how does that mission show up in the way you build the podcast or or lead the conversations?
[02:35:35] Unknown:
Sure. You know, that that's part of the coaching that I do. I coach podcasters. I coach speakers. I, I coach authors to become podcasters or speakers, and then I do. I coach men. And, I've I've found a a niche because I hate the word niche. I just hate it. Niche. I found a niche. Okay? Okay. The American version of that word. I found a niche working with a lot of veterans. And, even though I am I'm not one, regrettably. These these guys, they need to to hear from somebody about moving forward. You know? There's a therapist in every corner who will tell them all about what happened in the past, and we'll work with them on those things. That's not what these guys are looking for. They're like, hey. This is what I dealt with. How do I move forward? I work with a lot of fathers and a lot of husbands who are, just sort of the regularness of life is too heavy.
And, you know, the the mag yeah. The magic is gone. Sure. But it's it's not that type of thing either. It's almost like, my wife doesn't believe in me anymore. You know, my wife doesn't, you know, isn't proud of me. I'm not proud of me, so I stopped leading, you know, because of all that. There's, those are kind the kinds of guys that I work with, and it's really all experience based. Mhmm. And, the podcast itself, I spent, you know, the first 100 episodes talking about mistakes I made and things I learned from. And I think one of the reasons we grew as fast as we did was because a lot of guys heard what I was talking about, and I wasn't up there pontificating, acting like I was some know it all. I'm like, I made this mistake. I still have the scar. It's huge. You know?
Listen to what I'm telling you, and maybe you can avoid the scar, gentlemen. You know? Yeah. And that caught on. That did really catch on in a big way. And so the guys who come into my coaching program, they're all completely different. And so there is no cookie cutter thing. There's no, set pattern of coaching. I sit down with each guy, and we do a, you know, a a meeting and a quick, you could call it a discovery call. But it's, it's just to get to know you. And it's what are we working on, and what is it you you think you need. Most of the time, what they think they need ends up not being what they need need. But, everybody's individual. And so we we put together an individual program working each week, hour long Zoom meetings, and then homework, you know, and texting and messaging accountability for having it done and, you know, sort of establishing routine again for for a lot of these guys. Yeah. The the biggest issue that we carry, I think, as men is that we feel like we don't have any value.
You know? Whatever value we thought we had is gone. I used to be this. Now I'm not. You know what I mean? I used to bring this to the table, now I don't. My wife used to look at me like this, now she doesn't. Mhmm. You know? There there's a ton of that. And men have been told that, you know, sit down and shut up by women and men. You know, women don't wanna hear it. And if and men, you know, tear you apart tear you apart if they think that you're weak. Right? So, I will tell you I'm not the, vulnerability guy.
I'm not mister share your feelings and throw them all over the place and, you know, throw up your emotions, and that's not it. I'm a big brotherhood guy. Okay? Never let them see you weak. Never let your wife and your kids see you weak. That's not part of the deal. They are depending on you. They would rather see you die on your horse than fall off of it. Yeah. I agree with you. Brothers, then you let it go. Okay? Because they get it. Mhmm. And you do it in a safe container, you know, like a group and stuff like that, like the one we have. It it works out. You know? You you got guys who are watching your back, not attacking you there.
[02:39:15] Unknown:
Yeah. I, yeah, I I I I agree with you. You you we've always been told, Well, at least I was growing up. You know? And I'm Italian. Yeah. I grew up in an Italian family. My father, my grandfather, you know, they they were men. You know? My dad Right. My dad died because he refused to go take care of himself because he was too concerned about taking care of my mom, who was also sick. He didn't want anybody else doing anything for her. He had to take care of her, and it Right. And then he would lie to my sister and I. We would ask him, did you go to the doctor, get checked out? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everything's fine. Really? Everything's fine? Yeah. Everything's good. You know, you have the usual problems, you know, nothing's changed from that. I'm good. I'm okay. Right. I'm good. Until the day came that he ended up going to the hospital, and that was the last.
And, you know, and he did that again because he he loved and cared for my mom so much, didn't want anybody else getting involved and taking care of it. It was his job, his responsibility, and he never showed weakness. There was one time in my life that I can remember my dad showed me weakness, and it was just the two of us. There was nobody else around. We went fishing, and it it was not the usual place that we would go. We my dad and I used to go on party boats all the time out of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, you know, and had great times doing that stuff. My dad and my dad took me out pier fishing one time, and it was just the two of us. There was nobody else around, and that's when my dad opened up and just spilled everything out. That's been on his heart, that's been on his mind, and it was the first time in my life I ever saw my dad's eyes getting misty. Didn't cry, but got misty telling me these things.
And, yeah, I was horrified at some of it, to be honest with you, because I was like, I had no idea. But, you know, it it it's it's that place of comfort that you that you put yourself into where you can talk to people. I agree with you. Your wife, your kids should never, under normal circumstances, see you break down. Yeah. You know, sometimes it's unavoidable, you know, but Sure. I but I agree with you. You you I think I think masculinity has been so played, torn apart, you know. Now that the term is toxic masculinity, you know, and that's bullshit.
Yeah. It's total bullshit. So, there is no such thing as toxic masculinity. It's masculinity. Whether you like it or not, that's what it is. And I'm sorry, I am not gonna I'm not catering to you. I am not bowing down to you. I am not gonna kiss your butt. No. You get me? I I am what I am. That's it. You know? Amen, brother. You know, I'm I'm I'm divorced, and, I I've only had a few interactions, since the divorce. I'm I'm divorced now. It'd be three years divorced, four years apart. I had I had one date that and I and I told the story on the show before to, another, a men's coach, and, I did so I had this date, and I love to cook. Alright. I'm I I love cooking. So, the date was I invited this this this woman to the house, and we were gonna have dinner, and, I was gonna cook, and I made this beautiful Italian deal Italian meal.
I made, fettuccine with sweet peas, prosciut, and a white wine sauce with, that's with fresh homemade garlic bread. I'm gonna get my own butters and all that stuff. Fresh homemade garlic bread and then desserts. I had caramel apple tarts with homemade vanilla ice cream and bourbon infused whipped cream. It was beautiful. Wow. Alright. Beautiful. Beautiful night planned. Candles, all that crap. So she comes over and and she's she's, sitting at the kitchen table and we're talking and everything and and the dogs are there and and she keeps looking at them. And I'm like, I'm just noticing how she's looking at them.
And, like, my my they're very friendly, so they'll stand up and I'll try to, like like, see what you're doing and and all that stuff. And she would kind of push them off a little bit. I don't like that. Don't push my dogs. Alright. They're my kids. Don't don't do that. And I and I and I'm like that with them because when I was at my worst with this divorce, they were the only ones that were there for me. Yeah. You know? When I was laying on the floor drunk, in my vomit and bleeding from my head because I walked into the wall, they were laying there next to me when I woke up.
You know, so they get everything. No questions asked. They are my life. So don't push my dogs away. Alright. That's number one. Number two happened when I served dinner, and I made the presentation, and she looked at them, and she looked at the plate, and she was like, well, what about them? I said, no. I have dinner for them. So she was, no. Aren't you putting them outside? I said, why would I put them outside? You lead the dogs in the house all the time? Well, yeah. Really? Yes. Really. Why? Is that a problem? Well, dogs belong outside. They're animals.
Oh, okay. I said, well, how about this? My dogs sleep with me. My dog my boy sleeps here, my girl sleeps here, under the blankets every night. That's disgusting. Really? So she was like, I can't eat with the dogs in the house. Can you please put them outside? No. I'm not putting them outside. And if you don't wanna eat, fine. I took the plate, and I put it on the floor, the dogs ate, and I showed her out the door. You can leave.
[02:45:25] Unknown:
There you go. I mean, hey. Toxic masculinity. That's that's exactly what she wrote on her Facebook page. Probably. Yes. I didn't have Facebook yet at that point, so I don't know. She probably knew that already, so she figured it was safe to trash you on it. Probably. That's fine. No, man. I I hear you loud and clear. A 100%. You you gotta believe what you gotta believe in. Yes. I mean, it's stuff that's important is important to you. Now could I have been nicer about it? Important to you. Yeah. As soon as something's important to you, though, then all of a sudden you're toxic. You know, as soon as you stand up for something, including yourself, you're toxic.
[02:45:54] Unknown:
Exactly. It's, yeah. It's just become ridiculous. Or or you or you stand up for traditional values. You know, the traditional relationship, the traditional husband wife dichotomy that yeah. The way I explain it is, and this is biblical, and and I'm sure you I'm sure you would agree with this, is that Yep. You know, it's it's it's Christ, the husband, the wife, the kids, everything else. Right? Now, does that mean that, you know, and then there's that verse that everybody likes to throw up? Well, the bible says, you know, you know, wives submit to your husbands.
I'm not submitting to my husband. Right. That's not what you that's not what it means. Alright? It it doesn't mean that that you are to, you know, crawl around in my presence. I mean, if you want to, you can. I mean, but you don't have to. You know, that's not what it means. And I say that tongue in cheek, but what it basically means is is that the the the final decisions that have to get made in the household fall on the man, the male, the husband. Alright? Now, my wife could have a better idea or a better way of handling a particular situation. I wanna hear that, and I will weigh that, but ultimately the decision, the final decision on it is mine.
Rise or fall, it's my decision to make. That's what I'm talking about, and that's what submission in in some respects is. You know, it's understanding that there's the hierarchy, there's the way things go, and that's the way it worked. And that's wrong today, apparently. You're not supposed to be like that. That's that's
[02:47:37] Unknown:
that's verboten. It's only it's only wrong because they wanna be able to have the double standard, You know? The reason that that's right is because if everything falls apart, you know, if there's four people at the table and there's only three pieces of chicken, okay, it's the father's fault. Mhmm. And that's it. You know? And the father is the one who shouldn't eat also if he can't provide that. Correct. I I totally agree with that. It's a double edged sword. And then, you know, when you say, that, you know, the man is the one who's in charge of the family, the man's gotta lead, you know, he sets the tone. He sets the tone for, the spirit for That's correct. The holy spirit in the family and, you know, biblical teachings, the whole nine yards. That is how it is. But when those fail, then that also falls in the man, you know, because he's the one who failed to provide it, to do it, to put it into place. So nobody wants to talk about that part of it. Right. Exactly. Yeah. That goes along with it. So I I I agree with you completely.
[02:48:31] Unknown:
So You know? That then and it's it's it it it it really it just irritates me. It it it really does how culture society has has turned so much against the male figure in in in relationships. You know, we're supposed to be now, you know, so gentle and soft and Right. Just passive and just whatever.
[02:49:07] Unknown:
Right. No. Absolutely not. No.
[02:49:12] Unknown:
I I I will come in my house, and I will drop my pants, and I'll walk around in my underwear, and I will carry my pistol on my side, and, you know, and which would target me to wear underwear only. But, you know That's a little tough. But, I mean, you know, whatever however you're working it, man. I mean, you listen to it. Sometimes sometimes it works. You know, you get the little necklace thing, you know, you put the the chain here, you know, hang it by the Right on. By the trigger guard. Yeah. Whatever it is, you know, I Doug, this look. It it's it's cult society is is just completely flip flopped. And it's like with the with the Bible says. The Bible says, you know, there there was gonna be there's gonna be a time where right is wrong and, where where wrong is right and, you know, we could take it even, you know, in other ways of saying it, you know, what what's what's black is actually blue, what's blue is actually yellow, and then completely opposites of what they are. And, but that's where we are today, and that's and that's, you know, if you're a bible believing person, you're gonna see that. If you believe what the word of God says, you're gonna see that this is the direction that the world is going. It talks about men who are effeminate, and it talks about all these things in these last days, And that's where we are. We're in the last days of the last days, I think, my personal opinion based on my studies.
Sure. And, A lot of people feel that way. I understand. Yeah. Yeah. Now now I know you you, you know, you do, you know, faith based podcasts and such. And so what's your testimony though? Let let let's hear how you, came to that point in your life.
[02:50:42] Unknown:
Wow, man. You know, that's my my testimony is interesting. Say the least. I I had a very rough childhood. Mhmm. And I'm I'm not gonna make it long by going all the way back there, but just to set the We only have we only have ten minutes. So Yeah. Okay. No problem. I'll get it done. The, I had a very rough childhood. And, because of that, I doubted God and his existence. I doubted that there was some being that was supposed to keep us safe. Nobody who, you know, was the God that I was learning about in CCD on Saturday mornings. You know what I mean? And that I was praying to on Sundays in church, and I was raised Catholic. So that God was not there's no way there was that God, and then that God built my father.
There was no way. There was no way he he put my father in charge of my family to do what he did to my mother and to me, you know, and everything else. And, then it was horrifying. And that's something that I've had to deal with. But while I was dealing with that and, of course, for years after I dealt with that, and then when I dealt with that with a stepfather later on, because apparently my mom had a type, you know, you kinda go, I'm I'm gonna handle this myself because Right. God apparently has abandoned me. And that's really how you feel when that's all of the context you have. And when you don't have someone, who's a leader, who's a role model, who is teaching you and mentoring you through what's really going on in your life. All you know is survival, and this is bad, and this is how I gotta get through it. So you think you're depending on yourself.
For years, god tried to get into my life, tried to help me out, tried to walk, you know, tried to let me know he was walking by my side. Years and years and years, decades. Yeah. My wife held the, all of the faith in our family, introduced my sons to it so that they both could grow up, and they are absolutely faith filled, more than I ever dreamed of being, you know, especially at their age. It took me until took me until the accident. It took me until the almost dying to go all the way over to where I needed to be. And that was another one of those things that I spent a lot of time talking to my wife about, you know, in the dark. So I'm I believed in God. I always knew he was there. I just didn't really have that relationship with him. And he tried to wake me up over the years a lot.
You know, a lot of near misses, a lot of lot of this, a lot of that. And, again, I know we're short on time, but there was, you know, there were two really bad moments in my life, and one was, you know, the one in the hospital. The other one was, you know, after the, the the real estate crash when we literally lost everything. Wow. And I was convinced that the entire world was gonna be better without me in it. And, I was done. I had decided I was not gonna be here anymore. And, something stopped me from doing that that night. And, I mean, I'm talking physical reaction, like, you know, burst out into shaking, you know, and had some kind of an attack, passed out on the floor the whole bit.
Woke up, you know, a whole new perspective, went back to work, went back to fighting. I didn't realize until a year ago that back when that happened, back when I was that far gone, that that was God saying what you know, literally grabbed me and going, what is wrong with you? You know what I mean? And he finally got my attention when I was in the hospital and said, are you ready to listen yet? And, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Wow. Just a ton of bricks. And I have not looked back. I've gotten back into it. I I keep this right here by me. Praise the lord. It's all over it. You know, I'm I read it. You know, I actually read what's in it.
[02:54:34] Unknown:
So it's a That's a novel idea, by the way.
[02:54:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Right. Who thought that you could read the book or thunk it? Right. So, I mean, that's kinda it, you know, in a few minutes or less. And granted those stories are much longer, you know, but that's for another time. And really Oh, yeah. Definitely. I I I I definitely wanna get back and
[02:54:53] Unknown:
and and sit down with you and really get into the the the the meat of all that because I because I I love I love hearing testimonies. I love hearing people how they how they come to new how they've come to know, their relationship with the Lord, and and and and have that I hate the phrase, but I use it sometimes, you know, that that come to Jesus moment. I don't I don't mean it disrespectfully, you know, to the Lord in any way, but it's really what it is. I I don't think I could summarize mine as as as succinctly as you did, but I I let's just suffice it to say that, I got saved twenty five years ago. 07/20/2000, I got saved. I, was going I just one day woke up and said something's wrong.
Something's not right, and I started searching. And, you know, that Bible principle out of Romans chapter one, you know, when a man is diligently searching and he's seriously searching, God's gonna provide him someone or something to point him in the right direction, and God used many people to point me in that direction. And so it was a stacking. It was a building up. I used to tell people I was the pope of the worldwide church of Joe. You know, I believed what I believed, and that was the end of that. When I was a kid, I got kicked out of catechism, because I didn't wanna go to confession and tell a priest what I had done over the course of a week and because I didn't believe that he had any authority.
And the reason why I did that, and again, like I said, I can't summarize the whole thing so simply like you did, but my uncle was the first one in my family to leave the Catholic church, and he became a pastor for a a Protestant denomination that I will not name because they're not a really good one. But, he he he but but when he went to seminary, he went and we went to bible school, you know, he would come home, he'd bring home his books. And as a young boy, I would read those books. So I was reading, like, theology at, you know, in catechism grade level. And, then he would also take my catechism books and rewrite them, which was always helpful, you know, because you go to catechism class, open it up, and there's a big red x through your pages and then a stapled attachment saying this is not how it happened, and then he rewrote the whole thing, you know. Yep. But, but I I gravitated to that because I looked up to him very much. Yeah. Like, I idolized him. You know, I wanted to be my uncle.
And, when I had to go to catechism and, go to confession for the they I didn't I I told the priest, I said, why am I gonna tell you what I've done wrong? You can't do anything about it. And, he didn't like that, and he literally physically took me by the arm, not the hand, by the arm, That's right. Dragged me outside and handed me my mother, and this is what he said, and I will never forget it. I forgive him for it, but I will never forget what he said. He said, we don't need his kind here.
[02:57:42] Unknown:
Ouch. Yes.
[02:57:44] Unknown:
Wow. So my mom said, oh, okay. No problem. Never went back. Well, I eventually, years later, I went back. But different different church, different priest, all that stuff, but it wasn't the same thing. It was like I I just didn't believe what they were what they were teaching. So, fast forward years and years and years to that point where I said, you know, I just knew something was wrong, something was missing, and God pointed people in in the right pointed me in the right direction to certain people, and I ended up dropping down on my knees on the middle of a pier, Pier 34 off a West Street and Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, second bench off the gate, and confessed Jesus Christ as my savior.
And, there was a myriad of things that went on around that that we'll save for another time, the details that led to that particular moment. But I knew that that moment that when I called upon the Lord to save me, he did. And, life's never been the same since. I've been able to do things that I'd never thought I'd be able to do, like I I traveled, across the state, you know, part of my experience in in law enforcement in New York was was the World Trade Center. I I did work on the pile for a little while, and I did, you know, work in in the area for a while. It was right my command was just a few blocks away from that. God used that to send me to Washington state to preach to 400 lumberjacks about Jesus Christ, and to give my testimony, and to see a good majority of them raise their hand to to know Jesus Christ, never would have happened. How how you know, who Yeah. It's crazy. You know, to to the point where I served as an associate pastor in a in a in a small church up in New York and, for a little while there. And, you know, to teaching Bible on a podcast and, you know, to doing all the stuff that I've done, you know, for the Lord, it's been a blessing. It's been a it's been a wild ride, you know. And, I'm incredibly thankful for it. I'm not always appreciative of it. I've had my moments where I've kind of, you know, waved the fist and said, you know, why are you doing this to me, you know? And hence, the alcoholic binge that I went on for a little while after the divorce and, you know, tempting God to take my life and tried to help him along the way.
Didn't work. Very disappointed. You know? Well, yeah. Praise the Lord. But at the time, I was very disappointed. You know? I was like, you know, I just I just took a whole bottle of this, and I drank a whole bottle of that at the same time, and I still woke up, and all I had was a headache. Yeah. You know? And and that's God saying because I I really think God's Italian. I do. I I I swear to you, I I I God is Italian because God, he he's quick with the shkafa. You know what the shkafa is? It's a Sicilian thing. It's a Sicilian thing. My grandfather was Sicilian. My grandfather was great with the shkafa.
[03:00:27] Unknown:
So are we. He just didn't wanna teach me anything. Yeah. Well,
[03:00:32] Unknown:
grand my so the shkafa is basically this, you know, when you say something stupid, you do something stupid, you get smacked in the back of the head. What's wrong with you? That's Oh, I got the smack in the head. That's the shkafa. That's the shkafa. That's what it's called. Yes. So so God is very good with that. So I, you know, I did what I did and I got you see? Get to work. Gonna be late.
[03:00:52] Unknown:
Nice. I I don't think I can argue with you on that. I bet he is. So yeah. Well because he's he's me, like, I don't even know how many times. Yeah. There you go. So it's it's,
[03:01:02] Unknown:
yeah. It it it's, you know, I I'm incredibly thankful for everything that I have. I I I I, you know, like I said, I don't always show it as appreciation, but I do. And it's it's just it's a life is life changing moment. And one of these days we'll get into more details because I wanna know more about your situation and how it came about for you. I wanna get into the meat of the whole thing and I'll tell you the the meaty part of mine. Because mine's got actually kinda funny. You know, how it all led up to that and the things. Actually, the pastor who led me to Christ wrote my my conversion experience in a book.
You got the commission on that, I hope? No. No. No. No. He he he donated my commissions to There you go. More humility. Right? Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Learn to be humble there, Joe. You know, you know, I did I did win the humble man of the year award once. Just once. But they took it away from me when I put the lapel pin on my jacket. So, oh, you walk right into that one.
[03:01:59] Unknown:
I was waiting. I'm like, come on. There's there's something else coming. There's a punchline to it. You walk right into that one. The other the other foot's the other shoe's gonna drop. Come on.
[03:02:07] Unknown:
Exactly. I I am loaded with these old dad jokes. So I yeah. Two more weeks.
[03:02:12] Unknown:
Love it, man. Love it. Don't ever lose that. No. I text the I text dad jokes out, you know, in a group text to all my kids. Nice. You know, fairly frequently. And I get a whole lot of the, you know, face palm, you know.
[03:02:24] Unknown:
Yes. Type of emojis back. It's endearing. Emoji back. It's endearing. Pretty sure they're I think they're blocking me at this point, to be honest with you. I'm not sure. But you know what? That's good. That's good. Because that means you have quiet time.
[03:02:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Plenty of that. Empty nester. Plenty of quiet time, brother. You know what I do? I I I actually on from
[03:02:44] Unknown:
after the show Friday until Sunday, I put my phone on do not disturb. And then I I'll I'll only I'll check it once in a while, like, I'll just to make sure that that I miss anything, like, somebody died, God forbid, or or something like that. Right. You know? But if it's not important, like an emergency, like, I have to get in touch with you, I will not call you back. I will not text you back. I will not so that's that's usually what I do. That's I'm not gonna say I'm I'm faithful to it a 100% of the time, but that's generally what I do. And, since I've been doing that, it's been nice.
[03:03:20] Unknown:
It's been Well, someday you're gonna have to explain to me how you swing that because I cannot even imagine. Yeah. Well, I'm getting anxiety just thinking about that. Yeah. You're yeah. Well, no. Seriously, the first the first couple of times I did it, yeah, I was like,
[03:03:32] Unknown:
like, something's not wrong. Something's wrong. Something's not right. What's going on? What's the problem here? Nobody's calling me. Why? Oh, that's why. Answer that as a method. No. I would be worried the whole time that one of my kids had something going on and they couldn't reach me. Yeah. Just be Well, that's why that's why I check it. I I make a mental note to myself just to, you know, check the phone every couple hours just to look and see and and whatnot. Because I also with my with my job, I'm on call twenty four seven. So my regular job. So so I have to check the phone. But, I'm not the point of it is is that I'm not a slave to the ding on the phone. You know what I mean? I'll I check it on my terms.
[03:04:08] Unknown:
Masculine. Good deal. Toxic masculinity right there. Yeah. You gotta love it.
[03:04:12] Unknown:
Rory, thank you, man. This has this has been great. Just one last question for you I have to ask. I, you know, I promised Angela that I would always ask these questions when I do. Okay. Who is someone that you respect right now, and what are they doing that inspires you? It could be me. Someone that I
[03:04:28] Unknown:
Someone someone that I respect right now. Yes. You know, that's tough. There's, there's several people that kinda kinda come to mind. You know, honestly, the the one that I would have to say above all of this right now, and I have to say my wife. Amen. Yeah. She is, she has put up with more than any one person ever should've. I have no idea why she's still with me. But, she's more responsible for me being able to do this than I'm doing right now Mhmm. Almost than I am. You know, without her, and her sport and everything that she does on a daily basis That's great. Putting up with everything, I wouldn't be able to do it, not even for a minute. So, I mean, even if I'm late getting to the to the, you know, the setup. Right? If I'm running to it because, you know, the time's up for a meeting, she'll make a coffee for me. She'll, you know, help bring something in the room. She fixes the lightning.
There's nothing about her that isn't
[03:05:24] Unknown:
there to help me succeed right now, and I don't deserve it at all. And she's still there. She's a good help right now. For you. Yeah. I gotta tell you, man. There's nobody that stands above my wife right this second at all. Praise the Lord, man. I like that. That's that's good. You know? I I I wish more men would say stuff like that. I do. I I really do. I'm divorced. I know. But, you know, you know, I I wish more. I I seriously, though, I do wish more more men say things like that, and that's important. You know, it's like the Bible says, you know, he who findeth a wife, findeth a good thing.
[03:05:53] Unknown:
Yeah. No. That's not weakness, man. I mean, when when you're securing your masculinity after all these years, you can you can say stuff like that. Yeah. No. Absolutely. I I totally agree with that. I mean, that that's absolutely true.
[03:06:03] Unknown:
And, you know, it's it's that's it's a good thing. It really is. It really is. It's it's refreshing to hear. You know, you hear so many guys, oh, you like this, you know, football player or this basketball player or whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah. Find a good wife. Find a good wife. Not me. I don't I don't want a wife, but everybody else go find a good wife. You're good. It's never too late, brother. Oh, no. You never know. What what what did Darth Vader say to Luke Skywalker? It is too late for me, son.
[03:06:31] Unknown:
Out of all the lines of Star Wars, that's the one you're gonna quote. Okay. Yes. We're we're gonna have to get into that at some point too in the future.
[03:06:38] Unknown:
And the other the real other reason why it's on my mind is because I I saw this I saw this thing on on Instagram, talking, where it's it's it was Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader and from that scene. And the the caption above was, you know, dad, why didn't you tell me about these crazy women or something like that and or or something to that effect and and he was like, well, it was too late for me, son. Was the audio underneath it, you know? Or how do you how you know, how come you I don't know. I forgot. I'll I'll send it to you. I have it somewhere. Alright. Because I sent it to my son. And and and and because he has a crazy girlfriend. So, so, you know, I sent it to him because I thought it was funny.
Anyway, alright. Rory, I gotta I gotta close out the show here. I got a couple of announcements to make. I don't know if you wanna hang out while I do it. You can do that. That's fine. Yeah. For sure, man. Alright. So alright, folks. So anyway, Rory, Paquette, thank you so much, man. I I really do appreciate you spending the time, man. I know we we ran we ran long, I know, but you were late. So I I but I was being generous and gave you the extra time. So you know how it is. Well, I'm grateful. Oh, okay. Well, you should be, sir. You should be, sir. You're in, you know, presence of greatness here. You know, we're trying to build a media empire here. I'm gonna unseat Joe Rogan someday. I'm I'm here for it. We can dream. Alright. You know, we can dream. You know, it's not gonna always happen, but we we can dream. Alright, folks.
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That's an interesting twist. Mhmm. Transmitting live from the asylum studios deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas, It's the Joe Ruse show, the show where we talk about anything and everything, where nothing is sacred, nothing is watered down, and nothing is PC. Alrighty. Hey, folks. This is Joe Roos, and it is great to be with you once again, transmitting live from the asylum studios from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass, and doing the very, very best we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we can muster without all the bluster.
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Alright. Well, with all of that said and out of the way, I think that it's probably time for us to, introduce our illustrious guest. Folks, it's always a good night when Peter Ticton is on the show. No matter who no matter what show he's on, it's always a good night when he's on the show. Peter Ticton's been practicing law since 1972, and he's never backed down from a fight. He is the founder of the Ticton Law Group with offices across Florida known for their three c's, creativity, cost effectiveness, and communication. They often take on cases most lawyers shy away from. Peter's legal work has been featured everywhere from the New York Times to CNN and to Fox News. He's argued before the Supreme Court of Canada, shaped key areas of law in Florida and in California, and written the book, What Makes Trump Tick, inspired by his friendship that began back at the New York Military Academy, which we talked about about quite a bit last time he's on the show. He's been on the front lines from voter fraud and defamation to seeking justice for the J Six community. Through it all, he's remained one of the most compelling voices for truth, law, and common sense. Peter, it is great to have you back on the show, sir.
Thank you. Thank you for your kind words. Well, I you know, they're true words. I don't, you know, I don't make stuff up, buddy. I I keep I gotta live up to them. I don't mind, but I do. Alright. Alright. Well, I'm glad you got your color straightened out.
[00:12:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. I I don't know what I look like, but I I have this Kinda looks great. Program that allows me to change from, you know, tungsten to
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to daylight to yeah. I I the the thing that worked best now is fluorescent, believe it or not. Really? No. Yeah. Yeah. That's weird. That should be Well, but you look great. You look great, you sound great, and again, it is great to have you here. Now last time you were here, we had a great conversation. I mean, folks, if you didn't catch that show, you gotta go back and listen to it or watch it. We had a we had a blast, and it was a lot of fun, and I'm really glad that we were able to take that. We touched nothing of the subject matter for the night, really. I think I asked you one question at the very start, and it was just tell us a little bit of something about yourself that nobody knew, and that that was the whole show. That was the whole show. That was great though. That was a lot of fun.
So since we barely touched on anything that we covered that we wanted to cover last time, you know, your books, cases, insights, can you give us a brief rundown of the last few months for you and for your team? You know, what what's what have you been working on? What's keeping you busy?
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Oh, a lot.
[00:13:49] Unknown:
Okay. The pregnant pause. What are you? You watching Alex Jones?
[00:13:57] Unknown:
No. No. I, I was on his show Mhmm. A couple weeks ago. I know. I watched it. Maybe three, four weeks ago. Yeah. Because, I was very concerned about Todd Blanch. Mhmm. I still am.
[00:14:11] Unknown:
As are a lot of us.
[00:14:14] Unknown:
Well, you know, look, he's a very capable man. Mhmm. You know? His his winning rate is something like 84% for all of his clients if you leave out Donald Trump. Okay. Or he struck out every time. He's got a zero in success with Donald Trump. And I, frankly, I don't think that he believes that Donald Trump is innocent. Really? Of the bullshit. I can I say these words? Yeah. Absolutely.
[00:14:47] Unknown:
Say what you gotta say.
[00:14:49] Unknown:
Some some shows are not allowed to say it. No. I say what you gotta say. But okay. Alright. I mean, we know that the charges in New York were were completely BS. Okay. I mean, they've just been overturned. They're they're garbage. And, then the after the verdict, he went to the interview on CNN. And, you know, you'd think that he'd be saying, this is horrible. My client's innocent.
[00:15:22] Unknown:
But he never said that. Yeah. I remember. I I remember seeing that. Yeah.
[00:15:28] Unknown:
Yeah. And instead, he he he said, well, this conduct occurred seven or eight years ago. So that sounds to me I mean, you know, like, I'm a trial lawyer. That's what I do. That's what I've done for over fifty years. Yeah. And and I'm good at what I do. And what makes you good is you gotta be able to read people. You you can't you know how they say that that for you know, you've probably heard the the the saying that a lawyer should never ask a question that he doesn't know what the answer is going to be. Yeah. Right? And that doesn't mean that you met with the witness, you talked to the witness, and you rehearsed, and you found out what the answers to your questions are. Because very often, you're cross examining people you've never seen before.
But in your initial questions or in the direct examination, you kinda figure out what the person's frames of reference are, you know, like who he is. Is he a liar? Mhmm. Is he somebody that's motivated to bend, in quotes, bend the truth? Is he somebody who just never strays from the truth? Those those are the people you can't succeed with, by the way, in cross examination. Okay. They're few and far between, but you cannot get them a cross examination because they're being truthful. So you'd know by the facts of the case and couple that with the consistency of the person you're examining, that's how you're able to ask questions that you know the answers to.
Okay? Not be not because you've prepared with that person. So you get to understand, you know, little nuances, things that people say. What do they really mean? What do they really feel? You know? What are they saying? So when somebody says to me, that the conduct occurred seven or eight years ago, that sounds to me like a confession. That sounds to me like you're admitting that that conduct occurred.
[00:17:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Exactly.
[00:17:39] Unknown:
And then you're just saying, but it's not fair because it was so long ago that he should be able to get away with it. That's what that means. Yeah. And that's what he said. And then he he also referred to Donald Trump as a 77 year old first time offender in answering the question as to whether he thought he would get any jail time or not. And he was basically saying, no. He shouldn't get any jail time because, you know, if a 77 year old first time offender he didn't say this is an innocent man. Yeah. But even if the judge looks at him as though he's a first time offender or an offender, then he's a first time he would be seen as a first time offender. He didn't say it like that.
He basically said he was a first time offender, which means he's a guilty man. And then when he was asked whether he the trial judge was fair, he refused to say that he was unfair. Mhmm. Okay? Yeah. Yeah. I see I see that. Talking about. I mean, what what trial are we talking about? We all saw this judge being so unfair. It made us wanna vomit. And and he's Donald Trump's lawyer, and and he's afraid to say I mean, he could have said, well, you know, we objected to so many of his rulings, and we object because we know that they're not right in law, which means that they're not fair. Many of the things he said didn't appear to us to be unfair at the time, and we have no reason to change our mind now. He could have said that, but instead, he was revealing what his mind frame was.
Yeah. And when you think your client is guilty and you'd actually dislike your client because they're guilty, it's very hard to stand in front of a jury and and and and sincerely say that they're innocent.
[00:19:31] Unknown:
You know, because nobody's that good of a liar. Yeah. No. I agree with you. And, you know, it's interesting because, you know, words do mean things, and your choice of words say an awful lot about what your what your heart really is, or what your mind, like you said, your mind really is. And, I remember him making those comments, and I remember thinking very similar along that, well, you just represented this man, why are you not continuing on saying that, you know, he's an innocent man? I mean, he didn't do anything wrong. I
[00:20:00] Unknown:
mean, common sense tells you that. That. That it it's not just that he said the things I said. It's also that he never said Never. That it was innocent. It just got railroaded.
[00:20:10] Unknown:
Yeah. No. Never. Yeah. Never put never put up that argument. Never put up put up any kind of type of defense on that at all. It it's it was ridiculous. I remember that. I remember watching it. I was sick to my stomach. That says a lot right there. The sigh says a lot, my friend. The sigh says a lot. So let me let me ask you this. So so so people are watching the courts a lot right now, and then probably a little bit more closely than they ever did before. Because of things like these these, show trials and these shams that that took place up in New York with the with the president. And And I and so I think that people are paying more attention to these things than ever before.
What do you think the public gets right, and and what do we tend to misunderstand about how the justice system really works?
[00:21:01] Unknown:
Well, when you're talking about the public, you're talking about two halves. You're talking about the half or, you know, each half has its own measurement, you know, extreme to not interested at all. And you've got your left and you've got your right. But it's no longer left and right. I mean, really, at this point, we're down to we're we're really in a war. Mhmm. And we're in a war against foreign nationals that and not foreign nationals, but, you know, foreign nations that are interfering with us and certain ideologies that are threatening us. And for that, you just need to look at WEF and BlackRock, because they're basically the they've joined forces. I mean, Pete, Larry Larry Fink. Fink is is the head of BlackRock which it I mean, it's the largest corporation in the world. I mean, it's it's as big as almost everything else put together. Yeah. And, I mean, it's $11,600,000,000,000 Jeez. Under management.
I mean, it I mean, it's it's amazing. You know? It used to be, like, four, five, and then I guess they took over, what you know, their their major competitors. And then Larry Fink then becomes the head of the World Economic Forum. So that's why I say they're they're they're they're joined at the hip. They're they've got the same guy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And so you know? And and that's what really wants to take over the world. Although I think that they're they're they're fools that are going to get caught in their own trap because they think that China's gonna work with them, but China is a dissident to them.
China will let them reduce their populations
[00:22:57] Unknown:
and then use their populations to basically take over. That, you know, that that's my theory. Okay? That's not I don't think it I don't think you're far off on that. I think I think you're you're you're you're hovering very close to the target, sir.
[00:23:11] Unknown:
It's very scary what's going on. It is. It is. But in terms of your question, what how does the general public so if you take the far left, that's why I'm saying the the left are completely they're zombies. Okay? They they they're not dealing with reality. They don't see what's really happening. They are living in a matrix, and it's, it's it's it's sad. It's scary, but it's true. I mean, they really are. They don't see once they wake up from the matrix, they'll be able to see reality. Yeah. But they're not waking up. And we have the what what I would call Donald Trump's base.
These are people that look at reality to a great extent. You know, they're not fooled by very much. They may be what seems like overly loyal to Donald Trump. But, you know, the fact of the matter is if you're not a 100% in favor of Donald Trump, if you're only 90% in favor of Donald Trump, that other 10% is on the left. That other 10% is China. There's no 10% to give here. You've got to be a 100% behind Donald Trump. I don't care if he disappoints you or if you don't don't like the fact that he said something in a way that he said it. He's the one that's standing in harm's way. You know, he he he used to say in his rallies when he had rallies. He used to say and I love this line because I I saw it as so true, that they're coming after us, but he just happens to be standing in the way.
Yeah. And and, you know, that's that's the reality of of Donald Trump. He's in their way. You know, when when he says or when other people say, you know, not everything Donald Trump says is exactly true. You know? And it took takes the left, you know, look at every word, and they think, oh, you know, hey. He lied about this. But we all know what's true and what's not true. When he says I could have had a good life, you know, I could be out there playing golf every day and doing business and making deals, and I didn't need to do this, and I didn't need to become the president of The United States and fight this fight. But that's not really true. He did need to. Yeah. I I agree. Yeah.
Because they're coming for us, and he would have just been one of us that they're coming for. His money wouldn't make any difference. Yeah. You know, I've I'm doing a lot of pardon work lately. And, because of that, I'm hearing from people all over The United States. How you know, I charge a lot. So, you know, you know, it it's helpful. It keeps my office alive. It lets me do the things that I'm doing, and frankly, I'm fighting the war. Yeah. I'm not getting rich on it. Okay? But I'm,
[00:26:05] Unknown:
I'm You're in the trenches.
[00:26:07] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm in the trenches. And when it comes to cops that have been weaponized against and when it comes to the j sixers that have been weaponized against, which obviously is always we you know, I do all those for free anyway. Okay? I don't charge at all. So some are some are free and some are expensive, and there's sometimes I fall in the middle a little bit. But, you know, the fact of the matter is is that I'm here you know, I I I've learned through this. I've learned because I've heard from all these people, and I found out that they weaponized. So let me tell you my theory about weaponization.
Okay?
[00:26:42] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:26:44] Unknown:
And I don't know if anybody else has this theory, but maybe I'm the only one. The legalization of marijuana has put us in a bad situation in a sense. Okay? That's just marijuana, but, you know and I shouldn't say the legalization, but the decriminalization.
[00:27:07] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:27:08] Unknown:
So we've had, okay. Because because in 1999, thirty two percent of all crimes were drug related. Mainly possession of marijuana or trafficking in marijuana or importing marijuana. Marijuana was the biggie, and that's probably 25. I don't know for sure, but I'm just from my own observations, I would say it's about two thirds of the 32%. And then there's the crystal meth and the heroin and the cocaine and so on, but that that's a much smaller deal than than the number of people that were illegally using marijuana than it was being enforced.
Okay. So let's just say for the sake of discussion, 25% of all crime just disappeared. Well, they didn't decrease the police force by 25%. They didn't tell 25% of all the FBI it's time to, you know, to leave. Thank you very much, but you gotta do something else because we just don't have enough crime right now to have all of you there earning money. They had to rationalize their existence. Right. And they just weren't enough bank robberies to go around. You know? So so, you know Makes sense. So we have people that went into new areas of crime.
And it ended up basically expanding crime, decreasing tolerance. It's sort of like if you have too many cops on your local police force, all of a sudden you find they're not tolerating you stopping at a rolling stop at a stop sign. Now you gotta come to a full stop at the stop sign because otherwise, you're gonna get a ticket. Yeah. Okay. And so the things that used to be tolerated in terms of finance, not real lies, but, you know, slight exaggerations, people being a little bit hyped when they would say something. Now all of a sudden, they're getting jail sentences for it. And when 2020 came along and Merrick Garland came along, now, you know, this guy is a pretty sharp guy.
You know, that he almost became a Supreme Court judge. This is no dummy. Right. And he was able to take this excessive amount of policing and and and and, weaponize it, basically channel it, funnel it, and put it in certain directions. So where did they go? You know, what were they they they had aims. Of course, we know about Jan we know about Donald Trump, and we know about the people around Donald Trump, such as, Michael Flynn or, what's his name? Is it it's escaping, but Peter Navarro.
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Yeah.
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Peep people like that that got persecuted. Bannon. Yeah. Donald Trump himself. Yeah. Bannon. And then we saw and and we saw this their their their means. Okay? So when Michael Flynn was never gonna give in, he's never gonna give in. He's never gonna give in, and then they threatened his son. Okay? Well, you know, how do you get around that? How do you deal with that? You say, okay. I'll put in my time. I don't want my son being brought into this thing and Right. Yeah. And going to prison. Right? And so they they learn the pressure points. They learn how to get people to plead guilty to crimes for which they're not guilty.
And, you know, this is this has gone on in The United States to a great ex extent. So they went after cyber currency people. If it wasn't Bitcoin or Ethereum, they were on the hit list. They went after, doctors who either prescribed ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or or were against the jab. They went after mothers and fathers of children that went to board of education meetings, to complain about, you know, these woke crazy ideas that were implemented. Yeah. They went after you know? So they but the and the the worst group that they went after were the upper middle class.
If you liked MAGA and you were making 10,000,000 a year or you had a $100,000,000 in the bank, that didn't worry them at all. That was that was juicy for them because not only could they put your behind behind bars,
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but they also would take your money. Yeah. They have access to all of that.
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Right. Right. And, I mean, you know, to get a phone call from a man, you know, who had a $115,000,000 in his bank accounts, They seized it all. Jeez. The man ended up having to plead guilty to a crime for which he got prison time because he didn't have any money for a lawyer because they took it all. And it's amazing how your friends disappear, and nobody's got money for you when these kinds of things happen. Nobody helps you. Oh. Not all the time that, you know, some there are some decent people, but it it wasn't known. It's still not known. I'm telling you. I'm telling your audience.
But I don't have the time for most shows that I'm on to get into this because I'm talking about my cases,
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you know, you know, which we can talk about too if you want to, like, Tina. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. I wanna I wanna get it to yeah. I wanna get it to Tina, and I also wanna talk to you a little bit about, this, this this hearing you had in Michigan on, the third.
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Okay. Alright. At some point. Yeah. Alright. I'll be happy to. Yeah. Yeah. That's an I'm I'm so honored to be part of these people's cases that they trust me with, being the, you know, lead counsel on their cases. Because I I can't get on a case if I'm not the lead. It's it you know?
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No. I don't blame you. I don't blame you. You you like to be in the center of it all, which is great.
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That it it's not bad. It's just that people make mistakes. And and I can't sit there and be part of a team that's going in the wrong direction. Yeah. I get you. And Yeah. You know,
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so it it
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not that it's happened, but it it's happened in my past. You know? I mean, I had a case once with theft in a bank at at in my early years in the nineteen seventies. And, and, you know, this is at a time you know, people don't realize it. But, yeah, if you watch an old movie like to kill a mockingbird or something like that, or you watch these Perry Mason shows, You notice the courtrooms are filled with people. They're filled with spectators. They're filled. There's all kinds of cases. Well, that's the way it used to be because, in in my early years in the nineteen seventies, well, we're there two, three channels on TV.
You know? And so people would, you know, if they weren't going to a matinee for a movie or something, they wanted something to do, they'd go to the courthouse and they'd watch a trial. And it was great because you're not only playing to the jury, but you're playing to a whole courtroom full full of people. And I remember this case really well because, the you know, those early cases with those kinds of audiences, for those jury trials were were were kind of they're exciting. This I still love doing trials, and they're still exciting, but they're different right now.
And, anyway, throughout the trial and I wasn't the lead lawyer on the case. But throughout the trial, I was the lead player. I was doing all the examinations and so on. Throughout the trial, I'm pointing out that it wasn't my client, missus Hines. It was mister Lambert or something like that. And, anyway, I and I kept showing how it could be him. It could be him. As much as she had access, he had access. She's there early in the morning. He's there early in the morning. Showing that there's another person who not only could have done it, but who did it. Alright. Alright?
But the guy that actually had the final authority on the case, who was the lead, said I wanna do the closing. Right? And he got up to do the closing. We had gone over everything. He knew exactly what he had to do and what he had to say, and he went out. He didn't have the the the the cojones to basically get up and say, it's mister so and so. He was there. He did this. He did he was afraid he he didn't even know the law, that he wouldn't be able to be sued for saying that in court. So he got afraid while he was up there, and it was too late to do anything about it, and he lost the case. But, fortunately, the judge had been watching all of these examinations, and he knew she was innocent.
And so he he didn't he didn't reverse what the jury did, but he gave her six months probation for something that would have easily given her five to ten years. Oh, wow. So, you know, it it it but after that, I just
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I can't let somebody else call the shots. Yeah. No. I I I can I can understand that? I mean, but thank god, though, that the judge was actually paying attention to the actual presentation of the case so you could that the that the judge was actually able to I'm sorry?
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We we used to have we used to have better judges. We used to have really good judges. I mean, yeah, I can't say that entirely because my main place where I practice is in Southeast Florida. Mhmm. And, you know, Broward County and Palm Beach County, we have really good judges. You know? I can't can't complain about them. On the federal level, it's much more political. But on the state level, you just don't get that. It it it it's much more fair, these days.
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Do you prefer do you prefer, arguing cases before us at the state level or the federal?
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Yes.
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Both. Okay. Good. Very good. Very good.
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Excuse me. Alright. No. They they're different. You know, when it's funny, but my level of arguing got to be a lot better when my daughter became a judge. You know? Okay. Because, you know, there are judges and there are lawyers. And lawyers are just not at the same level as judges.
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How come how come you never went to become a judge? Did it ever cross your mind?
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Yeah. Except that it it it it I'd have to listen all day long to other people's arguments and so on. I it really wasn't what I you know, I I like I'm a I'm a fighter. I I I I I gotcha.
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Yeah. It's not exciting enough for you. That that doesn't give you enough of of of something that it gets kinda boring actually when you think about it. You're just sitting there listening to other people talk all day.
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Yeah. You know, it it it's it's it's exciting in its own way, and you've got power and, people have to listen to you. But if you exercise that power rudely, then you get criticized. You know? But, you know, what what I found in my the jurisdictions where I've where where I practice, where my daughter was especially, you know, one judge is never gonna criticize another judge in the same circuit where they're practicing. True. Because they're gonna have to live with that judge. Okay? They they, you know, when you become a judge, you don't make any new friends. You you're stuck with the friends you've got, and some of them disappear.
And you the the new friends you're making are the other judges in your circuit. It's just the way life works. Yeah. And there's only one thing worse than criticizing another judge, and that's criticizing another judge's father. Oh. So I was in a very different kind of position, and I became on a you know? And and and so I became like one of the judges.
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I see. Okay. Yeah. Basis.
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I I would be asked, for advice on this issue or that issue. What do I think about this and that from time to time? And and I was accepted in a different kind of a way, you know, once that that had occurred. So, so that did change Alright. The the the way I practice and what I do and how I do it to some extent. I don't know how I took how I I went off on this, this this particular
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Trail. Path. I'm not talking about myself. That's okay. That that that's fine. I I love when you talk tell stories. No. But I love when you tell stories about your experiences. I mean, that that's that's that's that's brought you to where you are. So so, you know, to learn more about your background, just it it to me, it's great. I like it. So I don't the audience is like, I don't care, but I like it. So and I'm not and I'm not and I'm not like Alex Jones who's gonna step all over you while you're trying to explain something either. So I'm gonna let you talk. I'm gonna let you go. I tasted it. He was great. On the show that I was on, I thought he was great.
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He had me laughing. I mean, he Oh, he oh, he's fantastic. Yeah.
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I I love watching Alex Jones. I I really do. I don't agree with everything he says. Of course, you know, you can. If you if you did, then you're just sycophantic and you don't wanna, you know, you know, that's not that's not the right way to go. Yeah. Yeah. But big difference between,
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between great minds think alike and fools rarely
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differ. Yeah. There there you go. Yeah. So what tell us a little bit about this case that you're dealing with in Michigan, that you're involved with. And and for the people who who may not be familiar with it, can you just kinda break down what's really at stake in this Michigan hearing and and and and why these jury instructions that we've heard matter so much?
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Oh, okay. Alright. Well, they they there are two aspects to that case in Michigan. Okay. Okay. It it's keeping America. Okay? I mean, it's on that level. Okay. And it's making sure my client doesn't have adverse consequences like going to prison. Okay? Now my client is Stephanie Lampert. Okay? Stephanie Lampert is actually a really good trial attorney. She she had I think she reached something like the the the 2,000 level of cases. I mean, she's Wow. As a public security, it was case after case. She would be trying. And you you get your best practice, doing those things. So she's an accomplished caregiver.
And, you know, she I've let I've let her talk for herself when the time comes in terms of how she got involved with all the things that we're involved with in terms of election fraud. But she became one of the pivotal pivotal people on it. Now you've heard about, you know, Sydney Powell. Right. Yeah. Did I lose it? So on people have gotten involved with the election for it. But it most people don't know who's who who Stephanie Lambert is, but, ultimately, people will because she deserves to be recognized because as I you know, she's in the war, and she's she's fighting it with everything she's got. I mean, you know, here she's a single mother to three young three children and, at the same time managing all of these things, some sometimes with no compensation, but because it just has to be done. Right.
So she in in Antrim County, Michigan, there was a civil case that was brought, where she was one of the lawyers involved. And it it was just after the two thousand twenty election. And in that case, the trial judge made it very clear that she could have access to the the the machines. Okay. Okay? She painted them, and she wanted to have access to them. There was no reason not to give them. And this is at the beginning, right, before judges realized, oh my god. I don't wanna get in trouble with the cabal. You know? So she she actually had an order that gave her permission to use the machines, to to to deal with them. She never touched them herself, but she did have experts that came to to examine the machines.
And that's what she's basically charged with. It's like another another Tina Peters. I was gonna say that. It sounds wanna take somebody yeah. They wanna take somebody who's preserving the truth, somebody who's basically, you know, making sure that hard drives or tabulators, election equipment is is is saved. And she went to the next level of actually having experts examine the machines. Right. And you won't believe what's in these machines. I mean
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As you could share. They they have
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what's that? Anything you could share? Oh oh, am I gonna share? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Do tell.
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Okay. Well, she one of the charges against her is for destroying an election election property. Okay. Okay? And what that is based on is that when the experts had the machines I mean, she's not telling them what to do. She's not the expert. You know, they're these are people who know what they're doing, and they they needed to take a look at what's inside the machine. But these machines are sealed. They're not like normal desktops. I mean, they're we use a screwdriver and open the thing up. So they had to break the seal in order to get into the in into the apparatus and look at the the motherboard.
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Right. Okay? Yeah. You know what I'm talking about with the motherboard? Oh, yeah. No. I I know exactly what you're talking about.
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Yeah. For sure. Okay. So on the motherboard, what do you think they found? They found extra chips. They found phone chips. Wow. They found chips in the dominion machine, in the dominion equipment that allowed access by telephone to the machine. Jeez. So these machines that are supposed to be air gapped, you know, no wires going into them, it it makes no difference. It's built in. Jeez. And on election night of two thousand twenty, the machines were actually accessed twice. Yeah. And and who made the chips? Who made the phone chips?
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Yeah. I'm I'm assuming China. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, I can tell you it's China. Okay? No assumptions to that. And so so we know the election was fixed. We know they accessed the machines, and and and then they took the tabulators, and it didn't matter which combination they put the the the ballots in on. And they put in these experts put in 40,000, ballots through these machines. And every single time, it it it didn't matter if it was all Donald Trump or whether it was all, for Biden or a mixture of half and half, didn't make any difference how they fed it. The outcome each time were, like, two for Trump, four for Biden.
So we we know that the election was fixed. We've got evidence of how these machines are all corrupted. We cannot have another election with with machines, or we know what the results are gonna be, especially in 2026. So one of the things that I've made it really clear to people that need to know, you know, including the president, is that, you know, we have a lot of issues that are really important. I mean, I can't think of anything more important on a personal level than getting Tina Peters out of prison, or winning the cases that I have coming up or, making sure that, that, people that were the the patriots that were imprisoned,
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the hostages from January 6, are compensated. I am so glad you referred to them as hostages. Get done. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you. I'm sorry. But but I am so glad you said hostages. I mean, that's exactly what these people were. They were held hostage, and it's it was just it was disgusting what our government did to to its own citizens who who were within their legal right to voice their disapproval at an election process. I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt you. I'm sorry.
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Right. No. No. No. This is really good. Let me come back to this. But but but let me let me first Mhmm. Say that my point is that there are so many things that are really critical, that they're really important, but there's only one thing that's pivotal, where we either keep America or we lose America. And that point is that we need fair elections in 2026. Absolutely. If the machines are allowed to be used, we will lose the house by a large, large margin, and we will lose the senate by a large margin with with the, with these rhinos or whatever you wanna call them, establishment, senators.
It it could even lead to the removal of Donald Trump.
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Yeah. That's something, yeah, that's that's something I'm I'm very concerned about.
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Yeah. It's it's one of their their chanting points at this point. The that they're not worried about Donald Trump because in two years, he won't exist. Yeah. That's what they're saying. And I'm hoping that by that, they're not talking about his demise. Oh, yeah. No. They're still about his political demise at least. And and, and that they will get him out of out of there. At least with the recent decision that we have in New York, it's not gonna be ship shipping them up to New York for sentencing. That's not ever gonna happen. Please, god. That's not gonna happen. God for that. Yes.
But, Excuse me. Yeah. So, so going back to the j sixers in terms of them, you know, being hostage, you know, a lot of people don't know. I mean, it came out at one point when the the Gateway Pundit was starting to help me get evidence for of what happened on January 6. As Donald Trump asked me to I mean, he didn't ask me as a favor. I was paid well. But he asked me to marshal the evidence regarding January 6. So for nine months, I was marshaling that evidence when the Gateway Pundit put it out there that I needed help, anybody who's got videos and so on. When that happened, it was like kicking an ant Hill because nobody knew.
You know, I reported directly to the president. I mean, obviously, his staff and people there were paying me. But other than that, nobody knew that I was involved in them. So then all of a sudden, Peter Ticton is looking for this and the the, you know, other lawyers that knew who the other lawyers were that worked for him didn't know me and that, you know, it it it, you know, there was a bit of a blow up. It was like kicking an ant hill. Oh, yeah. Snowball. Around saying, who is this to? Who You know? You know? This fraud who says he's a lawyer for the president.
So, I mean, I was people didn't know at that time. Well, even then, though, they didn't know yet because we haven't filed the case against the against, Hillary because I was the lead local counsel on that one. There's a case where I wasn't the lead counsel. That was that was, Alina Hava. But I was the lead local counsel, so I had to file the the action in the first place, which was then used against me with other weaponizations that occurred. But, the things that I learned about January 6 from getting all this information and getting all this in, you know, it is not what people think it was. Now they're finally finding out to a great extent that, you know, certain things occurred. I mean, look, we had that what I think Donald Trump called the unselect committee. Yes.
You gotta love that one. Yeah. You do. I mean,
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I I I like I like him. I do. I I'd like like I I'd wanna hang out with him, you know, just to just to hang out, just to listen to him talk about things. I think he I think he's a great talk. I'm telling you, this much of his sense of humor, I swear, he gets from me. Yeah. Okay.
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I mean, look, we live together when when we're 17 years old. You know? That's true. Right? Yeah. Military academy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and that's that's twenty four hours a day. You know? That's no going no going out to restaurants either. You're there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he's even then, you know, what a wonderful person. I've I think I talked to you about him before I talked to but yeah.
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On my bucket list, sir, I'd like Just, on my bucket list one day just to get a chance to shake his hand. Without a doubt. Yeah. So can let me ask you
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anyway, I was just gonna tell you a little bit more about January 6 Yes. Go ahead. Most people don't know. Okay. It was planned in advance by the left and certain countries, including the Ukraine.
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Kind of figured it out.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, the the ones that group that ran around the building, and and you might have remembered if you've seen enough videos there's one guy knocking out a window with a two by four? Yeah. Yeah. That guy was Ukrainian army.
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Oh, really? Wow.
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And That, I didn't know. I didn't hear that. And the that was running around the building were one of the one of the TV, broadcasting companies from the Ukraine. Also, John Sullivan, who was the one that filmed the what seemed like the shooting of Ashley Babbitt. Mhmm. He because I've watched that. That that doesn't add up, that whole thing, and I can explain that if you want. But but he just happened to be there to shoot that scene, you know, which is if you saw the the pictures before and so on and the, what happened there, that's that's just impossible. He was there to shoot that before it happened. Yeah. I agree. And if you look at the gun, you know, see bullets that come out of guns usually go in the direction that the gun is pointing.
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Yeah. Common sense. Yeah. It's the basic basic physics.
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And if you look carefully at the gun, it's horizontal. It's pointing horizontally, and she's up towards the ceiling Yeah. Going through this window. And supposedly got shot in the upper, right shoulder. So how did that happen? I mean, you know, if you if you look at it carefully, you realize there's something wrong with this. And then and then you see this two, SWAT team members that are standing there against the partition. I I know some SWAT team members and some ex SWAT team members. And there's one word that comes to mind when you meet a SWAT team member. You know? And that word is steroids. Yeah. Okay?
The I've never met a SWAT team member that I thought I could take. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you mean. Yeah. Right. Yeah. They're they're they're they're they're alpha males, and they're and and they're strong, and they're they're they're ready for the task. And they're they're brave men throughout the country, but none of them are scorning little guys. And the two SWAT team members there are like a couple of actors because there's no way that they're SWAT SWAT team members. Yeah. And they're standing by the partition just looking, and then they told to move out of the way or whatever, and they end up walking away. And that's when she goes into the window and gets shot. And then, yeah, then there's a later video of those two guards changing into MAGA gear.
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Yes. I remember I remember that too. Yes. I do. I remember that. You know, it's just to me, it's just it's just I don't know. Just just to think of that that that our own government would would do something like this just for the sake of holding on to power. Well, they weren't our government. It it was I know that. But but behind it. Yeah. Yeah. For the most part.
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Anyway, so then where who is the first people to play this the the tape or the the video of Ashley Babbitt getting shot? The Ukrainian Broadcasting Company. It's one of them. And where did John Sullivan go to the Ukraine? Interesting. So there's a lot of things Ukraine did not want Donald Trump to win this elect that election because if if Biden won the election, they would get money. Now when we talk about the Ukraine, I'm not talking about the citizens of the Ukraine. I'm talking about the Azov battalion. Okay? The people that sent that fellow Ryan, what's his name to to shoot Donald Trump.
Yeah. The these are, the the Azov battalion is for those in your audience that don't know, they are Swastika flag carrying Nazis. Okay? They are the fourth Reich. Yeah. And we dump $3,350,000,000,000 into the Ukraine. Well, $350,000,000,000 is enough to not only do a lot of the things they needed with their armaments and so on, some of which they sold to the cartels and others. But, but that that much money is enough to really finance the forthright to get a good start. So that's also what was going on here. So January 6 was far more than a bunch of protesters where things got out of hand.
And we know what happened with the protesters. You start firing percussion bombs and, and, and tear gas into into these protesters that are standing there in prayer or singing god bless America and being peaceful and so on, it gets people outraged. And after the Metropolitan Police used up all of their all of the the the tear gas tear gas, all of their, percussion bombs and so on, Then they went to their c their CS, grenades, you know, rifle grenades. Yeah. That's a gas that's prohibited in in in, wartime. It's a war crime to use it. And, because it it not only is like tear gas, but it's a 100 times worse. It makes you so you can't breathe, causes you to panic, causes you to become, irrationally, angry and hostile, and it, it it it it just makes you feel like you're suffocating. There's nothing you can do.
And and the and the the this one idiot in the in the the Metropolitan Police that was really firing most of the stuff at two 02:24 in the afternoon, the same time that Donald Trump said that Mike Pear Pierce, Apansra is a coward. He fired a canister of that CS gas toward the scaffolding that was there, but it fell short, and it ended up going right to where the police line was. Oh. And that's what caused the police line to to dissipate. Okay? It it wasn't because all of the j sixes pushed them out of the way. They all retreated because they couldn't breathe. Yeah. Yeah. That that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. And that and that's the same time that Donald Trump said that. So then the select committee, basically, they have Evans up on a stage saying Donald Trump said that Pierce's response, you know, is a coward, doesn't have the, you know, whatever.
That and that's what caused everything to go wild. And for that, they had to change the entire reality because that didn't happen until 04:10 in the afternoon. And in the trial, they actually used I understand. I didn't see it myself, but my understanding is they actually use videotape that's that changed the time stamp on it, and it's it's saying 02:24 in the afternoon when it's the real time stamp would have been 04:10. So they doctored the evidence. After everything had started. Yeah. They doctored the evidence. Or they blamed Donald Trump.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. They use false evidence. I mean, you know, they're criminals in many, many ways that these these people are. Anyway, I'm sorry if I went too long. No. No. It's just it it's just it's disgusting that that our government would do something like this or be involved in something like this.
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I I we do have another guest coming in momentarily, but, before we get to that, I just wanted to ask you about the I saw an article on, on a social media site. It was Getter, Bannon's thing. And it it was talking about Tina Peters actually, being moved. The DOJ, wanted to move Tina Peters from from the state to the fed to federal custody. So what do you think about that? What could that do to her case? I've been working
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I've been working on that with with people in the DOJ. Okay. And it was all going to happen a couple of months ago or or so. And that was also one of the things that I was unhappy with Blanche about because it was all happening in with the people it was supposed to be happening with. Mhmm. But but he put a kibosh on him. It didn't happen because of him. And I think now he's cooperating and letting it happen because he he wants to show that he's actually on the team making thing make you know, honoring the president's wishes. Yeah. But he did it in such a way where he left something very important out of his letter, and I I I I I hope it won't make any difference, if if, you know, that he he needed to put the cause and the reason that she's a necessary witness for the federal government.
There's no explanation
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that's put into it. Yeah. Exactly. Thing, he made it public. Yes. He it in the article that I read, it it didn't it it didn't say anything about being a necessary witness or anything like that whatsoever. All it kept on referring to was that, you know, she's elderly and she has health issues, and that was really all that the explanation that they gave for some kind of I I figured there had to be more involved than that. I mean, to go from state to state custody to federal custody is a big difference.
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Yes. Well, it you know, there are investigations that are going on that I I don't want I'm not, you know, talking about Of course. Yeah. To talk about. And and hopefully, you know, we're gonna we're gonna see some justice come about from some of these things. You know, let's it's not just Todd Blanch, though, that's disappointing me. There's a number of people up there that are that that are very disappointing that aren't making the president's program go forward. And, you know, it's so disheartening to see, the Republican senators. I mean, what do we have? Nine of them that are willing to, to go nuclear? Yeah. That's nine of them.
You know, what what's what's going on? See that but You know, what what about the other 44?
[01:03:59] Unknown:
Yeah. But but see, going nuclear, as you're talking about the filibuster, I mean, that that concerns me because, I mean, I know the Democrats, as soon as they as soon as they get the chance and the opportunity to and and take and and take over the senate at some point is gonna happen. You know? They're gonna end up doing it anyway, and then you're gonna get all this far left stuff crammed in your throat.
[01:04:21] Unknown:
You're you're thinking about things, like, in times of old, you know, like twenty years ago. You're thinking about things even ten years ago, where it really seemed that we had Democrats against Republicans. And and government could go back and forth and back and forth. But I'm telling you, it's not that way now. These are communists. These are people that are never going to give up power if they get power again. Oh, and I agree with you. You look yeah. People are fooled in a way because they they think we still have a fair system because Donald Trump was able to beat Kamala Harris and get into office. But notice the the numbers.
What did Donald Trump have? Like, 77,000,000?
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Something like that. Yeah. And
[01:05:03] Unknown:
and, yeah, and and and Kamala Harris had what? Like, 74, something like that. But Biden had 81,000,000, and we know that Biden didn't have 81,000,000. But the machines can easily conjure up those extra millions of votes. Sure. Yeah. Those machines were taken out by a a certain very brave human being whose name I don't know. Mhmm. So somebody who deserves the medal of freedom, whoever that was. And that's why Donald Trump is in office now because they weren't able to steal it because those machines that that that basically organize how this whole thing works in in terms of using those modified duplicates that are in the voter rolls, those machines were fried.
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Mhmm.
[01:05:54] Unknown:
Okay? Somehow, the fans were cut off on them. That's what I understand. I don't know if that's the mechanism. But those machines in Serbia were not able to do what they were supposed to do. And that's why we don't have president Harris in office right now. That was a big shocker and a big mistake by the left. It's never gonna happen again. These people learn everything that they can every single time they go through an election exercise or anything. They're never ever gonna have their machines vulnerable, and they're not gonna have a lack of redundancy ever again. Okay? Yeah. So the only thing that we can do in 2036 is we we better not have any any machines in play.
Because if we do have machines in play, we will lose it, and we're gonna lose it forever. Yeah. Using the nuclear option right now isn't like using the nuclear option twenty years ago, which would be you know, we don't wanna turn our system into that. No. Right now, we we we should consider ourselves on life support. Support. We should consider ourselves having to do any heroic measures necessary in order to save our lives here. Because I'm telling you, what I saw and what I've been seeing with the weaponization of government under Biden is just what is the beginning. It's easy to see. It's just the beginning.
[01:07:23] Unknown:
Yes. And you're right. Tolerate
[01:07:26] Unknown:
any of this. Where our gooses are cooked if we need to you know? And and if we have it in our heads, oh, well, you know, our system, I don't wanna do that. We we're fighting for our lives now. And if if we have to be the first to pull out a certain kind of a gun to be able to make sure that we don't get killed. Because once we're done, we're done. Yeah. It doesn't matter. They don't they won't need the nuclear option. They're not gonna need to end the filibuster. Nothing will matter after this. They will have absolute power. Well, the left made it very clear,
[01:08:02] Unknown:
dollar store Obama, that's what I call him, Jeffries. He, he made it very clear that if if the if if and when the left does eventually take over again, they're they're going full bore. If you are a supporter of Donald Trump, if you are a conservative, you will be prosecuted. You will go to jail. Well,
[01:08:25] Unknown:
they could do it. They could they could do it with a military court. They they won't even have a prosecution. They'll just arrest you and put you aside. Yeah. Yeah. And and that's just for now until they decide that you're not worth keeping. Mhmm. You know, that's how it goes. It that that this is how these things come about. Yeah. You know, these aren't, you know, people that respect your light your life, your your your your rights, your ability to express yourself, your ability to to to continue to live, they are not the ones that are causing this takeover of The United States.
The these are people who will get you out of the way because you're an inconvenience Yeah. And they don't care about you. I mean, they they want you dead.
[01:09:17] Unknown:
And you're right. And you're absolutely I mean, you just look at look at the communist takeover in China when that took place and and and other communist governments, Cuba. I mean, it's, you know, just a violent takeover. And it it's it it creeps its way in. It's like it's what it's doing right now. I mean, it, with the the Fabian socialist, I mean, they're creeping their way in.
[01:09:37] Unknown:
They just did it in New York. You know? We need we need to get them out. We need to get them all out. We need to, you know, we need to we we need to change the course of things. Yeah. And and because these people are taking over, and The United States is the last country left. And I'm also representing a a a a fellow, you know, James Bowder who, led you know, organized the convoys in that went to Ottawa.
[01:10:03] Unknown:
Yes. I I knew I recognized the name when you said it. Yeah. Yeah. That that's the, the the Canadian truckers.
[01:10:09] Unknown:
Yeah. Canadian Canada's gone. They wanna put this guy in prison for a very long time because he dared to, and they've got people in in prison now just for speaking up against the government. Mhmm. So, you know, these these countries are no longer free countries. Well, look what hap look what's happening right now over in in in, in England. I mean, you you if you post something online,
[01:10:32] Unknown:
they they come knocking on your door, and they'll take you out. I saw I saw it, I didn't think to pull it out, but, I saw a a post on on x and a couple of other social media sites of right here in Texas. A guy was a guy had made made a post that that they did that that, somebody determined to be anti Israel, and Texas DPS, showed up at his door, wanted to talk to him, And he told him to go kiss off, but, you know,
[01:11:03] Unknown:
so so and he had the video. We could still have that here. We could still do that here. But not For now. Not these people take over. And and so these these mini minds, and I'm sorry to call them that because you agreed with them that, you know, there is a concern. So forgive me for that. No. No. No. It's fine. No. It's okay. It's but you but for these senators to all they don't understand what the heck's going on, that this is a do or die situation. And we can't say, oh, well, if they take over again, they'll behave themselves? They they tried to pass it last time. Mhmm. You know, they were down two votes. They we had, what's his name?
Joe Mershen, you know, from,
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West Virginia. Oh, what's his name?
[01:11:49] Unknown:
Manchin. Manchin. And and there and there was another senator as well, a female senator, who basically opposed them doing it. So they didn't they weren't able to do it. Right. But, otherwise, they would have gone nuclear last time, and they're gonna go nuclear if if if that's what they need to do. They're not gonna it's it's over if they ever come back in again. We'll never get another chance to beat the machines. No. And, you know, and no real knows. It's gonna be obvious, and there's not a damn thing anybody can do about it.
[01:12:19] Unknown:
We had a we just had a a an election here in in Texas. Not an election, but, voting on propositions. There were 17 amendments that we're looking to put into the Texas constitution. And, no machines here, where I well, where I am anyway. It was all paper ballot, and, it was one, two, three. I went in, I got my ballot, both sides, checked it all off, dropped it in the box, walked out, felt fine.
[01:12:46] Unknown:
You know, it's the machines that make you nervous. You know? And and It's the machines that yeah. You know? And most people don't understand what it is in the machines and how the machines actually work. You know? They think that we're dealing with dead voters, that somebody's voting for because they're still on the voter rolls. Or they think that there's somebody's going into the tenement buildings and the urban centers and getting giving everybody $10 and getting the signed ballots and then they're taking the ballots. And, yes, that's happening. But that's nothing next to what the machines are able to do because of the millions and millions of of of of, modified duplicates that are in the voter rolls.
And and most people have no idea about what I'm talking about. When they first discovered, they call them clones. Yes. And and then now we switched over to modified duplicate. And and I'm I'm happy about that because I coined that those two words. Okay. You know, I worked I worked with Jerome Corsi on that. You know? Good. We can't have clones. People hear clones, they think we're science fiction. You know? We've gotta get rid of that word. So, you know, Jerome, you know, what do you prefer? I said, you know, well, they're duplicates, but they're not really duplicates. They're they're modified. So, you know, that's why we came up with modified duplicates. Yes. And and that's what it is. You know? In other words, in your count in your county in Texas Mhmm.
There could be four Joe Russes, all with your Social Security number, your driver's license number, your telephone number, your address.
[01:14:22] Unknown:
Yes.
[01:14:23] Unknown:
That's very true. Your date of birth may have been changed slightly. And there's a formula for how they do that. But it has a different voter identification number. And you may find in the next election is one of you that voted for Donald Trump or, you know, they well, he can't run again, but let's just Yeah. Let's do it. One of you votes for Donald Trump, and the other three votes for Kamal. Okay? Well, the other three are the machines. Mhmm. And what those machines are doing is pulling up the the the the hidden ones that are in the archives. See, nobody ever gets canceled.
They call it getting canceled. Oh, this one's canceled because they're dead. This one's canceled because they moved to another state. But they're not canceled. They're in the archives, and all the modified duplicates are in the archives. So in a state like New York, at least Andrew Paquette estimates that there's as many as 2,000,000 of these modified duplicates that are in the state of the voter rolls of the state of New York. So, you know, when you start thinking about, well, what does this mean and where are we with all of this? That's where that's where they're taking over our country without firing a shot. Well, maybe there's a few shots that they fired. I mean, they did kill Seth Ridge Yes. And some others. And they took pot they they took shots at our president, and, you know, and yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:15:59] Unknown:
The one thing about They don't care about. No. And and that's the thing too. And then the scary thing is is that if you if you poll the left, the the they they are perfectly fine perfectly fine with political violence now, which which is is I know. Which is terrifying when you think about it. They have they have gone so far to the left. I know.
[01:16:20] Unknown:
But but not as many as you think. Those huge margins that voted for the left, those are the machines. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, probably, we would have lost those elections anyway, but but it never would have been to the margins that we did. They decided to make it by large margins. They have that ability. They can make sure every senate race that comes up in 2026 goes to the left. And everyone will know
[01:16:49] Unknown:
that the fix was in, that nobody will be able to do a damping about it. And that and that's what's incredibly frustrating with the whole thing. Yeah. It it and exactly. It's frustrating, yeah, of course. But if it happens again to the extent that we're talking about right now, there is no recourse. We could you could you could you could complain about it as much as you want. You could do anything you want, but it will not change. Because they will have such a grip on power that they will silence you and eliminate you, if if they had to, which they probably would.
It's it's terrifying. It really is. It's it's Without without hesitation? Yeah. Yeah. It's it's terrifying to think about that. And and it's it's I don't wanna think about that. You know, I have you I have grandchildren. I wanna see them growing up in in an America that's free, that has liberty, that can that that they can still do the same things that I did when I was growing up. They can but that's not the world we live in anymore at all. And and I'm I'm just I am terrified at at to at the direction this country is going. You know, that's why I'm I mean, I know some people think that I'm crazy when I talk about the possibility of, of states seceding from the the the union of states, you know, like Texas. Like, I know California is trying to do it and, you know, I don't know how serious it all is, but I know Texas is serious about it and they're they're they're they're working their way through the legislative process on it. And, you know, it it's maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't, I don't know. But, you know, sometimes I think that that's what's gonna end up happening. If there is a takeover like like we're talking about here, say they do rig the twenty sixth to the twenty sixth and the twenty eighth elections, and they force a far left government upon us. I mean, what other recourse is there? I I can see easily how states might
[01:18:48] Unknown:
pull out or try to pull out at least. Yeah. But when you join the states, you know, you're part of the agreement is that, you're you're in the hotel California. You know? You know, you you can check out, but you can never leave. And and, you know, they're not gonna tolerate, you know Oh, of course not. They take over. They got they've got our armed forces. I'm not sure what Donald Trump's gonna do. I don't know how he's gonna handle all of this. But, you know, there's just too many people around him that are disappointing him and not doing what he needs, and he needs to learn to get rid of people quickly if they're not gonna be doing what he needs them to do. I agree. I agree. And there there there are so many people that love Donald Trump and would would you know, like, for me, if he says jump, I say from what floor? Uh-huh.
And there's so many people that understand that our country is at risk. I would bet that you would do whatever you were asked to do if he would ask you to do it. Absolutely. Meant saving the country. Absolutely.
[01:19:57] Unknown:
Yeah. Absolutely. You know, I'm I'm not happy with we did. You know, we we don't have
[01:20:03] Unknown:
I mean, there were so few troops that we had. They had 26,000 men altogether. 3% of the population Yeah. Participated in the revolutionary war. Yes, sir. But look at what those men did. Defeat freezing while they're going across the Delaware and then marching across the, you know, frozen land with hardly any shoes on. You know? You know? Look at what they they they they did and what they needed to do. Why? Because they weren't gonna be ruled by the king. Yeah.
[01:20:30] Unknown:
You know? I I read an account They're not taught they were There's I know there's a little bit of a delay, but, I I read an account. I I did I I taught a, I taught a a a course on on my Sunday show on, the the American Revolution. And because I love I love studying that period of of our history. I think as much as I I I get a lot of flack for this, so but I'm gonna say it anyway. You know, I I know that people say that the the generation that fought World War two was the greatest generation. I great generation, yes, but I think our greatest generation was our founding generation. And, you know, I read I read accounts of these men leaving bloody trails in the snow, you know, because they're marching barefoot and and across this across these snow filled, ice filled fields, you know, and, you know, ice ice is incredibly sharp. It cuts you like a knife.
And they're marching across these fields to fight for the freedoms and the liberties that we have today, and look and and where we are now. Well, then they say that the the average lifespan of a of a republic is about two hundred fifty years. And look where we are. Look where we are. We are right at the precipice of of potentially losing our republic. And I have to say republic.
[01:21:52] Unknown:
Being invaded, you you know, by by the barbarians,
[01:21:56] Unknown:
so to speak. Yeah. The same thing like Rome. Rome was so spread out around the world, just like we are. You know, there wasn't enough manpower left at home to defend the home, and, wide open borders. You had all that stuff. It it it same the same thing that goes on here is is what is what took place in Rome before Rome fell. And it's it was terrible. So, I wanna ask you really quickly before we wrap up because, our next guest has has, checked in here. I wanna know what what do you think about what happened here in New York with, with Mamdani, winning the mayoral election? What the heck happened up to New York there?
[01:22:37] Unknown:
Again, there are foreign forces that are influencing everything. And even if he didn't have the votes, the machines would have given him the vote. I'm telling you, in the state of New York, there's 2,000,000 modified duplicates in the tax rolls. I don't know how many are in the city, but you gotta figure it's a good percentage of, you know, if there's 8,000,000 in the city and there's 18,000,000 altogether in the state or those about that. So, you know, about almost half of those numbers have to be in in the tax roll the the voting rolls of of the city. Yeah. So they can they can they could have manipulated that any way that they wanted to. And, of course, the you know, this guy is fantastic in terms of the way he's able to make things appear in the public like he's really being celebrated more more than reality would have have it be. But, you know, how did Hitler come to power?
[01:23:36] Unknown:
Yeah. No. Very true. It's the same.
[01:23:38] Unknown:
Same. It's the same tack. It's it's exactly the same tack. If it's tolerated if we don't have a very strong central government to stop it, it's exactly the same tack. January 6 was nothing different than burning the Reichstag.
[01:23:51] Unknown:
Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. It's so crazy. So it's very much the same. Well, Peter, thank you. Man, I appreciate this. I really I you know, I love having you on the show, and and I want you to come on more often. So, you know, anytime you have some free time, let's, let's do something. And I'd like to get you to book on a day where where we could just do a whole day, the whole show just to get just just the two of us. Because because there's so much that we have to talk about and we we never really get through it all. And, but I guess that's good because then I get to have you come back. So
[01:24:22] Unknown:
Right. Right. Right. And we've dealt with a lot. We've dealt with the voting. We've dealt with Stephanie Lambert's case. We've dealt with Tina Peters case a bit. We got more covered today than we did the last time.
[01:24:31] Unknown:
As far as far as the topic of conversation, the the subject we wanted to talk about. But Peter, thank you. Again, sir, thank you so much for being here. I really do appreciate you. You know, you are a scholar and a gentleman, sir. Thank you. Thank you so much. I I I I give it right back to you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. So where can the folks go and find more information about you?
[01:24:52] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Well, legalbrains.com. That's, you know, our work is is the legal work in the legal world, and we've got brains.
[01:25:01] Unknown:
Alright. Legal brains.
[01:25:03] Unknown:
And my my email address is my initials, p t. So it's p t, you know, like [email protected].
[01:25:12] Unknown:
Outstanding. Thank you so much, sir. Peter Ticton, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much, sir. God bless you. Have a great one. And if I don't talk to you beforehand, have a have a great Thanksgiving, and the best of the family.
[01:25:21] Unknown:
Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Take care now.
[01:25:24] Unknown:
Alright, folks. Peter Ticton, man. That was that's awesome. That is absolutely you know, I I I really do I thought I really do enjoy having Peter on the show. I mean, I've learned so much from having him around, and it's it's just a it's a it's a real treat for me. So I hope it is for you, and I hope you like it. So drop a comment down below. Let me know what you think. We have Rory Paquette waiting for us in the, in the wings, but I need to use the restroom. So I'm gonna take a little break here, and when we come back, we'll jump right in here with Rory, and, we're gonna talk about some really interesting stuff there. So folks, don't forget, this is a Joe Russo. It's live show weeknights 7PM central time, and, don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Yeah. I'm still fighting the cold. I'm still fighting the cold. A week now. It's been a steady week. So, don't forget to like, subscribe, and share with your friends, your family, your followers.
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Alright. Joining us now is Rory Paquette Paquette. Rory is a professional podcaster, coach, author, and speaker. He currently hosts six diff six different podcasts. Right. He's written two books, The Lone Wolf Selling System and The 5% Diet, which we will talk about because I need to trim down here a little bit. With two more books in the works, he has decades of experience in public speaking, coaching management, and sales, and he has brought all of this together into his current coaching programs. Rory provides life coaching for men through this through his program Power of One. He works with men and women in becoming better, more profitable podcasters through his podcast coaching program, Wake Up the Mic. He also offers his own affiliate program to podcasters who are looking to monetize quickly called the Rising Tide System. Rory, hey. Welcome to the show, man. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate it, man. That was a great first segment you had going. Oh, pre yeah. I I love having Peter on excuse me.
I am fighting a cold since last Saturday. I heard. This thing just will not hear that, man. This thing will just not go away. It's, like, ridiculous. I feel you. But, but, yeah, Peter Ticton's great, man. He I, you know, I came I I got connected with him, and, it was hysterical. And as a podcast, you would appreciate this. So, so, you know, I do the live show, and that's I don't record the show, prerecorded anyway. Record it as I'm doing it, but but, he was he was supposed to be the guest on the show, and I was so excited to have him on because, you know, here, I'm I'm just building an audience, man. I don't have anybody really at that at the time he came on. And I'm like, here's a guy, he's personal friends with with president Trump. They went to military school together.
He's he's representing j six, people. He's representing Tina Peters in Colorado. He's representing this this the, the Lambert case out out in, forgot where it is, but you know what I'm talking about. I don't know what you're talking about though yet. So so, I'm like, he reached out to us? How is that possible? Do you know? So so he so he can't so he was supposed to come on the show, I sent him all the links and everything, and and like fifteen minutes before not even fifteen minutes, ten minutes before the show, his his publicist calls and she's like, we're having a problem getting connected.
And like, he was the only he was like the only guest I had for the show that night. I had nothing else prepped, and I'm like, okay. And so I'm we're we're so we're trying to troubleshoot this whole thing, get this thing working, couldn't get him on. His PR people were great though. I mean, they they found two people to replace him who jumped onto the stream, but of course, I don't know who these people are. I have no background on them. I have no bios. I have nothing. Don't know what we're gonna talk about. But it worked. It it it actually worked. And then he came on, a couple of about a week or so later, and I asked him one question.
One question, and that took up the whole show. And it's the same question I'm gonna ask you.
[01:35:13] Unknown:
Okay? Oh, boy. I'm a big shoes to fill here, man.
[01:35:16] Unknown:
Big shoes. Yes, sir. So and that question was very simply this. What is something most people don't know about you but should?
[01:35:27] Unknown:
Something that most people don't know about me. Mhmm. That's tough because I'm a very open book. I think Everybody says that, but they all find something. The biggest thing that people, don't know about me and they should is that I'm just a big teddy bear, man. You know? I mean, I look ferocious. Apparently, I'm scary to some people. Both of my daughter in law's, daughters in law, reported back to me at some point that, they were a little intimidated by me when they said that. You know, stuff like that. I'm just a big teddy bear, brother. And that I think that's probably the one thing that that nobody would guess about me. I'm kind of a large guy, you know, but, deep voice, you know, and so on. Yes. And I'm not really. I'm I'm I'm a pushover.
[01:36:09] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm the same way. People people get the the one thing now my background is I I, you know, my my career, I worked for New York City for twenty five years. I I worked in law enforcement. I did investigative work for the agency that I worked for, and I retired from department operations, and came down here to Texas. And, you know, I I I work in a local nursing facility here, and when I first got there, people were terrified of me. They they they thought that I was, like, coming to tear the place apart or something. They were like, oh, we thought you were with corporate. We thought you were no. I'm just why?
You look mean.
[01:36:45] Unknown:
I'm like Yeah. It's like, what what do you mean? What do you mean I look mean? I know. I get the same thing. So And, at the well, I had more
[01:36:54] Unknown:
black hair and all that stuff. So I I I wasn't as
[01:36:58] Unknown:
light and, you know, whatever. But Light and fluffy as we have now. Yeah.
[01:37:03] Unknown:
Yeah. Getting old stinks, man. I'm telling you, dude. You know, I'm gonna be 55 in two weeks, man. I can't I I cannot believe that. That that's just I'm 55 now, man. It hurts. You don't look fifty five now. Painful. Oh, well, thanks. I appreciate it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, thanks. I'm not there yet. That's why. So I got two more weeks. But, you know, it's it's it's crazy at people's perception until they get to know you, you know. And then and then they realize that, yeah, you're you're just a nice guy. That's all. Yeah. You know? Just give well, you know, give me the bourbon first, and then I'm I'm really nice guy. You're you're really, really preaching to the choir right now. Oh, you're a bourbon guy? Oh, absolutely. Go home with me. Beautiful. You know what? I don't and that's the thing too. Like, I I wanted I needed to pick up a bottle because I I'm running low. And, usually on my Friday and Saturday, that's what I do. I'll, you know, have after the show Friday night, I have I'd have a bourbon, and then usually on a Saturday afternoon, I'll I'll have maybe not a lot because I at one point, I was really bad with it, but so but now, like, on the weekend, I'll just have, like, one or two drinks on a on a Saturday. But I'll go out I'll go out to the backyard, I'll get a fire going in the fire pit, I'll sit there with a cigar and and some bourbon and just relax. You know? It's just one of those things is I I love to do it. So what what's your, what's what's your favorite bourbon?
[01:38:19] Unknown:
Oh, goodness. Or what's your go to bourbon? Like like, what's your everyday? Go to is is a real simple one because, you know, I'm I'm cheap. That's the problem. You know, if it's for somebody else, I mean, I'll buy my kids, my wife, anything that I could possibly buy them. I'll get them all the best. But for me, I I just don't splurge. Mhmm. The only time I do is when I'm with my son-in-law. And, you know, he, he's an aficionado. And he's been on the Bourbon Trails, and he knows it all. And Nice. He'll be like, you know, hey. Check this out. That's bucket list. And, I mean, there's there's some really nice ones over there. But, I mean, I'm a a a Jim Beam, devil's cut kinda guy at home because it's $20 and doesn't Alright. It's a nice relaxing one.
[01:38:58] Unknown:
Fair enough. Jim Beam is, I I like Jim Beam. I don't I don't have it often. My my go to has been of late, has been a bourbon. I I really I I didn't know about until maybe two years ago, three years ago. It's a bourbon called seventeen ninety two, and and, I I don't like like I said, I I I've never seen it anywhere. I I saw it here, and I was like, oh, let me try it. The bottle looks nice, you know. So let me let me let me see, you know, how how this thing is. And, it was a little pricey. It was like I think it was almost $70 for the average size bottle.
[01:39:37] Unknown:
Sure.
[01:39:38] Unknown:
But, dude, oh my gosh. That's smooth. It was amazing. It was absolutely amazing. So, of course, after mastering the small batch, I had to experiment with the foolproof that my my my local alcoholic place, you know, recommended. So the foolproof the foolproof was a 125 proof or something like that, 130 proof. And I'll I'll be very honest with you. I I I cracked the bottle, and something's told me don't just dive into this, you know. Let it breathe a little bit. Right. Crack this thing open, and as soon as I broke the seal, I got heartburn.
That's how strong this thing was. It was terrible. It took me it took me a month it took me a month to drink that bottle because you I couldn't do it. It was just I had to do small amounts, small amounts, and small amounts. But I I gained an appreciation for it that way. Yeah. I I love the old stuff, man. But
[01:40:43] Unknown:
Yeah. I I love the older stuff. I love the season stuff. You know, the age, that's great. But but the high proof stuff, I'm too old for that now. You know what? I I
[01:40:51] Unknown:
give me two more weeks, and I'll and I'll be too old for it. The I'm telling you, man. Yeah. Well, we'll we'll find out. But, that and also I I I I love Elijah Craig bourbons. Elijah Craig, it's it's it's it's I think it's I think it's considered the oldest bourbon in America. It's like one of the first original bourbons. And, it just it's just so nice, and it pairs so nice with a cigar, and depending on which one you do. Like I've said it many times on on the show, my favorite pairing of Elijah Craig is is Elijah Craig toasted barrel. And do you know much about cigars at all? Anything?
[01:41:31] Unknown:
I don't do the cigar part. No. But Okay. I do the bourbon on occasion, but the the cigar part I I stay away from. Well, the cigar that I I choose for the Elijah Craig, the toasted barrel,
[01:41:40] Unknown:
is a a a a a it's a Camacho Triple Maduro. So the Triple Maduro is is just remember, Maduro is a darker leaf Right. Darker wrapper, very strong. But it pairs so nice. And then you're talking about triple Midoriya. You're talking about leaf, filler, wrapper, all that stuff. That's all, you know, pairs so nice with the toasted barrel. Oh, my gosh. My do I have any? I know I have some You're gonna make it through the show? I know I have some to I might I know I have some toasted barrel. I don't know if I have any triple madoras, though. We'll see. But we'll see. But, Avo Heritage cigars are great. They're they're fantastic. I love those. That's what I have in the humidor right now. I have some I have some Rocky Patel's in there. I have some I have some really nice stuff. So which I probably shouldn't smoke because, you know, the cold and everything. But Yeah. I was gonna say, you have to exacerbate the windpipe thing. You have to exact you have yeah. I know. But you you have to make sacrifices. You know, if you're you know, you gotta do these things.
You know, you work hard all week, and and then, you know, you come to the weekend, you do a show like this on a weekend, on a Friday, and you gotta you gotta do your thing. You gotta relax. Amen, brother. I mean, absolutely. You gotta take care of yourself a little bit. Yes, sir. So we already covered your, your what do people know don't know about you. We got your beverage. So let me ask you, oh, man. Ever since I ever since I had to redo everything, I all these little notifications are popping up here. I don't know if you heard what I said before, but I, Wednesday, on Wednesday's show, I had everything lined up, everything was great. I came into the studio, I started turning everything on, and I would click open my browser to to load the studio, and Internet would crash.
Nightmare. And I'm like, what? Did it again, and I'm cursing my my my Internet provider. I'm like, you know, I'm paying all this freaking money for this thing with the all that stuff. And and I do it again, and I keep doing it, keep doing it, keep doing it. And I'm like, why is it why is what's wrong? I checked the router, router's fine, I restarted it, everything was fine, everything was great. And then I I noticed that I have a t I have a TV here and it's it's it's connected to the WiFi, but that was working. My phone was connected to the WiFi.
You know, my tablet was connected to the WiFi. Everything was connected. Everything was working. So, you know, I did the ultimate test. I I have, an Alexa. I asked her. I said, are you connected? And she said, yes, I'm connected. Then why isn't my computer connecting? Went through the whole thing, but it was so close to Showtime. I had I, you know, I I didn't know what else to do. So I tried I tried restarting and I tried, you know, resetting the drivers. All that stuff, nothing worked. And I ended up having to factory reset the whole thing and start from and start from scratch.
You know, thank God, I I have a I have I have a a a removable hard drive. So I I was able to back up all the show stuff, but I have to redo everything. And one of the things that I noticed that I didn't do is I didn't I didn't, reset the encoder for the audio. Because what I do is I I stream a show live on audio, and I and I do the show on the video. So I can't I'm not streaming live on the audio right now because I didn't reset the encoder. And when I was trying to do it, it took me an hour and it would it will not connect to the server. So tomorrow, I will be speaking with customer service and finding out what the hell is going on here. Sounds like sabotage to me, but I don't think somebody doesn't like what you're talking about. I don't I think, you know, you might be right. You might be right. I I do talk about a lot of controversial stuff like bourbons and cigars and things like that. Yeah. You know? January 6. Yeah. Yes. That too. Yeah. That that does creep in every now and then. You know? So, hey, here's a question for you. Stupid question. I know it's not even in my notes, but just a question for you.
When you started podcasting, how long ago about more or less did you start doing this? About seven years. Okay. Caretake. I start I started doing stuff like this back in when it was called Internet radio, before it was called podcasting. So you're talking twenty fifteen, 2016, somewhere around there. Alright. So, and on and off, you know, like most podcasters. But did did you ever notice, because somebody pointed this out to me, that whenever you go through a drive through, all of a sudden, podcast of voice comes out?
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Do you ever know? Yes. It happens to me all the time.
[01:46:04] Unknown:
It's it's crazy. Right? All of a sudden, it's like, hi.
[01:46:08] Unknown:
How are you? Exactly. I'll be talking to my wife and I look over and I'm like, yeah, I need, three Chick fil A sandwiches and I'd like a large fry with that, please. Yeah. Yeah. It's exactly what happens. You can't help it. It's it's it's You can't. No. It's it's it's it's a trip. It's a trip. So, so tell us a little bit about life before podcasting. What did that look like for you? Oh, goodness gracious. Life before podcasting, in a lot of ways was great. You know, I'm a a father and a husband, and, I have three of the best kids in the planet and, lived for them for decades. I have a wife who's, you know, way too good for me. Just way, way too good for me. Could do better than me on accident.
And I spent most of my time in sales. You know? So, I have always been that guy, going out there, going, alright. Hey. I don't wanna work for salary. I don't work for, you know, an hourly. I just wanna go out and eat what I kill type of thing. So, you know, I had a very successful sales career, entrepreneur, had my own real estate firm, you know, that kind of thing. So in short, you know, that was that was kinda life before podcasting.
[01:47:06] Unknown:
Raising kids mostly, coaching sports especially takes every minute of your day. Oh, yeah. I know. I I have I have two kids myself. And like yours, I'm sure they're probably my mine are older, and they're on their own. Like, my my my daughter is, she she's just turned 29. She's lives up in New York and, you know, married. She has three beautiful children. I have so I'm a granddad, you know. So Oh, congrats on that, man. I'm still waiting on that on that milestone. Yeah. You know, that's just too I'm not ready for it. But I'm not old enough. I'm not I'm not grandpa yet, you know. You will be in a couple weeks. Yes. Two more weeks, I will be grandpa. That's right. Yes. Absolutely. I will I will wear the mantle then proudly. But until then, I'm just that crazy guy who lives in Texas.
And then I got my son who's who's 26. He'll he'll be lucky if he makes it to 27 because he's just a lunatic, but I love him. He's a great kid. And then I have my other two. My my my my Frenchies. They're they're in the other room there. My, my boy Charlie, who momentarily, you well, he he already did actually, but you might hear him again. Because usually usually about thirty minutes before the end of the show, he somehow knows, and he's at the door howling. So, and I and I think I I I like to pat myself on the back that I train them to watch the show, because I put it on the TV in in the living room for them while they're out so they can watch the show, you know. And, so they're not by themselves out there for too long. And because they're by themselves all day, you know. Then I come home and I do a two hour show and then, you know, they, you know, so they're by themselves most of the time. So I put the show on for them. So I think he I think they learned, like, certain keywords that I say that they know it's time to wrap up, and so they I know the end is coming. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So,
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but, yeah. So those are my two. My boy, Charlie, he's four. My girl, Beanie, she's five. Wow. And so Oh, I gotta give you all the credit in the world. I couldn't I couldn't be doing another four year old right now. No. No. Well, yeah. I'll put and he's a four year old. Trust me. You you know? Wow. He's a four year old. Mine are very similar in age to yours. My daughter is, you know, like, 32. I got a son that's 25. My youngest son is 21, and and that's it. There's nothing after that. No more Paquettes after that. Football coaches have been asking for years. No. There's no more Paquettes after that until their grandkids. Nice. And and and then they'll we'll turn them over to the high school. But until then, no. No. Nice. How do you say so I know I I know I mangled your last I've I've been saying your last name all day today, so I knew I wouldn't make a mistake. And, of course, you know, the show starts, and I do. So so how do you did you pronounce it differently than I did? Very different. Oh, it's all good. Brother, I've heard it butchered so bad. And as as long as people don't add three or four letters, really, I don't bother correcting anybody. It's just Paquette. Paquette. That's simple, easy. Yeah. Yeah. So it's French. The rest of me is Italian. It just works out. Alright. Probably I see a paison. Okay. Yeah. So my my my full last name is Rusiello.
[01:49:50] Unknown:
So it's it's so it's a much, you know and I've heard unlike you, I don't I don't correct him. I I usually say, alright. It's close enough.
[01:49:58] Unknown:
That's that's all I do. I get parkette. I get parkette. I get parkette. I get but Parkette. I've gotten parquet. I got parquet so often. I went to football camp once when I was in high school, and I literally just wrote parquet. Like butter. P a r k a y on my helmet. So and they called me parquet for a whole week because I just didn't wanna hear the name get butchered every five
[01:50:18] Unknown:
seconds. Sometimes you just give up. A football. Yeah. Sometimes you just gotta give up and you just gotta do your thing. That's it. Sorry again. Now I was looking at your bio and, you talk about something that took place about a year or so ago, if the bio is up to date. And this was that you were lying on the floor in an emergency room. Can you do you wanna talk about that? Can you tell us about that, what that was all about?
[01:50:43] Unknown:
Yeah. Sure. I've had a a couple of really low points in my life, and that was one of them. That was the most recent and, hopefully, the last because, you know, whatever God's been trying to tell me in the message, I think I finally got it. You know? But, it took a while. Sometimes that was a You know, I was kinda like you, like, right now. I hate to say it, so be careful Okay. Alright, with what you got. I just figured it was, you know, being old, catching the funk, you know, fluid that wouldn't go away. Mhmm.
[01:51:10] Unknown:
And turns out I had pneumonia for over a year that I had been carrying around. I had no idea. Interesting. That's And my lungs got worse and worse and worse. Yeah. One of the nurses at my, at the nursing facility, you know, asked me about that. She was like, have you gotten have you gone to the doctor to get checked? I'm like, no. She said, don't you think you should? You've been you've been coughing and hacking for a week.
[01:51:29] Unknown:
I'm like, okay. Go. Alright. Yeah. Let them look at you. You know? There I mean, I don't like medication at all. Yeah. I mean And I hate the doctor. So I'll go Monday. If I would've gone ever to the doctor, maybe they would've caught it. But, you know, but over a year, we just built up and built up and built up. And, I finally got to a point where, I couldn't breathe anymore. And, it was, it was really horrible. Like, the week before that, I was visiting with my younger son and his, now wife. And, they were like, man, dad, you're really sick. What's going on? And I had no real idea. I just figured it was a really bad flu. You know? But by the end of that week, it was, really horrible. And it was kinda like timing my wife's contractions here. It gets smaller and smaller and smaller. It was time to go to the hospital. Yeah. Well, my breathing was doing that. And I said, you know, okay.
At this rate, I looked at my wife. I said, at this rate, twenty minutes from now, I'm not breathing anymore. And she goes, okay. That's not good. I said, no. We we gotta go to the hospital. So she turned me in the truck and broke about 18 laws to, you know, get me there. I mean, faster than any ambulance, I'm telling you right now. And, that's what a good woman does. Death and time. Yep. She, I pulled up. I jumped out of the car and tried to get in the emergency room and started blacking out as I went in. And, I don't even I don't know if I said anything or not, but I tried to and took what I thought was my last breath and hit the floor. Wow. That was it. I thought it was done. Gotta be honest with you. I was going down going, well, this is what it's like. Slam into the ground. But that was it. So the lung had completely filled up.
It was totally frozen, and the other one, had just given up. It was like, I can't carry this big guy and this broken lung anymore, and it just quit on me. Said forget it. So Wow. It was, you know, made it to the hospital. Oh, thank god. Up with tubes everywhere and the whole nine yards. And, you know, about three weeks later, almost a month later, we left the hospital after a whole bunch of procedures and one major surgery that should've killed me, to be honest. Wow. And, you know, here I am today, you know, health insurance.
[01:53:36] Unknown:
You know? But that but that's good, though. I mean, you know, all the joking around the side, you know, it it it's you know, thank god that you got you got taken care of the way when you did as fast as and and it it took you a while, but at least you got taken care of and you're still here and you and, you know, you have, you know, beautiful family to take care of and and I'm sure they appreciate you being around, you know, so that's that's that's great. I'm and I'm glad that I'm glad that you're on a better path right now. Now, Matt, how did all that lead to the life of a podcast host and and a coach?
[01:54:03] Unknown:
Well, I was podcast hosting and coaching prior to that. And, you know, it's funny because I was doing podcast host. I was hosting episodes of a couple of my podcasts, and I'm sitting here with, like, the tea and, you know, the, lozenge, you know, and I'm, like, sucking it out. I'm sucking on it in between takes and then sort of sticking it in my cheek so I can actually ask a question. You know? And you do it like you're doing now. You do what you gotta do to get through the the interview. Yeah. It had kinda gotten funny. Like, alright. I gotta get my tea. I gotta get my coffee. I gotta go back and forth because they only work in tandem. It was such a mess. But I was already doing that, for several years prior to, all this happening. So, when I went down, you know, the the communities that I had built through podcasting, responded like crazy. You know? They're all like, oh, man. You know? Rory, you know, what do you need? And I had people who were, you know, eight states away who I'd never even met in person, but were, like, sending stuff, you know, to my wife, you know, help us out and stuff like that. So it was a it was a really neat it was really neat in that I got to see what the podcaster community really was like, you know, firsthand like that. And, you know, it was it was cool. We built from there and and kinda took off. You know, it's interesting. The the the podcasting community,
[01:55:16] Unknown:
as big as it is, because there are millions of podcasts podcasters.
[01:55:20] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. You
[01:55:22] Unknown:
know, of the millions of podcasts, only is only a fraction really are active. I think I I I read something that was, like, 4,000,000 something podcasts that are registered, but barely 40,000 or 400,000 or something like that was is actually Yeah. Working Yeah. It's like doing things. Right about that. Yeah. Exactly. You know? And, one of the thing I said at the start of this show was, you know, what's really an accomplishment for us is that, you know, this this show, it's we hit episode 200 today. So That's awesome. Congrats. Well, thank you. You know, and and and, you know, people say, big deal. Right? You know, you talk to people outside of podcast and they're like, okay, and? Right. Well, you don't realize that most podcasts die at ten.
Right. You know? They don't come back. Yeah. So 20 is your first milestone. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. You hit 20, you celebrate. Exactly. And you know what? The funny thing is my, my audio host platform, Podholm, they, they they sponsor the show. They, they actually send you when you hit 10 episodes, 20 episodes, 50 episodes, a 100 episodes, one fifty. You get these little badges that they send you, you know, and and they give you, like Right. Like little perks. You'll get little discounts. You'll I owe something off your bill and whatever it is. It's it's it's pretty neat that they encourage you to go along and do that. And that's that's fantastic. So I'm I'm just curious, you know, what my little gift is gonna be for number 200 today. Well, hopefully, it's pretty good. We shall find out. Maybe at least a chicken chicken sandwich or something. Yeah. Chick fil A is good. Yeah. That that'd be fine. I'm fine. That'll work. But, but I did find out though how how how the podcasting community takes care of each other.
Like, I'm I'm dealing with something right now. I I I hate taxes, man. So Yeah. So, the the the the the county increased one of the taxes that we pay on the property. Okay? And, so much so that it sent us into a $3,000, escrow shortfall,
[01:57:25] Unknown:
which Oh my gosh. Yes. Which,
[01:57:28] Unknown:
which I could either pay upfront, which I don't have, or I could maybe if I didn't buy so much bourbon, I would. But, in retrospect. Right. But, it it so we pay it up in front or you you spread it out. And spreading it out increased my mortgage payment by over almost $400. Oh my goodness. So it's so everything is incredibly tight. Yeah. And the the first panel, I don't know if you hear Charlie, but he's howling at the door. So so the the first payment had to be this month. So that that was a that was a bittersweet bitter pill to swallow when I saw that payment come out. But, I but I set up a GoFundMe. And, I had two two people that I know that are that are in the podcasting community, donated quite a bit towards it. Wow. And I and I say okay. So one was one was a $100. Alright. Now, to me, that's quite a bit, you know. That's a lot. It is. And For one person. Right. And the the other one, donated 300 to it.
And, you know, greatly appreciated. I mean, that that's that's big. That's really cool. You know? So, of course, you know, I'm I'm I'm trying to get some more to send in, like, a in a lump payment so it actually affects the the mortgage. Right. So, you know, it's but but that's the that's the podcasting community. I just I just had a conversation. I was just saying, man, I I got screwed on this. And the next thing I know and I was like and I was like, I you know, I set up a GoFundMe, so I'll see what happens. Oh, what's the what's the link? I'll I'll share it around. Oh, okay. Yeah. Sure. Here it is. And boom. Next day. It's, you know, but that's the podcasting community, you know, if the we we do kinda look out for each other, you know.
Because it's not competition. It's not like I'm not trying to do better than you are, and I'm not trying to do better than anybody else, and I'm, you know, it's, you know, we we each have our individual little niche. We have our audience that we that we go to, and there's plenty of it to go around. So there it's so but that's the thing about podcasting that I love is that it's it's a big community, but yet everybody seems to have some kind of an interaction
[01:59:36] Unknown:
or connection somewhere along the way. And, like, I'm sure you know Dave Jackson. Right? Oh, yeah. I've had him on one yeah. I've interviewed him on my pod one of my podcasts. I had him on mine. And,
[01:59:47] Unknown:
I actually when I first started doing the the the the, not this podcast, the one right I did right before this one. Oh my gosh. It it just flipped out of my head. And you're only 54. Yes. Yes. Yes. Adam Curry. Oh, yeah. Adam Curry. I had him on the same podcast as Dave. Yeah. Okay. Adam Adam Curry referred me to Dave Mhmm. To to get the basics on. Because that was I had a bunch of questions. I had just bought a mixing board. I didn't know the first thing about it. You know. Because because the the the show I did back in New York, we had all that stuff. We had an engineer.
[02:00:25] Unknown:
Right. So When you have those assistants doing it for you Yeah. It's a different world.
[02:00:30] Unknown:
Exactly. Exactly. And so I I learned a I learned a hell of a lot from Dave and then had him on the show and it was great, you know, to have him on here. I picked up a lot from that. And, you know, but pod but that's the community. We all know each other somehow or some way. There's some kind of connection. Exactly. So now now you're hosting six shows Mhmm. Which is a struggle. Had for, you know, because most people struggle with one. I I struggle with one. How do you keep up with it? Like, how do you keep up with the creativity? The how do you keep the energy going, you know, keeping it fresh? You know, and especially, you have so many different formats you work with. So so how do you do it all?
[02:01:09] Unknown:
I, I love every minute of it. And, and I do it full time. You know, I'm not trying to work another job Mhmm. Or anything like that. This is what I do for a living. I'm incredibly fortunate. When I was in that hospital, you know, I just had a lot of long, long nights where I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep, and my wife was there every minute. And we talked about a lot of stuff. Mhmm. And, you know, you can only watch Welcome Back, Cutter reruns so many times before you go. Alright. I gotta turn the hospital TV off because it's just useless. But we did. We we had just to reconnect in a big way, and we talked a lot about, like, okay.
Kids are all grown. I'm not gonna die now for a little while anyway. So now what? You know? Yeah. And, we both just decided we needed to reinvent everything. And, you know, we decided to downsize and, you know, go minimalist and, like, why do we have this expense? I don't know. Forget it. And in doing that, it became, possible for me to, you know, with the help of of my wife and and our family, it was like, I can go pursue this now, you know, what I really wanna do. And I did. And, honestly, I I haven't looked back since. It's been just amazing to do it full time every day. And I'll be honest with you, Joe. I'm working more now, you know, working. Right? Yeah. Working more now than I than I ever did. I I start a day at three or 04:00 in the morning sometimes to talk to somebody over in Germany or Iceland or something. Yeah.
You're right? Yeah. And then I have, you know, interviews, you know, like tonight. It's 10:00 eastern time here. Yeah. Well, you signed on late. I had one what's that? You signed on late. Oh, no. I didn't. Yes. You did. Oh, no. I didn't. Yes. I was actually here ten minutes early, and I tried to come in and got kicked out. Kicked out. I didn't kick you out. It just it booted me out and it put me to the StreamYard sign up. And I went, alright. He must not want me on stage yet. So I know. I wouldn't I was watching you on YouTube because you had a break with the guy. No. I wouldn't do that. I I know. I I saw you pop up on the little on the on the little
[02:03:04] Unknown:
screen down there and, I was like, oh, I thought maybe you had a problem with the with the camera or something like that and I was waiting for you to come. And, because because when I saw you pop up, I said to I said to Peter, I said, well, you know, we're gonna next guest is ready to come to come on in. So then and he disappeared. And I was like, okay.
[02:03:21] Unknown:
I guess he didn't wanna be on the show. He probably he probably checked in, saw what was going on. I was like, oh, freak no. I'm out of here. No. I was just like, hey. He's in the middle of a really good conversation with this guy, and I know who he is. Mhmm. You know? He's he's been all over the headlines for his January 6 work alone. And so I'm like, alright. I'm not getting into the list. So I had I was watching your show for a few minutes, and I said, I'll check back in a few minutes. Okay. Before I know it, I mean, I'm enthralled in your show, and it's quarter after. And I'm like, oh, wait. I gotta try and get back. I'm supposed to be there. You know? And I'm like, yeah. So so I was here, man. Alright. Alright. Alright. Raise my hand. On a technicality, we'll we'll we'll let it pass on a technical. But go ahead. Could I I didn't mean to interrupt you. Elders. Okay? Come on. Yes, sir. Yep. For two weeks. Alright. Right on.
Yeah. So anyway, but, you know, and then we have nighttime meetings like this, like I talked about. So, I mean, I'll work nonstop. I'll do 12 interviews in a day, you know, sometimes. Between interviews and coaching calls, I'll take 12 meetings, you know, all day long, with maybe fifteen minute breaks in between. And I just love every minute of it. Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm just charged the whole day because it's yeah. You're meeting new people and you you're telling new stories. And I'm working on with six different podcasts. I'm not talking about the same thing either all day. Yeah. Yeah. Different subjects and, you know, different topics, and it's it's just amazing to be doing what I'm doing. I I it's surreal, to be honest. I can't believe it really is happening some some days. It is. And and that's that's a great thing. I'm glad you brought that up because,
[02:04:42] Unknown:
you you talk to people outside of podcasting, people who really don't do it, and they don't understand, what you get out of it. Since I've been doing this particular show, like I said, I did I did the Internet radio thing back back in the day, and it was great. It was me, three two other guys. We had a blast. It was a lot of fun. And then I did another another, podcast for almost three years I did it, and and it was it was a bible study podcast, and I I just taught the bible. And I did it twice a week, it was a lot of fun, I loved doing it, and then I I went to take a break, and then while I took the break, I was like, I kinda wanna I kinda wanna dip into something different.
And then this came. This was this was not supposed to be this. This this was when I first started doing this, my plan was very simple. I'm gonna do a a prerecorded show, audio only, whenever I feel like it. I am not doing anything scheduled or programmed or, whenever. If I find somebody I wanna talk to, I'll do that, you know. And I my first my first show was with with was was with the, the owner of Podholm, my audio platform. Mhmm. So he came on the show and, you know, it was it was a lot of fun. We did that and then and then I interviewed, the former city manager for Eagle Pass. He actually came to the studio. You know, we we did an in studio audio thing. We got hammered because we were sampling bourbons while we were doing the show. So it was it was a it was two hours of us sloshing our way through, you know, which was kind of fun.
But again, just recorded and didn't do it live. It was, you know, that type of thing. And then one day I don't know what made me do it, but I did a live audio show only. And then, like most government programs, you know, you start doing video and all of a sudden, you know, it just continues. You know, so but, but yeah. But then it went from it went from just, you know, doing it every so often to I had a stretch from, I think it was June up until the September, where I was doing shows every single night of the week. Every night. I had a guest every night.
And it was just it was, like, crazy. It was crazy. And I have I have somebody who helps me, Angela. She's she's, my producer. Producer. Yeah. Yeah. And she is fantastic. She donates see, I I work off the value for value model. I'm sure you know what that is. So she donates her time and her talent. And she does amazing work, and I really appreciate everything she I mean, she keeps me focused on what I'm doing, and it's it's fantastic. And I never met her face to face, you know. I've spoken to her on Zoom calls and stuff like that and phone calls and texts, but never met her face to face. I don't know where she gets the time to do this stuff because she's helping two other podcasts or three other podcasts. And she has three kids, and she homeschools the kids, and they they she her and her husband, live on a live and work a ranch. That's their that's their income and their their their profession and Wow. And she's involved in political action committees and and all that stuff. I don't know. Where do you find time for this? This is, like, insane. But then I realized when I get up in the morning and I see that the emails from her at like 04:00, 05:00 in the morning, that's why. There you go. So, I'm over here getting up at 07:00 to get to work for eight, you know.
But but but but it's it's grown so much. And one of the things that I was always try to set explain to people is, you know, I've met people in the course of doing this that I would never have met any other way. Right. You know? And I have learned so much from so many different people that I would never have been exposed to in a million years. Like, I've interviewed Nobel Peace Prize nominees. I have interviewed theologians and and and doctors and lawyers and and and and writers and podcasters and and, you know, coaches. I I I met so many paranormal investigators. I have I have interviewed so many people. I I I I interviewed a blue cartoon cat. Did you know that?
A blue cartoon cat? Yes. Yes. One of the first ones I did when I hooked up with PodMatch, which is
[02:09:06] Unknown:
that's the guy that does the Google thing now. Right? I he might be. Yeah. I was gonna say because I I think I interviewed that guy. You might have. Right? I remember him talking about this, how we used to do a blue cartoon cat. Yes. He's he's a blue cartoon cat. He can't I didn't think he was gonna come on the show. England or something. Right?
[02:09:22] Unknown:
Oh, no. No. I don't know. He's he's, he's here in The States. Alright. But Anyway, go ahead. At any at any rate Pretty sure. He he he's he's, I I wasn't expecting him to come on as the as the character. I you know, because Oh, he came on as the as the cat. As the blue cat. I wasn't expecting that. And so I'm sitting here and and I I bring him in and I see this blue cat pop in. And a friend of mine was watching the show back in New York and and he sent me a text. He goes, you should have seen your face when the cat popped up. He's like, you gotta work on I'm like, what is going on? You gotta work on your poker face. I'm like, yeah. I know. But so that's why I like audio because I can make the faces and nobody knows.
Right. Well, when you're live, I mean, you're you're stuck. You know? Oh, yeah. No. But it was a great poker face live, you're done. Yeah. But it was a great interview, you know? It really was. It was. We had a lot of fun, a lot of good conversation. But you'll you meet people, you learn things that you never do, and and people outside of podcasting don't understand that. Like, I look forward to this. Right. Every day. Like, I wish that I was in a position like your like your end where I could this could be the focal point of my day every day. Because I think I I I know that if I had more time to to put into it, the show would be bigger than what it is. Right. You know, I'm I'm very pleased with my with my, with my my my downloads, my plays on the audio. I'm very pleased with my, interactions with with the audience.
I know I only have, like, tens of people watching right now, but barely tens of people. But, you know, it's but, you know, I know that if I was able to to invest more time in promoting the show and hitting the social media, because I am terrible with social media because I don't have time for it, you know. Doing the newsletters like everybody does, I I I don't have time for it. I I I don't, you know. I hear you, man. So it's like, if if I if I didn't have the regular everyday job, that's eight to ten, twelve hours a day that I can invest in building this into something that I could do every day and love every minute of it.
[02:11:26] Unknown:
That's why I say it's surreal Yeah. To be able to do it. I don't know too many people who have been able to do this. Oh, no. It's it's it's rare. It's rare. They can't yet. And if you have kids at home Mhmm. You can forget it. I mean, I I don't think there's any way you could do it if you if I had my kids still at home and I was trying to be, you know, a dad, you know, first like I always was all those years, there'd be no way I could do this right now. I mean, you know, I would gladly, you know, take take care of my kids. But, they're all grown. They're all living their own lives. They're they're, you know, forging their own way and making their own adventures, and I'm just a, an on call life coach for all them. Right. You know? They need something, they call that. And, you know, hey, dad. You know, what do you think about this?
Tell them, okay. Great. Love you. Bye. I mean, there's not a whole lot of Yeah. Yeah. Fluff either. It's kinda like, got what I need? Gotta go. You know? But but I love that they still ask me questions and stuff about about that. So and I've kinda moved into that role. And, so now it's, wow. You know, what do I do with I got the whole day. Well, then let's fill it up. Let's interview everybody I can get my hands on. Yeah. You know, this type thing. It it's just amazing, man. It really, really is. So so what what are the types of shows that you do with your podcast? Thanks for asking. I appreciate that. I've got I've got two things, like I said.
The, the first one, that was my flagship podcast when I started, that I I'm still doing. It's called Power of Man. Mhmm. And, it's, you know, it was a masculinity podcast that also you know, we work with husbands and fathers. You talk about accountability, you know, that type of thing. The masculinity space is really crowded with, you know, throwing axes and, you know, hunting and everything else, and and that's great. All those shows and all those guys have, you know, great platforms. I'm literally just a dad who has been taught and a husband who's been talking about all the mistakes I made and all the scars I have and, letting other dads know, you know, whatever you're really is killing you right now, I get it because I've been there, and you're not alone. Yeah. That was kinda the whole point for the podcast.
We're, almost 350 episodes on that one and, been doing that a long time. Then the second one I started was The Podcaster Nation, which was just awesome. And I literally interview podcasters about being podcasters, and we kinda, you know, get their story as to why they became podcasters. And, I've gotten to know so many people through that. You know? We just hit episode 150 on that. And, you know, that community of podcasters really showed up when I got ill, you know, a year ago, and I had that whole thing happen. After that, I had a a real strong calling, to do something about the fact that everybody kept coming on my podcast and saying, is is it okay to talk about God here? Mhmm. And I was like, why are all these people? I had pastors coming on and were saying that to me. I'm like, listen. I don't care where you are. Why are you saying that right now?
And I was talking to my wife, and I got a real loud download that said, what are you doing about it? And I said, well, nothing. I'm complaining about it. So I started a podcast called Wake Up the Lions, which is a place for Christians to come, share the testimony, encourage others to do the same, talk about spiritual warfare, and, you know, developing discipleship, stuff like that. Right. And that podcast has taken off.
[02:14:42] Unknown:
That's really been hit. Which is interesting because because a lot I I one of the things that I studied was podcast growth, like subjects, topics of podcast. And Bible study or Bible related podcast really take a long time to to to get a hold and to grow. It it it struck like, the bible study podcast that I was doing, I have I I think when I stopped doing it, I had, like, maybe 60 people following on Rumble. You know? Yeah. And that's over three years. You know, I'm doing this, not even a year. I have over 500 right now. You know, it it's it's it's it's it's funny, but Bible studies do struggle or or those types of shows do struggle to to get to gain an audience, but but it's but it's important work though. I I I think so. I still do the Bible study show on Sundays. I still every Sunday I do it still do my Bible study show. It's under this show. It's not under the old one, but it's under this one.
And, you know, I love it. I I wasn't planning on doing it. I I just one day I just said, you know what? I I miss it and I need to do it. And so I started doing it again. And I look forward to it as much as I look forward to doing the the shows during the week. You know, I just feel like I I shows during the week are with the guests, and this is just me, the audience, and and and the Lord. And it's a it's I look forward to it. It's it's it's a lot of fun. Then I do a crypto show every other Saturday. This show, same show, but I do I have a I have a resident crypto psychic.
Now there you go. Yes. That's the job right there. Yes. And she's fantastic. She she's made, you know, people you know, people think I'm being sarcastic when I say it that way, my resident crypto psychic. No. But she is. She's, you know, she's that's what she does. She she uses her psychic abilities to to do crypto predictions and discussions, but it's not sticky. It's not It's serious conversation. We have some really good and she and she really knows her stuff, you know. And, so that's great. And those shows, I do fantastic on those. I get, like, between three and six thousand video views on that Right. In a day, you know, just on that. So that's that's a lot of fun. So I so I'm I'm starting to wonder if I should just change my subject matter, you know, because content is key. Right?
[02:17:06] Unknown:
You know, I I I would never give anybody advice on anything like that. But, you know, I Sure, coach. I really enjoy all the different content that I get to deal with. Mhmm. You know, Wake Up the Lines, I expected that, to be honest. I expected it would take a long time. Yeah. When I put it out, I I booked it as a once a week podcast. I knew I had four or five guys that would come on and, you know, share some testimony. Through Power of Man, I I figured I had probably 20 or 30 that I figured would step up, you know, come on over and, you know, be interviews for me. I had a whole bunch of, you know, solo stuff that I really wanted to do, you know, that kinda thing. So, but I really did think it was gonna take a while, and it didn't. It just I mean, it blew up more than the first two in terms of how quickly, you know, how they got there. And I was really surprised, and still am. You know? But, but, anyway, but, yeah, that one's going well.
Yeah. After that, I started, just kinda feeling a need for certain groups of people that I was working with. So the fourth one that I started is called Step Up to the Mic, and that's to help people who were trying to get into public speaking. Mhmm. I did a lot of that before COVID. And, so I know how to kinda help folks with that. And the podcast itself is designed so you come on the podcast, and I introduce you. And then my camera goes off, and you give your talk. Nice. And, you know, one of the biggest issues for people who are trying to go out and become speakers is they can't seem to find a way to get recorded doing their their speech. And it's like, well, just have someone you know do it, and that's just terrifying to everybody. Yeah. So I invite them on the show. They give they do the thing. You know? And then when it's over, I come back on. We do a maybe a four or five question q and a, and then they have a link to send off to, you know, planners and, schedulers and everything else to apply to jobs.
[02:18:52] Unknown:
Yeah. And so that's different. I I I don't think I've I've seen a show like that.
[02:18:56] Unknown:
I didn't see one at all. And and that's where Podcaster Nation came from. And, you know, I hadn't really seen a lot of that where a podcast for podcasters to highlight the folks that are on this side of the mic. Yeah. I mean, where you and I always are. And so I put the same, sort of, you know, thinking into that. Well and then I went, you know, I know there's a lot of podcasts out there that are for authors. And I said, so what if I did a little different? And, yeah, we're gonna talk about your book. And I know you wanna come out here to talk about your book and try to sell your book and everything else, but I wanna know what's inside the book. I wanna know what is inside you that you put into the book. Why'd you write the book? You know what I mean? What what actually happened in your life that led to the book? It's really about the author. Yeah. And, and it's also kind of a an anti chat GPT, you know, feel and move to the podcast. You know, one of the lines in the opening is, you know, where authors actual authors still matter. You know? Nice. Yeah. I like that. That's good.
That's gone crazy. We've I mean, I put out three episodes so far, and I think we broke, 3,000 downloads, like, within three days. Oh, that's awesome. It was like, how? I, you know, I don't even know what that secret sauce was, but and people just kinda love it. And then the last one, I did with a cohost. So for the first time, I'm working with a cohost. She's been a friend of mine for ten years, and, you know, she's a podcaster also. And we were just I I've interviewed her. She's interviewed me back and forth. And we both, were really moved by what happened with Charlie Kirk. Mhmm. And we were talking about that a lot. And she said, you know, I really wanna do a podcast like a Charlie Kirk type thing, but I wanna make sure it's rooted in faith. And so we're gonna talk about politics, but from a faith based standpoint. That's good. And I was like, wow. That's a cool idea. And she goes, do you know anybody? And I was like, do I know anybody? She goes, well, I'd ask you, but you got five podcasts.
You know? And I was like, well, I would do it with you. And she just was like, wait a minute. What? You'll do it with me? And so we started, Boiling Point. Faith and Fire is the name of that podcast. And that has not only taken off, but gotten more hate than I ever dreamed of getting in such a short amount of time.
[02:21:07] Unknown:
Yeah. I I've I've yeah. I know what you're saying. I've been called a heretic many times. I'm sure you do. I've I've heard your past episodes, man. I I looked you up. Oh, good. I'm glad. I'm glad. Yeah.
[02:21:19] Unknown:
So that's it, man. Long story. I apologize. But, six podcasts, that's kind of what they're all about, and that's what we do on each one. So I'm gonna ask you, like, so what what is what's the ingredient to a to a to to a podcast that actually lasts? Loving it. Honestly, just loving it. Because if you're the host and you love it and you love the podcast and you love the mission behind the podcast, you love the purpose. And every time you get on an episode, you love what you're doing and what you're talking about. You can do that forever. Yeah. You never get tired of that. You don't get burned out. I mean, you've probably, you know, gotten it too. But, I mean, I've gotten four death threats, man.
[02:21:58] Unknown:
It's like I I mean I I I haven't had that many. But but I did I did have You know what I mean? I did have one. I did have one, and I had a stalker. There you go. I did have a stalker, which was Wow. Kinda nice actually, you know. It made me feel like I accomplished something. It's it's you're somebody then. Right? Yeah. Exactly. You know? Yeah. I mean Joe Rogan, I'm out now. Like, talking about how I had three death threats. And it was like, I'm kinda stuck at three.
[02:22:23] Unknown:
You know? And then we got the fourth and I went, oh, well, I'm I'm back in the game. What's your target? Apparently, the masculinity thing and the father thing is what really trips everybody out. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's that's true. Yeah. Yeah. And that that's where all the hate really has come from, with everything I've done. You know, I put up a post for Wicket the Lions the day before it came out. I put out a reel just with the cover. And I said, hey. For Christians to share their testimony, you know, blah blah blah. I got 300 comments on it in twenty four hours, and 225 plus were horrible. Just telling me, you better not, and you miserable, and you racist, and you this, and you that. And I was like, wow. I didn't say any other religion was bad. I just Yeah. I know. Yeah. Said, hey. Let's celebrate this one. No. I mean, mean, you know how it does in social media, man. Oh, yeah. There's there's no reason. Just part of the reason why I'm glad I'm really not that involved in it because I'll get myself in more trouble. You know? But, but I have found though that that
[02:23:23] Unknown:
with the Bible study podcast, at least on the Bible study shows that I've done, that the the the quote unquote brethren are the are the ones that are the most vicious.
[02:23:34] Unknown:
Yeah. That's
[02:23:36] Unknown:
Yeah. You know, I wish I could say I'm surprised. Yeah. No. You you can't. Like like, I I have a I have a very, strict view of scripture. Alright? And I'm not we're not gonna get into all that stuff right now, but just just as a point because we'll be here until tomorrow morning. Right. But, but I have a very strict view of scripture, and, and I I believe and I only use the King James Bible. Okay? And I I'm very firm on that one. As a matter of fact, I have done shows where I have pointed out where the modern translations are grossly deficient, and how they've changed things, changed verses, took taken out words, changed things around, and when you and in some cases, in a lot of cases actually, it when you if you when you change one word to make it more readable, it changes the whole point of the verse, or if or if you take a word out.
And, like, just just one example is that I I use a lot is in in the book of Colossians, it it says, in in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Right? The King James version. The modern versions take the blood out. They just say, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Well, what as a Christian, what saves you? It's the blood of Christ. Blood of Christ. So why would you take why would you take that out? You know? So I I I pose questions like that, and I'll point those things out. And I'll I did a show one time where I just went through I I had like 30 verses that I pulled from the old and new testament and showed how it was changed, and the impact of the change.
You know, on doctrine, which is important. I I think doctrine is very important. You need to you need to have solid doctrine. So I've got I got emails from people saying, you know, crawl out, you know, crawl back under the rock that you came out from, you know, your k g your KGB only cult and, you know, called me, you know, a Ruckmanite and all that stuff because, you know, I did okay. Other Christians. Other Christians. Other Christians. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, okay. Well, you know what? Look, you're call me or whatever you want. I don't I don't really care. You know? All I know is that when I stand before the judgment seat of Christ and he says, would you do it with my book?
Mhmm. And I I can say, I I believed it. Right. You know, and other people gonna, well, you changed it. You did this. You did that. Well, you know, okay. But anyway, like I said, we can get into that for hours. Yeah. We get to that for hours. I I love this stuff. So, but, but loving it is important. I I agree with you. You have to love what you're doing, and it and it and it comes through. It's it's it's people see it. They'll the I I honestly I love to I love to watch or listen to a podcast where you could tell that the host is prepared, that is comfortable with the material, and it's and it's not robotic. There's an actual conversation.
That's what I that's the type of thing I like. That's why that's what I try to do with my show. It's like I keep it conversational. I'm I'm not looking to put somebody in a corner and and and chastise them for what they think and what they say what you gotta say, man. Just go ahead. Let it rip. You know, it's it's all good. Exactly. You're not gonna upset me like Peter like, when I we had Peter Tipton on earlier. He I I I was we were talking about the filibuster. I don't know if you heard that one. We were talking about the filibuster and I said, well, I'm not so I don't know about that because and I didn't look at it from his perspective, you know, the the perspective he brought out. And and then he called he called those those people in the senate, small minded or something to that effect and then he he realized and he no. No. It's fine. Okay. I'm I'm okay. You know, I didn't think of it the way you presented it. So that's made me think and I I appreciate that. That's fine. Right. You know, I want people to be comfortable on the show. I want them to be able to come out, say what they gotta say, talk about their stuff, and do their thing.
[02:27:38] Unknown:
Absolutely. That's how I run my event. Yeah. I don't do any set questions. You know, it's all conversational. We may have a couple that we work in if we can, but, I mean, honestly, it's really just it's it's about the guest, and it's conversational. And those are the best ones. Because then, you know, whatever comes up I find that with guests, and, yeah, I'm sure you found this. With guests, they will very often tell you if you let them what they wanna talk about. Yes. You just have to let them. Yes. You know? And too many podcasters are, like, waiting for them to stop talking so they can ask, you know, the next question on the sheet of paper. Right. And it's like, just and listen,
[02:28:15] Unknown:
and you'll get what you where you need to go. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly right. Like, I have I have an outline. Right? That's one of the things that Angela does with me. So she'll send me an outline of things, and I'll make some I'll make some adjustments to the things. So I'm gonna talk about this, I wanna talk about that, and try to steer the conversation that way, and and so on and so forth. But on the whole, I don't really follow it. You know? I I I just let it I just let it flow. However it goes, it goes. Like, when when Peter was on the first time, you know, I asked him one question. I had I had 17 questions I wanted to ask him because I I and these were, like, thought out questions because it had to do with with Tina Peters and j six and all that stuff, and I wanted to really get into that. But I asked him that one question and I saw how much he enjoyed that one question.
And he just talked and talked and talked and people were commenting in the live chat, you know, that they love to hear him talk about things like this and nobody's ever asked him this kind of question before, you know. That's cool. And it's a very simple question I ask everybody. You know, so it's like but it worked, and it was great, and it took up a two hour conversation.
[02:29:19] Unknown:
Right. You know? You gotta love that too. The guy who comes on your show when you're not big yet. Yeah. You know? When you get big, then everybody wants to come on the show. Yeah. Right? And that's nice. And you still appreciate everybody. But it's the guy who comes on the show when you're really a nobody and nobody else is clamoring to get on your set. Yeah. You know, and you're asking people, and they're like, who are you? What's your following? How many downloads do you have? Don't stop bothering me, kid. Get away from me. Right? It's that guy, man, that you just it's priceless.
[02:29:46] Unknown:
Yeah. I I agree with you. Priceless. Absolutely agree with you. And, you know, and and the funny thing is too when you when you when you actually talk to these folks outside of the show, they're just normal everyday people, you know, just like anybody else, you know. It's like it's like I I had a great conversation with him. I I also interviewed a guy by the name of, David Shine, another another high profile lawyer. I mean, he's he's he teaches. I mean, historian. I mean, we had a great conversation on the show. We had a even better conversation after the show. I was like, I just need to be through the show. Record on. You know? And, so but it but it's great. It it's it's, again, like I said before, you meet people, you learn things, you talk to people that you've never you you would never really have an opportunity to do, and that's great.
Now, any any specific platforms, tools, or networks that that that you've used that that to really help you scale, like revenue streams? Because I know I know you you do you do revenues, monetizing, as as part of your, coaching. So, so what what do you what do you use for that?
[02:30:55] Unknown:
The, I mean, I use a, you know, a hosting platform different than yours, which I won't mention Okay. Since he's your sponsor. But, and that has helped me. But, I mean, I I don't buy into the bells and whistles a whole lot. I'm really a minimalist. I I had one of my one of my guests actually called me the Robin Hood of podcasting a while back, and it kinda stuck for a while. Nice. Because according to her, I was all about, you know, not buying into all the rich stuff and just running it, you know, for the poor. Like, how to do podcasting for the poor. So I I picture you now on your cover art with the Robin Hood hat, you know, with the clover. I was like, what an awesome name. I I was like, if that catches on, that's awesome. You know? And then I had to stop it because every time I went anywhere, it was, okay. So they call you the Robin Hood of podcasting. What's that about? I'm like, I got tired answering the questions.
So I took off everything. But, I just you know, for me, honestly, I monetize. I've got, you know, some sponsors, and that was great. I was in sales, so, you know, you reach out. You do it the old fashioned way. I don't worry about the advertising a whole lot. I monetize through coaching a lot and, you know, that kind of thing. And then I have my own, affiliate program where, you know, if somebody refers someone to me for coaching in any of my programs, then I I pay them a referral for referring the person to me. And so I've got podcasters all over the place, that are referring people to me for various types of coaching because they know that if that person buys the coaching, they're getting a check. You know? And I'm like, hey. If you're gonna be an affiliate of somebody, be an affiliate with another podcaster who's gonna, you know, Venmo you the money the day he gets paid. You know? There is no maybe they buy, maybe they don't thing. You know? And so that's been received really well. But, you know, in terms of the tools, and I hate to disappoint you on the question, but I don't I don't use any big fancy tools, really. I mean, I'm, you know, I started with the cardboard box underneath the computer. You know what I mean? And whatever works works. You know?
[02:32:48] Unknown:
So Alright. I'm a minimalist when it comes to it. No. That that's and sometimes that's the best way to do it. You know? I have a couple I have a couple of sponsors. Pod Home is one. TNE dot Energy is another one. And then, Pro HVAC Solutions, which is a local company. And, you know, it it we have a good we have a good relationship, and it's it's a lot of it's value for value stuff. So Sure. And and it That still counts, man. Oh, it does. Absolutely. And it it works. It works. But I do need I do wanna talk to you off the show about monetizing because I I I I have a need to do that. I I, you know, self funding a lot of this stuff is difficult and you know that. You know, it's it's it's hard.
Like, I I I'm I look around the room that I made it to a studio here and I'm like, well, that cost a bit and that cost a bit and this thing cost a bit and that thing cost a bit and, you know, it's like, if I had all that money in my pocket right now, it'd be alright. Oh, yeah. You know? Oh, yeah. But you do it again for the love of it. So We've we've all been there. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. But, I mean, I would like I would like to be able to to to increase my revenue stream with the show, you know. On Rumble, I'm I'm monetized on Rumble, so I I I get a little something every couple of months, not often. Yes. YouTube, I'm I'm I don't honestly, I don't I don't invest a lot of time in YouTube and promoting it or doing anything with them only because, I already have two strikes, and I refuse to go through their their sensitivity training for it to get them removed.
[02:34:22] Unknown:
So I was gonna say, I've heard some of your episodes, and I would imagine YouTube probably has a problem some of the things that Some of the things that you said. Just just a just a few. Just a couple. Just a couple.
[02:34:32] Unknown:
Yeah. So so anyway so I don't put I don't pro I don't do anything really with YouTube. If they shut me off, they shut me off. I don't really care, to be honest with you. Right. My my home base here is is Rumble. And and, as always, I have to make the statement because people say things. Yes. I have a vested interest in Rumble. I am a shareholder in Rumble. So yes. Okay? There you go. I am going to promote Rumble. Full disclosure. Right? Full disclosure. Full disclosure. And good for you, by the way. Oh, thank you. That's excellent. Thank you, sir. I I do try. You know, my my my little mini shackles that I throw to it.
It's, you know, but yeah. But I do wanna talk to you off the show about some of this stuff because I'm I'm very interested in seeing what you got and maybe partnering up with you in some ways. Now as far as coaching, right, I wanna talk to you about your coaching stuff. You you you basically you coach men to find purpose, accountability. I guess, how does that mission show up in the way you build the podcast or or lead the conversations?
[02:35:35] Unknown:
Sure. You know, that that's part of the coaching that I do. I coach podcasters. I coach speakers. I, I coach authors to become podcasters or speakers, and then I do. I coach men. And, I've I've found a a niche because I hate the word niche. I just hate it. Niche. I found a niche. Okay? Okay. The American version of that word. I found a niche working with a lot of veterans. And, even though I am I'm not one, regrettably. These these guys, they need to to hear from somebody about moving forward. You know? There's a therapist in every corner who will tell them all about what happened in the past, and we'll work with them on those things. That's not what these guys are looking for. They're like, hey. This is what I dealt with. How do I move forward? I work with a lot of fathers and a lot of husbands who are, just sort of the regularness of life is too heavy.
And, you know, the the mag yeah. The magic is gone. Sure. But it's it's not that type of thing either. It's almost like, my wife doesn't believe in me anymore. You know, my wife doesn't, you know, isn't proud of me. I'm not proud of me, so I stopped leading, you know, because of all that. There's, those are kind the kinds of guys that I work with, and it's really all experience based. Mhmm. And, the podcast itself, I spent, you know, the first 100 episodes talking about mistakes I made and things I learned from. And I think one of the reasons we grew as fast as we did was because a lot of guys heard what I was talking about, and I wasn't up there pontificating, acting like I was some know it all. I'm like, I made this mistake. I still have the scar. It's huge. You know?
Listen to what I'm telling you, and maybe you can avoid the scar, gentlemen. You know? Yeah. And that caught on. That did really catch on in a big way. And so the guys who come into my coaching program, they're all completely different. And so there is no cookie cutter thing. There's no, set pattern of coaching. I sit down with each guy, and we do a, you know, a a meeting and a quick, you could call it a discovery call. But it's, it's just to get to know you. And it's what are we working on, and what is it you you think you need. Most of the time, what they think they need ends up not being what they need need. But, everybody's individual. And so we we put together an individual program working each week, hour long Zoom meetings, and then homework, you know, and texting and messaging accountability for having it done and, you know, sort of establishing routine again for for a lot of these guys. Yeah. The the biggest issue that we carry, I think, as men is that we feel like we don't have any value.
You know? Whatever value we thought we had is gone. I used to be this. Now I'm not. You know what I mean? I used to bring this to the table, now I don't. My wife used to look at me like this, now she doesn't. Mhmm. You know? There there's a ton of that. And men have been told that, you know, sit down and shut up by women and men. You know, women don't wanna hear it. And if and men, you know, tear you apart tear you apart if they think that you're weak. Right? So, I will tell you I'm not the, vulnerability guy.
I'm not mister share your feelings and throw them all over the place and, you know, throw up your emotions, and that's not it. I'm a big brotherhood guy. Okay? Never let them see you weak. Never let your wife and your kids see you weak. That's not part of the deal. They are depending on you. They would rather see you die on your horse than fall off of it. Yeah. I agree with you. Brothers, then you let it go. Okay? Because they get it. Mhmm. And you do it in a safe container, you know, like a group and stuff like that, like the one we have. It it works out. You know? You you got guys who are watching your back, not attacking you there.
[02:39:15] Unknown:
Yeah. I, yeah, I I I I agree with you. You you we've always been told, Well, at least I was growing up. You know? And I'm Italian. Yeah. I grew up in an Italian family. My father, my grandfather, you know, they they were men. You know? My dad Right. My dad died because he refused to go take care of himself because he was too concerned about taking care of my mom, who was also sick. He didn't want anybody else doing anything for her. He had to take care of her, and it Right. And then he would lie to my sister and I. We would ask him, did you go to the doctor, get checked out? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everything's fine. Really? Everything's fine? Yeah. Everything's good. You know, you have the usual problems, you know, nothing's changed from that. I'm good. I'm okay. Right. I'm good. Until the day came that he ended up going to the hospital, and that was the last.
And, you know, and he did that again because he he loved and cared for my mom so much, didn't want anybody else getting involved and taking care of it. It was his job, his responsibility, and he never showed weakness. There was one time in my life that I can remember my dad showed me weakness, and it was just the two of us. There was nobody else around. We went fishing, and it it was not the usual place that we would go. We my dad and I used to go on party boats all the time out of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, you know, and had great times doing that stuff. My dad and my dad took me out pier fishing one time, and it was just the two of us. There was nobody else around, and that's when my dad opened up and just spilled everything out. That's been on his heart, that's been on his mind, and it was the first time in my life I ever saw my dad's eyes getting misty. Didn't cry, but got misty telling me these things.
And, yeah, I was horrified at some of it, to be honest with you, because I was like, I had no idea. But, you know, it it it's it's that place of comfort that you that you put yourself into where you can talk to people. I agree with you. Your wife, your kids should never, under normal circumstances, see you break down. Yeah. You know, sometimes it's unavoidable, you know, but Sure. I but I agree with you. You you I think I think masculinity has been so played, torn apart, you know. Now that the term is toxic masculinity, you know, and that's bullshit.
Yeah. It's total bullshit. So, there is no such thing as toxic masculinity. It's masculinity. Whether you like it or not, that's what it is. And I'm sorry, I am not gonna I'm not catering to you. I am not bowing down to you. I am not gonna kiss your butt. No. You get me? I I am what I am. That's it. You know? Amen, brother. You know, I'm I'm I'm divorced, and, I I've only had a few interactions, since the divorce. I'm I'm divorced now. It'd be three years divorced, four years apart. I had I had one date that and I and I told the story on the show before to, another, a men's coach, and, I did so I had this date, and I love to cook. Alright. I'm I I love cooking. So, the date was I invited this this this woman to the house, and we were gonna have dinner, and, I was gonna cook, and I made this beautiful Italian deal Italian meal.
I made, fettuccine with sweet peas, prosciut, and a white wine sauce with, that's with fresh homemade garlic bread. I'm gonna get my own butters and all that stuff. Fresh homemade garlic bread and then desserts. I had caramel apple tarts with homemade vanilla ice cream and bourbon infused whipped cream. It was beautiful. Wow. Alright. Beautiful. Beautiful night planned. Candles, all that crap. So she comes over and and she's she's, sitting at the kitchen table and we're talking and everything and and the dogs are there and and she keeps looking at them. And I'm like, I'm just noticing how she's looking at them.
And, like, my my they're very friendly, so they'll stand up and I'll try to, like like, see what you're doing and and all that stuff. And she would kind of push them off a little bit. I don't like that. Don't push my dogs. Alright. They're my kids. Don't don't do that. And I and I and I'm like that with them because when I was at my worst with this divorce, they were the only ones that were there for me. Yeah. You know? When I was laying on the floor drunk, in my vomit and bleeding from my head because I walked into the wall, they were laying there next to me when I woke up.
You know, so they get everything. No questions asked. They are my life. So don't push my dogs away. Alright. That's number one. Number two happened when I served dinner, and I made the presentation, and she looked at them, and she looked at the plate, and she was like, well, what about them? I said, no. I have dinner for them. So she was, no. Aren't you putting them outside? I said, why would I put them outside? You lead the dogs in the house all the time? Well, yeah. Really? Yes. Really. Why? Is that a problem? Well, dogs belong outside. They're animals.
Oh, okay. I said, well, how about this? My dogs sleep with me. My dog my boy sleeps here, my girl sleeps here, under the blankets every night. That's disgusting. Really? So she was like, I can't eat with the dogs in the house. Can you please put them outside? No. I'm not putting them outside. And if you don't wanna eat, fine. I took the plate, and I put it on the floor, the dogs ate, and I showed her out the door. You can leave.
[02:45:25] Unknown:
There you go. I mean, hey. Toxic masculinity. That's that's exactly what she wrote on her Facebook page. Probably. Yes. I didn't have Facebook yet at that point, so I don't know. She probably knew that already, so she figured it was safe to trash you on it. Probably. That's fine. No, man. I I hear you loud and clear. A 100%. You you gotta believe what you gotta believe in. Yes. I mean, it's stuff that's important is important to you. Now could I have been nicer about it? Important to you. Yeah. As soon as something's important to you, though, then all of a sudden you're toxic. You know, as soon as you stand up for something, including yourself, you're toxic.
[02:45:54] Unknown:
Exactly. It's, yeah. It's just become ridiculous. Or or you or you stand up for traditional values. You know, the traditional relationship, the traditional husband wife dichotomy that yeah. The way I explain it is, and this is biblical, and and I'm sure you I'm sure you would agree with this, is that Yep. You know, it's it's it's Christ, the husband, the wife, the kids, everything else. Right? Now, does that mean that, you know, and then there's that verse that everybody likes to throw up? Well, the bible says, you know, you know, wives submit to your husbands.
I'm not submitting to my husband. Right. That's not what you that's not what it means. Alright? It it doesn't mean that that you are to, you know, crawl around in my presence. I mean, if you want to, you can. I mean, but you don't have to. You know, that's not what it means. And I say that tongue in cheek, but what it basically means is is that the the the final decisions that have to get made in the household fall on the man, the male, the husband. Alright? Now, my wife could have a better idea or a better way of handling a particular situation. I wanna hear that, and I will weigh that, but ultimately the decision, the final decision on it is mine.
Rise or fall, it's my decision to make. That's what I'm talking about, and that's what submission in in some respects is. You know, it's understanding that there's the hierarchy, there's the way things go, and that's the way it worked. And that's wrong today, apparently. You're not supposed to be like that. That's that's
[02:47:37] Unknown:
that's verboten. It's only it's only wrong because they wanna be able to have the double standard, You know? The reason that that's right is because if everything falls apart, you know, if there's four people at the table and there's only three pieces of chicken, okay, it's the father's fault. Mhmm. And that's it. You know? And the father is the one who shouldn't eat also if he can't provide that. Correct. I I totally agree with that. It's a double edged sword. And then, you know, when you say, that, you know, the man is the one who's in charge of the family, the man's gotta lead, you know, he sets the tone. He sets the tone for, the spirit for That's correct. The holy spirit in the family and, you know, biblical teachings, the whole nine yards. That is how it is. But when those fail, then that also falls in the man, you know, because he's the one who failed to provide it, to do it, to put it into place. So nobody wants to talk about that part of it. Right. Exactly. Yeah. That goes along with it. So I I I agree with you completely.
[02:48:31] Unknown:
So You know? That then and it's it's it it it it really it just irritates me. It it it really does how culture society has has turned so much against the male figure in in in relationships. You know, we're supposed to be now, you know, so gentle and soft and Right. Just passive and just whatever.
[02:49:07] Unknown:
Right. No. Absolutely not. No.
[02:49:12] Unknown:
I I I will come in my house, and I will drop my pants, and I'll walk around in my underwear, and I will carry my pistol on my side, and, you know, and which would target me to wear underwear only. But, you know That's a little tough. But, I mean, you know, whatever however you're working it, man. I mean, you listen to it. Sometimes sometimes it works. You know, you get the little necklace thing, you know, you put the the chain here, you know, hang it by the Right on. By the trigger guard. Yeah. Whatever it is, you know, I Doug, this look. It it's it's cult society is is just completely flip flopped. And it's like with the with the Bible says. The Bible says, you know, there there was gonna be there's gonna be a time where right is wrong and, where where wrong is right and, you know, we could take it even, you know, in other ways of saying it, you know, what what's what's black is actually blue, what's blue is actually yellow, and then completely opposites of what they are. And, but that's where we are today, and that's and that's, you know, if you're a bible believing person, you're gonna see that. If you believe what the word of God says, you're gonna see that this is the direction that the world is going. It talks about men who are effeminate, and it talks about all these things in these last days, And that's where we are. We're in the last days of the last days, I think, my personal opinion based on my studies.
Sure. And, A lot of people feel that way. I understand. Yeah. Yeah. Now now I know you you, you know, you do, you know, faith based podcasts and such. And so what's your testimony though? Let let let's hear how you, came to that point in your life.
[02:50:42] Unknown:
Wow, man. You know, that's my my testimony is interesting. Say the least. I I had a very rough childhood. Mhmm. And I'm I'm not gonna make it long by going all the way back there, but just to set the We only have we only have ten minutes. So Yeah. Okay. No problem. I'll get it done. The, I had a very rough childhood. And, because of that, I doubted God and his existence. I doubted that there was some being that was supposed to keep us safe. Nobody who, you know, was the God that I was learning about in CCD on Saturday mornings. You know what I mean? And that I was praying to on Sundays in church, and I was raised Catholic. So that God was not there's no way there was that God, and then that God built my father.
There was no way. There was no way he he put my father in charge of my family to do what he did to my mother and to me, you know, and everything else. And, then it was horrifying. And that's something that I've had to deal with. But while I was dealing with that and, of course, for years after I dealt with that, and then when I dealt with that with a stepfather later on, because apparently my mom had a type, you know, you kinda go, I'm I'm gonna handle this myself because Right. God apparently has abandoned me. And that's really how you feel when that's all of the context you have. And when you don't have someone, who's a leader, who's a role model, who is teaching you and mentoring you through what's really going on in your life. All you know is survival, and this is bad, and this is how I gotta get through it. So you think you're depending on yourself.
For years, god tried to get into my life, tried to help me out, tried to walk, you know, tried to let me know he was walking by my side. Years and years and years, decades. Yeah. My wife held the, all of the faith in our family, introduced my sons to it so that they both could grow up, and they are absolutely faith filled, more than I ever dreamed of being, you know, especially at their age. It took me until took me until the accident. It took me until the almost dying to go all the way over to where I needed to be. And that was another one of those things that I spent a lot of time talking to my wife about, you know, in the dark. So I'm I believed in God. I always knew he was there. I just didn't really have that relationship with him. And he tried to wake me up over the years a lot.
You know, a lot of near misses, a lot of lot of this, a lot of that. And, again, I know we're short on time, but there was, you know, there were two really bad moments in my life, and one was, you know, the one in the hospital. The other one was, you know, after the, the the real estate crash when we literally lost everything. Wow. And I was convinced that the entire world was gonna be better without me in it. And, I was done. I had decided I was not gonna be here anymore. And, something stopped me from doing that that night. And, I mean, I'm talking physical reaction, like, you know, burst out into shaking, you know, and had some kind of an attack, passed out on the floor the whole bit.
Woke up, you know, a whole new perspective, went back to work, went back to fighting. I didn't realize until a year ago that back when that happened, back when I was that far gone, that that was God saying what you know, literally grabbed me and going, what is wrong with you? You know what I mean? And he finally got my attention when I was in the hospital and said, are you ready to listen yet? And, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Wow. Just a ton of bricks. And I have not looked back. I've gotten back into it. I I keep this right here by me. Praise the lord. It's all over it. You know, I'm I read it. You know, I actually read what's in it.
[02:54:34] Unknown:
So it's a That's a novel idea, by the way.
[02:54:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Right. Who thought that you could read the book or thunk it? Right. So, I mean, that's kinda it, you know, in a few minutes or less. And granted those stories are much longer, you know, but that's for another time. And really Oh, yeah. Definitely. I I I I definitely wanna get back and
[02:54:53] Unknown:
and and sit down with you and really get into the the the the meat of all that because I because I I love I love hearing testimonies. I love hearing people how they how they come to new how they've come to know, their relationship with the Lord, and and and and have that I hate the phrase, but I use it sometimes, you know, that that come to Jesus moment. I don't I don't mean it disrespectfully, you know, to the Lord in any way, but it's really what it is. I I don't think I could summarize mine as as as succinctly as you did, but I I let's just suffice it to say that, I got saved twenty five years ago. 07/20/2000, I got saved. I, was going I just one day woke up and said something's wrong.
Something's not right, and I started searching. And, you know, that Bible principle out of Romans chapter one, you know, when a man is diligently searching and he's seriously searching, God's gonna provide him someone or something to point him in the right direction, and God used many people to point me in that direction. And so it was a stacking. It was a building up. I used to tell people I was the pope of the worldwide church of Joe. You know, I believed what I believed, and that was the end of that. When I was a kid, I got kicked out of catechism, because I didn't wanna go to confession and tell a priest what I had done over the course of a week and because I didn't believe that he had any authority.
And the reason why I did that, and again, like I said, I can't summarize the whole thing so simply like you did, but my uncle was the first one in my family to leave the Catholic church, and he became a pastor for a a Protestant denomination that I will not name because they're not a really good one. But, he he he but but when he went to seminary, he went and we went to bible school, you know, he would come home, he'd bring home his books. And as a young boy, I would read those books. So I was reading, like, theology at, you know, in catechism grade level. And, then he would also take my catechism books and rewrite them, which was always helpful, you know, because you go to catechism class, open it up, and there's a big red x through your pages and then a stapled attachment saying this is not how it happened, and then he rewrote the whole thing, you know. Yep. But, but I I gravitated to that because I looked up to him very much. Yeah. Like, I idolized him. You know, I wanted to be my uncle.
And, when I had to go to catechism and, go to confession for the they I didn't I I told the priest, I said, why am I gonna tell you what I've done wrong? You can't do anything about it. And, he didn't like that, and he literally physically took me by the arm, not the hand, by the arm, That's right. Dragged me outside and handed me my mother, and this is what he said, and I will never forget it. I forgive him for it, but I will never forget what he said. He said, we don't need his kind here.
[02:57:42] Unknown:
Ouch. Yes.
[02:57:44] Unknown:
Wow. So my mom said, oh, okay. No problem. Never went back. Well, I eventually, years later, I went back. But different different church, different priest, all that stuff, but it wasn't the same thing. It was like I I just didn't believe what they were what they were teaching. So, fast forward years and years and years to that point where I said, you know, I just knew something was wrong, something was missing, and God pointed people in in the right pointed me in the right direction to certain people, and I ended up dropping down on my knees on the middle of a pier, Pier 34 off a West Street and Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, second bench off the gate, and confessed Jesus Christ as my savior.
And, there was a myriad of things that went on around that that we'll save for another time, the details that led to that particular moment. But I knew that that moment that when I called upon the Lord to save me, he did. And, life's never been the same since. I've been able to do things that I'd never thought I'd be able to do, like I I traveled, across the state, you know, part of my experience in in law enforcement in New York was was the World Trade Center. I I did work on the pile for a little while, and I did, you know, work in in the area for a while. It was right my command was just a few blocks away from that. God used that to send me to Washington state to preach to 400 lumberjacks about Jesus Christ, and to give my testimony, and to see a good majority of them raise their hand to to know Jesus Christ, never would have happened. How how you know, who Yeah. It's crazy. You know, to to the point where I served as an associate pastor in a in a in a small church up in New York and, for a little while there. And, you know, to teaching Bible on a podcast and, you know, to doing all the stuff that I've done, you know, for the Lord, it's been a blessing. It's been a it's been a wild ride, you know. And, I'm incredibly thankful for it. I'm not always appreciative of it. I've had my moments where I've kind of, you know, waved the fist and said, you know, why are you doing this to me, you know? And hence, the alcoholic binge that I went on for a little while after the divorce and, you know, tempting God to take my life and tried to help him along the way.
Didn't work. Very disappointed. You know? Well, yeah. Praise the Lord. But at the time, I was very disappointed. You know? I was like, you know, I just I just took a whole bottle of this, and I drank a whole bottle of that at the same time, and I still woke up, and all I had was a headache. Yeah. You know? And and that's God saying because I I really think God's Italian. I do. I I I swear to you, I I I God is Italian because God, he he's quick with the shkafa. You know what the shkafa is? It's a Sicilian thing. It's a Sicilian thing. My grandfather was Sicilian. My grandfather was great with the shkafa.
[03:00:27] Unknown:
So are we. He just didn't wanna teach me anything. Yeah. Well,
[03:00:32] Unknown:
grand my so the shkafa is basically this, you know, when you say something stupid, you do something stupid, you get smacked in the back of the head. What's wrong with you? That's Oh, I got the smack in the head. That's the shkafa. That's the shkafa. That's what it's called. Yes. So so God is very good with that. So I, you know, I did what I did and I got you see? Get to work. Gonna be late.
[03:00:52] Unknown:
Nice. I I don't think I can argue with you on that. I bet he is. So yeah. Well because he's he's me, like, I don't even know how many times. Yeah. There you go. So it's it's,
[03:01:02] Unknown:
yeah. It it it's, you know, I I'm incredibly thankful for everything that I have. I I I I, you know, like I said, I don't always show it as appreciation, but I do. And it's it's just it's a life is life changing moment. And one of these days we'll get into more details because I wanna know more about your situation and how it came about for you. I wanna get into the meat of the whole thing and I'll tell you the the meaty part of mine. Because mine's got actually kinda funny. You know, how it all led up to that and the things. Actually, the pastor who led me to Christ wrote my my conversion experience in a book.
You got the commission on that, I hope? No. No. No. No. He he he donated my commissions to There you go. More humility. Right? Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Learn to be humble there, Joe. You know, you know, I did I did win the humble man of the year award once. Just once. But they took it away from me when I put the lapel pin on my jacket. So, oh, you walk right into that one.
[03:01:59] Unknown:
I was waiting. I'm like, come on. There's there's something else coming. There's a punchline to it. You walk right into that one. The other the other foot's the other shoe's gonna drop. Come on.
[03:02:07] Unknown:
Exactly. I I am loaded with these old dad jokes. So I yeah. Two more weeks.
[03:02:12] Unknown:
Love it, man. Love it. Don't ever lose that. No. I text the I text dad jokes out, you know, in a group text to all my kids. Nice. You know, fairly frequently. And I get a whole lot of the, you know, face palm, you know.
[03:02:24] Unknown:
Yes. Type of emojis back. It's endearing. Emoji back. It's endearing. Pretty sure they're I think they're blocking me at this point, to be honest with you. I'm not sure. But you know what? That's good. That's good. Because that means you have quiet time.
[03:02:37] Unknown:
Yeah. Plenty of that. Empty nester. Plenty of quiet time, brother. You know what I do? I I I actually on from
[03:02:44] Unknown:
after the show Friday until Sunday, I put my phone on do not disturb. And then I I'll I'll only I'll check it once in a while, like, I'll just to make sure that that I miss anything, like, somebody died, God forbid, or or something like that. Right. You know? But if it's not important, like an emergency, like, I have to get in touch with you, I will not call you back. I will not text you back. I will not so that's that's usually what I do. That's I'm not gonna say I'm I'm faithful to it a 100% of the time, but that's generally what I do. And, since I've been doing that, it's been nice.
[03:03:20] Unknown:
It's been Well, someday you're gonna have to explain to me how you swing that because I cannot even imagine. Yeah. Well, I'm getting anxiety just thinking about that. Yeah. You're yeah. Well, no. Seriously, the first the first couple of times I did it, yeah, I was like,
[03:03:32] Unknown:
like, something's not wrong. Something's wrong. Something's not right. What's going on? What's the problem here? Nobody's calling me. Why? Oh, that's why. Answer that as a method. No. I would be worried the whole time that one of my kids had something going on and they couldn't reach me. Yeah. Just be Well, that's why that's why I check it. I I make a mental note to myself just to, you know, check the phone every couple hours just to look and see and and whatnot. Because I also with my with my job, I'm on call twenty four seven. So my regular job. So so I have to check the phone. But, I'm not the point of it is is that I'm not a slave to the ding on the phone. You know what I mean? I'll I check it on my terms.
[03:04:08] Unknown:
Masculine. Good deal. Toxic masculinity right there. Yeah. You gotta love it.
[03:04:12] Unknown:
Rory, thank you, man. This has this has been great. Just one last question for you I have to ask. I, you know, I promised Angela that I would always ask these questions when I do. Okay. Who is someone that you respect right now, and what are they doing that inspires you? It could be me. Someone that I
[03:04:28] Unknown:
Someone someone that I respect right now. Yes. You know, that's tough. There's, there's several people that kinda kinda come to mind. You know, honestly, the the one that I would have to say above all of this right now, and I have to say my wife. Amen. Yeah. She is, she has put up with more than any one person ever should've. I have no idea why she's still with me. But, she's more responsible for me being able to do this than I'm doing right now Mhmm. Almost than I am. You know, without her, and her sport and everything that she does on a daily basis That's great. Putting up with everything, I wouldn't be able to do it, not even for a minute. So, I mean, even if I'm late getting to the to the, you know, the setup. Right? If I'm running to it because, you know, the time's up for a meeting, she'll make a coffee for me. She'll, you know, help bring something in the room. She fixes the lightning.
There's nothing about her that isn't
[03:05:24] Unknown:
there to help me succeed right now, and I don't deserve it at all. And she's still there. She's a good help right now. For you. Yeah. I gotta tell you, man. There's nobody that stands above my wife right this second at all. Praise the Lord, man. I like that. That's that's good. You know? I I I wish more men would say stuff like that. I do. I I really do. I'm divorced. I know. But, you know, you know, I I wish more. I I seriously, though, I do wish more more men say things like that, and that's important. You know, it's like the Bible says, you know, he who findeth a wife, findeth a good thing.
[03:05:53] Unknown:
Yeah. No. That's not weakness, man. I mean, when when you're securing your masculinity after all these years, you can you can say stuff like that. Yeah. No. Absolutely. I I totally agree with that. I mean, that that's absolutely true.
[03:06:03] Unknown:
And, you know, it's it's that's it's a good thing. It really is. It really is. It's it's refreshing to hear. You know, you hear so many guys, oh, you like this, you know, football player or this basketball player or whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah. Find a good wife. Find a good wife. Not me. I don't I don't want a wife, but everybody else go find a good wife. You're good. It's never too late, brother. Oh, no. You never know. What what what did Darth Vader say to Luke Skywalker? It is too late for me, son.
[03:06:31] Unknown:
Out of all the lines of Star Wars, that's the one you're gonna quote. Okay. Yes. We're we're gonna have to get into that at some point too in the future.
[03:06:38] Unknown:
And the other the real other reason why it's on my mind is because I I saw this I saw this thing on on Instagram, talking, where it's it's it was Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader and from that scene. And the the caption above was, you know, dad, why didn't you tell me about these crazy women or something like that and or or something to that effect and and he was like, well, it was too late for me, son. Was the audio underneath it, you know? Or how do you how you know, how come you I don't know. I forgot. I'll I'll send it to you. I have it somewhere. Alright. Because I sent it to my son. And and and and because he has a crazy girlfriend. So, so, you know, I sent it to him because I thought it was funny.
Anyway, alright. Rory, I gotta I gotta close out the show here. I got a couple of announcements to make. I don't know if you wanna hang out while I do it. You can do that. That's fine. Yeah. For sure, man. Alright. So alright, folks. So anyway, Rory, Paquette, thank you so much, man. I I really do appreciate you spending the time, man. I know we we ran we ran long, I know, but you were late. So I I but I was being generous and gave you the extra time. So you know how it is. Well, I'm grateful. Oh, okay. Well, you should be, sir. You should be, sir. You're in, you know, presence of greatness here. You know, we're trying to build a media empire here. I'm gonna unseat Joe Rogan someday. I'm I'm here for it. We can dream. Alright. You know, we can dream. You know, it's not gonna always happen, but we we can dream. Alright, folks.
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Cold open of poetry lines and oddities
Live intro: Joe Ruse Show, episode 200 celebration
Housekeeping and sponsors, production team shoutouts
Guest intro: Attorney Peter Ticton joins the show
Reading people in trials and critique of Todd Blanche interview
Public perception of justice, WEF, BlackRock, and geopolitics
On weaponization of law enforcement and expanded prosecutions
Michigan case overview: Stephanie Lambert and election machines
Machines, access claims, and 2026 election risks discussed
January 6 narratives, videos, and committee evidence claims
Filibuster, Senate dynamics, and election integrity strategy
NYC politics, historical parallels, and segment wrap
Hour two kickoff and local sponsor read
Guest intro: Podcaster and coach Rory Paquette
Bourbon talk and cigar pairings detour
Tech crash woes, live production, and show growth
Community support, GoFundMe, and podcaster camaraderie
Rorys six podcasts: missions and formats
Power of Man, Wake Up the Lions, and other shows in depth
Faith and politics: Boiling Point and pushback online
Monetization approaches and minimalist tooling
Coaching men: purpose, accountability, and brotherhood
Testimonies: Rorys journey and Joes salvation story
Closing: website, socials, value-for-value, and sign-off
