In this episode, I welcomed international business development specialist and Solutions Party founder Evan Jaqua for a fast-moving, idea-driven conversation about political reform and rebuilding trust in American institutions. Evan shared lessons from living and working across four continents, explaining why addiction to power corrodes governance and how a one-term limit—with a two-year cooling-off period before running again—could realign incentives toward service over self. We dug into his proposals for certifying and grading journalists and news outlets to restore credibility, counter AI-driven misinformation, and separate reporting from infotainment—without infringing free speech. We also talked about revitalizing Congress’ constitutional role, curbing bureaucratic careerism, and encouraging an open marketplace of ideas that lowers the temperature and elevates principles over personalities.
In the second hour, executive producer Wayne Rankin joined to preview a new project highlighting America’s founding principles through creative, short-form video vignettes on the Amendments—shot with green screen, historical visuals, and narrative storytelling. We also hit on community, faith, and service, including a trucking ministry update and plans for future collaborations.
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(00:04:11) Cold open and on-air kickoff from Eagle Pass
(00:05:43) Tonight’s lineup: Guests Evan Jaqua and Wayne Rankin
(00:06:20) Housekeeping: website, contact, and value-for-value support
(00:08:48) Sponsor read and pre-guest banter
(00:09:07) Guest intro: Evan Jaqua of the Solutions Party
(00:10:37) Lighthearted start: bald-by-choice camaraderie
(00:11:30) Warm-up questions: personal quirks and beverages
(00:13:02) Evan’s philosophy: ideas over left vs. right
(00:15:00) Handling disagreement and dangers of division
(00:15:47) Freedom to think: lessons from China and North Korea
(00:16:44) Touring solutionsparty.org and mission statement
(00:18:23) Bourbon vs. beer detour—pairings and palate
(00:21:56) From global experience to U.S. reform urgency
(00:23:01) Addiction to power: why term limits matter
(00:25:42) One-term-only vision and cooling-off periods
(00:31:48) Founders’ intent and modern Congress critique
(00:34:42) Unelected power and the administrative state
(00:35:25) Journalism in crisis: certify, grade, and fund
(00:39:48) Fixing the news model: press fund and incentives
(00:41:21) AI, deepfakes, and trusted outlets
(00:46:08) Neutrality vs. opinion: grading the graders
(00:47:22) Campus debates, cancel culture, and open forums
(00:50:03) Opportunity-rich economy and business grading
(00:53:19) Principled standards: equality under the law
(00:57:14) Wrapping hour one and scheduling a part two
(01:05:19) Hour two reset: Wayne Rankin joins
(01:05:47) Sponsor: PodHome and live production notes
(01:07:18) Wayne’s updates: new show, gear, and guests
(01:13:57) Show concept: patriotic shorts and amendments series
(01:21:33) Community, civility, and avoiding a social ‘civil war’
(01:28:39) Producing the Amendments: green screen storytelling
(01:31:52) Distribution, causes, and funding plans
(01:36:38) Trucker ministry, roadblocks, and next steps
(01:48:46) Final plugs: website, socials, and value-for-value outro
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[00:04:42] Unknown:
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The desire for freedom, prosperity, and a bright future. From cafeteria worker to computer engineer, international consultant to business owner in IT, and aviation, Evan's diverse career mirrors his varied life experiences. He's also a single parent. He's faced, some real world struggles and successes. Alarmed by America's decline, he founded the Solutions Party to overhaul politics, curb corruption, and restore trust. His bold ideas at solutionsparty.org aim to spark a movement for change. Evan, welcome to the show.
[00:10:07] Unknown:
Thank you, Joe. I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and I'm happy we, finally made made it happen. Finally. And and This is great. It's great to see a fellow. Yeah. I was noticing the same thing. We have the same barber. Yeah. We do.
[00:10:21] Unknown:
It's called a straight edge. You know? You just kinda
[00:10:24] Unknown:
Yeah. It's it's well, you know, I like to call it this is this is the green hairstyle, you know, certified green. Okay. Very little water, very little electricity.
[00:10:34] Unknown:
Little little water, little electricity, little soap, all all that stuff. It's it's it's good stuff. Yeah. It all works. Yeah. I I just I did this recently, actually. I I got I got tired of of spending the money on on hair dye. I was getting way too white for my age, so I'm just like, let's just get let's just get rid of it. Yeah. I I've calculated I've saved, you know, literally thousands of dollars over the last two decades, you know, not going to the barber. Oh, yeah. Not even buying shampoo. I just use soap, you know, from head to toe. Yeah. Same same. No combs, so I don't have to worry about how I look in the morning. There you go. So No no bedhead. It's very liberating. Yeah. Very liberating. It actually actually, it is. You know, people don't realize that. It really is. I was actually telling somebody at work who had to be a female. I was like, she was like, I don't know what to do with my hair. I said shave it. Get rid of it. Exactly.
[00:11:20] Unknown:
Yes. I mean, I've seen a lot of women, you know, who have our hairstyle, they look just great. Yeah. I I agree. I absolutely agree. So, Evan,
[00:11:29] Unknown:
I always like to start the show. I don't know if you've if you checked out any of the shows that we've done previously, so you should be prepared for these two questions I'm gonna ask you to start with. Alright. What is something going on. What is something most people don't know about you but should?
[00:11:44] Unknown:
Well, I think that, the thing that I I would really like to emphasize is that, I've seen the world from a lot of different perspectives. I've seen I've had friends across the political spectrum. And so I think what I I would like to emphasize more anything is I'm all about, or what I've tried to start here is all about ideas. And I there there are good ideas across the political spectrum if people you know, if these ideas are presented honestly and clearly, you know, then we can actually debate them and decide which ones we like the best, vote, and move forward. And so I don't like to think of myself as right or left because I like to think that, like I said, if if you listen to ideas across the political spectrum, you hear that lots of good ideas now happen to favor some ideas over the others. But if we get the emotions out of the and if we get the, you know, the miss misinformation out of the picture, you know, our democracy can really flourish. And so I would I really wanna emphasize that, you know, these ideas and I myself, I don't like to consider myself either right or left. I tend to if I had to choose, I would say I'm more center right Okay. As I have been for for for a long time.
But, you know, I have friends, like I say, across the political spectrum, and I'm, I'm welcoming for all ideas and all points of view. And one of the things I like about your your your description of your show is that, you know, PC is is, you know, out of the picture. Let's have honest discussion. Tell me what you're really thinking. I'll tell you what I'm really thinking. Let's get it all out there, and let's, let's have a, you know, a civil discussion and and move things forward. Yeah. Exactly. And there there's no reason to argue, you know, the whole thing with
[00:13:24] Unknown:
the whole thing with the the free exchange of ideas is open debate. Being able to talk and express yourself, and look, we may not agree on everything, but that's no big deal. You know, that's how we learn. We learn from each other that way. And one of the things that I always try to emphasize, I'm sorry, one of the things I always try to emphasize on the show is is no matter what, you have to keep talking. You know, once you once you stop talking, that's when the problems start. That's when all the misconceptions and and false ideas, and, we've seen we see a result of that, unfortunately, that was took place last week, out there in Utah. Yeah. You know? So
[00:14:01] Unknown:
well, I think the thing that we always must keep in mind, and this is what I think is the key to to to so much, is that, you know, we people have always disagreed. People will always disagree. The key is how do you handle those disagreements? Now in the old days, you know, they would sharpen the spears. Mhmm. They would sharpen the swords, and they'd go at it, and the best band of brawlers won. Eventually, we humans figured out that wasn't really the best way to move things forward. Yeah. You know? So, you know, this idea of of of breaking up the country, for example, well, you know, is that really the solution? You know what's gonna happen if we broke up this country into a blue blue country and a red country? Well, before long, you're gonna get within the blue within the blue country, you're gonna get the exact same thing. You're gonna get unscrupulous politicians who are gonna take advantage to exacerbate condition. And the red thing is, this is a never ending cycle to nowhere when you start you know, the that's what I'd say. The politics of division is a never ending cycle to nowhere because you you're never gonna have some, you know, utopia where everybody gets long, everybody agrees, and, you know, history has ended. We're always gonna disagree. The key is, how do you handle those agreements? Well, let's talk about our different ideas. Let's not assume that the other people have gotten malicious intentions in mind. Correct. We all want the same thing. You know, we all want freedom. We all want prosperity. Let's share the different ideas. Let's vote on them, and let's move forward. It's that simple. And I just wanna say one other thing. I have lived in communist China.
When I was in Japan, I had a North Korean experience, which I'll tell you about at some time. But the great thing about our country in fact, a a Chinese individual once told me, what they really loved about living in America was the freedom to think, having the freedom to, you know, think your own thoughts and express your own thoughts. Because in countries like China or North Korea, only one thought only one opinion is allowed. And our system should is far superior if we would just, you know, get the emotions and the lies out of the way. Let's get the ideas on the table, and we can kick China's butt. We can kick the the autocracies butt if we, you know, if we just, you know, get this, the out of control emotions and and the line out of the picture. And I've tried to propose some solutions for that. And the the final thing I wanna say, these ideas that are on solutionfire.org, these are actually a summary of ideas that I've, talked with people around the world. There seems to be a lot of commonality, a lot of, discussed with with politicians and politics and political parties.
And so these ideas, I would like to say I I I'd like to take credit for them, but they're actually a summary of different ideas that, I've had the honor of talking with people around the world about.
[00:16:45] Unknown:
Yeah. I was actually looking at your website, a little bit earlier today. And, unfortunately, because of everything that was going on today at the job, I wasn't able to really spend a lot of time going through each piece of it. But, it's a pretty comprehensive website. It's very easy to follow and navigate through, so I would encourage folks to head over to solutionsparty.org. Got it. And we're gonna pull it up here in just a few minutes. We'll do a screen share. And, you know, we'll we'll kinda scroll through it in in just a little bit. But I loved your comment. That was a great comment, but you didn't answer my question.
[00:17:14] Unknown:
Oh, well, the first one was the first question I answered was that I don't wanna be thought of as this isn't right or left. And so I wanna I want everybody to know that I'm open to ideas, whatever they may be. You know? Sometimes a very bad idea is the inspiration for a very good idea. So, you know, I I just don't want people to to come and and think you know, look at my website, for example, think, oh, this is a left leaning website or this is a right leaning website. It's not that at all. No. Actually, it isn't that. Website yeah. It's a it's a website that is meant to encourage ideas, an exchange of ideas. These are my ideas, but this isn't the the, you know, the be all or do all. Let's hear you know, if you wanna critique them, great. I'm all for I'm all ears. Right. You know? So that's the first thing I wanted to emphasize. I'm not this is not right or left. Right. And, actually,
[00:18:02] Unknown:
your your website is a very clear as well. It says right on the on the front page, politicians are the problem. Let's do something about it. And underneath that, it says, we are the anti political party party. So Exactly. So I think that pretty much sums it up.
[00:18:17] Unknown:
And as a matter of fact, one of the things I do is talk about, reforming political parties. But before I go into that, I think you had another question you wanna answer. What's what's your go to beverage to help you unwind? Well, that's simple. That is simple. My go to beverage is a Michelob Ultra Ultra Cold. Alright. Alright. Yeah. That's, there's not you know, I actually, I've I've lived in Portland, Oregon for many years, and that's like the, you know, the micro group capital of the world. Yeah. And it's hard for me now to find a good old conventional light beer. It's like people look at me like, like I'm from Mars or something. In fact, I just want a Miller Lite. I just want a Michelob Ultra. And it's like, no. You wanna drink that crap? And I think all I want is a nice, refreshing, beer that tastes like,
[00:19:07] Unknown:
sparkling water with a beer flavor. That's my favorite Burger King. That's a great way to describe light beer. I've never heard that before. That's good. I like that. Well, for myself, I I am a I'm a bourbon guy. I love my bourbons. And, and it's there's nothing better than it than a than a nice a nice bourbon sitting out by the by the by the fire out in the backyard with a nice cigar and just chilling, relaxing, and, just enjoying yourself. You know? That that's to me, that's there's nothing better than that at the end of at the end of the week, especially. Well,
[00:19:40] Unknown:
I'm actually tempted to try that because there is one, I believe, called Evan Williams. My my middle name is Williams. Okay. Evan William. Give it a try. So I feel very an affinity with Evan Williams.
[00:19:50] Unknown:
Well, I I just got what's that? I can give you some recommendations.
[00:19:54] Unknown:
Some really good ones. Oh, that'd be great. Yes. That'd be great. I I know Evan Williams is probably not at the top of your list, but I've had it, though. No. I no. I've I've I've had it, and it's very good. Mhmm. But, but,
[00:20:07] Unknown:
my go to is, Elijah Craig, either the toasted barrel or the small batch, either one of those are great. Toasted barrel to me is better, it has a better flavor to it. It's it's it's just has that nice rich flavor, and it pairs well with cigars, like, that I like. I like I like, Maduro cigars, so I like those those those dark wrapper cigars, especially, lately I've been on this kick with the, the Camacho Triple Maduro, which is, it's it's a Maduro fill, Maduro wrapper, and everything is Really? Wow. Yeah. It's a three layer Maduro. So it's a beautiful cigar, pairs beautifully with the Elijah Craig toasted barrel. Another one that I go to more if if you if you wanna call it an everyday, now I I just just set the record straight, it's not I don't I don't do this everyday.
Okay? I I was at one point everyday, but I don't do this everyday now. But but, another my quote unquote everyday one is, it's a really nice bourbon called seventeen ninety two. And, I had never had that until I came here to Texas. And, and, I I never saw it. I'm from New York. I never saw it anywhere up in New York, but when I got here, I saw it one day, and the guy in the store that I was talking to, he was like, hey. You should try this one. This is really good. And I did, and I got hooked on it. It was it's really nice. It's smooth. It's inexpensive. Probably cost you for the average bottle, probably cost you maybe $35.
Not horrible. Okay. You know? The the the only problem is they came out with a a much larger version of the bottle, and, that one's about $70, But it'll last you it'll last you longer, but it's, you know, it's a Yeah. That's that's a bit much, to have around the house. But, but no, it's it's it's really nice. I enjoy it, and it just helps me relax after the after the week. It's like it's like I call it my victory dance, you know. I didn't I didn't kill anybody this week, so let's relax and just stay up. That's fine. Have a have a nice drink and a cigar. It's it's it always works out.
[00:22:04] Unknown:
So, that's If I'm ever in your neck of the woods, I'll buy you that if you buy me an Ultra. Absolutely. We'll we'll get that taken care of. You're welcome anytime, my friend. Anytime.
[00:22:12] Unknown:
So, so your lifespan, goes through, diverse roles, cultures, four continents. Mhmm. How those particular experiences shaped your view that America needs urgent reform?
[00:22:28] Unknown:
Well, I think the first thing is the commonality, whether we're talking to people in South America, whether we're talking to people in Japan, whether we're talking to people in The US, whether we're talking to people in China. The common problem is our politicians, and I'd like to talk a little bit about this and try to make it as brief as possible. But the thing that occurs to me is that let's just start off with kind of a bizarre thing to say. And the the bizarre thing is basically, you know, the human brain is a wonderful thing. But one of the weaknesses of the human brain is the ease with which it forms addictions. You know, we can form addiction to alcohol, to tobacco, to drugs, to gambling, to social media, to junk food, you name it. But probably the most addictive thing of all is power.
As George w Bush said, power is very addictive and it's very corrosive. As John Boehner, the former speaker of the house said, he said frighteningly, quote, unquote frighteningly, I watched people get an ounce of power, and it completely changed them. Mhmm. And this is the problem. People get power, and they don't wanna give it up. I mean, I like to say, you know, Nick you know, Nicolas Maduro in in Venezuela would probably be a pretty nice guy if he were still driving buses in Caracas. Or Vladimir Putin would probably be a pretty nice guy if he were painting houses, you know, outside of Moscow. Kim Jong Un, the the North the vicious North Korean indicator, would probably be a pretty nice guy if he were running an Airbnb in Hawaii and surfing every day. What turns these people Not an image I wanna see. From
[00:23:57] Unknown:
what's that? Not an image I wanna keep in my mind.
[00:24:00] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, he'd probably be a lot thinner too. But, Oh, you remember. Maybe. You know, what what changes people, you know, from being, you know, ordinary, you know, nice people into vicious mass murdering monsters? And it's always been the addiction to power. Once people get it, they don't wanna give it. And this is exactly what happens with our politics. Our politics like, for example, why is Congress so compliant for the executive branch? Whether we're talking about a Democratic, you know, executive branch, you know, a Democratic president or Republican president, because all of members of Congress are petrified at being primary. Right. And so that becomes their first priority, staying in office. I mean, how many times have you heard, well, such and such politician isn't up for reelection so he or she can vote their conscience? And you think, well, gosh. Shouldn't they be always voting their conscience? Yeah. You know, why is it that they only vote their conscience when they're not up for reelection? Or why is it they spend over half their time or at least half their time on the job, you know, raising funds for their for their next election or participating in part in in partisan activities. I mean, you know, Joe, if you hired me for a four year job or a two year job and I spent half the time on the job just lobbying you and your partners for an extension of the contract, you wouldn't be too happy. Right. And, you know, our our we send people to Washington or to our, you know, our state capitals or whatever to work for us, to advocate for us, not to advance their political careers. And the only way to cure this is like if I were a a doctor and I had to prescribe to you a highly addictive medication, what what would we do to help keep you from getting addicted? We would prescribe that in limited doses spread apart. Mhmm. And that's exactly how power has to be allocated.
That's why you've gotta I think you have to, limit, time in office to one term. And not only that, you have to put an additional restriction that while you're in office, you can't run for another office. Because if you allow them to run for another office, they'll use their present office as a springboard for their next election. I agree with you. So that's why I say put a two year limit or two year waiting period from the time your your your this your time in office ends, you have to wait two years before you can run for another office. So, that that's the fundamental idea of the solutions party.
And, and there's a bunch of other ideas to try to address the weaknesses or the weak pots weak point weak, points in our democracy. But that is the fundamental idea. It's gotta get the control of, of the addiction to power, which is plaguing our politics and making it so incredibly dysfunctional.
[00:26:44] Unknown:
You also mentioned, talking about reelection, and and eliminating reelection. So I guess that goes that goes in line with what you're saying about just one term, no reelections to to long term offices. What what was the moment that, that really made you realize that that was something that really needed to be changed and made and and pushed you to launch the the the the solutions party?
[00:27:10] Unknown:
You know, I can't really say a a particular moment. I remember I was having a a a discussion with a friend of mine who's, we've had a number of political discussions. He's quite, MAGA, which is great. You know? I, you know, I respect that. And, you know, we were having, you know, a a a civil discussion as we should, you know, with with anybody. And I I said, you know, I I think, you know, what we have to do is you just make it one term because, our our politicians and all across the political spectrum, their first priority is staying in office. That's right. And that's as long as their first priority you know, if you've ever known somebody with an out of control addiction, you know, like I have I mean, I I I have my both terrible alcoholism in our in our family or here in South America in in The US. I've met people who who are great when they were in high school, but they get addicted to some drug and completely destroys their brain.
People get addicted to video games. You know, these addictions completely change people, and that's exactly what John Boehner said. Addictions because the addiction becomes the priority. And and and, you know, you hear sometimes you hear people say, gosh. We have such idiots in in Washington. Well, addictions make you dumb because the addiction becomes the priority. And so, I would say I remember specifically having this conversation about one term to answer your question, you know, specifically. I this was back about 02/2016, I would say. Or or yeah. It was before the two thousand sixteen election.
[00:28:45] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:28:46] Unknown:
Now now the now you proposed some really, really, for lack of a better word, bold reforms, like restoring trust in journalism, Exactly. Breaking the alliance, you know, special interest groups, politicians. What are the biggest challenges that people face in accepting these changes, and why do you think resistance to it is so strong?
[00:29:09] Unknown:
Okay. Well, I think, a lot of it is that, you know, we a lot of people complain about politicians, but when you talk about eliminating reelection, you know, they they people will say, well, how are you gonna hold them accountable? Or what if we like this person? We want them to go back. Well, let's talk about, okay, suppose you have a politician that you like. Okay. The thing is is that politics should never be about people or personalities. It should be about ideas. And if you like the ideas of of a given politician, then You know, we gotta get away from this idea that, you know, it's gotta be this guy or, you know Agreed. Or or nobody.
You know, politics should never be about personalities right now. So that's that's number one. Number two is that, you know, you're you're telling somebody gets elected to office for one term. You're telling them, okay. You have one chance to make your mark in history. Mhmm. What are you gonna do with it? Are you gonna waste it? Are you gonna do it for your own benefit? Or are you gonna make your mark in history and go down in history as somebody who was effective, somebody who really helped move this country forward? You have one chance. What are you gonna do with it? And so I think that this idea that, gosh, you know, reelection yeah. Let me re election. That's going to, you know, a lot of people might feel a little, uneasy with that. But, I think that when we start thinking about what politics should be about, I don't think that the resistance would be so great. And as a matter of fact, I've been very encouraged with the conversations I've had with, you know, scores of people, hundreds of people about this. And once you get them to to to buy into this idea, you know, they actually really like it. And and the final thing I will say is that, you know, the great conservative, columnists and and commentator, William Buckley, said he'd rather have 2,000 people randomly selected from the Boston phone book representing him than 2,000 career politicians.
And that's exactly what we would want. We want our politicians, our our congress, for example, to be a cross section of America itself. We wanna have, you know, the the the congressperson from New Mexico. We want, you know, a a business owner from New Mexico, a truck driver from Washington. We wanna we wanna have a lawyer from from Chicago. We wanna have the teacher from North Carolina. We wanna have a cross section of our population representing us in congress, not a rich lawyers club. And so that's the other thing that, I would like to emphasize. Now when it comes to the other thing that I think is crucial, and that is our journalism.
Now this is something that I I would like to talk a little bit about. Sure. But before I do, is there something you wanna interject? Because once I get started on these things Yeah. No. No. That's fine. No. That that's great. I I I don't mind at all.
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As a matter of fact, I have I I tell this all the time. I have a friend who watches the show or listens to the show, and would constantly send me text messages during the show telling me to shut up and let the guest talk. So so this is this is perfect. This is good. But the the only thing I do wanna say is, talking about reelections, you know, our founding generation, which, by the way, I I I know we talk about the greatest generation is the World War two generation, and I I don't dispute the fact that it's a great generation, but my my personal opinion is the greatest generation was our founding generation. They never intent they never intended for elected representatives to stay in office as careers.
That was never the that was never the intent. Exactly. And it was never the intent for for the elected representatives to stay at the seat of the general government all year long. Do you know? The and, you know, they this congress does take a break, you know, for a month. They go back to their districts. Right. But that wasn't what it was supposed to be from the start. From the start, it was you only went to you only went to congress when you were called to come to congress for a particular matter that needed to be discussed and voted on. You weren't there all the time, and you weren't exposed to all of the of the the the BS that goes on around Congress, around the Senate. All the all the lobbying and all that stuff. It took place. I'm not saying it didn't. I'm not ignorant and naive to to to not think that there was some under the table deals that took place even back then. Right. For sure. Right. But our founding generation had it right, and we have strayed so far from what the founding generation wanted for this for this republic. I I I know it's a cliche, but if they were able to come back and just observe what what's taking place with this government that they've entrusted to us Mhmm. There would be hangings in in the common square.
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Yeah. I think they yeah. I completely completely agree with that. I think they would be severely disappointed with, especially Congress, with how our congresspeople, place their own careers above everything, and they become so compliant. They become just basically rubber stamping lapdogs to the administration, whether it's Democratic or Republican. Exactly. And it's just it's just you know, they they should that they that's the most important branch of government from my point of view. They should be jealously guarding their power. They should be challenging the executive branch. And they and, you know, all three branches should be competing with each other. That's what we want when when we're talking about the marketplace, you know, in in economy or the marketplace of ideas or the or or or power. We want Yeah. These three entities
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competing and holding each other in check. Yeah. And not ceding their authority and their responsibilities to non elected individuals. And I'm thinking right now the the, like, the the Federal Reserve, unelected Right. Unelected bureaucrats that are in control of the finances of this that that are actually in control of the finances of this country, again, and at a whim can wreck it or save it. Mhmm. You know? And and there's Right. Strange to me how you how the the the executive branch can appoint people to the Federal Reserve, but can't remove them if they're not performing, you know, in the best interest of the country. I find that very very interesting and and and very confusing at the same time.
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But, that's that's off the subject. You wanted to get into journalism, and I'd like to hear this. So please. Yeah. Well, I also I just wanna make, make a a quick comment. I also one of the things I propose, talking about the bureaucrats, is that we limit government employment to five years. And so Interesting. I mean, you know, there are gonna be some exceptions, obviously, in the military, but you see, you want to, you don't want people to get into this lifetime bureaucrat mentality. I I I've seen it in Japan. I've seen it Peru. In The United States, it ruins people because in a bureaucracy, people go work to the lowest common denominator.
Correct. And, you know, there's this, you know, create complexity, justify existence mentality instead of a simplify and solve mentality. So let's limit it to five years. Let's give these these five year a lot of it will be young people right out of high school or college, give them incentives to find ways to make government more efficient, instead of what we have now where they're looking for ways to spend money, you know, to so they get the same money again, the the the following budget cycle. Mhmm. Let's you know, they they they they after five years, we give them a one time severance pay. That's it. There's not gonna be any lifetime pensions. We'll save a lot of money that way. And let's, you know, this will this will provide jobs to, crucial first jobs to, you know, people from, you know, who are graduating from high school, college.
Let's get those young, imaginative, creative people in there who will give them an incentive. If they if they find a way to save a million dollars, we'll give them a commission and, and help make government efficient from within. But I but I I didn't really wanna go into that now. I wanted to talk a little bit about journalism Please. Because I think this is so crucial. Now from my point of view, journalism is the politics, but policing is the social order. If we have slipshod policing, criminals will take advantage to behave with reckless abandon and impunity.
By the same token, if we have non trustworthy journalism, politicians will take advantage to lie with reckless abandon and impunity. There's nothing more than what a politician wants, and that is to control the narrative. And unless we have robust, widely trusted journalism, the politicians are gonna control the narrative. If there's a news story they don't like, they can just say that's fake news, and there's no way you know? And and and half the people are gonna are gonna believe it because there's so much distrust of journalism and news organizations in our country now. And that's terrible because unless the people are unless we have a common set of facts that we all agree on and unless people know what is, you know, what is actually true and what is BS, we as a country cannot elect people to really do the work that needs to be done.
And so that's why I, proposed that we certify journalists and news organizations, and we also grade them. And and let me just explain that a little bit. Is that, you know, we certify doctors. We certify lawyers. We certify truck drivers. We certify database engineers. We should certify journalists. If you graduate from college with a journalist degree, you'll automatically get a certificate. But in addition to that, let's grade them. Let's grade them on the neutrality of their articles, the how well written their articles are, how relevant their articles are, how frequently they write articles. And the higher the grade they get, the bigger let's, let's give them a stipend. Let's have a national press a press fund into which the government contribute, corporations contribute, individuals contribute because we want to make journalism a viable career again.
News in our in our country had the the traditional journalism, the business model has broken down. You know, in the old days, if you wanted to start a newspaper, you had to have printing presses, you had to have reporters, you had to have a, advertising department, you had to have a way to distribute the newspapers. You know, starting a television channel or or a network was, you know, a huge investment. Radio as well. But now we need Joe with a laptop and a web page can start a new site. So the traditional model of news has broken down, and this is why, tragically, so many small town newspapers have have, gone out of business. And that's terrible because those small town newspapers were often great watchdogs to help prevent local corruption or reporting on local corruption. Yeah. So in order to, do this, we have to think of journalism at least as equivalent, as our national defense. If you believe that the pen is mightier than the sword, which I do, then our journalism should be on par with our national defense because our national defense defenses from enemies from without, but our journalism protects us from both enemies without and within.
And so we need to have robust journalism, and so we need to have what I say what I call is a a way to support journalism that is independent of, you know, marketplace considerations because the news is just not a viable I mean, with few exceptions, It's not the traditional news model is no longer, a viable news model. Now what have a lot of news organizations done? Instead of reporting news, they've gotten into the emotion manipulation business. They've got into the political infotainment business Yeah. Which their new their their business model is not reporting facts. It's manipulating the emotions of their audience. It's providing entertainment under the guise of news.
And you can still do that, you know, even if we have the certification program. You just won't be certified. And why do we also what what's another big reason why we need this? Well, suppose, Joe, some ex girlfriend makes an AI video of you doing something awful. Mhmm. You know? How are we gonna know if that's real or fake? Well, if the question will be, was that published on a certified news site, or was that published on, you know, Joe Sixpack's Weekly World News web page? Right. Right. If if it's published on a certified news site, then you can have a lot more confidence that it's an an actual you know, it's a real thing. And if it turns out to be not real, they're gonna get penalized. Their grade is gonna go down. And if their grade goes below a certain level, they'll be decertified.
So this is why we need to have, two things. We need to certify our journalists, our news organizations. We need to grade them. And how would we grade them? Well, with the rotten tomatoes like model where you have AI programs and you have professional evaluators. You might have, you know, hundreds of them. They give, you know, they each give their grades to take an average, and that's just like how Rotten Tomatoes. When you go and wanna see a movie, is it well you know, has it been well, reviewed? You know, you get, you know, say, a 100, you know, people who evaluated the movie. And if it's got a pretty high rating, you can pretty much
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believe that it's gonna be an okay movie. You even see that with exactly the You even see that with with, like, Amazon. Amazon has verified verified, buyers that, that that if you read reviews on certain items, those verified, purchasers
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Yeah. Are are put at the top of the list, and and people who don't who aren't in the verification process a program or model that they use are usually suppressed down further down at the bottom. So, yeah, that like, it works. Yeah. You could and you could have, you know, a whole series of AI programs. I mean, I I actually worked in the field of AI for a while, so I do know its limitations. But this is one thing where AI could be helpful. You could have Interesting. People develop their own AI programs, and and they would have to be certified themselves, by the way. And you could certify them by running test files. And if they get the test files evaluated correctly, then they can participate in the evaluation of journalists. And then you would have even just like I say, part of this national press, press fund would go to even paying people who are professional at evaluating journalists in news organizations. And And then you get all these different grades. You you average them together, and this journalism has just journalist has an a minus grade. This journalist has a c plus grade. And if the grade falls below a c minus, they get a warning. And if they don't improve, they get decertified, which means they're gonna lose their stipend.
And so, and so this is this is really critical, I think, to bringing back journalism because as it is now, you know, like Russian trolls, they go on social media and they spread misinformation. Chinese trolls, trolls, they do the same. Iranian trolls, because they want us to be lost in this sea of chaotic misinformation. We don't know what to believe anymore. That's very true. Terrible for our democracy. So this is why I propose these these changes to our journalism. Now this isn't gonna affect anybody's free speech, by the way. You know? You can start your own, quote, unquote, news site. You know? It it doesn't you you say, well, hell, I'm probably not certified. That's great. You know? It's just that if somebody publishes a story on a noncertified website, you know, you're gonna it's like the old Weekly World News that you'd see at the the the, the, you know, the checkout when you went to the supermarket. Alright. National Enquirer. Yeah.
Yeah. It's like, okay. Well, do you get more like entertainment? But, you know, nobody seriously quotes the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News, you know, when they say that Satan is sick from hell. Right. You know, not a lot of people would take that from, seriously or, you know, Martians, you know, purple leprechauns from Mars or running the White House type of stuff. You know? They're not?
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Well, that's it. I'm I'm wrapping up the show now. We're we're done.
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Oh, yeah. But so, yeah, that's that's another critical thing that we need to address is because our democracy requires a well informed and honestly informed electorate. And I think that once that happens, the emotions will be turned down. The emotions now in our in our country are way out of control. Agreed. And part of the reason is because, you know, we have these these, quote, unquote, political entrepreneurial channels and and social media enables whose business, whose product is to moan emotionally manipulate people. Yeah. That's that's what they do. And and, you know, so if we have people getting their sources of information from certified news sites, certified opinion, you know, columnists, then I think, you know, you're gonna get a certain percentage of people say, hell with that. I'm only gonna, you know, listen to this, this, you know, political entertainment channel. That's fine. Go ahead and listen to what you want. But I believe that most people will, you know, will come to trust if we have a certified and, and graded system
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for our journalists and news organizations. Well, that it does make sense though because, you know, if people want actual they're gonna go with a trusted source. Right? And the certification process ensures that they're gonna get the non biased unless, well, unless they break it down there. There's left leaning certified, right leaning certified. I'm sure you can go into many different directions. The the thing is, though, is that if they you know, you're gonna have,
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but if the the more they deviate from neutrality Mhmm. The the lower the grade scale. Now you could have, a certified columnist, opinion columnist who's on the left, and and that's great, but you should have also one who's on the right. Mhmm. Let's let people hear the different points of view. And, you know, the talking about this, you know, I I wanna mention a little bit about the the tragedy that happened last week with with Charlie Kirk. Now I admire him a lot for going and taking, you know, his points of view to universities and talking with students, and I think that's great.
But, for me, it it's like watching a a professional boxer go around to universities and taking on college boys, you know, for for three minutes and beating the crap out of them and then claiming he's great boxer. I think it would have been a lot better if he had toured with a counterpart, and they had debated and then take questions. And they both start the debate saying, let's everybody keep an open mind. Let's listen to the ideas. Let's have an exchange of ideas. I think that would be would have been a lot more, productive. And and the final thing I wanna say on this is that I myself went to a small liberal arts college, and it was liberal in every sense of the word. Now I was a young Republican. Mhmm. I had just voted for Proposition 13 California. I was anti Soviet, pro capitalist, and I got into a lot of emotionally, charged discussions with my fellow students. But I can tell you this, that after all the heated arguing, after all the intense debating, after all the points and counterpoints have been made, you know, we could still go and eat dinner together or go eat lunch together. Go eat Yeah. But you can't do that anymore, though.
Yeah. We we keep those study together because, you know, even though we had very different points of view that we we passionately would would would, you know, defend, none of us ever questioned that the other person had anything but the best of intentions in in their part. And we learned from each other. I learned from them. They learned from me. And that's what college should be about. You know, an open exchange of ideas, not cancel culture crap. Right. You know, not okay. This is the this is the accepted form. Because that's like what they did in in China in China in the cultural revolution. Mhmm. And we don't want that. And so, you know, let's encourage in in our universities and open let's get professors who who who present principal points of view from different points of view.
Let's let them hear the different points of view and make up their own mind. This is not indoctrination. We don't want indoctrination
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in our country. Yeah. But that's unfortunately, that's what the the public education system has become and so has the university level has become. It's become, an an induction indoctrination centers.
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Well, the thing that any education system in our at least in our country, I think, or anywhere, but especially in our country, the the the ultimate goal should be creating free, independent, and responsible thinkers, not indoctrinated. We want a country of free, independent, and responsible
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thinkers. That's how you make a great country. You don't make a great country by indoctrinating people. If you wanna indoctrinate people, you're gonna get a country like North Korea. I mean, honestly, that's what you're gonna get. Yeah. It's like we used we used to say all the I I used to say this a lot. I I've and it's not original with me. I've heard other people say it too is that the the problem with the modern education system is is that they don't teach people how to think. They teach them what to think. That's a big difference. Right. That's a huge difference.
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It's exactly. School is meant to teach you how to think, and that's one of the things that I think also we need is we need an economy that is, opportunity rich so that you can go to college and study history or you can study literature and you can still get a good job. You know, we want we don't want our colleges and universities to be just fancy, high high expense trade schools. We want, on a an economy where, you know, you can study, you know, what what you want and still find a good job. Or you can don't have to go to college, and you can go to to trade school and find a good job. And we can achieve that, I believe, if we get our economy working the way it should. And how do we do that is we get the special interest crap out of the picture. We completely rewrite our our our our, tax code, and then we put, what I I've, proposed in a value a way to evaluate businesses so we get less regulation, but we have, a sort of a grading system for businesses too. You know?
How many do, people do they employ in in our country? What's their, you know, their customer support like? What's the the difference between the highest paid and the lowest paid? Things like this where we we we evaluate businesses, companies, give them a grade so that people can then decide. Like, for example, if somebody's on a budget, they might choose a product that is made in China or made thing because they don't have the but it will have a lower grade because it's made in China or made in India. Mhmm. A a product with a higher grade made in our country was gonna cost more, but they've got a little extra money. Well, to do that, give them the choice of buying, you know, something with a maybe a lower grade because it's it's made overseas, but also giving them, you know, the opportunity to buy a a US made product even if it's a little more expensive.
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That's a great point, and and that's the valid point. And if I could just go back to to talking about certification for a second. As as we were talking there, some just an idea popped in my head. I know that, you know, people that go through certification processes and have to pay for certifications and have to maintain these things in order to keep them going and keep their employment, they're gonna be a lot more careful with making sure that they are in compliance with the conditions of the certification. And so Sure. So so it it's it's it'll bring a little more integrity to the whole thing as well.
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Exactly. There's gonna be especially because if you make their their their pay proportional to their grade, the higher the grade, the higher rated they are. See, certification would be like a college like, the equivalent of a college degree. The grade is you know, you can get a college degree and have lousy grades, but the grades are, yeah, exactly like what you would get. And so the higher your grade and what is gonna influence, you know, your grade is, you know, again, how relevant are your articles? How well written are your articles? How well sourced are your articles? How relevant are your articles?
How often do you write articles. You know, somebody who's writing articles, you know, five days a week will get a bigger stipend and a higher grade than somebody who just writes, you know, very occasionally. And somebody who who exposes, you know, corruption at the local city council is gonna get a higher grade than somebody who writes about missus Miller's cat and kittens. And so, and so you want to give them incentive to, you know, to to produce high quality, relevant, fact based, and neutral based stuff. I mean, unless we're talking about opinion columnists, but then we want principled opinion columnists. And what do I mean by that? What I mean is that, you know, how can you tell somebody's unprincipled? Well, you just switch If if they criticize somebody and you just switch the names of the of the party or or, or the person, then it goes from being, you know, a disaster or a a crime to being no big deal. I mean, let's look at let's look at, you know, Donald Donald Trump and his impeachments. Okay? Right. Well, suppose it had been, now a lot of people thought that, you know, when he made that Ukrainian phone call, okay, a lot of people thought that was impeachable. A lot of people thought that was a nothing burger. But I can guarantee you something that if if you'd reversed it, if it had been Hillary Clinton who'd been president and she called Ukraine and asking, you know, the Ukrainian president dig up dirt on Donald Trump, her anticipated opponent, you would have an exactly a 180 degree shift. All the Democrats would have said, oh, that's no big deal, and all the Republicans would have screamed bloody murder. It shouldn't be that way. You shouldn't I agree. Completely change your opinion just if you switch the names of the parties or just if you change switch the names of the individual.
That's that that that's a very important concept in our country. It's called, you know, equality under the law. Equality under the law is you don't focus on the characteristics of the person. You focus on the act that was committed. You know? And the the thing that, the the best example I like to give is let's talk about, in the Jim Crow era. If the white man, you know, sexually assaulted a black woman, well, hey. That's just boys being boys, boys out having fun. No big deal. Right. But vice versa, okay. It's lynching time. The same crime, you just switch the colors of the of the perpetrator and the victim, and when something goes from being no big deal to being, you know, an unforgivable crime. It that's not how our law should work, and that's not how our opinion columnist should work either. That you just switch the names of of the parties, and something goes from no big deal to being a crime of the secretary or vice versa.
You've gotta focus on the action. What was the action? What was the the the supposed, transgression committed? And so that's one of the things that you would evaluate opinion columns on. Are they principled? Do they do they stick to their principles, you know, whether regardless of the party we're talking about or regardless of the person we're we're talking about, regardless of the religion or the race or the color of the person, is that you focus on the transgression or the great thing that they've done. You know? It it
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No. Go continue. I I agree with you. Yeah. That that principle
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is the principle of equality under the law actually is very applicable to our everyday lives, and it's fundamental to civilization itself because once you get away, when you start focusing on the characteristics of somebody as deciding whether they're guilty or not as opposed to the transgression or lack thereof of what occurred, then laws can and will be weaponized. One tribe will use it against another depending on the characteristics of the other tribe. And that's exactly what our founding fathers got away with. They that's what equality under the law means is that we focus on the transgression, not on the characteristics of the person, whether we're talking about the political party, whether we're talking about the color of their skin, whether we're talk about whether they're bald or not. So
[00:57:15] Unknown:
That's awesome. I like how you threw that in there. You you caught me off guard with that. Oh, man. I'm I'm looking up here at the clock, man. We're we're we're out of time, man. Oh, shoot. Got started. This hour went by. We're just getting started. We are. We are. So you know what we're gonna have to do? We're gonna have to get you back on next week, and we can pick up this conversation if you have time. That's wonderful. I can hardly wait. Let's do that. I can hardly wait. That'll be awesome. So what I'll do is, I'll I'll talk to you, I'll I'll message you after the show, and, we'll we'll get the calendar links and all that stuff worked out. And you pick a date, you come on, and we'll, we'll do this again. This is I really thoroughly enjoyed this conversation, and I'm gonna actually I'm gonna I'm gonna pull your website up here really quickly because I I said I would, and I like to keep my word.
So folks, you need to head over to solutionsparty. The solutionsparty.org website, and, take a look at this thing. This is this is a really very well laid out website. You have all of the different things that we've talked about a number of these things already, but there's so much here that that we need to get into, we can talk about even further. And there there's a few other things that we should talk about as well. So, so let's, let's let's definitely get this scheduled again. You come back on, we'll finish this thing up. Maybe we can get you a day where we don't have a a second hour guest,
[00:58:35] Unknown:
and, you we could stay off for the full the full length of the show and talk about these things. This was a great conversation, Fred. Wonderful. That would be wonderful, Joe. I I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed this as well, and I can hardly wait to, you know, continue the conversation. And, yeah, let's, let's work together with other people, and let's make our country what it should be. Let's make it the majestic
[00:58:58] Unknown:
country that it should be. I agree. And so not only through your website, but where else can folks find you to to to follow-up on the stuff that you're doing and keep in touch with you?
[00:59:06] Unknown:
Well, I I post daily on on x at underscore solutions party. I tend to be, a little sarcastic. I I believe in going after all politicians. So sometimes, you know, if I if I say something a little, sarcastic about Donald Trump, please be assured that I feel the exact same way and felt the exact same way about our our previous president. And so being irreverent to our politicians is a great American tradition. It is, actually. Nobody takes it personally. No. But but you're right, though. It actually is. Purposeful. It actually is a it's it's an American tradition. Should be. Exactly. You know, in North in North Korea, that you know? Yeah. That's a death penalty kind of stuff. Or in Iran, that's death penalty. Or even in Venezuela, in our country, let's make fun of our politicians. Let's have fun, and, hopefully, they'll laugh along with us. I I hope so too. Alright.
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Evan Jaqua.
[00:59:58] Unknown:
Yes, sir? That's right. Jaqua. Perfect.
[01:00:00] Unknown:
Gotcha. Evan Jaqua, thank you so much for being with us here tonight. God bless you, and, I'll be following you on x after the show. I'll I'll connect with you, and, we'll we'll definitely get you back here again. We'll do this. This is again, this I really enjoyed this conversation. This was great. Thank you so much for it. I appreciate it. Well, thank you. It's been my honor. I've been hard to wait for the next time. Same here. You have a great night now, sir.
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Thanks. You too. Alright.
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Alright, folks. Evan Jaqua. Make sure you check out his website, thesolutionssolutionsparty.org. Really, really interesting and very well laid out website. I think you guys can be able to find a lot of really good information in there. So make sure you check them out. Alright. So what we're gonna do here is, we see, Wayne is waiting for us in the waiting room. So what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take a quick break and, gotta run to the little boys' room. Take a quick break here. When we come back from the break, we'll bring in Wayne, and, we'll, we'll have a little conversation. We'll find out what's up in the People's Republic Of Washington. Folks, this is the Joe Russo. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share it with your friends, your family, and your followers. And, look, it helps with the algorithm. Okay? So please hit that like button, hit the share button, do those things. Help us gets help us get found, a little bit easier than what what it has been. Alright? I made so many changes so we could people find it better. I changed the name of the show, all that stuff. Come on. You can do me a favor and hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, and share it. Alright? I appreciate it. Alright, folks. So we'll be back right after this. You stay with us, and don't forget to live show weeknights, 7PM central time, right here with you, which I love to do. Alright. We'll be back.
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Alrighty.
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Alrighty. Well, bringing them up in here to the screen, I caught you off guard with that, my friend. Folks, like to welcome our executive producer, Wayne Rankin, from the People's Republic Of Washington. Washington State. That's right, sir. That's right. So how how we doing, bar brothers? Give us an update. What are you up to? How we doing with the show, with your, with the green screens and all that stuff? What's going on? You know what? We actually just got a verbal commitment to missus Rosanna will be on air next week. Oh, awesome. At Wednesday, Thursday, she wants to make at least a little intro.
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She wants to dip her toe in the water. She's she's got a lot of stuff going this weekend. We wanna get some stuff accomplished on the green screen. We wanna get her first taping. Alright. And, you know, I'm talking about at least some some photo shooting, photo shots, and get some, promo shots and get that going and, get that started. I said better time because, it couldn't be a better time. The timing was great. This has been in the work for a while. So if somebody says, you know, you're doing the first amendment, and this has been stuff for months in the work. But, you know, like I said, a little sidetracked on on a auto accident. But, Joe, last week, we started with something like, you know, kind of, you know, gloomy. Here we go again. Three officer shot in Pennsylvania. Yep.
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Yeah. I heard about it earlier. I'm not at the speed on the whole thing on it though, to be honest with you. You might. You know, I had, I had a a a really crazy day. We had some unexpected visitors today, and, so it was, just all hands on deck. So I wasn't really able to to, spend too much time getting caught up on all this stuff. Mhmm. I got something very special with me here tonight.
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The pledge of allegiance. I think this is about 50 years old. I have a trunk from, that actually came from your old neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York. I have relatives there that were I mean, the grandparents were born in the eighteen hundreds. How's that? Okay. And so there's some stuff that are I I go it's like one of those, what's the name? Is it keepsave or whatever the whatever the fancy words they use for stuff that you keep for a long time. Keepsakes. Well, there's some other stuff in there. I think there's some, amendments are in there, pledge of allegiance, declaration of independence. I'm going to go through this, but there's the pledge of allegiance, and I know it's pretty old because I was looking at the print on it. It's, like, from the fifties. Mhmm. So beautiful art. I mean, you know, just something we used to do we used to do in school when I was a kid. And so, but a big day today, a lot of stuff going. I actually got my car going, my 1966 Mustang. Nice. Five years. So we're a little late. So she had to get her nails done today. And so so we were we had to do that. Is that what you we we were texting about before the show started?
I got Okay. Yeah. We're about ready to go. So there's a country road. Even though it's only a 200, that's a real engine. Okay? Okay. And I hit that soccer. You could just hear the the transmission kicking in. It's about a quarter mile. So it was really fun. So I actually have a plan for that car. We'll talk some time off air. Okay. I'm actually next year, I'm driving it across the country, and I have this huge massive, nine eleven display that we we when we went in 02/2002, we went to 21 fire stations, and we had this massive display. And the glass case has a t shirt from tons of guys signed it. The two guys from the the Iron Cross Mhmm. Picture. Yeah. There's two of those guys signed it and etcetera. And the other side's the 350 something fallen, fire people that they gave me directly, so I wanna return it. I wanna drive across the country, 09:11, let's get this country going back again, old school, Hank Williams junior stuff.
I actually it's white, and I thought of getting a marker and have people sign the thing across there. Just, you know, crazy stuff like that. Have a flag and meet you in Brooklyn so we can dedicate it to New York City. Brooklyn. And I'm not but that's where she my late wife is from, and that's kind of like it was it's a sentimental it's a sentimental air plus that, I think it was a ladder. I one of the ladder companies, they lost the whole night shift. And I said, you know, if we ever return this, she said, to return it here or at least maybe city hall. I don't know. That will come to me, though. Interesting. I'm a driving across the country, and let's get the banner going, and I wanna land there July 4. I really do. That could be interesting. That could be a lot of fun. I do a lot of interesting crazy stuff too. So people say and I usually do it. I just I the thing is I actually do it. So it's it's I know. Kinda my my wife said she could hear my my brain bubbling in the last couple of nights.
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So Well, I I warned the I warned the audience before we got started here that, that, that you were coming on, and, and that you are a character and a half, and which is to say the least, and you you have actually the ideas that you have to do the show that you're you're planning on doing, I think are they're great ideas, and I think they're gonna do really well. Oh, I love the camera by the way. Nice nice one. So why don't you tell us a little bit about the idea that that's behind the show, what you're planning on doing with it, if you have a soft launch date, and and all that great stuff. Let's, let's, let's talk about that for a little bit.
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Okay. The like, what we have planned, it's we, and I talked to my other executive producer here. And, very oh, she's I told her last night, you have so much unreached potential, and my friend see this. She's one of those ladies that have been told you can't do it. Mhmm. Over and over and over and over. And so I go, well, let me just see this. You cooked for world class chefs. You had your own business, etcetera, etcetera. I had my own business. It was monkey business. And so I said, look. For real. I said, I've I've done radio, you know, lower level small college basketball. I've done talk show, my own little, TV show. It's outdoor hunting and fishing show. And, as it goes for the geopolitical oh, heck. Yeah. I mean, I I hope I don't step over some boundaries when I say this. Like Charlie Kirk, I spent the last twenty years of of of my postal service life across the street at the library. Mhmm. I'd had a two hour lunch soaking in everything. I didn't go to college. My buddies I grew up with, you got your master's?
No. I don't. I just got a high school. Dude, where do you get I have my information junkie. I love it. And lately, I haven't because I've had some medical issues. Almost got I got slammed against another car, so I'm getting my mojo back. I gotta tell you my confidence was really hurt because of just the pain and the pain I've been going through. I've actually felt really good, Joe, the last three days. And that's a month before that. So I said, okay. As it goes for this show, there's a there's a I kinda I look at two or three different aspects. You're good political and, you know, and and I'm I'm a little I like geopolitical, but for me, I like this part of the country wise. What's going on in our country? Where I'm up here, it's a disaster. Mhmm. Literally, everything oral talked about is happening in Washington state. I went to the pump today, 04:26.
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Wow.
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Oh, I read that, oh, that's the sec second of the three gas taxes he's putting in the governor. Bob, I will tax anything, Ferguson. And my my my my, property taxes went from 2,800 to 8,800 this year. That's huge. That's ridiculous. That's crazy. It's he the state law was you can never go over 1% increase. He went to the legislators and said we gotta we gotta we gotta tax these people off our property. We gotta go to 3%. So this stuff like that, everybody else could say all the stuff the local political shows here. They don't have a lot of bite because this is this is not even blue. It's deep blue. Mhmm. I mean, it's the blue is blue. Them Oregon, Washington is one state. They're talking about getting a three state mandate mandate mandatory vaccines.
At the state level? At the state level. So me and Rosanna were talking today. We were, like, saying, really, what's coming down the pike? Are they gonna stay where she works at her business? Total vaccination, you're fired. It's fucking serious. I'm not this is you know, it's funny because when wrote the book, I read I wrote '27 I read 1984. This stuff's coming true. I mean, it's not farfetched. So that's the sort of things my show I wanna, you know, like I say, I I I cut my teeth on a guy named Art Bell.
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Art Bell was great.
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K. I think he's one of the greatest voices. He had the greatest voice in the nighttime. Yeah. He interviewed guys that lived with aliens and etcetera, but the guy, he he really would take it. What I like, he had the respect for the caller and the guest. Yes. And he he he would actually so tell us about what your alien friend said. And he actually he didn't what is that word? Word? Patronize him? Is that the right word? Yeah. No. He wouldn't patronize him. He would he would he would encourage them to tell their story. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And so that's how I grew up and I grew up. That's my,
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experience with talk radio. I used to love when I was when I was younger when I was a kid, really, teenager, listening or or young teens. Right. You know, when you're you're supposed to be asleep. Right. But, you know, actually, you you were you were hiding out in your bedroom, and this is when we used to have a little portable radios.
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And, I was I listened to Art Bell at, like, 03:00 in the morning, you know, trying not to get caught by mom and dad for being up so late. Well, on the West Coast, he started at ten, but I started my shift at 2AM. Mhmm. So I get to that hour and then we rewind it. But as for my show, I'm going what format, what program. It's kind of like how do I get the information I know and the things I I I I I I stare after, I dig after, and work with you. Like, my show, I wanted to be part of your show, like, Wayne's with Wednesdays or whatever. I don't know if I could sit for and have my show for hours and hours and hours because here's the thing, I have HDADD, which is ADD and high def. Okay?
There was a bird. Squirrel. Squirrel. My wife says I don't eat squirrel. Squirrel. I I I come in I'm I'm real hot and small, an hour bit. You know what I'm saying? That bit information wise, and then I start to overload because I she said today, I could hear your brain boiling. I said, well, I got these things, and we literally are gonna be doing some photoshoots with her, her colonial pistol came today. Oh, nice. Yes. She's got the full colonial outfit with the pistol, and and she's ready to read what she needs to read. She's gonna do some some takes. We're gonna work on getting a website. She's gonna go with rosannalee.com. She doesn't wanna use the last name because she's just, you know, I said, they'll love you in the South, and she didn't even understand her.
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So so for the folks that who don't know, maybe because we, you know, we always have some new listeners and whatnot. So you're talking about the patriotic close, the colonial pistol. So why don't you explain a little bit about what that is all about, what you're putting together with that.
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Okay. Tech technical wise, I'm not the best. She is she's, got us on a Microsoft programmer. We're going to build a green screen room, and it's gonna be done in a couple days. In the green screen, I have some software where you can take 1,600 formats. And the the format, I said, her the way her voice is and I said, Rosanna, she read some first amendment, second amendment, third amendments, and I and I spread them all over the country to different guys I know. They go, I'd buy that. I don't even know why I buy that. If someone was, if I had a radio show and I wanted to do commercials for me, I'd buy that. But I said, I think because of it's not just patriotic. It's, it's our drive. I'm thinking, you know, my father was a World War two guy. Her father was a, so he's in the seventies. He passed away. So he'd be a Vietnam ish guy right after Vietnam. And so and her mother was her mother was a boot sergeant or boot whatever staff sergeant. So both of her parents were military, and her brother's air force. He did some details.
And so we all say we we all know people in the military. So I said, you know what? You know what's getting my my my my brain going, Rosanna, is your voice and your presentation, and you have, like, this anybody who's got a anthropod up the posterior can look at you and go, this woman has got a pure nice heart. None of us have a a a pure heart, but she's got a, you know, I don't know what we call it. Just she just has a a soft heart. Right. And she's just so you know, and how can I bring people together? I said, your voice. And we're gonna do 14 amendments, and one of them is she'll be dressed as a colonial outfit with some paper scrolls and reading the first amendment. But between each verse, I'm gonna I'm gonna sub, project classic, like paper scrolling from the forties, Paul Revere writing, you know, just historical, Joe, historical. I love history just like Kirk. I love history and actually if you know your history, it helps the Bible history too. Oh, absolutely. You start look when you go to one hand in hand, But history wise, everybody says it repeats itself, but we'll we'll we'll make that first amendment, not this her reading, it will put in between each first history of our country. Oh, there goes my pledge allegiance.
Cheap tape. Dollar store.
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Live shows, folks. Live shows. No.
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You read between the lines from the this verse to this verse. Whatever you know, World War two, Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Mhmm. Kennedy shot. And so we could put those in there and make that a what she reads, and I think it's fifteen to twenty second. We we can do a minute and a half. You know? And let the people know, today, both of these young ladies, you know what? Late the neighbor told me, I didn't know Robert f Kennedy's father was shot. And she's, like, 47 years old. Well, that's that's just a that's that's just a, a testament to the public education system. Yeah. I go and I Joe, I I do remember that I think it was seven. I think it was seven or eight when it happened. My mother cried extensively.
And so there we go. We, put pictures in there of, like, Kennedy shot or this moon landing on the moon. Free speech, but also freedom of the press and also that part of it too because, we're we're we're really we're we're we're trying to how would you say it? We're trying to hijack it. Both sides are trying to hijack it. It's mine. No. It's mine. You know? What's what's your freedom of speech? Because this is my freedom of speech. I'm glad the SOB died. He died away. But it's freedom of speech, and it is. And everybody's pulling out the one Voltaire. Voltaire was the atheist. And when I say the seventeen hundreds, I believe, and he was a famous atheist. And in fact, his house or whatever mansion it was was sold. It was turned into a Bible press, a bible printing company, which is which is great. But he said the verse was, I may disagree with you Christians, but I will give my life that you have free speech to say it.
That's that's what I call dissenting. We can disagree, but the guy's going, I'd give my life so you can still disagree with me. That's not here. We don't and that's my message for tonight. We don't have that. We're going, what could it take? What could we how do we and I said, Rosanna, how can we how can we put the what is that word? Put the first put up the olive branch. So we're actually me and her are trying to figure out how we can put a olive branch out there if it doesn't get 50 views or 50,000,000 views. And I believe if we do it correctly and the message is correctly, we're offering an olive branch because we're gonna kill each other.
Not physically. We're gonna kill each other, Joe. Just everything. Spiritually, I can't stand a neighbor no more. Man, I I know he likes he's all blue or whatever. And, you know, he called he called the cops on me because I'm I've got a Hank Williams junior flag and, or whatever. And that's that's that is the the point where I'm actually thinking that could come to that. People say civil war. No. I think mentally, emotionally civil war. We just can't trust your neighbors. You don't wanna like them. You don't wanna do do nothing with them. And if the power goes out in the community when I grew up, I'm from the Detroit area outside Joe, we lived on the front porch. Everything was the front porch. Hey, dudes. Come on over. Watch the ball or listen to the ball we listened to the ball game on the porch with dad, you know, have his paps moving beer, and
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that was that was a different world. It was a great world. It was a really good thing. I grew up in Brooklyn, and and, you know, I'm a I'm a seventies baby. So sixties. And so I I know what you're talking about. I mean, my neighborhood back in Brooklyn, I I was born and raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and it was Alright. Love loved the neighborhood, you know, and, everybody knew each other, everybody was friends, everybody hung out in everybody else's place, and I remember ball or whatever? Yeah. My mom used to, my mom and dad would, you know, they would have the neighbor over for for coffee and cake at night, and or they'd go or they'd be at a neighbor's house doing the same thing, and they, you know, the the card games and the what what was that game they used to play all the time with the tiles? Mahjong. Right? Mahjong. Something like that. They would they would play that. They would do all that stuff, and everybody knew each other in the neighborhood. Everybody was watching after all the adults were watching for all the kids. And you you couldn't do anything without getting spotted, you know.
And, everybody looked out for each other, but that's not today. That's not today. Right. Right. And if you try to do that to somebody today, they look at you like you're crazy.
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So I I was talking to the to me, Brian, and he says, you know, I throw things out there, I go, I kinda wanna be the Barnabas to your Paul right now. And when it he was a good supporter Mhmm. To Paul, and Paul was the articulate one and you are and, but Barnabas was a loyal friend. Absolutely. And that's what I wanted that's what and can I can I bust my chops with all of the political stuff that maybe you but I do have a lot of knowledge and I like a lot of history and, you know, like I say, I I ask me anything in a sense of I used to know all the sports stuff? I can tell you something, Joe. I've sat down the other night and I don't have any of the, television, receptions, but there was a whatever we whatever we had, that football game was on. I watched it for three minutes. I go, that's stuff new for me no more. Mhmm. I watched about five minutes of the ballgame, whoever it was, and I went back and watched my wife make wedding cakes. And we talked about it, and we put a teaching on, and then I put a couple other things on some, I listened to I listened to the story of Elijah. It's the quiet, peaceable life Mhmm.
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That the Bible talks about.
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If I tell you how blessed I am, it's beyond being blessed. And my sister, she lives with this guy. She's a, not lives with him, lives with him. She's a personal secretary in a 14,000 square foot house in next to all these different places. He runs a big major restaurant business in Michigan. And she goes, I gotta tell you when I go out there. I live up in the mountains. My house is 85 years old. The chickens are kicking back at 4AM, and I don't have to listen to the car motors. I live back here and I'm beyond beyond blast And I was reading. Here's what I always read, Joe. Like I said, I read I know more snippets. You you got a lot of you're a paragraph guy and probably more of a couple lines guy. How's that? Okay. And to support you is like, Joe, I read this.
More people as of the last few months wanna get the then we could hell out of dodge. They wanna get in a rural area. They wanna move out. They wanna get some distance. Yeah. And I think part of it is is the stress and the pressure and, you know, as Lincoln Park said, you know, I'm getting one one close step or to the one close one step closer to the edge and I'm about to break. Mhmm. And a lot of people are. And I think people don't wanna be around people either. And like I said, people are getting you know, especially when you go on the subway or a tram or whatever or whatever. It's like it's it's the way the world and now we have three policemen that have been, lost their lives and some others. It's like, this is where the pictures I'm seeing, it's a rural area. There's nothing but hundreds of acres of cornfield.
Mhmm. So it's not the city. It's not Downtown Philadelphia. It's some rural area out there. So probably county sheriffs or something like that. But getting back to my show, I go, what can we what can we show the world? And we're gonna do it with small little videos. How's that? And we're gonna work on videos and lots of them. I don't know. I talk about showing some girl's butt on a TikTok. I'm talking about let's look at this. What does this really say? The right to face speech. And let's we'll we'll cut it to the bone. What does the right mean? What is you know? And I wanna take the dialogue and use it. I'm very visual. I love pictures. I love video. I love movies. And that's where my my strong point is. I I I I'm a film photography guy. I could tell you who directed what movie and what. Like, well, Robert Redford died the other day. I mean, I didn't care about his political views all the time, but he did some good stuff. Oh, yeah. And that it you know, like I said, he he did release some good things. He did one three days of the Condor, which is a very interesting movie.
And it's about kind of black ops and, almost like, Benghazi and all a bunch of things thrown together. And so, taking the visual and showing people, here's what an amendment is and breaking it down, the whole amendment, each part of it, and showing what visual a part of
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that amendment is. Are you just gonna do the you're just gonna do the Bill of Rights? You're gonna do all the amendments?
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All of them. Okay. I already got the first done first four in my brain written down. I like to write. So I got the first, so I'm gonna help her out with the and and when you make movies, the little screen cards, like like 20 different cards and this would be scene one, scene two, scene three. And so, and then I will have a whiteboard for her. But the green screen, you could be in a battlefield. It's really cool. The the the software I have. You could be Yeah. That's the stuff It's kinda neat, actually. You know? World War two and okay. Here's the second amendment one. You know, she's gonna do, like, a cowboy western western one. So then I have the alternative one. Well, don't tell don't tell don't spoil it. You just No. No. The the alternative one is I told my friends they go, oh, you're blowing me away. Dude, get this going.
One guy said this. Our country needs this. I think so too. I mean, I'm a small guy in the bottom of a basement up in the mountains, but, the the three I put and I I I talked to a guy who's really professional with a lot of stuff. He goes, do it. Let's go. Let's roll. Yeah. Get the film rolling. And he says, it is truly the message. And the message how we do it is, well, just taking what it's like the scripture says. Is it scriptural? Is that what Jesus really said? Did he did Jesus really say that? Let's take a look. No. He did. So what did what did the what did the founding father say?
And, yeah, even throw a few pictures of those guys in there. So I I I love to take I have to get all stock footage that's, what do you call it, public domain and free music that you can put in there. And, it's really a message for our country on its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary that, you know, let's not blow this completely. Let's somehow figure out we can do this. You know what? If you wanna put I call it the spite you ever heard of spite fence? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The spite fence. Build a eight foot fence so your neighbor and you'll make sure the other side, the the raw side is facing them. Right. You got the beautiful you got no serious You got the finished side of it. Yeah. Maybe. You got the I just read this. I just seen a picture. If you wanna really picture your neighbor off, give them the unfinished side and the crap, you know, whatever. Like, the stamps on at Home Depot or whatever. The old spike fence. Like Let him figure it out. Let him figure it out. So it was an interesting day. Me and my wife, we had to get some stuff done. She does weddings, and she works at her at her business. I don't wanna say what it is. And she's got that done, and she says, let's get this screen going. So this stuff will be all green, and she's gonna get the downloads, and she's getting dress rehearsals by Friday. Awesome.
I like to have it up by Sunday, and I want to get them on, and I'm gonna figure out how to send them to anybody. It's everybody. I'm serious. Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Kid Rock. I'll find all this stuff that I can send to people, well, for, of course, you. And I wanna send them to anybody and everybody, and she's setting up her website. That's the first one's free. Then she wants to put it on there for, like, 99¢ to view them. And, there's a couple supporting agencies she's works for. But one is of Shared Hope. It's human sex trafficking rescue in Washington state. Mhmm. And I said, what would be the second one? I said, we'll talk it over with Joe. Now don't say what it is. We'll talk it over Right. The three of us and figure out where we wanna go with that. And, of course, this stuff isn't free either. We wanna upgrade our studios, me and you, and I think people really understand that now, what it takes to put microphones and software and and all the stuff, the computer screens and everything like that. And if you're doing it from your own pocketbook, so it's gonna be nice to say, hey. We got some income. Let's get that Megatron 4,000
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monitor. Yeah. It's not it's not cheap, and it's not, you know, and it's not easy either.
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Yeah. And it's monthly. You have to pay Yeah. Internet and this and this and this. So Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And she's got she's got accounting degree, so she knows how to do all of that. But that's where we're at. And to help you with your show and, I I talked to other people that wanna be on it and so one of them is Paul Schorb. He started Faith Harvest Helpers, retired chaplain, army chaplain, and he has started an incredible, nonprofit down here. He about fifteen years ago, these men took, soldiers, went to the state of Washington that were throwing this beautiful salmon that come up. Salmon come from the ocean and they call hatchery fish. They go to the hatcheries. They got they they take the eggs for whatever ones they take, they know what to take, and thousands of others they toss.
So they started a program and, our our organization said we'll take them. We'll take them ourselves. We did a million pounds of salmon in ten years. Nice. He chopped them up. So and so he wanted to talk about that and here's the thing he wants to talk about, the resistance. We put our our our property up. We raised all the money ourselves. We have two two buildings and the resistance, I'll let him tell you. Okay. Awesome. It's it's the same people who are celebrating Kirk's death. The same fashion. These guys are up to something. They're burning crosses out of the why would we, Christian, burn crosses? That's the Democratic Party's deal. They started that in the forties or thirties.
Christians don't burn crosses, people, and other crazy stuff like that. So they put all the kibosh they could to and here's the last one last point in this point. We wanna just get out and feed people that don't have well, I don't care. You don't. Mhmm. You just answered, you know. As I said, my my saying is there are people out there that are unhappy if you're happy. Yeah. I agree with you. That's true. That's true. So it's a I know I'm forgetting a few things, but we were getting the ball rolling. I'm sorry. I got into a major almost death car crash.
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It's slow boy, I'm such a slacker. Aren't I, Joe? You're you're terrible, brother. I mean, I I I don't know what to do with you.
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In the last four weeks, I haven't had less than four doctor's appointments, physical therapies, or treatments.
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Four out of five days of And it's not even because you're old?
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Not at all. No. Not at all. No. So so what happened to Roseanne? I go, well, she did hurt. She broke that fingernail right there. Well It it's true. She didn't get hurt because I made a quick decision.
[01:35:16] Unknown:
Well, thank well, thank God she didn't okay. You know, thank God she didn't get hurt, you know, and No. No. No. You know, and and thank God even though you did get hurt, you're still here, and you're still able to do the things you do. I mean, folks, if you don't know Wayne, Wayne, as hurt as he is right now, Wayne is out there working on the ranch. He was out on a he got we went on a hunt last week. He's not just sitting around, he he may he may have some injuries here. He may be going to doctors, he may be doing all that stuff, but he's not an idle person. He's not just sitting around whining and complaining, waiting to collect some kind of a check. He's out there actually doing things and keeping himself busy and keeping things moving. So, so I tease him about being old and all that stuff, but trust me, he has more energy than than someone my age.
[01:36:04] Unknown:
Okay. As my my 20 year old younger wife of mine says, I didn't marry a 60 year old. I married two 30 year olds. There you go. Perfect. That's what she said. That's awesome. It's true. It's true. But That's a good one. I think Can I tell you what she said? She goes, I've been feeling this, Wayne. There's a big spiritual attack on you. The truckers ministry is coming. You and Joe, he goes, you've been telling me these great ideas and you can't get out of bed some days because you literally can't get out of bed and you've been telling me these ideas of getting the show and she's she is just forty hours a week and she loves it. She's getting wedding cake orders crazy and a wedding cake takes five or six days. Yeah. So she's out there right now. And so she said I'm stopping wedding cake orders and so I want to get on the show because I do believe and this is Joe, this is serious stuff. Yeah. She goes I believe that the spiritual attacks that you have been facing is getting on the show, bringing a message of the Lord Jesus Christ and our country.
And there was one more we do in a trucker's ministry, and we got the information yesterday. The trucker's company, the pilot, was sold just recently to Warren Buffett, hermit, what they already owns, Back Shire, hermit, whatever it's company's name. I don't really care. What's the big fancy company he owns? Berkshire Hathaway, I think it is. Yeah. Yeah. For twenty years, Joe, I've gone there, hey. We're gonna set up the the display for the truckers. Yeah. Yeah. I come in this year and goes, well, I'm new. We're it's like the old Ferro. I don't know the old pharaoh. The guy said, I don't know who the old pharaoh is. I talked to him yesterday. He goes, we have a new company. You have to write corporate now if you're gonna get permission.
And we already got the supplies coming in. And the truckers ministry is we we have these trucker bags. They got cookies in this and all gospel message and just encouragement of these people, they are the the those guys are the shepherds from Jesus birth. They bring you all the good stuff, but you don't see it. They They bring you everything. Your toilet paper. So there. And so Very true. I I I came back to Rosanna and she goes, well, we'll just have to call the company and all all we need, y'all, here's a prayer. All we need is a a yes from a person at corporate and they text us or email it. We get it printed and take it. Yes. They can do this. That's all we need to take it over to this power power tripper dude. I mean, it was power tripping. The the we've been doing it for twenty years and they used to say, man, we love you guys coming in here. Well, we got a new manager. So we'll we'll we'll walk the line as Johnny Cash does. So that's the truckers is something that we start in September because that's how long it takes to get. And so and I'm I'm I'm getting a grassroots movement to get Joe Roos to Washington.
[01:38:47] Unknown:
We're working on it. No. No. I'm I'm I'm calling people, and we're getting we're getting we're getting a a movement going. We're probably it's probably gonna be next month because we're still I'm still waiting for that for that thing that I told you about to take place. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Hasn't happened yet. You know what? Next month would be good because, the silver salmon fish fishing are coming. Nice. We gotta go fishing Friday. Or or or should I or should I wait and come up on my birthday? When's your birthday? November.
November what? Twentieth.
[01:39:19] Unknown:
Sorry, Joe. It's elk season. You can't come. Maybe I wanna go on the hunt. Yeah. Go on the hunt with us. No. This you got carte blanche up here. You probably get guys at tip the elk hunting, man, because I gotta get in contact. I've been trying to get in contact with some of the old policeman down here. It's been a little harder than I thought. But, I mean, you won't have to buy a beer or whatever when you get here because and my pastor wants to get in contact with you, and Yep. Something I would like to offer the audience and you at the same time. Talking to pastors and a couple of the of the men's ministry guys of you speaking.
Okay? And I said this, I go I always like to name stuff. You know? After 09:11, the state of the nation. Doesn't have to be that. Please don't misunderstand me. But we need some message that where do we stand right now, and you're a good messenger. Joe, you're incredible messenger. I appreciate that, bro. No. You're really. I mean, I I do. I appreciate it. I really do. I'm not being I'm not being sarcastic. I'm serious. Thank you. You left a mark on the guys up here, my buddies, my mailman buddies. It's about half a dozen. Yep. Whatever he wants. We'll take him subs or pizzas or this or whatever. Barbecues.
[01:40:27] Unknown:
No. It's it's disrespect. Of course. I I I appreciate that. I I really do. Not necessary, but I appreciate it. No. And, kind of a friend of friend of Wayne is a friend of theirs. Theirs. Yeah. Well, of course. Well, yeah. And I get that, you know. And and and they're a bunch of great guys too. You know, I I remember them. And, you know, I appreciated, you know, all the contact and and all the all the conversations, I should say, that we had when I was up there last, which was I can't believe sold so many years ago already. That's that's crazy. O three. So my I'm also working on getting my more my my my chops back at at, in front of the mic because you gotta understand my mic was screaming in the mic for football. Right. Two tight ends in the town was fine. Johnson you know? But this is why I I want you to come on the show on Wednesday Wednesday evenings. Yeah. I I want you to get used to this. I want you to get back into the routine. This is why I want you I want you to do stuff. This way, we can get get this thing going here, brother. We gotta get your stuff going. And it is and like I said, we
[01:41:18] Unknown:
no more cakes. She said, no more cakes. And here's, my is it a weakness or or or a positive? I like a muse, m m u s c, and she's a muse. Yeah. She is my muse. And not just mine. The people that I've known and worked with her or worked with her, she's a muse to them too. And this where she's worked at different places, different company same company, different places. She I've talked to two or three different companies. A different place at the same company. Man, when she's got great ideas and she comes in, the smile's incredible. Her her email smile on purpose. Yeah. It's the most incredible smile. And but she's my muse on taking the 77 ideas I have in fourteen seconds and take it down to two.
And so I do have a I do no. I do have ADD. I it's it's like I said squirrel, but the I I'm gonna work to get focused and get my ideas, just all uniform, and and it's not that I'm not ready. I like I said, I could talk to you about 40 different things right now, but, I'm working once I get going and getting going has been hard for me the last three or four weeks. Getting going is being helped out of bed. Mhmm. I'm not trying to I mean, I'm a tough I'm a tough dude. Physically, like I said, I've worked in the the logging and firefighting and everything. And there's two toughs. Because they're getting in the ring and I and I get knocked out. That's not being tough or not tough. Tough is the stuff I've been through, the the the needles through my spine and and still focusing and and and getting wood put up. And and it's no it's not look what I did. Look what I did. It's the lord giving me that strength to go it's Paul says, press on. I love that. Press on to the goal, to the end.
Run the race. Fight the good fight. And that is I think we missed that in our not just Christian walk. That's a great and now that's a great, I'm not big with the fancy words, but a a a great encouragement for anybody. I agree. Fight the good fight. Run a good race. I agree. Get up every morning and and and my son was my son was a coverage man for nine years. He made $30 an hour Mhmm. You know, with benefits, but he got up and did the job. Yeah. And now he works for a lumber company. But once they said, said, Shane, you're doing it, man. You're getting up at 4AM. You're getting it done, man. You had a great house in the country where a lot of guys your age are still living at home. You got a you you got that's my Jewish mother.
That's my Jewish mother. My friend Martin, who is he is gonna help us walk us into the technical part from, he's was that green screen up? Live shows, folks. Live shows. Yeah. Yeah. So Martin, his his his parents were Holocaust survivors. Wow. Yeah. His father was the guy who escaped the camp and found the seventeenth division or whatever it was and liberated that camp. They came back and went to Israel and fought for the birth of the nation of Israel. Martin just loves me, man. He's always worried about me, so but he's gonna do some technical work and he wants to, help me with some this stuff here as I do like this. This is, you know, computer stuff. Mhmm. And he's gonna he's actually gonna be kind of like an executive producer for me and Rosanna.
To help us with some stuff, and he he can't wait to meet you either. And so, so a lot of people wanna put in and this is where my weakness is. That's where she's at, putting all these different segments into a group and going, we we've got this, and so you can you can, glean off of this. And so, yeah, I I I could talk for three, four hours. But I know. Well, we're we're we're actually up against the clock here, so we're gonna we're gonna One last thing. I I I've I've gone to bible college myself, and, as the pastors always say, you know, four three years in the mission field is, like, how many years in the two years in the mission field is four years in Bible seminary. I we did twenty I did twenty years out there. Most of it in America, which my friend Nigeria said you have the toughest country in the world you're going to. So, you know, I I I did all of this, and I said, oh, to my pastor. I go, pastor Ted, I'm thinking of becoming a pastor. No.
No. Wait. No. He goes, we don't need three hour sermons, and you're better out there. And he goes, no. Your strength is out in the out in the world. There you go. His face. No. It was instant. He was a former lawyer too. He's going. Yeah. I know. That's great. That is great. And I did his bible classes, and I mean, doing bible course, it was, understanding the times. We moved to every single religion from Nimrod. Nice. Yeah. To, like, Joseph Smith and past Awesome. That's great. And so, that's stuff I'm I'm I've got some knowledge on, but he said no. No. We yeah. Yeah. Actually, I I when my wife passed away, I actually was up there for forty five minutes. He had to come down and get me. There were people going, funerals are just terrible, but you were telling jokes and stories. We didn't want you to leave.
I go, well, you know, when you celebrate someone's life, especially if you know Christ, it is a celebration. So I actually wrote and they said the celebration life, I said, the celebration of eternal life. They said, yeah. That was a good one there. Yeah. Very good. So that was on that was on the the thing there. So there we go, Joe. Alright. I'm I've I've got I probably haven't detailed it enough. It really is coming together. Like I said, she's done with this cake. She works triple time. She said that thing's getting put up. We're gonna get the monitor. We got a brand new camera. We're gonna get all the software put on it. We're gonna see. She goes out. She's gonna do some photo shots, you know, and see how she looks on what, you know, different outfits or whatever, and then she's gonna do her dialogue. She'll run through her dialogue. And she says, I I owe Joe these. I owe him five, four, six, four, three, two minutes. Yes. You do. So No. She does. She's actually can I tell you, she's actually stressed out about it a little bit? No. I don't stress out about it. No. I told her. I said, no. When they come when you do them, they're gonna be just right. Exactly. Because you'll be you'll be what you need to do, Rosanna. And like I said, she wants to do those things in whatever other little bumpers you have. So there we go. There's a lot coming. It doesn't look like it right now, but it's gonna break wide open here. Because, Joe, this is the best I've felt in a month. Good.
[01:47:40] Unknown:
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[01:52:40] Unknown:
Yes. I got a verbal commitment that will be on screen next Thursday, Wednesday.
[01:52:45] Unknown:
Alrighty. Alright, folks. Did you see what she looks like? Thanks for being with us tonight. God bless you. Have a great night. And keep talking.
[01:53:01] Unknown:
You. Until we meet again. Happy trails to you. Keep smiling until
[01:53:11] Unknown:
where. Who cares about the clouds if we're
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And it is great to be with you once again from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. And we are going to do the very best we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we can muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the Joe Ruse Show. Folks, it is great to be with you on a beautiful Wednesday night here in Eagle Pass, Texas. It is 93 degrees at, nineteen zero six hours, And, it is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day. Very, very, very close to not having even close to an on time start today. I thought it was gonna be a lot later than what we really were.
Had little unexpected visit today at the job, which kinda delayed us, getting anything done really. So, we're gonna be flying by the seat of our pants on, tonight's show. So we'll be making up a lot of stuff as we go along with our guest, who I see is already waiting for us in the waiting room. So we'll be bringing him on here shortly. Just usual housekeeping that we need to do. So first hour, we're gonna have Evan Jaqua or Jaqua. He'll correct me when he comes on. And then, in the second hour, we have Wayne Rankin coming on to, give us an update on what he's working on up there in the People's Republic Of Washington State. So, we will be enjoying that conversation immensely as we always do with Wayne. We all know Wayne. He's he's a little bit on the on on the, excited side. Let's let's just leave it at that. And so we'll we'll talk to him in a little bit. Alright. So folks, as usual, just, do me a favor and head over to our website, joeroos.com.
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The desire for freedom, prosperity, and a bright future. From cafeteria worker to computer engineer, international consultant to business owner in IT, and aviation, Evan's diverse career mirrors his varied life experiences. He's also a single parent. He's faced, some real world struggles and successes. Alarmed by America's decline, he founded the Solutions Party to overhaul politics, curb corruption, and restore trust. His bold ideas at solutionsparty.org aim to spark a movement for change. Evan, welcome to the show.
[00:10:07] Unknown:
Thank you, Joe. I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and I'm happy we, finally made made it happen. Finally. And and This is great. It's great to see a fellow. Yeah. I was noticing the same thing. We have the same barber. Yeah. We do.
[00:10:21] Unknown:
It's called a straight edge. You know? You just kinda
[00:10:24] Unknown:
Yeah. It's it's well, you know, I like to call it this is this is the green hairstyle, you know, certified green. Okay. Very little water, very little electricity.
[00:10:34] Unknown:
Little little water, little electricity, little soap, all all that stuff. It's it's it's good stuff. Yeah. It all works. Yeah. I I just I did this recently, actually. I I got I got tired of of spending the money on on hair dye. I was getting way too white for my age, so I'm just like, let's just get let's just get rid of it. Yeah. I I've calculated I've saved, you know, literally thousands of dollars over the last two decades, you know, not going to the barber. Oh, yeah. Not even buying shampoo. I just use soap, you know, from head to toe. Yeah. Same same. No combs, so I don't have to worry about how I look in the morning. There you go. So No no bedhead. It's very liberating. Yeah. Very liberating. It actually actually, it is. You know, people don't realize that. It really is. I was actually telling somebody at work who had to be a female. I was like, she was like, I don't know what to do with my hair. I said shave it. Get rid of it. Exactly.
[00:11:20] Unknown:
Yes. I mean, I've seen a lot of women, you know, who have our hairstyle, they look just great. Yeah. I I agree. I absolutely agree. So, Evan,
[00:11:29] Unknown:
I always like to start the show. I don't know if you've if you checked out any of the shows that we've done previously, so you should be prepared for these two questions I'm gonna ask you to start with. Alright. What is something going on. What is something most people don't know about you but should?
[00:11:44] Unknown:
Well, I think that, the thing that I I would really like to emphasize is that, I've seen the world from a lot of different perspectives. I've seen I've had friends across the political spectrum. And so I think what I I would like to emphasize more anything is I'm all about, or what I've tried to start here is all about ideas. And I there there are good ideas across the political spectrum if people you know, if these ideas are presented honestly and clearly, you know, then we can actually debate them and decide which ones we like the best, vote, and move forward. And so I don't like to think of myself as right or left because I like to think that, like I said, if if you listen to ideas across the political spectrum, you hear that lots of good ideas now happen to favor some ideas over the others. But if we get the emotions out of the and if we get the, you know, the miss misinformation out of the picture, you know, our democracy can really flourish. And so I would I really wanna emphasize that, you know, these ideas and I myself, I don't like to consider myself either right or left. I tend to if I had to choose, I would say I'm more center right Okay. As I have been for for for a long time.
But, you know, I have friends, like I say, across the political spectrum, and I'm, I'm welcoming for all ideas and all points of view. And one of the things I like about your your your description of your show is that, you know, PC is is, you know, out of the picture. Let's have honest discussion. Tell me what you're really thinking. I'll tell you what I'm really thinking. Let's get it all out there, and let's, let's have a, you know, a civil discussion and and move things forward. Yeah. Exactly. And there there's no reason to argue, you know, the whole thing with
[00:13:24] Unknown:
the whole thing with the the free exchange of ideas is open debate. Being able to talk and express yourself, and look, we may not agree on everything, but that's no big deal. You know, that's how we learn. We learn from each other that way. And one of the things that I always try to emphasize, I'm sorry, one of the things I always try to emphasize on the show is is no matter what, you have to keep talking. You know, once you once you stop talking, that's when the problems start. That's when all the misconceptions and and false ideas, and, we've seen we see a result of that, unfortunately, that was took place last week, out there in Utah. Yeah. You know? So
[00:14:01] Unknown:
well, I think the thing that we always must keep in mind, and this is what I think is the key to to to so much, is that, you know, we people have always disagreed. People will always disagree. The key is how do you handle those disagreements? Now in the old days, you know, they would sharpen the spears. Mhmm. They would sharpen the swords, and they'd go at it, and the best band of brawlers won. Eventually, we humans figured out that wasn't really the best way to move things forward. Yeah. You know? So, you know, this idea of of of breaking up the country, for example, well, you know, is that really the solution? You know what's gonna happen if we broke up this country into a blue blue country and a red country? Well, before long, you're gonna get within the blue within the blue country, you're gonna get the exact same thing. You're gonna get unscrupulous politicians who are gonna take advantage to exacerbate condition. And the red thing is, this is a never ending cycle to nowhere when you start you know, the that's what I'd say. The politics of division is a never ending cycle to nowhere because you you're never gonna have some, you know, utopia where everybody gets long, everybody agrees, and, you know, history has ended. We're always gonna disagree. The key is, how do you handle those agreements? Well, let's talk about our different ideas. Let's not assume that the other people have gotten malicious intentions in mind. Correct. We all want the same thing. You know, we all want freedom. We all want prosperity. Let's share the different ideas. Let's vote on them, and let's move forward. It's that simple. And I just wanna say one other thing. I have lived in communist China.
When I was in Japan, I had a North Korean experience, which I'll tell you about at some time. But the great thing about our country in fact, a a Chinese individual once told me, what they really loved about living in America was the freedom to think, having the freedom to, you know, think your own thoughts and express your own thoughts. Because in countries like China or North Korea, only one thought only one opinion is allowed. And our system should is far superior if we would just, you know, get the emotions and the lies out of the way. Let's get the ideas on the table, and we can kick China's butt. We can kick the the autocracies butt if we, you know, if we just, you know, get this, the out of control emotions and and the line out of the picture. And I've tried to propose some solutions for that. And the the final thing I wanna say, these ideas that are on solutionfire.org, these are actually a summary of ideas that I've, talked with people around the world. There seems to be a lot of commonality, a lot of, discussed with with politicians and politics and political parties.
And so these ideas, I would like to say I I I'd like to take credit for them, but they're actually a summary of different ideas that, I've had the honor of talking with people around the world about.
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Yeah. I was actually looking at your website, a little bit earlier today. And, unfortunately, because of everything that was going on today at the job, I wasn't able to really spend a lot of time going through each piece of it. But, it's a pretty comprehensive website. It's very easy to follow and navigate through, so I would encourage folks to head over to solutionsparty.org. Got it. And we're gonna pull it up here in just a few minutes. We'll do a screen share. And, you know, we'll we'll kinda scroll through it in in just a little bit. But I loved your comment. That was a great comment, but you didn't answer my question.
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Oh, well, the first one was the first question I answered was that I don't wanna be thought of as this isn't right or left. And so I wanna I want everybody to know that I'm open to ideas, whatever they may be. You know? Sometimes a very bad idea is the inspiration for a very good idea. So, you know, I I just don't want people to to come and and think you know, look at my website, for example, think, oh, this is a left leaning website or this is a right leaning website. It's not that at all. No. Actually, it isn't that. Website yeah. It's a it's a website that is meant to encourage ideas, an exchange of ideas. These are my ideas, but this isn't the the, you know, the be all or do all. Let's hear you know, if you wanna critique them, great. I'm all for I'm all ears. Right. You know? So that's the first thing I wanted to emphasize. I'm not this is not right or left. Right. And, actually,
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your your website is a very clear as well. It says right on the on the front page, politicians are the problem. Let's do something about it. And underneath that, it says, we are the anti political party party. So Exactly. So I think that pretty much sums it up.
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And as a matter of fact, one of the things I do is talk about, reforming political parties. But before I go into that, I think you had another question you wanna answer. What's what's your go to beverage to help you unwind? Well, that's simple. That is simple. My go to beverage is a Michelob Ultra Ultra Cold. Alright. Alright. Yeah. That's, there's not you know, I actually, I've I've lived in Portland, Oregon for many years, and that's like the, you know, the micro group capital of the world. Yeah. And it's hard for me now to find a good old conventional light beer. It's like people look at me like, like I'm from Mars or something. In fact, I just want a Miller Lite. I just want a Michelob Ultra. And it's like, no. You wanna drink that crap? And I think all I want is a nice, refreshing, beer that tastes like,
[00:19:07] Unknown:
sparkling water with a beer flavor. That's my favorite Burger King. That's a great way to describe light beer. I've never heard that before. That's good. I like that. Well, for myself, I I am a I'm a bourbon guy. I love my bourbons. And, and it's there's nothing better than it than a than a nice a nice bourbon sitting out by the by the by the fire out in the backyard with a nice cigar and just chilling, relaxing, and, just enjoying yourself. You know? That that's to me, that's there's nothing better than that at the end of at the end of the week, especially. Well,
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I'm actually tempted to try that because there is one, I believe, called Evan Williams. My my middle name is Williams. Okay. Evan William. Give it a try. So I feel very an affinity with Evan Williams.
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Well, I I just got what's that? I can give you some recommendations.
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Some really good ones. Oh, that'd be great. Yes. That'd be great. I I know Evan Williams is probably not at the top of your list, but I've had it, though. No. I no. I've I've I've had it, and it's very good. Mhmm. But, but,
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my go to is, Elijah Craig, either the toasted barrel or the small batch, either one of those are great. Toasted barrel to me is better, it has a better flavor to it. It's it's it's just has that nice rich flavor, and it pairs well with cigars, like, that I like. I like I like, Maduro cigars, so I like those those those dark wrapper cigars, especially, lately I've been on this kick with the, the Camacho Triple Maduro, which is, it's it's a Maduro fill, Maduro wrapper, and everything is Really? Wow. Yeah. It's a three layer Maduro. So it's a beautiful cigar, pairs beautifully with the Elijah Craig toasted barrel. Another one that I go to more if if you if you wanna call it an everyday, now I I just just set the record straight, it's not I don't I don't do this everyday.
Okay? I I was at one point everyday, but I don't do this everyday now. But but, another my quote unquote everyday one is, it's a really nice bourbon called seventeen ninety two. And, I had never had that until I came here to Texas. And, and, I I never saw it. I'm from New York. I never saw it anywhere up in New York, but when I got here, I saw it one day, and the guy in the store that I was talking to, he was like, hey. You should try this one. This is really good. And I did, and I got hooked on it. It was it's really nice. It's smooth. It's inexpensive. Probably cost you for the average bottle, probably cost you maybe $35.
Not horrible. Okay. You know? The the the only problem is they came out with a a much larger version of the bottle, and, that one's about $70, But it'll last you it'll last you longer, but it's, you know, it's a Yeah. That's that's a bit much, to have around the house. But, but no, it's it's it's really nice. I enjoy it, and it just helps me relax after the after the week. It's like it's like I call it my victory dance, you know. I didn't I didn't kill anybody this week, so let's relax and just stay up. That's fine. Have a have a nice drink and a cigar. It's it's it always works out.
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So, that's If I'm ever in your neck of the woods, I'll buy you that if you buy me an Ultra. Absolutely. We'll we'll get that taken care of. You're welcome anytime, my friend. Anytime.
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So, so your lifespan, goes through, diverse roles, cultures, four continents. Mhmm. How those particular experiences shaped your view that America needs urgent reform?
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Well, I think the first thing is the commonality, whether we're talking to people in South America, whether we're talking to people in Japan, whether we're talking to people in The US, whether we're talking to people in China. The common problem is our politicians, and I'd like to talk a little bit about this and try to make it as brief as possible. But the thing that occurs to me is that let's just start off with kind of a bizarre thing to say. And the the bizarre thing is basically, you know, the human brain is a wonderful thing. But one of the weaknesses of the human brain is the ease with which it forms addictions. You know, we can form addiction to alcohol, to tobacco, to drugs, to gambling, to social media, to junk food, you name it. But probably the most addictive thing of all is power.
As George w Bush said, power is very addictive and it's very corrosive. As John Boehner, the former speaker of the house said, he said frighteningly, quote, unquote frighteningly, I watched people get an ounce of power, and it completely changed them. Mhmm. And this is the problem. People get power, and they don't wanna give it up. I mean, I like to say, you know, Nick you know, Nicolas Maduro in in Venezuela would probably be a pretty nice guy if he were still driving buses in Caracas. Or Vladimir Putin would probably be a pretty nice guy if he were painting houses, you know, outside of Moscow. Kim Jong Un, the the North the vicious North Korean indicator, would probably be a pretty nice guy if he were running an Airbnb in Hawaii and surfing every day. What turns these people Not an image I wanna see. From
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what's that? Not an image I wanna keep in my mind.
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Yeah. Well, he'd probably be a lot thinner too. But, Oh, you remember. Maybe. You know, what what changes people, you know, from being, you know, ordinary, you know, nice people into vicious mass murdering monsters? And it's always been the addiction to power. Once people get it, they don't wanna give it. And this is exactly what happens with our politics. Our politics like, for example, why is Congress so compliant for the executive branch? Whether we're talking about a Democratic, you know, executive branch, you know, a Democratic president or Republican president, because all of members of Congress are petrified at being primary. Right. And so that becomes their first priority, staying in office. I mean, how many times have you heard, well, such and such politician isn't up for reelection so he or she can vote their conscience? And you think, well, gosh. Shouldn't they be always voting their conscience? Yeah. You know, why is it that they only vote their conscience when they're not up for reelection? Or why is it they spend over half their time or at least half their time on the job, you know, raising funds for their for their next election or participating in part in in partisan activities. I mean, you know, Joe, if you hired me for a four year job or a two year job and I spent half the time on the job just lobbying you and your partners for an extension of the contract, you wouldn't be too happy. Right. And, you know, our our we send people to Washington or to our, you know, our state capitals or whatever to work for us, to advocate for us, not to advance their political careers. And the only way to cure this is like if I were a a doctor and I had to prescribe to you a highly addictive medication, what what would we do to help keep you from getting addicted? We would prescribe that in limited doses spread apart. Mhmm. And that's exactly how power has to be allocated.
That's why you've gotta I think you have to, limit, time in office to one term. And not only that, you have to put an additional restriction that while you're in office, you can't run for another office. Because if you allow them to run for another office, they'll use their present office as a springboard for their next election. I agree with you. So that's why I say put a two year limit or two year waiting period from the time your your your this your time in office ends, you have to wait two years before you can run for another office. So, that that's the fundamental idea of the solutions party.
And, and there's a bunch of other ideas to try to address the weaknesses or the weak pots weak point weak, points in our democracy. But that is the fundamental idea. It's gotta get the control of, of the addiction to power, which is plaguing our politics and making it so incredibly dysfunctional.
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You also mentioned, talking about reelection, and and eliminating reelection. So I guess that goes that goes in line with what you're saying about just one term, no reelections to to long term offices. What what was the moment that, that really made you realize that that was something that really needed to be changed and made and and pushed you to launch the the the the solutions party?
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You know, I can't really say a a particular moment. I remember I was having a a a discussion with a friend of mine who's, we've had a number of political discussions. He's quite, MAGA, which is great. You know? I, you know, I respect that. And, you know, we were having, you know, a a a civil discussion as we should, you know, with with anybody. And I I said, you know, I I think, you know, what we have to do is you just make it one term because, our our politicians and all across the political spectrum, their first priority is staying in office. That's right. And that's as long as their first priority you know, if you've ever known somebody with an out of control addiction, you know, like I have I mean, I I I have my both terrible alcoholism in our in our family or here in South America in in The US. I've met people who who are great when they were in high school, but they get addicted to some drug and completely destroys their brain.
People get addicted to video games. You know, these addictions completely change people, and that's exactly what John Boehner said. Addictions because the addiction becomes the priority. And and and, you know, you hear sometimes you hear people say, gosh. We have such idiots in in Washington. Well, addictions make you dumb because the addiction becomes the priority. And so, I would say I remember specifically having this conversation about one term to answer your question, you know, specifically. I this was back about 02/2016, I would say. Or or yeah. It was before the two thousand sixteen election.
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Okay.
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Now now the now you proposed some really, really, for lack of a better word, bold reforms, like restoring trust in journalism, Exactly. Breaking the alliance, you know, special interest groups, politicians. What are the biggest challenges that people face in accepting these changes, and why do you think resistance to it is so strong?
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Okay. Well, I think, a lot of it is that, you know, we a lot of people complain about politicians, but when you talk about eliminating reelection, you know, they they people will say, well, how are you gonna hold them accountable? Or what if we like this person? We want them to go back. Well, let's talk about, okay, suppose you have a politician that you like. Okay. The thing is is that politics should never be about people or personalities. It should be about ideas. And if you like the ideas of of a given politician, then You know, we gotta get away from this idea that, you know, it's gotta be this guy or, you know Agreed. Or or nobody.
You know, politics should never be about personalities right now. So that's that's number one. Number two is that, you know, you're you're telling somebody gets elected to office for one term. You're telling them, okay. You have one chance to make your mark in history. Mhmm. What are you gonna do with it? Are you gonna waste it? Are you gonna do it for your own benefit? Or are you gonna make your mark in history and go down in history as somebody who was effective, somebody who really helped move this country forward? You have one chance. What are you gonna do with it? And so I think that this idea that, gosh, you know, reelection yeah. Let me re election. That's going to, you know, a lot of people might feel a little, uneasy with that. But, I think that when we start thinking about what politics should be about, I don't think that the resistance would be so great. And as a matter of fact, I've been very encouraged with the conversations I've had with, you know, scores of people, hundreds of people about this. And once you get them to to to buy into this idea, you know, they actually really like it. And and the final thing I will say is that, you know, the great conservative, columnists and and commentator, William Buckley, said he'd rather have 2,000 people randomly selected from the Boston phone book representing him than 2,000 career politicians.
And that's exactly what we would want. We want our politicians, our our congress, for example, to be a cross section of America itself. We wanna have, you know, the the the congressperson from New Mexico. We want, you know, a a business owner from New Mexico, a truck driver from Washington. We wanna we wanna have a lawyer from from Chicago. We wanna have the teacher from North Carolina. We wanna have a cross section of our population representing us in congress, not a rich lawyers club. And so that's the other thing that, I would like to emphasize. Now when it comes to the other thing that I think is crucial, and that is our journalism.
Now this is something that I I would like to talk a little bit about. Sure. But before I do, is there something you wanna interject? Because once I get started on these things Yeah. No. No. That's fine. No. That that's great. I I I don't mind at all.
[00:31:51] Unknown:
As a matter of fact, I have I I tell this all the time. I have a friend who watches the show or listens to the show, and would constantly send me text messages during the show telling me to shut up and let the guest talk. So so this is this is perfect. This is good. But the the only thing I do wanna say is, talking about reelections, you know, our founding generation, which, by the way, I I I know we talk about the greatest generation is the World War two generation, and I I don't dispute the fact that it's a great generation, but my my personal opinion is the greatest generation was our founding generation. They never intent they never intended for elected representatives to stay in office as careers.
That was never the that was never the intent. Exactly. And it was never the intent for for the elected representatives to stay at the seat of the general government all year long. Do you know? The and, you know, they this congress does take a break, you know, for a month. They go back to their districts. Right. But that wasn't what it was supposed to be from the start. From the start, it was you only went to you only went to congress when you were called to come to congress for a particular matter that needed to be discussed and voted on. You weren't there all the time, and you weren't exposed to all of the of the the the BS that goes on around Congress, around the Senate. All the all the lobbying and all that stuff. It took place. I'm not saying it didn't. I'm not ignorant and naive to to to not think that there was some under the table deals that took place even back then. Right. For sure. Right. But our founding generation had it right, and we have strayed so far from what the founding generation wanted for this for this republic. I I I know it's a cliche, but if they were able to come back and just observe what what's taking place with this government that they've entrusted to us Mhmm. There would be hangings in in the common square.
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Yeah. I think they yeah. I completely completely agree with that. I think they would be severely disappointed with, especially Congress, with how our congresspeople, place their own careers above everything, and they become so compliant. They become just basically rubber stamping lapdogs to the administration, whether it's Democratic or Republican. Exactly. And it's just it's just you know, they they should that they that's the most important branch of government from my point of view. They should be jealously guarding their power. They should be challenging the executive branch. And they and, you know, all three branches should be competing with each other. That's what we want when when we're talking about the marketplace, you know, in in economy or the marketplace of ideas or the or or or power. We want Yeah. These three entities
[00:34:41] Unknown:
competing and holding each other in check. Yeah. And not ceding their authority and their responsibilities to non elected individuals. And I'm thinking right now the the, like, the the Federal Reserve, unelected Right. Unelected bureaucrats that are in control of the finances of this that that are actually in control of the finances of this country, again, and at a whim can wreck it or save it. Mhmm. You know? And and there's Right. Strange to me how you how the the the executive branch can appoint people to the Federal Reserve, but can't remove them if they're not performing, you know, in the best interest of the country. I find that very very interesting and and and very confusing at the same time.
[00:35:21] Unknown:
But, that's that's off the subject. You wanted to get into journalism, and I'd like to hear this. So please. Yeah. Well, I also I just wanna make, make a a quick comment. I also one of the things I propose, talking about the bureaucrats, is that we limit government employment to five years. And so Interesting. I mean, you know, there are gonna be some exceptions, obviously, in the military, but you see, you want to, you don't want people to get into this lifetime bureaucrat mentality. I I I've seen it in Japan. I've seen it Peru. In The United States, it ruins people because in a bureaucracy, people go work to the lowest common denominator.
Correct. And, you know, there's this, you know, create complexity, justify existence mentality instead of a simplify and solve mentality. So let's limit it to five years. Let's give these these five year a lot of it will be young people right out of high school or college, give them incentives to find ways to make government more efficient, instead of what we have now where they're looking for ways to spend money, you know, to so they get the same money again, the the the following budget cycle. Mhmm. Let's you know, they they they they after five years, we give them a one time severance pay. That's it. There's not gonna be any lifetime pensions. We'll save a lot of money that way. And let's, you know, this will this will provide jobs to, crucial first jobs to, you know, people from, you know, who are graduating from high school, college.
Let's get those young, imaginative, creative people in there who will give them an incentive. If they if they find a way to save a million dollars, we'll give them a commission and, and help make government efficient from within. But I but I I didn't really wanna go into that now. I wanted to talk a little bit about journalism Please. Because I think this is so crucial. Now from my point of view, journalism is the politics, but policing is the social order. If we have slipshod policing, criminals will take advantage to behave with reckless abandon and impunity.
By the same token, if we have non trustworthy journalism, politicians will take advantage to lie with reckless abandon and impunity. There's nothing more than what a politician wants, and that is to control the narrative. And unless we have robust, widely trusted journalism, the politicians are gonna control the narrative. If there's a news story they don't like, they can just say that's fake news, and there's no way you know? And and and half the people are gonna are gonna believe it because there's so much distrust of journalism and news organizations in our country now. And that's terrible because unless the people are unless we have a common set of facts that we all agree on and unless people know what is, you know, what is actually true and what is BS, we as a country cannot elect people to really do the work that needs to be done.
And so that's why I, proposed that we certify journalists and news organizations, and we also grade them. And and let me just explain that a little bit. Is that, you know, we certify doctors. We certify lawyers. We certify truck drivers. We certify database engineers. We should certify journalists. If you graduate from college with a journalist degree, you'll automatically get a certificate. But in addition to that, let's grade them. Let's grade them on the neutrality of their articles, the how well written their articles are, how relevant their articles are, how frequently they write articles. And the higher the grade they get, the bigger let's, let's give them a stipend. Let's have a national press a press fund into which the government contribute, corporations contribute, individuals contribute because we want to make journalism a viable career again.
News in our in our country had the the traditional journalism, the business model has broken down. You know, in the old days, if you wanted to start a newspaper, you had to have printing presses, you had to have reporters, you had to have a, advertising department, you had to have a way to distribute the newspapers. You know, starting a television channel or or a network was, you know, a huge investment. Radio as well. But now we need Joe with a laptop and a web page can start a new site. So the traditional model of news has broken down, and this is why, tragically, so many small town newspapers have have, gone out of business. And that's terrible because those small town newspapers were often great watchdogs to help prevent local corruption or reporting on local corruption. Yeah. So in order to, do this, we have to think of journalism at least as equivalent, as our national defense. If you believe that the pen is mightier than the sword, which I do, then our journalism should be on par with our national defense because our national defense defenses from enemies from without, but our journalism protects us from both enemies without and within.
And so we need to have robust journalism, and so we need to have what I say what I call is a a way to support journalism that is independent of, you know, marketplace considerations because the news is just not a viable I mean, with few exceptions, It's not the traditional news model is no longer, a viable news model. Now what have a lot of news organizations done? Instead of reporting news, they've gotten into the emotion manipulation business. They've got into the political infotainment business Yeah. Which their new their their business model is not reporting facts. It's manipulating the emotions of their audience. It's providing entertainment under the guise of news.
And you can still do that, you know, even if we have the certification program. You just won't be certified. And why do we also what what's another big reason why we need this? Well, suppose, Joe, some ex girlfriend makes an AI video of you doing something awful. Mhmm. You know? How are we gonna know if that's real or fake? Well, if the question will be, was that published on a certified news site, or was that published on, you know, Joe Sixpack's Weekly World News web page? Right. Right. If if it's published on a certified news site, then you can have a lot more confidence that it's an an actual you know, it's a real thing. And if it turns out to be not real, they're gonna get penalized. Their grade is gonna go down. And if their grade goes below a certain level, they'll be decertified.
So this is why we need to have, two things. We need to certify our journalists, our news organizations. We need to grade them. And how would we grade them? Well, with the rotten tomatoes like model where you have AI programs and you have professional evaluators. You might have, you know, hundreds of them. They give, you know, they each give their grades to take an average, and that's just like how Rotten Tomatoes. When you go and wanna see a movie, is it well you know, has it been well, reviewed? You know, you get, you know, say, a 100, you know, people who evaluated the movie. And if it's got a pretty high rating, you can pretty much
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believe that it's gonna be an okay movie. You even see that with exactly the You even see that with with, like, Amazon. Amazon has verified verified, buyers that, that that if you read reviews on certain items, those verified, purchasers
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Yeah. Are are put at the top of the list, and and people who don't who aren't in the verification process a program or model that they use are usually suppressed down further down at the bottom. So, yeah, that like, it works. Yeah. You could and you could have, you know, a whole series of AI programs. I mean, I I actually worked in the field of AI for a while, so I do know its limitations. But this is one thing where AI could be helpful. You could have Interesting. People develop their own AI programs, and and they would have to be certified themselves, by the way. And you could certify them by running test files. And if they get the test files evaluated correctly, then they can participate in the evaluation of journalists. And then you would have even just like I say, part of this national press, press fund would go to even paying people who are professional at evaluating journalists in news organizations. And And then you get all these different grades. You you average them together, and this journalism has just journalist has an a minus grade. This journalist has a c plus grade. And if the grade falls below a c minus, they get a warning. And if they don't improve, they get decertified, which means they're gonna lose their stipend.
And so, and so this is this is really critical, I think, to bringing back journalism because as it is now, you know, like Russian trolls, they go on social media and they spread misinformation. Chinese trolls, trolls, they do the same. Iranian trolls, because they want us to be lost in this sea of chaotic misinformation. We don't know what to believe anymore. That's very true. Terrible for our democracy. So this is why I propose these these changes to our journalism. Now this isn't gonna affect anybody's free speech, by the way. You know? You can start your own, quote, unquote, news site. You know? It it doesn't you you say, well, hell, I'm probably not certified. That's great. You know? It's just that if somebody publishes a story on a noncertified website, you know, you're gonna it's like the old Weekly World News that you'd see at the the the, the, you know, the checkout when you went to the supermarket. Alright. National Enquirer. Yeah.
Yeah. It's like, okay. Well, do you get more like entertainment? But, you know, nobody seriously quotes the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News, you know, when they say that Satan is sick from hell. Right. You know, not a lot of people would take that from, seriously or, you know, Martians, you know, purple leprechauns from Mars or running the White House type of stuff. You know? They're not?
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Well, that's it. I'm I'm wrapping up the show now. We're we're done.
[00:45:01] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. But so, yeah, that's that's another critical thing that we need to address is because our democracy requires a well informed and honestly informed electorate. And I think that once that happens, the emotions will be turned down. The emotions now in our in our country are way out of control. Agreed. And part of the reason is because, you know, we have these these, quote, unquote, political entrepreneurial channels and and social media enables whose business, whose product is to moan emotionally manipulate people. Yeah. That's that's what they do. And and, you know, so if we have people getting their sources of information from certified news sites, certified opinion, you know, columnists, then I think, you know, you're gonna get a certain percentage of people say, hell with that. I'm only gonna, you know, listen to this, this, you know, political entertainment channel. That's fine. Go ahead and listen to what you want. But I believe that most people will, you know, will come to trust if we have a certified and, and graded system
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for our journalists and news organizations. Well, that it does make sense though because, you know, if people want actual they're gonna go with a trusted source. Right? And the certification process ensures that they're gonna get the non biased unless, well, unless they break it down there. There's left leaning certified, right leaning certified. I'm sure you can go into many different directions. The the thing is, though, is that if they you know, you're gonna have,
[00:46:30] Unknown:
but if the the more they deviate from neutrality Mhmm. The the lower the grade scale. Now you could have, a certified columnist, opinion columnist who's on the left, and and that's great, but you should have also one who's on the right. Mhmm. Let's let people hear the different points of view. And, you know, the talking about this, you know, I I wanna mention a little bit about the the tragedy that happened last week with with Charlie Kirk. Now I admire him a lot for going and taking, you know, his points of view to universities and talking with students, and I think that's great.
But, for me, it it's like watching a a professional boxer go around to universities and taking on college boys, you know, for for three minutes and beating the crap out of them and then claiming he's great boxer. I think it would have been a lot better if he had toured with a counterpart, and they had debated and then take questions. And they both start the debate saying, let's everybody keep an open mind. Let's listen to the ideas. Let's have an exchange of ideas. I think that would be would have been a lot more, productive. And and the final thing I wanna say on this is that I myself went to a small liberal arts college, and it was liberal in every sense of the word. Now I was a young Republican. Mhmm. I had just voted for Proposition 13 California. I was anti Soviet, pro capitalist, and I got into a lot of emotionally, charged discussions with my fellow students. But I can tell you this, that after all the heated arguing, after all the intense debating, after all the points and counterpoints have been made, you know, we could still go and eat dinner together or go eat lunch together. Go eat Yeah. But you can't do that anymore, though.
Yeah. We we keep those study together because, you know, even though we had very different points of view that we we passionately would would would, you know, defend, none of us ever questioned that the other person had anything but the best of intentions in in their part. And we learned from each other. I learned from them. They learned from me. And that's what college should be about. You know, an open exchange of ideas, not cancel culture crap. Right. You know, not okay. This is the this is the accepted form. Because that's like what they did in in China in China in the cultural revolution. Mhmm. And we don't want that. And so, you know, let's encourage in in our universities and open let's get professors who who who present principal points of view from different points of view.
Let's let them hear the different points of view and make up their own mind. This is not indoctrination. We don't want indoctrination
[00:49:09] Unknown:
in our country. Yeah. But that's unfortunately, that's what the the public education system has become and so has the university level has become. It's become, an an induction indoctrination centers.
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Well, the thing that any education system in our at least in our country, I think, or anywhere, but especially in our country, the the the ultimate goal should be creating free, independent, and responsible thinkers, not indoctrinated. We want a country of free, independent, and responsible
[00:49:39] Unknown:
thinkers. That's how you make a great country. You don't make a great country by indoctrinating people. If you wanna indoctrinate people, you're gonna get a country like North Korea. I mean, honestly, that's what you're gonna get. Yeah. It's like we used we used to say all the I I used to say this a lot. I I've and it's not original with me. I've heard other people say it too is that the the problem with the modern education system is is that they don't teach people how to think. They teach them what to think. That's a big difference. Right. That's a huge difference.
[00:50:03] Unknown:
It's exactly. School is meant to teach you how to think, and that's one of the things that I think also we need is we need an economy that is, opportunity rich so that you can go to college and study history or you can study literature and you can still get a good job. You know, we want we don't want our colleges and universities to be just fancy, high high expense trade schools. We want, on a an economy where, you know, you can study, you know, what what you want and still find a good job. Or you can don't have to go to college, and you can go to to trade school and find a good job. And we can achieve that, I believe, if we get our economy working the way it should. And how do we do that is we get the special interest crap out of the picture. We completely rewrite our our our our, tax code, and then we put, what I I've, proposed in a value a way to evaluate businesses so we get less regulation, but we have, a sort of a grading system for businesses too. You know?
How many do, people do they employ in in our country? What's their, you know, their customer support like? What's the the difference between the highest paid and the lowest paid? Things like this where we we we evaluate businesses, companies, give them a grade so that people can then decide. Like, for example, if somebody's on a budget, they might choose a product that is made in China or made thing because they don't have the but it will have a lower grade because it's made in China or made in India. Mhmm. A a product with a higher grade made in our country was gonna cost more, but they've got a little extra money. Well, to do that, give them the choice of buying, you know, something with a maybe a lower grade because it's it's made overseas, but also giving them, you know, the opportunity to buy a a US made product even if it's a little more expensive.
[00:51:58] Unknown:
That's a great point, and and that's the valid point. And if I could just go back to to talking about certification for a second. As as we were talking there, some just an idea popped in my head. I know that, you know, people that go through certification processes and have to pay for certifications and have to maintain these things in order to keep them going and keep their employment, they're gonna be a lot more careful with making sure that they are in compliance with the conditions of the certification. And so Sure. So so it it's it's it'll bring a little more integrity to the whole thing as well.
[00:52:34] Unknown:
Exactly. There's gonna be especially because if you make their their their pay proportional to their grade, the higher the grade, the higher rated they are. See, certification would be like a college like, the equivalent of a college degree. The grade is you know, you can get a college degree and have lousy grades, but the grades are, yeah, exactly like what you would get. And so the higher your grade and what is gonna influence, you know, your grade is, you know, again, how relevant are your articles? How well written are your articles? How well sourced are your articles? How relevant are your articles?
How often do you write articles. You know, somebody who's writing articles, you know, five days a week will get a bigger stipend and a higher grade than somebody who just writes, you know, very occasionally. And somebody who who exposes, you know, corruption at the local city council is gonna get a higher grade than somebody who writes about missus Miller's cat and kittens. And so, and so you want to give them incentive to, you know, to to produce high quality, relevant, fact based, and neutral based stuff. I mean, unless we're talking about opinion columnists, but then we want principled opinion columnists. And what do I mean by that? What I mean is that, you know, how can you tell somebody's unprincipled? Well, you just switch If if they criticize somebody and you just switch the names of the of the party or or, or the person, then it goes from being, you know, a disaster or a a crime to being no big deal. I mean, let's look at let's look at, you know, Donald Donald Trump and his impeachments. Okay? Right. Well, suppose it had been, now a lot of people thought that, you know, when he made that Ukrainian phone call, okay, a lot of people thought that was impeachable. A lot of people thought that was a nothing burger. But I can guarantee you something that if if you'd reversed it, if it had been Hillary Clinton who'd been president and she called Ukraine and asking, you know, the Ukrainian president dig up dirt on Donald Trump, her anticipated opponent, you would have an exactly a 180 degree shift. All the Democrats would have said, oh, that's no big deal, and all the Republicans would have screamed bloody murder. It shouldn't be that way. You shouldn't I agree. Completely change your opinion just if you switch the names of the parties or just if you change switch the names of the individual.
That's that that that's a very important concept in our country. It's called, you know, equality under the law. Equality under the law is you don't focus on the characteristics of the person. You focus on the act that was committed. You know? And the the thing that, the the best example I like to give is let's talk about, in the Jim Crow era. If the white man, you know, sexually assaulted a black woman, well, hey. That's just boys being boys, boys out having fun. No big deal. Right. But vice versa, okay. It's lynching time. The same crime, you just switch the colors of the of the perpetrator and the victim, and when something goes from being no big deal to being, you know, an unforgivable crime. It that's not how our law should work, and that's not how our opinion columnist should work either. That you just switch the names of of the parties, and something goes from no big deal to being a crime of the secretary or vice versa.
You've gotta focus on the action. What was the action? What was the the the supposed, transgression committed? And so that's one of the things that you would evaluate opinion columns on. Are they principled? Do they do they stick to their principles, you know, whether regardless of the party we're talking about or regardless of the person we're we're talking about, regardless of the religion or the race or the color of the person, is that you focus on the transgression or the great thing that they've done. You know? It it
[00:56:18] Unknown:
No. Go continue. I I agree with you. Yeah. That that principle
[00:56:22] Unknown:
is the principle of equality under the law actually is very applicable to our everyday lives, and it's fundamental to civilization itself because once you get away, when you start focusing on the characteristics of somebody as deciding whether they're guilty or not as opposed to the transgression or lack thereof of what occurred, then laws can and will be weaponized. One tribe will use it against another depending on the characteristics of the other tribe. And that's exactly what our founding fathers got away with. They that's what equality under the law means is that we focus on the transgression, not on the characteristics of the person, whether we're talking about the political party, whether we're talking about the color of their skin, whether we're talk about whether they're bald or not. So
[00:57:15] Unknown:
That's awesome. I like how you threw that in there. You you caught me off guard with that. Oh, man. I'm I'm looking up here at the clock, man. We're we're we're out of time, man. Oh, shoot. Got started. This hour went by. We're just getting started. We are. We are. So you know what we're gonna have to do? We're gonna have to get you back on next week, and we can pick up this conversation if you have time. That's wonderful. I can hardly wait. Let's do that. I can hardly wait. That'll be awesome. So what I'll do is, I'll I'll talk to you, I'll I'll message you after the show, and, we'll we'll get the calendar links and all that stuff worked out. And you pick a date, you come on, and we'll, we'll do this again. This is I really thoroughly enjoyed this conversation, and I'm gonna actually I'm gonna I'm gonna pull your website up here really quickly because I I said I would, and I like to keep my word.
So folks, you need to head over to solutionsparty. The solutionsparty.org website, and, take a look at this thing. This is this is a really very well laid out website. You have all of the different things that we've talked about a number of these things already, but there's so much here that that we need to get into, we can talk about even further. And there there's a few other things that we should talk about as well. So, so let's, let's let's definitely get this scheduled again. You come back on, we'll finish this thing up. Maybe we can get you a day where we don't have a a second hour guest,
[00:58:35] Unknown:
and, you we could stay off for the full the full length of the show and talk about these things. This was a great conversation, Fred. Wonderful. That would be wonderful, Joe. I I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed this as well, and I can hardly wait to, you know, continue the conversation. And, yeah, let's, let's work together with other people, and let's make our country what it should be. Let's make it the majestic
[00:58:58] Unknown:
country that it should be. I agree. And so not only through your website, but where else can folks find you to to to follow-up on the stuff that you're doing and keep in touch with you?
[00:59:06] Unknown:
Well, I I post daily on on x at underscore solutions party. I tend to be, a little sarcastic. I I believe in going after all politicians. So sometimes, you know, if I if I say something a little, sarcastic about Donald Trump, please be assured that I feel the exact same way and felt the exact same way about our our previous president. And so being irreverent to our politicians is a great American tradition. It is, actually. Nobody takes it personally. No. But but you're right, though. It actually is. Purposeful. It actually is a it's it's an American tradition. Should be. Exactly. You know, in North in North Korea, that you know? Yeah. That's a death penalty kind of stuff. Or in Iran, that's death penalty. Or even in Venezuela, in our country, let's make fun of our politicians. Let's have fun, and, hopefully, they'll laugh along with us. I I hope so too. Alright.
[00:59:56] Unknown:
Evan Jaqua.
[00:59:58] Unknown:
Yes, sir? That's right. Jaqua. Perfect.
[01:00:00] Unknown:
Gotcha. Evan Jaqua, thank you so much for being with us here tonight. God bless you, and, I'll be following you on x after the show. I'll I'll connect with you, and, we'll we'll definitely get you back here again. We'll do this. This is again, this I really enjoyed this conversation. This was great. Thank you so much for it. I appreciate it. Well, thank you. It's been my honor. I've been hard to wait for the next time. Same here. You have a great night now, sir.
[01:00:21] Unknown:
Thanks. You too. Alright.
[01:00:23] Unknown:
Alright, folks. Evan Jaqua. Make sure you check out his website, thesolutionssolutionsparty.org. Really, really interesting and very well laid out website. I think you guys can be able to find a lot of really good information in there. So make sure you check them out. Alright. So what we're gonna do here is, we see, Wayne is waiting for us in the waiting room. So what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take a quick break and, gotta run to the little boys' room. Take a quick break here. When we come back from the break, we'll bring in Wayne, and, we'll, we'll have a little conversation. We'll find out what's up in the People's Republic Of Washington. Folks, this is the Joe Russo. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share it with your friends, your family, and your followers. And, look, it helps with the algorithm. Okay? So please hit that like button, hit the share button, do those things. Help us gets help us get found, a little bit easier than what what it has been. Alright? I made so many changes so we could people find it better. I changed the name of the show, all that stuff. Come on. You can do me a favor and hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, and share it. Alright? I appreciate it. Alright, folks. So we'll be back right after this. You stay with us, and don't forget to live show weeknights, 7PM central time, right here with you, which I love to do. Alright. We'll be back.
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Alrighty.
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Alrighty. Well, bringing them up in here to the screen, I caught you off guard with that, my friend. Folks, like to welcome our executive producer, Wayne Rankin, from the People's Republic Of Washington. Washington State. That's right, sir. That's right. So how how we doing, bar brothers? Give us an update. What are you up to? How we doing with the show, with your, with the green screens and all that stuff? What's going on? You know what? We actually just got a verbal commitment to missus Rosanna will be on air next week. Oh, awesome. At Wednesday, Thursday, she wants to make at least a little intro.
[01:07:50] Unknown:
She wants to dip her toe in the water. She's she's got a lot of stuff going this weekend. We wanna get some stuff accomplished on the green screen. We wanna get her first taping. Alright. And, you know, I'm talking about at least some some photo shooting, photo shots, and get some, promo shots and get that going and, get that started. I said better time because, it couldn't be a better time. The timing was great. This has been in the work for a while. So if somebody says, you know, you're doing the first amendment, and this has been stuff for months in the work. But, you know, like I said, a little sidetracked on on a auto accident. But, Joe, last week, we started with something like, you know, kind of, you know, gloomy. Here we go again. Three officer shot in Pennsylvania. Yep.
[01:08:33] Unknown:
Yeah. I heard about it earlier. I'm not at the speed on the whole thing on it though, to be honest with you. You might. You know, I had, I had a a a really crazy day. We had some unexpected visitors today, and, so it was, just all hands on deck. So I wasn't really able to to, spend too much time getting caught up on all this stuff. Mhmm. I got something very special with me here tonight.
[01:08:55] Unknown:
The pledge of allegiance. I think this is about 50 years old. I have a trunk from, that actually came from your old neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York. I have relatives there that were I mean, the grandparents were born in the eighteen hundreds. How's that? Okay. And so there's some stuff that are I I go it's like one of those, what's the name? Is it keepsave or whatever the whatever the fancy words they use for stuff that you keep for a long time. Keepsakes. Well, there's some other stuff in there. I think there's some, amendments are in there, pledge of allegiance, declaration of independence. I'm going to go through this, but there's the pledge of allegiance, and I know it's pretty old because I was looking at the print on it. It's, like, from the fifties. Mhmm. So beautiful art. I mean, you know, just something we used to do we used to do in school when I was a kid. And so, but a big day today, a lot of stuff going. I actually got my car going, my 1966 Mustang. Nice. Five years. So we're a little late. So she had to get her nails done today. And so so we were we had to do that. Is that what you we we were texting about before the show started?
I got Okay. Yeah. We're about ready to go. So there's a country road. Even though it's only a 200, that's a real engine. Okay? Okay. And I hit that soccer. You could just hear the the transmission kicking in. It's about a quarter mile. So it was really fun. So I actually have a plan for that car. We'll talk some time off air. Okay. I'm actually next year, I'm driving it across the country, and I have this huge massive, nine eleven display that we we when we went in 02/2002, we went to 21 fire stations, and we had this massive display. And the glass case has a t shirt from tons of guys signed it. The two guys from the the Iron Cross Mhmm. Picture. Yeah. There's two of those guys signed it and etcetera. And the other side's the 350 something fallen, fire people that they gave me directly, so I wanna return it. I wanna drive across the country, 09:11, let's get this country going back again, old school, Hank Williams junior stuff.
I actually it's white, and I thought of getting a marker and have people sign the thing across there. Just, you know, crazy stuff like that. Have a flag and meet you in Brooklyn so we can dedicate it to New York City. Brooklyn. And I'm not but that's where she my late wife is from, and that's kind of like it was it's a sentimental it's a sentimental air plus that, I think it was a ladder. I one of the ladder companies, they lost the whole night shift. And I said, you know, if we ever return this, she said, to return it here or at least maybe city hall. I don't know. That will come to me, though. Interesting. I'm a driving across the country, and let's get the banner going, and I wanna land there July 4. I really do. That could be interesting. That could be a lot of fun. I do a lot of interesting crazy stuff too. So people say and I usually do it. I just I the thing is I actually do it. So it's it's I know. Kinda my my wife said she could hear my my brain bubbling in the last couple of nights.
[01:11:46] Unknown:
So Well, I I warned the I warned the audience before we got started here that, that, that you were coming on, and, and that you are a character and a half, and which is to say the least, and you you have actually the ideas that you have to do the show that you're you're planning on doing, I think are they're great ideas, and I think they're gonna do really well. Oh, I love the camera by the way. Nice nice one. So why don't you tell us a little bit about the idea that that's behind the show, what you're planning on doing with it, if you have a soft launch date, and and all that great stuff. Let's, let's, let's talk about that for a little bit.
[01:12:26] Unknown:
Okay. The like, what we have planned, it's we, and I talked to my other executive producer here. And, very oh, she's I told her last night, you have so much unreached potential, and my friend see this. She's one of those ladies that have been told you can't do it. Mhmm. Over and over and over and over. And so I go, well, let me just see this. You cooked for world class chefs. You had your own business, etcetera, etcetera. I had my own business. It was monkey business. And so I said, look. For real. I said, I've I've done radio, you know, lower level small college basketball. I've done talk show, my own little, TV show. It's outdoor hunting and fishing show. And, as it goes for the geopolitical oh, heck. Yeah. I mean, I I hope I don't step over some boundaries when I say this. Like Charlie Kirk, I spent the last twenty years of of of my postal service life across the street at the library. Mhmm. I'd had a two hour lunch soaking in everything. I didn't go to college. My buddies I grew up with, you got your master's?
No. I don't. I just got a high school. Dude, where do you get I have my information junkie. I love it. And lately, I haven't because I've had some medical issues. Almost got I got slammed against another car, so I'm getting my mojo back. I gotta tell you my confidence was really hurt because of just the pain and the pain I've been going through. I've actually felt really good, Joe, the last three days. And that's a month before that. So I said, okay. As it goes for this show, there's a there's a I kinda I look at two or three different aspects. You're good political and, you know, and and I'm I'm a little I like geopolitical, but for me, I like this part of the country wise. What's going on in our country? Where I'm up here, it's a disaster. Mhmm. Literally, everything oral talked about is happening in Washington state. I went to the pump today, 04:26.
[01:14:17] Unknown:
Wow.
[01:14:19] Unknown:
Oh, I read that, oh, that's the sec second of the three gas taxes he's putting in the governor. Bob, I will tax anything, Ferguson. And my my my my, property taxes went from 2,800 to 8,800 this year. That's huge. That's ridiculous. That's crazy. It's he the state law was you can never go over 1% increase. He went to the legislators and said we gotta we gotta we gotta tax these people off our property. We gotta go to 3%. So this stuff like that, everybody else could say all the stuff the local political shows here. They don't have a lot of bite because this is this is not even blue. It's deep blue. Mhmm. I mean, it's the blue is blue. Them Oregon, Washington is one state. They're talking about getting a three state mandate mandate mandatory vaccines.
At the state level? At the state level. So me and Rosanna were talking today. We were, like, saying, really, what's coming down the pike? Are they gonna stay where she works at her business? Total vaccination, you're fired. It's fucking serious. I'm not this is you know, it's funny because when wrote the book, I read I wrote '27 I read 1984. This stuff's coming true. I mean, it's not farfetched. So that's the sort of things my show I wanna, you know, like I say, I I I cut my teeth on a guy named Art Bell.
[01:15:36] Unknown:
Art Bell was great.
[01:15:38] Unknown:
K. I think he's one of the greatest voices. He had the greatest voice in the nighttime. Yeah. He interviewed guys that lived with aliens and etcetera, but the guy, he he really would take it. What I like, he had the respect for the caller and the guest. Yes. And he he he would actually so tell us about what your alien friend said. And he actually he didn't what is that word? Word? Patronize him? Is that the right word? Yeah. No. He wouldn't patronize him. He would he would he would encourage them to tell their story. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And so that's how I grew up and I grew up. That's my,
[01:16:08] Unknown:
experience with talk radio. I used to love when I was when I was younger when I was a kid, really, teenager, listening or or young teens. Right. You know, when you're you're supposed to be asleep. Right. But, you know, actually, you you were you were hiding out in your bedroom, and this is when we used to have a little portable radios.
[01:16:25] Unknown:
And, I was I listened to Art Bell at, like, 03:00 in the morning, you know, trying not to get caught by mom and dad for being up so late. Well, on the West Coast, he started at ten, but I started my shift at 2AM. Mhmm. So I get to that hour and then we rewind it. But as for my show, I'm going what format, what program. It's kind of like how do I get the information I know and the things I I I I I I stare after, I dig after, and work with you. Like, my show, I wanted to be part of your show, like, Wayne's with Wednesdays or whatever. I don't know if I could sit for and have my show for hours and hours and hours because here's the thing, I have HDADD, which is ADD and high def. Okay?
There was a bird. Squirrel. Squirrel. My wife says I don't eat squirrel. Squirrel. I I I come in I'm I'm real hot and small, an hour bit. You know what I'm saying? That bit information wise, and then I start to overload because I she said today, I could hear your brain boiling. I said, well, I got these things, and we literally are gonna be doing some photoshoots with her, her colonial pistol came today. Oh, nice. Yes. She's got the full colonial outfit with the pistol, and and she's ready to read what she needs to read. She's gonna do some some takes. We're gonna work on getting a website. She's gonna go with rosannalee.com. She doesn't wanna use the last name because she's just, you know, I said, they'll love you in the South, and she didn't even understand her.
[01:17:56] Unknown:
So so for the folks that who don't know, maybe because we, you know, we always have some new listeners and whatnot. So you're talking about the patriotic close, the colonial pistol. So why don't you explain a little bit about what that is all about, what you're putting together with that.
[01:18:12] Unknown:
Okay. Tech technical wise, I'm not the best. She is she's, got us on a Microsoft programmer. We're going to build a green screen room, and it's gonna be done in a couple days. In the green screen, I have some software where you can take 1,600 formats. And the the format, I said, her the way her voice is and I said, Rosanna, she read some first amendment, second amendment, third amendments, and I and I spread them all over the country to different guys I know. They go, I'd buy that. I don't even know why I buy that. If someone was, if I had a radio show and I wanted to do commercials for me, I'd buy that. But I said, I think because of it's not just patriotic. It's, it's our drive. I'm thinking, you know, my father was a World War two guy. Her father was a, so he's in the seventies. He passed away. So he'd be a Vietnam ish guy right after Vietnam. And so and her mother was her mother was a boot sergeant or boot whatever staff sergeant. So both of her parents were military, and her brother's air force. He did some details.
And so we all say we we all know people in the military. So I said, you know what? You know what's getting my my my my brain going, Rosanna, is your voice and your presentation, and you have, like, this anybody who's got a anthropod up the posterior can look at you and go, this woman has got a pure nice heart. None of us have a a a pure heart, but she's got a, you know, I don't know what we call it. Just she just has a a soft heart. Right. And she's just so you know, and how can I bring people together? I said, your voice. And we're gonna do 14 amendments, and one of them is she'll be dressed as a colonial outfit with some paper scrolls and reading the first amendment. But between each verse, I'm gonna I'm gonna sub, project classic, like paper scrolling from the forties, Paul Revere writing, you know, just historical, Joe, historical. I love history just like Kirk. I love history and actually if you know your history, it helps the Bible history too. Oh, absolutely. You start look when you go to one hand in hand, But history wise, everybody says it repeats itself, but we'll we'll we'll make that first amendment, not this her reading, it will put in between each first history of our country. Oh, there goes my pledge allegiance.
Cheap tape. Dollar store.
[01:20:33] Unknown:
Live shows, folks. Live shows. No.
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You read between the lines from the this verse to this verse. Whatever you know, World War two, Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Mhmm. Kennedy shot. And so we could put those in there and make that a what she reads, and I think it's fifteen to twenty second. We we can do a minute and a half. You know? And let the people know, today, both of these young ladies, you know what? Late the neighbor told me, I didn't know Robert f Kennedy's father was shot. And she's, like, 47 years old. Well, that's that's just a that's that's just a, a testament to the public education system. Yeah. I go and I Joe, I I do remember that I think it was seven. I think it was seven or eight when it happened. My mother cried extensively.
And so there we go. We, put pictures in there of, like, Kennedy shot or this moon landing on the moon. Free speech, but also freedom of the press and also that part of it too because, we're we're we're really we're we're we're trying to how would you say it? We're trying to hijack it. Both sides are trying to hijack it. It's mine. No. It's mine. You know? What's what's your freedom of speech? Because this is my freedom of speech. I'm glad the SOB died. He died away. But it's freedom of speech, and it is. And everybody's pulling out the one Voltaire. Voltaire was the atheist. And when I say the seventeen hundreds, I believe, and he was a famous atheist. And in fact, his house or whatever mansion it was was sold. It was turned into a Bible press, a bible printing company, which is which is great. But he said the verse was, I may disagree with you Christians, but I will give my life that you have free speech to say it.
That's that's what I call dissenting. We can disagree, but the guy's going, I'd give my life so you can still disagree with me. That's not here. We don't and that's my message for tonight. We don't have that. We're going, what could it take? What could we how do we and I said, Rosanna, how can we how can we put the what is that word? Put the first put up the olive branch. So we're actually me and her are trying to figure out how we can put a olive branch out there if it doesn't get 50 views or 50,000,000 views. And I believe if we do it correctly and the message is correctly, we're offering an olive branch because we're gonna kill each other.
Not physically. We're gonna kill each other, Joe. Just everything. Spiritually, I can't stand a neighbor no more. Man, I I know he likes he's all blue or whatever. And, you know, he called he called the cops on me because I'm I've got a Hank Williams junior flag and, or whatever. And that's that's that is the the point where I'm actually thinking that could come to that. People say civil war. No. I think mentally, emotionally civil war. We just can't trust your neighbors. You don't wanna like them. You don't wanna do do nothing with them. And if the power goes out in the community when I grew up, I'm from the Detroit area outside Joe, we lived on the front porch. Everything was the front porch. Hey, dudes. Come on over. Watch the ball or listen to the ball we listened to the ball game on the porch with dad, you know, have his paps moving beer, and
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that was that was a different world. It was a great world. It was a really good thing. I grew up in Brooklyn, and and, you know, I'm a I'm a seventies baby. So sixties. And so I I know what you're talking about. I mean, my neighborhood back in Brooklyn, I I was born and raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and it was Alright. Love loved the neighborhood, you know, and, everybody knew each other, everybody was friends, everybody hung out in everybody else's place, and I remember ball or whatever? Yeah. My mom used to, my mom and dad would, you know, they would have the neighbor over for for coffee and cake at night, and or they'd go or they'd be at a neighbor's house doing the same thing, and they, you know, the the card games and the what what was that game they used to play all the time with the tiles? Mahjong. Right? Mahjong. Something like that. They would they would play that. They would do all that stuff, and everybody knew each other in the neighborhood. Everybody was watching after all the adults were watching for all the kids. And you you couldn't do anything without getting spotted, you know.
And, everybody looked out for each other, but that's not today. That's not today. Right. Right. And if you try to do that to somebody today, they look at you like you're crazy.
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So I I was talking to the to me, Brian, and he says, you know, I throw things out there, I go, I kinda wanna be the Barnabas to your Paul right now. And when it he was a good supporter Mhmm. To Paul, and Paul was the articulate one and you are and, but Barnabas was a loyal friend. Absolutely. And that's what I wanted that's what and can I can I bust my chops with all of the political stuff that maybe you but I do have a lot of knowledge and I like a lot of history and, you know, like I say, I I ask me anything in a sense of I used to know all the sports stuff? I can tell you something, Joe. I've sat down the other night and I don't have any of the, television, receptions, but there was a whatever we whatever we had, that football game was on. I watched it for three minutes. I go, that's stuff new for me no more. Mhmm. I watched about five minutes of the ballgame, whoever it was, and I went back and watched my wife make wedding cakes. And we talked about it, and we put a teaching on, and then I put a couple other things on some, I listened to I listened to the story of Elijah. It's the quiet, peaceable life Mhmm.
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That the Bible talks about.
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If I tell you how blessed I am, it's beyond being blessed. And my sister, she lives with this guy. She's a, not lives with him, lives with him. She's a personal secretary in a 14,000 square foot house in next to all these different places. He runs a big major restaurant business in Michigan. And she goes, I gotta tell you when I go out there. I live up in the mountains. My house is 85 years old. The chickens are kicking back at 4AM, and I don't have to listen to the car motors. I live back here and I'm beyond beyond blast And I was reading. Here's what I always read, Joe. Like I said, I read I know more snippets. You you got a lot of you're a paragraph guy and probably more of a couple lines guy. How's that? Okay. And to support you is like, Joe, I read this.
More people as of the last few months wanna get the then we could hell out of dodge. They wanna get in a rural area. They wanna move out. They wanna get some distance. Yeah. And I think part of it is is the stress and the pressure and, you know, as Lincoln Park said, you know, I'm getting one one close step or to the one close one step closer to the edge and I'm about to break. Mhmm. And a lot of people are. And I think people don't wanna be around people either. And like I said, people are getting you know, especially when you go on the subway or a tram or whatever or whatever. It's like it's it's the way the world and now we have three policemen that have been, lost their lives and some others. It's like, this is where the pictures I'm seeing, it's a rural area. There's nothing but hundreds of acres of cornfield.
Mhmm. So it's not the city. It's not Downtown Philadelphia. It's some rural area out there. So probably county sheriffs or something like that. But getting back to my show, I go, what can we what can we show the world? And we're gonna do it with small little videos. How's that? And we're gonna work on videos and lots of them. I don't know. I talk about showing some girl's butt on a TikTok. I'm talking about let's look at this. What does this really say? The right to face speech. And let's we'll we'll cut it to the bone. What does the right mean? What is you know? And I wanna take the dialogue and use it. I'm very visual. I love pictures. I love video. I love movies. And that's where my my strong point is. I I I I'm a film photography guy. I could tell you who directed what movie and what. Like, well, Robert Redford died the other day. I mean, I didn't care about his political views all the time, but he did some good stuff. Oh, yeah. And that it you know, like I said, he he did release some good things. He did one three days of the Condor, which is a very interesting movie.
And it's about kind of black ops and, almost like, Benghazi and all a bunch of things thrown together. And so, taking the visual and showing people, here's what an amendment is and breaking it down, the whole amendment, each part of it, and showing what visual a part of
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that amendment is. Are you just gonna do the you're just gonna do the Bill of Rights? You're gonna do all the amendments?
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All of them. Okay. I already got the first done first four in my brain written down. I like to write. So I got the first, so I'm gonna help her out with the and and when you make movies, the little screen cards, like like 20 different cards and this would be scene one, scene two, scene three. And so, and then I will have a whiteboard for her. But the green screen, you could be in a battlefield. It's really cool. The the the software I have. You could be Yeah. That's the stuff It's kinda neat, actually. You know? World War two and okay. Here's the second amendment one. You know, she's gonna do, like, a cowboy western western one. So then I have the alternative one. Well, don't tell don't tell don't spoil it. You just No. No. The the alternative one is I told my friends they go, oh, you're blowing me away. Dude, get this going.
One guy said this. Our country needs this. I think so too. I mean, I'm a small guy in the bottom of a basement up in the mountains, but, the the three I put and I I I talked to a guy who's really professional with a lot of stuff. He goes, do it. Let's go. Let's roll. Yeah. Get the film rolling. And he says, it is truly the message. And the message how we do it is, well, just taking what it's like the scripture says. Is it scriptural? Is that what Jesus really said? Did he did Jesus really say that? Let's take a look. No. He did. So what did what did the what did the founding father say?
And, yeah, even throw a few pictures of those guys in there. So I I I love to take I have to get all stock footage that's, what do you call it, public domain and free music that you can put in there. And, it's really a message for our country on its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary that, you know, let's not blow this completely. Let's somehow figure out we can do this. You know what? If you wanna put I call it the spite you ever heard of spite fence? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The spite fence. Build a eight foot fence so your neighbor and you'll make sure the other side, the the raw side is facing them. Right. You got the beautiful you got no serious You got the finished side of it. Yeah. Maybe. You got the I just read this. I just seen a picture. If you wanna really picture your neighbor off, give them the unfinished side and the crap, you know, whatever. Like, the stamps on at Home Depot or whatever. The old spike fence. Like Let him figure it out. Let him figure it out. So it was an interesting day. Me and my wife, we had to get some stuff done. She does weddings, and she works at her at her business. I don't wanna say what it is. And she's got that done, and she says, let's get this screen going. So this stuff will be all green, and she's gonna get the downloads, and she's getting dress rehearsals by Friday. Awesome.
I like to have it up by Sunday, and I want to get them on, and I'm gonna figure out how to send them to anybody. It's everybody. I'm serious. Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Kid Rock. I'll find all this stuff that I can send to people, well, for, of course, you. And I wanna send them to anybody and everybody, and she's setting up her website. That's the first one's free. Then she wants to put it on there for, like, 99¢ to view them. And, there's a couple supporting agencies she's works for. But one is of Shared Hope. It's human sex trafficking rescue in Washington state. Mhmm. And I said, what would be the second one? I said, we'll talk it over with Joe. Now don't say what it is. We'll talk it over Right. The three of us and figure out where we wanna go with that. And, of course, this stuff isn't free either. We wanna upgrade our studios, me and you, and I think people really understand that now, what it takes to put microphones and software and and all the stuff, the computer screens and everything like that. And if you're doing it from your own pocketbook, so it's gonna be nice to say, hey. We got some income. Let's get that Megatron 4,000
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monitor. Yeah. It's not it's not cheap, and it's not, you know, and it's not easy either.
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Yeah. And it's monthly. You have to pay Yeah. Internet and this and this and this. So Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And she's got she's got accounting degree, so she knows how to do all of that. But that's where we're at. And to help you with your show and, I I talked to other people that wanna be on it and so one of them is Paul Schorb. He started Faith Harvest Helpers, retired chaplain, army chaplain, and he has started an incredible, nonprofit down here. He about fifteen years ago, these men took, soldiers, went to the state of Washington that were throwing this beautiful salmon that come up. Salmon come from the ocean and they call hatchery fish. They go to the hatcheries. They got they they take the eggs for whatever ones they take, they know what to take, and thousands of others they toss.
So they started a program and, our our organization said we'll take them. We'll take them ourselves. We did a million pounds of salmon in ten years. Nice. He chopped them up. So and so he wanted to talk about that and here's the thing he wants to talk about, the resistance. We put our our our property up. We raised all the money ourselves. We have two two buildings and the resistance, I'll let him tell you. Okay. Awesome. It's it's the same people who are celebrating Kirk's death. The same fashion. These guys are up to something. They're burning crosses out of the why would we, Christian, burn crosses? That's the Democratic Party's deal. They started that in the forties or thirties.
Christians don't burn crosses, people, and other crazy stuff like that. So they put all the kibosh they could to and here's the last one last point in this point. We wanna just get out and feed people that don't have well, I don't care. You don't. Mhmm. You just answered, you know. As I said, my my saying is there are people out there that are unhappy if you're happy. Yeah. I agree with you. That's true. That's true. So it's a I know I'm forgetting a few things, but we were getting the ball rolling. I'm sorry. I got into a major almost death car crash.
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It's slow boy, I'm such a slacker. Aren't I, Joe? You're you're terrible, brother. I mean, I I I don't know what to do with you.
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In the last four weeks, I haven't had less than four doctor's appointments, physical therapies, or treatments.
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Four out of five days of And it's not even because you're old?
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Not at all. No. Not at all. No. So so what happened to Roseanne? I go, well, she did hurt. She broke that fingernail right there. Well It it's true. She didn't get hurt because I made a quick decision.
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Well, thank well, thank God she didn't okay. You know, thank God she didn't get hurt, you know, and No. No. No. You know, and and thank God even though you did get hurt, you're still here, and you're still able to do the things you do. I mean, folks, if you don't know Wayne, Wayne, as hurt as he is right now, Wayne is out there working on the ranch. He was out on a he got we went on a hunt last week. He's not just sitting around, he he may he may have some injuries here. He may be going to doctors, he may be doing all that stuff, but he's not an idle person. He's not just sitting around whining and complaining, waiting to collect some kind of a check. He's out there actually doing things and keeping himself busy and keeping things moving. So, so I tease him about being old and all that stuff, but trust me, he has more energy than than someone my age.
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Okay. As my my 20 year old younger wife of mine says, I didn't marry a 60 year old. I married two 30 year olds. There you go. Perfect. That's what she said. That's awesome. It's true. It's true. But That's a good one. I think Can I tell you what she said? She goes, I've been feeling this, Wayne. There's a big spiritual attack on you. The truckers ministry is coming. You and Joe, he goes, you've been telling me these great ideas and you can't get out of bed some days because you literally can't get out of bed and you've been telling me these ideas of getting the show and she's she is just forty hours a week and she loves it. She's getting wedding cake orders crazy and a wedding cake takes five or six days. Yeah. So she's out there right now. And so she said I'm stopping wedding cake orders and so I want to get on the show because I do believe and this is Joe, this is serious stuff. Yeah. She goes I believe that the spiritual attacks that you have been facing is getting on the show, bringing a message of the Lord Jesus Christ and our country.
And there was one more we do in a trucker's ministry, and we got the information yesterday. The trucker's company, the pilot, was sold just recently to Warren Buffett, hermit, what they already owns, Back Shire, hermit, whatever it's company's name. I don't really care. What's the big fancy company he owns? Berkshire Hathaway, I think it is. Yeah. Yeah. For twenty years, Joe, I've gone there, hey. We're gonna set up the the display for the truckers. Yeah. Yeah. I come in this year and goes, well, I'm new. We're it's like the old Ferro. I don't know the old pharaoh. The guy said, I don't know who the old pharaoh is. I talked to him yesterday. He goes, we have a new company. You have to write corporate now if you're gonna get permission.
And we already got the supplies coming in. And the truckers ministry is we we have these trucker bags. They got cookies in this and all gospel message and just encouragement of these people, they are the the those guys are the shepherds from Jesus birth. They bring you all the good stuff, but you don't see it. They They bring you everything. Your toilet paper. So there. And so Very true. I I I came back to Rosanna and she goes, well, we'll just have to call the company and all all we need, y'all, here's a prayer. All we need is a a yes from a person at corporate and they text us or email it. We get it printed and take it. Yes. They can do this. That's all we need to take it over to this power power tripper dude. I mean, it was power tripping. The the we've been doing it for twenty years and they used to say, man, we love you guys coming in here. Well, we got a new manager. So we'll we'll we'll walk the line as Johnny Cash does. So that's the truckers is something that we start in September because that's how long it takes to get. And so and I'm I'm I'm getting a grassroots movement to get Joe Roos to Washington.
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We're working on it. No. No. I'm I'm I'm calling people, and we're getting we're getting we're getting a a movement going. We're probably it's probably gonna be next month because we're still I'm still waiting for that for that thing that I told you about to take place. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Hasn't happened yet. You know what? Next month would be good because, the silver salmon fish fishing are coming. Nice. We gotta go fishing Friday. Or or or should I or should I wait and come up on my birthday? When's your birthday? November.
November what? Twentieth.
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Sorry, Joe. It's elk season. You can't come. Maybe I wanna go on the hunt. Yeah. Go on the hunt with us. No. This you got carte blanche up here. You probably get guys at tip the elk hunting, man, because I gotta get in contact. I've been trying to get in contact with some of the old policeman down here. It's been a little harder than I thought. But, I mean, you won't have to buy a beer or whatever when you get here because and my pastor wants to get in contact with you, and Yep. Something I would like to offer the audience and you at the same time. Talking to pastors and a couple of the of the men's ministry guys of you speaking.
Okay? And I said this, I go I always like to name stuff. You know? After 09:11, the state of the nation. Doesn't have to be that. Please don't misunderstand me. But we need some message that where do we stand right now, and you're a good messenger. Joe, you're incredible messenger. I appreciate that, bro. No. You're really. I mean, I I do. I appreciate it. I really do. I'm not being I'm not being sarcastic. I'm serious. Thank you. You left a mark on the guys up here, my buddies, my mailman buddies. It's about half a dozen. Yep. Whatever he wants. We'll take him subs or pizzas or this or whatever. Barbecues.
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No. It's it's disrespect. Of course. I I I appreciate that. I I really do. Not necessary, but I appreciate it. No. And, kind of a friend of friend of Wayne is a friend of theirs. Theirs. Yeah. Well, of course. Well, yeah. And I get that, you know. And and and they're a bunch of great guys too. You know, I I remember them. And, you know, I appreciated, you know, all the contact and and all the all the conversations, I should say, that we had when I was up there last, which was I can't believe sold so many years ago already. That's that's crazy. O three. So my I'm also working on getting my more my my my chops back at at, in front of the mic because you gotta understand my mic was screaming in the mic for football. Right. Two tight ends in the town was fine. Johnson you know? But this is why I I want you to come on the show on Wednesday Wednesday evenings. Yeah. I I want you to get used to this. I want you to get back into the routine. This is why I want you I want you to do stuff. This way, we can get get this thing going here, brother. We gotta get your stuff going. And it is and like I said, we
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no more cakes. She said, no more cakes. And here's, my is it a weakness or or or a positive? I like a muse, m m u s c, and she's a muse. Yeah. She is my muse. And not just mine. The people that I've known and worked with her or worked with her, she's a muse to them too. And this where she's worked at different places, different company same company, different places. She I've talked to two or three different companies. A different place at the same company. Man, when she's got great ideas and she comes in, the smile's incredible. Her her email smile on purpose. Yeah. It's the most incredible smile. And but she's my muse on taking the 77 ideas I have in fourteen seconds and take it down to two.
And so I do have a I do no. I do have ADD. I it's it's like I said squirrel, but the I I'm gonna work to get focused and get my ideas, just all uniform, and and it's not that I'm not ready. I like I said, I could talk to you about 40 different things right now, but, I'm working once I get going and getting going has been hard for me the last three or four weeks. Getting going is being helped out of bed. Mhmm. I'm not trying to I mean, I'm a tough I'm a tough dude. Physically, like I said, I've worked in the the logging and firefighting and everything. And there's two toughs. Because they're getting in the ring and I and I get knocked out. That's not being tough or not tough. Tough is the stuff I've been through, the the the needles through my spine and and still focusing and and and getting wood put up. And and it's no it's not look what I did. Look what I did. It's the lord giving me that strength to go it's Paul says, press on. I love that. Press on to the goal, to the end.
Run the race. Fight the good fight. And that is I think we missed that in our not just Christian walk. That's a great and now that's a great, I'm not big with the fancy words, but a a a great encouragement for anybody. I agree. Fight the good fight. Run a good race. I agree. Get up every morning and and and my son was my son was a coverage man for nine years. He made $30 an hour Mhmm. You know, with benefits, but he got up and did the job. Yeah. And now he works for a lumber company. But once they said, said, Shane, you're doing it, man. You're getting up at 4AM. You're getting it done, man. You had a great house in the country where a lot of guys your age are still living at home. You got a you you got that's my Jewish mother.
That's my Jewish mother. My friend Martin, who is he is gonna help us walk us into the technical part from, he's was that green screen up? Live shows, folks. Live shows. Yeah. Yeah. So Martin, his his his parents were Holocaust survivors. Wow. Yeah. His father was the guy who escaped the camp and found the seventeenth division or whatever it was and liberated that camp. They came back and went to Israel and fought for the birth of the nation of Israel. Martin just loves me, man. He's always worried about me, so but he's gonna do some technical work and he wants to, help me with some this stuff here as I do like this. This is, you know, computer stuff. Mhmm. And he's gonna he's actually gonna be kind of like an executive producer for me and Rosanna.
To help us with some stuff, and he he can't wait to meet you either. And so, so a lot of people wanna put in and this is where my weakness is. That's where she's at, putting all these different segments into a group and going, we we've got this, and so you can you can, glean off of this. And so, yeah, I I I could talk for three, four hours. But I know. Well, we're we're we're actually up against the clock here, so we're gonna we're gonna One last thing. I I I've I've gone to bible college myself, and, as the pastors always say, you know, four three years in the mission field is, like, how many years in the two years in the mission field is four years in Bible seminary. I we did twenty I did twenty years out there. Most of it in America, which my friend Nigeria said you have the toughest country in the world you're going to. So, you know, I I I did all of this, and I said, oh, to my pastor. I go, pastor Ted, I'm thinking of becoming a pastor. No.
No. Wait. No. He goes, we don't need three hour sermons, and you're better out there. And he goes, no. Your strength is out in the out in the world. There you go. His face. No. It was instant. He was a former lawyer too. He's going. Yeah. I know. That's great. That is great. And I did his bible classes, and I mean, doing bible course, it was, understanding the times. We moved to every single religion from Nimrod. Nice. Yeah. To, like, Joseph Smith and past Awesome. That's great. And so, that's stuff I'm I'm I've got some knowledge on, but he said no. No. We yeah. Yeah. Actually, I I when my wife passed away, I actually was up there for forty five minutes. He had to come down and get me. There were people going, funerals are just terrible, but you were telling jokes and stories. We didn't want you to leave.
I go, well, you know, when you celebrate someone's life, especially if you know Christ, it is a celebration. So I actually wrote and they said the celebration life, I said, the celebration of eternal life. They said, yeah. That was a good one there. Yeah. Very good. So that was on that was on the the thing there. So there we go, Joe. Alright. I'm I've I've got I probably haven't detailed it enough. It really is coming together. Like I said, she's done with this cake. She works triple time. She said that thing's getting put up. We're gonna get the monitor. We got a brand new camera. We're gonna get all the software put on it. We're gonna see. She goes out. She's gonna do some photo shots, you know, and see how she looks on what, you know, different outfits or whatever, and then she's gonna do her dialogue. She'll run through her dialogue. And she says, I I owe Joe these. I owe him five, four, six, four, three, two minutes. Yes. You do. So No. She does. She's actually can I tell you, she's actually stressed out about it a little bit? No. I don't stress out about it. No. I told her. I said, no. When they come when you do them, they're gonna be just right. Exactly. Because you'll be you'll be what you need to do, Rosanna. And like I said, she wants to do those things in whatever other little bumpers you have. So there we go. There's a lot coming. It doesn't look like it right now, but it's gonna break wide open here. Because, Joe, this is the best I've felt in a month. Good.
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Thank you so much for doing that. We appreciate it. And, we know you're listening because of the stats that are being streamed to us. Now stats are just micro payments of Bitcoin, and we appreciate that. And through those modern podcast apps, you can send little boost, boostograms, and all that kind of great stuff. We appreciate that. Thank you very, very much for it. And if you wanna check out these modern podcast apps, go to modernpodcastapps.com or podcastindex.org. And, alright, I think that should just about do it for us for tonight. With all of that said, Wayne, any parting word?
[01:52:40] Unknown:
Yes. I got a verbal commitment that will be on screen next Thursday, Wednesday.
[01:52:45] Unknown:
Alrighty. Alright, folks. Did you see what she looks like? Thanks for being with us tonight. God bless you. Have a great night. And keep talking.
[01:53:01] Unknown:
You. Until we meet again. Happy trails to you. Keep smiling until
[01:53:11] Unknown:
where. Who cares about the clouds if we're
Cold open and on-air kickoff from Eagle Pass
Tonight’s lineup: Guests Evan Jaqua and Wayne Rankin
Housekeeping: website, contact, and value-for-value support
Sponsor read and pre-guest banter
Guest intro: Evan Jaqua of the Solutions Party
Lighthearted start: bald-by-choice camaraderie
Warm-up questions: personal quirks and beverages
Evan’s philosophy: ideas over left vs. right
Handling disagreement and dangers of division
Freedom to think: lessons from China and North Korea
Touring solutionsparty.org and mission statement
Bourbon vs. beer detour—pairings and palate
From global experience to U.S. reform urgency
Addiction to power: why term limits matter
One-term-only vision and cooling-off periods
Founders’ intent and modern Congress critique
Unelected power and the administrative state
Journalism in crisis: certify, grade, and fund
Fixing the news model: press fund and incentives
AI, deepfakes, and trusted outlets
Neutrality vs. opinion: grading the graders
Campus debates, cancel culture, and open forums
Opportunity-rich economy and business grading
Principled standards: equality under the law
Wrapping hour one and scheduling a part two
Hour two reset: Wayne Rankin joins
Sponsor: PodHome and live production notes
Wayne’s updates: new show, gear, and guests
Show concept: patriotic shorts and amendments series
Community, civility, and avoiding a social ‘civil war’
Producing the Amendments: green screen storytelling
Distribution, causes, and funding plans
Trucker ministry, roadblocks, and next steps
Final plugs: website, socials, and value-for-value outro
