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Fake ManBoobs, Foreign Policy, and the Dildo of Consequence | Negligent Discharge Friday | 4.10.2026

71 min
Apr 10, 20268 days ago
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Summary

A casual discussion covering political controversies including Kristi Noem's husband's cross-dressing scandal, Trump's inflammatory rhetoric about Iran, military leadership purges, a warehouse arson case, and broader concerns about wealth inequality and systemic justice failures. The hosts emphasize grassroots cultural change through entrepreneurship and mentorship rather than top-down political solutions.

Insights
  • Wealth inequality and lack of economic mobility are driving factors in desperate actions, though understanding causation doesn't justify destructive behavior
  • Media narratives around controversial events often oversimplify complex situations; inconclusive forensic evidence doesn't prove or disprove guilt
  • The U.S. military leadership structure is significantly over-staffed with 850-900 generals and admirals, making selective removals difficult to evaluate without understanding underlying reasons
  • Systemic justice failures (short sentences for serious crimes) create public frustration that can manifest in vigilante actions
  • Meaningful cultural change happens through local business leadership and mentorship rather than electoral politics, which both hosts view as systemically compromised
Trends
Increasing public skepticism of institutional competence across military, law enforcement, and political leadershipErosion of faith in top-down governance solutions among younger demographicsViral exposure of private scandals affecting public figures regardless of job performanceInconsistent application of justice creating perception of two-tiered legal systemEntrepreneurship and local business ownership positioned as alternative vehicles for cultural influenceInflammatory political rhetoric normalizing extreme statements about foreign policyPlea bargaining in serious crimes resulting in sentences perceived as inadequate by publicMilitary leadership restructuring amid policy disagreements on military intervention
Companies
Kimberly Clark
Warehouse fire incident involving employee arson at Ontario facility storing toilet paper products
Gateway Church
Dallas-based megachurch founded by Robert Morris, who pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges
Black Rifle Coffee
Retail partner for Firecracker Farm hot salt products sold in their stores
People
Kristi Noem
Husband Byron's cross-dressing scandal and online activities exposed, raising questions about blackmail vulnerability
Byron Noem
Engaged in cross-dressing and online fetish activities under pseudonym Jason Jackson, exposed by media
Donald Trump
Made inflammatory statements about Iran civilization dying, military leadership decisions, and regime change claims
Pam Bondi
Fired from position; criticized for not addressing Epstein victims during testimony; hosts express lack of sympathy
Robert Morris
Pleaded guilty to five felony counts of child sexual abuse; received suspended sentence with only six months jail time
Gary Plauche
Shot and killed child predator Jeffrey Doucette at airport in 1984; received suspended sentence, no regrets
Michael Shelton
Co-host of Cleared Hot podcast; received nunchaku and singlet gifts from listeners; discusses political and social is...
Andy Stumpf
Primary host; owns coffee shop employing 40 people; discusses grassroots cultural change through business leadership
Andy Frazella
Discussed entrepreneurship as solution to cultural decline; influenced host's thinking on business-driven change
Mark Caputo
Reported on Byron Noem scandal; allegedly received initial tip from immigrant sex worker
Nicole Raccagno
Known as 'Plastic Trophy Bimbo'; claimed virtual relationship with Byron Noem over several years
Quotes
"The more there is a gap in distance between those that have and those that don't have and are working their asses off to just try to make ends meet... the more you are pushing people towards doing crazy shit like this."
Andy StumpfOpening segment
"I'm not going to tell anybody how to live their life. If you want to wear women's thong on backwards with one of your beanbags blasting out each side and put on fake boobs that's your call."
Andy StumpfNoem scandal discussion
"The dildo of consequences Michael oftentimes arrive unlubed. I think this is one of the rare instances where that is a literal statement."
Andy StumpfNoem scandal conclusion
"An American president is calling for essentially the genocide of a whole people. I mean how many people are living around millions."
Michael SheltonIran policy discussion
"Change the people that are around you. You have a 100% ability to impact the world around you, but it's through the people that you know, it's through where we live."
Andy StumpfClosing segment
Full Transcript
The more there is a gap in distance between those that have and those that don't have and are working it their asses off to just try to make ends meet and what it looks like is that everything that they're doing is just elevating the status of somebody who already has more than they will ever have. The more you are pushing people towards doing crazy shit like this and I'm not trying to justify this but I also can tell you that I understand how this happens. Listen to the word, again maybe there's a massive mental health issue there. I'm sure that there is. Listen to the words that the person is saying when he's lighting the fire and tell me that you don't have a portion of who you are that understands what he's saying. I'm not saying you have to agree with the actions but you're telling me that you don't at a baseline human level you can't say yeah yeah I can see how you get there. Alright we are going. We are live. 100% not live. Nope but it's just cool to say. So to start this episode off. First off take a breath you're already laughing. If you are gonna try to burn somebody you need to get your shit together. I'm not trying to burn anybody. What do you mean burn somebody? If you want to like pull a funny ha ha on somebody play a joke. If you start laughing before you sell it much of the joke is lost. Yeah that's not really my style. I just keep laughing. You don't have a style. Alright your style is like a pride flag in the wind. It goes with whatever direction the wind is blowing. Yeah you got something against the prime place. Pun intended. No I just was using something that I thought you would have an affinity and an affiliation. I didn't say affiliation I said affinity. So anyways we had a one of our listeners reached out to me. Over what medium? Other people want to do so. Instagram. What's your Instagram user name? Michael.Shelton7. So if anybody else wants to send a fun little gift just reach out and he just decided since I have all these weapon you really need to get your shit together today. I have all these weapons he decided you need a wardrobe upgrade. How about this? An arsenal. You have an arsenal. Yeah and actually he I have two pairs now of Nunchaku. Yes. Yeah but I want to have a rope. Who gives you a pair of rope? Apparently. Connected Nunchucks. Apparently according to the letter he sent this is like how they actually come I guess and not with a chain. Like this is like an authentic Okinawa Nunchucks apparently. I'm not even going to pretend to be an authority on where Nunchucks come from Korea and how. Yeah. So obviously now you have the ability to do one of your favorite things which is double fisting. Of course. Yeah but is that how you're going to practice? Are you going to train each hand independently? Well. Then because you have to understand this. Nunchucks are available to everybody but not everybody is ready. They actually will self-select. That's true. Because you will hit yourself in the face if you are not ready or capable of mastering their power. Yeah this Dave is his name also sent a letter and said to maybe start practicing with foam Nunchucks first. I think that's a good idea. It's brought to you by Firecracker Farm. You want to talk about things that integrate into my life? This product right here might be one of the easier ad reads that I do. I am putting this hot salt on just about everything and I'm going to be the first to tell you I don't understand the chemical reaction and how it's able to pull the flavors out of everything I'm putting it on from eggs in the morning to avocado toast to steak just about everything. I'm not a psychopath. I don't put it on fruit. I haven't tried that yet. I don't understand how it does it. How it pulls the flavors out. How it makes everything that I eat taste better but it does. My recommendation to you is to head over to firecracker.farm to check out what they have to offer because they have legitimately very spicy hot salts but they also have new stuff like the vanilla heat flavor which I'm pretty sure Alex's daughter had the idea for. They sent me some. It has been my absolute go-to and then everything in between is going to come in these stainless steel push button grinders. All you got to do is drive the plunger down with your thumb and you can control how much. I don't have a crazy heat tolerance so I'll generally use one or two pumps but you can go as insane as you may like. So you can get them on firecracker.farm or we actually sell these in the coffee shop here locally in Kalispell or if you live somewhere that has a black rifle coffee you can get them in store as well. Alex and his family are creating these products together at their small family farm. So this is your opportunity to really level up your seasoning game but also support the American dream for a family that is all in on this and they're doing it together so it's an amazing opportunity. The best way to do so probably for most people head over to firecracker.farm. Check out what they have to offer. I would suggest the vanilla heat. You won't regret it. Back to the show. Okay. Yes. So anyways if you want to open your gift. Where'd you have a mail it to? The coffee shop. Oh so now the coffee shop is your personal mailbox huh? Yep. I told uh. I'll be nailing you a few things then too. Anyways. Oh nice. Okay. What do we have here? Just unfold it for the camera. Clearly you've already opened this which. Yeah I did. Oh yes a singlet. Greg Anderson is so screwed when he comes back. What I'll do is I'll tell him I have to go to the bathroom and then I'll come back to do the podcast wearing the singlet. Yes anyways thanks to Dave who reached out and said that he thought that would be a funny gift and I agreed. So now you own a singlet and I own. Are you pleased with yourself? Yeah kind of. Do you feel like rate this evolution on a one to ten? One being a preschool or eating paste could do this. Ten being you are I don't know like Elon Musk putting geosynchronous satellites into orbit. Like a three. It wasn't difficult but I just thought it would be humorous you know. Okay. I hope that for you it sparked joy. It did spark a little bit of joy. Good. I also want to clarify I did almost none of the work it was almost all. The one who got it here provided addresses. That's true. It was a logistical nightmare. Yeah I'm sure it was arduous. We all have our cross to bear. Michael I'm glad that you were able to survive such an arduous journey. You're welcome. What do you have for this week? It's not like anything is going on in the world. Holy shit. Okay we're going to start with a one that I find just truly hilarious. Okay. And you I'm sure that you have seen this. Oh let me find the correct picture. Husband. Again you're laughing before it comes up. You're really putting the cart in front of the horse on how you deliver a funny ha ha. Okay I'm going to pull it up make sure it's so the audience can see this. Oh you've seen this. Yeah listen I saw that this happened. I did no additional research as to what was going on. Okay for those of you who are audio only for the next few minutes that actually might be a benefit. So scroll up a little bit so I can at least read the title there. Kristi Noem's husband Byron has been living a double life cross dressing with fake breasts. Listen listen. I'm not going to tell anybody how to live their life. Okay. Yes people don't believe me when I say that I don't care what you do as long as you're not praying upon other people and generally I really don't care. Yeah like if this is what gets your rocks off right. Yeah go for it. If you want to wear women's thong on backwards with one of your beanbags blasting out each side and put on fake boobs that's your call. Yeah if your wife happens to be the head of DHS for a short period of time and I'm going to be real honest I'm really glad that she is no longer the head of DHS. Yeah. If your wife is in that level of public role and correct me if I'm wrong a woman came forward and said hey your husband's been not not hey to like miss Noem. Yeah but probably to the reporter that was willing to pay the highest amount for this story or break the story. Like I don't know if you'd be interested in I don't know $20,000 worth of credit card transactions and communication back and forth because here's old Mr. Byron Noem. Yeah. What the fuck. Then again I don't care like whatever gets your rocks off but how in the world that we live in something I've told my kids since they were asking about having electronic devices anything that you send or even put onto your phone you have to act as if it will live forever and that at one day you will be at a job interview that maybe you really want for your future job and they slide something across the table and they say hey by the way nice tits yeah in this it's just situation right yeah somebody said that to my daughter somebody said that to my daughter I would immediately go beat the little piss out of them yeah that would be an issue. What else have you found Christie Noem has devastated over husband's double life yeah that's probably a tough one. I can imagine. Okay several individuals have come forward with allegations and details regarding a secret online life led by Byron Noem. What a weird collection of words by the way not that the names are weird but it's just a weird collection. The husband a former department of homeland security secretary and south Dakota governor Christie Noem based on reports from late March and early April 2026 webcam fetish models at least three models involved in the bimbification fetish scene which I don't know what that is but I told the Daily Mall or Daily Mail that Byron Noem uses pseudonym Jason Jackson not bad that's not bad yeah Jason Jackson Jason Jack double J if you will to engage in online chats where he wore women's clothing and fake breasts. Nicole Raccagno sorry if I said your name wrong a model known as plastic trophy bimbo my god told the Daily Mail and other outlets that she had a virtual relationship with Byron for several years claiming he paid her thousands of dollars showered her with gifts and asked her to marry him even after his wife was ousted from DHS. There's some claims that inside her knowledge the Daily Mail reported that Byron allegedly told one model in a message I know there's nothing I can't I can do about it regarding rumors of his wife's alleged affair with advisor Corey Lewandowski I didn't know about that also don't care source of the leak according to Axios reporter Mark Caputo the initial tip regarding this double life may have come from an immigrant sex worker acting in retribution for DHS policies get some according to a New York Daily News report. Christie Noem's representative stated in late March 2026 that the family was devastated and blindsided by the revelations asking for privacy while Byron Noem did not deny the photos and messages when contacted by the Daily Mail he did deny that his actions put his wife at risk of blackmail. Well that last sentence is a real tough one. Yeah I'm not sure how you would think I mean blackmail the way I look at it is essentially leverage maybe it's financial maybe it's personal whatever it is an embarrassment a threat to your public persona or your your significant others public persona. Yeah dude I think I think putting on some women's clothing in Fank Boob's and engaging in whatever he was doing online puts you in a really bad spot and definitely gives some people some leverage. Yeah but maybe if that's what you're into you have a hard time realizing the consequences of said actions. Yeah let me ask you this. Yeah let's say she was amazing at her job and instead of being fired she like everybody like she had like a 99 percent approval rating and this came out would you care. No I mean I would still think it's funny. I would use the word weird but again I'm not here to judge I think it's weird some of the things I like doing like wingsuit base jumping a lot of other people think are weird. Yeah. Yeah but I think it's even more humorous because she was not very good at her job and it's ironic because an immigrant is the one that exposed the whole thing. Allegedly. Allegedly yes yes. The dildo of consequences Michael oftentimes arrive unlubed. I think this is one of the rare instances where that is a literal you can take that statement literally. Pun intended. Yeah so yeah that's. You know what this reminds me of though. It reminds me that is put together as people that you don't know in the world and that you'll never have access to may portray themselves to be as perfect and whatever it is human beings are so weird in complex and you actually probably really will never even if you've been married to somebody for 50 years I guarantee you that there is something that they aren't you know what I mean like human beings are just wild man. Yeah. They're wild. Yeah case in point this is so insane. What do you get out of throwing on fake breasts and doing video calls. I have no clue and like that part like that just it doesn't bother me at all that he's doing like whatever. Yeah and I don't think it should matter for your job because unless you're doing it at work. What's that unless you're doing it at work. Yeah then that's an issue. I walk in here and you were doing that we would have a relatively uncomfortable conversation about your future here at Andy Stumpf Industries. If you were doing that in your off time and somebody exposed you not that anybody would care about either you or I. Yeah. I would not give a shit. Yeah. And I would never let you live it down. I would harass you incessantly. Yes. Yes. At every inappropriate opportunity and we'd be just fine. Of course. Yeah. But especially for Christy I don't think it matters that her I mean obviously nobody knew about this so that's kind of a big deal. Really. Really. Where do you hide a fake set of tits. Honey don't go into my bowling bag. Yeah. Those are bowling balls. They're bowling balls sized. Can you imagine the efforts that would have to take place to legitimately try to hide that. I mean you were looking at hiding it. Yeah. Well and where are you doing the calls from how are you not I'm not saying that you know that you have no idea the demands of the job that she had but I mean it's not I don't feel like he's walking around the house FaceTiming doing this right now. Yeah. So there's some extra effort involved in that as well. Giddy up. Giddy up. Yeah. But anyways I thought we'd start off with a pretty humorous because I guess it's humorous unless your last name is Noam. That's yeah. That's true. Yeah. Usually we start off with some more. I mean we'll get to it. Like I said there's not even really much going on this week. So no not at all. Speaking of more downtrodden news. Let me find the good word quote. Oh here we go. Now this obviously has kind of been walked back with things that have happened after this but Trump's quote of a civilization will die tonight. Yeah. Never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen but it probably will. The president wrote on truth social. However now that we have complete and total regime change where different smarter and less radicalized minds prevail maybe something revolutionary really wonderful can happen. Who knows. We will find out tonight he adds. I believe he also ended it with God bless the Iranian people. Something like that. Yeah. So open with an entire civilization is going to be annihilated tonight. Closed it with God bless the Iranian people. Very conflicting messaging. Very conflicting. Yeah. Okay. I thought that we were involved in Iran to prevent them from getting nuclear material and we could add to that a caveat regime change. So the president of the United States is claiming claiming that we have total regime change. So that should be a metric for exiting this conflict. Yes. One of them marked off. If the other one was the denying them the ability to create nuclear fission material one I thought that's what we struck for last summer which I believe we could probably find quotes from the same administration saying we have what I don't even know what flower really obliterated whatever flowery excessive adjectives involved in whatever and so that was now apparently so that was either not true then or it's not true now. Right. One of those things it is shocking to me personal opinion which is all it counts for. It is shocking to me to see somebody in the highest elected office in our country saying things like this. Yes. And then other people justifying it by saying well that's just the way that he negotiates. Dude either the office of the president of the United States means something and it carries with it some level of decorum or it doesn't. Right. And there were a lot of people saying that this goes to like a nuclear strike. I don't I first off I don't understand what he's saying. No. And I don't know what he means when he says this. Right. So I'm not going to I'm not going to sit here and claim that actually that I know anything. I could talk about how I feel and stuff like that. But I don't understand a campaign run on ending wars and not getting into new ones. WTF. Yeah. Is going on right now. Well and are you ready to enlist in the military Michael because you are a prime age. We need you fighting somewhere. Yes. We have to be in a war 100% of the time. Every single. But I thought no wars. It's interesting. It is really interesting. Technically we're not at war. Don't worry. We're just using the authorized use of military force without congressional over. This isn't a war. Guys come on. This isn't a war. No. So the word genocide gets thrown around a whole lot. Yeah. And I think it's overused. However saying a whole civilization will die. That to me becomes pretty close to the definition of genocide. Well if you take action on it for sure. Yes. Which is what I'm saying. An American president is calling for essentially the genocide of a whole people. I mean how many people are living around millions. Yeah. And it's just like I'm sure he would say let's I'll try to be I'll try to play devil's advocate here. I'm sure he would say what I meant was the radicals or those still attached to the regime. OK. How are you going to kill all of them and only all of them. Have you never seen how warfare is conducted. So even giving you the most gracious understanding of your statement which for clarity I'm not sure that's what he meant. I'm just trying to play devil's advocate. Yeah. How are you going to do that. Innocent people have already died in Iran and that is the consequence of taking actions associated with war or actions of war. It is not black and white. It is not a scalpel. Mistakes are made. Military intelligence is not 100 percent perfect. Accuracy is not 100 percent perfect. So how are you going to end an entire civilization assuming again playing devil's advocate that you only meant the radicalized people who would thrive on chanting death to America. What do you have. Do you have like some movie level red button that you can push that you have injected or and somehow sprayed upon only those people that are evil and only they are going to die. Like how do you do this. Why do you talk like this. I don't know. I mean like obviously he has a history of saying inflammatory things. What makes you say that. But this to me I mean it's just a whole it's a next step up. Obviously he's not acting on this. Thank God. What do you think he would have done because supposedly it was an 8 p.m. deadline Eastern time which I wonder if you took daylight savings into account for that. I mean what clock are we going off of the fucking Zulu clock here. Greenwich mean time I mean come on. What do you think he would have done. It's very hard to say because he is just is so unpredictable. I don't know the man at all but I feel like him saving face is one of the most important things to him. So I feel like it would have backed him into a corner and he would have done something but I don't know what that is. Yeah which is like that's a scary thought. You know if we have the head of our country the head of the most powerful military in the world is doing something catastrophic because he doesn't want to look like an idiot. That's problematic. Problematic you're looking for. Yeah like the consequences of that of what just thinking about what could happen from him not wanting to look bad and just putting millions of lives at risk it's just complete and total regime change. Really like we're going to make that claim. Yeah it is probably time to start packing it up then. Yeah and also is that even true because they just installed basically the same guy. You know it's a different person but. The places where the U.S. could probably broadly be seen as successful with regime change would be Japan and Europe and maybe some involvement in Korea. Guess where we still have troops five and six decades later. All of those places that I just mentioned. So is that the level of involvement that we are prepared to undertake here in Iran. Yeah because I think that's the only way a change is going to be permanent. Yeah I mean dude I'm at a loss. I do not know. I think so I mean I think that's where so many people are of just like what the fuck are we doing. Have you seen the video and I realize this might be considered by some to be insensitive but I love sometimes these people who go out into crowds and they interview people who are at events. Yeah and it's this man talking to a woman he's like don't you think it's a little bigoted that we're only worried about the straits of Hormuz. What about the gaze of Hormuz. She's like I know. My mom just brought that up to me the other day. I was like oh my god that's so fun. Yeah regardless of like what you think of the situation that is the ignorance there is so hilarious. Oh man again human beings are wild. I don't know where it leads. You know he's he's there's a there are substantial issues with NATO. I mean whether you talk about how much GDP each country is supposed to put in like there's a lot of issues with me. Don't get me wrong. There's plenty of complaints. I don't think a lot of people understand specifically what Article 5 is inside of the NATO Charter. That is essentially an unparaphrasing you can pull it up if you want. If one NATO country is attacked all others will come to their aid. It says nothing about offensive operations. So a lot of people are complaining about the lack of assistance that we're getting from NATO but in this situation they are under no obligation. Yeah they're under no obligation to support an offensive action. It's a defensive treaty. It is a defensive treaty. Correct. And I think that's forgotten sometimes. It would benefit people a little bit to just read what the Charter Act is and like I said there's plenty of complaints I have about NATO as about who's carrying the lion's share of the road and all those things and all those things should be addressed. But it's interesting to see some people like you know fuck these people and these out where were you you know why aren't you involved in this. It's like they don't they don't have to be. There's no reason for them to get involved in this. It's at least a choice and they are not violating the NATO Charter in any way, shape or form by being hesitant or denying the usage of airspace. Yeah. So yeah it's there's no. They may not like it but they're inside of the letter of the treaty. Yeah and I do not blame them at all for not wanting to get involved in this. This I mean to me it seems like a useless war sorry use of military. What is it? AUMF. Authorized use of military force. Yeah sorry not a war. But yeah let's speaking of like NATO contributions like the U.S. obviously is the massive lion's share. Yeah huge amount of you know which I don't know I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing but also I think other countries could be pulling their weight a little bit more. Yeah I mean look so NATO total defense spending in 2025 the U.S. 980 billion. The next one is Germany 93.7 billion. So what's that 10 times yeah and then the UK 90.5 billion. You know again there are there's a lot of things that that could rightfully be complained about and we should have those conversations like okay if the NATO treaty isn't working the way that we want it to how about instead of wiping our ass with it let's sit down and figure out something yeah that can work and then if countries don't want to make those decisions if they either think that they can't or don't want to then that can lead to a different conversation like okay then put your own fucking britches on yeah yeah but let's have the conversation because they don't want to join you in an optional offensive action take it easy all right let's keep the cart behind the horse instead of in front of it. Yeah and these are our allies by the way we should be able to sit down with our allies and say hey let's restructure this a little bit so we aren't you know having to contribute most of the resources. I would agree. Yeah this is for your generation to fix Michael. It is unfortunately. What are you gonna do about it? Great plan real good plan Michael. Probably threaten to destroy civilization. Nobody's gonna believe you if you say that you're just the ginger-headed fuck. That is true actually. Can we throw some tape on the bridge of your glasses like a little strip of white tape? I almost had to do that because both of the little you know the little pads that hold them on your nose yeah they both fell off and so now they continue to slide down yeah get a new pair of glasses. I will I just haven't gotten to it so okay um yes uh next thing kind of along the same vein um what was it 12 generals have been fired? Yeah I think so. All right fired I think they were on the uh some have been fired I think some of them were on an advancement list which I'm not necessarily sure they released a list from my understanding of people who are going to be advanced in the next cycle and I believe that Hegseff pulled some of them off he did fire some yeah but I think it was a combination of firing and then blocking the advancement of others. Let me see here. Asked retired early fired in the purge fired in late August so here's the thing the U.S. military is incredibly top heavy. Get Google how many admirals and generals are in the U.S. military currently. Just brought to you by AG1 well guess what we're in to February how many of you are still just jamming on your New Year's resolutions I think the the data shows that most people are done with them by about 21 or even 14 days. 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Okay so does this provide a little bit better context as to the impact or lack thereof potentially for getting rid of some people? Yes. So the optic on this could be viewed poorly right because there could be the lens of a discriminatory action, it could be a gender thing, a race thing, it could be a disagreement thing. I don't know if any of those things had anything to do with the decision but I know that 900 generals and admirals is more than enough to suffice for the needs of the Department of Defense. I'd say it's probably a little bit bloated and I'm sure it may be the enlisted side of the house at that E9 level is bloated as well too. There's just only so many leadership positions. Yeah. So 12 people being removed again the optic and timing may look a little bit off and maybe it is off. I just don't have the data to support that but removing 12 people does not concern me in any way, shape or form. The military might have a net positive benefit from that actually. This is a legitimate question. I'm not trying to play devil's advocate. Sure. Is Army Chief of Staff, is that like in charge of all the ground forces? I would Google that actually. Army Chief of Staff. Because I have heard that he got rid of Army Chief of Staff. The one that was in control of all of the ground forces. Google what is the role and responsibility of Army Chief of Staff? I wasn't in the Army so this is a little bit, I'm a little bit out in front of my skis on this one. I know this is probably a four star. The highest ranking officer assigned to serve in the Army. The Chief is the principal military advisor and a deputy secretary of the... So it sounds like he's more like an advisor than some of the tactical command. Yeah. What could you just typing over there? I can hear it. I know they can. So okay so the Army Chief of Staff, Randy George was forced out but I don't know if that's the... Anyways, I had heard that the ground forces commander got fired. Would you say that holds under the same umbrella as what you were saying? So ground force commander could be all the way down to somebody at my level. Lieutenant, right? Because if you're talking about an element on the ground, there is a senior person there. That is the ground force commander. Then there are battle space commanders. Then there are theater commanders. There's like a Pacific Fleet. You know what I mean? There are like in the Navy Fleet level commanders. I don't know though even on the Navy side of the house who like a fleet commander would report to. But you know the term ground force commander could be titrated all the way down to a dude with his boots on the ground. Gotcha. So that's probably not the right term to use. I think you're talking about more like a strategic leader, like the person who maybe would be in charge of the troops in the middle. Yeah. What was the question associated with that? Because you were saying that oh maybe they got fired because just because they were just getting rid of some leadership. Could be. Would you, would your opinion still be the same if it was the person who would be in charge of sending troops into Iran? The why would matter to me. I would need to understand the why. Yeah. I mean that's really the crux of it. Are you doing it because they have a disagreement and you feel like they may not do what you tell them to do or are they legitimately underperforming at their job? Yeah. And you have multiple people who could probably do a better job who are younger, a different look on the military and their capability. You know what I mean? The why really matters. Yeah. Yeah. Because like obviously the narrative on the anti-Trump side is like oh they're getting rid of them because they won't accept or they were refusing orders to go into whatever. Not all narratives are true? Yeah. Who knows what the case is. Not all narratives are false. Also, I do not know. I don't know either. So, I had one pulled up already. Oh, did you see the employee that burned down a warehouse? I'm sorry. Come again. Okay. Good. What sector of business was this in? It was like a toilet paper warehouse. That's going to burn like a motherfucker. So, this is like disgruntled action? Yeah. So, and he so the stupidest thing you got to be careful pissing in people's Cheerios, man. Sometimes they'll burn your warehouse down. What's funny is he videoed himself doing this? Strong. He's very strong. That's strong when it comes to really being the Jason born of Pyramania. Yeah. So, let me pull this up here. Oh my god. Dude, isn't this crazy? Okay. For again, for the audio only, this is a news reporter standing in front of, I'm going to call that like a 150 inch TV. The warehouse spans the entire thing. It is insanely huge. New developments this morning in this warehouse fire that started yesterday in Ontario. It's a story today in LA has been on top of Canada. I was going to say, Canada or LA? Yeah. And now new video has surfaced. Oops. Apparently posted by the man accused of arson. Yes. And DC fours, Lauren Coronado has been on this since the fire started. Okay, I just want to see the video. Yeah, just show me the guy. Oh, go Michael, stop fucking it up. Go to him light it. Where's the fire suppression system? Yeah, that's actually a good question. Within the Kimberly Clark warehouse here in Ontario overnight Tuesday, our team spoke with a worker who says he was with the man in the video about 10 minutes right before that fire started. All right, hit pause. I get it. Yeah. Dude, isn't that crazy? It's insane. But I tell you what, I haven't said this before to you like the elites or the cabal or whatever it is. If they're, if they're legitimately, I'm not saying that there isn't I fall back into again, I just, I don't know how structured this could possibly be or coordinated. Maybe it is, maybe it's not. The more there is a gap in distance between those that have and those that don't have and are working it, their ass is off to just try to make ends meet. And what it looks like is that everything that they're doing is just elevating the status of somebody who already has more than they will ever have. The more you are pushing people towards doing crazy shit like this. And I'm not trying to justify this, but I also can tell you that I understand how this happens. Listen to the word. Like it maybe there's a massive mental health issue there. I'm sure that there is. Listen to the words that the person is saying when he's lighting the fire and tell me that you don't have a portion of who you are that understands what he's saying. I'm not saying you have to agree with the actions, but you're telling me that you don't at a baseline human level. You can't say, yeah, I can see how you get there. Maybe don't go there, but I can see how you get there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it like obviously this is such a stupid thing to do. I mean, this guy is just going to he's going to get so much prison time for this, but he's just no, dude, he's like this AI. Yeah, exactly. But in the modern era, I think that could be the end all catch all for like, oh, no, no, that wasn't me. That was a yeah. But yeah, I mean, I understand the sentiment to a degree, I guess, but this is just it's a leap. I mean, I'm not saying there is a huge leap there between feeling that way and lighting somebody's warehouse full of shit paper on fire. Which where was the fire suppression system? That is crazy, too. Like that nothing went off. It didn't seem like the spring. Well, he also there was there was a very large jump between a few rolls of toilet paper on fire and then what the lady was standing in front of. So we didn't really see how this progressed. Yeah. Maybe it did go off and I would imagine the fire suppression system has to have a minimum threshold that has to be met. Because otherwise, that's another way to ruin your toilet paper, too, is to just douse it in water. Yeah. You know what I mean, right? So it's like there wasn't a fire. Either way. The threshold was too low would be a problem. That's actually funny. Yeah. Either way, you're wow, you would think it would be somewhere before the entire building burned to the point where the roof collapsed and then the infrastructure or the the skeleton of the building was left behind. My God. Yeah. So insane. So insane. We know maybe you'll come in one day and I'm trying to light fire to the to our brand new studio. I mean, you know, I could have a conversation about what's bothering you before that happens. You know, well, that's what I think, too. There's so many steps between. Oh, yeah. I'm not getting paid enough to okay, I'm burning. There are several steps. Yeah. And again, trying to be playing devil's advocate benefited the doubt. That guy probably had horrendous stuff going on in his life. Right. But I bet a lot of it didn't have anything directly to do with that. But that they that guy might have been caught on the worst day of his life right there. Yeah. And took an action that he'll regret for the rest of his life from a prison cell. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Will there be a toilet paper shortage is the question. I don't think I don't think LA's got a lot of butts. That's true. They do have a lot of butts, but also they survived the COVID the great COVID toilet paper shortage. Yeah, we all did. Yeah. So I think I think you know what was hilarious. What? So after that, people were trying to sell toilet paper back to the vendors that they bought it from. For pennies on the dollar probably. Probably. I don't think any of them took it back. There never was a shortage because if people would have just purchased a reasonable amount of toilet paper, there's enough for everybody. But people are going to Costco and loading up. It's just like insane. I mean, year, I mean, you probably can work your way through it, obviously. But I mean, years worth of which created an artificial storage or a shortage. That then freaked other people out, which created even more of an artificial shortage. And then there legitimately was one because people were so nerded out. People were. Yeah. And then at the end, they're trying to sell toilet paper. Yeah. Well, also you've said this before, but why toilet paper? Like that's the stupidest thing to hoard because you can't really. Especially in Japan. What? In Japan. Oh, yeah. Because of the bidets. Yeah. Did you enjoy that? Did you use the bidet, Michael? I did. Not the public ones, but the ones in my. Here's a question for you. How does it know where to aim? I think, well, you have to adjust a little bit. I think they have like. That was on your lower end one. I feel like some of those are automatic. Maybe. But yeah, the ones I use, you had to adjust yourself. I feel like somewhere in the big bidet, you know, come on, come on. There's a couple of terabytes of footage of people's assholes. I would imagine. Also, why did you like the bidet? Because it just, it cleans you so much. Like it literally is spotless. How did you check? Well, you still have to use toilet paper after to dry yourself off. Why haven't you gotten one for here in the US then if it was so enjoyable? I actually am going to get one because it is actually very. Okay. Think about this. Hot or cold water? Lukewarm. High pressure, medium or low? I'm more of a medium kind of guy. Okay. Okay. No, but think about this. For people that are like, you know, poo pooing bidets. Pun intended. Pun intended. If you got shit anywhere else on your body, would you just wipe it off? Yes. And you wouldn't wash it? Why? I wiped it off. Okay. Well, you are not a prime bidet customer then. Just let me be contrarian. Whatever you were going to ask me, I was going to give you the answer that was the opposite of what you were looking for. Yeah. But no, you would wash with soap. Like at least use water. So why is your butt any different? I don't know. Well, it isn't. So go get a bidet. I feel like it was just something that you enjoyed. It was a surprise. It was a new king for you. That's what I feel like it was. And now your neighbors are like, why does he have a garden hose going through the window of his bathroom? And he's taken two hour shits. You're in there with a noose around your neck, like over the shower curtain and like a Western belt buckle on with a homemade bidet. Homemade bidet. Yeah. Cavalry boots and spurs. If I was going that far, I would get a real bidet. That's fair. Yeah. You're more committed than that. Yeah. I'm not a pussy. I mean, cool. Do you do you? I will. I will do me. I know you. I know you. Literally. Is your mom proud of these episodes? She doesn't listen though. Well, she likes these. Well, I don't know. Like is a strong word for these ones. She listens to them. And then she usually texts me and is like, why did you guys talk about that? We don't know what we're going to talk about. Who knows where the conversation is. We just went from a massive toilet paper fire, a crisis, if you will, in the Eastern Los Angeles area to an existential conversation about bidets. I mean, this to me, one naturally leads to the other. I would actually agree. This is probably the most natural progression of a conversation, actually. I like that. Yeah. I can support that. Sorry, Michael's mom. Yeah. I'm still taking a base jumping one day. One day. We'll get there. Yeah. Okay. Charlie Kirk's suspected killer's bullet inconclusive result, if it was actually the caliber of the rifle he used. So at least you used the correct verbiage because a lot of people took that verbiage and said the bullet doesn't match, right? Which inconclusive does not mean that the bullet doesn't match. It means that they were unable to determine whether or not it does or it doesn't. And sometimes that's what happens with what you have left from the bullets. Yeah. Could this be viewed through an horribly conspiratorial lens? 100%. Could it be viewed through a lens that is not conspiratorial and it just is what it is? They were not exactly, as it said again, what verbatim is the headline? Okay. An inconclusive result. Yeah. What an inconclusive result means. What does it say here? Unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson. Scroll down a little bit. Okay. Skip to social media. Okay. In parentheses here in the article, several paragraphs down, so nobody's going to make it this far because it's the headline. No, of course. When the results of a bullet fragment analysis come back as inconclusive, that does not mean that the rifle did not fire the bullet. Christopher Ballad, a spokesman for the Utah County Attorney's Office and part of the prosecution team wrote in an email to Politifact. Yeah, Politifact. There just aren't enough marks on the fragment to make a conclusive one way or the other as to whether or not the bullet fragment was fired by the particular rifle. That actually, although that is from the prosecution, right, so they have a little bit of incentive for it to match, even they are saying, yeah, it doesn't mean that all of a sudden that this is thrown out. It doesn't mean you have to spin this into Israel flew in a Mossad assassin and shot over his shoulder. Yeah. You know, it's like, it just means that what they had left from an evidentiary perspective, they were not able to replicate or match to the rifle. It does not mean that it didn't come from the rifle. It also doesn't mean that it does. We are squarely back in the territory of, I don't know. Right. Yeah. And I can imagine a bullet gets pretty mangled when it goes through something. Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes. Which would make it even more difficult, you know, grant or given the inconclusive result. Yeah. I can see it right there. This is not the first time that this has happened. This will not be the last time that it happens. Forensics is an amazing thing. It's an evolving science, but they have to work with what they have. Okay. So another big firing of Pam Bondi. Yes. Which is weird because the dow is at 50,000. Yeah. I would, I mean, to me, that would mean she's doing a great job. Yeah. I mean, there's, well, the big thing that also comes from this is I've heard now she will not be testifying on the Epstein files because she's no longer Attorney General. I hadn't really thought about that, but I suppose that's possible too. Again, could be viewed through a conspiratorial lens, or could it just be corollary to what's going on? Right. Okay. The president wrote on true social that Bondi would be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector. I think what that means is you're fucking fired. Not impressed with her and the role that she held. Nope. Not impressed with her in the way that she conducted herself. I hope the next person does better. Yeah. I have absolutely zero sympathy for her. Well, it's just because you're a callous and shallow human being. That's true. It is true. Yeah. I'm not a fan of her at all. And I'm kind of glad she's fired. Actually, you can be not a fan of somebody even hate them and still have sympathy for what happens in their life. Yeah. But I don't really have sympathy for you have sympathy for Kristi Noem and the fact that her husband has bigger tits than she actually kind of do have sympathy for Kristi Noem, especially if she genuinely didn't know anything about this. Like you think the odds are she generally didn't know. Oh, man. 70 percent. That's a big 30. Yeah. Yeah. She might have been like just like starting a lawnmower, just pull starting pool cue balls out of his asshole on the regular. You know what I mean? Just full like full arm extension to like up over the top of the show. Oh, yeah. That's cool. That's what's happening in that 30 percent. Or I don't want to think about that. Also, maybe not. Yeah. You know what? 70 percent chance that that's not happening at all. I like those odds better. I could not believe when Pam Bondi was sitting there providing testimony and mentioned the Dow and didn't stop what was happening when the survivors raised their hand and talked about never being interviewed. It's just like stop it for five minutes and go assign somebody that works for you. Like at the minimum, go get their fucking contact information. Like this is this is well, that's execution and conduction, you know, conduct of a job one on one. This is not hard. Yeah. That is why I do not have sympathy for her because I just I just don't think she's a good person in my opinion. How much do you actually know about her? And for clarity, I know very little about her. So I'm not claiming that I'm an expert. Yeah. No, I mean, it hates a strong word. I don't say I hate her. I just said I don't have any sympathy for her in this job. Okay. And that she got fired. You said she's not a good person. Yeah, I mean, that is definitely judging her from her actions that she broadcasts out to the American people that she has to because she's attorney or was the attorney general. Would you like to be judged only by your mistakes in life? No, but also I don't know if she considers those mistakes. I think the rest of us can kind of fill in the blank on that one was to whether or not they're a mistake. Yeah, I think they're a mistake. Point is nobody's perfect. And I would hope that people don't judge me only on the mistakes that I have made. However, I'm not attorney general, neither are you. So I understand that the lens and the optic is a little bit different. People aren't perfect, man. And the reason I ask you is, it's really easy to say, Hey, I think she's a horrible person. Neither you or I actually know much about her. You know what I mean? Yeah. Maybe she just wasn't qualified for the job. Yeah, maybe not. You know, but she was still in that position and still I'm not saying she's not responsible and accountable for actions, the conduct of her behavior. I'm just saying it's so easy to flippantly say, Oh, she's not a good person. And I am as guilty of this as anybody else. Then you ask yourself the question, like, what do I actually know about this person? Oh, Jack and shit is the answer. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that yeah, that is true. But I'm not going to take back what I said. Nobody's asking you to. Okay, good. Because I wasn't going to. Yeah, I know. Your convictions are very deeply held. Yeah. Okay. Oh, have you seen this stuff about Trump's former spiritual advisor? What? Okay. Yeah. I was not aware that Trump had a spiritual advisor. I was not either. Who is your spiritual advisor? Who is there a job? Probably Vaughn. I was going to say, if there's a job opening, I would like to submit an application. Well, I think there will be a job opening soon with out of his mind. Okay. No, I was not aware of anything. Fuck you, CNN. We're not paying $70 a year for whatever it is that you're trying to sell us. Yeah. So while I while I while I research this Jesus. Easy. We're talking about a spiritual advisor. Yes. Don't call down wrath upon you. He if I'm remembering correctly molested a child. What? Yeah, here we go. And it was out of jail in six months. Robert Morris, a former evangelical spiritual advisor to Donald Trump and founder of the Dallas based Gateway mega church pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges in October 2025. Here are the key details based on reports from the late 2025 and early 2026 guilty plea in charges on October 2 2025. Morris who is 64 pleaded guilty to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child in Osage County District Court, Oklahoma. The charges stem from the abuse of a 12 year old girl. Now identified as I'm going to leave the name out of it in the 1980s, even though she's an adult. Despite facing a potential 10 year sentence, first off, how is five felony counts against a 12 year old only a 10 year sentence? Yep. How about that's the opener? Yeah, we're going to open with 10 years and add a fucking zero of that. Yeah, we'll just add a zero to that. And by the way, we're not adding we're multiplying. Yeah. A plea deal resulted in a 10 year suspended sentence with only six months to be served in county jail reports indicated was released in jail. So this actually has nothing to probably to do with intervention. This has to do with a plea deal. It's part of the plea agreement. Morris is required to register as a sex vendor pay 250,000 restitution to serve time on probation. He served on the 2016 campaign evangelical advisory board and was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump. Oh, it is my understanding that she would have likely had to agree to the plea deal. I think that's how that works. The victim. Yes. And I'm not here. I mean, again, God, there's no, there's no good outcomes in that situation. Even him dying in prison is not going to bring back whatever he took from her. Who am I to judge whether or not she was okay with that or not? Apparently, and this is just AI overview, a victim does not have to agree to a plea deal. Okay. Even worse for the victim then. If that's the case, let's go, let's operate under the assumption that that's the case. How could there be any level of feeling of vindication from a victim or a feeling that justice has been served in any way? Six months. Like what? This, I mean, to me, if I were in charge of a legal system, yeah, let's hear it. The person when they pled guilty, especially to something like this, they would be walked up to the little booth that you testify from, and then the victim would be brought in on a table about this size and you would lay out every implement that you could possibly want to kill the person. And maybe in this situation, I think like a close range with a sawed off shotgun starting off to the junk, a shot to the junk first would be a good opener. And then you could transition to potato peal. Like you want to, again, I don't know if that would necessarily make anybody feel like justice has been served as well. And obviously I'm talking tongue in cheek here, but that would make me feel a hell of a lot better if a predator like that had that happened, then write a check for a quarter of million bucks, which I bet you he took out of the church's purse anyway, which was tax free. You may have a church purse, didn't round off error, probably based off what they have in there. And oh, cool. He's got to go register as a sex defender. Okay. Well, I bet you he'll go live on his multi-million dollar compound somewhere where he doesn't have to go out and interface. He'll have everything brought to him. So basically off scot-free. Like there, you know, the camera is not normally I'm sitting in the other chair. Right now I'm looking across at the incredibly sharp Montana knife company daggers that sit behind me, which to this day, I fear that one will fall off the magnet. I'll hear the thump as the handle hits the ledge and it'll be flying towards the back of my neck on camera, except the magnets are really good. So Mike did a good job. The guy who installed it. I hate predators. Yeah, I think everybody does. Unless you're a predator. Just let me get in a room with this dude with a couple of those. And there's just not even a couple. Just one. You only need one. To be honest with you, I don't even need one. No, you just need you. God. This is why I could never work in law enforcement. I would be the one ending up on trial. I don't know how they do it. Well, this is just a failure of justice as well. Like, and there are so many examples of this where it's like, oh, you know, guy molested a kid for 10 years. Oh, he gets five years in jail. Like, what? I just don't understand it. I don't understand why it's tolerated. Do you pulled up the video one time, right? Of the guy who was pretending to be on the pay phone and then smoke the dude right in the ear as he was walking by. I've seen that video a lot. High five. Cheers to that man. It's a good one. And I think he actually got off because the judge deemed him not a threat to anybody else. It's a threat to one guy. Yeah, to one person. Right in the old ear. I think he won with like a snub nose 357. Quality choice for a pocket pistol. You know what I mean? Get your head out of the gutter. Not that pocket pistol. That's your pocket rocket, as Hobby would call it. Yes. Jody. Wasn't there also a guy in Alaska who went to prison for killing pedophiles? Yes. Yeah, I've heard about this. And his... He was smiling the entire time. Brother was abused, I think. Yes. And so he can't... Yeah, let me see if I can find that. Yeah. And again, I'm not trying to give anybody ideas. I'm just saying as a human being, I get it. I get it. Yeah. Jason... Was the Alaskan guy, right? They had a nickname for him. The Alaskan Avenger. Pfft. AA. AA. Yeah. I believe he's out now. Actually. Yeah, let me see. Pull up a article here. Pedophile Hunter, who sought justice, gets prison for assaulting sex offenders in Alaska. I believe in prison he continued his journey. That's amazing. What do we got? 23 years in prison for assault and... Man, attacked three registered sex offenders in Alaska and called himself an avenging angel seeking justice. Was sent on Monday to 23 years in prison for assault and robbery charges. Interesting. Play guilty to one assault and one robbery charge. I was able to apply for parole once he served six years. Okay, yeah. I said in court he was physically and sexually abused by a stepfather while growing up, which fueled his anger towards sex offenders. Yeah, no shit. Yeah, I can see. Takes full responsibility for his actions. Oh, scroll up. He said the 43-year-old assaulted three men he found on the state's online sex offender registry in June 2016 during a five-day period. One of the victims was struck with a hammer knocking him unconscious while the others had items such as a laptop and trucks stolen from them. Interesting combination of activities. The men he attacked were complying with law. It was not the purpose of the registry to allow people to do their own justice. Yeah, no kidding. Oh, man. I get it. I mean, again, I get it. Yeah, no, I completely understand that sentiment. But also, who is the pocket pistol man? Mr. Phone Bank. Jody Foush, I think. Foush. No, maybe that was the victim. I know you've pulled this video before. Oh, I have. Yeah. I don't even know what to look up. I would look up father shoots sex offender in court. Killing of Jeffrey Doucette. Yes, here we go. Because I believe it was the father. Yeah. And he kidnapped. I'll pull this up. I look for the video. Yeah. But he kidnapped the guy's son. In 84, Doucette was flown back to Louisiana to face trial. So he was the perpetrator. He arrived at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport and was led in handcuffs by police officers through the airport around 9.30 p.m. Oh, it was in the airport. Yeah. Baller. An employee of the local ABC affiliate had told Plausch when Doucette would be arriving. Oh, that's... So he told the father when the guy was getting here, right? The news crew was there, had set up their cameras to record his arrival. Opposite the news crew was a bank of pay phones where Plausche? Plausche. Sorry, bud. I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Yeah, I'm not either. Waited while talking to his best friend on a telephone with his back turned. He wore a baseball cap and sunglasses as the skies, so that no one would see and recognize him. He tracked the reflection of the camera lights on the wall as they pan towards him, recording Doucette. Baller. Baller move. Didn't need to turn around, saw where he was or determined where he was because the light... Oh, I'm reading you, son of a bitch. Sorry, sorry, sorry. God, we'll get to the video. You'd like the video more. He passed the news crew where they were taping and then walked past Plausche, who fired at the right side of Doucette's head at close range. It was a very close range. Yes. He fell to the floor, bleeding from a wound near his right ear. Yeah, that's what happens. Place the telephone receiver down before a police officer restrained him and removed the gun from his hand. The officers who grabbed him recognized him. They kept him pinned against the bank of telephone asking him why, why? I think that is a what's called a rhetorical question. He fell into a coma where he rushed into the hospital and then he died the next day. Okay, aftermath. He was in... Plausche was initially charged with second degree murder, but agreed to a plea bargain in which he pleaded no contest to manslaughter. He was sentenced to a seven-year suspended sentence with five years probation and 300 more hours of community service, which he completed in 89. Okay, so we did have to serve some time. At 67, he gave an interview where he said he did not regret killing Doucette and would do so again. Fuck yeah. Let me see. Where's he going now? Oh, he died. Damn. Suffer to stroke in 2011. After having another stroke in 2014, a nursing home, he died at the age of 68. Okay, video time. Okay. I'm not sure if this will get us demonetized. Do you care? Leave it on your face as we watch it. Okay. Yeah. It probably would get us a lot more than demonetized, which I don't care about the monetization. Hello? Hold on. I'll be right back. Boom. Yeah. I mean, I tell you what, he didn't take a whole lot of time to aim, and there was a police officer right on the other side. That dude is actually pretty lucky. He didn't smoke a cop. Yeah. Yeah. Also, bullets don't always stop in the person that you are shooting. So, dude. What caliber did it say? Do you know what it was? It didn't say. It was a pocket pistol. That's all you need to know. Yeah. It come in a variety of calibers. Indeed. How long we've been at it? An hour. I mean, the world's not ready for more than an hour. No. Cool. This is the perfect time. Do you have anything you would like to close it with on this day of complete sanity and nothing is unrestful in American society? Oh, man. Are you hopeful? You think we can make it through? Well, yes. I'm hopeful about the midterms. I am. Do you really think that elected officials are the answer to this? Do you think our system is capable of course, correcting from a top-down approach? Meaning from elections. I don't know, because it seems like a lot of checks and balances have not been working. Yeah. I don't think it is going to be a top-down approach anymore. Yeah. So what does that leave us as a good question? I don't know. Yeah, that's kind of a scary thought. It's not scary at all. You know the reason why it's scary? Why? Because you are going to have to do something about it. Yeah, I guess. And if it, the thing is, it's, I don't know. By the way, I'm not saying wait at a bank of pay phones as the lights pan by you. Okay? We're talking about other things at this point. Yeah. Let me guess, you feel like there's nothing you can do? Oh, yeah, that is exactly what I feel like. Yeah. In politics, you're right. Yeah. What about where you and I live? So I'm stealing this from Andy Frazella, because we talked about it on his show. Yeah. We got to this point where we were talking about the U.S. And his thoughts are that entrepreneurs are the way that we are going to save this country, because they get to set the culture of the businesses and they have direct touch points with people who can impact everyday life and society. And I was thinking about that. I employ almost 40 people at the coffee shop at relatively young ages in their journey, right? They're super malleable. They'll listen. They respond to examples that are provided for them. There's a reason I'm at the shop almost every day. There's a reason I'll go clean the bathroom or empty the garbage or when they're busy, I'll do all the stuff behind the scenes. First off, the main reason for that is I don't know how to fucking make the drinks, right? Yeah. And nobody, I can make a latte, all right? But like, take it easy. Let's not, we don't have to celebrate that part. The latte art, no, you're getting none of that because I don't know how to do that. I said, I can make the drink, not the fucking art. Yeah. But they will see me doing those things without asking to be do so, asking to, or being needed to be told to do so because I am trying to show them that you should always be looking for work and things that can be done. You don't need to wait to be told to do something because you can look around and you can solve issues on your own. Yep. I invest in the people at the shop. I don't take a dime out of that shop. All the money goes back into it. I pay them as much as I possibly can. I try to retain people to the highest level that we possibly can. I reward them at the six month mark and the 12 month mark when they're there at the store. The culture at that store is not only my responsibility, but the manager's responsibility. And it has impact because it's first job for a lot of people. It was the first job for all three of my kids, essentially. That's how you make a cultural change. Yeah. You have a 100% ability to impact the world around you, but it's through the people that you know, it's through where we live. It's through getting involved, mentor somebody, teach somebody. You can do this. It's tough though. And you're not going to see the impact for a long time. But I don't think at this point in time, we're going to change shit from the top down because it seems to be two wings of the same fucking bird. Absolutely, dude. Like everybody's just in it for themselves. Everybody in that system is. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's why I mean. So you know what though? Fuck those people. Yeah, they suck. Change the people that are around you. Tell your brother, drink more milk so his bones stop breaking. And your other brother needs to drink milk too because his teeth keep falling out. It needs to grow his teeth. Yeah. You're not going to grow his teeth. Okay. He needs to get fake teethies. Yeah. That is legitimately, at first, you know, when Frasela was talking about that, I was like son of a bitch. I had never thought about owning a business in that way. But dude, I get to set the culture at the store. And I think that is an incredible privilege and burden because it can have impact. It's a long term impact because I don't think the politicians care anymore. No, I don't think that I think maybe some of the younger ones coming up will unless they're corrupted by the same system. Well, yeah, exactly. And that's I mean, kind of the question is it like chicken or the egg? Are they attracted because they want power or does the power corrupt them? Who even cares anymore? Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, I don't know. But something needs to change for sure. Because we if not like, genuinely, we are on the fast track to losing our country. We're not going to lose the country. We're going to be okay. I don't know. It's going to be rough. I think we might get some tires right up to the edge. We might if a cop was following us, you know, the tires might touch the the mustard and the mayonnaise once or twice. They might think we're a little shitfaced, but we're going to get home. Okay. I hope so. Yeah, we will. So perfect. And the worst that the political system gets, I think the answer is you more the more you dive into places you actually have impact. Because if you stand out on the beach and you fucking scream at the ocean, because you don't want to get your feet wet, but you don't move, guess what's going to happen? You're going to get your feet wet. Yeah, don't get your feet wet. Or do. Yes. No, I'm saying. Yeah, not really, but I'm just going to agree with you. I don't even know either. No, that note.