Transcript of The Best Moments of the Shawn Ryan Show in 2025

Looking back, 2025 has been one of the most impactful years we've ever had on this show. What I'm going to send you is going to change the course of humanity. We're learning more about the New Year's Day explosion of a Tesla cyber truck that happened right outside of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. This is not a political debate. This is a spiritual struggle. Creation versus destruction. When I started this, the goal was simple. Give people a place to tell their story. I'm just like, laying on the ground in the dirt, looking to my left. I'm dead, but I'm proud of what I've done and who I I'm going to die here on the dirt in Afghanistan. This year, we went deeper than I ever expected, and that took us beyond the studio, traveling abroad, sitting down with world leaders in places like Taiwan. No person or no country is too small to deserve freedom. Having firsthand conversations about global threats, deterrence, and the future of warfare. You can see through walls, you can see through night, you can see through fog. You are Superman. Some of these stories were heavy. 764 Group focuses on extreme violence towards children.

These are wounds incompatible with life. Did I know? Did I not know? Two out of the five males were kids. I was the guy that was supposed to help him. I wish my wife was here to see this. Others were hopeful. My advice is just be yourself. Be authentic, be raw. Just let all the wounds show. It is a battle that will end, and it's a battle we already know who won. You're You're not defined by your failures. You're defined by what you do every day. You went through some tough stuff. Think about it sometimes. It's hard. And that's okay, man. That's okay. All of God's angels Don't sing in the choir. Some of them are warriors. Pointing towards innovation, preparedness, and what comes next for America and its allies. There is going to be this unholy union between radicals that both come to the same conclusion. No one can be trusted. Everyone is the enemy. To the SRS community, thank you for being here. If you're new, welcome. We just want to bring hope to the world and show that there's a way out of the downward spiral. You have never lived until you've almost died.

For those who fought for it, life has a special flavor that the protected will never know. Amen. These are the moments from 2025 that defined the year. I said, Hey, your previous messages haven't come through. What? What do you want to tell me? And he said, What I'm going to send you... Now, these are literally his words. What I'm going to send you is going to change the course of humanity. That was his phrase, Change the course of humanity. Okay, a little bit dramatic. I get these messages all the time. People have this big story they want to tell. They want to expose their command, whatever. I take everything with a grain of salt until I have evidence and proof. You want to read the email? Yeah. This email came in on December 31st at 10: 42 AM. That is Tuesday. He said, In case I do not make it to my decision point or onto the Mexico border, I am sending this now. Please do not release this until 1 January and keep my identity private until then. First off, I'm not under duress or hostile influence or control. My first car was a 2006 Black Ford Mustang V6 for verification.

What we have been seeing with drones, he puts that in quotes, he says, Drones is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems-powered aircraft by most recently China and the East Coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we in China have this capability. Our Opsen, that's operation center, our Opsen location for this activity is in the box below. China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force, and they are using it similar to how they use the balloon for SIGINT and ISR, which are also part of the integrated comm system. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time. The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned aircraft. They are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the White House if they wanted. It's checkmate. Us government needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it and weaponizing it, how China is employing them and what the way forward is.

China is poised to attack anywhere in the East Coast. I've been followed for over a week now from likely homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive A V-bit. Let me pause right there for a second. So he says, A massive V-bid. When I was talking to the FBI yesterday, they didn't know what a V-bid was. I had to explain what that acronym meant, literally. You fucking serious. Dead serious. I said it twice, and he goes, You said that word V-bid. Can you tell me what that is? For your audience, a V-bit, for your audience who has not been in the guat for the last 20 years, a V-bit is a vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device. In layman's terms, a car bomb, what we saw at Trump Tower. So backing up, he says, I am armed and have a massive V-bit. I've been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone, and they are definitely digitally tracking me. I have knowledge of this program and also war crimes that were covered up during air strikes in Nimruz, province, Afghanistan, in by the admin, DOD, DEA, and CIA.

I conducted targeting for these strikes of over 125 buildings. Sixty-five were struck because of CivCAS, that's civilian casualties, that killed hundreds of civilians in a single day. Us fora continued strikes after spotting civilians on initial ISR. It was supposed to take six minutes and scramble all aircraft in SENTCOM. The UN basically called these war crimes, but the administration made them disappear. I was part of that I cover up with US fora, an agent redacted of the DEA, so I don't know if my abduction attempt is related to either. I worked with Redacted, I owe staff on this as well as the response to Bala Mirgab. Redacted redacted, Commander at the time redacted, can validate this. You need to elevate this to the media so we avoid a world war because this is a mutually assured destruction situation. Then he says, For vetting, my LinkedIn is Matt Berg or Matthew Livels Wendell Wendell, an active duty 18 Zulu out of 110, that's first Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group. But my issue was, I couldn't validate or verify any of this information, and I told him that. And how I responded to him was in a subsequent email.

I said, This is obviously a very big deal, but I don't have anything to verify this information with. Talking about gravitic propulsion systems without evidence just makes me another UFO talking head. I'm not going to go on my social media page and start talking about UFOs and anti-gravity systems. I don't know what you're talking about. He said, Can I get on Fox News, Contact on Signal as well as Sean show? Hegsethe would be good, too. That was his last message to me. I mean, it's very obvious why he did this, I think. He wanted to bring attention to the incident in 2019 that got covered up. Do you have any theories on this? We had a running theory downstairs. I've seen all the conspiracies. I've seen all the questions about, All right, this guy is what? 20-year Special Forces. He just got done with Team Sergeant time. He's a very qualified and very capable Green Beret. Everybody I've spoken to who knew the guy prior... Yesterday, I spoke to several people to include his old team leader, who's now Lieutenant Colonel, said he was fine, nothing out of place. His mental state was not something that anybody was concerned about.

His ex-girlfriend posted photos of him bragging about how he got a Tesla and all this other stuff. So stick with me here. Very capable guy, but he loads the Tesla up. A Tesla, which Elon Musk brags about being bulletproof, right? So this is one of his selling points. It's bulletproof. We even saw Joe Rogan shoot an arrow at it and wasn't able to puncture this thing. So he loads up a Tesla knowing that it's going to not explode like he wants it to with fireworks and a bunch of other junk when he can make a car bomb that's going to level this place. Here's what I think. So the PAO, the Army PAO, is saying that the Body inside the cab did not match the DNA of his child. All right. We also know that there was no... They said he was shot by a Desert Eagle. We know that there was no signature when it rolled up. So nobody shot themselves when it rolled up to it, you would have seen a large signature. Mr. Guns and Gear, he's on X. He goes into this a lot in-depth. He's a firearms expert, and he talks about this.

There's no signature. So this is what happens. You get a Tesla because you know it can drive itself up to the hotel, the Trump Tower. You put a body in it, roll it up. It's already burned up, or it's already shot, excuse me. You don't want to kill anybody because that's not the message you're trying to send. You're not trying to level the tower or kill a bunch of people. So you load it up with fireworks and a bunch of junk to send a message. And we know that his signal number or his signal safety number changed. That can't be done unless you're inside that signal account. And a lot of people conjecture, was the FBI inside his signal account, whatever else? But what if he accidentally changed his safety number, goofed up there. He rolled a body up in a Tesla, specifically because a Tesla can drive itself up to the tower and did what he did to send a message to expose this stuff, and he's still alive out there somewhere. But man, it's overwhelming when you think how much is done by families, by friends, by those in the trusted circle, and especially when we talk about the fight against child exploitation and child sexual abuse.

It's off the charts of what is being done in the families. Do you know what's the I don't know if I want to say most disappointing, but maybe one of the most heartbreaking, is do you know the number one offender? Biological fathers. It's not going to make your day, but I brought a map to share with you. Is this a map? First of all, that is a DOJ law enforcement map. It's called the Red Dot Map. This is over the last 30 days. In every red dot on that map is at least one unique IP address of individuals downloading, sharing, distributing, contributing child abuse and rape images under the age of 12. And there's over 111,000 of them just in the US of the last 30 days. I wanted to bring that because I think it brings to life so much of the evil that we're trying to face. People will say, Well, that's just over there, and it's in those countries, and it's all of those places. It's all of those places, and it's not. Sean, it's right here in our backyard. It is right here. Out of everyone... Some people will say, Okay, well, they're just downloading and sharing it and distributing it, but they're not.

55 to 85% are also hands-on offenders. And your average offender has 13 victims in their lifetime. Thirteen victims. Every one of those red dots is there's a boy or or girl that is suffering on the other end of what they're sharing, downloading, or distributing. I wanted to share that with you because I know that your heart breaks for them. I think that map brings to life the evil that we're trying to fight victims. Why? One of our hearts is to get the Renewed Hope Act passed through Congress because it takes the law enforcement officer right now and victim identification officer is at C3, and they're amazing. Some of my favorite people in the world, but there's seven of them right now. At C3. There's how many? Seven. Seven people to come in. Yes. Also, ICACs are working on that. We love ICAC, and we need to enhance their funding because they desperately need it. Internet Crimes Against Children, and they're awesome. 62 locations around the country, but primarily the ones that are also working on this are at C3. We want to get the Renewed Hope Pass because it would take it from seven to 200.

Now we have a much greater chance if we have all of those officers that are trained and equipped to be fighting against It's this evil. Again, that's the last 30 days. That's not getting into live streaming or sextortion or grooming or so many of the other issues we're fighting. That is just in peer-to-peer networks of them sharing and distributing child rape images under the age of 12. This is 12 and under. 12 and under. 111,423 unique IP addresses. What is 764? What is it? I'll tell you in my own words first. 764 Group is a Satanist cult group that focuses on extreme violence. One of the main things that they focus on is sextortion towards children. They're labeled as a nihilist group. For anyone that doesn't know what a nihilist is, it just means they believe that nothing matters. There's a group called it, but no lives matter. No human life matters. Nothing matters. That's what a nihilist is. These people have proved over and over again that they fit exactly the description that they're labeled as. There are a ton of offshoots of this group, which I want to make it very clear that the main reason why they do a lot of the things that I'm about to show you is to get the recognition for it, is to get the recognition individually, even if they're part of a group or a group that they just want their group out there in any way, whether it's negative or positive.

This group isn't looking for positive attention. I'll just be candid about it and tell you they extort children out of sexual material. They extort children into cutting their wrist, hurting themselves, cutting areas of their body, engraving their names into their chest, their legs, their arms, their faces. They've had children commit suicide live on camera in front of audiences of people while they get cheered on. They convince children to kill animals in their house, like their pet cats or pet dogs. They Try to convince them to kill their family members, commit mass murders, bestiality, incest, you name it. A lot of it has already been done. It was unbelievable. But a 15-year-old boy started this group in Texas. A 15-year-old boy? A 15-year-old boy started the group. He was the beginning of it. From what I read was a nonverbal kid that had some issues. I don't want to glorify this kid or talk about him in any way where anyone would feel bad for him because he created something that is the worst thing next to all the other things that we've talked about. This is probably one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life.

What are the most popular games that the 764 cult is luring their victims out? Roblox, Minecraft, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat. Okay. Tell me about Roblox and Minecraft, because I don't know anything about gaming. I don't game. I don't- Understood. I don't either, but it's part of the investigation. A lot of times I'm investigating, I end up on these games or apps. Roblox is the one that I focus on the most because that seems like the majority of the issues right now. I know little kids that use that game. They're 75 million active daily users. So it's the largest children's game in the world right now. I've been telling people, too, about what you've been telling me for what? At least six months now, about the 1664 called. None of their kids are off of it yet. Yeah. Most people just throw their iPad at their kid. They put them on Roblox. And like I said earlier, little cartoon characters running around the screen. No harm in it. But something that most people Most people, you didn't seem to even know, but they just banned a young guy who was actually groomed and had issues for himself on Roblox, who has a popular YouTube channel.

He started catching predators on Roblox. Just regular old predators that are interested in children, not these guys. To my knowledge, there could be more. There were six arrests. I saw six mug shots that came from this one guy. His name is Schlep. He went mainstream on the media because Roblox sent him a cease and desist letter for being a vigilante on their platform. They did a press release saying that they're banning vigilantes from Roblox. They did a whole statement, you should see this special release. It's unbelievable. Yet their excuse, all are excuses of why they think vigilante should not be a part of Roblox. There are a ton of predators. Is it publicly available? Yeah. We'll post that up right now, too. Absolutely. So this is the official statement from Roblox saying why vigilante shouldn't be taking down pedophiles and sextortionists off of their platform. They want these people on there. They want these fucking people on there to-That's essentially what it meant to me. Your children. And your children are on here. And I'm fucking telling you, you better get them off. You better fucking get them off. It is going to happen to you.

Yes. It's these people, they're sitting. Predators, if you've noticed, parents-What the fuck? What fucking parent keeps their fucking kid on there after we're telling them this shit? I don't know, man. I don't know, but it's unbelievable to me. It's predators hang out in spots where they can prey on victims. That's why there's so many teachers, why there's so many police officers, why there's so many parks that things happen at or gym teachers or people in positions power where they have access to children. That's where predators end up. Then people are surprised by it. They wonder why. Why do you think these people took the job in the first place? Do you think that they weren't a predator, they weren't a pedophile prior to taking the job? They've always been one. So when they're on Roblox, and it's the largest children's game in the world, obviously-It's the largest children's game in the world? Yeah, largest in the world. Largest children's game in the world doesn't want people on the platform saving fucking kids. That's exactly right. Are you fucking listening to this shit, people? The largest video game platform in the world doesn't want to take any measures, any fucking measures at all to save kids.

In fact, they made a press release discouraging it. Yes. A cease and desist. A cease and desist and a press release. Both. Another thing, outside of child predators, Roblox. Actually, I'll show you a picture with it, but before I show you the picture, there's a ton of Charlie Kirk assassination simulators in Roblox that are publicly facing that any child can join that are very graphic. Some are photorealistic, some are cartoon, where they can play the role of the shooter. They can watch in the crowd as he bleeds out. They can Any child can join this. I have photos of it so you can see. This is on the most popular kids game in the fucking world? Yes. The immediate response. Let's get back to that. My area of responsibility We had a big a lot of people coming up some staircases there, and it was starting to fill in. I was watching that, and I remember I heard the gunfire, and Then, I don't know if you've heard this, but I heard that bullet slap him. You hear two sounds, actually. You hear the actual shot, and then you hear the bullet hit him in the neck.

It's like you hear it. In my head, I had an attribution to that. I know what that is. When I turned, trying to run in, that's when Dan grabbed him. Yeah. I mean, this is a live fire event. Everybody thinks in hindsight, well, this is a one-shot assassination. No. In our heads, there's fire. You don't know what that is. There's fire. There's more to come. Dan grabs Charlie. Who's Dan? Dan was the guy standing right next to Charlie when he got shot on the stage. And then I was to the right of Dan. Okay. And so he grabs him, and then I turn and see him start to the ground. But then I'm just thinking, Gunfire. Then he's leading to the ground because I'm on his right, where he was shot right here in the left of his neck. I jumped down on top of Charlie to cover him because where we're at, it's concealment at best. It's a tabling with cloth on it, so it's not hard cover. Guys, Our guys start piling back in, and they're down putting a human shield around him, but it's still just concealment. It's not cover. I initially dove down on top of him and just was on him almost face to face.

When I was doing that, I went down, I could see the wound. I immediately shoved my hand into the wound to stop the bleeding, just trying to find the pressure. It was coming out still, and I'm on top of him close. It was still coming out enough that I guess it squirted through my fingers and I could taste it on my lips. I was like, Man, this is a bad wound. I was just pushing that. I don't know at that time. I know when you look at the clock, I was on him within five seconds. It had my hands in him. Then I don't know when I put the first piece of medical on him. It was sometime after that because I carry it right here. That's why you carry it on you. You got to have it there. But then I remember pulling back away and thinking, damn, this is bad. It's coming out. I don't remember saying this, but the guys told me, and you can see it on the video. I said, Prep the car. I just prepped it, and you see the two guys just take off. That car is prepped in position, but what I mean, doors are open, the whole deal.

We're doing pressure control there, and it's a You can't put an artery, so you can't put a tourniquet on it, obviously. In my head, I'm like, pack pressure, pray, man. This is what you can do for that wound. I'm on top, and then I told the guys, We got to Exvill. We're all out here in open. We're trying to give wound care, and we got to get off this X. But I just said, We're X filling. We got up, I think it was like 15, 16 seconds from the time the shot happened. To the time we were picking him up and heading. 15 to 16 seconds? That's what it was. That's fast. This is horrible, but-It is fast to get an initial assessment, plug a hole, pick him up, move them. Yeah. It It's just like, dang. It's some horrible realities of it, too. I told the guys this, and I haven't When I jumped down on him, he had doll's eyes. And so I was like, Man, these are wounds incompatible with life. You know? The TikTok influencer that got killed-Valeria. Livestreaming. Yeah. So Valeria was a famous influencer in Mexico. She had that buchona look, which is the body, small waist, curves, long blonde hair from Guadalajara.

Guadalajara is a hotspot. It's the CGNG birthplace, Jalisco. A lot of people followed her because she was pretty, but also because she was always on livestreaming, keeping it pretty real. She would just eat her favorite snacks on there. Actually, since she was murdered, people in her memory have been buying her favorite snacks and posting about it to keep her alive. Now, she's on this livestream and she's at her beauty salon that she owned. She tells the audience that she's been told she's receiving three gifts that day. The last one is going to be an expensive gift. And so she's talking through. She's excited. And a friend of hers is also at the salon with her. And first she gets A Starbucks, a deliveryman comes by, drops a Starbucks. And I think at that same delivery, she got a plushy of a pig. And It's so interesting because in Mexico, too, a pig or a pig's head is really significant. It's like puerco. So you get a lot of the times, too, people will in Guadalajara, even, when people take out hits, they'll leave a pig's head on top of show that person, show that person was dirty or vile, whatever the message it may be.

And she got that plushy. And then she gets flowers, and then she's waiting for her third most expensive gift. And she starts saying in the livestream, she goes,. I'm creeped out. Something's wrong. And you can tell she's on edge. And she says, You know what, girls, I think I'm going to go. I'm creeped out. And her friend tells her behind the camera, No, you can't go. There's another gift coming for you. And some context to this is that Valeria had received gifts from viewers before. She really liked gifts, and she would talk about how she would date men who would give her extravagant gifts, and a lot of viewers would send her things. And someone comments in the chat, You shouldn't And tell people where you are. And she says, Well, everyone knows that this is my salon, something along those lines. And then a delivery man comes, she's looking out and she mutes the live. And then you just see her take three bullets. And the first bullet, I've watched this video so many times at this point, she's wearing a chain necklace. And the first bullet, because people were saying it was fake and that it didn't look like the bullet even hit her.

But the first bullet hits her necklace and her necklace goes flying off. It hits the pendant. The whole necklace goes flying off. She gets shot again, and then she gets shot in the head. And she's slumped over in her hair, covering her whole face. So the video is really jarring because you're seeing a woman get murdered on live, being shot three times. But it's not like this, cinematic, boom, boom, boom, and she's all bludgeoned. And she just slumps in and she's holding the pig, Plushy, too, dead. The friend comes over, picks up the phone, and turns off the live stream. Have you ever worked in Silicon Valley? Oh, my God. Yes. No, shit. Sorry. Yes, they did. Okay, so... Then, God, this is like a short, and then the garment. She just... Here it is. She just said, yes. Okay, so I was actually invited to Silicon Valley, San Diego-based company, a very big company, to actually give a public speaking in front of CEOs and executives to talk about spy techniques, how to prevent manipulation, how to spotlight, how to read people, and how to increase sales using spy techniques. Nice. Yes. Yes. Actually, I was invited by ABC and Hulu.

They want to do the same. They want to film me giving a lecture about how to prevent manipulation. Men for executives in Silicon Valley using these spy techniques from female spies. Just funny. That's a real problem over there. Why? You mean because of the- That is a big problem, especially with the AI race going on with China right now. That is a big fucking problem. So what do you tell them? What are they looking out for? How do you avoid espionage in Silicon Valley? As you said, we just discussed that. So number one, be very cautious. Be aware of these potential fake female accounts when they love bombing you. Why and how? How did they find you? Why do they text you? Okay, we know what they want. I just want to meet you. I think you're cute. How you possibly can see in this little picture? That's how the person looks like. Most of accounts are private, especially in LinkedIn, there are not so many pictures. These Silicon Valley tech executives, they definitely don't have Instagrams, probably not even Facebooks. So as- Here's a good rule to live by. This is just a good rule for everybody to live by.

If you've never had a 10 come up to you and want to fuck you, and all of a sudden they're coming around, it's probably because they want your money or your tech. Yeah, or like any information. You didn't turn into a 10 overnight. Yes, especially when you- Just be honest with yourself. Yeah, but it's really hard for people, especially for men, to be honest. Like, really. I spoke with one person who is in Silicon Valley and CEO of a very big company. I cannot say his name and the company name because it's quite big. He knows who I am. We spoke, we know each other through friends, and he goes, You know what? I'm sitting in a restaurant for the lunch break, and this beautiful, gorgeous, Slovakian-looking hot girl comes, and she's pampering me with compliments and blah, blah, blah, and all this. She wanted me to go with her to have sex straight away. But he told me, I didn't know. He said, I was wise enough. I understood that she She probably was a spy. I'm so good. I didn't go with her, even though it was so hard to resist. Do you think she was a spy?

I'm like, Oh, my God, dude. Then another comment also from Silicon Valley, guys. Also quite big corporations, big status, executives and all that. They said, So what? At least I will be fucked by gorgeous girl. Why I'm not. I'm telling you, it's crazy, but that's comments I receive. I am curious. Is this common knowledge in Silicon Valley? Does everybody know? I think now it is because of the Times article, but before, I don't think so. You know how many actually Slovakian women go there to target potential future husbands? Probably. It's unbelievable. I know the story. Hundreds of thousands. Yeah, I know a lot of stories, actually. Do you remember 10, 20 years ago, it was very popular, these websites, dating websites. They would call it Russian wife or bring Russian wife, like Russian date, or whatever. Mail order brides. Right. So this American Silicon Valley-based man would go online to find Russian or whatever, Slavic-looking woman, speak with them online. Before seeing them, make for them bride visa so they could come from Russia or Ukraine or whatever countries to America to meet with them. I think the visa was for six months. They decide if they want to marry them, like this woman, then she would stay under the marriage visa, like the green card marriage residency, or she would go back home.

But most likely, of course, this woman would do everything, everything to show the best behavior, obviously, in every possible way. So this man would end up marrying them. And surprisingly, I know a lot of females having this situation. So they would particularly target American men from California, from Silicon Valley, in order to move to America, get married, have kids with them. And then who knows, maybe still deliver some information to the government. I spoke with one of them, and you know what she said? We spoke about this, and there was some conflicts between different women. One woman would say, How can you actually create family and raise kids with your target? Another one would say, Yes, but if you do that for the government, why would you do it for government? But another one said, Imagine the situation. What if your parents in Ukraine or Russia, Belarus, whatever, what if they are threatened or they would be put on risk if you would reject this task from the government? You are going to the military academy anyway. You're supposed to disattach your body from your emotions. This is part of the training. That's what they do.

Your body belongs to the state. Your body belongs to the government. You, with your feelings and emotions, it doesn't exist. The soul doesn't exist. Wow. Okay? All these things, and then they literally make you to become robotic, where even now, unfortunately, but I cannot do anything about it, still now my body lives completely separate from my emotions. For example, if I have an intercourse, it doesn't mean that I have any feelings towards this man. I still can have an orgasm and all that, and it's all good, but I don't have any attachment. I cannot create it because I was trained to remove these feelings and emotions from my body. My body was just a tool in the mission. Wow. It does make sense. You never told your dad? I never told my dad because... I mean, what would I tell him? He brought me there, and then what? He would blame all his life that he did it to him. I mean, he did it to me. I don't want him to blame himself. The Invisible Bomb. Are you familiar with this? Yeah. I don't think too many people paid attention. It was a video released in 2023.

I was lucky because I saw the video. I think it took for the authorities 30 minutes to remove from the from the internet, but there was one website where you could watch the video, I think, for a couple of days. The airlines are still in the plan to attack. The Invisible Bomb, the interesting, it's a home made explosives. They guide you step by step how to make your own bomb home. The most interesting part was they made Because they even talk about it in the video that they need this research where you can buy what. For example, what ingredients you cannot buy in the United States, or it's tricky to buy because maybe the law enforcement is keeping an eye on the sales. It's really detailed how to make it step by step. Of course, you need patience and it's not so easy as it sounds, but you can make it, and it's a powerful bomb. The trick what they made about it is that when you prepare the bomb, you need to remove the smell of the explosive, and then after you cover it with silicon. It doesn't have metal parts. It's chemically induced explosion.

So metal detectors are useless. Dogs? Dogs, no, because the silicon itself is just sealing the small. The only way is that, and even they show it in the video, the only way to detect this bomb is that the body scanner, the only way. Okay. So they go through metal detectors. Yeah. A dog can't sniff it. So this could easily get on to airlines, pretty much anywhere that doesn't have the body scan machine, which most, I don't know how many airports have that now, but I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority. We even tell in the video that not too many airports have it. I mean, the series is so detailed. I mean, they did the Racky at the airport, and they are telling it that Yeah, they check the airports, not so many. We are talking about big airports like, I don't know, I think in New York, JFK, they have it, they use it. But smaller airports, they don't. Even some large airports don't. Yeah, they don't. Even in the video, so the video, it's about to make a homemade explosive like half a kilo, which is powerful. They even demonstrate it so you can see it.

And just less than 200 grams, sorry, it's a European language, grams, it's enough to make an explosion in an airplane which is going to be catastrophic. I mean, even airplanes, I mean, that would be devastating. But we're just talking airports. What about major arenas, stadiums, concerts, football, football games, baseball games, hockey games, speaking events, hospitals, schools? I mean, the list goes on. Nobody has this type of technology except the major hub airports within the United States, which even some major hubs haven't even implemented this type of technology with the body scan yet. Yeah, and there are some airports when they do body search, but of course, they don't touch, for example, your intimate parts. You can hide it there. How big is this? I mean, it showed like it's approximately, I don't know, like 20 centimeters, and it can contain half a kilo, which is really powerful. Is it about... I mean,How thin is it? I mean, how thin is it? It's like they even make the bomb. It's like a mineral water bottle. Actually, they use a mineral water bottle to make it. Okay. It's like a half a liter bottle. You can make it.

What devastation are we talking about? It was shown on bricks. They put together, and yeah, it's powerful. Could it take a building out? No, that's not. But for example, if you just go there next to gas lines. The bomb itself, if you use one, yeah, probably it's going to kill people around you. But we are not talking about huge vicinity of that. But if you have a couple of ones and a couple of people. If I remember correctly, Scott told me that Al Qaeda is basically predicting that the casualty count will be between 50 and 60,000 Americans dead. Am I wrong on that? So I don't know the count that they're predicting. What I do know is Al Qaeda trained and sent a thousand attackers. A thousand attackers. When did they come through? So they finished training and they deployed them. Now, depending on how they come through, it could take different times, right? So the fastest I've seen an Afghan leave Afghanistan and get over the border illegally is about three weeks. Now, if you get a tourist visa and a Saudi's passport, he fly the day after he gets his visa, right? So it depends because they are fine getting people in however they can get them in.

And they actually prefer legal immigration, as you can imagine, because they want basically the attackers to sit here and wait. If they're legal, they're not going to raise any alarm bells. So wait a minute. I just want to clarify. You are 100% certain that there are 1,000 plus Al Qaeda trained fighters within the United States borders? Well, Well, Al Qaeda says they trained and deployed a thousand for this attack. First off, I think there's more than a thousand Al Qaeda members in the United States. But for the homeland attack, that number is based on what Al Qaeda is saying, so they could exaggerate it. However, they did have about 1,400 in the Hamas attack, so the number is not off from what they did in the first round of attacks. Is there any indication of what attacks is there going to be? Actually, before we get into that, how old is this information? I mean, it's ongoing. The training is already done, right? So all the training info is now old because they trained all the homeland attackers, if that makes sense. So next week, you're not going to get info of a homeland attacker, probably at a terrorist camp because it's already done.

So all this has been in the last year. So it's been over a year. It's been a year. Because this was a continuation. So they planned October seventh, first, and then they rolled into planning this after. Are we next or is Europe next? I think the embassy attacks are next, in my opinion. What are they waiting for, for the embassies? I don't think they're waiting. I think it took time to train them. They've now approved them, and they've now moved into the operational stage. What about the US? The US, from what we've seen, I told you about the camps, right? There's the advanced German warfare. We think it's going to look like October seventh, but it's actually based on, and October seventh was probably also based on it, it's based on the Mumbai attacks that occurred 15 years ago in Delhi, India. We believe this for multiple reasons. What happened there? Before we dig into that. Yeah, we talked about this. I think it was my first episode. It was basically a terrorist group, Lashkri Taiba. They did a number. It's called swarming attacks. They did a number of attacks in the Delhi at a hotel, the Taj Mahal, I believe it was called, at basically train station, et cetera.

The interesting thing about it, and this is why they're going to employ it now, is those terraces were given latitude. One, they could change the location they were attacking, and they could change the modus operand they were using. For example, when they went in the train station, it was supposed to be a bombing. When they got in there, they said, Wow, we can kill more people just shooting them than putting the bomb together, and they shot them. Another The thing that they did is in real time, information was being passed to them. When they were in the Taj Mahal, they were being told what was on the press and what the police were doing, and they changed basically some of their movements in the hotel to make the attack last longer. Okay. So this is the part that's going to be different. Al Qaeda always wants to innovate when it does its next attack. I've already told you about the innovation of the suicide vests. Well, do you know we really haven't had a suicide bombing in the United States ever? There's the Nashville guy who did the strange, blew himself up in the car early in the morning when no one was around.

That's it. The AT&T building? Yeah. So we have not had a man walk up to a building with a suicide vest on the United States. Americans don't understand this. Al Qaeda knows this, right? So this is new and innovative, especially now you don't have to walk outside of the building. You can walk in the building because of the advancement of the vest. The other thing is in the United States, we haven't had Fidaian attackers. Do you know what this is? You'll know when I explain it, if you fought in, I don't know, Ramadi, Falluja. So these guys are trained, and we already overlaid the video of their training, and they are going to fight until they're killed. Yes. There's no stopping them. Exactly. And that matters, right? So I was watching this video, and it was a suicide bombing in Kabul years ago. And it was the bomber blew up, okay? And then everyone starts moving in. The first responders move in, right? And then another guy walks in and blows We know this is a tactic, right? But if Americans don't understand this as a tactic and don't understand these attackers are going to fight to the death, think about that.

So the battle is going on. The attacker surrenders, right? He might have the suicide vest. We let our guard down. That man came to die, right? He's going to fight till he dies or you dies. So we can't let our guards down, and they know our weakness, right? So we have to be very careful that we don't have more people die in second and third order effects of not knowing their intent. What places do you think they're going to target? So this is what's complicated. Al Qaeda's preference, as you can imagine, is symbols of the US or anything that causes economic damage. Capital is a great symbol. Capital was actually in... I think the capital is a lot of people are targeting it, but the capital was in their propaganda just as 9/11 when they were memorializing 9/11. So the capital matters. I feel like bridges or any public transportation always matters because it puts costs against us and it causes fear. But here's where it gets complicated. So remember, the terrace might have their goal is they're going to attack the Metro in DC, right? But remember, some of these terraces are going to be ISIS.

And remember, they can change So the ISIS guy might go down the Metro and say, There's not many people down here. I'll kill 20. But there's an event going on. I'm going to go up there, right? Because ISIS is a little different. Isis just wants mass casualty. So It's going to be interesting how it works with terrorists that came from different backgrounds when they get choice. So some of these terrorist organizations are looking for very strategic stuff like US capital, basically US governmental infrastructure and in elites. And then, on the other hand, you have what I'm used to seeing when we were over there, they just look for the easiest, biggest target because they want to kill the most amount of people in the quickest amount of time and get the most press out of it. And so that makes me, that would lead me to believe universities, churches, stadiums. Farmers markets, those type of things. You can hear gunfire going off, stuff like that. You can hear a couple of explosions, but it's been gazy. There's a wedding hall. Trying to tell people, Wedding hall right there, you'd hear people They would shoot stuff off.

Then he comes up to me and said, Hey, we need to get ready to roll. The console has been overrun. A lot of people, they don't understand. They think it's being attacked. No, he's saying it's being It's been overrun. That means they're already in the compound by the time we get the call. Inside the gates. Inside the gates. That's how fast it happened. I run back, tell Jack, We get our stuff on, we come out. That's when I overheard how many tackers are there? They're saying anywhere between 50 to 150. So they're all over the place, and I'm thinking, We got to M4. I ran into the team room, I grabbed the grenade launcher and the belt-fed machine gun, brought them out, started doing checks on that, waiting in the vehicle. I'm in the back seat. Ron is the driver, Jack is the passenger. We're just still sitting there and it's like going, These guys, they're digging in. They're going to get the initiative. We're going to lose it. I get out of the vehicle and I remember it's Bob, Hush, and the Deputy Chief of Base. They're all on the front porch. I was out on the passenger side I said, Hey, we got to get over there.

We got to get over there now. We're losing the initiative. It's going to take us a lot harder to get onto this compound, the rest of these guys. Bob goes, No, stand down. You need to wait. I'm like, What the fuck are we waiting for? There's nothing to wait for. We need to get over there. He's like, We need to come with the plan. We can't come with the plan fucking sitting here. We got to come with the plan with our eyes on the target. There's nothing we can do from here. We know the layout of the compound. That's when Hush goes, Tigg, shut up, get back in the car. So Fine, I get back in. It's armored, so they couldn't hear what's going on. I closed the door and I got out. I said, Hey, Bob just told us to stand down. You could just tell right then. They're like, He's not going to let you go. That's what it meant. Well, what Sarah and what OD would have been doing throughout the years is he was actually digging into actually what happened more than the investigation. Well, weeks prior to the attack, 17 Feb had told Bob Bob, the commander, had told Bob that if something ever happened, they were never going to show up.

That night, Bob actually got a hold of him before he told me to stand down that they weren't going to show up. That's why we were told to stand down. Then for them to sit and say, Oh, there's no evidence of a stand-down order, what the hell is that? But again, how can you rely on... It's a hostage rescue is what it is. You're going to said 17 February, which is worse sending the Boy Scouts in to do a hostage rescue. Some of these guys watching the State Department train don't even know how to reload a freaking rifle. It's like in the movie, we are the only help that they had. We're the only support that could have made a difference. That stand-down order is 100% guarantee is why Ambassador Steven and Sean Smith didn't make it. They're dead because of that stand-down order. Damn, man. People say, Well, how do you know that for a fact? Well, they would have been engaging with us instead of setting the buildings on fire. They died of a smoke inhalation. They didn't die from blunt force trauma, a gunshot. They died from the smoke from the fire.

Throughout that time frame, we're still thinking Americans are going to help. We're still thinking that the IRS is seeing everything, and we're thinking somebody's coming, Calvary's coming, but they weren't. But at that point in time, we still had some faith that they were because they normally did. Everywhere else I was at, cavalry came. Whether it was another GRS team, whether it was a Scorpion team, an NSA, the GRS equivalent at the NSA, whether it was military, somebody was Brits, somebody was coming. Between that two-hour lull of 1: 00 AM to 3: 00 AM, we were the It makes an attack happen. That's where we started to come in the realization nobody's coming. And I went, Did you guys hear that? It sounded like somebody... You know what it sounded like when we used to hear the 107s come in in Iraq? That's what it sounded like. I thought it was a rocket. I said, Did you guys hear that? And then, I don't know, something in me said, Mortar. I go, Mortors, mortors. And so it said, Take cover. The first one hit, and it hit on the backside of Building C. And that's when the world opened up again.

And I remember Ron, he just spun. He spun and he went cyclic on that other 46. He's just over where the sheep slaughterhouse is. They're trying to come through there. Now, like idiots, they're walking their troops into where the mortars are coming. Fine with me. They can take out their own guys if they want. But Rohn is just... I'm seeing this laser beam because it's not daylight. The movie shows this daylight. It actually was a before morning nautical twilight. It's right when the sun's made, but the night vision, you still need your night vision. I'm watching all this. I'm seeing one guy turn and start to shoot that direction. I'm seeing another guy turn, which was Oz. The next guy was Bob, and the next guy was Dave Uben. Of course, I want to get my gun in the fight, but I can't see the targets because they're here. I'm here. The targets, they're coming from this direction. Mortars are coming from this way. I'm shooting over their heads. I put a couple of rounds down and I look. We already went through this before, but I look behind me to make sure there's nobody coming from my six because I still got area of responsibility.

Nobody's there. I turn and I get a couple more shots and I see the next one hit, and this one hits on building C. It hits right by the parapet wall. Boom, blows up. As my night vision goes white and it comes back, those four guys that were shooting are now three. It's like, close your eyes, you see four, open your eyes, there's three. Dave's hit. Dave got hit with a 81. It sheared half his leg off. It sheared half his arm off. They were on, but they were just hanging by tendons, and he's screaming. How did you hear that? I don't know how I heard it, but I heard him screaming. I'm here, he's yelling. He's screaming. I could hear it. I'm still shooting. They're still shooting. I turn around to make sure nobody's coming again because I still got my six. We still got to fight. We got to finish it. You can't quit. They got to take care of Dave. I'm not run off my position and help him. I'm just expecting maybe the Delta guys or somebody to come up and help. But I don't know. We got a fight to go.

I put three rounds over On the top of their head. I went, Boom, boom, boom. As soon as I did that, three mortars, fire for effect. Boom, boom, boom. When they did that, my night vision went completely white because the overbundance of light. And as it came back, they were gone. I saw the Pixi dust. I saw the charged particle. It really did look like they got turned to dust. Tell me about Beyoncé. Despite her repeated denials, Beyoncé was paid. Who was she paid by? The Harris campaign. She was paid tens of thousands of dollars to not sing. Well, no, she refused to sing. She was paid tens of thousands of dollars to give a speech that no one wanted to hear. Kamala Harris thought all these people came out to Texas to hear her speak, yeah, right. They came to hear Beyoncé sing. You know what? This is the second time they failed to deliver Beyoncé. The first time at the D&C. They promised that Beyoncé would perform. Beyoncé did not perform. That was let down number one. Let down number two, they went to Texas to prop up this candidate who could never beat Ted Cruz, Colin Alred.

They promised, they told NBC News that Beyoncé would perform. Beyoncé came out and gave this speech, this boring-ass speech, and just left without performing. Then, Alma Harris got booed. She got drowned in booze because people didn't really care what she had to say. They were there to hear Queen Bee. That was number one. Beyoncé was paid to show up. Cardi B was paid. Cardi B, who famously said she wasn't paid, her production company was paid to show up. Katie Perry was paid. Christina Aguilera was paid. These people were all paid. And Oprah wasn't paid a million. She was paid two million. Okay, let's be very clear. Two million. Two million dollars to Harpo Productions. Who owns Harpo Productions? Flip Harpo backwards, it spells out Oprah. It's Oprah's Production Company was paid $2 million to put on that town hall in which Meryl Streep calls her Madam President. It was a love fest for Kamala Harris. So, Oprah was paid $2 million. And who Advertising costs. Al Sharpton was paid half a million dollars moments before he interviewed her. An MSNBC anchor, Al Sharpton, was paid money. A so-called journalist was paid money moments before he interviewed the vice president.

People like Roland Martin who are attacking me now, he was paid $350,000 to interview Kamala... Advertising costs, okay. Advertising costs, wink, wink, to interview Kamala Harris. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party was paid $25 million after the chair raised hell for not being paid enough street money. Street money is just a boon doggle. It's a cauldron of corruption. They just hand out money to ward leaders. This is how donor money was spent. Donor money was basically set on fire for five-star hotels, luxury trips, private charter planes, just this ridiculous stuff. A lot of these donors are hardworking Americans. I had people giving anywhere from $10 to $15 all the way to a million dollars. All of them worked hard for their money. If they knew that their money was spent this way, they never would have given. There's a lot of corruption coming out right now about USAID. Did they fund any of this campaign? I don't think they funded any of the Harris campaign, but the Democrats are so pissed off and freaking out about USAID because that is... Trump got it. He hit it on the nail. That's where the corruption is. We need to look into what happened with that missing Ukraine money.

All those billions that were supposed to go over there, and Zelensky said he never got it. What the hell happened to that money? Why are we funding transgender operas around the world? Why? Why are we funding DEI programs, not only here at home, but across the globe? Someone's got an answer for it. You can tell that we hit on the right, we hit the target by how angry they are. What does an invasion from China look like? Is it a kinetic war, or is it more of a cognitive war, or is it them influencing the the KMT political party? I can't emphasize enough that we want to avoid a kinetic conflict. There are no winners in war. But the other gray zone coercion against Taiwan is already happening. There are military assets circling Taiwan, the cognitive warfare, the disinformation, the efforts at dividing our society, weakening our domestic unity and cohesion, that is already happening. The cyberattacks are already happening. We also need hybrid responses. I do not want to really think about what a kinetic conflict will look like because it will be hell and a disaster for humanity. I think it will also be harmful to the people of China.

We are continuing to invest in our defenses so that deterrence will actually work and that we can avoid such a conflict. But in the meantime, all of the other gray zone areas of coercion, threats, cyberattacks, that's ongoing, and we are in a race to make ourselves much more resilient. I've used the word resilience many times today, and I do think that is a core spirit of who we are as Taiwanese people. I grew up in a Presbyterian family in Taiwan, and the emblem is a burning Bush. The burning Bush is symbolic of resilience It is also a defiance against oppression. It's about keeping the spirit going and about resurrection against persecution. I think that particular spirit is not only part of my upbringing, but it is very much internalized among our society. Again, we've come a long way in making Taiwan also a land of the free. No person or no country is too small to deserve freedom. Is Romania in the midst of a coup right now? Indeed. That's what's happening. It's a coup d'État in no shame in front of all the old worlds. The problem, Sean, is There's no reaction. Everything is illegal.

After the December sixth, the last year, nobody said anything. How much of this coup has What does it do with the NATO base that they're building in Romania right now? From my understanding, this will be the biggest NATO base ever to be built in Europe, 1. 5 times bigger than Ramstein Air Base. I understood also this. Ten thousand troops. I understood. By the way, they are not Romanians. Probably they had the plan before, and the Romanian people, they changed their plan. For this reason, they put Constitutional Court to stop and to cancel the second round. Because, again, I was and I am, and I shall be forever for peace. Why you have to have war? We don't need war. This is my point. What will the implications of Romania be if the NATO basis goes to completion? There will be a way for a dangerous situation of democracy in the United States. This is a main important point. I would think there will be major implications for Romania, too, if Russia decides to strike It's true. I can understand, even for us. But still, it's a problem of human being communication. It's a human being part of this life related to his God.

If in the notes of one dollar, if we trust in God, is real or not? This is my question for Washington. We trust in God. We trust in Romania, for sure. Otherwise, we cannot arrive here. We don't arrive here without God. God made us to arrive here in this point. For sure, we shall continue this way of dignity, but have faith, Sean. Exactly here we are today, you have or you don't have faith. It's the main important point of our dialog today. This is my message. You trust or not in God, because here is a spirit This was 11. But that's what happened with Nikola Tesla, too, right? Did they seized all of-They seized all the stuff. 80 boxes of research? Yes. When he died, it wasn't the FBI at the time, Although the FBI was there, it was the Office of Alien Property or something, whatever agency is in charge of foreigners. He died, and within hours, they were in his room. This is at the New Yorker Hotel, and they seized 80 boxes of his research, all kinds of research plans because it's national security. They held onto it for months and months, and they finally returned his property to his nephew But 20 boxes were missing.

In those boxes, allegedly, and this falls under Project NIK, is Tesla's research into direct energy weapons, to DWs, which was very hot with military at the time with Darpa and all of that. We still don't know what's happened to those boxes, but we do know that they were researching things based on Tesla's research. The formula, the architecture for the HAARP project up in Alaska, a lot of that comes from Tesla's research. It took me quite a while to connect the dots, but you will find Tesla's missing work suddenly shows up in patents from this guy somewhere in Alaska, I forget his name. Out of the blue, he lands a contract with the DOD for a lot of money, and they build a facility in Fairbanks, Alaska. It's just an array of antennas in a small building, and it cost a fortune. Where'd the money go? Cost a fortune. What it does is it ionizes and creates plasma in the atmosphere. They say, We use this to test the atmosphere. But it could also be used for all kinds of processes. What Tesla wanted to do is create free energy by exciting the ionosphere. That was what he was doing with Wharncliffe Tower.

But he needed funding to do that, and he couldn't get any funding. J. P. Morgan was his patron, and he told J. P. Morgan, do you see it in his letter? I need a sum of money. He needed $200,000 to get this project going. J. P. Morgan said, Well, you're building wireless communication. What do you need all this money for? And Tesla was like, No, wireless communication. I got that. We're going to do wireless energy. We're going to do wireless free energy for everyone on the planet can just tap into this and just get free electricity. J. P. Morgan says, Well, how do you put a meter on that? Jpmorgan J. P. Morgan owned copper mines that made copper wire. He owned rubber farms all over the world that made insulation for the wire. He owned a lumber mills and forests that created poles for wire. He owned coal factories He owned machine shops that created generators for electricity, and he owned railroads that brought all this stuff around the country. Free energy shuts that whole business down. We don't need any of that. Carnegie, we don't need any of that. The Mellon family, we don't need you guys anymore.

It's just free. Imagine what the world would be like if energy was just free. We're literally standing on the second floor. There's a ladder, stairs that go up to a landing and up. A little head pops down looking at us on the ceiling. How did he... Did he hear you guys? He had to have, right? I mean, anybody inside the house had plenty of time to wake up. They heard helicopters hovering, helicopters crash. They'd heard muffled gunfire, some explosions, right? Outside buildings, first floor of the main building, and then now we're in the house. So they had more than enough time to assume there's somebody here that's... Is it true that somebody yelled to Khalid in Arabic, he came out and then was popped? Didn't yell. Whispered. It's the sexiest move I ever saw in the SEAL teams. Whispered Khalid's name. You're on the second floor, you see a head peak down the wall, look down at us, try and see who's down there, We couldn't tell. It's pitch black. We're quiet. We're not, Hey, it's America. None of that. That same seal sat right next to me in the heel of crash. In front of me on the stairs, and he literally whispers Khaled's name.

Khaled. Khaled. Khaled had heard gunfire, all this stuff. Then you hear somebody whisper in his name, not yelling it, nothing aggressive. Peaks around the corner and gets popped in the head. Holy shit. Falls down, rolls down a couple of sets of stairs, AK-47. He was literally right around the corner of the stairwell with an AK-47. Did you shoot Bin Laden? On the ground, yes. You did? Yeah. How many times? Couple. Where at? The body. And the body? How did that feel? Don't fucking tell me. He was like, Just doing the job. Bullshit. You just fucking killed. You shot. I didn't kill Bin Laden. You shot. I never said I killed Bin Laden. I'm correcting myself. You shot him as he was twitching at the fucking edge of his bed, and you didn't feel anything. I don't know what that counts for, Come on. You didn't feel anything. No sense of accomplishment, retribution. This guy fucking brought down the twin towns. We had a long way to get home still. I think Everybody was still very focused on, Okay, we've got one halo down. Let's think big picture here, where we are in this situation. Yeah, we got the knucklehead down.

But did you know it was him? Man, looking at him, it looked like him. The women gave us an alias. The kids confirmed it. We went back to the women. The women then confirmed it. We all carried photos of him. All the photos we carried, his beard was gray and his little light gray hair. I searched his bathroom. On the shelf, just above his sink, just for men hair dye. Interestingly enough, never forget this. Christmas lights were on the top of the prison. It was December 20th, 1989, right before Christmas. There's Christmas lights. I'll never forget it. Wow. We were offset from the prison, and then the pilots did this number and then got in line and the line landed right on top of the prison and it pealed off. I got in position by the couple I He had security position, looking through the window down the stairs, the couple on top. Then the second two set of birds came in. They dispersed. Breacher on my team went up to put a charge up. And in the process of pulling the time fuse, he knocked the charge down. And it fell right from me, about from me to you.

I was like, What is that? You know what I It didn't even dawn on me. It was the charge. Fortunately, when he went to pull it, he did not ignite the time fuse. That probably would have killed me. If memory serves me correct, it was a C6 charge. Which was P for plenty, brother. We were not going to take any chance of getting in that door. It was P for plenty. It probably would have killed me because I ended up going from being the guy looking through the window, now I'm to be the number one guy going through the door. I was down on the knee, and I was like, What is that? I couldn't believe it. I remember my team sergeant came up. He goes, Hey, man, get the backup charge ready. Because I had a backup charge. I go, Why am I going to get the backup charge ready? Because the breacher's right there. Then the breacher went back around and he said, Hey, come on. He basically had me come up for cover. I covered him on the door. He put the charge back up. We initiated, and dude, it was a Boom.

I'll never forget it. It was a boom. When I was looking in the cupola window, the lights were on. I thought the charge knocked out the lights, and it was because it was pitch black. What actually had happened, the snipers, the support guys had hit the generator and killed the lights. I didn't know that until later. They killed the lights in the prison, so it was pitch black. I come around, door is long gone on the I step in, there's no landing, Sean. Here's the door. The steps go right up to the door. There's no landing like this, where you step in and then go down the steps. It goes right up the door, like out here, you guys got. I almost, by the grace of God, I don't know how I didn't trip because it's pitch black. I'm walking into it, and by the grace of God, somehow I didn't trip. Went down. It was not long at all to get in get situated, and then they were going to start lighting up commedancia. So they started to light it up. We're holding the stairwell. Somebody, a PDF guy, guard or whatever, poked his head around.

Gary Harrell was there. He was the Troop Commander. He shot at him. I think he missed him, pretty calm. He claimed later he thought him, but I'm pretty sure he missed him because the guy took off. And then they came out with Muezz. They put a C4 charge on his door and blew the door wide open. There was a guard that had told Kurt if there was a rescue attempt, he was going to kill him because Kurt, I think, asked him, Hey, if there's a rescue attempt from me, what are you going to do? He goes, I'll kill you. This guy was in the room right across from Kurt. The priority was to get down to Kurt as soon as possible to beat this guy. Before this guy gets a situational awareness, figures out what's going on, goes over to Kurt's cell and kills him. You guys knew that before you went? Yeah, we knew it. Was he in the cell across? Yeah, he was. He was in the room across. He was in the room across. G-team went in and killed him. He was armed with a pistol. I think the guy, I think he was in the shower, if memory serves me correct.

G-team found him in the shower. I think the guy went for his pistol or already had a pistol in his hand, they killed him. Yeah. They got Muezz out. They brought in a little aviator kit bag and had body armor and a helmet. A body armor and a kevlar helmet. Pealed him out. I remember seeing him go up the stairs a couple of things. We get up, we tell them, Hey, PC secure to get the extraction birds out. The reason the book's called 6 Minutes to Freedom, because from when we touched down to when we called PC secure, called for Exville was 6 Minutes. Just the way it worked out, not like we had a set time standard or anything like that. It just happened. It was 6 Minutes from when we sat down on top of the prison to when we were ready to XFill with Kurt Mues with 6 minutes. Wow. We were at the very top. You know what I mean? Stairwell. I remember I was here, Kurt Mues is here, and that door is here. Dude, I'll never forget this as long I live. It got quiet for a minute. I don't know how long.

Like a C-130 maybe was taking a loop around, didn't have a clear field of fire, whatever. Got quiet. And you could hear the prisoners screaming. And when you hear somebody screaming who honest to God thinks they're going to die, it's a sound you'll never forget. Now, I'll never forget it. It's nothing like you've seen a movie or any of that other bullshit. These people were convinced they were going to die, and they're trapped in these prison cells. I'll never forget that sound. Damn. Yeah. We go up, birds land. I was on bird 2. They get Muezz on bird 1. They put him inside the bird. He's not on the pod. They put him inside the bird, and then they G-Team who rescued him, and then their ex-filling with him. We lift up, we go over, and I see muzzle flash. Dude's shooting at us. I didn't get a beat on him, but I put some rounds down at him to get him, and then muzzle flash stopped. I'm pretty confident I did not hit the guy, but I at least got him to duck, so he's no longer shooting at our bird. We lose track of Bird One.

We go back to Howard Air Force base. We land. I'm like, Awesome. Bird One went down. Bird One with Kirt Mues went down. What happened was they had two pilots. They had six dudes with Kirt Mues. They were seriously overloaded. The pilot tried to gain speed and kick back up, but there was power lines. So he was worried about hitting the power lines. So he sets on a road, a street, right on the other side of the cemetery. Well, four guys from G-Team jump off and get out, and they're pulling security. The pilot, like He brings them back, Come on, because he's going to go down. He's essentially going down the street to gain airspeed, and then he's going to lift off. When they get back on, three of the four guys don't hook back up. So that It becomes critical here in a minute. Anyway, they go down, he takes a left on this street, and he starts to lift up, and Bird gets hit, crashes. Three of the guys all fell off. One guy was still the team leader, he was hooked in, so he was good to go. Muezz, who's in the back, is good to go.

There was a guy from my team, my 2IC, assistant team leader, was basically with him, escorting him. He was fine, too. Bird goes down, breaks the right strut off. The right strut had landed. One of the guys who fell off had landed on his foot. He lost his big toe. Then we came to Christmas Day, 1968, and didn't even realize it was Christmas because we had been so busy planning, working things out. And they had a mission where they wanted us to go in on a mountaintop for a trail watch and also look for enemy fuel lines because the NVA were bringing down fuel lines from North Vietnam that were coming down into Laos, and the fuel lines would come down to refuel the trucks as they came down to Ho Chi Min Trail. But nobody had found any yet. So our mission was to get us this hilltop, get inserted, do a general area recon, then the next day, move out to try to find some of those fuel lines. So in November of '68, President Johnson declared a bombing halt in North Vietnam. And not all, but a lot of the anti-aircraft weaponry that had been up in North Vietnam began coming south.

So on Christmas Day, our target was just into Laos, maybe five or 10 clicks into Laos. And we had a kingbeast, Captain Thuang, the one who pulled me out when I was upside down. He was our pilot that day. Instead of doing the yellow leaf, a sparrow, he wanted to just go in low level, go right up and set down. Well, somewhere, he made a mistake. We came in, we went up the mountainside, and halfway up the mountain, there was this little null. He touched down on the null instead of going all the way up. But we got out, and there was a lot of elephant grass. So he's right there in the elephant grass. He took off, and the elephant grass was thick. Again, it's 10 to 12 feet. To the south and to the west, and even to the northwest. It was so steep we couldn't go anywhere. So Fouck led off to the east. He's our point man. And with Baba May, Lynn Black was there with us. And then we had Touon, Fouke, and Hebb. And so we're there moving out. And within a half hour or less, we made contact, light contact with the NVA.

We came back and we're back on that little Noel. And Lynn and I are talking. It's like, Well, the northeast is the last place that we can go. Lynn goes, But there's no activity there. We don't see anything. We've had contact here. And then people started shooting at us from down the hill in the south, and we were throwing hand grenades. All of a sudden, the elephant grass catches fire down the mountain, and the wind from that mountain area was blowing those flames up the hill. And then the NVA were going around. When they saw that, they were going around and setting fires on the base of that mole that we're on. So at one point, the elephant grass was burning. We're looking down the hill. You have all these smoke waves, and then the heat waves you see. You could look through and you could see the NVA there, lighting stuff, further down the mountain. But they weren't shooting at us. They were all lighting up the The mountainside. So I declared a Prairie fire emergency. Spider was flying cubby that day. We couldn't go. Oh, a spider comes out and he goes, Do not go to the northeast.

We had an intel report. There's an NVA Ambus waiting for RT, Idaho, there. I never had an intel report like that. So we didn't go. Now we're fighting the fire. Lynn and Bubba cut S-4, try to blow the flames back down the But the mountain and the wind and everything was blowing that stuff up. Thankfully, Captain Touang got there, and he came up above us. He came down the mountain, flying sideways. I looked up and saw Captain Touang, and I recognized him because from that day, mission where I was upside down in other missions, and we, of course, had bought him drinks. He came down and he landed, and the prop was blew back all the flames. We jumped on that king bee. When he lifted off, all of the LZ was covered with flames. Wow. And, of course, we left under fire. So we were fired at the NVA as we pulled out. So that was Christmas. And we barely got out of there that day. And that night, I took a shower. And when I'm walking back to my hooch from the shower, because the shower was over to the left past the officer's barracks, and our hooches were here.

And as I walked back to my room, I hear this little cheap transistor radio playing Silent Night. I go, Son of a bitch, it's Christmas. I'm thinking about chatting to Mom and daddy, grandmom, what they're doing on Christmas Day. And then I thought, You know, this is fucking crazy. I don't think I'm going to see my birthday. We keep having missions like this. I had a 22-man team. We had put two of our recon teams together because we were going after a group of NBA that had a group of American prisoners that they were trying to take through Malais into North Vietnam. And trying to stop them. And we had stopped for an RON. We had 22 people. So it was a circle almost as big as this room in here. And they were running arm's length apart. I I was in the center with my assistant team leader. And it was about 21: 30. It was dark. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face. And I was really tired. My eyes were starting to roll back in my head. I was leaning against a tree, and I heard a twig break.

And I opened my eyes and I was thinking to myself, That sounded like a twig break inside the perimeter. And then I heard another one, and I realized someone was inside our perimeter and was coming directly toward me. I'm laying back. I have car 15 laying across my lap, and I can hear this person moving. And I knew all of our people knew the rule. Once you go down, You don't get back up at night. Anybody moving is a bad guy. And this guy is coming right toward me, and I was thinking, he's going to step on me. I slid my selector switch over the full auto, and I'm laying there, and he's coming, and the air is so thick. At this point, I can mentally see a silhouette coming at me. Although I can't really see the silhouette. I know where it is based on the sound, and now I'm starting to hear him breathe. I'm starting to hear his heartbeat because he realizes he's inside the perimeter, And he's probably about to get killed. So his heart is thumping. He's coming right at me. I can't open up because I'll light the whole perimeter up and we'll be in trouble.

So I couldn't get to my knife. So I decided, just as he gets to me, I'm just going to shoot my left hand up. I'm going to grab a hold of his chest, whatever he got there, and I'm going to pull him at the same I'm going to raise my leg up and trip him. I'm going to pull him down to the ground. I'm going to hit him in the side of the head with the muzzle of my car 15 as I'm bringing him down. If he yell, if he fires his weapon, I'm I'm going to pull the trigger. So he's coming. He got in the position. I grabbed him. I jammed the muzzle into the side of his head, just cut a big gash in his head. I bring him down face first into the mud, and he didn't say a word, didn't make a sound. It scared him so bad, he didn't even grasp when I grabbed him. And then I started thinking, Now what? I'm sitting here holding this guy face down in the mud. What am I going to do with him? And then I heard a whisper. And the whisper was, Trunquey, Trunquey.

Lieutenant, in Vietnamese. Lites, lights. What? And he said, Lites, lights. Where did you fuck that up? In Africa. Do you want to talk about it? It's a tough one for me, man. I might be able to abbreviate it. I've been working on this one for a long time to try to be able to come out and tell the story. This kid, man, this kid who was the everything to me, probably about 16 years old. He stayed out of the war efforts. He really wanted to help educate us. Earlier when I said that when we went in country, everybody's calling us Brother American, he would be the first to say, Here's why. And his kid knew everything about America. That's all he wanted to do, was go to America one day. And he told me that his mom and dad were killed two weeks before we got there in the Civil War. There's a lot of kids running around with no parents. When we see them there, we're like, Hey, kids, you got to go away. You can't stay here anymore. We have no place to go. We have no place to go. I'm like, Okay, well, why don't you go back to your village?

Our parents are dead. We had these five kids that would always hang out with us on a daily basis. They always be looking for work. We give them MREs and medicine and stuff. They tell us where to get eggs in town and little blocks of cheese because you're eating MREs every day. There's not a whole lot of food running around in that country during that war. So he was extremely resourceful. One day, he ran into town eight miles to get an egg and a block of cheese for me and a little bowl of bread and ran eight miles back and came back at the end of the day. And I'm like, Where the fuck have you been, man? He goes, I went to get the egg and cheese. I'm like, What took you so long? He's like, I went to town. I'm like, You mean you went to town? You mean did you get a ride? No, I ran. Flip flops, man. And I'm like, You ran 18 miles to get me an egg and cheese. Yes, I So you know what 18 miles is because that's all they do all day is run and walk everywhere.

And I'm like, Do you see that vehicle right there? You tell me next time and we'll drive in and grab it. Okay? So then we started doing that. I was like, That's how cool these kids were. Anyways, he would start telling us where weapons cachees were and say, Hey, I know a guy that's building guns. He's not bad. He's trying to put food on his family's table. They can't sell weapons to the militia legally, so they're getting busted. These are part of the weapons cachees issues that was happening in the city because it's just Lord of War, man. There's guns everywhere. So we would go and do these hits and eventually realize when we turn over anybody that was a potential threat or issue, the Nigerians would take and cut their hands off on the side of the road. Typical African stuff. They didn't take prisoners because they don't get paid like I talked about earlier. And then one night, we're down there. This kid comes in, and I'm not going to say his name, but he says, Travis, I know where your place is. And I'm like, Get the fuck out of You're not supposed to be here.

I don't want these people knowing that you're associated with us. He was so adamant. I said, All right, fuck it. Let's go. So we jump in the vehicle. We did a five-point contingency plan. We jump in the vehicle, we drive down the road, which is right around the back. And I said, Hey, if we're not back in 45 minutes, this is the approximate location we're going to be. And we walk up. Same thing. I knock on the door. And there's a guy sitting on a box in a little tiny room about the size of a large closet. A couple of candles lit in the room, and he had a mattress on the floor right around the corner, which the kid told me that there was a couple of RPGs and AKs in there. And so I knock on the door, and he's got a... I could see an AK beside them, which they could have a rifle in their house. We didn't give a fuck. They were trying to protect themselves, but they just couldn't have cachets and be selling guns. So I said, Hey, you know why I'm here? And he goes, He goes, Yes, I know who you are.

I said, Okay, can we talk? And he goes, No, you get out of my house. How dare you insult me. And I'm like, Okay, this is different. Never had this conversation. Normally, I'm like, Yes, come in. You're the Marines that are helping us. Yes, here. Give me my food. Give me my medicine. Where's the Red Cross? Can I have security? No Nigerians. I went Ghana, San Eglise only. And we'd do a quick negotiation. We'd get out of there, and we would secure that village with security and food, and they would love us. Well, he's pissed off, and I'm like, Dude, what the fuck, man? Hey, I'm going to talk to you, and You're going to listen to me. I know you're selling weapons and you need to stop, and I know you have them. And I'm here to offer you a deal. I'm here to offer you help. You've probably heard what we're doing for you. I know. How dare you insult me. Get out of my house. I don't sell weapons to their government. I'm like, I didn't say you did yet. Okay. And he starts getting really belligerent. All of a sudden, a kid runs in and starts yelling at him saying, You listen to him.

You listen to him. He'll help you. He'll help you. And I'm like, Shut the fuck What the fuck? What is going on here? And I'm like, Dude, why are you? I'm trying to say, I don't know this kid. I'm acting fucking weird. And I was like, Look, dude, I don't... Shut your mouth. Listen, I'm going to give you 20 American dollars to save your life because you know at the end of the road, there's a Nigerian checkpoint. Fuck the Nigerians. Like, yeah, exactly. And you know what's going to happen if you don't obey me right now. I'm going to arrest your ass and take you down on the Nigerians. Fuck you. And I said, hey, dude, 20 American dollars at that time. The Liberians told us that would be a year salary for a Liberian. So I'm like, we're fucking carrying cash all the time, right? Can't drop a Rolex in Liberia. They don't give a shit. They wanted American money. And so he takes it. Or actually, I'm sorry, I'd go to give it to him and he slaps my hand away, and I'm like, it's $100. And I'm like, dude, what this is?

And he goes, per AK-47. I'm like, you, motherfucker. And now he just admits it, right? And now he's trying to He was trying to swindle me out of this thing now. I said, Fuck you. Get up. You're under arrest. I reached over and I was sitting on this little stool, and he was about right here. I reached over and I grabbed the mattress. And I point and go, See you, motherfucker. And that's when he grabs his AK and puts it in my face. I was like, I didn't even think about that. I totally was like, You stupid idiot. You let your emotions get to you. This is me looking back on the situation. The kids screaming, I'm like, Shut the fuck up. I was like, Hey, calm down, dude. Calm down. I'm here to help you again. I'm not here to hurt you. And at that point, I saw two things. I saw his eyes extremely bloodshot. I think he was high up on something. And I remember seeing, of course, the muzzle on my face. And I remember seeing the safety on. And I remember going, You lose, in my mind. I had my 1911 on under concealment.

And in a safareland 071 paddle the holster on my side. I remember realizing in a nutshell, again, looking back a little bit, but processing the micro thoughts that I had was, he's going to try to kill me. Gun's not going to work. He's going to relinquish control with his hand to take the safety off like an untrained person does on an AK. By the time he gets his hand back on the gun, that's going to be about two seconds. I know I can draw my 1911 in less than one second from concealment, smash this motherfucker right now, pin his AK up against the wall, step into his chest, and pull the trigger. And step 10 happens, and it goes into it. I grab the muzzle, I step up, put my foot into his chest, pin him into the corner, fire two shots, and step back. I fall back. I hear this. I'm holding a barrel, holding a 1911. I hear this fucking scream that was like if you could murder a cow and the cow could scream, I don't know why that pops in my head. That's what I heard. I almost shoot my boy in the face.

I called him my boy like he was almost my son because I felt so sorry for him, that would happen to his family. I grab him and he's just bawling, man. I pin him up against the door, jam, and I'm like, Don't you ever fucking do this again. Get the fuck out of here. I throw him outside. He tumbles on the ground and gets up and haul his ass down the alley. I'm standing there. Anyways, I run back. We get in the vehicle haul ass, and I'm sitting there staring at that fucking AK, and I pull the chamber back or the bolt back on it. There's a round of chamber. Fuck, man. What the fuck? Why did that just happen? Why did this kid come in that fucking room. Why was he so adamant about this tonight when he never does that? Why did he mudsuck me into that situation? I thought about it, and I sat there all night staring at that AK. And the next morning, didn't sleep one second. Sun comes up just barely. Kids aren't there. Kids are always there every morning. They're out there sitting on the railing ready to bust rust on our vehicles, ready to get food, ready to...

They weren't there. So I jogged down the hill, getting into town. I see one of the kids walking around in town, one of the older kids, about 19 years old, I think. They don't know how old they are. I go up to them and I say, Hey. I forget his name. I yell his name, and I go up to him and I grab him, and jerks away from me scared to death. And I'm like, Hey, dude, what the fuck, guys? Where are you at this morning? And he starts shaking his head and getting nervous like I'm about to cry. And he's backing up away from me. I'm like, Dude, what's going on? And I said, I need to see my boy. Where is he? I need to talk to him about something that happened last night. And he backs away and he goes, No, no, you'll never see him again. And I was like, Why won't I see him again? And I'm trying to really figure out what the hell is going on here. And he goes, Because last night you killed his father. And he turns around and runs away. And I'm like, The fuck does that mean?

What are you talking about, kill his father? His father died, and it fucking hit me, man. I dropped to my knees right there in the village. And I realized, and then I heard the stories later from the villages that all that boy wanted me to do was get his dad out of the weapons, arms, fucking whatever that was. He was ashamed of his dad. He was a fu... And I was the guy that was supposed to help him. And I fucked it up. Because of this fucked up supersense of justice, this ancestral curse, maybe, to go so far above and beyond to help other people that I hurt them. I didn't tell anybody about this, except a couple of very tight dudes, determined that it was a good shoot. Fuck, whatever that means. I wanted to quit like I've never wanted to quit in my life. First duffle bag I picked up, a friend of mine from Fort Bra. He went... Sorry. It's okay. He went about 30 days before me and just disappeared. Nobody knew where he went, what assignment he got. When he got there, he just went into a black hole. And so he's been there 30 days.

I'm inventory his personal effects to send back to his family. And so I got real So did that, linked up with the team and went to work. Started training with the team because we had a mission coming up in a few days. Trying to learn everything I could before we went out. But anyway, that was a long story of how I got to- What was on the bag? He had some civilian clothes, letters to his parents. People's personal kinds of things like that. There were letters that had come from their families. There were letters they had written that they hadn't mailed yet, things they had in their hooch, the personal kinds of things that they would put in there. So I mean, probably half to two-thirds of it I took out. But I had to read the letters to their families. And that was brutal. Just brutal. You were close with them? Yeah. I He just... Anyway. What was his name? Stax. Lieutenant Stax. Stan Stax. Yeah. We went through the officer, SF course up there, and hung out some after that. But it was just a shock to my system them all the first bag, the duffle bag with your name, pencil on the side of it.

And I picked that up and it just, Holy cow, man. Now I know where he went. He went to Sog. Like my had told me a couple of days before, Don't volunteer for Sog. You're a dead man walking if you do. And then here's your stacks all of a sudden. I'm sorry. And I log on, and there's an email from Brian Bourgeois, who was in our company, and it said, I'm sorry about Brett. I was like, What? Then I scrolled down, and it was a forward of a newspaper article. And Brett, my roommate, Tripod, he'd gone in the Marine Corps and finished TBI, or TBS, the basic school. He went to the Basic School, then Infantry School, and he was down in Camp Lejeune. He was a rifle platoon commander, getting ready to deploy to Iraq. He and a bunch of his friends, including his best friend from high school and a fellow wrestler, Kevin McCann, they all met up and went to a North Carolina State football game for opening day. They were tailgating, and a car came ripping through the parking lot. Everybody was throwing stuff at the car because they were speeding.

And the car came to a screaching halt right in front of the Marines tailgate. These kids get out, and altercation happens. And with Brett, they almost hit a little girl. And all the Marines are like, Hey, man, you got to calm down. You guys are driving like assholes, and they were obviously under the influence of something. And And altercation breaks out. And Brett just wipes the floor with the kid and throws him back in the car. He's like, Get out of here. And they drive away. Marines go back to tailgating. Thirty minutes later, that kid walks up with a gun in his hand and shoots Brett in the throat, kills him. Kevin McCann, his best friend, not a Marine. Everyone else hits the deck. Kevin McCann jumps on the shooter, starts wrestling the gun away. Shooter puts the gun to Kevin's head, executes him. Shit. These kids get up and leave. He was gone. He had not war. He spent every single day of my time at the academy. He was two feet from me. He'd held me when my dad died. Quite literally, the most beautiful soul I'd ever known. His smile is like with light up.

It lit up heaven. So your brother dies. At five. At age five? I'm age five. He's 17. He dies on a... They went to a school in Chattanooga. They were on the rowing team. They were both super athletic, very artistic. I mean, they were the most well-rounded guys. They They were both brilliant, incredibly artistically talented. I can't even... I have my own creative talents. I can't draw for crap. And they were both, I mean, brilliant, but also brilliant at math. My brother Reid had a perfect SAT score. Just so well-rounded, incredibly athletic. They were on the rowing team. Just good guys. And out of nowhere, David had a cardiac arrest and fell off the rowing machine right in front of Reid. They were 17 years old, identical twins. They never had that separation that, psychologically, twins have to go through. If you're not a twin, I don't even think I can understand what that feels But I've talked to enough twins now, and I've talked to Reid. 17. I think this is the... We're going into the 18th year since David has died, so he's now been gone longer than he was here. And I've spent enough time talking with Reid throughout that period of like, they had never...

They were still one person. They had done everything together. And he watched his brother die in front of him. There were no defibrillators in the gym. There was nothing anybody could do. He was basically dead on site. And it was Valentine's in 2007. And yeah, it was... I mean, that changes the family forever. Do you remember how you found out? Yeah. So it was Valentine's Day. I got a phone call from the school. And again, that's like my mom is so... I truly think it's one of the best things she's ever done in terms of raising us. She was so honest. There was no hiding anything, which I think in the world of helicopter parenting and trying to protect your kids and putting them in this glass box, that's become very abnormal. People would look at our life and be like, Why would you not shield them from this? But I'm very glad that she didn't. But it was just looked at me and went, David's collapsed. We need to go to the... Put down your Valentine's. That you were having a Valentine's Day party, and we have to go. I remember getting in the car and I had the Valentine that I had made David.

I was just five years old and holding it. I got to haven't talked about this in so long. I watched all of it. I got to the school, this was being put in the ambulance. We went to the hospital and I had a nurse take me out. They were talking about what was going on, and they had no idea what happened. I was wearing lime green clogs, and I remember because we were there until very late. I was walking through the halls of the hospital. I could hear my Hannah Anderson clogs clomp through the hospital hallways. It's funny, the things you I remember. They were in a very dark purple-y room. I had no idea what happened. They think it's some Like epigenetics, if something environmental happened, we have genuinely no idea at the time. Nothing came with the autopsy. We all immediately, especially Reid, we came to Nashville, went to Vanderbilt. They have one of the best pediatric cardiology programs in the country, probably the best. Bid, I mean, hundreds of tests to figure out was there any risk for Reid, and there was nothing. Nothing. What did the Valentine say? I think it was just Happy Valentine's Day.

Love Brett, do David with a little heart. It was a lollypop. It was one of those ones you get at the store where you have the little note that sticks up on it. I still have it. And on that coin, there is that picture on the back of a helicopter, which is from my personal time, which was Echo 4. We had a target. We had been in contact for four hours. The South Vietnamese helicopter pilot, Captain Tin, flew in, hover for 10 minutes while we struggled through elephant grass to get to the helicopter. He pulled us out, and that helicopter had 48 bullet holes in it. Wow. Wow. He got us back. We get back to our base at F-O-B-1 in Fubai. I go up, climb up, say, You saved our ass. Thank you. Come on into the club. I want to buy you a drink. He goes, I'm sorry, I'm flying home. My wife is holding dinner for me. Oh, yeah. Damn. Yes, sir. Van, this has my favorite saying of all time on here. You have never lived until you've almost died. For those who fought for it, life has a special flavor that the protected will never know.

Amen. That quote was written on the wall when I got to Afghanistan for the first time in the hooch that we were staying at. I took a picture of it, and still to this day, it's my favorite quote. When I first got the Fooby in 1968, if you're really a cool green beret, you got a Zippo cigarette lighter. I have that on my official F-O-B-1 cigarette lighter. That saying is on it. What did it feel like when you got inducted into the US Special Operations Hall of Honor? I didn't No, I didn't know about it. You didn't know about it? No. I had lost my wife, my son. I was living in California, and the general called me. Look at his name now, and told me they were coming up with a program, and they were looking for names to submit. And he said, Everybody feel like maybe you would be the first one. And I said, Well, I don't know much about it, but they flew me from California, where I was living, to, I think I was in Flew me to Tampa. Might have been Tampa. I don't know. They flew me to Tampa.

And Colonel Olson was a seal one time. And he's still a seal. He's still a Marine. He's a nice guy. He picked me to give me the first one. I didn't get the medal at first. They had to make this Then they sent it to me in the mail. Then the Marines, this is the Vietnam medal right here. And this is the Commando medal, the Raider medal. So that's the stuff all presented to me in Sometimes I forget to wear. I don't wear it all the time, but I thought I'd wear it for your show. Thank you. Yes. I wish my wife was here to see this, to see me sitting there with a famous guy like you. I'm sure she's watching. Yeah, she probably is. And your son, too. Yeah. Man, you talk about there was guys all over Iraq, there was guys all over Afghanistan. Understand that were in terrible situations, suffered through so much, and they sacrificed for what we have, and we have the opportunity, and that opportunity is based on the sacrifices that these men and women have made. You asked me right before a break, right as we took a break, you were like, You okay?

And I said, Yeah. I did a podcast with a guy named Tom Fyfe. Tom Fyfe was in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He got a Purple Heart in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. I was talking to him, and we talked about World War II, and he got commissioned for Korea. And by the time he was in Vietnam, he was a battalion commander. And we were talking through the different types of missions, and all good. And I just was curious about what the operations were like. And I ended up saying, Well, how many casualties did you take as a battalion commander? And he got choked up. I was sitting there watching him get choked up, and I was like, Oh, this is 50 years ago, and he's getting choked up thinking about his guys. And that was a moment for me that I realized that's okay. I think we've been told that there's something wrong with us, but there's not. You get sad when you think about your friends, it's okay. You get a tear in your eye when you hear the national anthem. It's all right, man. And you sometimes spend a little too much time thinking about something that you went through.

It's okay. And I think it's important for us, our generation of veterans, to recognize you went through some tough stuff. Think about it sometimes. It's hard. That's okay, man. That's okay. Thank you. You were looking for solar-Oh, the alien stuff? Yeah, let's talk about the alien stuff. Oh, God. People love aliens. All right. I watched Avi Lobe on Joe Rogan. He was talking about, which is like this cigar-shaped alien vessel thingy-bob that doesn't seem to be from our solar system, and it doesn't seem to be natural. I was like, Wow, this Avi guy is really cool. He had something called the Galileo program. I reached out to Avi and I said, Hey, I'm a big fan. I heard that you guys are doing some interesting stuff. Is there anything that I could help you with? Avi is like, Well, we've been tracking this one heavenly body, this meteorite, that hit Earth in 2014. We think it's from a different solar system because we did all the mathematical calculations and we figured out where it landed, roughly speaking. We think there might be a chance that it's not natural And I was like, Oh, that's interesting.

And I said, Where is it? And they said, Well, we got some data from the Air Force, but they won't give us the right resolution. But we have enough resolution that we think it's like, roughly speaking, 50 miles off the Coast of Papua New Guinea. I'm like, Okay, so what do you want to do? And he's like, Well, we want to set up a sea salvage operation and go find it. He's like, You want to be part of it? I was like, Do I? Fucking sea salvage operation off the Coast of Papua New Guinea? This is going to be interesting. All right. So it was like a heist movie. We had to assemble this team of people We had this weirdo Air Force guy that went with us. And then we had this old sea captain who was 87 years old, named Art Wright, who was the Navy's Find It guy. He found Russian nuclear subs and all these other things. And he fought in Vietnam as a captain and Laos and all these other things. You know, he's just seeing some horrible shit his entire life. He was crusty as hell. Then we had this guy from New Zealand, whose name will come to me in a second.

He was a famous submarine diver, and He was good friends with James Cameron, and he got to the Titanic a dozen times and all these things. It was a really eclectic crew of people. I put in the money, and a Netflix crew came down, and they actually shot a documentary while we were down there, and they're still working on it. We also had a documentary crew that was led by a really unique director who was special. Then obviously, Avi himself and all the Harvard scientists. We got on this ship called the Silver Star. We planned out the whole expedition. We flew out on my jet to Manus Island, and then we took took off. What we had to do is we designed this sled with magnets on it. Basically, we had it fall behind the ship and sink all the way to the sea floor, 6,000 feet down. Then we dragged it. It's like spaceballs when they're combing the desert. They're out there, so it's dragged this sled behind the ship for eight hours. Then you bring the sled up in a very dramatic way. Then you take the sled off. Then we had to clean the magnets off to see if we can find fragments from the meteorite ride that was there.

And we did this for two weeks. And it almost became like a horror movie because we were tightly confined on the ship. And because of the schedule, you had a polyphasic sleep schedule. We were running 24 hours a day to save money. Nobody was sleeping properly. And it was very high stress, and things kept breaking, and things kept going wrong. And the experienced sailors like Art, he would be a super stoic guy. Every morning, go down at 5: 00 AM, talk, Morning, captain. Morning. And I was like, I heard you were rowing champion. At 87, how do you do that? They all died. He's a man of few words, Art. But then Avi, he decided to stop sleeping in his cabin and sleeping instead in the common areas. Then, oh, God, we nearly killed him because he kept turning off the air conditioner. It was like 120 degrees with the humidity because we're right in the equator and it's the middle of fucking summer. For some reason, I don't know why, in the common area, which is the only place we can hang out on this ship, anytime he was wearing his laptop, he would turn off the AC, and it would get just unbearably hot inside the area.

We go and turn it back on, then he would turn it off. Turn it back on, then he would turn it off. The first few days, we're all fine. After about two weeks on a ship not sleeping properly, that motion and everything, we're like, Do you think the world would miss Avi Loeb if he fell off the ship? But anyway, he was a good man. What we ended up finding, because after we processed all the samples, we sent them over to Harvard and they analyzed them, that we found these furals that are from a different solar system. After analyzing them, they have about 5,000 times the concentration of beryllium, lanthanum, and uranium. And so what we think happened was that there was a planet that smashed into something and it broke open and its core was violently ejected. And then it traveled for a billion years into an interstellar space, and then it ended up hitting the Earth. Wow. Which is the chance of that is so infinitesimely small. And we wrote a paper about it and got published. And they want to do another expedition because now that they found those fragments, they think they know where the big pieces are.

And if you find a big piece, you can use different types of analysis to be able to actually definitively know what solar system that it actually came from. Because when these things fall, the outer skin melts, and as it melts, they drop down and they form spheres, and then they sink to the bottom of the sea, and they just sit in the abyssal terrain forever. But I think it's the first exasolar thing ever recovered from the sea floor. So I was really proud of that. We helped design this lead and did all these things. And we actually designed two sleds, and one of them that I designed, they didn't use. And then the other one with the magnets they ended up using, the one that I helped design was a sleuth box because I used to gold pan and I used to do the sleuthing for gold on riverbeds. And what you do is you have these ripples in it and it takes advantage of the density mismatch between the sediments and the gold. And so you're saying, well, if it's alien technology or it's like a heavy iron or something like that from a meteorite, it's probably really heavy.

It's pretty dense. If that material is really strong and really dense, then it's going to be much easier to sort it out from sand that's on the seabed, right? And so if you use a sleuth box, just like gold panning, you should be able to filter it out. The problem is that we tested it off the West Coast of the United States, right off Washington State, because that's where the guys who designed everything was. And that was a radically different as a seabed than Papua New Guinea. So it kept getting clogged up, and we couldn't end up using it. We were worried, actually, that we were going to break our line because we had this giant spool in the back, and it has to have enough rope to go down 6000 feet and also then drag this thing behind the boat. And we're like, Man, that's probably going to break with some snapback and kill somebody. We should probably not do that. So we ended up just using the magnetic sled instead. But we got a lot of fun with it. The thing where they had that soundtrack from it. We made a little video on Twitter of the sled coming up in the middle of the night and the theme there because we said, Hey, it could be alien shit.

We never told Avi this, but my security detail and I, we said, Look, if we actually find something alien. We had a whole protocol for how we were going to secure that and take it off the ship and take it to an undisclosed location to decide what to do with it. Only later did we tell Avi that we had it. We called it the Touchdown Protocol. These were all like green berets that were with me. I didn't have a seal at that time, but I really wish I had some Navy guys because the berets didn't do as well on the boat as Billy would have done. What are the face peelers? Back in 2023, in the summer of 2023, in July, there was a series of videos that went viral on social media. These videos were captured in the Peruvian Amazon in the region of Alto Nanai. They featured a chaotic scene at night time in which the villages were running around, screaming, pursuing something, and discharging their firearms into the jungle. Subsequent interviews with members of the community revealed that they had been assailed by these very strange people, beings, who were dressed in body armor former, one of them said, reminiscent of the Green Goblin from the Spider-Man movie, and that these assailants could fly, that they could hover a meter off the ground, and that they were impervious to gunfire.

How did she get into witchcraft? Oh, Michelle. Yeah. She got into this thing with Stan. She married Stan. Stan was, like I said, he was a really, really trippy guy. He was a really awesome guy. Good looking and wrote a Harley. I mean, first thing in the morning, the whole fucking neighborhood vibrated. Who wouldn't want to be married to a cop like that? His tour that he had to do every day was Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach. That doesn't suck, right? Anyways, he left her, and she was heartbroken, and she went crazy. She started pursuing alternate means because God had not worked for her. The God of the witnesses that she'd been praying for her husband to come back didn't work for her. I had ran away from home and I moved up to Idaho, and I was living with her and her kids in a trailer, which was awful, just fucking awful. She went to work one day, and I started playing hooky from school because my nephew had told people at the school I was a martial artist guy. The first day I got there, I got cold cocked, and I figured, I'm not going to the school because I'm not going to deal with this every day.

So I started playing hooky. I figured I would run away back to home. But one day I went back into where her bedroom was, and there was a candle that was on her desk that had melted, and it had some substance in the top of it. It looked like moss. There was a picture that was burnt in half. It was a hex to have him leave the girl he left my sister for, who was a big blonde bombshell from a bar, and to come back to my sister, who was not a big bombshell blonde. I'll be damned if he didn't come back. Are you serious? He came back. I figured, Wow, this has got to work. I saw the book. It was just a little piece of paper. It was like you fold it in half and that's a page. It was like a 20-page booklet or something like that. It had a couple of hexes in there, and I tried two of them, and they both worked, too. So at that point, I had to tell my wife what I had done. And we started on the journey of trying to get the oppression, the demonic oppression that had happened to me by opening up in my defenses and asking for the dark prince to help me put a hex on somebody.

That really fucked my life up. And it took years for us to get out of it because we were going to San Francisco, up to Filipino priests that would lay hands on you. I had some Indian rajas that would do cupping and acupuncture and crazy stuff like that. What were your hexis? Well, one One was something that had to do with the guy that actually punched me at school. What happened was we went to school that day. Excuse me. We went to school that day, and the guy walked up to me and just slug me, and he said he was going to see me after school. Now, we rode a normal school bus to one point, and then the bus stopped, and all the kids got out for a smaller bus that would take us out into the rural area. We stopped, we get out, and everybody circles around the two of us like we're going to fight right there. I'm thinking, Oh, my God, this is going down. Everything I'd learned up to that point was going through my mind. The second bus shows up and we get in the bus and we take off.

He's coming up to his house and he walks through the walkway in the bus and elbows me in the back of the head as he's getting out. I was trying to fit in. I had a mouthful of red man, and I was trying to get into the whole chewing tobacco thing because that's what everybody else was doing. When he hit me, I went and I swallowed that shit. I went back to my sister's trailer and I got really, really sick, and I figured, That's it. I'm going to do something about this. I looked through the book and I found something that would do what I wanted, and I did that, Hex. And then there was another one. What did you want to happen? I really don't want to get into it because I don't want anybody to be misled and try and figure out what I did and go down that route because it was a terrible deviation from what was good and right in the world for me. Of course, that power's out there. Without black, there's no white. But it was just for me, after that happened, I realized that I really don't want to talk about this.

I really don't want to get anybody interested in it. So I'll talk about it to the degree that I'm comfortable with, where I know that nobody can be misled from it. And then you did another one? I did a second one, and that one was... It was something when I had moved back to California already. And there was somebody that I wanted. I was an ugly, red-headed, freckle-face kid with short hair and sweat rings. I didn't have any chance of being with this girl, but everybody in school wanted to be with this girl. So I figured, what the hell? I say that quite a lot in my life. We were together, and then we weren't. And it worked again. Wow. Yeah. I don't know much about witchcraft. You don't want to. In a snapshot, what is it? Well, there is an understanding that there are black witches and white witches, that there are witches that do good. But witchcraft is the witchcraft. It's the use of the elements and There's alchemy, there's wizard, sorcery, electricity, magic, there's use of blood, use of spit, use of sperm, use of all of these things that are all part of what was created and being used in an unnatural way.

For me, when I walked away from practicing any witchcraft because I didn't practice it. I did it two times, and both of them worked. And then I went, This is bigger than I am, and I'm not going to mess around with this. And so wrote the song, The Conjuring. There was another song that was along from that inspiration, from that experience. It was Bad Omen. Wow. You started with coke, right? Yeah, basically. But when I really... I went straight to crack when I decided that I was going to drop off the face of the earth. Go full-time? Yeah. I'm just curious, did you partake in any drug use as a child? Yeah, I tried everything, but Nothing stuck. Nothing stuck like alcohol. Nothing. Yeah. I actively sought out the thing that I thought was the most destructive thing that I could do to myself at that moment of time, beyond physically harming myself. What was it that took you to rehab? What was it that made you want to get better? What was the realization? Finally, at the end, I mean, that was in 2000, I think. I get my years a little bit mixed up, but that was a year after Bo's death, 2016, where I basically stayed sober and attempted to stay sober for that year period, in which I was under the care of somebody, a professional.

The thing that wanted me to stay sober and clean is my family. My three eldest daughters are They were my whole world. I was an enormous... I was like a constant presence in their life because for the vast majority of it, I was clean and sober. I was not a user or a drinker in that I would ever do it around them. I don't think that there are more than maybe a handful of Sometimes, and I can't speak with them. All I can say is this, is that I was a very present parent, and then all of a sudden, I was gone. All of a sudden, I was completely unavailable. I don't think there's anything more traumatic that you can do than that. I always, always Or at least when I start to feel sorry for myself, I'll be like, Fuck. God damn, how lucky am I? How lucky am I that they still pick up the phone. Never stopped loving me. I don't deserve that. Nobody deserves that. But I have it. It's an incredible thing. It's a good way to live. But here's the thing. We are all a victim of our algorithms, and so are you, and so am I.

I'm not like, pointing the finger. No, I'm aware, and I don't take it. That's my story about the people that came up to me screaming in my face. But there is a truth, Sean. But who's Who's benefiting? Who's benefiting from turning us all at each other's throats of concocting this bullshit? I'll tell you that to begin with, it's our adversaries. Then on the second, it's the people that really control these fucking things. It's not political people. It is the people that control billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people that are benefiting 100%. Do you think that Mark Zuckerberg gives a fucking shit about any of this? Do you think that in any way? No. I mean, let me point this out. There's a whistleblower. You want to talk- We just watched every single tech, billionaire, whatever you want to call them, literally switch from the Biden administration right They hated the Trump administration. They're all there. They were all bitching about Trump before. They hated my dad. But here's the thing. They hated my dad. What did we do? We brought in the whistleblower. We tried to... Not we. I don't have anything to do with the fucking part of it.

I agree with you. Nobody's fucking held them accountable. If you Really wanted to be able to hold the social media companies accountable, make them liable like everybody else for fucking killing little girls because driving them to suicide. I mean, they literally testified before Congress in the whistleblower and showed how they manipulated the algorithm to send our children into depression and suicidal states. You know what? They didn't change it even when they were notified of it, even when they became aware of it, and even when they saw that people were taking their lives, teenagers, kids, They did nothing about it. We have the facts and the data and all of an actual witness testimony that they did this. What did they do? Not a damn thing. Did anyone hold Are you accountable? Anybody in Congress? You know why? Because the biggest fucking problem that we have in this country is money. Is money in our politics and money in our media? That's nothing new. But if you want to find a common enemy, I don't understand how they don't realize that people are going to pick up some fucking pitchforks soon, man. Maybe they do realize it.

Well, I'll tell you what, maybe that's why they're building their bunkers and their billion dollar yachts and their hidden structure. I don't know, but it is at some point, I think, what I was saying before is that There is going to be this unholy union between radicals that both come to the same conclusion is that no one can be trusted, and everyone is the enemy, and chaos is the only answer. Why did Joe Biden not demand the release of the Epstein files if it was such a big deal to Democrats? I don't know. The same reason that Joe Biden didn't demand that they dropped the prosecution of me because he didn't involve himself with the Department of Justice. Because as every other president before him, other than Richard Nixon, who resigned because of it, he didn't direct the Department of Justice to do one thing or another. Why didn't Mary I don't do it? Guess as good as mine. I don't know. But I will tell you this, is that now we're here after we have an FBI director, a Deputy FBI director, a attorney general and several other people that are in his cabinet and the President himself, who largely got elected through the energy of the people that wanted to have, for absolutely the right reasons, these files released, regardless of whose names were in it.

They haven't released it, and they fought it tooth and nail. Then they had to get legislation, and then they passed the legislation, and he said, Don't sign it or don't vote for it. Then he said, Go ahead and vote for it. Then we have reports that there's, what, 100 FBI agents that spent thousands and thousands of hours of scrubbing his name from the files. Oh, I'm sure they did. Yeah. Now we can't trust anything that's going to come out. Who fucking loses? The children. I want to tell you something, but I don't want to offend you. The thing that makes you look very guilty is the pardon. The pardon from Was it 2014 to what? 2024 or whatever. Can I tell you why? Yeah. It makes me look guilty? It's because I was found guilty, and that's what a pardon's for. But it was a blanket pardon. Yeah, because you have to be able to go back. Because the charges stemmed from over seven years ago. They went all the way back to 2015 for my taxes. That's what I was charged with. It's now 2025. Those are the crimes that I was pardoned for, in which I pled guilty to not filing my taxes on time and incorrectly identifying buying business expenses as personal expenses as business expenses.

That is all it's for. It's fucked up that my dad gave me a pardon. You don't think that that really makes me feel like, fuck. I'm the poster boy for that. I'm the poster boy for the elite son of the President who got something nobody else could possibly ever get, simply by the fact of his birth. No matter how much he fucked up, he got away with it. To your point, you got these guys sitting here trying to figure out how they're going to fucking make ends meet to make it to the end of the week and that are getting just got pulled over by some fucking state cop that's giving them a fucking hard time. They come back and they turn on Fox News or they put on the Sean Ryan show, and here's fucking Hunter Biden. He got a pardon. He got something I didn't. It would piss me the fuck off, too. I get it. I mean, what do you want me to do? Yeah. God, I hate. I hate. I'm fully, fully aware of every room that I walk in. I walk in with your guys, and I see that you put together a team of people that are like, they're buttoned up.

From the guy that picked me up at the airport to Jeremy. They're buttoned up guys. I mean, you just They get a sense in that. I bet you they don't fucking think that I'm a decent human being before I walked in here. I know I walk into that room with the incredible advantage of incredibly low expectations. Because they not only think that I'm a near-do-well and somebody that's been given all the advantage of the world and squandered them, but they also think that I'm sleazy on top of that and that I'm a That's part of the problem. It is a beautiful thing to be given the space to try to give them a different impression. What do you think they What do you think now? I don't know. They think that I probably fucking talk way too much, and that they're thinking, When is he going to shut up because we want to go home and eat dinner with our families. I think that that's what they're thinking at this point, is that I've just literally tired them out. I've submission by verbal diarrhea. That's what I think they think. No, I don't know. You know what I think they're thinking?

What? Motherfucker, we got fooled again. One thing that I never, ever, single thing that I never doubted in my life was the love of my brother. Yeah. He could beat the shit out of me. I mean, we were brothers. I don't know. Then we fought, and But never in my life would ever, ever doubt that no matter what, sorry, is that he would jump off the bridge for me. Yeah, sorry. Jesus Christ. It's been 10 years. I'm still crying over it. But not bad tears. I promise you. It's I feel so incredibly lucky to have that relationship. And still have it. I really mean it. I still have it. I mean, that's the one thing that I'm positive of is that in my best moments, I'm fully 100% connected to that. God, what a gift. Have you heard of the Milgram experiment? No. This happened in Yale. I'll give you the short version. 1962, I think. This World War II is over. These Nazis are on trial in Nuremberg, and they're asked, Why did you do what you did? They're saying, I was just following orders. This guy at Yale, Dr. Stanley Milgram, runs this experiment.

Will people just follow orders? Let's say you volunteer for this experiment. You respond to an ad in the paper that says, We'll give you a free Baloney sandwich lunch voucher, whatever, at the cafeteria, and 20 bucks. You show up and it says, We're doing a study on learning and the effects of punishment on learning. I think I do know about this. Is this the shock there? The shock thing? Yeah. Go ahead. They've Essentially got a guy in the room right beside you, strapped up to a machine that's going to shock him. They sit you down in a machine and your job is to read off some words. When he gets a question wrong, you shock his ass. Then you move the shocker up, shock him higher voltage for every wrong answer. We keep moving it up. At the end of this little shocking machine, it says 450 volts, XXX, danger, severe shock. Two-thirds of the way through this shocking thing, the guy in the other room, you can hear him screaming, You can hear him yelling when you shock him because the thing's painful. He's an actor. He's not ever getting shocked. But two-thirds of the way through, he stops and he says, I don't want to do this anymore.

I want out of here. I have a heart condition. I don't want to do this anymore. You look back at the guy running the thing in the lab coat. The guy in the lab coat says, It's important that you keep going. The experiment has to continue. The experiment requires that you continue. You keep going. Around Like the 400, 350 volt mark, the guy in the other room stops making all sound and stops responding to questions. He's not even answering the questions anymore. You turn around the guy in the lab coat. The guy in the lab coat says, Any non-answer must be treated as an incorrect answer. Please continue. Keep going. Then these people would get to the end, this 450 volts, and they'd shock them. They're like, Well, that's it. We reached the end. The guy in the lab coat says, Please continue until you've read all of the on the quiz. So this guy, they think, might be dead in the other room. They're just keeping going at this 450 volts in the other room. So before the experiment started, the psychologist, psychiatrist got together and formed a hypothesis. And they said, who's going to go all the way?

And they said, 0. 8% or 0. 08% of people will go all the way. 67% of people went all the way. Holy shit. They redid the experiment. They said, oh, well, there's an inherent belief of safety because it's in a college. They've done it in apartment buildings and basements and office buildings with college-educated people, high school-educated people, all income levels, about 67% of people will go. Why do you think that is? It's two factors. It's number one, our inherent obedience to authority or perceived authority. Guys in a lab coat, I'm at this thing, the guy's in charge, the guy's tall, whatever it is. If we perceive authority, that will overrule us. If you go back to our tribe days, if I disobeyed my tribal leader, that means no food, no sex. No kids, no DNA, survival. That's a big deal. Second, and one that they didn't talk about, this is my theory, is novelty. When something breaks from what we expect to happen, so like you've a shitload of podcasts in here. But if this wall started opening up and this was a garage door and you didn't know it until just now, you would freak out.

No matter how much I kept talking, you would keep looking at that because it's brand new and it's unexpected. When things happen that are new and unexpected, all of our focus is generated, which is the first part of the fate model. Anything new generates focus. For our tribal ancestors, this is when they're walking past a bush every day, and one day there's a big stick that snaps behind that bush, all of their focus goes on to this unexpected new information. In the Milgram experiment. This is a person responding to an ad they've never responded to, driving to a building they've never been in in a situation they've never been in, meeting people they've never met, sitting in front of a shocking machine they've never seen before. Every single aspect of it was brand new, which maintained a ton of focus. So focus is you can manufacture focus with novelty. Anything unexpected breaks you out of your script and tells your brain to say, whoa, I'm not able to predict what's happening next. I need to pay attention. So we have a little script for driving our car, and the moment something unusual happens, all of our focus drifts back.

This is when we can drive past our exit or stop sign or whatever. So I think that one thing that Milgram experiment does is it shows us how rapidly we can be compromised. This is in 25 to 40 minutes. You'll kill a stranger. The majority of people will kill a stranger in under 45 minutes. 250 volts is enough to kill somebody, depending on amps and other stuff. That was 100% of people, 100 %. That was 100 % of people. Went up to 250, yeah, which is terrifying. But it shows us that we're all running the same hardware, and it's easy to hack The more we're aware of what's happening around us and this is probably leading me in a certain direction, why am I feeling this way? The more aware we can be of that stuff, we can be a little bit more in control. We're never fully in control because we don't have the antivirus stuff in our head. What are the others? What would some of the other signs be that you are in the midst of a silo? I mean, first thing you said was people being silenced. Yeah. I think that's a big one.

What are some of the other signs? Brand new and unexpected things happening, like the drones in New Jersey. Right? So let's go back to the fate model, focus. So is something new and weird happening that's capturing my focus? Are there celebrities tweeting about it and people that are high up in the government talking about it? There's authority. Am I seeing large groups of people start talking about this one thing? Or am I being made to think that a lot of people think a certain way? There's tribe. And then am I getting called to action and getting installed with this new identity that makes me feel intellectually or morally superior? There's the emotion. Is that little fate model, is that being targeted somehow? And most of my income comes from jury selection and consulting on trials and stuff like that. And the one thing that I teach attorneys is if you want to persuade an entire jury, the only thing that you've got to do is capture their focus, have more authority than the other attorney, foster a sense of tribalism and us versus them. When you say the word us, you get the jury to think of you and them as one unit, and then get some emotion in there during your closing arguments or during one of the depositions, and you'll win the case.

I have a 200% money back guarantee when I do trial consulting. Wow. It's easy to do if you just know how to trigger all those responses in the human brain. It's not hard to hack. What the fuck is going on in the world? Well, there's a spiritual war underway, which I didn't take seriously enough. You can't understand anything that's happening unless you understand that. I leaned out. I leaned like, Just like we were talking about this, I just had to lean out. I can't tell what's real anymore. We talked about that on your podcast. It just keeps getting fucking worse. I'm just looking for I'm just looking for something that I can have an impact on, and it's getting hard to find. Well, it's hard to gage the impact of really anything because our timeline is totally distorted. At least, I'll speak for myself. I always think that if I say something that's true, it will have an immediate effect. There is a vanity to that. Can't anyone hear what I'm saying? I already showed that's a lie. Why aren't you adjusting your behavior? It's like, well, because I'm not God, actually. I'm not in charge of anything.

I'm a podcaster, which is important to remember if you're me because there is so much vanity. People are always like, oh, it's so important what you're doing. It's like, really? If I was doing something useful, I guess we wouldn't be here, would we? That is so frustrating that I opted. It was we had a song, Conversation Wonderful, which I wish was on tape because it was so deep. But I know- Don't worry. Everything on breakfast is recorded. You should have said it. But no, I know the feeling so well. You were saying, I can't even deal with this. I don't want to deal with it. I said, Oh, man. In June, after we, the United States government, bombed the nuclear facilities to really no effect, let's be honest. I was so frustrated and disappointed and mad that people aren't listening to me. I retreated, and I live in a place where you can retreat to our fishing camp, which I sincerely love. But really, its signature quality is its remoteness. It's not near anything at all. We did have Starlink put in a couple of years ago, so you could text from there. Why wouldn't you go there in all your off hours with your dogs and just live alone in the woods.

So I literally did that. And then in September, Charlie Kirk, who was my friend, was murdered. And with the encouragement of another friend of mine, I began to realize that what I was doing was Totally self-indulgent. And we're not here to enjoy solitude in the woods or enjoy our fishing camp, the fruits of our labor, which is a very cheap fishing camp. But still, it's so close to my heart. And what I really love about this country in my life is being in the woods. But that's not why we're here. When you're building this shit, you sure as hell don't think you're going to look back on the times that you were before you even thought about building it and go, Those were simpler, better times. It makes me fucking sad. You can always be sure you look backward and consider time that has passed simpler and better. That's just the nature of life. You always look back. I look back on the '80s, and I'm like, damn, I correspond with my girlfriend by letter. How great that was. I just think that's the way people are. But I think of it this way. I think that's not just of myself, but of everyone around me.

The more blessed you are, the deeper your obligation. That's just true. The point of leadership is to protect the people you lead. I don't believe in a flat society. I'm not a populist in any way. I believe that no structure, beginning with the family, works without leadership. I think a lot about what is leadership, and leadership is sacrifice. And so the more you've been given, the deeper your responsibility to sacrifice for others. I really believe that. And that's obvious when you're working hard toward a goal, I'm putting everything into what I'm striving to achieve. I'm fighting my way up. The problem for men, and so few men actually achieve this that it's almost never talked about, problem for men is getting what you want. The problem is winning. That's what destroys you. The fight doesn't... I mean, you've been in real fights, obviously. With real fights, I happen to know, not just with others, but with yourself, and you prevailed. That's way easier than winning. Winning is what destroys you. David was not intimidated when he picked up the stone against Goliath and then ran up and beheaded him. The problem set in when he sees this girl, he's like, I can bang her.

I'm king. He destroys himself. That is the template for the way that men are. No one tells you that because, again, there are so few people who actually get what they want, and there's no support group for people who won. But I know a lot of them. I know that you do, too. A consistent theme in every story is the second I got what I wanted, I could feel myself starting to self-destruct. Let's say, really, your life's goal was to help Black people, which I'm not against. It's a fine goal. Help Black people. How long would it take you, if you really wanted to help Black people, to get to the solution, defund the police? You would never arrive at that solution because obviously defunding the police is not going to help Black people or White people or Asian people or any people. It's not going to help people make the police better, maybe, but get rid of the police? How does that work? How is that possibly to wind up improving anybody's life? Of course, the answer was it can't, and it didn't, but it was never going to. I watched that, and of course, I'm opposed to it for the normal conservative reasons.

We need police. But even the fact that we were Having that conversation was a signal to me that this is a very different thing than I'm used to. This is people advocating and not just the underclass. By the way, Black people played no role in that conversation at all. No one ever asked Black people what what they thought. It was just eight of their designated representatives on MSNBC were like, I'm a Black person. But no one actually asked Black people what they thought because no one cared. The point was never to make anyone's life better. It was to destroy the country and the people who live in it. It was purely destructive. I really brooded on this because I had to write the script every night. So I was constantly in my head thinking, What are we watching? Don't be distracted by the bullshit. What is this? I concluded, because there was no other conclusion, that the point was destruction. That was the point. I have always thought since I was a child that it's a binary. There are creators and destroyers. A synonym for this is good and evil. God creates His opponents destroy.

God created the Earth and the heavens. His opponents destroy them. It's that simple. I mean, it's complex in many ways, but fundamentally, it's that simple. It's creation, destruction. I've always been for creation, always. I just I believe in procreation. I believe in impregnating women. It's awesome. I believe in building cabins. Awesome. I like to create. I like what my dogs have, puppies. I saw this right away, and I was like, This is not a political debate. This is a spiritual struggle, creation versus destruction. That totally changed my life in every way. That really set off a chain reaction in me that changed me and changed my understanding of the world, changed my sense of my own purpose in the world. How long have you been thinking this? Since Memorial Day, 2020. What happened on Memorial Day in 2020? George Floyd riots. I'd covered a lot of stuff and been a lot of places and seen chaos and stuff. One thing that I have concluded that I just noticed as a kid, watch a Katrina or in Iraq or in Pakistan, where you see things fall apart is that everyone was so scared of war and violence and all that stuff, but that the scare and oppression.

I was always an Orwell fan, so I was like, Big Brother is the scariest thing. No, the scariest thing is chaos. Chaos is the scariest thing. Chaos. Then later in life, when I read the Old Testament, I was like, God brought order out of chaos. Of course. I didn't even know. I'm an Episcopalian, so I didn't really know anything. But chaos, I just noticed it because I was in a couple, several times in the middle of what was chaos. No one in charge. Kids with rifles are in charge. They have no goals. They have no program. They have no ideology. My whole life, I've been understanding history through the lens of ideology. There are these revolutionary peasants in Peru, and they're Sendero Luminoso, and they're revolutionary peasants in Vietnam, and they're the Viet Cong. Everything was about the idea. What I didn't realize until I saw it in person was, no, it's not that. It's atavistic. It's much deeper than that. It's more primitive. It's more fundamental than that. It's the struggle in the universe is between order and chaos. I'm on the side of order, not on the side of oppression. Order is now a synonym for repression, which I hate because I believe in the human soul and the dignity of every person.

But chaos is the worst thing. I saw people in my country fomenting chaos for its own sake. I don't know if they're intentionally evil. Probably not. Most of us aren't. But they were tools of spiritual forces doing that. I instantly recognized this was totally different from everything I've been covering and thinking about, writing about, talking about on TV for 30 years. This was a new thing. And that just changed it. When that chaos broke out in Minneapolis, I'm not from Minneapolis. I have no attachment to Minneapolis. Yes, there are a lot of Swedes in Minneapolis, or were. I think they've left. But But I saw this for what it was. And I was so bothered by it that actually went to the convenience store where George Floyd tried to pass the phony $20 bill and went to the site where he was killed in Wendell around by myself. I literally landed there, went by myself, didn't do a story. I don't know anything. I just want to see it. And what I saw was what I expected to see a year later. It was a year after it happened. In 2021, I went and I saw a place that had never recovered and never would recover.

And that, to me, was proof of what I suspected, which was the point was destruction. The point was not rebirth. They always tell you it's rebirth. We need to tear it down in order to rebuild it. They never rebuild it because they don't want to, because that's not the point. And people who want to build, just go ahead and build. And people who want to destroy, go ahead and destroy. And they're in totally different camps. They're on opposing sides. It's literally that simple. Anyone who tells you we need to knock it down in order to build it again is lying to you and probably to himself. He may think that that's not his goal. His goal is to destroy because Satan's job is to destroy. You and everything around you. Everything around you, everything good, everything beautiful, everything orderly, everything warm and loving and fraternal, everything honest is to destroy. Distroy loyalty, destroy beauty. All the things that are virtues will be destroyed in that all consuming fire of destruction. Has anybody ever sing a song on your show before? No. I brought a guitar. If I could be so bold. I'd be honored. You want to hear it?

Yes. It's called The Righteous Hunter. Evil runs around this town undercover, looking for a soul to take. But they better stay away from the righteous hunter, or hell is all they'll pay. Because I can see around the corner, and I know you're coming if you had any sense you'd run. But you ain't got a clue what a daddy will do. Better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun. You better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun. They try to steal away our sons and daughters Shrouted in the shadow of night. But we fight with protection of the heavenly Father. We ain't scared to die. And I can see you around the corner, and I know you're coming. If you had any sense, you'd run. But you ain't got a clue what a daddy will do. Better give your soul to Jesus while I get my I get my done. You better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun. They try to steal away our sons and daughters, shrouded in the shadow of night. But we fight with protection of the heavenly Father. We ain't scared to die.

And I can see you around the corner, and I know you're coming. If you had any sense, you'd run. But you ain't got a clue what a daddy will do. Better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun. You better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun. Recall the words that Jesus said, better off with millstones around their necks, and we pray. Not our will but thine be done bringing in to the reign of the wicked one that we claim in your name. And I can see you around the corner, and I know you're coming if You had any sense you'd run, but you ain't got a clue what a daddy will do. Better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun. You better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun. The evil runs around this town undercover, looking for a soul to take. But they better stay away from the righteous honor, for hell is all they'll That's it. That is amazing. Do you know what I think? What do you think? We got one more thing, and then we're getting into it. Oh, jeez, what What do you got, man?

I got a buddy at Sig. His name's Jason. I got to report this gif, man. That is a California compliant. Oh. Sig Sauer P365 Macro. Come on, man. I don't know exactly what makes it. By the way, this is too cool. The fact that you would give me this. You like that? You just want me, TSA, to take this from me in my house for the rest of the airport. I'm on to you, man. Well, I got a buddy at Sig, and he was like, he got to get a Sig in his hands. You got to make this up. You got to make this up. Brother, this is fabulous.