The Culture War - Tim Pool - Congressman SLAMS Forever Wars, Says It's ALL ABOUT OIL ft. Rep Tim Burchett

Aug. 26, 2025 - The Culture War - Tim Pool

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Congressman SLAMS Forever Wars, Says It's ALL ABOUT OIL ft. Rep Tim Burchett

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unidentified		You know, these people have been fighting and killing each other since before the time of Christ.
unidentified		And in our arrogance, and our State Department over there is going to, you know, put a Sesame Street show on or a drag show and think we're going to convert them or something.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And that's with our billions of dollars.
		And that's their arrogance.
		They have no clue.
unidentified		And, you know, they just think they're super intelligent.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		The Bible talks about professing yourself to be wise.
unidentified		You became a fool.
		And I think we're very foolish across this great globe.
		It just shows us we need to start managing our own business.
		This was today.
		This was an issued by the Department of Defense.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The Department of Defense honors fallen heroes on fourth anniversary of Abbey Gate attack.
unidentified		This was obviously four years since the Afghanistan withdrawal, which was disastrous.
unidentified		I mean, we all remember it well.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It was a national humiliation.
unidentified		So I wanted to bring in Congressman Tim Burchett to discuss this, discuss what's changed since that fateful week in Afghanistan, which was obviously cost to 13 members of our armed forces.
unidentified		I wanted to get into this story.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So this is obviously four years since the Afghanistan withdrawal.
		We had the DOD honoring the fallen soldiers from the Abbey Gate Memorial.
		I mean, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the well.
unidentified		I knew one of the families that was involved, their son Ryan Kanaus, Staff Sergeant Ryan Canaus, they named the highway that my farm and home are on after him.
		I know his mama and daddy very well.
		You know, it was just an unnecessary tragedy.
		I asked this question during the hearing, and it all goes back to this.
		The bomber was suicide bomber was spotted.
		You know, the Marine sniper in his testimony said they called back and they said, no, you cannot take him out, not once, but twice.
		And they identified the guy, you know, by his clothing and what he was carrying and all this other stuff.
		You know, and that should have been a national story.
		That should have been the story.
		I always say military intelligence is a whole lot like congressional ethics.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It really just doesn't exist.
unidentified		And they, hence, the insider trading that we're doing now.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But, you know, it just, it was totally unnecessary.
unidentified		It was botched.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We were cut and running, and that's just not what Americans should be doing.
unidentified		And it was a pitiful situation.
		It's right at the feet of Biden's administration.
		And the media, of course, in their attempt to cover for him, you know, really didn't cover it like they should have as 13 brave Americans and countless others lost their lives.
		And it was just, and it was 100% avoidable.
		You know, you've got these snipers, this Marine sniper who he was blown to hell.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		He'd had multiple surgeries since then and all that.
unidentified		But it was just, I just can't believe it.
		And then, of course, the media, again, rushed to cover this thing up because they had so much invested in an old man who was mentally not there.
		And so that's what we get.
		And we've moved on to another bright, shiny object.
		And those families are left to mourn the loss of their loved ones.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I mean, the wives, the father, I mean, the kids of these brave service members.
unidentified		It's just totally unnecessary.
		And it just makes me very frustrated about what we allowed to run our country for so long.
		Yeah.
		I mean, what you saw, I mean, really what defines that era was just this general culture of incompetency.
		I mean, above all else, it was just incompetency.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you've spoken probably, I mean, obviously, you've spoken to a lot of servicemen and servicemen in Afghanistan and then servicemen that were close to the situation.
unidentified		I mean, what is their feeling?
		It has to be a lot of anger, I would imagine.
		Yeah, a lot of frustration.
		And what the heck do we go over there for if we were just going to cut and run?
		We didn't put anybody in charge that could have run the thing.
		And we just, you know, I don't know.
		It goes back to our original mission.
		I think we need to look in the future at what we are.
		Are we going to be an occupying force?
		And if not, we ought not be involved in any of these wars because that's all it ends up being.
		And let's just be honest, brother.
		These wars are about oil.
		They're about oil.
		If you dig down deep enough, it's always oil.
		It's energy.
		And, you know, Trump's a threat to the status quo.
		We're going to get it all in this country.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		They can eat their sand and their dadgum oil over there.
unidentified		We're not going to fool with it.
		And, you know, they just think they're super intelligent.
		The Bible talks about professing yourself to be wise.
		You became a fool.
		And I think we're very foolish across this great globe.
		It just shows us we need to start managing our own business.
		Maybe I'm not an isolationist by any stretch of the imagination, but we need to seriously consider our world and this, our role in this world and where we're headed as a nation.
		Absolutely.
		I mean, that's kind of the big thing is, you know, a lot of people specifically in our in our side, they were saying, well, the problem wasn't necessarily withdrawing from Afghanistan.
		The problem was withdrawing from a position of weakness rather than a position of strength.
		We basically gave our cards to them and then withdrew.
		And then you get that result.
		And then, I mean, obviously you saw the cascading effects across the globe where a lot of conflicts kicked back off.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		And I think the general feeling was, well, the Biden admins, A, incompetent and B, asleep at the wheel.
unidentified		And so it kind of just gave them impunity to operate.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, what difference have you seen in how the world is behaving, broadly speaking, under Biden versus Trump?
unidentified		Well, one other thing I want to reiterate, we just armed our enemies with billions of dollars in assets we left on the ground there.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But yeah, I think you're not seeing the aggressive nature towards this country because Trump basically, because he's not going to put up with any crap.
		He's not going to, you know, when he took out, I can't remember the guy's name now, Solomani.
		I remember, you know, it was leaked pretty quick, some classified pictures of how they identified Solimanians basically by his ring finger, because that was about all that was left.
		He had this ugly big old ring on his finger, and there's pictures of him with that ring, you know.
unidentified		And so they could identify him through that.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And Trump did it like you're supposed to do.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		He didn't take him out in a crowded airport.
unidentified		He didn't risk the lives of innocent civilians.
		They got him out on some isolated road somewhere.
		And I suspect one of our operatives put a laser pointer on his vehicle and then a missile came in, probably launched stateside even, possibly, and it took that dirt bag out.
		And that's, and he didn't ask Pelosi's permission.
		He didn't ask the United Nations.
		I remember they all pitched a fit back then.
		That was in the first administration.
		They had this big hearing.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Why aren't we consulted?
unidentified		You know, I'll tell you why you weren't consulted because your dumbass big ass mouth would have ran to the media and exposed it.
unidentified		And we wouldn't have gotten that dirtbag.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		That's why you weren't told.
unidentified		And it just drives me crazy that what goes on in this world.
		But yeah, it's Trump.
		It's 100% Donald J. Trump is in the White House.
		Look, I don't want him teaching my daughter's dadgum Sunday school class down at the Baptist church, but I sure as heck love him at Pennsylvania Avenue, brother, because America is, we're feared once again.
		And our enemies fear us and our friends love us.
		And that's the way it should be.
		And there's very little in between.
		And you're seeing that all over the world.
		You know, they want to gripe and moan about everything going on that we're doing, but we're bringing them to the table and Trump gets it.
		We're going to have a little bit of pain with these tariffs.
		Sure.
		And it's going to cost some people some, it's going to cost some people some money.
		But overall, we're going to, I think we're going to regain our spot because Trump also realizes that Congress is gutless.
		We're not going to do anything.
		And he has to do it through executive orders.
		Then hopefully we backfill it by passing laws to make it to make it permanent.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We get the guts to do that.
unidentified		But it remains to be seen if we're going to do that.
		Absolutely.
		Well, I mean, the general theme I've seen from the Trump admin at large, which is just such a breath of fresh air, is just prioritizing Americans.
		I mean, it's such a radical thought.
		But I mean, you see just all these, it's just the little stuff too.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's all just slowly moving in the direction of reprioritizing the American people versus what we saw with Biden.
unidentified		Even going back further, what we saw with the Obama administration is, you know, where they just, it seems like they're always apologizing on the behalf of the American people.
unidentified		And it's not even, because we're not apologizing.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's just like apologizing for who we are.
unidentified		And it's just embarrassing.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So, I mean, I imagine you've probably seen this same theme from the Trump admin.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		Absolutely.
		They're not apologizing for anything and they shouldn't.
unidentified		We're putting America back where it should be, America first.
		And these, oh, that's so arrogant saying America first.
		Well, that government, we're Americans.
		Why not?
		Why are we not protecting our border?
		Why are we not going to get our energy here?
		Why are we not looking out for our economic well-being?
		And, you know, why should we be spending millions of dollars for drag shows in Peru or Sesame Street to some Middle Eastern country that hates our guts?
		You know, our State Department should get back in the business of promoting two things, capitalism and democracy.
		And instead of all this other nonsense, drag shows and what have you.
		You know, it's just to me, it's beyond belief that we've allowed that.
		And frankly, as a conservative, what we've done, we've turned over our colleges and our universities to the radical left.
		There's no question.
		Public universities, you know, it's, I don't want to say it's a lost cause, but we've let them become so infiltrated.
		Anytime they say something off, off, you know, they get blasted for it.
		The presidents and all the apologists come out and say, oh, that was just a person.
		That was their individual viewpoint.
		You know, it's sort of like when I was NPR.
		You remember NPR's deal where they, you know, we cut their funding?
		Let me tell you how some of that went down.
		Marjorie Taylor Green put me on that Doge committee and she and I talked pretty regular.
		I was pulling at my daughter's dually, I was pulling into our farm and I heard on the radio, I had it on NPR.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Sometimes I just, I think I do opposition research and I was listening.
unidentified		Intel.
unidentified		Yeah, or somebody's pointing a gun to my head.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure which.
unidentified		But anyway, so I'm watching NPR or listen to NPR, excuse me.
unidentified		And I'll never forget this.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		They said, they asked one of the hosts, what is your definition of propaganda?
unidentified		And they said, Lee Greenwood singing, God bless the USA.
		I nearly ran through the fence.
		I was like, what in the world?
		I thought, is it, am I, is somebody setting me up?
		Is this a joke?
		And I remember I called Marjorie right then.
		I said, Marjorie.
		And she said, you said, you're way ahead of me.
		We're going to have a hearing.
		I'm all over.
		I'm on this like a cheap suit.
		We're going to hit this thing in a couple of weeks.
		And we did.
		And man, Marjorie, she let us unleash and we did.
		And I asked that very question, you know, and I talked about how they, the ugly things the head lady said about President Trump.
		And she had no, she had no answer to that.
		She, you know, they kept saying, well, these are employees.
		And that's what these colleges and universities say, but they keep hiring these people, brother.
		And it's the indoctrination that you see.
		You know, I don't want to know your stupid pronoun.
		Tired of that stuff.
		Teach kids how to read, write, do arithmetic to get jobs and quit turning them into little socialist monsters that hate everything about this country.
		So, yeah.
		Sorry, I went to preaching.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I've had two cups of coffee today, so I'm a little wired.
unidentified		That's what it's all about.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		No, we love it.
unidentified		I mean, with your fellow congressmen and women, I mean, there has to be a bit of frustration because they've been prioritizing foreign interests and other interests and non-American interests for so long to see this reorientation.
unidentified		And now there's obviously a large cohort within Congress that is in agreement with the MAGA agenda.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, what's it like dealing with these cats on a day-to-day basis?
unidentified		Well, a lot of them are voting with their portfolios.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Let's just be honest.
unidentified		That's why, you know, they pitch a fit when we talk about blocking stock trades of individual.
		You know, here's what happened when Biden gave Ukraine our missile defense system, which I didn't vote for.
		I haven't voted for a dime for Ukraine, but that's regardless, regardless of the situation.
		We had to replenish or immediately replenish our missile defense system, which we should have.
		It was a multi-multi-billion dollar contract, no bid contract.
		And guess who owns stock in that?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Members of the committee that had governing jurisdiction of that, both parties, brother.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you know, listen, we're not voting for what's right.
unidentified		We're voting for our portfolios.
		And I guarantee you, most members of Congress, some of them couldn't even find Ukraine on a dad gum map.
		And you know what?
		I got an 18-year-old daughter, and I'm thinking, am I going to send her off to some war that most of these jugheads couldn't find on a map?
		They're all puffed up.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Oh, we're going to go over there and stomp them.
unidentified		You know what?
unidentified		It ain't our business to be stomping anybody.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We need to be protecting right here in America.
unidentified		And I mean, this isn't just some toothless redneck talking to you about this.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		This is the reality of what we're doing in Congress and the crooked nature of both parties.
unidentified		And please quit calling Washington, D.C. a swamp.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You know, a swamp is something pretty cool God created.
unidentified		It's a, you know, it filters water, the cattails take out the heavy metals and frogs.
unidentified		And it's an ecosystem.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Washington, D.C. is created by man.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It is a sewer and it is wide open.
unidentified		So, yeah, we got some real problems.
		And the problems, a lot of it has to do with greed, but a lot of it's public record.
		And I hope America pays attention to what's going on with it.
		Absolutely.
		I mean, you hit on it there as the stock trading thing blows my mind, but this is not like this is still an issue.
		I mean, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
		Yeah, you'd think that.
		But here's what happens: we'll pass a tough bill in the House and we'll say, yeah, yeah, look what we did.
		And the Senate will pass a tough bill and they won't quite align.
		And then, let me see if I can get that right.
		Yeah, they won't quite align.
		And so, and everybody will go and the Senate will say, oh, the House, they're not tough enough.
		And the House will say, those old people over in the Senate.
		And then next, and then we'll find another bright, shiny object somewhere and we'll chase it.
		And America loses its interest.
		And that's what happens.
		And it's unfortunate.
		But we got to hold their feet to the fire.
		I'd hope in the future we would pay attention.
		I have a bill to do just that.
		And I hope it, I hope in the next few weeks we see some movement on that.
		We need to, you know, these post offices, as I like to say, they're not going to name themselves.
		That's what we do a lot of.
		And we spend in our two-hour workdays and they throw their Brooks brothers jacket over their shoulder and they're walking around.
		Look how hard we're working for the working people.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		America's not buying that crap anymore.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We're not working.
unidentified		Either party, let's just get out there and do something for the public and let's do what's right occasionally.
		Yeah, absolutely.
		Or at the very least, give us some stock tips.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You know what?
unidentified		Somebody I tweeted about one the other day.
		One of our members had, I think, got three or four, maybe 600% return on their investment.
		And I said, you know, they're just rubbing it in your face.
		But it's, and somebody said, they need to be arrested.
		I said, for what?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It's legal.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's legal.
unidentified		That's the thing.
		That's what we got to change.
		You shouldn't be doing individual stock trades.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It is an honor to be in the United States Congress.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		More people have been, have played professional baseball, brother, than have ever, than they've ever worn that little congressional pen they give us.
unidentified		So, yeah, I'm ticked off about it.
		It's just, but it just, and I'm never going to quit being ticked off about it because we are crooked as a dog's leg and America needs to wake up about what's going on.
		Absolutely.
		I mean, there's so many, there's so many issues that Congress seems to just be comfortable stiff arming.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, one that strikes me, and it's a big difference.
unidentified		Obviously, the Trump admins, you know, in full court press about it, that the Biden administration was totally asleep at the wheel is like CCP influence.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you're seeing all these different, all these different attack vectors from the CCP.
unidentified		And Congress is just more preoccupied with, you know, talking about, you know, Lesotho, you know, condoms of Lesotho or whatever.
		Can I share with you one example of that real quick?
		I have a bill, you know, these ancestry.coms or whatever.
		You send a swab in and you're related to the King England.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Nobody's ever related to a horse thief or anything.
unidentified		It's always something glamorous.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But anyway, so what happens with all that data?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It goes, they end up selling it to China and I have a bill to make that illegal and I can't get any traction whatsoever.
unidentified		And here's what the Chinese are doing.
		This is released.
		This was classified a while back, but apparently it's been released.
		I didn't go to the unclassified briefings on it because that's a trap too.
		You go to a classified briefing, even if you know what they're going to say and you know what they said, you're not allowed to talk about it.
		So I just don't go to them anymore because that's primarily what they do.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		They tell me something I already knew or I could catch it on CNN where some Democrats leaked it in about 30 seconds after the meeting.
unidentified		So they do this.
		They buy all our genetic material.
		And now we find out they're creating a genome, which is basically a genetic history of where we are as a people.
		So they're trying to isolate American women of childbearing ages to give them a virus.
		Now, if they can stop population growth in this country completely, you talk about a chilling effect.
		That would be an incredible bit of engineering right there, maybe against pit one group against the other.
		And you could see how quick that could deteriorate.
		And we know that.
		And yet we can't.
		And you know why we can't pass it?
		Because we're gutless, because you've got staffers that are in bed with these K-Street lobbyists who are being paid by some shadow group that's attached to the Chinese Communist Party.
		That's the problem.
		And we don't have the chairman with the guts.
		They'll say, oh, I can't pass that because my staff's against it.
		Well, who the hell elected their dadgum staff?
		You know, it's beyond belief.
		I mean, we have committees, literally Republican, limited growth, limited government with 50 staff members.
		And then the Democrats have 50 staff members.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		There is no way on God's green earth you can control all that.
unidentified		So what you do is you come in there, you're bright-eyed, you're idealistic.
		You know, oh, I've got this great bill to do this.
		And then the staffer says, oh, I don't know.
		I'm not sure if we can do this or not.
		No, really, why not?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And he said, well, you know, we need to get the data on this thing.
unidentified		And so you get the data.
		Oh, okay.
		Well, what do we do?
		Well, we keep your name or your bill, but we're going to make it a reporting bill.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We're going to do the report.
unidentified		We're going to do the research.
		And then next year, we'll come back with your bill with all these facts.
		And then obviously by next year, you moved on to something else because it's, you know, because of the slow-paced traction of Washington, D.C.
		And then, you know, nothing happens.
		And these reporting bills, brother, did you ever see that last scene in Raiders of the Lost Art where they're in that warehouse?
		You know, that is where the reporting bills go.
		I've been in Congress and I've never seen a reporting bill reported back to me.
		And I quit voting for those things because they spend $2 or $3 million, which is nothing in Washington terms.
		And it pays for some group to do some study or whatever.
		And then the money just goes down some black hole.
		And there you have it.
		And then you get to go home and say, I passed my bill.
		And then, you know, your local newspaper, Tim Burchett passed, you know, the whatever anti-communist bill of the decade, you know, and that's the title of the bill or whatever.
		And they give it all these crazy names.
		And it's very frustrating, but it's very, I'm going to write it when I write my book, Compromise, Congress is Compromised or something like that.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		There'll be a chapter on that because that is clearly what's going on.
unidentified		And it's sickening, but nobody's got the guts to do anything.
unidentified		And these chairmen, I call them out in our conference meetings and I'll have staffers come up to me and say, you're exactly right.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But then here's the kicker.
unidentified		I'm sitting there on the house floor and somebody comes over that's in leadership or in the line of leadership, you know, usually a friend will come up to me and say, hey, Burchett, man, we need to talk.
		Yeah, he said, I've been sitting over here to talk to you, man.
		There's some people unhappy.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I said, really, about what?
unidentified		Well, about what you just said on the Timcast or whatever.
		And I'll say, oh, really?
		And he said, what about it don't they like?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And then they'll tell you.
unidentified		And I say, and then I said, last time I said, but it's the truth, right?
		And he said, oh, yeah, it's the truth.
		We just don't want you saying it anymore.
		Right.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You know, and so that's what we're up against, brother.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We have got to start calling this stuff out.
unidentified		And every time I hear a chairman say, I can't pass this bill because my staff wouldn't allow it, I realize the tail is completely wagging the dog.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, with what you're saying, specifically with the CCP and the DNA and that sort of thing.
unidentified		I mean, I haven't heard anything about this.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It seemed, I mean, you can find out about it, obviously, especially through X now that especially that free speech is in vogue again, which is very refreshing.
unidentified		But the press, it's like they just almost refuse to report on these sorts of things.
		Absolutely.
		They do.
		And it's because they're in bed too.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I mean, let's just get it.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Let's be honest.
unidentified		They're advertisers and things.
		We need to learn a lesson from the civil rights movement where they use the economic power and the dollar casting the dollar vote.
		We need to go to these people and say, hey, you know, whoever's at, you know, whatever car company or truck company, I saw y'all were advertising on this thing.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		He said, I was going to buy a truck from y'all, but I'm going to go some, I'm going to get somebody else's truck.
unidentified		I mean, that's what you've got to literally do, but we don't have the guts.
		We don't have the organization.
		We don't have the follow through because it's not sexy.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It's not making anybody a big bunch of money.
		And frankly, I've always said this, and I'm guilty of this too.
		America wants their pizzas in 30 minutes or less.
unidentified		And that's about our dadgum attention span.
		Yeah, that's absolutely true.
		Well, I mean, one thing I want to ask you about, I guess this is more broadly about the party and the atmosphere and the party, is I feel like with the admin, what we're seeing is very decisive, foot on the gas, flooding the zone.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You hear all these types of terms used.
unidentified		But then with the congressional GOP, sitting on the hands, fear, cowardice, I would say, would be an adjective to describe that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Why is there such a disconnect between the admin and the congressional GOP when it comes to, I mean, making moves?
unidentified		I must be the only guy who doesn't do this mainly because I've been doing this most of my life and I'm 61.
		I think everybody, when they get to Congress, they're looking at a path, a circuitous route to get to be the speaker.
		And that's what, and everybody's figuring that out.
		And everybody in leadership realizes their one or two heartbeats away.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Well, if this goes down and I get this and we get this, you know, I could be speaker.
unidentified		I must be the only guy in Washington who doesn't want to be speaker.
unidentified		And I love my wife and daughter too much.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I don't want to be on the road out begging people for money.
unidentified		And, you know, and that's, and that's what these once, I think, once value jobs have devolved into and you're stuck that way.
unidentified		I mean, Mike Johnson has to raise the money and he has to get out on the road every single day away from his family.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We're, you know, we're one flu season away from not being in the majority, literally, one flu season.
unidentified		You know, three or four people get the flu, but we're out.
		And so, so it's just, you know, we've created a monster.
		And to get there, you have to, you have to, to stay there, you have to do a lot of things.
		And, and I'm afraid, you know, I remember the former leadership, I was complaining about, and this is one of the reasons I helped depose the former leadership.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I was complaining about bills not getting to the floor.
unidentified		And they said, well, I don't set the agenda.
		I don't set the bills.
		I don't do this.
		I don't do that.
		I don't set the calendar.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I remember it was the word they used.
unidentified		And I said, Nancy Pelosi decided if you had single ply or two ply toilet paper on the house floor.
		If you're dadgum running the show, you need to run the dad gum show because Pelosi sure as heck did.
		She ran the table every day.
		And, but, you know, I, it's just so big and it's, and it's so compartmentalized right now.
		It's just very difficult.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We need a total reorganization of the way we do things.
unidentified		And I, and without the money, though, you can't stay in power.
unidentified		And that's part of the problem.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You got to go out and raise the dad gum money.
unidentified		And if you don't, the dark money fills in the gaps and you don't want that because that's what we've had in the past too with our leadership running against Republicans, conservative Republicans, good Republicans, God-fearing people running dirtbags against them, using dark money to attack good people.
		Yeah.
		I mean, yeah, that you summed it up, the dark money.
		I mean, we're all seeing it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I think us as the base, we see it.
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Yeah.
		That's why you're such a threat, dude.
		You're such a threat.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Because people like, I can't tell you how many people are coming to me and said they heard something on your podcast or something.
unidentified		Hey, did you see this?
		And I honestly, I hate to tell you this.
		I just don't have time to watch everybody's dad gum podcast.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		You know, it's like millions now.
		Yeah.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		I'm trying.
		I'm, I'm trying to, I'm trying to build a skateboard empire.
		And, you know, people are asking me, which is another thing.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		This is pretty funny.
unidentified		Yeah.
		You can do insider stock trading in Congress, but here I am trying to sell some stock.
		I make skateboards.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It's cheaper than a psychiatrist.
unidentified		And I've currently got about, I got them in my, in my, in my barn because I can't sell them because legally I've got to do all this, jump through all these hoops.
		I've got to get an attorney, you know, to sell skateboards.
		And I made, and I just give them away.
		I gave, I'm giving one to Tulsi Gabbard for her birthday, which was a few months ago.
		She outed me at the State of the Union address.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		She said, Burchett, she said, my birthday's coming up.
unidentified		Where's my dad gum skateboard?
unidentified		So I had to make her one.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		So there's a video of me riding a skateboard on the Capitol grounds, and that's our skateboard.
unidentified		But anyway, you know, that just tells you the frustration and just the completely crooked nature of Congress.
		It's designed to keep honest people out and people that are just trying to do, you know, I'm not trying to set the world on fire selling skateboards.
		It's just, for me, it's cheaper than a psychiatrist and that could help me pay for my daughter's school a little bit.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		But anyway, I love that.
unidentified		No, yeah, we, I mean, we have our skateboard brand here at the Boonies.
		So I know we know all about the skateboard salesman business.
		But well, I appreciate you coming on the chat.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We are, you know, we're running kind of to the end of our time here.
unidentified		Where can people find more of you?
unidentified		Oh, at Tim Burchett or Birchett for Congress.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I've got all kinds of cool swag.
unidentified		I say dad gummed it a lot because it's cheaper.
unidentified		It's cheaper for me than a cuss word.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I've got an IOU jar, a cuss word IOU jar.
		I mean, I got a cussword jar full of IOUs, and I sell my caps on there and stuff for the campaign, but nothing personal.
		But yeah, you can get me on X at Tim Burchett.
		That's the cool one where I do all the fun stuff.
unidentified		But yeah, and I'm in all the social media.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I've got Instagram.
unidentified		I don't have a, what's the one that we banned?
		Then we brought it back up.
		TikTok.
		Yeah, I don't have a TikTok.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		There's one on there.
unidentified		Somebody was me, and I was like, hey, I saw you on TikTok.
unidentified		I go, really?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		And that guy said, I don't have a TikTok.
unidentified		My guy said, yeah, but I said, yeah, boss, it's a bootleg when somebody's cracking you or something.
		Anyway, you can find me on Facebook and everything.
		But hey, look, y'all, pray for your country and please get involved.
		Don't let the other side shout you down.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It's a great country.
unidentified		We just got to take it back.
		Yes, sir.
		Absolutely.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, I love it.
unidentified		Thank you, sir.
		You make me proud to be a Tennessean.
		It's great.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's great stuff.
unidentified		Thanks, brother.
		Appreciate you.
		What part of Tennessee are you from?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I'm from Memphis, suburbs of Memphis.
unidentified		Yeah.
		West Tennessee.
		I'm East Tennessee.
		We're on the other end.
		Y'all make good barbecue over there.
		True.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We got the barbecue.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You guys got the views.
unidentified		So you got the pretty side over there.
		Yeah, we do.
		Mountains.
		It's awesome.
		Thanks, brother.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Congressman.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Until next time.
unidentified		It's Tim.
		See you, brother.
		Bye.
		Bye.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		All righty.
unidentified		Well, that was Congressman Burchett.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		He said to call him Tim.
unidentified		All righty.
unidentified		I might have to do that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, that was fantastic.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The CCP DNA stuff is crazy.
unidentified		I mean, the fact that the press isn't all over that is pretty mind-blowing to me because that's very disturbing.
		I think I did Ancestry Dance.
		They probably have my DNA.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		There's probably a clone of me in China right now.
unidentified		There's probably a tate cast over there and it's all in Mandarin.
unidentified		Who knows?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		But anyway, that was fantastic.
unidentified		That was a great interview.
		I'm really happy with that.
		That was a lot of fun.
		We're going to close out here.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We're running down the clock here in Victory Formation.
unidentified		So take the knee here.
		You can find me on X and Instagram at RealTate Brown.
		We will be back tonight for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I also put a few segments up today on Timcast News just to give you guys something.
unidentified		I mean, it's not, I know I'm though, Tim.
		You know, Tim is the master with that kind of stuff.
		But, you know, I figure we can get something up for you while he's still recovering.
		But hopefully we'll have him back soon.
		And tonight's Timcast IRL will be another post cast.
		So be there for that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That's going to be a lot of fun.
unidentified		We still got to work out the rest of the panel.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I may be on the panel.
unidentified		I'm not sure yet.
		But posto cast, be there.
		It's going to be fantastic.
		Follow me on X and Instagram.
		Subscribe, like, rumble.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We love it.
unidentified		Until next time, we'll catch you later.

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